Collection Revealed

Sep. 8th, 2025 10:56 am
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All gifts are revealed. A major thanks to all our wonderful pinch hitters for allowing us to reveal on time. Remember that comments are mandatory on gifts: please take the time to thank your creators.

Treats will be revealed on September 10. If you want to treat, check out our treat tracker as well as all requests on the autoao3app!

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Three lunatics and a paladin!

Dramatis Personae:

Viepuck, driving this bus accidentally, who gave the twelve-year-old the wheel
Izgil, with the frustrated pedantry
Celyn, mostly just vibing (I had a few moments but I get tired and muzzyheaded easily at the moment)
Robin, who got to be dramatic at the end

When we left off we were on top of a cliff near Veltor, the capital of the barony.

So we jumped off the cliff, which was the plan. )

Hugo Homework (from four months ago)

Sep. 7th, 2025 09:36 pm
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I read these back in May, and my memories are not 100%. Here's my best stab at the three noms for best novel, one for novella, and one tangential to the Lodestar.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher, narrated by Eliza Foss & Jennifer Pickens Read more... )

Rainbow heart sticker The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Read more... )

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Read more... )

The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed Read more... )

Rainbow heart sticker Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, narrated by Kinsale Drake Read more... )

evangelical

Sep. 8th, 2025 04:56 am
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adjective: 1. Extremely enthusiastic about a cause. 2. Relating to Christian churches emphasizing the Bible's authority and a personal relationship with Jesus. noun: A member of an evangelical church.
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Old Friends, New Friends
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1912
[End of March 179-]


:: In Cluj-Napoca, Laslo is reunited with his horses, and makes friends with more members of the friendly cheesemaker’s family. Part of the “Lost Son” story arc in the Frankenstein’s Family universe. ::


Back to part thirty-three
To the Lost Son Index
On to part thirty-five




Laszlo insisted that they give Adin an easy haul, letting him amble back toward Cluj-Napoca. With Siemowit’s directions, they skirted the edge of town to the large stable that the teen proudly showed off as they approached. “Uncle Ioan! Uncle Ioan!” he called, then stood on the pair of bags stuffed with fleece to call again. “I found him!”

A man bolted out of the stable at a lope. Middling brown hair, either cut very short or growing out from a full shave, framed a triangular face with sharp cheekbones and a sharper chin. His grin, however, softened even the widow’s peak on his forehead. “Siemowit! Who did you bring me?”
Read more... )

Two Prompt Fests

Sep. 7th, 2025 03:03 pm
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[personal profile] spook_me posted: Spook Me Multi-Fandom Ficathon 2025
All fandoms are welcome. Stories can be Gen, Het, Slash or Femslash. All ratings are accepted.

We have TWO new Creatures this year: RAVEN and GRAVEYARD

I have royally failed at this the last like five years, but I do want to keep trying. It's really my favourite prompt fest.



[community profile] fandomgiftbasket posted: Spreadsheet of All Requests
Here is the spreadsheet of all requests!

Link.

There are two sheets on it. The first one is a list of all baskets sorted alphabetically by username, and this is where I'll keep track of the number of gifts. The second is every single fandom request posted individually in alphabetical order, for ease of finding. If you spot anything missing or any mistakes, let me know ASAP.

I don't have a basket this year, but hope to maybe write drabbles or something? Possibly?

Anatomies of Desire

Sep. 7th, 2025 01:43 pm
lb_lee: A curlyhaired woman with a determined grin on her face, thinking 'dicks dicks dicks' (dicksdicksdicks)
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When I talked about sex, it was often assumed that I didn’t know about sexual abuse, that I didn’t know about violence against women, and that because I chose to celebrate a passion or to describe a passion, I was immune for the anguish of being a woman in this society. [...] My whole life’s work has been saying—along with others—that we cannot only have an anatomy of victimization. We are more than that. We must have an anatomy of desire, of celebration. We must not assume that because a woman speaks about passion she doesn’t know pain.

—Joan Nestle, “A celebration of butch-femme identities in the lesbian community,” A Persistent Desire: A Femme/Butch Reader p. 462

Rogan: Joan Nestle was talking about the power of transgressive female desire, but the quote also rings with me as a trans multiple. As there’s a push within our own ranks towards identifying with trauma, this idea that the only “respectable” way to be or become multiple is to be (preferably sexually) victimized, and as there’s a political push to see trans people’s very existence as sexually abusive to children, I have found power in shamelessly depicting my erotic desires through art.

It took years to reach this point; sexual violence is like a black hole that sucks everything into itself. Every time I write about sex, including this post, I have to delete constant digressions about the damned black hole. Mac and I had to set a rule that Multi Orgasmic would NOT discuss abuse because otherwise it would’ve been about damn near nothing else! And obviously it was a smart choice; Multi Orgasmic is my #2 ebook bestseller. People are clearly hankering for this stuff; they just don’t say so in public, mostly, because true, honest desire is scary. When you want something that badly (sexual or not), that is a vulnerable place to be in, and that vulnerability by nature is uncomfortable to witness. So we ridicule it, trying to end that vulnerability, that honesty, so we don’t have to look ourselves in the face.

If heartbreak HAS been a part of one’s multiplicity, it’s natural to go through a stage where the grief consumes everything. But like a necessary burn, it’s meant to leave a more fertile land behind, ready for new growth. Eventually, you gotta have something besides suffering to hang your sense of self on. Eventually, you need something good to fight FOR, not just something evil to fight AGAINST.

For me, that good stuff includes banging my headmates and making stuff like Multi Orgasmic. Think what it might be for you. What gives you that soul-satisfying feeling? What waters your heartflowers? What is that good thing to fight for?

What brings you to that scary place of wanting?

Allston Christmas, and fish drowners

Sep. 7th, 2025 10:56 am
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So for those who aren't local, Be It Known that the vast majority of apartments here have leases beginning on or around September 1. Simultaneously and relatedly, the streets fill up U-Hauls and the sidewalks fill up with random boxes and pieces of furniture marked "FREE". This last phenomenon is called "Allston Christmas" after a local suburb, but it happens across many towns in the area. It's like a big, disorganized Everything Swap.


  • I picked up two new kitchen pots from the squirrel, and ended up giving him an onion chopper device that he loves... amusingly this was not as a direct swap, but it worked out well.

  • Tuesday I spent about four hours helping a distant-ish friend pack stuff intended for a storage unit. I learned how to vaccuum-bag, which was cool, and MacGuyvered some garment-hanger boxes, and then was able to ferry a bag of stuff to the ballerina. And... silently I judged, because there was so much stuff. I came home, and the next day I got rid of a big bag of clothing and put out my own "FREE" stuff on the sidewalk and reorganized my kitchen. LOL.

  • Friday I spent nearly 8 hours helping my acro base unpack and organize. Our goal was to get all his boxes open / broken down / gone, and we did it. So satisfying. We took a 2BR place from a giant pile of boxes to a place that looked like he lived there (and had had a messy week). We also got to see a couch left on the sidewalk disappear within an hour, and the same for a few other things that just didn't seem to have a place in the new apartment. He has different hobbies and different stuff than I do, but his attitude about objects is so much more like mine that it made for an interesting contrast with Tuesday.

  • You are wondering: well, miss minimalist, did you get any free stuff this Christmas season? Yeah, I did. The two pots (I got rid of one), a pint glass, and a pair of parallettes from R (good for doing pushups without having to warm up my wrists first).


Overall a very domestic week. If you count the intended-to-be-final walk-through for my new condo, I put serious time into four different places. Then I went kitchen-feral on Saturday and made both quatre quarts cake and sushi. Workouts did go okay as well, but with less to specifically report.

I groused and griped about the final outcome of the Google-vs-DOJ antitrust case, which of course Google lost. If the powerful can be found guilty but then nothing happens to them, what good are the courts? ) The judge could have hurt browsing a bit, and instead he hurt all of tech. Maybe all of the country.

I learned a good new insult from an otherwise so-so book. The insult is "fish drowner", and I am taking it to mean someone who fucks up the apparently unfuckable. The person who snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, the person who manages to drown a goddamn fish. The person who maybe had one job, and had the power in his hands to break up a known monopolist, and... simply didn't do it.
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I hit Price Chopper, the Bakery, and Agway while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. I hit Stewart’s on the way home and stopped at the library on the way to mom's to pick up books.

I did a load of laundry (washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, stirred up egg salad, went on a couple of walks with the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered.

I made a one-pot meal of kielbasa, potatoes and baby carrots for supper.

I visited mom, finished True Gretch and watched some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 64.5(F), went down to 59.9 that I saw and topped back off at 64. It was cloudy for most of the day (a brief sighting of the sun later on) and rained several times.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing good today. more back here )
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[ If you're interested in being a Tuesday-Thursday guest host, you can sign up here. Thanks! ❤ ]
↑↑↑ Available dates:
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September 16 & 18
[Lonely Prompts Week]
September 30 & October 2


Good morning/afternoon/evening, and welcome to this week's Lonely Prompts adoption day. :3 If this is your first time at [community profile] comment_fic on a Sunday, you can either request previous prompts to be filled or share your recent fills for prompts. (Or do both, of course!) ✎

How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

Whichever you decide to do, prompt or fill (or both), please remember:
1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from a particular fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts in as many fandoms as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether it is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to wherever the prompt is in the community archive (whether filling or requesting), and, if you're filling the prompt, please post the fill as a reply to the original prompt.
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8. If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
7. If you've filled any lonely prompts in the past week, this is the place to share them!
9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.
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The Firewhiskey Fic Challenge Comm on Dreamwidth has been on hiatus for over a year and has now returned! More details will be forthcoming about this "ficcing while in an altered state" challenge, but know that the date has been set for Friday, October 3 as the start and it lasts for 48 hours.

See the current announcement here.

Rules can be found here within the comm's profile page.

apple: Swiss gourmet

Sep. 6th, 2025 11:01 pm
redbird: apple-shaped ice on a tree branch (ghost apple)
[personal profile] redbird
We bought a few Swiss gourmet apples at the farmers market on Thursday, because [personal profile] adrian_turtle likes them, and I like trying new (or new-to-me) apples.

I tried one this afternoon. It was OK, but nothing special: crisp, moderately juicy, and tarter than I generally like. I thought [personal profile] cattitude might like it, because he likes tart apples, but his verdict is that there wasn't enough flavor there, though what there was, was good.

I'm going to leave the other two for Adrian, and eat Zestars; we bought some of those yesterday.

college perks

Sep. 6th, 2025 07:11 pm
muccamukk: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson walking arm in arm. Text: "We strolled about together." (SH: Strolling)
[personal profile] muccamukk
Holy shit: university library access. It's probably good that I'm not in a historical fandom right now, because guess what I'd be doing instead of homework.

*remembers doing a bunch of Afghan War reading for Sherlock Holmes fandom last time around*

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