Books

Sep. 20th, 2025 07:28 pm
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Author outfits old pickup truck to be traveling banned bookstore: 'A rolling rebellion in the Deep South'

The work she’s doing now? Converting a rusty 1940 Ford pickup truck into a traveling banned bookstore. She calls it “The Banned Wagon.”

“I was originally thinking of opening a regular bookstore, but after the fight over banning books in Fairhope, I was inspired to go this route instead,” Fugett shared with the Alabama Political Reporter.

Her goal with The Banned Wagon is to put banned and challenged books “back into the hands of the people who need them the most.” That includes LGBTQ+ youth, and other marginalized communities. But Fugett also knows that everyone needs access to books that challenge their worldview.



This is a replicable tactic for dealing with censorship.

Another option is to stash diverse titles in Little Free Libraries, in BookCrossing, in any swap shelf you see, and so on. Poke a bigot in the eye, share banned books!  Here are some ideas.

Challenge 492: Wrench

Sep. 21st, 2025 11:48 am
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Our new challenge is:

WRENCH



As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Wednesday, 1st October. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

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[admin post] Admin Post: Admin: Challenge closed

Sep. 21st, 2025 11:42 am

Daily Check In.

Sep. 20th, 2025 06:15 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #33641 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 12

How are you doing?

I am okay
8 (66.7%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
4 (33.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
4 (33.3%)

One other person
6 (50.0%)

More than one other person
2 (16.7%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Saturday 20 September 2025

Sep. 20th, 2025 05:47 pm
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Do you have a Doctor Who community or a journal that we are not currently linking to? Leave a note in the comments and we'll add you to the watchlist ([personal profile] doctor_watch).

Editor's note: Because of the high posting volume and the quantity of information linked in each newsletter, [community profile] doctor_who_sonic will no longer link fanfiction that does not have a header. For an example of what a "good" fanfic header is, see the user info. Spoiler warnings are also greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Off-DW News
Blogtor Who's Friday Video of the Day is a clip from The Unquiet Dead
Blogtor Who reviews the Target novelisation of Lux
Blogtor Who's Saturday Video of the Day is a Big Finish interview with Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill

(News from [syndicated profile] doctorwhonews_feed and [syndicated profile] blogtorwho_feed, among others.)

Fanfiction
Completed
Chance Meeting by [personal profile] badly_knitted [Fourteen, Martha, Donna, Rose Noble | G]
Eyesore by [personal profile] badly_knitted [Eight, OC | G]

Recommendations
[personal profile] paranoidangel recommends the fic Bridesmaid with Benefits by [archiveofourown.org profile] natequarter [Sarah Jane/Harry, Jamie | Teen]

If you were not linked, and would like to be, contact us in the comments with further information and your link.
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Fandom: Soapuppies
Rating: G
Notes: text added with imgflip. i added the trans flag background just because i was scared imgflip would make it nontransparent
Summary: rock eater

the silly :3 )
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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Zingchen; Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3,632 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, determinedly Taiwanese cuisine, Food Porn because the author inexplicably omitted that tag, racist microaggression (a character recounts getting renamed by his exchange host family.)
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, First Meetings, Taiwan, Street food, chinese diaspora feelings and food as love language, SongXiao Feast
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] Irrelevancy; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] touchmycoat
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Fluff, Identity, Modern AU, Slice of Life

Summary: Flirting and cultural reclamation via Taiwanese street food. Songxiao modern meet-cute.

Author’s Notes:
For the #songxiaofeast on twitter, thanks for organizing the event~!!!! There's so much great art in the hashtag *~* love me some food love....

Chinese glossary at end lolol, and is this all a shameless marketing ploy for Taiwan night markets? yes.

…The menu (a twitter thread w pictures)
(Unfortunately no longer accessible—FMO.)

大腸包小腸 (dà cháng bāo xiǎo cháng): "little sausage wrapped around a big sausage" lol
蚵仔煎 (ó-à-tsiān): oyster pancake. I'm using the Taiwanese romanization here because it better captures that Hokkien pronunciation. Ningxia Night Market seriously has the best ones.
臭豆腐 (chò dò fǔ): stinky tofu!! I think it smells delicious; don't be like SL eat it normally without that crazy amount of sauce nkfsjdfds
肉圓麵線 (bà wán miàn xiàn): meatball & rice noodles. Two separate things but they're typically sold together. Meatball is always pronounced in Hokkien and sometimes rice noodle is too (mǐ suǎ)
豆花 (dòu huā): tofu pudding. It's not too sweet and it's sooooo refreshing to have on a hot taiwan evening with ice!
雞蛋糕 (jī dàn gāo): egg cake! They're seriously very good but a hit-or-miss from street vendors lmfao.

Drop a comment~! Happy feastings!!!!!!!


Reccer’s Notes: Taiwanese bartender Song Zichen, taking both pity on and a fancy to diasporic American tourist Xiao Xingchen, proceeds to initiate him into the ways of local street food (as both a welcome into his heritage and a courtship overture.) This fic, stuffed with delicious Unresolved Sexual Tension, serves as a reminder that the Sinosphere is a very big and diverse place, and brought an outpouring of nostalgic yearning for the Taste Of Home from diasporic commenters.

(And Ningxia Night Market needs to hire Irrelevancy as a publicist, dammit; I was fervently wishing my neighborhood had something like that up the alley!)

Fanwork links: Comfort Food / 有可能的夜晚 (AO3-locked.)

Birdfeeding

Sep. 20th, 2025 02:43 pm
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Today is partly cloudy and mild.  It rained a little yesterday, enough to leave small puddles in the road, but the ground is still bone-dry here.  Further predictions for rain continue to fluctuate wildly, but hopefully we'll get some more eventually.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 9/20/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 9/20/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 9/20/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 9/20/25 -- I watered the old picnic table, patio plants, irises, and a few others around the house yard.

EDIT 9/20/25 -- I watered the new picnic table, septic garden, telephone pole garden, and a few savanna seedlings.

EDIT 9/20/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

Cicadas and crickets are singing.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.
 

White Collar : fanfic : Morning

Sep. 20th, 2025 02:35 pm
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Title: Morning
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Content notes: none apply
Summary: Mozzie needs help solving something... Neal isn't interested

Morning )
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Theme Prompt: #274 – Near-Death Experience
Title: An Awful Introduction
Fandom: Star Wars Rogue One
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 586
Summary: Stordan thinks dying should be less of a surprise.

An Awful Introduction )
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Title: Incredibly Annoying
Fandom: DC Comics
Pairing/Characters: Stephanie, Jon, Damian, Jason
Author: [personal profile] rivulet027
Challenge: Riddle
Rating: PG-13
Length: 414
Summary: Stephanie wakes up to a riddle.

Incredibly Annoying )
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Marvel Stars Stand for Jimmy Kimmel: Pedro Pascal Defends Free Speech While Others Endorse Boycott

Pascal’s post came on the heels of other Marvel stars taking their support a step further by endorsing a boycott of the studio and its subsidiaries, including platforms that stream their work. Marisa Tomei, who played Aunt May opposite Tom Holland in the Spider-Man franchise (a Marvel property distributed by Sony, though she appears in Disney releases from the Avengers universe), reposted a call to “unsubscribe and boycott” platforms under the Walt Disney Company umbrella, including Marvel, ABC, ESPN, Fox Entertainment, Hulu, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Bamtech Media.

Tatiana Maslany, who starred in the title role of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, a Marvel series that debuted on Disney+, posted a behind-the-scenes photo of herself on set, urging her Instagram followers to “cancel your Disney+, Hulu, ESPN subscriptions!” Mark Ruffalo, who played the Hulk on the big screen, participated in a No Kings online event during which he weighed in. “My industry doesn’t really understand what’s happening right now, but what they do understand is our freedom of speech is being attacked.”


psa if you're going to delete your Disney+ account, cancel first. Deleting it doesn't cancel your subscription *shrug emoji*

[#274] Too Much Blood (Torchwood)

Sep. 20th, 2025 12:59 pm
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Theme Prompt: #274 – Near-Death Experience
Title: Too Much Blood
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 / A lot of blood.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Ianto gets badly injured while hunting down a dangerous alien. Will he survive?




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Today was a LOW-shopping day. *g* I hit the Pharmacy while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. I filled my gas tank and dropped a book off at the library on the way to mom’s.

I did a load of laundry (washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, paid some bills online, and showered. *whispers* I picked up more bbq chicken quarters for supper. Sunnycrest was having a Harvest Fest, and bbq chicken and pulled pork was part of that. The dinners were disappointing, but a night of not having to cook supper is still a win for me!

I read more fanfic and watched some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 60.6(F) and reached 72.1. I had no idea it was going to be so warm in the morning! We were actually warm sleeping overnight because we’d planned for another 45 degree night.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing well today, which was a surprise after yesterday’s exhausting afternoon. more back here )

Dulverton

Sep. 20th, 2025 11:56 am
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We're just back from a couple of days break in Dulverton, which is a village on Exmoor.

Dulverton )
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Catégorie : Les songes maudits de Carmilla (Vampire - Manoir - Nuit - Surnaturel - Gothique - Horreur - Nouvelle)



Un manga des années 80. Vladimir, le personnage point de vue, revient à Chicago après un voyage à travers le monde. Là il retrouve son ami Hugh, qui a toujours été étrange, et est encore plus obsédé qu'avant par son rêve récurrent, où il rencontre une petite fille dans un manoir.

Une partie du livre est un groupe d'américains universitaires et riches qui parlent de plein de choses, de l'évolution, de pouvoirs psy, du Japon, de ce qu'est un paus d'origine, de l'environnement, parfois c'est en rapport avec le scénario, parfois juste de la caractérisation ou les préoccupations de l'auteur, et ils sont tellement brillants ! et tellement snob ! j'adore ces conversations, elles sonnent très vrai.

Une autre est Hugh qui cherche désespérément l'origine de ce manoir, et des preuves de son existence dans le vrai monde, et Vladimir, qui a probablement un crush sur lui même si ce n'est pas central, qui l'accompagne à défuat de pouvoir l'arrêter et se retrouve happé dans cette histoire aussi.

C'était très intéressant, mais c'est le genre d'histoire où la fin n'est pas là pour expliquer, elle est là pour qu'on décide soi-même de quelle façon on veut recoller tous les morceaux, incluant les conversations dont j'ai parlé, cela demande une certaine quantité d'analyse, que je ne suis pas sûre de vouloir fournir, plus créée pour les gens aussi obsédés par ce manga que Hugh par sa maison de rêve.

Mais voilà, "intéressant" est la conclusion que je donnerais, cela ne ressemble à rien d'autre.

Philosophical Questions: Society

Sep. 20th, 2025 12:30 am
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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Has social media been a net positive or a net negative for our society? Why?

Read more... )

Torchwood: Fanfic: Target practice

Sep. 20th, 2025 03:27 pm
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Title: Target practice
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Owen, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: M
Length: 1,809 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 491 - Riddle
Summary: Ianto and Owen get caught in the crossfire whilst investigating.

Read more... )

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