FAKE Triple Drabble: Magnetism
Jul. 1st, 2025 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Magnetism
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
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Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol 7, Act 19.
Summary: Ryo has felt drawn to Dee from the day they met.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Magnet’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
Doctor Who Drabble: The Ideal Snack
Jul. 1st, 2025 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: The Ideal Snack
Author:
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Characters: Sarah Jane Smith, Fourth Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 936: ‘Jelly Babies’ at
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Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: What is it about Jelly Babies?
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
Double Drabble: Historical Visit
Jul. 1st, 2025 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Historical Visit
Author:
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Characters: Jack, Ianto, the Doctor.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 872: History at
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Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Doctor has offered to take Ianto and Jack on a trip into history, but where to choose?
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
Purrcy, Rivers of London, my back
Jun. 30th, 2025 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
One of the things I've been doing to deal with stress is occasional binge-reading of book series. Most recently Rivers of London, which I'd never read all of before.
I do like them, and they're cute and all, but I'm forcefully reminded of why I don't read police procedurals any more, or watch TV shows with law enforcement heroes. Because this is really a fantasy of copaganda, as well as a fantasy with copaganda. I mean, the very idea that murders are treated so *seriously*, with huge commitments of personnel & resources ... This has *got* to be a fantasy for the UK, right? It's certainly a fantasy for the US, where almost half of all murders are unsolved.
So I can't really like them unreservedly, I can't *wallow* in them, my disbelief won't suspend that far.
But! Good news today!
I went to the doctor about my sciatica, and he started me on a course of prednisone, and ... it already seems to be working? maybe? Could this be what not being in pain is like?
Honestly it feels very strange. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!
BtVS Fic: Infected
Jun. 30th, 2025 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Infected
Fandom: BtVS
Author:
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Characters: Buffy, Giles, Scoobies, Angel.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1112
Spoilers: Earshot.
Summary: Slaying a demon leaves Buffy with an exciting new power that ends up being more of a curse.
Written For: Prompt 180 – Eavesdropping at
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Disclaimer: I don’t own BTVS, or the characters.
Ficlet: Another Fine Mess
Jun. 30th, 2025 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Another Fine Mess
Author:
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Characters: Ianto, Jack, Team.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 667
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto hadn’t been gone long, but the team had still managed to cause chaos.
Written For:
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Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
Fannish Fifty 2025 #25 Alan Rickman fans?
Jun. 30th, 2025 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I only recently saw that he'd been in a video, clearly many years ago. Honestly, I'm not crazy about the video itself (so many closeups of the singer, so many) but he looks really good. It makes me think about fanfic with driving through the night (rushing to get somewhere or to get away from something?) and then, a little loopy and half-dead, taking a moment to tango at a gas station. To the muzak coming from the gas station's speakers or from their own car radio?
And then in looking up that video for this post, I saw he'd done another with this same woman. An older Alan but still looking good. His voice is so sexy, but if you pay attention to the words, lay down stay down no one knows you better than me...could be used in a creepy stalker fic! Not normally my thing but in Alan's voice is oddly appealing.
My little black kitty just came and took my computer chair, she likes it for her naps. So I guess I'll go do something else.
Dreams as inspiration
Jun. 30th, 2025 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)


How do dreams influence your creativity or vice versa?
I've dreamt whole story plots. Conversely, story plots have niggled at my brain as I've tried to fall asleep.
It's never all the detail I need, but it gives me a place to start. (usually they sit in a WIP file for awhile first--sometimes for a long time)
Does this happen to you? With good or bad results?
How are those WIPs coming along?
YouTube Recs 1
Jun. 29th, 2025 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. Kaz Rowe (they/them)
Their YouTube content is long-form history essays, usually focusing on the weirder parts of history and LGBTQ+ history, describing their own content as "creative lectures on weird, queer, or forgotten history."
I've been a long time fan of their well-researched content, costumes, and thoughtfully detailed sets. They are clearly passionate about the subjects they cover and their sources are always cited in the descriptions of their videos.
My top three favorite videos are:
The 1840s Lesbian "Mobs" That Took Over Prisons
Why Did So Many Lighthouse Keepers "Go Mad"?
A Look at Queerness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Outside of YouTube, they are a cartoonist, illustrator, historical researcher, and self-described train appreciator. They have an ongoing, long form urban fantasy webcomic, Cunning Fire. They frequently create many comics dedicated to LGBTQ+ historical figures. And they've written a graphic novel, Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun.
(Doing this on my phone means no links for now sorry)
reclaiming my space (again)
Jun. 29th, 2025 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I’ve blogged for basically my entire adult life.
LiveJournal, Tumblr, WordPress, here. There’s something about having a corner of the internet that’s mine - a space that isn’t a feed, isn’t an algorithm, isn’t speeding past at a thousand miles an hour. I miss that.
Lately, I’ve mostly been posting on Tumblr about tennis. And I love talking about tennis, but it’s started to feel like that’s all I do.
I go to work, I watch matches, I read. Sometimes I write. Sometimes I stare at the same three WIPs and hope they move. I’ve been telling myself that doesn’t leave me with much to say. But maybe that’s not true. Or maybe it doesn’t matter.
So: I’m coming back to Dreamwidth. I want this to be a quieter space. A bit rambly. A bit nostalgic. More fandom and life and writing and less “keeping up.”
I’m really hoping the new sunshine_revival community will help with that too - it feels exciting, like something gentle and welcoming is starting to grow again. I’m looking forward to seeing what the prompts will be.
I also need to figure out commenting again. I overthink it. I draft something and delete it and worry it sounds weird or too much or not enough. But I want to try. I miss the part where we actually talked to each other.
What you’ll probably find here:
- snippets from whatever fic I’m poking at (shifter AU, packfic, omegaverse feelings, etc)
- trope talk and character rambling
- soft lifestyle things: what’s comforting me lately, little rituals, sensory joys
- maybe playlists or screenshot dumps or prompt games
- and the occasional “three things that got me through this week” kind of post
Here’s to slow internet, quiet posting, and the kind of connection that doesn’t need to be loud to be real.
Life in the Mid-Century US: a primer for writers of MASH fic
Jun. 29th, 2025 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I read a lot of MASH fic recently, and while most of it was very good, there were also a ton of inaccuracies about what mid-century America was like. I'm not an expert, but at the same time, I did listen to my parents and grandparents when they talked about what life was like when they were younger. And also, I know what's changed within my lifetime (born in 1982), and quite a lot of things people today take for granted are actually new within my lifetime, and thus not around prior to the 1980s. Now, this is fanfic, and if you don't care about historical accuracy in your fic, that is a fine and valid choice and I salute you. If, however, you do want to at least try to avoid major gaffes, here are things I've noticed that people get wrong a lot:
( Women's rights: Ms. )
( Travel )
( Money and Credit )( Alcohol )
( Childcare )
( Phone Calls )
( Progressive Ideas )
( The Ad Council )
( Entertainment )
( Police )
These are just a few of the things that have changed in the last fifty years. And, of course, I'm only one person and might have got things wrong. Let me know if you see things I missed
Stargate SG-1 Triple Drabble: Imposing
Jun. 29th, 2025 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Imposing
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author:
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Characters: Jack O’Neill, Daniel Jackson, SG-1.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Nada.
Summary: Ancient ruins are always impressive in their way, but this one is a bit overwhelming
Written For: Challenge 472: Sign at
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Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
FAKE Double Drabble: Unplanned Purchase
Jun. 29th, 2025 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Unplanned Purchase
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
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Characters: Dee.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 456: Flower at
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Setting: Nada.
Summary: Dee never buys flowers for himself. Right?
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
Double Drabble: Emergency Treatment
Jun. 29th, 2025 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Emergency Treatment
Author:
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Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 871: Gasp at
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Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Poor Ianto isn’t having a good day.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.