Quantum Leap Fic: Dependable
Jun. 9th, 2025 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Dependable
Fandom: Quantum Leap
Author:
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Characters: Sam Beckett, Al Calavicci.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Without his best friend giving him information and keeping him on track, Sam would be lost.
Word Count: 1000
Written For: Prompt 124 – Best Friends Forever at
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Disclaimer: I don’t own Quantum Leap, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
Ficlet: Temporary Host
Jun. 9th, 2025 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Temporary Host
Author:
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Characters: Ianto, Jack, OC.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 705
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto is a little upset that Jack has been keeping something major from him.
Written For:
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Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
Setting a mood
Jun. 9th, 2025 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Music, background noise, complete quiet. Something else? What works for you?
I thought AMSR keyboard typing sounds would work for me. They didn't. (When listening to it, I can feel my hair trying to crawl up my scalp.)
But something like this does:
Fly! All is known....
Jun. 9th, 2025 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I will have extremely limited access to a full-sized keyboard this week (phone, yes; proper keyboard, no), but don't want to disappear without acknowledging two wonderful recently-written gifts:
From Unsent Letters 2025:
A Series of Notes Attached to A UNIT Requisition Form by astrogirl
Three and the Brigadier navigate the halls of bureaucracy (and the vastness of time and space) in pursuit of an electron microscope. A perfect replication of the reality of bureacuratic procurement channels...
From Holmestice, Summer 2024:
a study in violin by unrevealed
A full-fledged and dead-flat-brilliant novella (!) following Elementary's Sherlock Holmes through a lifetime spent with a Stradivarius (and a great many complicated relationships).
Murderbot reviews/meta, weather, fannish activity, and more
Jun. 9th, 2025 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
https://www.avclub.com/murderbot-premiere-recap-episodes-1-and-2
https://www.avclub.com/murderbot-recap-season-1-episode-3-risk-assessment
https://www.avclub.com/murderbot-recap-season-1-episode-4-escape-velocity-protocol
https://www.avclub.com/murderbot-recap-season-1-episode-5-rogue-war-tracker-infinite
We've had a cold snap here - temps down to 7C (45F) - which I know is nothing to you tough Northeners but it reminded me how much I prefer summer. I broke out my oodie (a massive hooded sweatshirt of velour fleece lined with fake sheepskin fleece - mine has slices of pepperoni pizza on it) which was amazingly warm and comforting for a while, then when I'd warmed up, rapidly became claustrophpbic. I'm keeping it in reserve for more wintry dips in temperature.

Discussion of an NSFW artwork and TMI
I'm working on a NSFW artwork of John Sheppard and Rodney McKay as "always a girl" lesbians, and managed to turn myself on! Unusual - it can happen when I write sex scenes, but never before with a high-rated pic I've been drawing. I really want the pic to work so will need to run it by at least one art beta when it's a bit more finished - John/Joan's hips are proving elusive. Meredith's looking nicely lush though.
Lots of podfic-related activity lately - the longer one I'm recording is going well, plus the regular Voiceteam festival had an archiving challenge so we've been hit with >600 podfics to archive, some in weird, tiny, Yuletidey fandoms that are a puzzle to categorise.
I had a brief brain melt and panicked that the due South Big Bang deadline was June 16th (it's August 16th), and having come to my senses, relievedly abandoned the punishing podficcing schedule I'd invented. But I do need to get onto my into-a-bar fic asap. Writing - so much harder for me these days, goddamnit.
The Mexican sunflower is still flowering up a storm, even in the cold and rain. It's a keeper! Not a lot of choice about that as with big ones like mine the roots can be several metres deep, and they come away again cheerfully when cut back.
I had a moment in a comment over on
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trump (v.2)
"fabricate, devise," 1690s, from earlier trump "deceive, cheat, impose upon" (late 14c.), from Old French tromper "to deceive," a word of uncertain origin.
Trumped up "fabricated out of nothing or deceitfully; forged; false; worthless" is recorded by 1728. Since 2025 the origin has become conflated, especially in the US, with the second Trump presidency (January 2025 to his September 2025 impeachment) in which Trump and his lackeys were notorious for illegal executive orders, false charges, and widespread abuse of power.
Hope you're all keeping warm, or cool, depending!
Epidemfic 2025 Letter
Jun. 8th, 2025 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sickfic Notes
Hanahaki - the idea of chronic Hanahaki really appeals to me, as well as the flowers changing depending on the feelings. I prefer the "comes from not confessing feelings" to "comes from unrequited feelings" but both are welcome!
I'm okay if you mention death in any way, including major/requested characters or temporary death, just as long as the requested pairings interact at least once (even in flashbacks).
Firefall Series - Peter Watts
I'll start off by saying: if you're new to the fandom, the only book you need to read for my requested pairing is Blindsight, which can be found here as a PDF or here in your browser (thanks, Peter Watts & Creative Commons!). Space, mind fuckery, transhumanism, and vampires sound like a good time? Blindsight could be for you! One day I'll get around to a more in-depth canon promo.
You're also welcome to explore the influences that the other members of the Gang have on Michelle's relationship or illness--do they get sick when she does, or is it split like they are? What kind of alien influence would Rorschach have on any illness? For hanahaki, is it something regularly encountered, a bio-engineered contagion common to the future world, or is it something alien?
The Magnus Protocol
Gwen/Alice
Charmed (1998)
Prue/Cole
Farscape (1999)
Aeryn and John
B5 Triple Drabble: Hollow
Jun. 8th, 2025 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Hollow
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:
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Characters: Lyta Alexander, Kosh.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Walkabout.
Summary: There’s a hole inside Lyta where she used to sometimes carry part of Kosh.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79 at
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Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.
FAKE Double Drabble: Over And Done
Jun. 8th, 2025 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Over And Done
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
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Characters: Dee, JJ.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You at
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Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: JJ realises he’s not in love with Dee anymore.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
Double Drabble: Click
Jun. 8th, 2025 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: Click
Author:
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Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 868: Code at
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Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The latest alien visitor is annoying Ianto.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
#659, Bashō
Jun. 8th, 2025 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
even though we're like the melon
split in two
-1690
Translation by Jane Reichhold.
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The Zahn Appreciation Society...
Jun. 8th, 2025 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Yá’át’ééh! ...Just me huh? Ok, I binged season 3 of Dark Winds. Loved of course, lots of feels...Jenna Elfman as an FBI agent - what in the Dharma? Brother gotta do more than build that fence! <3 <3 <3
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Jun. 7th, 2025 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If you have recipes that use large amounts of okra, I'll take those too, but won't have a chance to try them until about August. Per LSU ag extension the heat puts the okra plants into overdrive and I'll have beaucoup then.