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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-26 06:27 pm

B5 Ficlet: Doing It Right

 


Title: Doing It Right
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jeffrey Sinclair, Catherine Sakai.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 584
Spoilers/Setting: Chrysalis.
Summary: It’s about time Sinclair stopped practising his proposal and got on with it.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 449: Rehearsal at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
 


 
 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-26 06:13 pm

Fic: Asteroid Adjustment

 


Title: Asteroid Adjustment
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, OC, TARDIS.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1800
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack and Ianto come to the aid of a world in the direct path of a wandering asteroid.
Written For: Weekend Challenge ‘You're Gonna Need A Bigger Prompt,’ at 
[community profile] 1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Set in my Through Time and Space ‘verse.
 


 
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Emily ([personal profile] beradan) wrote2025-06-26 10:01 am

(no subject)

rejoice with me my friends for it is No Longer Disgustingly Hot (for now)
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lexin ([personal profile] lexin) wrote2025-06-26 12:12 pm
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Activities

[personal profile] aunty_marion an I have been having a holiday of sorts, travelling hither and yon around North Wales to see various sights. Yesterday we went up the Great Orme on a tramway and had hot chocolate and a hot dog at the top. Lovely views.

On another day we went to a National Trust property called Plas Newydd in which is probably Rex Whistler’s finest work, a mural of a fantasy city on the dining room wall. It is so intricate that you could look at it for hours and still be finding new bits. It is fantastic, if you ever get a chance, do go and see it.
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twistedchick ([personal profile] twistedchick) wrote2025-06-26 01:30 am

aha!

I have been watching 'Elementary' the past week or so, especially during the heat dome of the last few days, and throughout the first three seasons Holmes' father is mentioned a few times but never shows up.

He finally does show up early in season 4, and from the first moment I saw him I kept thinking, 'where do I know this actor from'? His face, older and lined, was like many other actors, but that voice was singular.

So I looked him up.

He played Denethor in LOTR, the bad father who tried to burn his younger son to death and immolate himself on the fire as well -- the worst of the fathers in LOTR.

Tone down the madness, make him a high-level businessman with a finger in every government, and you have Sherlock's father. Pretty good casting.
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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-06-25 10:35 pm

[bats] today's brilliant idea

It is warm. We have the bedroom window open at night. Dusk is currently around when we are heading to bed.

... I realised I could prop the bat detector up in the open window while we went about our Bed Things and it worked. (Alas A missed most of the activity on account of being in the bathroom, but Proof Of Concept still valuable.)

Other achievements of the day include "1.7 kg of redcurrants picked, processed, and in the freezer" and "finished All Systems Red: the reread" and also "almost finished The Way Out reread".

(I am so so pleased about the redcurrants; turns out that mulching and pruning heavily and watering... works?! Who knew.)

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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-25 06:31 pm

BtVS Triple Drabble: No Use Wishing

 


Title: No Use Wishing
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Willow.
Rating: PG
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Wish’.
Spoilers/Setting: Early Season Three.
Summary: Buffy can’t help wishing sometimes that she wasn’t the Slayer.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-25 06:22 pm

FAKE Triple Drabble: Shaken, Not Stirred

 


Title: Shaken, Not Stirred
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Commissioner Rose.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol. 3, Act 8.
Summary: When Rose had kissed, Ryo had reacted in a very uncharacteristic manner.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Shaken, Not Stirred’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble and a half, 350 words.
 


 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-25 05:51 pm

Double Drabble: Last Gasp

 


Title: Last Gasp
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Team, OCs.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 871: Gasp at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Aliens are trying to invade earth. Again.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
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highlyeccentric ([personal profile] highlyeccentric) wrote2025-06-25 09:26 pm
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Protestant!Posting

Recommendation: the first episode of the "Ill Concieved" podcast, which promises to be a podcast about natalism. Their first episode is Promise Keepers.

Note: I had a complex reaction to this content. The dominant one is actually a sort of relief in finding someone in 2025 of vaguely my demographic digging into this. I recognise Promise Keepers. I don't think I know anyone who went to a Promise Keepers rally (I'm not even sure if there WERE such rallies in Aus), but I definitely heard people talk about the Important Movement which Ill Concieved delightfully describe as "700,000 Dicks Out For Jesus".

However. I was a left-ish, liturgy-friendly Protestant growing up around charismatic and Pentecostal-leaning evangelicals. I dealt with this by Reading Up, particularly once I got academic library access and could search the keywords which my confirmation mentor had mentioned. Marion Maddox's "God Under Howard" is in my top five formative books, I reckon. I also read a fair bit of Karen Armstrong, which I realise is not the BEST one could read, but several points which were jarring to me in that episode come under the heading of "wait, Karen Armstrong can and does explain this, I'm open to other explanations but you're just saying it's Odd?".

Consequently, I ended up posting a mini-essay in skeets. I reproduce it here with corrected punctuation.




Recommendation: this.

Additional note: it’s a little weird to me, someone who dealt with growing up around charismatic evangelicals by researching as much on the history of both Pentecostalism and evangelical movements as I could get my teenage hands on, to hear @ junlper.beer repeatedly surprised about the multi-racial makeup of Promise Keepers. “Revival” style evangelical movements in the US have historic roots in African-American evangelical movements, and Pentecostalism in the US traces back to a Black revivalist preacher in early 20th c LA.

Pentecostalism didn’t get integrated into “mainline” evangelism until the 80s or so - many regarded them as indecorous, which no doubt had a lot to do with race. But folding Pentecostal practices and beliefs in with other charismatic evangelicals allowed the charismatic sectors of some of the major denominations to really strengthen their dominance over the evangelical cultural landscape.

Summary One: you thought the filioque dispute was difficult, you thought reformation predistination disputes were arcane, you try not to think about Arianism... I give you: subdivisions of charismatic and pentecostal protestantism )

Summary two: some Protestants will do literally anything to avoid endorsing sacramentalism, including... whatever the fuck happened with Pentecostalism.

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*Obligatory citation to Marion Maddox's "God Under Howard".
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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2025-06-25 02:22 pm
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Fountain Pen Ink Swatches (and Wishlists)

I got a great idea that I was going to make image posts on Tumblr for my top lists of fountain pen ink (favorite inks and inks at the top of my to-buy list), but you need good swatches for that. Or I mean, that was my vision: the whole point is they're pretty.

And so I went to my favorite ink review blog, Mountain of Ink, and discovered that she's got a no-rightclick javascript over all her individual ink swatch images. Obviously, since I'm a 42-year-old millenial who has been using computers since I was a toddler, I could get around this, but I don't want to use her images if she doesn't want people to use them. (I would only have done so in the good-faith belief that normal credit and linkback was all that courtesy required. And I would have earnestly recommended her blog too, because that's what I always do!)

So that means I'd have to make and photograph my own ink swatches. Making's easy (if slightly time-consuming), but taking good photos of them is hard! Like here's some swatches I had knocking around in my folder: my favorite CRAZY expensive ink, Sailor Ink Studio 160 (a light minty green); my favorite all-purpose ink, J Herbin Vert Réséda (a bright teal with a very slight leaning towards green); a lovely dark moody ink, J Herbin Poussière de Lune (a saturated reddish plum purple).


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See, it's overcast but bright today - the sky is a solid opaque cool milky white. I took these photos two feet from an open window, with my bright light therapy sunlamp shining from the other side at the same distance. And the color reproduction is still not good! You can see it in the whites - everything looks cooler and dimmer than reality.

Sure, I could color correct them with an image manipulation program, but I think that defeats the point of swatches. And I'm not into it enough to, like, sign up for a Skillshare course in photographing art. So IDK. Maybe I will get more into making swatches. I actually bought a glass dip pen for this exact purpose a couple of years ago, only I broke the tip of the pen the first time I used it and then I didn't buy another (I have regular dip pens though so it's not really necessary).
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wolffyluna ([personal profile] wolffyluna) wrote2025-06-25 06:55 pm

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I was in Mining Town, for once not on a Monday, so as a Birthday Treat™ I went a bought myself a bubble tea from the Mining Town Bubble Tea Store.

I didn't expect it to be good, necessarily, I just wanted to Know. Especially because, not to be unfair to Mining Town, it's not the sort of place I'd expect a bubble tea store? Anyway, the tea itself was pretty nice. Kind of expensive for what it was, but they were generous with the tapioca and they gave it a brown sugar swirl.

But the atmosphere? Oh, it was incredible.

Okay, so picture a storefront that's weirdly far back from all the other store fronts, like it used to be a shed or a warehouse of another store. On one side is a workwear shop, on the other side is a tyre place. You walk in. No other customer is there. The only people in there apart from you are a) a high school student working at the till, who is so so soft spoken, they are not comfortable talking to people, which would be a problem in most hospitality jobs but not this one apparently, and b) the owner, who is so cheerful but also keeps randomly walking out of the store?

On half the interior tables are children's toys, and there's a shelf of board books in one corner. Everything about this place screams like, church play room. except for the fact they are making bubble teas in the kitchen area.

TEN/TEN, NO NOTES. I give it 50:50 odds that it's a front, or that it's just a really bizarrely run bubble tea store? I'm glad I went there while it still existed.

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Althea Valara ([personal profile] althea_valara) wrote2025-06-24 10:40 pm
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everyone loves a poll (FFVFJF2025)

So next Monday, I'm going to start a Four Job Fiesta run of Final Fantasy V, whee! Problem: I am really torn on what kind of run to do.

putting under a cut because slight spoilers for Final Fantasy V gameplay )
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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-06-24 10:45 pm

today's questionable research hole was the sex ratio of adult zebra populations

I was trivially able to dig out an example of a documented 5:1 female:male ratio.

Why yes I am rereading The Way Out (previous commentary) for the purposes of making notes on content and structure.

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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-06-24 12:50 pm

Not to tempt anyone but ...

While we're waiting for h/c-ex to reveal in July, this just showed up on EAD ...

ANNOUNCING TERRIBLE TEMPERATURE TROUBLES FLASH FEST: a multifandom flash fest for all your terrible temperature troubles!

Nomination & Sign-ups: Now-June 30.
Assignments Out: July 2.
Works Due: July 10.
Work Reveals: July 11.
Creator Reveals: July 17.
All times at 11:59 PM Eastern.


https://archiveofourown.org/collections/temptroubles2025/profile
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/23809

Hypothermia ... heatstroke ... etc ...

(And it's one of those 1-fandom minimum request/offer exchanges, I'M JUST POINTING THIS OUT, IN CASE IT IS RELEVANT TO ANYONE.)

I realize this would be a terrible time for me to sign up for anything because I'm leaving tomorrow and I'll be gone until July 4 (Mom stuff again), but there's still almost a week of writing time after that.
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-24 06:19 pm

FAKE Triple Drabble: Ridiculous Accident

 


Title: Ridiculous Accident
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, Bikky, OFC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo injures himself in a really ridiculous accident.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 380: Position.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 


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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-24 06:07 pm

Doctor Who Drabble: Fine Dining

 


Title: Fine Dining
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Rose Tyler, Captain Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 934: ‘Raw’ at [community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Rose isn’t too happy about what’s on the menu.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 
Fine Dining... )
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-24 05:53 pm

Double Drabble: Revival

 


Title: Revival
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 871: Gasp at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto gets taken down by an alien creature.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.