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I hit Walmart and the Feed Bag while I was downtown and got in a short walk around the park. I stopped by the vet (to pick up Ti's special dog food) and the library (to return a book) on the way home. I got in another short walk with Pip and the puppers in the afternoon.

I did a load of laundry, emptied the dishwasher and ran another load, then emptied ~that load (I hate emptying the dishwasher, but I was on a roll!), did the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, scooped kitty litter, and mowed the lawn.

I read more in Network Effect, watched an HGTV program, and talked to mom on the phone. Also, while I haven’t seen any fawns yet, Pip saw some deer running around frantically when he got close to the orchard to mow (so he left), which means there are probably more than one fawn hidden up there in the tall grass!

Pip had leftovers for supper (thanks to the BBQ chicken quarters, we had plenty, lol) so I didn’t have to cook. I made myself a ham sandwich. I’m not generally a fan of ham sandwiches, but they’re tasting really good to me lately.

Temps started out at 48.7(F) and reached 72.2. We had sun all day, with a slight breeze. I didn’t need a sweatshirt when I mowed, but I did retain my long-sleeved t-shirt. It was really a beautiful day.

senmut

*\o/*	Word Count	Step Count	Headache?
Daily	1,279	10,210	no
Monthly	3,058	21,341	1 days

Current Music: "Shiny Happy People" - REM and the B-52s

haunted_cherries

Fandoms: Twisted Wonderland
Characters: Lilia Vanrouge (Canon), Fafnir Starweaver (OC)
Rating: Mature
Words: 1098
Summary: In the midst of a long journey, Lilia and Fafnir are able to find a brief respite in an elderly couple's home, just in time for a snowstorm.

Notes: Originally posted to AO3 on 1/3/24 and now being archived here! Original Notes: Lilia's birthday passed and I am once again back on my "Old Fae Men in Love" BS b/c who would I be if I wasn't? xD Happy belated birthday, Peepaw! Mentions some events from Book 7, so heads up for spoilers! Happy New Year, and enjoy!!

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With a slight snowstorm raging on outside, Lilia finds himself curled up in thick blankets in a criminally soft bed, reminiscing on something a soldier told him a while back as he settles into the darkness. It’s the one thing he can get his mind to focus on that isn’t about how tired he is.

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linky

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Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: GRADUATIONS （Vシネクスト『仮面ライダーガッチャード GRADUATIONS』主題歌）

andersenmom

Weekly Score: 41.7% (25/60)

Goal 1: Lose weight by trip to Phoenix: Exercise Component. 80% (8/10)

Review: I thought I'd be able to do something, but I didn't manage it all. I barely did what I could. It's so disappointing.

Goal 2: Lose weight by trip to Phoenix: Eating component. 34% (17/50)

Review: I haven't done anything with this. I've tried, but having a broken foot doesn't help with anything. It's all very frustrating.

Goal 3: Work on Ultimate US Road Trip. 0%

Review: Didn't work on it.

Intentions for the future: I'm going to be out of town for most of the week, so I won't have much to do. I'll be back to report on Monday (maybe) or Tuesday.

Current Mood: lethargic
Current Music: Love - B.A.P

haunted_cherries

Fandoms: Twisted Wonderland
Characters: Leona Kingscholar (Canon), Tristan (OC)
Rating: Mature
Words: 716
Summary: Tristan is enjoying the circus to his heart's content and Leona gives him a little something as a reward.

Notes: Originally posted to AO3 on 10/24/23 and now being archived here! Original notes: I wanted ship serotonin to accompany a commission I got recently so I had to get off my bum and write it! Short, simple, and to the point, just in time for the Playful Land event in-game. xD Enjoy! ❤️

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Leona Kingscholar wasn’t the type of man you could easily impress. The fancy gimmicks and flashy techniques often fell short in favor of other things that caught his eye. It’s not like he makes it easy to discern what the things that would light a spark in him are, but it becomes quite obvious once it’s known.

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haunted_cherries

Fandoms: Twisted Wonderland
Characters: Malleus Draconia (Canon), Tristan (OC), (Canon x Canon ship mentioned)
Rating: Gen
Words: 1,693
Prompt: OC x Canon Week 2024's Day 2 Prompt: "Mundane Tasks"
Summary: Malleus is enjoying his late night reading while taking care of a few loads of laundry. He thinks to do so undisturbed, but the “disturbance” he ends up getting is better than anything he could’ve hoped for.

Notes: Originally posted to AO3 on 3/24/24 and now being archived here! Original notes: Malleus said something in his Platinum birthday story that got into my brain and made me write this so HUZZAH you get “mutual pining but they’re both INCREDIBLY oblivious and too scared to ruin their friendship”! That and lbvs, I just needed the serotonin.

(Yes, the title is based on a song. No, I am not accepting criticism at this time. xD)

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There was something so perfect about the peace and quiet of the Diasomnia laundry room at 1am.

While Malleus was intrigued by the hustle of bustle of the dorm during the day, the waves of dorm members that often crowded around him would make even the most minute task increasingly difficult. If it wasn’t Sebek screaming at his heels, it was his supposed fan club offering to do basic chores that he had no issue doing himself. It felt like being back home in Briar Valley, confined to a castle where your every breath is dictated with no room for your input.

Others might not mind the luxury of delegating every task to another person, but the more Malleus was here at Night Raven College, the more he got a taste of the free will that he had ever only dreamed of. Where it once didn’t bother him, he now found himself much more assertive when wanting to do something for himself.
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thisbluespirit

I'm still a bit behind on crossposting these:

Name: Trap for the Unwary
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #1 (Hope); Vert #28 (Fear less, hope more)
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro + Thread
Word Count: 2375
Rating: PG
Warnings: Imprisonment, nausea.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno. (Leion's side of On the Trail.)
Summary: Leion walks into a trap.

Name: Blink of an Eye
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet red #18 (Easy does it); Azul #19 (Trust the strength of another)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (for

no_true_pair prompt "March 27th - Osmer and Pello out in the woods") + Canvas
Word Count: 1091
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1311 somewhere in High Eisterland; Osmer Nivyrn, Pello Ahblan. (Slightly random snippet as yet.)
Summary: Pello gets his first taste of the Paths.

linky

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Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: The Future Daybreak

badly_knitted

Title: Bitter Victory
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel/Angelus, Joyce, Willow, Xander, Giles.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 874
Spoilers: Becoming Part 2.
Summary: Buffy has won the battle and saved the world, so why does she feel so awful?
Written For: Prompt 201 - Pyrrhic Victory at

fandomweekly.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BTVS, or the characters.

( Bitter Victory... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Faraway Lands
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 633
Spoilers: Some for Cyberwoman and Children of Earth. Fix-it.
Summary: As a boy, Ianto had dreamed of travelling to far off places, but he’d never imagined he’d go so far.
Written For: The prompt ‘any, any, A far away land’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Faraway Lands... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

haunted_cherries

To the surprise of no one, JUNE IS UPON US, officially putting us halfway through the year (crazy happenings and all xD). First Monday Yap of June, so LET'S GET INTO IT!! ^ o^)/

➤ Song on repeat: Endless 通路 - 猫シ Corp. x CVLTVRΣ
↳"LE GASP!! IT'S NOT A SLEEP TOKEN SONG!!" Correct, b/c I needed writing music over the weekend and the Neon Palm Mall mix never fails me in that regard!! However, the chances of me regressing to having any Sleep Token album on eternal repeat are LOW, but NEVER ZERO >:D

➤ Quote on repeat: "Someone missed you today. Someone noticed when you when you were gone. Someone loves you when you're there. Someone loves you when you're nowhere to be found at all." - Alan Watts

All that aside:

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Current Mood: chipper

glitteryv

Two weeks and change ago, Jin did a guest appearance at Red Velvet's Wendy radio show Youngstreet. Last year, they'd recorded and, later, performed (only once so far) "Heart on the Window."

FTR, I have to admit that I had never tuned into Wendy's show BUT, I had a fairly solid idea that it was gonna be worth checking out because she's got a vibrant personality. And I was 613% correct, heheh. Theirs is a playful, sibling-like dynamic. I watched this after the English subtitles became available; ended up XD within the first ten minutes or so.

Please note that advertisements and most of the music were removed due to licensing.

Watch on YouTube

goddess47

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melagan

When a scene just isn't working for you.

You've got a great idea only something isn't coming together quite right. A lot of plot bunnies end up gathering dust because of this very thing.

So, what do you do? That's a hell of a good question. What? It's not like I have the answer to it.

Although I do recall a little bit of advice I've found helpful. Backtrack through your work and find the place where it went off the rails. That's the point where it needs to be fixed.

Not that I have ever made my beloved characters have sex and forgotten to get their pants off first. *coff*

kantayra

Look at me, posting before the weekly tide of Shit I Have To Do(TM) kicks in! I am so proactive. Here we go with my weekly stuff, which continues to go quite well, and I met all my goals for last week (and exceeded them) despite making them quite late in the week:

Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, caseficexchange, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): As mentioned last week, I finally have time to pick up Pinch Hits and treats, which I have been doing. I had a nice little spurt of productivity Thursday/Friday and got a good amount of stuff written. Right now, I've completed 9/11 fics, and the 2 remaining are the 2 long fics that I've been plugging away on. I did make progress on both of these, too! I've completed 1.5 scenes in each, and both of them will at least be 5 scenes total when done. There are 2 new (short) fics I'd like to pick up and finish this week (due to exchange deadlines) to get to 11/13, and then I'd like to make more progress on the 2 WIPs. The goal for those is to be through Scene 4 in the first (which is as far as I have a clear outline - I have a line that says '??? Profit!' in the middle of my outline right now, and then the final scene 🤣) and then through Scene 3 of the other one (which does have a complete outline, and so I don't feel as much need to press on it). I also have a couple things that will probably (unless there are reveals delays) need editing this week, so I need to get that done too.

Upcoming exchanges: I need to sign up for narumitsuday this week. Also, I've already put in my nominations for justmarriedexchange and nonconex, at least the first of which I'm hoping to sign up for. I will keep an eye on rarepairexchange, although I'm not sure I'll be able to swing that one.

Femslash Salad Bar - Still nothing new, moving on...

No more progress on My Hero Academia since last post, since I don't get time to watch things on the weekend. I'll watch some more this week, though, no doubt.

I now have all 3 volumes of Guardian by priest! I've finished the 2nd volume and am 2 chapters into the 3rd (which is the final arc). I will say that I found the first 2 arcs better than the 3rd, which didn't seem to have as tight writing and meandered a bit. Also, I enjoyed Zhao Yunlan not knowing Shen Wei was the Soul-Executing Emissary more than their relationship post-reveal: Zhao Yunlan's persistent horniness now is interspersed by moments of doubt, plus they've gone domestic but without the profound levels of fucking needed? Ah well, I'm still enjoying it, just the first 2 arcs are my favorites so far, for sure. I'm hoping to finish this week!

Goals for this week: 1) Pick up 2 PHs/treats for things due this week and complete them. 2) Make progress on my 2 WIP long fics: 1 through Scene 4, and the other through Scene 3. 3) Complete any editing needed for reveals this week. 4) Sign up for

narumitsuday. 5) Finish Guardian.

May Stats: I'm now at 128k for the year, posted, which is not bad. With the WIPs I have, I'm definitely over 130k unofficially. At the rate I'm going, I might actually made 200k this year, maybe? I have been tracking at over 10k/month, so that should work out, although I suspect I'll be slower in the summer. We'll see!

spikedluv

I have rewatched the next few MSW episodes and I wanted to share some thoughts with you. The eps in question are: 2.10 Sticks and Stones, 2.11 Murder Digs Deep, 2.12 Murder by Appointment Only and 2.13 Trial by Error.

( all comments back here )

What are your thoughts on these eps?

spikedluv

I took the dogs for a short walk, did a load of laundry and the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I paid a couple bills online and placed a puzzle order for mom.

I started Network Effect, watched some HGTV programs, and attended a group birthday party at my sister’s house (including for my niece Leandra and nephew Ian). That’s what I made the cabbage salad for; mom made pulled pork.

Temps started out at 43.1(F) (it was cool enough in the house that I turned the furnace on to take the chill off; it was definitely a hot tea morning) and reached 59.9. On one end of the spectrum we had some sprinkles, on the other, the sun tried to peek out a few times. (The next three days are supposed to have temps of 66, 76, and 86! Talk about a quick turn around.)

Mom Update: My mom had a visit with her oncologist on Friday. She liked him. He told her that the cancer was Stage 1, so she'll need a less aggressive treatment of chemo. They're going to wait until after the surgery (coming up on Monday, June 9) to set it up, but he's thinking two weeks on, one week off for six weeks. (Does that mean only four weeks of chemo total? Or six weeks of chemo around the one week off?) Also, half the usual dose. Hopefully the side effects won't be as bad. (He also said that, no matter what, he'd recommend chemo because this is her third cancer diagnosis.)

My mom's next appointment with him is July 14, so I'm guessing the chemo won't start until after that? Do they normally wait 4 weeks post-surgery to begin? Do they need her to be drain-free?

He also told her that the procedure would be a long one. I joked with mom that we ~do want the surgeon to put everything back together correctly.

sholio

Okay, I found someone on Reddit who went through all the script books and typed up a summary of ALL the different Babylon 5 plans/plot/changes, and ... I can't believe I'm saying this, but if this is accurate, it sounds like the almost-cancellation/having to compress most of the plot into season 4 actually may have been an improvement over the original.

(It also sounds like JMS was constantly changing major details / long-term plans on the fly throughout all the seasons, which makes the cohesion of the final version even more impressive, even without taking into account all of the network meddling and cast changes! One reason why I've been going down a rabbit hole on this is because I really do think this is one of the most impressive creative feats I've ever seen pulled off, I want to understand it from a creative perspective myself, and the more I find out about it, the more impressed I am.)

( Link and details under the cut )

brightknightie

Here are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!

Spotlight: With strict scrutiny and nervous caution, wary that perhaps it was only nostalgia and rose-tinted goggles after all, Overly Sarcastic Productions brilliantly examined "The Lost Art of Marvel's Phase 1." ( Spoiler: Phase 1 really is as good as we thought it was! Yes, even that one! )

Ficathons, fests & communities

Create & engage
- fkficfest, the Forever Knight challenge, is in progress revealing its stories (one per day).
- justmarriedexchange is an exchange for marriage tropes. Nominations through June 10; sign-ups through June 22; due August 17.
- epidemfic is an exchange for illness themes and depictions. Sign-ups through June 8; due July 6.
- beauty-beast-week is a week-long open celebration of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Posting is August 18-24.
- trope_of_the_month's June theme is "time loops."
- pinchhits is a forum for pinch-hits in exchanges. For example, whumpex is seeking pinch hitters.
- whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
Enjoy & share
- fancake (themed fanfic recs); June theme: "female relationships"
- gensplosion (gen fanfic recs)
- het_reccers (m/f fanfic recs)
- fanart_recs (fanart recs)
- recthething (fanwork recs)

Sidelight: This spring, I posted one recommendation in recthething (for "the gears of time turn on" by LadyHoneydee (TLOZ:BOTW)). I used to have a recommendation-of-the-month project for FK fanfiction, long, long ago. I've been thinking of getting back into recommendations, via such communities, perhaps with mirroring in my AO3 account, definitely no longer limited by fandom. I'm wondering whether and how people really use recs these days. Would it be a good use of my time for others?

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spikedluv - The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, June 2)
senmut - Daily Check In
haunted_cherries - [TWST] At Journey's End, I Will Love You Again
linky - Fannish Fifty #30: Discord Spanner Essay (With Adjustments)
andersenmom - 12 Week Year WAM Week 10
haunted_cherries - [TWST] Play Your Cards Right
haunted_cherries - [TWST] we don’t have to leave (just u and i)
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linky - Fannish Fifty #29: Kaiju Brooklyn Con Report
badly_knitted - BtVS Ficlet: Bitter Victory
badly_knitted - Ficlet: Faraway Lands
haunted_cherries - The Monday Yap: 6/2/25
glitteryv - Fannish 50 S3 Post 26: A great interview
goddess47 - Quantum Bang Posting!
melagan - When a scene isn't working
kantayra - Here I go, whee!
spikedluv - Monday [Fandom] Madness! The Murder, She Wrote 2.10 & 2.11 & 2.12 & 2.13 Comments Edition
spikedluv - The Day in Spikedluv (Sunday, June 1) & Mom Update
sholio - Even more of the original Babylon 5 plan
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12 Week Year WAM Week 10

[TWST] Play Your Cards Right

[TWST] we don’t have to leave (just u and i)

Starfall Stories 47

Fannish Fifty #29: Kaiju Brooklyn Con Report

BtVS Ficlet: Bitter Victory

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The Monday Yap: 6/2/25

Fannish 50 S3 Post 26: A great interview

Quantum Bang Posting!

When a scene isn't working

Here I go, whee!

Monday [Fandom] Madness! The Murder, She Wrote 2.10 & 2.11 & 2.12 & 2.13 Comments Edition

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Even more of the original Babylon 5 plan

Fannish options & enthusiasms | June 2025

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