badly_knitted: (Dee & Ryo black & white)
badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-08-02 07:02 pm

FAKE Double Drabble: Artistic

 


Title: Artistic
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: OFC, Dee.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 460: Amnesty 46 at 
[community profile] drabble_zone, using Challenge 38: Dabble.
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: On vacation in England, Dee’s sketching draws the attention of a local woman.
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) wrote2025-08-02 06:45 pm

Doctor Who Drabble: Underwhelming

 


Title: Underwhelming
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 945: ‘Row’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: When the Doctor promised to show her the wonders of the universe, Bill had expected something a bit more impressive than this.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-08-02 06:37 pm

Double Drabble: Wrong

 


Title: Wrong
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted 
Characters: Ianto, OC.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 876: Press at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: People can’t resist pressing buttons.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
Wrong... )
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VeroNyxK84 ([personal profile] veronyxk84) wrote2025-08-02 08:30 am

Weekly Drabbles #271 — A New Bedmate— BtVS / Spuffy [PG-13]

Navigation Button - Weekly Drabbles

Title: A New Bedmate
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post series, in an alternate reality where Buffy and Spike are an established couple.
Summary: Buffy found out that Spike complained to Xander about her snoring, so she takes a little revenge on him.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #486 - Revenge by [community profile] fan_flashworks
Prompt: #453 - Complaint by [community profile] 100words
Challenges: #222 Bad Habits + #278 Snuggle by [community profile] drabble_zone [Amnesty #46]

Crossposted: Sunnydale After Dark


READ: A New Bedmate )
 
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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-08-02 12:06 am

Book Report & Media Roundup, August 2nd Edition

I apparently haven't done one of these since March, which is both a surprise and not a surprise at all. ^^;;

Gundam Build Fighters, Build Fighters Try, and the Special Build Disc - a marathon rewatch, these are still a lot of fun and a gloriously weird love letter to gunpla. The Special Build Disc collects various ONAs and just... is a lot of fun.

The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be 3 & 4 (Yasuko Yamaru) - this wraps up the series and it's just the right length. Cute series, has some weird twists, but the romance is just right.

Today's Menu for the Emiya Family 5 (TAa, etc.) - a lot of really wonderful character stuff in this one. Rider is so cute.

Gundam SEED Freedom - I apparently watched this again for research but I don't remember exactly what I was looking for. *shrugemoji* Also this remains hysterically terrible as an actual movie.

The Good Witch of the West - this was not a bad series, but most of it just didn't stick with me. It's an adaptation so I suspect something was just lost along the way. Seriously I can't remember enough about it to say anything else, it just... didn't stick.

Bride of Lochbarr (Margaret Moore) - one of the medievals I picked up back on indie bookstore day, this one had a few unexpected twists but was overall pretty good. Since I've been so stressed, it's good to have some brain-candy reading. (I've generally liked Moore's stuff but most of it isn't 'read more than once' stuff, either.)

Busou Shinki - I couldn't figure out why I had this until I remembered the Shinkis I used to see back fifteen years ago and oh, oh- This was a pretty fun series and ha! I ended up buying a used Shinki so I could finally have one. (I might be tempted to more, or maybe the newer Megami Device models, idk. Feels weird to build a Shinki?)

Zeta Gundam & A New Translation - so despite many attempts over the years, I had never actually seen Zeta Gundam. It's... it's a lot. It's at least twice as many plots and subplots as it needs, and it gets pretty brutal. I was expecting to dislike Kamille after the first episodes but he's actually pretty great. And I ended up really liking the Zeta Gundam itself, too. I ended up really disliking Beltorchika, like, I was not expecting that reaction? But yeah, liked Kamille, laughed a lot about how I'd mis-osmosed like 98% of the actual show despite having played through bits of it in games and whatnot, and had an entire experience. And then watched A New Translation because OW FUCK THAT ENDING FUCK. Like I will literally never watch that last episode again.

I have the first season of Bastard!! in right now, and then I should probably get back to my SEED Destiny rewatch, and then IDK. Just whatever is next in the pile, I guess. (And CCA but that won't take more than a morning.)

I should also do a separate post for last quarter's JFF offerings.
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enchanted_jae ([personal profile] enchanted_jae) wrote2025-08-01 11:04 pm
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cmk418 ([personal profile] cmk418) wrote2025-08-01 10:49 pm
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August Bingo

For the Crime Classics Round [community profile] allbingo

In High Heels Someone from the Past Excellent Intentions
My Aunt In White Pyjamas Silent Nights
In the River As If By Magic Settling Scores
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Creature Of Hobbit ([personal profile] tellshannon815) wrote2025-08-01 10:47 pm

Book bingo updates.



Book in a series: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62226126-the-last-devil-to-die
Multiple POVs: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136276174-the-search-party
Female author: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210795013-here-one-moment
Friendship: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196764063-the-day-after-the-party
Name in the title: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197627190-the-reappearance-of-rachel-price
YA: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174163045-the-dare
Biography/memoir: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211163702-kingmaker
Scifi/fantasy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36630924-here-and-now-and-then
Book from TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28016509-the-girl-before
With a woman protagonist: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200638897-the-fortune-teller
Ebook/audiobook: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204587595-her-majesty-s-royal-coven
Set somewhere you've been: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13614116-natural-causes
From the library: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179312410-has-anyone-seen-charlotte-salter
Free space: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60092195-the-shadow-cabinet
Thriller/suspense: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213900857-the-footage
Over 300 pages: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73062.Scarlett
Crime/mystery: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217002158-with-a-vengeance

Substitution list:
*Author you've never read before - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64417442-the-final-party
*Book older then you are
*Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling
*Graphic novel or Comic - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213477761-fate
*Pet or Animal Companion
*A main character over the age of 30
*Under 100 Pages - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63945326-the-gift
*Romance Plot or Sub-plot - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203416581-a-novel-love-story
*Translated https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61448964-g-kungen
*Humour
*Non- fiction
*With a Blue Cover - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62792245-five-bad-deeds
*Horror or Paranormal
*Colour in the Title
*Seasonal Read - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208447806-the-summer-dare
*Book made into a film or tv series - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36306720-the-perfect-couple
*Historical (fiction or non-fiction) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27153431-katherine-of-aragon-the-true-queen
*Number in title - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61653791-four-found-dead
*Female author - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35528896-the-treatment
*Three word title - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37819454-three-days-missing
*Craft, Hobby or Cookbook
*Written by an author from your state or country
*Animal on the cover
*Disability or Mental health
*Read a book from the year you were born
*Mythology
*Title begins with first letter of your name - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40770941-her-pretty-face
*Dystopian - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214471703-sunrise-on-the-reaping
*Book mentioned in another book
*Diverse reads - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56425440-last-night-at-the-telegraph-club
*One word title - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218455872-sleep
*Award Winning/Bestseller
*Disabled Author
*Non-western Setting - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63247547-last-resort
*Set in your state/country
*Title is at Least Five Words Long - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203019749-things-don-t-break-on-their-own
*indigenous author
*Has illustrations (but not a comic or graphic novel) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62715477-fire-and-blood
*Set at a school/university (my old one, in fact)- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219491276-when-we-were-killers
*No sex/romance
*Re-read

My Goodreads is here, feel free to follow: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46625765?ref=nav_profile_l
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liminalovertea ([personal profile] liminalovertea) wrote2025-08-01 12:46 pm
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Musings: It's baby crow season again...

The other day, I was heading home with groceries with my wife. While we were waiting for the crossing light, I was distracted by the loud, high-pitched, unbroken squawk of a juvenile crow as it clumsily flew up to its guardian...

(Mom? Older sibling? You really can't tell on sight, but based on crow family hierarchies, it was definitely one of those.)

...perched on a power-line crossing the intersection.

The young'un was slim, twitchy, only slightly smaller than the guardian, beak gaping with a seemingly insatiable hunger, his wings outstretched with each cry as if to further emphasize.

The older family member squawked in a much lower, exasperated tone, inching along the power line away from the child as though to say: ow, that was loud, right in my ear...patience, little one!

As the crossing light turned green and I moved on from the amusing sight, I couldn't help but draw parallels with humans--the moms in the grocery store with a screaming toddler, insisting for the kid to calm themselves until they got to check-out.
badly_knitted: (Dee & Ryo black & white)
badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-08-01 06:09 pm

FAKE Fic: Vacation Interrupted – Part 2

 


Title: Vacation Interrupted – Part 2
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, OCs.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After Vol. 7.
Word Count: 2792
Summary: Dee and Ryo assist the local police in locating and capturing a dangerous criminal.
Written For: Weekend Challenge Prompt: Who, Where. I got Outlaw, and Camping.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.


badly_knitted: (To The Last Man Kiss)
badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-08-01 05:57 pm

Ficlet: Forever, Together

 


Title: Forever, Together
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 598
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The greatest gift Jack could ever be given is someone to share eternity with.
Written For: 
[personal profile] doreyg’s prompt ‘Any, any, Stay by my side until it all goes dark forever / When silent the silence comes closer’, at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 
 


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dickinsons ([personal profile] dickinsons) wrote2025-08-01 05:46 pm
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A Thousand Years Later...

Not really, but it feels like it.

Remember those exams I was taking? I passed the first one but failed the second, so ehh. It was my first time failing an exam ever, though, so I'm grateful for the experience. You learn from failure, I guess.

And as soon as I got home that day I had decided I'd start watching the entire Robron storyline and that's exactly what I did. I finished yesterday, so here we are now. Assuming most of you need more context, let's get into it. I've been watching British soaps on and off for 11 years now. I'm Spanish, so they've never aired here, but I got into them because of a specific actor and since I loved the format I kept watching other soaps when a storyline sounded interesting. But I'd never dared to actually sit down and watch the Robron storyline, and yet when I heard that Robert Sugden came back to the show in May, well... I decided to finally watch it. And boy, did I love it. Of course, I got to know the recent state of the show in general, as well as its characters, and I love plenty of them. So, yeah, now you've got me waking up at 7am on weekdays to watch ED.

I'm jobless again now, since my last job finished in late May. I was teaching at a religious high school, which was certainly an Experience. The teens were lovely. Mostly. I'm not very good at managing them as of yet, which I hope changes with experience, because when you teach you do want them to learn, you know? Oh, well.

Due to everything life-related I dropped some bingos I was doing, even the one I was very close to finishing, which is a shame. I'm reluctant to join other events now, considering.

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liminalovertea ([personal profile] liminalovertea) wrote2025-08-01 06:30 am

Update: July Restrospective

July went by like a blink, but a lot happened! So let's have a look...

📚 IRL series completed for July


Title Access Overview
Access List
Detailing my brief (yet important) journey in restoring my iron reserves to healthy levels, and changing my dietary habits to keep them that way.


✍🏻 Drabbles written in July


In case you missed them!

Title Rating Characters/Pairings Genre Universe Word Length
PG-13
Jacob "Jake" Denzil, Vera Carrow
Gen
Grey Falls
Standard - 100 words (Scrivener)
R
Jacob "Jake" Denzil
Horror
Grey Falls
Long - >100 words (Scrivener)
PG
Athyrin, Hecerion
Gen
The Chronicles of Mäthalun
Standard - 100 words (Scrivener)
PG-13
Narthelen/Hecerion
Romance (M/X)
The Chronicles of Mäthalun
Standard - 100 words (Scrivener)
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the_paradigm ([personal profile] the_paradigm) wrote2025-08-01 09:25 am

Mission: Insane (FFXII) - Drabble Dump

Disclaimer For All: I do not own FFXII or the characters.

Title: Bergamot
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII OGC
Characters/Pairing: Basch -> Ashe
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Post-Canon/End-Game Spoilers implied.
Summary: The years are long, the work is hard, and few remember what he does or why. Still, she writes.

Bergamot )--

Title: For Lack of Attention
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII OGC
Characters/Pairing: Basch & Penelo OR Basch/Penelo, works for both.
Rating: G
Warnings: Age Difference (Well Post-Canon, so no underage.)
Spoilers: Post-Canon/End-Game
Summary: She was a girl, and then suddenly, she wasn't.

For Lack of Attention )--

Title: A Vertical Challenge
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII OGC
Characters/Pairing: Basch & Penelo OR Basch/Penelo, works for both.
Rating: G
Warnings: Age Difference (Well Post-Canon, so no underage.)
Spoilers: Post-Canon/End-Game
Summary: Yep, she's still too short. Companion piece to For Lack of Attention.

A Vertical Challenge )--

Title: Intentional
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII OGC
Characters/Pairing: Penelo, Basch, Larsa
Rating: G
Warnings: Age Difference (Well Post-Canon, so no underage.)
Spoilers: Post-Canon/End-Game
Summary: Yep, she's still too short. Companion piece to For Lack of Attention and A Vertical Challenge.

Intentional )--

Title: Sausages
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII OGC
Characters/Pairing: Penelo, Basch, Vaan
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None
Summary: Tournesol Farming, or How Basch Evaded Cooking Duty.

Sausages )--
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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-07-31 08:12 pm
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Monthly Stuff Roundup

I went to the doctor, explained why I was there, and got a prescription to hopefully fix that. Also had blood work done which is back and while a couple of things aren't quite where they should be, they're not, like, off in the woods wandering around in the dark. I will take all of this.

July was indeed too fucking hot.

July )

and then, August, which is at least starting out with the temperatures a little more manageable.

August )

I dropped out of [community profile] sunshine_revival after the first day... Good idea, did not personally jive, alas.
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My Fannish Corner ([personal profile] mxcatmoon) wrote2025-08-01 12:09 am

Spinal Tap and Elton John

Video dropped. They finally got the size right, too. 😉


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chibifukurou ([personal profile] chibifukurou) wrote2025-07-31 09:49 pm
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July Reading List

1. I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Sola (Translated)

2. The Salt Grown Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

4. Agile Project Management by Paul VII (nfn)

5. Unworld by Jayson Greene

6. Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer (YA)(Indigenous)

7. Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne (Black)(Verse)(YA)

8. An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo (Poem)(Indigenous)

9. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Australian)

10. Record of a Night too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami (Translation)

11. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 9 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

12. Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

13. Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan

14. Clear by Carys Davies

15. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Tertiary Phase) by Douglas Adams

16. FukuFuku by Kanami Kanata (Graphic)

17. You Are a Sacred Place: Visual Poems for Living in Climate Crisis (Graphic)

18. Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker (Poem)

19. Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive (Queer Romance)

20. Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection by Joshua Barkman (Graphic)

21. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 8 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

22. Outline by Rachel Cusk

23. Poets Square a memoir in thirty cats by Courtney Gustafson (nfn)

24. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin Greathouse (Poem)(Trans)(Disability)

25. Tokyo Tarareba Girls Vol 1 by Akiko Higashimura (Graphic)

26. Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk (Queer Romance)

27. Bucky Prince of Bacon by Georgia Dunn (Graphic)

28. I am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins (Verse)

29. Onyx and Beyond by Amber McBride (Verse)(Black)

30. The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zarate (Translation)(Queer)

31. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki (Translation)(nfn)