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Lanna Michaels ([personal profile] lannamichaels) wrote2025-06-15 09:41 pm

"And Though The Static Walls Surround Me." (Vorkosigan Saga) G



Title: And Though The Static Walls Surround Me.
Author: [personal profile] lannamichaels
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga
Series: Part 11 of Are You Out There, Can You Hear This?
Rating: G
A/N: The title is from Are You Out There by Dar Williams.
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Miles is hanging out with mercenaries. Gregor has a headache and would rather be listening to the radio. Or: Warrior's Apprentice in radioverse.


Let's do the time skip again! )

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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-06-15 11:59 pm

vital functions survived an event

... and has been doing very little of anything else. SHOCKINGLY.

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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-15 07:24 pm

Stargate SG-1 Double Drabble: Time Off

 


Title: Time Off
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 454: Liberty at 
[community profile] drabble_zone.
Setting: Late Season 3.
Summary: SG-1 have been given two days off, and Daniel doesn’t know what to do with himself.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-15 07:07 pm

FAKE Double Drabble: Specs Appeal


 

Title: Specs Appeal
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Dee needs reading glasses.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Spectacles’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-15 06:50 pm

Double Drabble: Irresponsible Parents

 


Title: Irresponsible Parents
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 869: Left at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack is worried about the twins on their first day of school.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
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lexin ([personal profile] lexin) wrote2025-06-15 01:56 pm
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Dentist

I have finally received a letter telling me I can contact the Community Dental Services people for an assessment. Yippee! That will be the first thing I do on Monday.

Currently , I have three broken teeth, which take it in turns to hurt.
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highlyeccentric ([personal profile] highlyeccentric) wrote2025-06-15 07:59 pm
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Listening Post: some things

Today's musical development is that courtesy of the world's least impressive dictactor parade, I have remembered that I actually like Credence Clearwater Revival. Figured out that the cassette tape we used to have in the car must have been Cosmo's Factory with a couple of tracks off Willy and the Poor Boys taped onto the end.

Instagram has been feeding me a trickle of interesting indie protest-song creators lately.

Consider Jesse Welles, who seems to be able to come up with a new political song within a day of every new twist the Trump administration disaster show. I do somewhat prefer his less "breaking news" work, for instance:



There's Malört & Savior, who have this rather catchy little track. Although what really strikes me is that they seem to be a fairly new band, and cerainly this was put out in the past month - but they SOUND like they walked straight out of 2009.



And there's Rain McMey, who has a few bangers going back a few years now, but this one delights me:



Podcasts, assorted recommendations:

  • The recent Bad Gays episode about Gavin Arthur was pretty fascinating.
  • I enjoy "Lions Led By Donkeys" frequently, and they had a thematically linked pair of interesting episodes recently: The Pastry War (also known as the first French Intervention in Mexico) and The War of the Oaken Bucket.
  • The most recent episode of Gender Reveal, with Alison Bechdel is great, generally, and has particularly interesting comments on the difference between memoir and fiction.
  • The Odd Lots podcast episode of last week, A Major American Egg Producer Just Lost 90% of its flock was fascinating. It's sort of a follow-up to Why are Eggs So Expensive of last year, which I also really appreciated (dangerous though: the cashier at my local service station convenience store wasn't expecting a mini-lecture on how long it takes to recover from a bird flu outbreak, or the impact which the fade-out of battery farms has). This time I was also particularly struck by the way Hickman talked about not being able to access vaccines - apparently the US exports vaccines to other countries who choose to vaccinate their laying flock, but US producers who WANT the vaccine can't get hands on it. He did not once mention the post-covid stakes in anti-vaccination policy, but you can kind of hear the outlines of it as he's talking. The other thing that was really clear is what an impact bird flu must have on the local economy - when Hickman's talking about the cost to the company of losing "institutional knowledge" and/or having to "hire back" the staff once the flock is re-established, that must mean that an outbreak means massive job losses.
  • The Behind the Bastards two-parter about Versailles was fascinating in its own right. I also, courtesy of a reminder somewhere in there that this is NOT a medieval system of administration, and courtesy of my own having figured out that the HSC modern history syllabus, which started "modernity" with the French revolution and absolutely did refer to the preceding regime as medieval, wasn't just lying-to-children, it was specifically drawing on the long duree, Marxist-leaning school of historical analysis - well put those two together and... oh, RIGHT. The reason the "palace complex" of Tamora Pierce's Tortall (or Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar) is so _bizarre_, economically speaking, is that their shared invisible template is _Versailles_. Combined with the 16th c English Chancery, certainly, and some influence from the Prussian War College.


  • Fiction:
  • I powered through Dimension 20's "Fantasy High: The Seven" and I loved it. Adorable! Now on to Fantasty High: Junior Year, which I am actually finding a little difficult as the early episodes have so much emphasis on how busy / under pressure everyone is. And the "your god is at risk of dying, you are her only believer, why aren't you evangelising for her?" storyline re Kristen is... uncomfortable. Maybe it's cathartic to Ally Beardsley, but it makes me feel squeamy.
  • Because I require MORE of Brennan Lee Mulligan in my ears, I found Worlds Beyond Number and am so far enjoying The Wizard, The Witch and the Wild One.
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    crafty_packrat ([personal profile] crafty_packrat) wrote2025-06-14 10:14 pm
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    Farmer's Market -- 14 June 2025 (Jasmine Day, 26th of Meadows, Year 233)

    Empanadas (masaco and nutellla), rosemary plant, yellow sweet cherries, tart cherries, red raspberries, black raspberries, almond croissant, bacon-and-gruyere wheel, sugar peas in pods, carrot-walnut mini-cake, chocolate raspberry mini-cake, walnut-chocolate cookies, and locally grown brown rice.
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    neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote2025-06-14 01:50 pm
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    Farmer's Market -- 14 June 2025 (Jasmine Day, 26th of Meadows, Year 233)

    Empanadas (masaco and nutellla), rosemary plant, yellow sweet cherries, tart cherries, red raspberries, black raspberries, almond croissant, bacon-and-gruyere wheel, sugar peas in pods, carrot-walnut mini-cake, chocolate raspberry mini-cake, walnut-chocolate cookies, and locally grown brown rice.
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    thistle in grey ([personal profile] thistleingrey) wrote2025-06-14 06:55 pm
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    in conclusion, age is a number

    Stupidly, I keep referring to my age without meaning to in conversation, then catching it only afterwards. I already know I'm a bit insecure about the age I turn this calendar year; it'd be fine if my mouth would quit confirming it, repeatedly.

    OTOH, though I still can't go for a walk without detectable negative consequences, core strength remains approximately intact: I've just carried one microwave across two rooms and a doorway gate (the one that keeps tiny housemate in the kitchen---her paws reach the top bar if she lunges upwards, and on me it's between knee and hip height), then carried another microwave the same distance in the opposite direction. short and boring )

    *tilts head* That seems to be enough words. Far fewer than I used to lob at related topics.
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    kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-06-14 11:59 pm

    two some good things

    Item the first: I have no idea what the hell made the ominous donk-slither-donk noise in the portaloo at about midnight last night, but the phone I'd convinced myself it was was in a neat little pile with my laptop, in the tent, in the morning -- after I'd spent some time being sad about inadequate backups of photos of tiny sleepy rhinos -- which was an enormous relief (though I am also very pleased with myself for how well I handled things). (Especially given that my conviction that this was what had happened was in part based on being as aware as I could be of how abruptly my cognitive function had deteriorated with Surprise Unscheduled Migraine Onset.) (Still haven't worked out what on earth the donk-slither-donk was, but it's none of the obvious Truly Upsetting things to have lost, so I'm Currently Fine With This.)

    Item the second: it is hot. This field contains lots of chamomile, and also lots of people. I am really enjoying the way it smells.

    Item the third: I am really enjoying the dark chocolate + salt + nuts snack bars that crew welfare is providing, which I'd not previously noticed.

    Item four: THE HALBARD THAT IS A SHARK.

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    Emily ([personal profile] beradan) wrote2025-06-14 06:34 pm
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    a trip, and some cell provider purgatory

    This week on Hot Museum Summer aka the summer of finally doing the museums and touristy stuff I was going to do when I moved here immediately before The Plague, I went to the Boston Tea Party museum. Kind of aimed towards school trips but nevertheless great fun, even in the rain.

    (it is the 13th consecutive weekend of rain in Boston. this seems excessive)

    Saw a boat, learned some facts, shouted HUZZAH a few times, bought some tea, met an instagram friend. Good times.

    Did not realize, when I bought my ticket, that today was also a) protests and b) Pride, so the T was a bit on the crowded side.

    this is just whining, really )
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    loup_noir ([personal profile] loup_noir) wrote2025-06-14 09:45 am

    (no subject)

     I was pleasantly surprised this week by a couple of emails that let me know that my Durmstrang series had been moved to an Archive of Our Own as part of the Open Door project (Thank you, Heidi![community profile] heidi8 )  Someone had already claimed my author name from FA, so in a fit of no imagination whatsoever, I'm now LoupNoirDurmstrang over there.  There's one story that never made it to Schnoogle that should get uploaded to the site.  I've got FAQs open to help me figure the steps out.

    This whole week has been an exercise in careful movement, because tomorrow is a pelagic birding day.  I've been on a boat when my back's been unhappy, and it isn't a pleasant experience.  Someday, I'll take another trip out to the Farallons, preferably without back spasms.


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    badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-14 05:47 pm

    FAKE Double Drabble: Lucky Break

     


    Title: Lucky Break
    Fandom: FAKE
    Author: 
    [personal profile] badly_knitted
    Characters: Dee, Ryo, OMC.
    Rating: PG
    Setting: After the manga.
    Summary: Dee manages to intimidate a young rookie.
    Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Locale’.
    Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
    A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
     


     
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    badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-14 05:36 pm

    Doctor Who Drabble: Urban Nuisance

     


    Title: Urban Nuisance
    Author: 
    [personal profile] badly_knitted
    Characters: Tenth Doctor.
    Rating: G
    Written For: Challenge 931: ‘Scat’ at 
    [community profile] dw100.
    Spoilers: Nada.
    Summary: Earth has its downsides.
    Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
     


     
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    badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-06-14 05:19 pm

    Double Drabble: On Shaky Ground

     


    Title: On Shaky Ground
    Author: 
    [personal profile] badly_knitted
    Characters: Tosh, Team, Jack.
    Rating: PG
    Written For: Challenge 869: Left at 
    [community profile] torchwood100.
    Spoilers: Nada.
    Summary: Jack has left, and Tosh is worried.
    Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
    A/N: Double drabble.
     
     


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    Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2025-06-14 06:11 pm
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    unfortunately even though we accomplished Task we still have to do the shopping

    One thing about updating the decorative arts and design history blog is that my kneejerk loathing of the term "inspo" has me struggling multiple times a week with the strong impulse to block everyone who reblogs my posts with that tag.

    It's good for me somehow, probably.

    I'm currently exhausted because the spring that pushes the latch bolt out of the kitchen-hall door broke last night after midnight and we spent several hours fixing it this afternoon. Wax took the equivalent spring out of the lockbox of the dining-livingroom door because unfortunately the lockbox is a pre-1940 model and the springs are not manufactured anymore, nor are the parts interchangeable with the later springs from the 40s- model that are still in production, nor can the whole lockbox be easily switched (because the spindle and hole for it are not the same circumference and the boxes themselves can be different sizes). However, the two lockboxes aren't identical. In fact, it looks like the one that broke is the oldest one in the house. She had to squish the spring a bit to get it in, and it wasn't exactly the same shape and size, so we are nervous that it may break soon. (She did all the hard bits with tools, not trusting me not to injure myself, and I cleaned the insides of the lockboxes with q-tips dipped in vinegar and then oiled them with q-tips dipped in mineral oil.) Wax hopes we can get the blacksmith to make a new spring for the spot when that happens, rather than having to replace the entire mechanism, but we don't know how plausible that is.

    We can't do without this door and its latch, but the lockboxes on the other doors are all other sizes so they can't be swapped. We need it latched to keep the cats apart! They're making progress, and they've touched noses now, but Tristana still retreats any time Sipuli gets a little excited, and they are only meeting with Sipuli on the leash.
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    Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-06-14 02:10 am

    Dear Just Married creator

    Treats welcome!

    I would be perfectly happy if you swap tags between requests. I think all my requests are pretty similar, and if a different request's tags give you an idea, please go for it with my enthusiastic consent.

    I would love to receive any of my requests equally, and optional details aside, the tags are the primary prompts; please feel free to do what you like with them.

    Relationship likes and dislikes )

    Fandoms

    Babylon 5 - TV )

    Biggles books - W.E. Johns )

    Agent Carter - TV )