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Title: Charming Reindeer
Fandom: Viola come il mare
Author:

veronyxk84
Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post-S2. Alternate reality.
Summary: Amid the Christmas party chaos, Viola coaxes Francesco into loosening up.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #526 Festive

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( READ: Charming Reindeer/Double drabble )

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andersenmom

I started writing Hyun of Xlov in June.

And I JUST realized I've been spelling his name wrong. When I didn't get it wrong completely. In other words, it's Jinhyung, not Junhyung or Hyungjun. Like. Ugh.

Can I go die now?

Current Mood: embarrassed
Current Music: I'mma Be - Xlov

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 9/9/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

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Current Mood: busy

andersenmom

Title: Not-a-Rescue
Fandom: &Team, Xlov
Pairing/Characters: Hirota Riki | Maki / Kim Jinhyung | Hyun
Content Notes: None
Prompt: 9 September, defeat

( Hyun didn't actually need to be rescued. )

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The dryer

mllesatine

I'm trying to get through the first episode of "Gone", a 2026 crime drama from ITV. Arthur Hughes is in it and I really like him but the going is fucking tough.

Bizzare characterisation and odd direction in the first ten minutes. "The headmaster becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife" is the premise so we see him silencing his rugby team after a win, another woman asks him if it's okay if she walks the dog now that he is home (is that his neighbour?) and then his daughter immediately turns to him when her mother isn't in the house. "Where is she, Dad?" she asks seriously but without any sense of urgency. Wow, everybody is walking on eggshells around this guy. I wonder if this means he is guilty...

Annie, the detective assigned to the case, is trying to reconcile her relationship to her partner (husband?) at a restaurant. They are being interrupted by a waiter coming and topping up their wine glasses from a giant decanter. Isn't wine traditionally bought by the glass or bottle? It's enough to completely distract me from the scene. No idea who that guy was and why they can't be together.

One of my pet peeves when watching TV is when a person arrives somewhere with a car and just happenes to find a parking spot directly in front of the building they want to go into. In "Gone" they forgot that people will probably park close to the rugby pitch their kids are playing on. There is a ten second aerial shot of the school, the grounds and the rugby pitch but no fucking cars anywhere near. I guess they all walked.

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE.

The daughter points out that her mom's reading glasses are left in the house so "she can't have gone very far". Because you need reading glasses to walk? And you can't possible leave them at home because what if you have to read some fine print on your way to work.

What kind of alien worked as a script supervisor on this show?

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In other news: Lanterns (HBO) is really good.

m_findlow posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Surprising gift
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,100 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 526 - Festive
Summary: An early Christmas gift isn’t as exciting as Jack had hoped.

( Read more... )

flo_nelja

Catégorie : Les manches vertes de Dullahan (Chevaleresque - Quête initiatique - Défi - Voyage - Épée - Honneur - Vertu - Désir - Tentation - Manipulation - Temps - Classique)

Cela se passe en Suède dans la diaspora russe. La grand-mère de Jennie vient de mourir. C'était Vassilissa, une sorcière. Jennie hérite d'os volés à un monstre mythique, que beaucoup de créatures veulent, et entame un voyage pour comprendre ce que les os signifient, et les rapporter, ou pas. Elle sera accaompagnée par son chat, qui est plus que ce qu'il semble, par par son grand-père, un ancien domovoi presque entièrement devenu humain.

Le résumé m'avait beaucoup tentée, mais la personne qui me l'a offert voulait s'en débarrasser et me disais que ce n'était pas si bien. Malheureusement, elle avait raison, et je suis déçue. Il y a de la recherche sur les créatures et la façon dont elles s'intègrent dans le 20e siècle, mais pas vraiment de magie, pas vraiment d'humour, pas vraiment de considérations sur vivre dans un pays d'une autre culture, les personnages restent au niveau d'épaisseur d'un conte de fées... en général, des choses arrivent, certainement, et des dangers mortels sont évités de justesse,mais je n'ai pas eu l'impression que ça dégageait des thèmes, qu'il y avait quelque chose à retenir. Les petites révélations de la fin sur le monstre sont sympa, mais j'en espérais plus, là aussi.

Il n'y a rien qui m'a choquée, pas de trous de scénario ou de morale douteuse, mais ça ne suffit pas.

Le préfacier est extrêmenent lyrique sur sa façon de choisir les angles des dessins et de découver les cases, et malheureusement, ce n'est pas un point qui suffit à me faire apprécier une bande dessinée.

highlander_ii posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Almost Halloween
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of purple and black Halloween decorations

( Almost Halloween )

ysabetwordsmith

Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?

Current Mood: busy

starwatcher posting in

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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 Tuesday, September 08, to midnight on Wednesday, September 09. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #35028 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 19

How are you doing?

I am OK.
12 (63.2%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
7 (36.8%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
8 (42.1%)

One other person.
7 (36.8%)

More than one other person.
4 (21.1%)

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.

darkjediqueen posting in

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Title: Big First Step For Himself
Fandom(s): Heated Rivalry (TLG)
Relationships: Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander
Tags: Breaking Up, Divorce, Not a Happy Ending, Shane Chooses Himself
Rating: R
Warnings: Off-Screen Domestic Violence
Summary: The end started at Christmas, and it just keeps going.
Word Count: 12,679
Author Notes: Written for the Fan Flashwork Challenge 526: Festive.

( Big First Step For Himself )

ysabetwordsmith

Today I'm making pork chops and a chop salad.

Pork chop marinade includes roughly:
1 tablespoon full-flavor olive oil
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
dash of Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon Grovestone Little Italy Pizza Seasoning

For the chop salad I have lots of little tomatoes from the garden, plus two tiny cucumbers, so this will be more tomato than cucumber. Consequently I want to use basil as the green leaf this time.

Current Mood: busy

beck_liz posting in

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andersenmom

Title: Merman
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Word count: 603
Prompt: 085: Chestnut
Fandom/Ship: Oneus, Xlov; Yeo Hwanwoong, Kim Jinhyung | Hyun
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary: Hwanwoong didn’t expect to get yanked back underwater.

( Hwanwoong knew there were things he didn't know about under the water. )

Find the table with the list of fics here

Current Mood: blah

andersenmom

Title: Post Party
Fandom: P1Harmony, Xdinary Heroes
Pairing/Characters: Yoon Keeho, Kwak Jiseok | Gaon
Content Notes: None
Prompt: 8 September, cleaning up after the lunar eclipse watching party

( Jiseok wasn't that sleepy. Maybe. )

Current Mood: blah

andersenmom

I have so many books to read right now. So, like, I have a list (which is a compilation of lists from Pinterest) of books on various nonfiction topics. I have a book group book to read by the end of September. I'm reading up on how to lift weights because I don't know and I want to learn. Then there are the books not on the list that I have and want to read, and....

I have a lot of books to read. And I am reading NONE of them. because it's too hard to pick up a book when I can pick up my phone and scroll mindlessly. I have downloaded Opal, on behest of my daughter, and that has helped. But I still. Don't pick up the books. It is so frustrating!

What's even more frustrating is that I have this great outline on how to write a review of a book, and I haven't even done that. Like. Come on, Jill. You can do this, you know.

I can. I just... don't.

Also, I'm so sorry for all the fics all of a sudden! I have three challenges going, and some of them overlap, and so... they're all getting posted like right now.

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: blessed silence

ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 9/8/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 9/8/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 9/8/26 -- I watered the new picnic table garden. I picked 4 yellow pear tomatoes, 3 red cherry tomatoes, and 2 tiny cucumbers.

EDIT 9/8/26 -- I watered the patio plants, purple-and-white garden, house yard, and old picnic table garden.

I've seen a female cardinal at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 9/8/26 -- I watered the telephone pole garden.

EDIT 9/8/26 -- I gathered seeds from the yellow branching sunflower that healed from a near-total break of the main stem. Strong healing ability is good to having in sunflowers because of herbivores. Also a friend said that some seeds I gave him had been tip-nibbled by rabbits, but then produced large single blooms (which single sunflowers cannot normally do). If I can get the healing factor to set, I can do a separate 'Apollo' landrace. :D

EDIT 9/8/26 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and the new picnic table again.

I did a bit of work around the patio.

Cicadas and crickets are singing.

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

Current Mood: busy

badly_knitted posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Celebrating Ianto
Fandom: Torchwood
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Owen, Tosh, Gwen, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 931
Summary: It’s a bit late, but Jack is sure Ianto will enjoy his surprise party anyway.
Spoilers: Nada
Warnings: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 526: Festive at fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.

( Celebrating Ianto... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

flo_nelja

Catégorie : Le courage en paroles n’aura pas raison de ce démon (Dark fantasy - Ténèbres - Mort-vivant - Nécromancie - Chaudron - Anti-héros - Epouvante - Combat - Dragon - Créature)

Un dragon qui attend sous les eaux depuis des années la fiancée qui lui a été promise découvre à la place un garçon amnésique.

C'est principalement de la romance fluff (entièrement inter-espèces - le dragon n'a pas de forme humaine - et pas sexualisée du tout), avec un côté mystère sur quel est le passé du graçon, et s'il ne se rappelle pas, a-t-il sauté à l'eau exprès, ou a-t-il été jeté en sacrifice ?

Ca m'avait été vendu comme très mignon et un peu drôle, et comme un manga de romance homosexuelle pour la jeunesse et qui n'utilise pas du tout les codes du yaoi. C'est tout ça, et j'ai trouvé ça sympa ! Mais avec cette pub je m'attendais à plus.

La romance est trop douce pour moi, comparée à la tristesse des passés des personnages, mais je trouve que ça ne vend pas tellement le message "le futur peut être magnifique même quand le passé est horrible", que ça fait plus artificiel que ça, qu'on a l'impression d'avoir un présent conte de fées et un passé backstory horrible standard. Je ne dis pas que je m'attendais à tout, mais je n'ai pas non plus eu de surprise ou de révélation, et je sais bien que c'est un one-shot donc c'est difficile de les développer, mais les personnages ne m'ont jamais donné d'impression "oh je l'aime" ou "oh ça sonne juste", à part peut-être un personnage féminin secondaire.

Je regrette de ne pas avoir aimé plus. Il devrait y avoir plus de romance avec des dragons qui n'ont pas besoin de forme humaine pour être beaux/mignons.

ysabetwordsmith

The Shape-Sorter Test for Housing Rules

A simple way for cities to see whether duplexes, fourplexes, and sixplexes actually fit through the regulations.

We have setbacks, height limits, parking requirements, lot coverage rules, access standards, tree requirements, building projections and dozens of other rules governing what can be built on an ordinary residential lot. Most of these rules have a reason for being there. Someone, at some point, was trying to solve a problem.

The question is what happens when you put them all together. Can a good duplex still fit? Can a good fourplex? Can a sixplex? And can they fit without chopping off the porch, pulling back the awning, moving the building into a tree, pushing the parking to the front, or otherwise redesigning a perfectly good building simply to satisfy local rules?

It's a good idea to have building codes that make sense and allow people to build on the kind of lots you have. By all means work on that; it will save a lot of headaches.

However, that's not actually the only way to solve this problem. A different approach is for your city to buy and pre-approve modular plans. The porch isn't welded in place. It doesn't fit on the front? Slap it on the back or either side. You want a sunroom? That can go wherever is facing south. You need a bay window but something is in the way? Slide it along the sides until it fits. Need a new bedroom later? There are additions to account for that. This site has examples of house plans designed for that kind of versatility.

Current Mood: busy

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Gone (2026)

Torchwood: Fanfic: Surprising gift

Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Domovoi (Peter Bergting)

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Tuesday, 8th September 2026

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