arduinna

We're 50% of the way through the no_true_pair 2025 eight-character challenge!

Updates this week on my progress:

*still no title (the title is currently [PROBABLY SHOULD COME UP WITH A TITLE] on the sticky post)

*still no plot

*today's prompt: new and improved (hopefully this will also be the status of my ideas for what's going to happen in the second half of this story!)

oursin

Happy birthday,

brewsternorth!

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awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

mallorys_camera

I'm grumpy because one of my clients just sent me a ginormous assignment. My favorite method of making money involves glancing down at the ground & picking up that $50,000-bill nobody else has noticed, not laboring over a keyboard.

However, I should be grateful since the U.S. is clearly in a recession, even if they haven't called it yet. Time to start stuffing money into that mattress! Although that dollar bill you stuff into your mattress today will only be worth 90¢ next week.

Recession plus inflation—just about the most horrible economic formula you can possibly imagine.

I'm cheering myself up by thinking thoughts like, Well, it's really not going to affect me! I'll be dead soon!

Which when you get right down to it is not a particularly cheerful thought.

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Meanwhile, Adrienne had chided me—deservedly—for not updating the Shawangunk Dems' website for months & months & months, so I spent yesterday morning working on that.

Then Ichabod called & chided me for my insufficiently progressive views on the racial divide. Yes, I do believe in color blindness—say it loud & say it proud!—and you're gonna have to reset the starting marker for history at some point else the current (completely unacceptable) situation is just gonna go on & on & on. So why not do it now?

Then I trotted off to the Shawangunk Dems' monthly meeting where I learned that Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill cut all Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. Not just for abortions! But also for birth control and Pap smears. And this made me very upset indeed. There's not a single thing I can do about it, though.

In the evening, I watched a documentary about Charlie Sheen who ingested more drugs than any other single person on the planet, & I decided—Work in Progress alert!—to borrow his crack cocaine habit & give it to Flavia, since that's an ongoing motiff in the Work in Progress: Neal is gonna save each of the sister wives from some incipient doom. Flavia's doom will be drugs, Daria's doom will be some mountain hike, but I still haven't figured out what Grazia's doom is, and I need to come up with it before I can start Chapter 3.

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Writer: John Arcudi

Pencils: Jan Duursema

Inks: Michael Bair and Rick Magyar

J'onn is under investigation by Cameron Chase of the D.E.O. after allegedly assaulting a criminal.

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tinny

I ran across AvenueX recommending A Dream Within a Dream, and watched its first ep. It's a transmigration parody of Chinese costume romance dramas.

Hilariously, I had *just the day before* watched Love Like The Galaxy episode 6, which contained a "rescue the damsel from a fire" scene.

Compare:
( screenshots from both shows )

It's virtually identical down to her dress. :D

I can't say I'm enjoying Love Like The Galaxy so far (12 eps in, of 56!), but that first ep of Dream Within a Dream (of 40 total) definitely made me laugh. I'll probably check out more of that.

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unclutter

I'm a grad student and I read best on paper whenever possible. That means I have a lot of paper around my apartment. I need to hold onto it because I'm taking notes and working towards writing my thesis. So what to do so I can find what I need, what I need it? a hybrid paper-digital system inspired by the Kerlan Collection archives, where I've visited a few times.

Each item is logged in my research bookmarks with tags and notes and the location is listed as "Box X: Folder X." I also mark that on the first page of each article so I know where to put it when I find it. (I also date when I read it digitally and on the paper. My goal eventually is to digitize my highlights and notes but I haven't had time yet.)

I haven't applied this to my other papers (apartment paperwork, pet paperwork, copies of bills and taxes paid, and so on) but I don't see any reason this hybrid digital-analog system wouldn't work for any kind of paperwork.

This is the system I'm using for my grad studies and I thought it might help others uncluttering, especially with that stuff you have to hold onto in print for whatever reason.

Current Mood: okay

tielan

I have eaten ridiculous amounts of food and drunk copious volumes of wine.

And I am very very tired, and in Naples, on the verge of doing it all again for another 5 days...

Okay, naptime. Then a quick tour of the city this evening, then sleeeeep as late as possible before schlepping it to the meeting point for the tour of the next five days...

Cripes. I just realised its only 11:30. I thought it was an hour later...

caramarie

I was wondering if a fic I’d thought I’d written was something I’d just imagined very intensely, but then there was a month missing in my box of journals, and I was able to find the journal the fic was in shoved way back on my computer desk.

It’s my journal from when the restructure was announced last year! Featuring entries where I was determinedly not writing about that and instead making such comments as ‘I’m worried if I met [Megumi] Ogata in real life, she would easily be able to manipulate me.’ A vital concern, right there.

Anyway, am I in shock at the prospect of an AU version of SDR2 coming out next year? Sure am! Also, would not put it past anyone involved for this to be some sort of bait-and-switch. I guess we will find out!

nostalgia

I wrote another wee ficlet in Scots, Still Game again. It is here on AO3 and here on Squidgeworld.

Title: Auld Man Yaoi
Fandom: Still Game (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Pairing: Jack/Victor
Wordcount: 200

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scans_daily

Writers: Kim Yale and John Ostrander

Pencils: Pablo Marcos

Inks: Romeo Tanghal

Manhunter is hired to find a missing woman. However, he isn’t the only one after the woman.

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Theme Prompt: #273 - Bad timing
Title: Mounting crises
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Ianto has more than enough on his plate and things are only getting worse.

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caramarie

Pop star Oliver invites rando shop assistant Matty to his concert, not realising he has invited a yandere into his life.

( Spoilers etc )

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unclutter

Managed to clean off and move my loveseat so an energy auditor can check to see what areas need more insulation for winter. Quite a bit of the items were laundry, so I spent the weekend washing.

Too bad we’re having a late summer heatwave or I would had taken a vacuum cleaner to be repaired at one of Hennepin County’s Fix-It Clinics. :/

Mom’s getting to the point that she won’t be able to drive much longer, so this time it is likely we’ll have to sell the Buick, so I’ll clean that out soon.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: The upstairs bedroom I cleaned, huzzah!
Current Music: Fan

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If you requested swaps despite not being signed up, keep your eyes peeled for the pinch hitter request post. Your secret swaps count as pinch hits, so we'd love to see you make some requests. That post should go up tomorrow or the day after, and will be pinned just below the rules post on the comm.

We would also like to thank those of you who signed up to receive extra wordcount. Some of you simply held extra words while we shuffled swaps around, others of you will receive more than 10k in assignments when your swaps email arrives, and in all cases swaps wouldn't have been successful without you!

Here's what you let us do:

1,299,000 words were swapped! (1,200,000 last year!)
there were 2406 potential swaps (where one swap is a request from one of you create for someone!) (Last year: 1802)
621 swaps were made between 260 participants (Last year: 557 swaps; 216 participants)
2 participants wanted to swap, but unfortunately couldn't; these participants will be prioritized to the best of our ability next year if they sign up for swaps again (Last year: 5)
We now have 957 combined assignments and swaps out, most of them waiting to be filled! (Last year: 837)
This year we timed the swapping process for the first time! It took about 22 hours and 45 minutes across four days. This only includes time spent on figuring out the majority of the swapping, so it excludes the time it took to set the swapping sheet up, do quality control checks on the swapsignments once we thought the swapping puzzle was finished, and send 260 emails.

Finally, thank you very much to everyone for your patience. Please refer to this part of the rules for an in-depth refresher on assignment minimums and expectations, but the short of it is: 10k of complete fic (or equivalent opt-in) is due on October 19 at 10:00 EDT. Email us immediately if you have any problems with or questions about your assignment(s).

Initial Pinch Hits:

Initial Pinch Hits will probably go up tomorrow-ish. Mentally schedule it for ~24 hours after your swaps email, to give us time to get all these swaps into the mod sheet and verify all of the pinch hit amounts.

torachan

1. The weather today was sooooo nice. Overcast most of the day with some sun in the afternoon.

2. We had a nice morning at DCA. Left before the sun finally broke through the clouds, and before it got crowded.

3. We stopped at Trader Joe's on the way home, and since it was still overcast and I was feeling like another walk, I decided to walk home from there (about a mile and a half) and let Carla drive home with the shopping. I stopped at the farmers market on the way for some fruit leather and juice. No watermelon lemonade, but there was calamansi juice.

4. Gemma looks annoyed at being disturbed.

sovay

I had not thought there were any meteor showers of consequence this month, but it seems that the swift pale streak between the telephone wires southwest of Cassiopeia belonged to the September Epsilon Perseids, so named despite their radiant in β Persei, the demon-star of Algol. I can hope it was not wildfire drift that accounted for the candle-tint of the half-moon, which was doing its autumnal trick of hanging like a lantern in the not yet leafless trees. The last of this summer's monarchs flew just before sunset, the twenty-second of her name.

Current Music: Suzanne Vega, "Left of Center"

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thisfinecrew

Hi, it's been a while. I'm going to try to post like once a month on Palestine stuff so there's some more awareness of things that are going on. Because there's a lot.

Israel continues to bomb multiple Arab nations and threaten them; they last struck Qatar attempting to assassinate Hamas leaders who were there at the invitation of the US to discuss a ceasefire with Israel. The result of that is now Arab nations are rethinking their relationships with the US. They are also continuing to bomb Gaza daily and round up people in the West Bank.
Laura Loomer got the US to stop issuing travel visas to Palestinian children traveling for humanitarian and medical treatment.
Meanwhile, in the US, the House just passed a Lauren Boebert amendment to the Pentagon budget that would target the BDS movement.
Rep Brian Mast just introduced a new bill that would allow Marco Rubio to revoke US passports, including US citizens, at his whim, but basically if you criticize Israel.
Earlier this week, progressive House Reps and others like Mahmoud Khalil and Cynthia Nixon did a big push for HR 3565 Block the Bombs Act, which would block the President from selling certain munitions to Israel, except under specific conditions. There are now 46 cosponsors, all of them Democratic. 7 joined this month. Although Reps Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both made statements opposing Israel, they have not joined as cosponsors.

Orgs and places to donate to:

cornerofmadness

That's not too much to ask is it? Apparently so. I already had to drive around the horn this morning because I forgot they were setting up for this coming week's Apple Festival (how the fuck is half of Sept already gone?)

I get home to my defrosting fridge. I'm trying it again. Maybe I turned it on before it dried out last time and it refroze. I got two of the fridge shelves cleaned and dried and one of the things I saw on YT tutorials was the bottom vents might be blocked causing the fridge part to heat up. Okay fine. So I'm cleaning them, going good but since my fridge is jammed in a corner and the door can't even open fully, my shoulder is against the door.

The cheap ass plastic shelf guard comes off and a bottle of chili crisp oil hits ground, shatters and everything is covered in red oil. Is my foot cut? I dunno. It hurts but is it cut or is the fucking chili oil giving me chemical burns? Don't see blood. Manage to clean up my foot...so I thought as I hobble to the shower to clean it well and neutralize the caustic oil. Had it between my toes, didn't know and now there are orange oil footprints on this old shit carpet (got them out with resolve).

Takes me at least 30 minutes to clean up oil. Everything in that fridge is a loss. Even the spreadable butter is green. That's how hot the inside is. Sigh. I still have jars I'm going to rinse and toss sitting on the floor because now it's 730 at night and I need to get this over with. I don't think it's getting cold but it's early days. I do think I'll need to replace it and I am unhappy. SO unhappy. Like I have time to clean and move everything. Like I have a PLACE to move it to. I guess I'll get more plastic totes and put it on the porch, you know the one that's collapsing? sigh.

Finally seeing the second Aquaman movie. Did the same person also write the second Black Panther movie. They seem about 70% the same and that is not a compliment.

And before I forget, happy birthday to

shanachie_quill

I have started posting one of my two

wipbigbang, Here you go (though I'm doubtful anyone here shares this fandom with me). I'm just going to be linking it since it'll be long.

Title: The Porn Star Murders

Summary: Angel has settled in well after the death of Valentino at his hands. He is running Val’s movie empire with far more skill than anyone thought. What he wants to concentrate on now is taking the budding relationship with Husker to the next level. What he gets is someone ‘murdering’ his best stars. Death might not be permanent in hell but when his stars are torn to flinders, it’ll take them a long time to pull themselves together. It is good way to ruin his business and bring his term as an overlord to an end. With Husker, Rosie and Arackniss at his side, Angel has to track down this threat to his new empire and deal with it like his father taught him so long ago.

Rating: mature

And here is the fandom recs

Connections Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis

The Meaning Behind Words Star Trek: The Original Series

Baby bump Hazbin Hotel

Searching for Something Teen Wolf

Too Soon To Know Torchwood

Making A Commitment Torchwood

Pilgrimage The Owl House

who cares (i'm fine) The Amazing Digital Circus

knock knock, want crack rabbit boi? The Amazing Digital Circus

A Gathering Storm Stargate Atlantis

Celebration for the Living Stargate Atlantis /Stargate SG-1

The Right Man for the Job Stargate Atlantis /Stargate SG-1

Uncomplicatedly Complicated Wolverine/X-Men

one hundred footsteps away Star Trek: Voyager

I Hate You The Least The Amazing Digital Circus

One Good Turn Stargate Atlantis /Stargate SG-1

All Alone, Wondering Torchwood

A New Beginning Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Little One 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

The Aftershow The Amazing Digital Circus

Brass Stargate Atlantis

When Val Goes Out With Alastor Hazbin Hotel

Tales of a Pack Rebellion Teen Wolf

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Aquaman

petra

Don't ask a question you don't want answered (300 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Mutual Pining
Summary:

Padmé asks Anakin a question and gets a surprising answer.

Current Mood: yearning
Current Music: Besides, no matter what one might infer, one must have faith to some degree

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unclutter

How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?

I personally haven't managed anything, having been--to quote the vernacular--'flat out like a lizard drinking' on other tasks. But I'm here to celebrate the rest of you!

Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.

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Just one thing: 14 September 2025

Plotting the Incipient Doom

Interesting Links for 14-09-2025

Martian Manhunter (1998) #5

CDrama Parody: Dream Within a Dream

inspiration from the archives: organizing papers

Georgia - the brief brief version

I guess this is a Danganronpa post

Fic: Auld Man Yaoi

Manhunter (1988) #6

[#273] MOUNTING CRISES (TORCHWOOD)

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a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems

Sofa, so good.

Swaps out!

Initial Pinch Hits:

Daily Happiness

On the edge and off the avenue

Palestine/Gaza Awareness

Just one day where nothing goes wrong

Don't ask a question you don't want answered - Star Wars triple drabble

Sixpack and Dogwelder: Hard-Travelin' Heroz #6 Earth's Unrecognized Hero

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