Fast block people

10/5/26 20:35
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I spent most of this weekend procrastinating when I really should have been tidying up and vacation planning and all those things. Uugh. At least I met up with LB and my mom to finally do the pottery painting we gifted her for Christmas, I went for a walk, and I finally made a little bit of progress on the massive pile of fanworks I want to comment on.

A major part of that procrastination was watching round one of MCSR Ranked playoffs season 10, that was at least entertaining.
SpoilersI can't believe Hax is out! Got swept, even! Wow. First time he's not on the podium since he first played in the playoffs in season 3. And Doogile got reverse swept. Some bad luck involved in both cases (blinding to different strongholds from the same spawner?!) but also some bad decisions and that's just how it goes sometimes. Like when BeefSalad forgot to set a bed for a death reset xD
The Infume vs HDMICables match was my favorite, Infume with very clean wins except whatever the fuck that was in round 3, what an End, that was great xD I'm sad Feinberg vs Lowkey had to be postponed, but I do enjoy the "Feinberg finally made it to week 2" jokes.

But I'm definitely not "in" the MCSR fandom, that would be way too time-consuming, I just like the tournaments for the exciting sports emotions. And me putting on various MCSR streams in the background sometimes doesn't mean anything. Oh no.
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Write Every Day: Day 10

10/5/26 14:50
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Intro/FAQ


My check-in: Put the auction story on a back burner for now, because I probably need a long convo hammering it through with someone before I can go farther. Instead got down a couple of sentences of a drabble for my other auction recipient. (She says I can use multiple works toward her fill. I am not, however, planning on making the all drabbles, because there will need to be seventy of them…)


Day 10: [personal profile] sanguinity

Day 9: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] dswdiane, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora

Day 8: [personal profile] acorn_squash, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] dswdiane, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora

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When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!
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The Friday Five

10/5/26 14:19
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Late, again, but who's counting? This is mainly for my newer friends.

1. What do you consider your current main fandom? (This can include hobbies and collecting. Anything you feel fannish about!)
Nothing right now, though I love LEGOs and have quite a few of them!

2. What was your first fandom?
Prison Break and Supernatural happened pretty much simultaneously. Though before actively participating in fandom, my first might have been Star Trek TOS. I even bought paperbacks people wrote in that universe.

3. Do you have any favorite headcanons or fan theories?
Apart from the brothercest vibes in both of the above fandoms? Ummm... since I'm more visually driven, in my headcanon the original Rhodey from Iron Man was never recast after the first movie.

4. Have you ever created fanworks?
Have I ever! Probably more than 50-60 stories for Prison Break, more than 100 stories/drabbles for Supernatural, and then there's Iron Man, Die Hard 4, Justified, Chuck, Burn Notice, and White Collar. Plus some 1-3 fic fandoms, mostly due to participating in past Yuletide challenges.

5. Are you still active in any old fandoms?
Not at the moment, though a future Yuletide could change that at any time? I still subscribe to the Yuletide pinch-hit list, as a way of paying forward the gifts I got from my first year of participation. I have a couple of unfinished Battle Creek slash stories I'd hope to finish someday, but I never even look at them anymore. :(

I do miss the excitement of fandom (though not the wank), but my writing has been channeled into LJ Idol for many years now. \o?

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whirling like a cyclone in my mind

10/5/26 22:06
pensnest: black and white cat on vivid shawl in front of set of encyclopaedia (Cat with encyclopaedia)
[personal profile] pensnest
I just found myself writing "an infusion of coffee" and thought, hmm. An infusion of tea, sure, but does that seem like the right word for coffee? What should I be saying instead? I'm not talking about the brewing method, but more of a necessary injection of caffeine, but... infusion?

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Spent the weekend with my (women's) chorus, working on our October Convention numbers with plenty of time in hand. Since I went to Harmony College very recently, I was pleased with myself for, I think, providing a useful bit of input into what we're doing.

The May Convention (the men's one, which also involves the Mixed choruses) is coming up fast. We have our dress rehearsal this Wednesday, and a final full day together on Sunday. Must make cakes this week. Then it'll be off to Harrogate for a long weekend. We have secured a house-sitter who will make sure the cat is kept, if not exactly gruntled, at least regularly fed.

Also, I had my first appointment with the dressmaker who is going to make something for me to wear at my Bun's wedding, so I have colours in mind that I can take to Harrogate's fabulous hat shop, always supposing I can find it. Yay!

Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

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Hyouka (Kotenbu): Fanfic: the distant hill comes over to us

10/5/26 15:53
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[personal profile] bluedreaming posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Fandom: Hyouka (Kotenbu)
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: canonically dead character
Author notes: The title is from Hallucinating in the Dark by Jin Haishu, translated by Simon Patton. In addition, REGISTER OF GHOSTS: HAI ZI gave me the idea to go in a ghosts direction, and Gentle Sentences on Winter’s “secret language” and CLOSING CREDITS’ musing on words/language made me think of Hyouka as a fandom due to Chitanda’s character.
Summary: What if Oreki could see ghosts? How would that (not) change anything?

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Yellow; Kitty Song Covey | XO, Kitty

10/5/26 13:13

Heated Rivalry (book)

10/5/26 14:39
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[personal profile] unavee
I read Heated Rivalry on the train ride back home the other day. It was impossible to not think about the show and compare throughout. I can't tell what my opinion would have been about the book by itself, but I did like the experience of reading the book after watching the show.

I have been reading too much fanfic, though, and everything is already jumbling together in my head.

( general feelings )

( some other notes I jotted down )

Anyway, I'm just going to end up picking and choosing the details and parts of each canon I liked the most for how I think their story goes!
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Fannish options & enthusiasms | May 2026

10/5/26 12:59
brightknightie: Girl running into the wind with a kite in summer (Enthusiasms)
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Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: A thriving cosplay club gathers every few months in the park around a certain branch library near me. (I fence rapier-and-dagger weekly at that same time and place.) Usually, they're there to party, 30 to 50 people, mostly twenty-somethings by my guess, with upwards of 75% of attendees in costume. They play games (always including trivia and a piñata) and eat goodies (on picnic blankets), and are a delight. I love recognizing costumes when I can! Every now and then, one asks about fencing, and we chat. Recently, they held a rummage sale, selling each other used costumes, supplies, and fannish miscellany, and I suddenly realized that you might enjoy knowing about them. I also thought that, if you didn't already know, you would enjoy learning about "causeplay" -- cosplay for charity. Apparently, it's a big and growing thing, cosplayers visiting hospitals, shelters, and schools to boost children's morale. ♥

Ficathons, fests & communities

  • Create & engage
    • [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth continues through 5/15.
    • [community profile] fkficfest, the annual Forever Knight event, has prompting through 5/16 and stories due 7/18.
    • [community profile] joseimuke is a new community celebrating "girly Japanse(ish) fiction" ("non-live action media with the heart of shoujo manga").
    • [community profile] ahorseofcourseexchange, a fic exchange for horses and horsemanship, has nominations through 5/10, sign-ups through 5/18, and works due 6/08.
    • [community profile] fanfictionfesta, an event to promote reading, sharing, and commenting on fic, runs through 6/30.
    • [community profile] galorechallenge, a crossover fic challenge resuscitated from LJ, holds its Round 1 through 6/30.
    • [community profile] fandomdoestzedakah, a fanwork auction charity fundraiser for various Jewish organizations, has creator sign-ups through 5/22, bidding through 6/15, and works due on 9/11.
    • Watson Birthday Promptfest, a celebration of all Watsons in all Sherlock Holmes versions, runs through 8/07.
    • [community profile] sweetandshort is a low-pressure challenge community for weekly small works.
    • [community profile] fic_promptly is a low-pressure community for daily prompts and fills.
    • [community profile] whatif_au's annual "AU Bingo" game runs through 7/31.
    • [community profile] allbingo's May theme is "Greek myth."
    • [community profile] trope_of_the_month's May theme is "forced proximity."
    • [community profile] pinchhits is a community for needed fills for exchanges. For example, [community profile] whumpex is currently seeking pinch hitters.
    • [community profile] whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
  • Enjoy & share

Sidelight: I've been looking for new-to-me Dreamwidth folks to read and interact with. I really appreciate that Dreamwidth sorts its lists of journals with certain "interests" by how recently they've posted. It can be dispiriting that various interests have few folks who have posted in recent years. Yet it's really helpful that someone built the sorting that way in the first place! Excellent call.


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[Vorkosigan] Six Sentence Sunday

10/5/26 14:47
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You know how it is, when you start with a vague idea and a summary and then you write 4K in a day and you have written yourself out of that summary being suitable? Yeah. That.

The summary it should have fitted itself to: "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your feckless cousin closest of all." Wherein there would be porn and Gregor deciding that Ivan couldn't actually be mediocre and/or learned that trying to do well just got him unwanted attention. No, Ivan must be faking it on purpose.

Unfortunately then I dropped too heavily into Gregor's depression, so, uh, if this gets to the porn, it's going to take some doing. Also I have to do some serious tense editings because I started it in past tense but of course ever since I made the mistake of ever writoing in present tense, I must needs deal with tense shifting problems forevermore.

Point of diversion is that Gregor assigns Ivan to Residence Security right out of the Academy to keep an eye on him, and kicks Miles out after the mutiny.



Why couldn't Miles have ever learned to fake obedience as well as Ivan had? Ivan's flawless at his disguise. Why must Miles be so frustrating? Gregor feels even more hollow than usual as Aral nods his acknowledgment and mumbles a perfunctory, "your will, my liege."

It's the first time Gregor's tried exercising Imperial muscles in years and it's still all because Miles Vorkosigan is uncontrollable.

Gregor can't meet his gaze in the mirror as his armsman shaves him that night, and he accepts the sleeping pill with resignation.


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Daily Check-In: Day 10

10/5/26 15:33
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Good afternoon, everyone!

It's Sunday so the start of a new week, and the first full week of May as well.

Right! How has the fanfic coming along?
  • Great!
  • Good
  • Alright
  • So-so
  • Could be worse; could be better
  • Not so well
  • I'm taking a break, actually.
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I will resurface, sometime soonish (probably)

10/5/26 20:26
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[personal profile] fabiadrake
I am down a medieval research spiral and may be some while. I hope you are all having a lovely time.

Wiseguy: fanfic: where your worries go

10/5/26 12:17
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Title: where your worries go
Fandom: Wiseguy (tv)
Content notes: none
Challenge: Gentle
Length: 100 words

Summary: Carlotta Terranova, and the weight of a mother's concern.

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[#300] Masters and Ceremonies (Original)

10/5/26 11:51
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Theme Prompt: #300 – Ceremony
Title: Masters and Ceremonies
Fandom: Original
Rating/Warnings: None
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 464
Summary: A software development team's reaction to new Agile processes and ceremonies

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Soft Questions Meme

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If Destruction Be Our Lot... #1

10/5/26 19:45
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Only 4 pages, so no room for the Talkie Toaster analogue, but here are the adventures of a robot Abraham Lincoln in a post-human world. Fear of a Bot Planet walked so that this comic could run.

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Who did what now

NSFW 10/5/26 11:49

Random Question: Stuff you do that is almost a Hobby?

10/5/26 13:42
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A few weeks ago I was stepping out of an open house for an apartment building that I had no intention of ever actually trying to live in and it occured to me that my habit of ducking into any open house that I came across to explore could almost be called something of a hobby. I don't really do it too deliberately and I don't formalize or structure this habit any, and even though I usually take the available literature with the intention of saving it I lose it instead. But if anyone asked me if I had any odd hobbies, checking out open houses and apartments and buildings would probably be my go-to pick.

While I was ruminating on this I wondered what other sort of hobbies that people wouldn't really think of as a hobby usually might be out there. Stuff that you don't really do with enough deliberation, or is almost on the edge of just being an odd habit, or doesn't really result in anything but is fun to do anyway.

It'd be fun to hear what other people might be doing. So what sort of hobbies that you might not usually think of as a hobby would you say you had? I've been trying to think of something else I do that might qualify and it's hard to come up with something else, because most of what I do for leisure is either kind of firmly established as a hobby, with clubs and stuff, or falls into the category of "collecting" which covers a lot of ground.

Black Cherries by W. S. Merwin

11/5/26 14:17
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Late in May as the light lengthens
toward summer the young goldfinches
flutter down through the day for the first time
to find themselves among fallen petals
cradling their day's colors in the day's shadows
of the garden beside the old house
after a cold spring with no rain
not a sound comes from the empty village
as I stand eating the black cherries
from the loaded branches above me
saying to myself Remember this

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NSFW 10/5/26 18:48