Cat dream

Nov. 7th, 2025 12:17 pm
ysobel: (kitty with fish)
[personal profile] ysobel
The first cat in the dream was a shorthair tortie -- mottled black and orange. Jumped onto my lap and then right shoulder, and demanded scritches. A kid nearby asked if it was a boy cat or a girl cat. My first reaction was "I don't know" but then I realized I did know because torties are 99% female. (The way I explained it in the dream was "orange boy cats can be all orange or orange-and-white, but not orange-and-black", which happens to be largely true IRL too. (Technically a boy cat that's XXY and heterozygous for this trait could be orange/black, but XXY is rare and only about half of them have a mix. But I didn't go into that.)

Then a big fluffy black cat jumped onto my left leg and swatted at the first cat, as if to say "my turn now". He was wearing little black "saddlebags" containing little foil bags, plus a note saying "feed me", so I opened one of the packets for him. It had a moist puck of wet food, and he chowed down quite happily.

There was an orange girl that, even in the dream, looked a lot like my former girl Monkey. She was lounging in an open drawer, and next to her was a skein of yarn the same color as her, which I snagged to bring home.

There was a sleek black cat lounging on the top level of a cat tree, well out of reach for pets but supervising. Not sure if boy or girl; somehow I knew that the fluffy black was a boy and the orange was a girl, but this one had no vibes.

And lastly there was a calico, white with patches of black and reddish orange and also yellowish orange; the oranges were slightly metallic looking. She reminded me of koi fish. Very pretty, but I didn't get a chance to pet her.

(This was an excellent dream and I'm glad I remembered so many details 💜)
oursin: Brush the wandering hedgehog dancing in his new coat (Brush the wandering hedgehog dancing)
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I.e. after all the faff and fuss and distraction

I GOT THE REVIEW DONE!!!

And then spent a fair amount of time fiddling around with it and niggling at it and trimming it and so on -

- but then I managed to upload it to the journal site, via a link from the Reviews Editor which may not have required me to either remember a password I created in the dim mists of past time or create a new one, but still involved the inordinate amount of annoying these journal sites are.

And lo and behold, this very morning after, it has been accepted, no corrections, no revisions, now in the editing process, copyright form forthcoming.

Phew.

One last book to review on the pile, should I put myself forward to review v interesting work just out from old mate? Have other stuff to be thinking of....

As previously mentioned, also managed to get the downstairs backroom communicating with the world again. Though getting the unwanted TP-Link returned looks a bit more arduous.

Plus, have had a haircut.

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[personal profile] musesfool
Imagine my excitement at reading this interview with Bob Mould this morning: How Bob Mould rediscovered the great, lost live Husker Du record not because of Hüsker Dü, whom I liked but didn't love, but because he mentions that Sugar reunited. I LOVED SUGAR!!! If I Can't Change Your Mind is 3 minutes of PURE POP PERFECTION and one of my top 5 songs of ALL TIME. Back in the 90s, I saw Bob live solo at least twice (once pressed right up to the stage beneath him and his guitar at...Irving Plaza? I think?), and saw Sugar in concert at least once (maybe twice?). Copper Blue is full of great songs, as is Bob's first solo album, Workbook. (Black Sheets of Rain was also good but less accessible, imo.)

If Sugar actually tours, I might leave the house to see them!

I have other, less fun, work news, but I should probably save it for a locked post sometime later. Sigh.

*

more of that backstory fic

Nov. 7th, 2025 10:21 am
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because I have no chill, I have written the second part of two of the backstory fic for my oath of redemption paladin Dalton and his prince-turned-thief Kristoff. this one is set about a year after the first. there is much gay pining between the prince and his paladin if you're into that kind of thing. I also decided to post it on AO3. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the Bastard is borrowed from Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series, which I would highly recommend.

in which Dalton has a very long day and certain promises are made )

Fic: One Track Conversation

Nov. 7th, 2025 03:29 pm
rodo: mucha's autumn allegory (mucha's autumn)
[personal profile] rodo
Title: One Track Conversation
Fandom: Bullet Train (2022)
Author: [personal profile] rodo
Length: 519 words
Rating: 12+
Characters: Lemon & Tangerine
Disclaimer:
A/N: written for [personal profile] otaku_girl_ao3 during 2025’s [community profile] fandomgiftbasket

Summary: Tangerine loved Lemon – a lot – but sometimes having him around could grate on him. It was the little ways that were the worst.



The door fell open, revealing a hotel room that was all sleek surfaces and gleaming metal. )
veronyxk84: (Vero#buffyS6)
[personal profile] veronyxk84 posting in [community profile] 100words
Title: Sting of Reality
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S6, shortly after ep. 6x12 “Doublemeat Palace.”
Summary: Buffy ponders her situation.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #467 - Package

Crossposted: [community profile] drabble_zone, [community profile] anythingdrabble, My journal


READ: Sting of Reality )

podcast friday

Nov. 7th, 2025 07:33 am
sabotabby: raccoon anarchy symbol (Default)
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Double feature because there was too much good content this week.

I'm going to take the rare step of recommending a two-part episode before I've finished listening to part 2, because I've listened to the Conspirituality episode on the same subject and I know who Peter Thiel thinks is the Antichrist. Through all of part 1 and the beginning of part 2 of Behind the Bastards' "Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ" you can just feel Robert getting increasingly excited about telling Sarah Marshall who Thiel thinks the Antichrist is and she keeps guessing and getting close but missing, critically, how fucking insane Thiel is.

You should listen to this because the people making all of the decisions in our lives with all of the money are actually batshit and believe batshit things and we all need to adjust our political strategies accordingly.

The flipside is Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff's "The Gallae: Trans Priestesses of Ancient Rome," where Magpie talks to Gabriel Dunn about how ancient trans women were persecuted but powerful and badass, into noise music, and did rave culture. Part 1, part 2. Not as much on Sumerian civilization as I'd like but maybe that's another episode.
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I did not go downtown at all today as I wanted to get some stuff done at home before I left to pick up mom. Also, the thought of sitting at McD’s wasn’t appealing. One thing I did do was hit the post office to mail a long-overdue package to Alaska!Niece. Now I just need to get her Christmas package put together so she gets that before the holidays. o_O

I drove mom to her treatment, did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for a couple walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I grilled steak for Pip’s supper.

I typed in ~1,200 words on my SFBB fic. Everything handwritten so far has been typed in, now I just need to finish writing it. I typed in some of my Top Gun notes, and then in the evening I somehow managed to write ~1,300 more words on that fic! I’m nearing the end, and I’d like to get it typed in sooner rather than later.

I watched an HGTV program and took another short afternoon nap. I told mom that it doesn’t bode well for the winter months if I already need daily naps.

Temps started out at 37.2(F) and reached 42.3. Pip said it got warmer than that when the sun came out, but I didn’t see it. In fact, it had fallen back into the 30s before I left to pick up mom and was once again (or still) in the 30s when I got home. There was some sun, but dark clouds moved in and we drove through rain that turned very ‘thick’ at one point. It didn’t quite reach what I’d call snow, but it was trying to. When we got to mom’s appointment, we heard that they had actual snow there earlier. I’m really not looking forward to that.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay today. more back here )

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Nov. 7th, 2025 09:41 am
oursin: Brush the Wandering Hedgehog by the fire (Default)
[personal profile] oursin
Happy birthday, [personal profile] fresne!
sholio: (B5-station)
[personal profile] sholio
No. 22: “All the battles I want to win, nothing matters but giving in.”
Self-Sacrifice | Collar | Hunted for Sport

Babylon 5, Cartagia arc [800 wds] - also on Tumblr

800 wds under the cut )
sholio: Gurathin from Murderbot looking soft and wondering (Murderbot-Gura)
[personal profile] sholio
The post-October Whumptober catchup continues, with more of the ones I wrote last month, but wasn't sure about.

No. 27: “Would you even want me, looking like a zombie?”
Surgical Scars | X-Ray | Bedside Vigil

Murderbot TV, Gurathin & Bharadwaj gen, 800 wds
Also on Tumblr

800 wds under the cut )

Outlaw Star - The Package

Nov. 6th, 2025 09:32 pm
kalloway: Strings of Star-shaped lights (Xmas Lights 13 Stars)
[personal profile] kalloway posting in [community profile] 100words
Title: The Package
Fandom: Outlaw Star
Rating: AA
Notes: follows Lost Dawn & the Box of Dreams. Myra Z (OC), Fred Luo
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the package )

Ollie's Queens joins Dreamwidth

Nov. 6th, 2025 08:58 pm
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[community profile] olliesqueens is a dreamwidth community dedicated to het & gen relationships of Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow, thus "Ollie's Queens". The community was imported from LiveJournal, it originally focused on the Smallville version of Oliver Queen het & gen relationships. Since lack of works posted to LJ for awhile and since Smallville had ended back 2011 (Smallville Season 11 ended in 2014) & Arrow ended in 2020, Ollie's Queens has since opened up to any universe Oliver Queen exists in, including comics, animation, films, and shows of course.

Doesn't matter if it's Canon ships or Unconventional pairings, or how rare the pairings are! If you write or want to rec something you love! PLEASE SHARE.
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[community profile] werewolvesden is a dreamwidth community dedicated to any fandom or media that related to werewolves or other wereanimals or shapeshifters (from folklores to latest show or film). Feel free to post your fanworks, recs, start discussions or feel free to pimp your fandom if you feel like you need to make more people aware of it.


This community was inspired by the lovely [community profile] vampiremedia ♥ I love vampires but I also love werewolves just as much and there's sooo many fandoms out there that just doesn't get the justice they deserve so I figured why not!

Words poured like wine.

Nov. 6th, 2025 08:31 pm
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[personal profile] hannah
Mid-December 2023, I was chatting with [personal profile] petra and got an idea for the next novel I could write.

Tonight I sent them the last part of the shitty first draft of said novel, where I simply told myself the story.

Whether it'll be this fast to get through the editing remains to be seen; mostly, I'm tickled that I can pinpoint the date and time, and the exact conversation that helped kick it off.

Meme Time

Nov. 6th, 2025 07:22 pm
senmut: A manip from Birds of Prey covers with Dinah and Slade (Comics: OTPoW)
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Seen most recently at [personal profile] svgurl:

Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are.


Find me at [archiveofourown.org profile] Merfilly.

1. What rating do you write most fics under?
3885 (of 5236) are General Audiences.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
DCU Comics (1059)
Star Wars - All Media Types (1002)
Forgotten Realms (358)

3. What is your top character you write about?
Dinah Lance (444)

4. What are the 3 top pairings?
Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen (120)
Dinah Lance/Slade Wilson (113)
Dick Grayson/Roy Harper (108)

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabble (1332)
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (826)
Introspection (555)

30 in 30: M*A*S*H

Nov. 6th, 2025 07:03 pm
senmut: M*A*S*H in yellow letters superimposed over a Bell Helicopter (M*A*S*H: Chopper title)
[personal profile] senmut
AO3 Link | Opinions Shared (300 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: M.A.S.H. (MASH) [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sherman T. Potter, Mildred Potter, Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Post-Canon
Summary:

Sherman wanted Margaret's opinion



Opinions Shared

"Thank you, Mrs. Potter," Margaret said, accepting the hot mug of coffee.

"Dear, when will you call me 'Mildred'?"

Margaret shook her head. "The same day I call your husband something other than Colonel," she answered with a smile, and they laughed. That would be never, then.

"You could, you know," said husband opined, shifting in his rocking chair. "I do appreciate you swinging out here."

"I had friends at Lost in the Woods," Margaret said, making her old friend smile for the use of that particular nickname for the local army base. "Of course I was going to come here before heading to Ft. Bliss."

Mildred had settled in her own rocker, watching the vibrant woman that was like a daughter to Sherm.

"So what are your thoughts on the nursing schools from my last letter?" Sherman asked his friend and former head nurse.

"My biggest advice is to avoid any of the diploma schools," Margaret said seriously. "We're seeing a serious change in how nursing is handled, and the traction for degree programs is there." She looked vindicated and hopeful all in one. "Parker Memorial, up in Columbia has an excellent degree program. It's not the closest to you, but it's the one I think will do your granddaughter best in the long run."

"Told you," Mildred said with a nod.

"So you did," Sherman said. "From what me and the missus read up, it looks like they're taking the transition to full degrees seriously, and I know some of the staff up there."

Margaret had to smile at that. "I'd be surprised if you didn't know at least one doctor on staff at all the teaching hospitals by now. Between your children and grandchildren deciding to follow your later career."

"Better for them," Sherman avowed, nodding sagely.

releasing a wild plot bunny

Nov. 6th, 2025 06:14 pm
althea_valara: A female Roegadyn from FFXIV, named Windy Storm. She's in the Red Mage gear and is smirking slightly. (Windy Storm)
[personal profile] althea_valara
Well, it's a SMALL bunny, but...

I was listening to the FFVIII soundtrack on YouTube while knitting, and they have video clips while the songs play. So I got to see Zell's intro again, and I had totally forgotten he's got a facial tattoo.

...Said tattoo is not unlike Windy's facial tattoo (Windy Storm is a Roegadyn and one of my characters from FFXIV).

So now I am imagining Zell in FFXIV's Sharlayan and getting his Archon Mark. Which is hard to believe, honestly! But can you imagine the hijinks he'd get into there?

Anyway, I don't have more of an idea than just that, so I release this bunny into the wilds.

And now I go back to knitting. THESE LEGWARMERS WON'T KNIT THEMSELVES!!!

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