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Title: Friends In Need
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Marty, Ted, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Two of Dee and Ryo’s colleagues are having a bit of a problem.
Written Using: The prompt ‘Gas’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Friends In Need... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Safe Enough
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Martha Jones, Tenth Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 1012: ‘Volcanic’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Martha is not convinced this is a safe place to be.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Safe Enough... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Minor Accident
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Owen, Tosh, Dizzy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 910: Crash, at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: It’s wise to watch where you’re going around the Hub.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Minor Accident... )

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yourlibrarian

1) For those who use Zoom for meetings, something to be concerned about: WebinarTV Turning Zoom Calls into AI Podcasts. Stanford has issued guidelines to campus users to prevent it happening.

2) Turns out Xfinity offered us free Peacock (supposedly Peacock Premium but we have ads anyway). Getting Peacock access was quite a process though. All I should have had to do was click the email link and accept the offer. In fact, everything I tried kept sending me to a 404 page. ( Read more... )

3) When I finally did get into Peacock, I used it to watch Song Sung Blue and thought it was mostly an enjoyable film. I liked Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson leaning into their ages and downplaying his looks. The music was fun and it was a nice, small scale love story. ( spoilers ).

3) The Peacock issue wasn't the only technical frustration of the last few days. After finishing my taxes and other to-dos I had pending, I wanted to take some time to get back into my LEGO Star Wars game on the Xbox which I'd last tried almost 3 years ago. ( Read more... )

4) I feel surprisingly upset to hear that Starfleet Academy is essentially cancelled. (There's another season coming but that had already been planned before S1 began). I wrote earlier about how much I was enjoying it, and that was before I watched the fourth episode. I will miss these characters, and it seems there's so much more that could be done.

5) The latest

marchmetamatterschallenge writing prompt was "How do you define genres? Is it still a useful tool to find entertainment you like, or have offerings become so niche and melded that it's hard to use categories anymore? Was it ever something useful for you, personally?"

To some degree yes, but increasingly no. ( Read more... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Finding Carol
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Bikky, JJ, Carol, Killer.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol. 6, Act 17.
Summary: Carol is missing, presumably kidnapped by a killer. It’s a race against time to find and save her.
Word Count: 881
Written For: My very old

genprompt_bingo card square Lost And Found.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

( Finding Carol... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Unexpected Treasure
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 690
Spoilers: Nada. Set late in Season 1.
Summary: Ianto makes a fascinating discovery in the archives.
Written For:

scytale’s prompt ‘Any, any, bones’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Unexpected Treasure... )

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calzephyr

Wednesday was just another snowy spring day when this guy showed up!

OMG! A Northern shrike!!!

I was upstairs in my office when I heard the budgies flapping and didn't see the problem at first.

Then I saw this beautiful, but deadly bird!

He flew at the window and scared the budgies again, so I moved the cage away. He sat there for a good long time and flew away. He was not bothered at all by me standing right at the window looking at him.

Shrikes impale small birds and animals "for later", so I'm going to keep an eye on my bird feeder because I don't want my rose bush to become a graveyard. I haven't seen it again so far today, so perhaps the snow derailed his travel plans like everyone else lately.

Black and grey bird sitting on a bird feeder hook

stonepicnicking_okapi

Today, my baby turns 11! Happy birthday Minisculus!

1. I need to make the cake. Now. [Edited to add: it's in the oven now]

2. The other big thing is that BTS dropped their new album Arirang. The seven have finished their military service obligation and are getting ready to go on a world tour. They performed a one-hour showcase of the new songs in a historic square in Seoul and now are making the rounds doing promotions.

I like the album more and more as I listen to it. I am so glad I got the Netflix. I think I have watched the showcase at least 10 times (more in bits and pieces) since it aired live on Saturday morning. I pre-ordered a version of the album and it came but I wasn't entirely smitten with my photocards so I ordered a different version of the album today which comes with STICKERS (very important) and photocards I think I am going to like more. For ARMY reading this, I got the simple Rooted in Music version and the other version I ordered today is Living Legends. Needless to say, I did not tell the boys' father I ordered another version of the same album. These are the secrets which keep a marriage strong. I am looking forward to

bethctg visiting in August and going to the concert when they come here. RM seems to be recovering from his sprained ankle and I hope the boys stay healthy and strong for the long journey ahead. They performed at the Guggenheim in NYC which was very nice, elegant, classy. I will be posting videos and fan cams as we go along. They did a Spotify event in NYC and were looking very good, more fuck boy style.

So when I was a nurse in the nursing home a long time ago, there was a resident who was a fan of Prince and she had a little VCR and watched Prince videos (concerts, Purple Rain, etc) day and night and I always thought it was a bit bizarre but I will be her one day with my BTS videos.

3. So air force guy moved two weeks ago and I have been filling in here and there at work, picking up shifts when regulars go on vacation or call out. I had a VERY stressful lady last week. I had a quiet guy yesterday. I am supposed to start a regular next Wednesday. I still have jazz man and my Indian lady as regulars.

4. Minor is doing track and chorus. Minisculus is doing soccer and gaming.

5. I am reading The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher. I am listening to Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals read by the author Oliver Burkeman. Stil trying to get through the contemporary black poetry anthology This is Honey.

6. I watched The Glass Onion (Knives Out) and loved it. This is my kind of film. I really loved Brick, too, back in the day.

Here is a fan cam of the Spotify event:

Watch on YouTube

5. No weight loss. Sigh.

stonepicnicking_okapi

Wednesday's word is a day late...

...theremin.

a purely melodic electronic musical instrument typically played by moving the hands in the electromagnetic fields surrounding two projecting antennae.

Watch on YouTube

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I read this in The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher which is this months's book over at the DW bookclub_dw:

...All that buildup and it didn't even make a noise. I don't know what noise I wanted it to make. Glorp or some kinda theremin shit.

badly_knitted

Title: For All Time
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Gwenith.
Rating: PG
Setting: An Act of Love.
Summary: They only had one night together, but Varian will never forget his wife.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 149: One Night Only.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( For All Time... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Home No More
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 869
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: This isn’t the Cardiff Ianto once knew. Too much has changed.
Written For: The prompt ‘any, any, a visitor in someplace that used to be home’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Home No More... )

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stonepicnicking_okapi

The Black Girl Comes To Dinner by Taylor Byas

We drive into the belly of Alabama,
where God tweezed the highway’s two lanes
down to one, where my stomach
bottoms out on each brakeless fall.

Where God tweezed the highway’s two lanes
with heat, a mirage of water shimmers into view then
bottoms out. On each brakeless fall,
I almost tell you what I’m thinking, my mouth brimming

with heat. A mirage of water shimmers into view then
disappears beneath your tires.
I almost tell you what I’m thinking, my mouth brimming
with blues. Muddy Waters’ croon

disappears beneath your tires.
I want to say I’m nervous beneath a sky brilliant
with blues. Muddy Waters’ croon,
the only loving I’m willing to feel right now, the only loving

I want. To say I’m nervous beneath a sky brilliant
enough to keep me safe means to face what night brings.
The only loving I’m willing to feel right now, the only loving
that will calm me—I need you to tell me I am

enough. To keep me safe means to face what night brings
to the black girl in a sundown town—
that will calm me. I need you to tell me I am
safe. That they will love me, that the night will not gift fire

to the black girl in a sundown town.
Your grandmother folds me into her arms and I try to feel
safe. That they will love me, that the night will not gift fire
are mantras to repeat as

your grandmother folds me into her arms. And I try to feel
grateful. But get home before it’s too late and watch out for the flags
are mantras to repeat as
we drive into the belly of Alabama.

badly_knitted

Title: Fallen In Battle
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Xander, Everyone.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 494: Rest at

drabble_zone.
Setting: Season 2.
Summary: Everyone gathers to say goodbye to their friend.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Never expected to find myself writing this. RIP, Nicholas Brendan.

( Fallen In Battle... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Seriously Uncomfortable
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Ryo feels weirdly uncomfortable.
Written Using: The prompt ‘Feeling’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Seriously Uncomfortable... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Rescue Services
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, OCs.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 910: Crash, at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack and Ianto’s TARDIS picks up a distress call.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Through Time and Space ‘Verse.

( Rescue Services... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Gold Star
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Bikky, Ryo.
Rating: G
Setting: Early in the manga.
Summary: Bikky has exciting news for his foster father.
Written For: Challenge 505: Star at

fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Gold Star... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Deep Thoughts
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: The Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 1011: ‘Tidal’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Doctor muses on his place in the universe.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Deep Thoughts... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Sleeping Arrangements
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Owen, Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 910: Crash, at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Owen is too tired to go home.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Sleeping Arrangements... )

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althea_valara

Saw this on

dw_community_promo and thought it was a really great idea for a community, so I'm boosting it.

From the post about it:

latam is a new community for people to come together to talk about latinamerican music, films, food, culture, fandom, and more!

Everyone's welcome, no matter where you're posting from! And you can also post in your language (official languages of the community are Spanish, Portuguese and English!)

I'm not very conversant on that culture myself so I'm not joining the comm (yet), but I fully support the idea of it and would be happy to hear it's an active community.

I've already added it to my list of interesting DW communities so next time I post the list, it'll be there.

Also, since I'm posting: I'm always on the lookout for good communities to promote! If you know of one that's not on my list, let me know and I'll add it.