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Title: Hollow
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Lyta Alexander, Kosh.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Walkabout.
Summary: There’s a hole inside Lyta where she used to sometimes carry part of Kosh.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 413: Negative Space.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Hollow... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Over And Done
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, JJ.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You at

drabble_zone.
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: JJ realises he’s not in love with Dee anymore.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Over And Done... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

abby82

chance is the only game I play with
by abby82

category: 1940s Jazz Club AU
rating: Explicit
word count: 46,000
warnings: None
author’s note: This story was initially inspired by two photographs. The first is a promotional image that was published in Elle Quebec for Roy Dupuis' 2004 movie Jack Paradise in which he plays a jazz pianist in Montreal. He looked absolutely amazing with his white dinner jacket, half smoked cigarette and just the right amount of stubble on his face. The second were two promotional images of Peta Wilson as Nikita that were shot for the series' first season. She was wearing a fur stole and her hair was in some Veronica Lake style waves. Those images alone screamed for a 1940s AU of some sort. The plot point concerning Nikita and Operations was inspired by a wonderful story called "Mutual Respect" by Enjoue and Jean in which they both have to feign an emotional attachment to buy them some time with their kidnappers. I had this story in my drafts folder for some time now and when the 14th round of the

smallfandombang came around, I knew it was time to finally complete it. The artwork for the story was done by

pebbleinalake, who graciously chose my story in the bang despite not being familiar with the fandom. I am in total awe of what she put together. The film noir vibes are exactly what I wanted and I can't help but stare at her banners in giddy excitement.

story began: October 2023
story finished: April 2025

links: LJ | AO3 | Tumblr

summary: Dressed in fine furs and jewels, long blonde waves frame her exquisite face. Big, blue feline eyes add further depth to her mysterious beauty. She looks expensive and completely unattainable. Her name is Nikita and she is the crown jewel at the center of Section’s plush jewelry box.

badly_knitted

Title: Click
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 868: Code at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The latest alien visitor is annoying Ianto.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Click... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

olivermoss

* Leverage season 3 - I may do a longer post later, but overall the season was surprisingly hit and miss. The last two episodes were great, and The Polygiest Job had so many amazing things packed into it that it pretty much redeems the whole season.

Tho, of course we also got this banger skeet out of it:

* The Librarians The Next Chapter so far. Honestly? Better than I expected. I really like the new Librarian, and it's interesting that they are dealing with a somewhat regional problem not in America. The pilot's script wasn't translated well to production, way too much standing still and taking when those characters would have been taking action, but it's already tightening up. Also with two whole seasons already filmed, the show has a lot of time to find it's feet.

* The Fountain Of Youth, that new Guy Ritchie film I was so looking forward to. It's bad. It's not even bad in a fun way. Swell Entertain made made a 35 minute video on how annoying the film is, which I am not going to watch, but I am glad it exists. For me the problem is easy to sum up: imagine a film with a white male main character where everything is going to work out for him no matter how horrible, self absorbed and immature he is... but also make him genre-savvy. It's like the character knows he can pull whatever and be okay.

* Wolfs - Loved the trailer, the movie was okay. Part of it were solid, parts of it has my wondering why the fixers were being derailed by situations I could have gotten out of. I see what it was going for, but it wasn't there. It could have been a great movie, but it just wasn't there. Having two great actors who have worked together before really carried some weak points.

* Murderbot so far - Also hit or miss for me. I am just trying to enjoy the bits I like and the visuals. I will not be sad to lose access when I cancel AppleTV.

alchemicink

I worked late four out of five days last week 😩 this coming week will probably be crazy too. And yet, somehow, I still managed to gather a few things for this post 😅

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skjam

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene

The frame story begins with Franciz (Friedrich Feher) having just been told by another man (Hans Lanser-Ludloff) about the supernatural events that drove him from his home. Franciz replies that the events he and his fiancée Jane Olsen (Lil Dagover) experienced were even more chilling. We then flash back to the announcement of a fair in the city where Franciz and Jane then lived. Their friend Alan (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) sees an ad for the fair and asks Franciz to come with him. Despite their both being in love with Jane, the two are still good friends.

Meanwhile, a mountebank calling himself Doctor Caligari (Werner Krauss) tries to get a license to perform at the fair. The Town Clerk does allow this, but not before he's very rude to the applicant. By what I am sure is a total coincidence, the Town Clerk is murdered that very night.

Alan and Franciz go to the fair and visit Dr. Caligari's concession. The act turns out to be the supposed doctor displaying a "somnambulist" he calls Cesare (Conrad Veidt) who he awakens from deep sleep. Caligari claims that Cesare has supernatural knowledge of the future. When Alan foolishly enquires how long he will live, Cesare tells Alan he will be dead by dawn.

When Alan is murdered that night, Franciz' logical first suspect is Cesare. But is that really the case?

This 1920 silent German film is one of the most famous movies ever made, and even if you haven't seen it, you've probably heard of it if you have an interest in film history, horror, or German Expressionism. The last is most obvious in the nightmarish set design.

Conrad Veidt is chilling as Cesare, the sleepwalking killer, scrambling over the rooftops on his deadly mission. And within context, Dr. Caligari makes a very sinister figure.

There's a couple of nice touches. An unrelated criminal attacks an old woman in hopes that his murder will be mistakenly credited to the mysterious previous ones. And Dr. Caligari has a "lifelike" dummy of Cesare that he puts in the cabinet while the somnambulist is away to create an alibi.

The title card says that this is a retelling of an 11th Century legend, though that legend itself is made up for the movie--and then there's the infamous twist ending that turns most of what we've learned on its head.

It does have to be remembered that this movie is still quite early in the history of films, and silent, so the acting can come off artificial and stiff, and the lighting is sometimes dubious. The set design actually helps by being so weird that the viewer might not feel the need to nitpick details so much.

Content note: Murder, naturally, though the actual deed is suggested by shadow, not directly shown. Some period depiction of mental illness that may come off badly to modern viewers. Older teens should be fine; younger viewers may not be ready for the conventions of silent film.

This is one of those movies that's more important than good, but it's good enough that it's worth seeing for any fan of horror or film history buff.

scifirenegade

Phone updated. Thought it was a security and performance patch, not a whole visual overhaul of the operating system. It makes it look like an iPhone now. Not my jam. The icons are so busy with so many colours.

And AI. They put an AI on my phone. Disabled it, have no need for it.

Had some dark chocolate with chilli flakes. It's good!

Current Mood: enraged

tafadhali

It's time for my only slightly belated monthly rec post! You can expect some vid recs from VidUKon in the next roundup, but for now here are ten things I liked last month! To start, the non-9-1-1 section:

❖ "ChatGPT, Write a short erotic story about Alex Horne and Greg Davies" by Toft (Taskmaster RPF, Alex/Greg, 500 words): "ChatGPT cockblocks Alex." Very funny ficlet that — let's be clear — was not written by ChatGPT and does not endorse its use, lol.

❖ Cunk on Fangs by beemovieerotica (Interview with a Vampire/Cunk on Earth crossover, 8k): "Philomena Cunk interviews the vampire." Hysterically funny. I can only watch bits and pieces of Cunk on Earth because my secondhand embarrassment is too strong, but this captures the daft, offbeat humor of the show perfectly.

❖ 🎥 Not Fair by obstinatecondolement (Beetlejuice, Lydia/Beetlejuice & Lydia/Rory, fanvid): Super fun vid to a song I adore and would love to have had a vid idea for but now it has found its perfect match in Lydia Deetz's scrub of a boyfriend in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice! I don't necessarily share Art's enthusiasm for Lydia/Beetlejuice but he's made a compelling case...

❖ Priority Client by Killbothtwins (Murderbot, gen, 29k): A charming casefic where Murderbot finds itself having to protect one of Dr. Mensah's younger children. Fun and sweet!

❖ Work Friends by avocadomoon (The Pitt, Mel/Frank, 54k series): So my problem is that I don't ship anyone from The Pitt at all, least of all Mel and Langdon, but there's so much good fic being written and recced that I keep reading it anyway? This series really worked for me, in part because it's still mostly friendship gen (though building to a romantic relationship), but mostly because it's so well-characterized and compelling.

And of course the mandatory 9-1-1 list (some of which are kind of bummers this month because S8 did not end on a high note!):

❖ brother, daughter, sister, husband by avocadomoon (9-1-1, Maddie-centric, 18k): A great Maddie character study, looking at her relationship with her parents, Buck, and Chim.

❖ 🎥 Hold It In by blessyouwatson (9-1-1, Buck/Eddie, fanvid): Absolutely loved this fanvid! The song lends itself to great, bouncy editing and also let the vidder work in so many side characters and relationships. It's an upbeat track but the central refrain of "hold it in" matches Eddie and Buck's complementary issues of repression and denial so well.

❖ The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Chash (9-1-1, Chris-centric, 3k): A heartbreaking meditation on Christopher and loss written just before the season 8 finale aired.

❖ slow-dancing on landmines by glorious_spoon (9-1-1, Buck/Eddie, 11k):

I slept with Buck, he imagines saying out loud. To Bobby, probably. Bobby gives good advice, always listens carefully, like it matters. Doesn't judge, at least not out loud.
Gave. Bobby gave good advice. Bobby is never going to look at Eddie across the big table at the station loft with a faintly amused expression on his face while he tells Eddie something that Eddie deep down already knew.
I slept with Buck. I don't know what to do.
Bobby would raise his eyebrows and say, Well, maybe you should talk to him.

❖ SOS by paleredheadinascifi (9-1-1, Buck/Eddie, 1k): Just a deeply silly ficlet to hopefully lighten the mood a bit after some of the other recs. Love me a texting fic.

tafadhali

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Title: No Surrender
Fandom: Blinded by the LIght
Music: "No Surrender" by Bruce Springsteen
Length: 4:01
Summary: "We learned more from a three minute record, baby / Than we ever learned in school." Unabashed fandom in dark times.
Notes: Premiered in the "GPOY" vidshow at VidUKon 2025.

spikedluv

Today was supposed to be parade/chicken dinner day at mom’s. Unfortunately, we had a huge amount of rain that caused ditches and creeks to overflow their banks. The parade was canceled because of flooding but the chicken bbq was still on so my siblings and I gathered at mom’s for chicken dinners. My brother came, when he doesn’t normally come for the parade and other festivities, because he wanted to see my mom before her surgery. We sat on the screened-in porch and listened to it rain outside, which was surprisingly nice when we weren’t getting wet.

I managed to do three loads of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I also watched the current ep of Resident Alien and an HGTV program, read some more Amelia Peabody, and still talked to mom on the phone. I also got extra sleep because I slept in until 8am for the first time in ages! (Going back to bed after getting the dogs back inside, of course.)

In bad personal news, we even had flooding at our home, which is unheard of because we’re not near any creeks. What happened, in two instances, was a matter of blocked drainage. The drain outside the basement got plugged, so our basement flooded for the first time ever. (Back when Hurricane Irene gave us about 13" of rain, a tiny bit of water entered the basement through a crack in the floor, but nothing before or since, until now.)

The other was the pond. Pip puts a mesh wire over the spill pipe in the spring so the baby geese don’t get sucked down it, and that mesh got blocked, so the pond built up until it spilled over the banks. A lot of fish were caught in the spill, unfortunately. And that’s in addition to the normal build-up of water we get in a line across the property (where the slight down hill from the house meets the down hill from the hill where the pine trees are). There was so much water.

Pip has been squeegeeing the basement, but a squeegee can only do so much. He’s going to have to jack hammer an actual hole into the basement floor for a sub pump and squeegee the water into it. What a pain in the ass. (Thankfully Pip had a change of plans! He’s going to try to vacuum the water out with a shop vac ~before he goes to the effort of jack hammering a hole in the floor!) He also had to go in the pond several times to unclog the mesh so the water could flow out the way it was supposed to. (In addition to the rain, the pond fills with run-off from the hill above it, and there was a LOT of run-off.)

Temps started out at 63.0(F) and reached 76.4. Thankfully the rain ended mid-afternoon and the sun came out.

haunted_cherries

I’ve known for a WHILE that I’ve needed to REALLY cut back on a lot of the doomscrolling I was doing on WAY too many sites. It’s done bad stuff for my mental in the past, and while I thought I could get around it using app blockers, I had to really put my foot down this week when so much doomscrolling about current politics and how vicious people have become to each other had me in TEARS.

It was tough, but I had to take the plunge, say “fuck all that”, and delete every single app.

That in conjunction with finding other things to do outside of being on my phone and therapy have been working out thus far, so I’m hopeful. I just got really tired of feeling so sad and numb, and felt like I was being my own worst enemy in that regard.

I’ve drastically reduced the sites I used, and the only social media I plan to use now is Dreamwidth, Pillowfort, and Discord (at least until Revolt takes off xD).

Wish me luck!! Here’s hoping. 🤞❤️

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Neon Palm Mall Mix

croptoptux

Is it just me or is the number of error pages you get when you click on "random journal" or "random community" kind of high?

caramarie

Title: With Knives
Fandom: Multifandom (made from my own vids)
Music: I Come With Knives, by IAMX
Length: 2:11 min
Event: Created for the GPOY vidshow, VidUKon 2025
Download: With Knives (mp4, 34.8 MB)
Elsewhere: on AO3
Content notes: blood, graphic violence, torture, weird gory sex
Summary: Once somebody gifted me blood kink unprompted, and I was like, but how did they know? (It’s obvious how they knew.)

( Streaming )

( Notes )

( Source list )

serrico

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Current Mood: lazy

witchoil

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coprime

Art by Alex Maleev of Daredevil holding a sword pointing down, its tip touching the ground, with blood coating it.

olivermoss

* Found one of the Little Free Libaries with The Librarians swag and nabbed one of these coin thingies:

It took a good bit of walking because the first I went to didn't have any of the items. They are also supposed to have free Librarians books, but I haven't found one with those yet.

* Am back on my quest to do all the Portland stairs. I've done the Washington park ones before, and actually photographed these stairs before, but not since I started tracking my journey to conquer them all:

* Books With Pictures Con was today:

They really get a great line up of artists each year.

isis

Paul Krugman talks with Ada Palmer about her new (nonfiction) book Inventing the Renaissance. I came at this from the Krugman side (he's a Nobel-winning economist who used to write for the NYT, and I subscribe to his substack) but I figured some of you would be interested from the Palmer side (I never got into Terra Ignota, though). I found it really interesting! I read the transcript, but there's a link to the video conversation as well.

Speaking of Nobelists, a v. v. srs study found that countries with greater per capita chocolate consumption produce more Nobel laureates - so eating chocolate makes you smarter, right? :-)

senmut

Marking Dates (531 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eliot Spencer/Alec Hardison/Parker
Characters: Alec Hardison, Eliot Spencer, Parker [Leverage]
Additional Tags: Origami, Fluff
Summary:

Hardison and Eliot mark the date in a way that Parker will enjoy.

Marking Dates

The saying that money can't buy happiness had to have been thought up by a rich person, Hardison decided. He kept folding the non-sequential bills, setting up a menagerie of wild animals. After he had twenty-six of them, he put them in the box, closed it, and left it on his desk, just where the box had been for several days.

Parker had noticed it on the first day it was there, asked about it two days after that, then forgot it existed as it became part of her surroundings. It was the perfect place to hide something in plain sight — though he'd taken the precaution of spritzing it with his aftershave, to hide the money smell.

Parker was funny enough about money that she might have smelled it otherwise.

When Eliot came in that evening, Hardison caught his eyes, looked at the box, got the slow blink of agreement, and that was that.

Two days later, the box was gone, and Parker studied that space, making the cute frowny face she did while cataloguing where everything was supposed to be.

"Where'd the box go?" she asked.

"Have to find it," Eliot answered, before he and Hardison exchanged a grin. Her eyes lit up, so Hardison continued. "Scavenger hunt, in our building, out of the way spots… with things to find on the way to the box."

"What kind of things?" she asked, even as she was getting excited.

"The kind of things you like," Eliot said, and she did a tiny little clap and bounce before vanishing.

"And that, my friend, is how we say 'happy anniversary' to her," Hardison crooned, amused, and going to watch the spy-eyes through the building. Eliot joined him, putting him in a brief headlock playfully.

"Figuring out her love language wasn't so hard," Eliot said, but he was smiling when she found the first animal, right where he'd thought she would, an alligator. "How in the hell did you find an origami A to Z?"

"Man, everything is on the internet now," Hardison told him, still thrilled they'd found a gift that worked.

Parker found the last animal, cunningly folded so it appeared striped, making it a zebra, and the box was just ahead. She opened it, seeing cash — multiple currencies even! — and the note that said 'happy change together day'. Her chin wibbled, for just a moment, before she put all of her finds in the box. She'd had to back track for the otter and the shrew when she realized they were in alphabetical order, but now she had a full menagerie of money.

Her men — both of them were hers and theirs and ours — made fusses on days that weren't Christmas, but not in the way she saw other people do it. That, among many things, kept her falling in love with them every day, knowing neither one would ever push her in a path she couldn't handle.

She'd have to make a run on a store before she went back up to them; junk food for Hardison that had some pretzels in it, and she'd pick up that smelly cheese Eliot had insisted would make great brioche grilled cheese sandwiches.

Current Music: "Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai

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badly_knitted - B5 Triple Drabble: Hollow
badly_knitted - FAKE Double Drabble: Over And Done
abby82 - fic: chance is the only game I play with [la femme nikita]
badly_knitted - Double Drabble: Click
olivermoss - Movies and TV Shows Round Up
alchemicink - Weekly summary: June 1 - June 7, 2025
skjam - CRUD Challenge: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
scifirenegade - Random
tafadhali - 10 Recs from May
tafadhali - New Vid: No Surrender (Blinded by the Light)
spikedluv - The Day in Spikedluv (Saturday, June 7)
haunted_cherries - Life is all about big leaps 🏃💨
croptoptux - ...Is the randomizer buggy?
caramarie - Vid: With Knives (multifandom)
serrico - Look at them. Absolutely appalled. Quite right to be, too.
witchoil - UNDER CONSTRUCTION - Noncon Exchange 2025 Request Letter
coprime - For my Fic "Against the Clock"
olivermoss - Doing things in Portland
isis - interesting links to fascinate people
senmut - PRIDE 4: Hardison/Eliot/Parker

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B5 Triple Drabble: Hollow

FAKE Double Drabble: Over And Done

fic: chance is the only game I play with [la femme nikita]

Double Drabble: Click

Movies and TV Shows Round Up

Weekly summary: June 1 - June 7, 2025

CRUD Challenge: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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10 Recs from May

New Vid: No Surrender (Blinded by the Light)

The Day in Spikedluv (Saturday, June 7)

Life is all about big leaps 🏃💨

...Is the randomizer buggy?

Vid: With Knives (multifandom)

Look at them. Absolutely appalled. Quite right to be, too.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION - Noncon Exchange 2025 Request Letter

For my Fic "Against the Clock"

Doing things in Portland

interesting links to fascinate people

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