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It's wrong and bad and wrong and I don't like it. She was little just yesterday! Now she is not little, and her sibling is even less little, and I just don't understand how that happened.

Happy birthday to her, I guess.

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Just attended the livestream - recording can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/4v2p3NwsMg0

Lots of talking and encouragement, also a lot of stories and photos from Saturday. On the livestream:
Moderator: Ashlee-Woodard Henderson (activist)
Speakers: Ezra Levin (co-executive director of Indivisible), Hunter Dunn (LA Host, National Press Coordinator 50501), Lisa Gilbert (co-executive director, Public Citizen), Maribel Hernández-Rivera (National Director of Immigrant Community Strategies), Jiggy Geronimo (Narrative Strategist)

Final message: find your local community.

Resources linked:
- https://brandfolder.com/indivisibleproject/no-kings-know-your-rights (cards to print and distribute in English, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Tagalog, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Haitian Creole, French, and Arabic)
- Text SHUTDOWN to 30403 to get a script from the Working Families Party to leave a message with your Senator to encourage them to hold the line during the shutdown and keep fighting against Trump's health care cuts and price increases, followed by them calling you to connect.
- There's also a QR code in the video to connect you to the Stop the Healthcare Heist! Week of Action.

senmut

So today's "first" is Sontarans and Sarah Jane Smith.

They really went for competent, feisty, and full of gumption off the bat with Sarah, didn't they?

Linx was an interesting introduction to the Sontarans, actually.

Irongron is a pill of a brute of a villain, but I really liked Eleanor of the other castle.

This is the best line: "Is this Doctor a long shank rascal with a mighty nose?" and sums up the Third Doctor well.

redbird

We had a roast chicken a few days ago, then

adrian_turtle used some of the leftovers to make a salad with greens, pieces of chicken, and grapes.

cattitude just turned the remaining leftover chicken into matzo ball soup.

There will be homemade chocolate cake later, because Adrian wanted to check whether the springform pan would hold cake batter. We eat well around here.

malinaldarose

Dear Yuletide Author,

Hello! Thank you for writing for me -- I hope you enjoy writing as much as I am certain to enjoy reading!( Read more... )

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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5684

A flashback!!

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5684

china_shop

Thank you so much for writing for me and, most of all, for sharing one of my tiny fandom loves!! I adore all these canons and am sure to enjoy whatever you come up with. I’m only including a few prompts in case you’re the kind of writer who likes them; please don’t feel bound by them. If you like, you can use them as jumping-off points for something quite different.

I’m

china_shop on AO3. Treats are enabled and welcome!

( Likes and DNWs )

And now, on to the prompts! I've patched these together in a bit of a hurry; more verbiage does not indicate preference!

Time of Fever: Go Hotae, Kim Donghee

(Feel free to use your preferred romanisation for their names!)

What it is: a 6 x 20-minute-episode BL Kdrama about two high-school best friends pining for each other. It's gorgeously acted and shot, and the characters have a lot of interiority: Go Hotae has just lost his father and moved from Seoul back to his small hometown; he's an athlete, a terrible student, and very sweet. Kim Donghee, bright, artistic, and abused by his father for being gay, comes to live with Hotae and his mum. He tries hard to conceal his crush on Hotae. We get to see Hotae's growing awareness of Donghee. Here's episode 1, and the rest of the show is linked at the bottom of the page.

Prompts:
* I love the idea of Hotae tracking Donghee down in Seoul (after all, Hotae lived in Seoul for a couple of years, right? he can find his way around). Whether they actually run into each other or not, I feel like there's a lot of potential here. Maybe Hotae writes to Donghee saying to meet him, and Donghee stakes out the cafe, sees Hotae waiting, but can't bring himself to make contact (angst, angst). Or maybe Hotae follows Donghee to Itaewon or Jongno and watches him meet friends in a gay bar - and decides to make his presence known (or not). Or Hotae comes to the university dorms on Donghee's birthday and insists on celebrating with him, and revelations ensue. So many possibilities!!
* Another kiss during their school era days -- maybe when they wake up in the bookshop together -- and the complications that ensue.
* Magic realism fix-it to help them communicate: bodyswap, telepathy, etc.
* Angst - possibly involving Donghee's mother's expectations that he not be any trouble to Hotae's mother, or situational-appropriate internalised homophobia, or just misunderstandings.

I'm fine with an unhappy ending (even a fight) as long as it doesn't rule out the possibility of them getting together at some future date. Happy endings are of course very welcome!!!

Unintentional Love Story: Go Hotae, Kim Donghee, Yoon Taejoon

(Feel free to use your preferred romanisation for their names!)

What it is: a 10 x 33-44 min-episode BL Kdrama about four young adults in small-town Korean. The background couple, Donghee and Hotae, are a coffee shop proprietor and a high-school dropout who works at his mother's restaurant, respectively. There's a lot of history and tension between them.

Prompts:
I'm mostly interested in Go Hotae&/Kim Donghee, but I really enjoy Yoon Taejoon (and Ji Wonyoung) as a background pairing/supporting cast. I love their respective friendships with Donghee and Hotae.

* A get-together or established relationship moment for Hotae and Donghee at any point, including post-canon.
* Exploring what it is that's holding Donghee back -- and resolving this to reach a get-together.
* Magic realism fix-it to help them communicate: bodyswap, telepathy, animal transformation, etc. Maybe Donghee receives a batch of coffee syrup that gives people unexpected powers.
* Anything about Kim Donghee and Yoon Taejoon making friends, being friends, critiquing each other's love lives and choices, supporting each other's businesses and relationships. (That Dongee & Taejoon commiserating-in-a-bar scene is pure delight! Anything like that. :D)
* Canon divergent AU where Go Hotae takes up swimming again, and somehow this changes how Kim Donghee sees him.
* Trope fic! All the tropes! (Here are my trope rankings, though this is a few years out of date.)

Rūrangi (2020): Caz Davis, Jem, Anahera

What it is: a 2020 New Zealand LGBT-related independent drama film. After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rūrangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn’t heard from him since before Caz transitioned. He reconnects with both his high-school best friend and his high-school boyfriend.

Prompts: I'd love anything focused on Caz -- his guardedness and grudging vulnerability mashes my buttons! Caz/Jem, yes please! Caz & Anahera, for sure! For this one, if you're adding magic realism (eg, Caz's mother's ghost making an appearance?), please keep it gentle and grounded. I really just want more of the world of the film and what comes after -- and all the complicated feelings and relationships therein.

Do they take on the town council about something else? Do they throw a tiny Pride event? Does Caz meet up with someone else in town with whom he has history? An old friend of his mother? Another trans person (maybe not out)? Happy ever afters/domestic fluff are also very welcome: Caz/Jem fight and make up? Adopt a cat? Have a dinner party? Other characters and OCs welcome.

Swordcrossed - Freya Marske: Mattinesh Jay, Lucastian Harte

What it is: a light, secondary world, urban-historical m/m romance with guild politics and secrets, swordplay and skulduggery, and people being messed up by their rich guild-house families. The romance is "playful-enemies to lovers," ie, there are compelling reasons not to trust each other, but they like each other enough that they can't help teasing, admiring, and developing inconvenient loyalties, despite the suspicion. (I gushed about it here.)

Prompts: canon divergence where something goes wrong for one of them, and they have to turn to the other for help before it feels safe to do so. (It's been a few months since I listened, so I can't remember how much that overlaps with canon, but feel free to riff off it. I'm about to re-listen to the audiobook.) An alternate get-together. A missing scene. Outsider POV. Another heist (on top of the ones in canon). Adopting a stray cat or dog. Dealing with (or helping) a member of the supporting cast with a problem.

Otherwise, how about an AU, if you lean that way. I adored the connection, the vibe, the banter, and it would be fun to see that in a different setting. Matti and Luca in space? As pirates? In the high-stakes world of publishing? Sounds delightful! (No vampires, werewolves, omegaverse, mobster AUs or anything dark or gritty, please. And no fusions with other canons.)

김과장 | Good Manager (2017) (AKA Chief Kim): Kim Seongryong, Seo Yul

(Feel free to use your preferred romanisation for their names!)

What it is: This is a 20-episode Korean office drama (available on VIKI) about corporate corruption, redemption, team as family, and enemies to ~~lovers~~ allies. It’s funny, dark at times, full of wordplay that doesn’t completely come across in the subs, and generally delightful. The ensemble is excellent. My mini-ship manifesto.

I ship Kim Seongryong/Seo Yul so hard. I love what a mess they are, separately and together, and how they’re deceptively similar: both used to being the smartest person in the room; both pushing everyone away, Seo Yul with arrogance and anger, Seongryong by being a glib, mischievous chaos monster; both burdened with consciences despite themselves. They start off genuinely antagonistic but quickly come to recognise each other as worthy opponents. And then all the teasing, stolen kisses, and reluctantly joining forces! For these two, my prompts are for post-canon hijinks/get-togethers, but if you want to set something during canon, go for it!

If you don’t ship them, bickering friendship fic or forced-working-together fic, with or without other members of Business Operations, would also be great. I really love the ensemble, especially Choo Namho and Yoon Hakyung.

Prompts (feel free to interpret as gen or shippy):

Seo Yul gets dirty/drenched somehow and has to borrow (terrible, ugly) clothes from Kim Seongryong. Can he stand the teasing? Does he immediately disrobe again? How does it affect his day? How does Kim Seongryong feel about it?
Kim Seongryong or Seo Yul gets three wishes from a magical entity.
Coming out to each other – or Seo Yul comes out to Kim Seongryong, and Kim Seongryong is inappropriate in some way.
Third-party h/c, where one of them sees the other being (seemingly uncharacteristically) kind and comforting to another character, and it makes the first person realise their feelings.

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez: Jun Ossa, Keema of the Daware Tribe

What this is: a fantasy novel (with m/m) about belonging and redemption and gods and (mostly human) monsters. Incredible storytelling, narrative voice, worldbuilding, everything. Somehow, despite its horror and grisly moments, this book has become a comfort listen for me. (The audiobook narration by Joel de la Fuente is *amazing*.)

Prompts:
Keema is my absolute favourite. I would love anything about his past, present or future, especially if it came with added worldbuilding. (I'm fine with some horror elements if necessary for the story, but I'd prefer them not to be the focus, and in particularly, not leaning into the live-cannibalism side of things. A generally hopeful tone would be great.)

If you're feeling shippy, I'd really love a future moment for these two, slice of life or another adventure. Maybe they encounter another spirit or challenge. Maybe it's the after-effects of godliness, or some aspect(s) of their being gods lasts longer than they thought. Maybe it's just about their life on the road -- or do they find a home somewhere, a place to belong?

Thank you again! I hope this is helpful and that you have a great Yuletide!

senmut

Testing, Always or read at Ad Astra (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

Someday, Julian will avoid the test

Julian did his best to ignore Garak with his unblinking stare, focusing on his own meal. Surely he could be patient enough to let Garak come to his conclusions and speak first.

It couldn't be that hard to ignore the pointed behavior.

Really.

"Alright, what is it? Denebian spots on my face today?" Julian demanded when he still had at least five bites left of the salad.

Garak smiled. "A new record for you, my dear doctor," he said, and Julian flushed as that made it another psychological test.

"Someday, I will make it a full meal."

Garak laughed skeptically.

minoanmiss

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dewline

It's been fixed. City Hall's website is back to normal now. Since I posted my complaint on Bluesky...

https://bsky.app/profile/dewline.bsky.social/post/3m3qidgsrak25

Current Mood: satisfied

hafnia

( beneath the jump. )

gwynnega

[content warning: marital rape]

Though I've been enjoying my viewing of the 1973 episodes of The Doctors (currently rerunning on RetroTV), there's one storyline I'm finding really hard to take. Young lab technician Toni Ferra (Anna Stuart) has just found out she's pregnant, and she's not happy about it, to put it mildly. Her pill-addict husband Dr. Mike Powers sexually assaulted her while he was high on speed. Soon after, he left town to try and repair the shambles of his life and career. (The show wrote out the actor playing Mike; Mike will return, played by a new actor.) No one knows where Mike is, and he has no idea that his attack on Toni got her pregnant.

Even before Mike's drug addiction, the marriage was on shaky ground due to his immaturity, to the point that when Mike broached the subject of having a child, Toni bluntly retorted, "Why do I need a baby when I already have one?"

Toni has serious reservations about continuing this pregnancy, for obvious reasons. Anna Stuart, at the beginning of an illustrious soap career, gives a heartbreaking performance. Toni's physical discomfort and emotional overwhelm are palpable as she skulks around the hospital. Queasiness and fainting spells are the least of her worries. Everywhere she turns, her in-laws, colleagues, and friends brightly tell her that things might look bad now, but when the baby is born, it'll all be worth it! It's surreal to witness characters who are generally portrayed as the moral center of the show all dismissing her agonized concerns. When Toni reminds her mother-in-law, Dr. Maggie Powers, that Mike raped her (though in 1973, marital rape was considered an oxymoron), Maggie replies that Mike loves her and only assaulted her because of the drugs. Her father-in-law (and chief of staff at the hospital where Toni works), Dr. Matt Powers, actually congratulates her on the pregnancy, before sanctimoniously urging her to carefully consider a decision she might regret for the rest of her life.

So far, no one has used the word abortion in these scenes, although abortion was newly legal in 1973. (Marital rape was also legal at the time.) It's not that abortion has been handled much better on TV in the decades since--but the fact that, so far, not one character on the show has offered Toni unconditional support for whatever choice she might make is downright painful.

sholio

More B5 fic! This is one that I wrote some time ago, but haven't posted mostly because I was completely stuck for a title, until the right one fell into my lap. (I'm honestly delighted with how the titles for this little series have been working out; they're coming out so nicely multi-layered.)

Dedicated (1600 wds, gen, mostly G'Kar)

This is a follow-up to Devotional, the one I wrote a while back in which Londo reads G'Kar's book, post-canon. When I wrote that, I liked the idea that G'kar at some point gets a chance to read Londo's annotations in his book ... so that's what this is.

conuly

told me that one of them, the friendliest, died today. Poor baby. The person who was supposed to trap them hasn't been in touch, apparently, so I'll talk to some people.

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minoanmiss

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dewline

As noted on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/dewline.bsky.social/post/3m3qezg6ud225

"Blocked by our security service"?

Current Mood: worried

amalthia

( The Untamed )
( The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System )

kaberett

I have, today, made my first Soup of the autumn: carrot and leek and celery and a couple of potatoes for good measure (and I then added frozen peas to my portion, because I like them cold and not at all cooked and definitely not reheated repeatedly over the course of a week). Bread and cheese, fruit to follow. I didn't manage Monday Morning Soup Ritual this week, as you can tell from the fact that it's Tuesday, but. Soup.

Some other bits and pieces: I have reached the stage of Squash Week where I have more recipes I want to make than I have squash with which to make them (... and one spaghetti squash) (for which I have at least some open EatYourBooks tabs). I hit refresh in my Oxfam tab aaaaaand the sale has cycled around to 30% off 3+ books. I have a chilli order ready to go as soon as my new debit card arrives OR I get over myself and see whether the credit card is actually behaving. There is a batch of onions caramelising in the Instant Pot. The current pain book is abruptly unexpectedly absorbing -- it's much more Sociology Of Pain than I'd quite been expecting, but it's potentially building to making at least some of the argument I want to from a refreshingly different angle to everything else I've come across in my background reading so far, and in the meantime in spite of my frustrations with it it's prompting lots of Useful Thoughts.

And I am wearing my Seasonal Leggings (courtesy of Mardy Bum, findable primarily on Facebook, or Instagram for a bit of an idea) and my Extremely Enthusiastic Slippers, like so. ( Read more... )

ruric

Week 41 (6-12 Oct) was ridiculously productive at work which left little time for anything else and then on 10th I got either a bad cold or the current round of Covid, so that was mostly about surviving the days and the crashing out in the evenings. So the last 14 days haven't exactly been productive.

#ORJENISE100 didn't get much done the last couple of weeks but I am plugging away at my master email account.

HOME: spiralled a bit back into chaos when I wasn't well - but have more or less clawed the kitchen, bathroom and hallway/stairs back from the brink!

HEALTH: it was a rough 10 days!

LIFE ADMIN: no progress for the last 2 weeks.

DIGITAL DECLUTTER: got my main email account down to 12500 emails before I got sick. Need to get back to that!

GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: nope.

COOKING/EATING: spent the last week living on tins of soup!

READING/LISTENING: nope.

WATCHING: quite enjoying Murder Before Evensong (an 80s version of Grantchester)!

CREATING/LEARNING: I did drag my unwell self to a pumpkin crochet class on Sunday 12 October and have since made 2 small and one medium pumpkins.

CATS: all good.

VOLUNTEERING: not recently.

SOCIALISING: Yes with

ravurian last weekend two showings at the BFI London film festival. Pillion on Saturday night, a funny and quirky coming of age film starring Harry Melling (who I only recently realised is Patrick Troughton's grandson) and Alexander Skarsgard. Excellent performances and it's getting good reviews. The director had the cast and a lot of the crew on stage before the showing and Skars knows how to dress for his audience. *G* The back up Sunday morning for The History of Sound starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'connor- beautifully shot film about love, loss and folk music. Cracking soundtrack too. Then we went for lunch.

WORK: still busy but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

This week is shaping up to be busy but not awful and the weekend should involve time spent on the allotment in the garden.

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conuly - E is 20 and one day now!
gingicat in thisfinecrew - report from the What's Next After No Kings livestream
senmut - Doctor Who: "The Time Warrior"
redbird - home cooking
malinaldarose - Dear Yuletide Author
questionable_content_feed - A Weight Has Lifted
china_shop - Dear Yuletide Writer
senmut - Deep Space Nine Drabble
minoanmiss - Making a note
dewline - Update on the Weird Happenstance
hafnia - therealljidol, wheel of chaos: prompt 13, "happiness pump"
gwynnega - more about The Doctors
sholio - Babylon 5 fic: Dedicated
conuly - The woman on the corner who's been feeding the ferals
independence1776 in fandomcalendar - Tolkien (any): Leaf and Lore
minoanmiss - Ow
dewline - Weird Happenstance of 21 October 2025
amalthia - Untamed and The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System Recs
kaberett - Soup Season
ruric - Weeks 41 and 42 - bit of a write off

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