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([personal profile] soricel posting in [community profile] fandomweekly May. 10th, 2026 01:25 pm)
Theme Prompt: #300 – Ceremony
Title: The Only Sensible Conclusion
Fandom: Wayfarers Series
Rating/Warnings: G
Bonus: No
Word Count: 984
Notes: Set after The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

 

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([personal profile] batwrangler May. 10th, 2026 04:18 am)
Murderbot 8
Martha Wells

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([personal profile] ysobel May. 9th, 2026 10:05 pm)
Hope to do a more detailed entry later but this has been a very full week, some unfun (interviewing and training new caregivers to replace my graduating students; the training process always sucks and is stressful, and I keep having to remind myself it always sucks and always gets better) but some fun. Craft fair last Sunday, Whole Earth Festival (kind of a hippie-vibed craft fair plus music plus some activities) today. It was hot, around 90F, and we were there for 2.5 hours, but sunscreen plus UV-protective cooling hood (purple of course) plus plenty of water plus frequent shade breaks all made it okay.

I am tired and, for the moment, content. :)
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([personal profile] kaydeefalls May. 9th, 2026 11:33 pm)
Today in a fit of boredom I decided it was time to update my AO3 account with any of my old fanvids that hadn't already been posted there. I had a good 30-odd vids on AO3 already; surely, I thought, there couldn't be THAT many I'd missed.

Anyway RIP to anyone subscribed to my AO3 who just got like 20-odd new work notifications for my backdated vids. Um. Sorry? The tragic part is, there are still like 10-15 left to go, I just got embarrassed by how many vids I apparently made in the period from 2009-2011 and gave up. For now, anyway. Holy SHIT I made a lot of vids back in the day. I kinda miss that hobby. But while I've found new software that I can make work (and have made a few Festivids with it), it doesn't jive with my brain very well, so vidding just isn't all that fun for me anymore. Alas.

I haven't written anything since finishing the 100k+ fic in February, and I'm starting to get antsy about it. But my brain always needs a writing break after finishing a longer project, and burnout from RL has been very real, so trying not to be too hard on myself.

And, fingers crossed, RL seems to be easing up a bit. Wife spent another stint in the hospital involving another emergency surgery in mid-March, but that one actually seems to be helping, and she's recovered MUCH more strongly from this one than anything since November. Of course, the way her body works, the successful resolution of that issue means her other chronic pain issues have decided to flare up in retaliation, having been woefully ignored for lo these many months while she focused on the emergency stomach stuff, so that sucks. But at least none of THAT is life-threatening. We take what we can get.

On the flip side, after a couple of years of gradually more apparent signs, my mom has finally been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. This is...a lot. She's still physically fine and functional, but her mind is deteriorating at a worrisome rate, and it's just...yeah. My dad has functionally become her caretaker, and he's struggling a bit with that adjustment, understandably. But boy howdy has he been good about getting all the legal stuff in line. So. Yeah. Very glad I still have one extremely functional parent, because I would be floundering badly if it were all landing on me right now.

In the midst of all this, I somehow applied for and landed a new job? This is baffling to me, but VERY welcome. I'd been at my prior org for eight and a half years, which is absolutely mind-boggling, and in the past few years I'd really started to hate it there, but thought I'd be stuck there forever because the job market sucks and the benefits (and health insurance) were too good for me to just quit. But then this opportunity unexpectedly fell into my lap, and I went for it, and here we are. I've been at new job for a month now, and I'm SO much happier there. The work is more interesting and the focus of the new nonprofit much more strongly aligns with my own priorities, and while it has its drawbacks, it's just been so much better for my mental health. So. That's a positive.

Wife did gently point out back back when this was all happening that I'd likely not be in an good headspace to write for a good two months - the last month where I was frantically trying to transition out of old job, and the first month of onboarding and adjusting to the new one. She was very right about that. Let's see if I can kick myself back into a creative headspace now that I'm feeling more settled with everything else.
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([personal profile] marginaliana May. 8th, 2026 07:46 pm)
Things:

--Two joggers went past me the other day and all I caught was the phrase 'the touch grass doctrine.' I love the idea of it being a doctrine, like a religious precept.

--Yesterday in the subway station two girls were brainstorming how to convince a friend of the merits of polyamory - which, fine, you do you, but their proposed arguments were a) when you get tired of your boyfriend you can go hang out with your girlfriend and b) hanging out with your girlfriend will make your boyfriend want to hang out with you both because you're both hot, so he will stop being annoying. This seems to me to be... not the best angle to take. Then again, if you're college age, maybe this is convincing reasoning?

--I actually like everyone from this series of Taskmaster. This seems impossible. Usually there's at least one of them that I want to punch. Very weird sensation. No one to root against.

--Relatedly, I was walking through the park the other day and saw a robin with its dinner and mentally went "I found a worm!" in a deeply self-satisfied manner.

--Wrote another little ficlet:

North (478 words) by marginaliana
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sorted (Website) RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ben Ebbrell/Mike Huttlestone, Ben Ebbrell & Mike Huttlestone
Characters: Mike Huttlestone, Ben Ebbrell
Additional Tags: take it as gen or preslash as you like, pretentious metaphors
Summary: Compasses captivate Mike.
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([personal profile] merryghoul posting in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic May. 9th, 2026 05:50 pm)
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Today I discovered, at approximately 6 p.m., that The Gym is only open until 5 p.m. on Saturdays. We had had a fairly lazy day at home and I had been putting off My Own Gym until after I had talked A through their (second!) Liftoff Phase One workout; I spent the approach going "... this car park is suspiciously empty, I don't think it can possibly be just that the school isn't on today..." and, yep, closed already.

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([personal profile] elyusion posting in [community profile] style_system May. 9th, 2026 03:38 pm)
Does anyone know how to make the comments on [community profile] joseimuke less ugly? I dislike that there's no Quick Reply, but more importantly, when you're replying to a comment it doesn't show the comment you're replying to unless you press the Preview button. I also don't know how I would make it so replies indent, but other than that I can fix the rest of the ugliness myself. But is some of the more technical stuff fixable, or should I give up and find another layout even though I really like the current one?
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([personal profile] immortalje posting in [community profile] dailyicons May. 9th, 2026 10:40 pm)

Today's prompt is: agree



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Theme Prompt: #300 – Ceremony
Title: Too many minds already
Fandom: Dire Bound - Sable Sorensen
Rating/Warnings: (Language, violence, mature content, spoilers?) None
Bonus: (Yes/No - did you meet the bonus goal for this challenge?) Yes
Word Count: 626
Summary: (Optional) The one where Meryn ties the knot with Stark. And gets more than she bargained for in the process due to Dire Wolf magic.

Too many minds already )
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([personal profile] lightreads May. 9th, 2026 02:23 pm)
City of Others

3/5. Urban fantasy about a middle manager in a government agency in Singapore intended to keep the supernatural elements of society quiet.

Okay. Kind of Rivers of London but with a queer protagonist and far less voicey. Though it turns out the voiciness goes a long way to selling all the infodumping you need to do in a fantasy like this.

A good time, with a particularly interesting set of magical ideas. But I suspect someone made him cut, like, 25% of his manuscript or something, because there’s a lot of jerky pacing and weird gaps where I’m like ‘wait, we just met this person and now she’s a core part of the team and we all care about her? Did I miss something?’ Also, it’s all trying just that bit too hard to tie into a neat thematic bow (grief and letting go). Very debut, is what I mean. Naturally it is going to be a series; I might keep going, I might not.
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([personal profile] kryptonianheart posting in [community profile] supergirl_tv May. 9th, 2026 02:31 pm)

I'm not much of an icon maker, but Canva makes all things possible and this looked like a lot of fun so I figured I'd give it a shot. And I recently watched My Adventures with Superman and have absolutely fallen in love with that version of Kara, so I figured I'd do this challenge with that version of her.



10 THEMES
Nature Kiss Blend Fight Flight
Red & Blue 2 or More People Close Up Smile Times Two

10 ARTIST'S CHOICE
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([personal profile] conuly May. 9th, 2026 02:00 pm)
What are we now but voices
who promise each other
a life neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting can’t make it so.
We hang from a vine
at the cliff’s edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.


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Seen on the SIR

This poem references the well-known zen koan.
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([personal profile] conuly May. 7th, 2026 11:31 am)
My shampoo is no longer being produced and I need more shampoo.

It needs to be perfume light, and ideally I should be able to get shampoo, conditioner, and body wash that don't clash with each other. I generally find that products marketed as natural are more likely to have scents that aren't overwhelming and don't make my eyes itch, give me a sore throat, or trigger a headache - but there's no guarantee there.

And, of course, it needs to get my hair clean, ideally without drying it out.

Help?
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([personal profile] oursin May. 9th, 2026 04:12 pm)

Though I suspect it's more just 'did not bother to do any research'.

Two pieces in today's Guardian Saturday.

The one about blokes being (IMHO) totally scammed over testosterone doesn't appear to be online yet, but I, who have done my time in the noisome pits of sex-related quackery, was going: this is the latest round of what used to be rejuvenation operations of various kinds (HAI! WB Yeats!), the Blakoe energiser, electrical belts, devices to prevent the leakage of the precious manly fluids, pills to restore Lost Manhood, and I wouldn't be surprised if radium tonics had featured at some point.

The placebo reaction is a powerful thing.

And then we get The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps.

Well, maybe in these parlous times it does help getting an agent and one's foot in the door at a publisher? But it is hardly a new phenomenon that there is More Than One Writer In The Family.

Will concede that perhaps I am thinking of those literary families of an earlier era which were perhaps more into churning out more or less hackwork as a cottage industry (e.g. the Allinghams).

Then I bethought me that Angela Thirkell's son Colin MacInnes was also a writer, albeit, as one may see from that Wikipedia entry, a very different article from Mama, wot. (I seem to recall from the bios of her that I read that they were estranged and he was a hostile witness.)

There's also a bit of a reverse pattern in the Drabble family, whereby John Drabble took to novel-writing after his daughters. (Famous Sibling Literary Feuds....)

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