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The Midnight Texting Meme It's the middle of the night and you're trying to catch some z's — or brooding alone in the alleys, as one does — when your phone dings and suddenly a stranger or a friend is texting you. What could they possibly want at this hour? Is it important? Stupid? Are they drunk or maybe just needy? Do they need help hiding a body??? Pick up your phone and find out! Rules: ● Post with your character's name and canon on the subject line, indicate preferences as needed ● Tag others ● Have fun!

So that one B5 script book that supposedly came via FedEx a week ago still hasn't turned up, but today I got an extra copy of one I already have that I was not expecting with an Amazon order number that isn't in my orders anywhere.

I have never had that happen before, either.

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

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The crowdfunding Creative Jam is now open with a theme of "Memories." Come give us prompts, or claim some for your own inspiration! This is our 150th session, so I hope to see lots of excitement.


What I Have Written:

"The Flavors of Our Days" is today's freebie.


From My Prompts:



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I'm already having a great time doing threesentenceficathon. Pimping my guys, mostly, I admit. 😉

I'm almost finished with my fic for smallfandomfest . All it needs is the sex scene, so naturally I'm procrastinating. But guess what, it's the longest fic I've written since 2019! Looks like I might be finally going to start writing some longer stuff again. Amazing what an extra dose of inspiration can do...

HELP! I just don't know... I've always posted my drabbles to AO3 as 'chapters' in a drabble collection... Some people think that's "cheating". I'm thinking of posting them separately now -- but honestly, to me that feels like 'padding' my story count. I'm so undecided.

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(I've got so many links right now I'm splitting it up. The depressing shit one to follow in the next few days.)

magnavox_23: The One With All The Icons From All The Fandoms...
These are gorgeous! All the fandoms being: Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, Doctor Who, Xena: Warrior Princess, Reservation Dogs, Star Trek TOS, Heated Rivalry, Hazbin Hotel, Hellava Boss & What We Do In The Shadows...

With the Dawn by SweetSorcery
Fandom: Kidnapped! (Davie/Alan)
Word Count: 1,300
Rating: General
Summary: Alan's own safety is worth very little to him, if it means leaving David behind ill and defenseless.
Notes: I've missed so much fic in this fandom, and was really happy to read this one from last year. The sweetest lil h/c missing scene from the book. Great voices for both of them, and very tender.

The Worst Part of Waking Up by Sanguinity
Fandom: Hornblower (William/Horatio)
Word Count: 6,600
Rating: Teen
Summary: At the end of "Loyalty," Bush is too late to save Hornblower. With his dying breath, Hornblower requests a kiss from Bush… …only to wake up a week later and discover he's going to live after all. Damnit.
Notes: More very excellent h/c featuring Horatio Hornblower being Olympic levels of Bad at Feelings. Also extremely sweet, once he gets his shit together. I love the tag: "When He Made This Bed He Wasn't Expecting to Wake Up In It"!

ThatDisasterAuthor: Put the light out. | Turn the light on.
Gorgeous Lighthouse | Fire Tower art!

Tractor Beam: The Valley in Thaw by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall and Xiang Yata.
Beautiful graphic short story about a soil remediation robot and a band of humans who survived the apocalypse. More like this, please.

Humble Bundle: Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror.
Great selection, open for another couple weeks. You get epubs, not the weird kobo link thing.

CBC Books: The Canada Reads 2026 longlist is here.
I really wish they'd announce this earlier so you could take a proper shot at the long list before they drop the shortlist. I'm like half way through one of these. Lots of hockey books this year. Hmmmm.

University of Pennsylvania (for some reason?): "Introducing Myself", 1992 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Extremely funny and extremely gender.

Fantastic Mr. Fox on Bluesky: A Recipe for Disaster.
This meme is such a whole entire mood.

Today we went to the Otto Center in Arthur. Normally the third Saturday of each month is their craft show, and that's how it was marked earlier. It turned out to be a small farm and homestead show, with different vendors and a few folks we recognized. So that was interesting.

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I am so sick.

I suspect food poisoning, but I don't know what the culprit was. Alex is fine, but we did eat slightly different things.

Got sandwiches from a place near work, but when we got home discovered they weren't no mayo. I can't eat mayo - I hate it, and I hate that I hate it to the point I can't even put up with it on something - so I left it for Alex for another meal. I scavenged a couple bits of the sandwich filling to put on my own roll of bread. That was fairly small, so I also heated up some leftover rice.

About two hours later, I felt like I wanted to die. It's now about 25 hours later, and I still feel like I want to die.

The roll was the last of a package we'd just eaten from a day or two before. The rice was only leftover from Tuesday. The sandwich bits wouldn't explain why Alex is fine.

Yesterday mostly felt like pressure and bloating, but very painful. I only slept about an hour, maybe, and that pretty broken up. I was just too uncomfortable to really drop off.

I had to go to work - no real choice - because it was a new person's first day of training, and the first of a class series... Then an instructor called out sick, and it was pretty much just a really rough day. It felt like it took forever.

I haven't been able to eat anything - the thought of trying to swallow anything makes me gag. I haven't actually thrown up, but I kind of almost wish I would, in case it would make me feel better. I've sipped at about 3/4 of a bottled smoothie over the course of the day. I am SO THIRSTY, but even liquids make me queasier.

Now it's less pressure and more just pain. It's a steady maybe 5/10, like I cannot ignore it, but it's not too horrible. Then it spikes to an 8/10 as it feels like every internal bit just cramps at once. Not my actual abdominal muscles, but everything inside.

It's awful. I hate it. I can't get comfortable. I keep getting chills and then hot flashes, and every hair on my body hurts.

I also can't take tomorrow off - another class, I'm solo.

I want to maybe take a hot bath, see if that helps things relax any, but I also just want to try and get any sleep possible. I'm exhausted, and dehydrated, and I can't fix either one effectively right now!

I rate this a zero out of ten stars. I do not recommend it.

Challenge #9: Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

Okay, I got this idea from someone who linked to something like this last year, but I'm not sure who. (Feel free to sound off if that was you.) Here is a trope tier list, made using this tier maker! Text version and some elaboration below.

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Life Update

• Andrew was discharged today and is currently napping on the couch. \o/!! That was his shortest hospital stay yet.
• I have done something terrible to the back of my left knee, argh. At least I don't have to bike on it anymore.

Books & TV Update

• On the second Penric & his Demon audiobook by Bujold. I'm not following it super-closely, but it's a pleasant enough tale to accompany me through chores and so on. :-)
• Started Kdrama Can This Love Be Translated?, and I like it a lot so far. Kim Sun-ho has come so far from his geeky supporting-cast character in Good Manager (AKA Chief Kim). (Do I want to rewatch Strongest Deliveryman? IIRC, it was a bit weak, but otoh, it had enemy-to-hyung slash potential...)
• Looking forward to watching The Pitt s02e02 tonight.

Fandom/Making Stuff

• Inbox and tabs are out of control. I've started ruthlessly closing tabs.
• I didn't manage to finish any gifts before fandomtrees reveals. The last three days, I've been shuttling back and forth to the hospital for epic Scrabble bouts. I have two fics back from beta that I still hope to finish and post as late treats (both need rewrites), but I haven't had the brain so word. I spent a lot of my spare moments over the last 24 hours icing my knee and trying to draw an art gift, with no success. (Why are faces?? ;-p) So my plan is to finish the fics, and then go back and finish the things I started for Yuletide. And then go back even further and finish the thing I started for guardian_wishlist. ;-p Also, to continue on with *Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain* in the hopes it will make me better at faces.

fandomtrees gifts, yayayay!! I received five deliciously wonderful gifts for fandomtrees!! FIVE!!

• Desperately Seeking Susan - delightful post-canon drabble sequence Pillars of Their Community by sanguinity :D
• Guardian by Priest (novel) - beautiful little Shen San/Wei & Daqing interlude by facethestrange
• Good Manager - hilarious podfic of my Kim Sungryong/Seo Yul crackfic, The Yul3000, ahhh! I've listened to this three times through already.
• Good Manager - flirty/sexy kisses drabble sequence by maggie33 <3 <3 <3
• Bluey! - adorable timeline-refreshing Bingo fanart by lomelinde_laurea. <3 <3 <3

ETA: What is even the point of Markdown if you can't nest formatting inside lists? ;-p

Primordia (2012, PC) -- Beat it! Took me about six hours with copious reference to walkthroughs. Got the "good" ending and then went back to see the other endings, which were impressively creative and nihilistic. My opinion remains unchanged: I liked the characters and plot but was underwhelmed by the game's design.

People We Meet On Vacation (2026) -- I thought the original novel was so much fun, but this adaptation lacks the book's carefully constructed tension of watching our friends-in-flashback obliviously approach a mysterious estrangement in the present. Also, it's not as funny as the book? The movie really doubles down on the soapy elements of the story, but the Emily Henry fans are here for banter and quips. This may be the first film I've ever watched and thought, This would have really benefited from some voiceover narration.

My favorite mean Letterboxd reviews of the film:

they dressed her like an elder millennial but we persist

2 hour long delaney rowe instagram reel

Every gen gets their own When Harry Met Sally (derogatory).

Challenge #02: Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

After thinking on this one, I decided to tweak this prompt a bit and focus on animal companions from fictional stories that I love.

( My favorite fictional animal companions. )

Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.

In fic, I'll pretty much always give wingfic, superpowers, and mpreg a try. I rarely turn down outsider POV or post-canon explorations. Fics that peer around the corners of the canon to look at what's lurking there are usually worth checking out. There's not much else that I'll click on pretty much every time I come across it - what I want in Top Gun fic is very different from what I want in Scrubs or Deep Space Nine, and there's certain tropes that I'll deliberately seek out in some fandoms and work to avoid in others.

In terms of general media, some that I always get a kick out of are a bunch of people from very different backgrounds thrown together, which I generally see ensemble casts, but not always - it depends on the circumstances, with less of it in The Wire than MASH. Urban fantasy is something where my tastes are pretty narrow, so I'm willing to check it out fairly regularly in the hopes I've found something new in that narrow range. I enjoy extreme competence and awesome Jews are always welcome.

Challenge #9: Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.

Y'know, there are a lot of tropes that I like in theory, but which have a tendency to fall flat because the idea is cool but the characterization isn't there. I bring it up because my first thought when I read this prompt was "Megastructures! Progenitors! A megastructure built by a progenitor race!" The problem is, too many stories lean on the coolness of the idea and forget to do character and relationship work and so I get bored as soon as the initial "oooh, neat!" factor wears off.

The tropes I really love in practice and not just in theory are the ones that involve jiggling the characters around and seeing what falls out. Some of the cliche common fic tropes like amnesia and body swap are great for that. Seeing two characters trying to handle each other's bodies--especially if there are powers and alien biology involved--or having one character act without the weight of memory while the other is crushed by it, that stuff is gold for playing with character and relationship dynamics.

Time-travel fix-its, where one or a handful of characters wake up in the past and are given the chance to fix something that went wrong in canon, are also a lot of fun, for similar reasons. The time-traveling character knows things that the people around them don't, and usually they have to keep it a secret. Although these sorts of fic are most satisfying when you are specifically mad at something in canon. I was pondering what a TNG time-travel fix-it would look like, and while there are things the characters would like to fix, there is nothing in the show that I as the viewer would specifically want changed ... at least not enough to care about a time-travel fix it. But MCU fix its that undo some of the dumber PTB decisions? DC fix its that fix Bruce's relationship with Jason without heaps of unnecessary angst? Yes please and thank you.

AUs are good--specifically canon-divergence "want of a nail" style AUs where one big thing went differently, or close-canon parallel universes where some things are different, but the setting is broadly recognizable are good for that too. I like them both as self-contained stories, and as stories where two universes meet and compare differences.

I like competency porn, and my definition of competency encompasses emotional intelligence. Give me two people having a hard conversation in good faith and I am there for it. I also like stories that highlight quiet competencies, especially domestic labor, emotional labor, or admin work--basically female coded stuff that'd not even enough respect. It doesn't have to be female characters, though. Anyone doing hard, unglamorous work that's shown to be important will get me, especially if it's respected in story.

I like unconventional heroes, but also conventional ones. Stories where the two team up and actually get along and respect each other are great. I'm thinking of Miss Marple and the police inspectors who know she can run circles around them and listen carefully to her advice, or Jessica Fletcher when the cop of the week is working with her rather than against her.

Ugh. I know the moment I hit post, I'll think of half a dozen more tropes I love, but I've rambled long enough.

Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

This is not the best question for me, because I don't really think in terms of tropes very much. I'm a characters first, tropes second kind of person, so my approach to tropes is always "how does the trope provide a framework for exploring the character or relationship?" rather than "I have a favourite trope that I want to read/write".

Any trope can be good for this, except for tropes that impose characterisation from somewhere else onto the characters. So stuff like A/B/O is not for me.

Mostly, I like tropes that force intimacy onto the characters, or make them lose their inhibitions, so fake relationships, soulbonds and sex pollen (generally not all at the same time - but hey, it could work 😂) are up there as tropes for me.

Hey all, I am new to Colors TCG. Currently trying to collect Terra Branford from FFVI or Optimus Prime. You can find my trading site at here.

Title: Lady of Grace
Original (or) Fandom: Octopath Traveler 0
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Heidne/Tatloch, spoilers

One of those bucket list fandom achievements happened to me this month: fanart of a fic I wrote!! Turns out the trick is returning to an impossibly tiny fandom and enthusiastically joining the local fanartist in their enclosure, lol. You need to be logged in on Tumblr to view it at this link, so I'll also share a direct link to the image itself. It's for the epistolary Hello From the Magic Tavern fic I wrote for Yuletide, and I love the artist's attention to detail, like Dripfang's ripped sleeve. <33

I'm nearly done with Midst season 3 (a sci-fantasy audio drama) and I must apologize to the person who recced it on the strength of its M/M mentor/mentee ship, because I was instead bewitched by the most toxic, disgusting, mutually manipulative het duo ever, Moc Weepe and Imelda Goldfinch. I love that he thought he was getting the better of her, only for it to turn out she was (smilingly) playing him like a violin the whole time.

Spoilers, but there's a moment when this scumbag mafioso-type man is begging and begging for mercy as a much older woman tortures him nearly to death, genuinely thinking it's "for his own good" even as she weeps in sympathy...idk it scratched my id something fierce. Characters who do terrible things with gentle sanctimonious earnestness, eyes wide open, are so much fun. And then the fact that he becomes a repulsive walking corpse with translucent skin that grosses out everyone who sees him EXCEPT Imelda, who wants to ride that thang—sorry! I'm obsessed!

Writing update: I need to check in at ushobwri and inkingitout but the gist is that writing smut is hard and every potential word choice is annoying me right now. (Disappointed that the several years I've spent writing smut does not cancel out this problem.) I'm writing still, it's just not at the clip I want. BUT I did adjust my desired emotional arc for one of the characters, so I think that should help things flow a bit better. After this installment, the series will be done, yayyy.

Some other things...

• seasonsofdrabbles signups close soon! I haven't properly signed up to an exchange in years but I stuffed the tagset with things I like, because who knows.
• Having a lot of fun using snowflake_challenge to meet people and check out new-to-me journals! I'm not fussed about participating myself, because I already have my own topics I want to journal about, but might respond to a prompt if I feel particularly inspired by one.
• I became enamored with the idea of a hanahaki-flavored rewrite of one of the HFTMT miniseries' seasons. It would be really fun, but also time-consuming when I am trying to get languishing drafts out the door. In due time, hopefully.

How are you doing? What's happening in your neck of the fannish woods?

Title: only one bed (for three)
Fandoms: MCU
Pairings: Darcy/Pietro/Wanda
Rating: Teen
Warnings/Spoilers: AU!Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies. Established Relationship.
Summary: Darcy, Wanda and Pietro. Only one bed.
Notes: Written for fandomtrees 2025 for unhindered_dreams prompt Darcy/Pietro/Wanda - only one bed and 100ships prompt champagne. This is my first try at Darcy/Pietro/Wanda, hopefully not the last?
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