thisbluespirit | Reading

sovay just posted this delightful meme, so I had to snag it.

1. Lust, books I want to read for their cover.

I just put a book on hold for this very reason: Sophia Gonzalez’s Nobody in Particular. Isn’t that a gorgeous cover? A bit suspicious of modern YA on principle, but I figured I owed it to the cover designer to at least give the book a try.

2. Pride, challenging books I've finished.

Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna, in the original Russian, which I read for a class in my senior year of college. I got caught up in the story and spent an afternoon curled up before the fire, plowing through the remaining chapters. This apparently unlocked the next level of my Russian ability, because the next time I had to read aloud in class, I read so well that my professor asked me to read the next paragraph too, I think just to make sure that it wasn’t a fluke.

3. Gluttony, books I've read more than once.

Many! I’m an inveterate re-reader. Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books (as a child I always called them the “Laura and Mary” books, and have never quite accepted that the general name for the series is Little House), Charlotte Bronte’s Villette, Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s The Changeling and The Headless Cupid and The Egypt Game, and so forth and so on… why buy books if not to reread? If I just want to read a book one time, that’s what the library is for.

4. Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest.

Jennifer Crusie’s Bet Me is probably the one that’s been there longest, but honorable mentions to Elizabeth Kostova’s The Swan Thieves and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. There are just too many books! I can’t get to them all!

5. Greed, books I own multiple editions of.

I don’t think I actually own multiple editions of any books right now. I DID have two editions of Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s The Changeling at one time, because I found a signed copy (!) at Goodwill, but then I lent my unsigned copy out to someone who never gave it back (and can you blame them?) so I’m down to one again.

6. Wrath, books I despised.

Well, I did just finish a four-post series ripping The Amber Spyglass to shreds…

7. Envy, books I want to live in.

At this particular moment in world history, an awful lot of books look like a better place to live than reality. Anne of Green Gables and The Secret Garden are perennial choices, of course. (A Little Princess is dearer to my heart than The Secret Garden, but I wouldn’t want to live at Miss Minchin’s!) Betsy-Tacy’s Deep Valley. As a child I would have loved to live in any one of a number of fantasy novels, but as an adult I prefer to visit at a literary remove on account of the high degree of Mortal Peril.

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Title: One Final Night
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Scott, Fred, Jonathan, Liana, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: Months after the series.
Summary: The small band of travellers have finally reached their destination.
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 80: Shinies - Waiting for the Gates to Open.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.

( One Final Night... )

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Current Location: my desk

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Title: Bingo and a kitten dragon
Fandom: Bluey (TV), Original
Rating: G-rated
Notes: Two drawings I made following Youtube step-by-step art videos for kids: how to draw Bingo (from Bluey) and how to draw a mythical kitten dragon. (With minor futzing in Paint.NET after I uploaded them.)
Summary: Bingo and a kitten dragon.

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I tried Googling and got general info on curriculum, specific schools, and alumnae pages, but not the specific details I'm looking for.

My main character is an upper class 13-year-old boy who, due to long-term illness/frailty was educated by tutors at home, but is now being sent away to school. (Probably England, but since he lives in Yorkshire, I'm not completely opposed to it being Scotland if it turns out that there are significant differences in school experiences between the two countries and Scotland would work better for my character.)

1. Would most pupils begin classes in the fall term as is typical today? As in, would it be realistic for him to begin in September? Or was it more of a rolling admissions thing?

2. How far in advance would his father need to contact the school to enrol/register him? Would there normally be an entrance exam, or would it normally be, 'We accept anyone who can pay the fee, provided there's space'?

3. When it comes to letters to and from home, would there be any reasonable expectation of privacy, or would it be common for staff to read each piece of correspondence? Specifically, the boy has a female cousin of the same age with whom he's quite close. Would he get into any sort of trouble for writing to her or would her letters to him be delivered?

4. If she were in the vicinity of the school, would it be possible for them to meet under the auspices of a chaperone, or would that be totally unheard of?

5. How much would the outbreak of WWI impact him? I would guess that some of the younger teachers would have enlisted over the summer and some of the older boys talking about hoping it won't be over before they get a chance to get in it. Would that mean larger than expected classes?

Thanks so much!

sovay

As part of my birthday month,

spatch just presented me with a little black cat bag containing the Criterion flash sale fruits of Orson Welles' The Immortal Story (1968), which I had loved at the start of this month.

I just want an extra week in the month to do nothing but sleep instead of talking to doctors and bureaucracies. I can't believe we are almost out of October. It should be an inexhaustible resource.

Current Music: Lord Huron, "Watch Me Go"

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Music Meme FTW

I have an unfinished meme exercise sometime in the past, possibly about four years ago. But I'm not going to go back to that one, why do that when I can try another one and only get halfway through it? This one's about music, and that feels like one I actually might get through. It's worth a try at least. Many thanks to

shipperslist for the list of music-related questions. Let's see how this turns out.

1. A song that you discovered this month: Since I already talked about RM's "Tokyo" a few days ago, I'm going give you a solo piece by Yeosang, a member of the eight-man KPop group Ateez. He's one of the members who I've discovered well after becoming fond of some of his group mates. He's a lead dancer, what's known as a sub-vocalist - he has a nice deep voice - and a "visual," which is a thing I understand, but which isn't one of my favorite bits of KPop culture. (Yes I enjoy them being pretty, but I don't like the idea of "pretty face" being an official position especially since the members of any idol group have to be good at everything. Everything.)

This song is full of near-operatic symphonic swagger. I'd like it even if it was all in Korean because of how it's put together, and how well Yeosang and his dance crew use it in this music video. The English subtitles give me a little more of a hint about what the song means to him, and that's another reason I like it.

Watch on YouTube

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Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez "Wake Up"

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Posted by jessm78

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73233716

by jessm78

The TARDIS lands in a modern city, carrying one bumbling Time Lord, a petite astrophysicist, and a Scotsman with a bad tooth. A harrowing experience results in some unintended (or not…?) consequences. Set right before The Dominators.

Words: 4707, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, Gen
Characters: Second Doctor (Doctor Who), Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Relationships: Zoe Heriot & Jamie McCrimmon
Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Humor, Developing Friendships, Male-Female Friendship

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73233716

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This post is a round-up of remaining pinch hits from those posted earlier. These pinch hits are due at the main assignment deadline of Wednesday 17 December at 9pm UTC.

Comments are turned off for this community. To claim a pinch hit, please email the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com and:

Include the pinch hit number in the subject line
Include the recipient’s AO3 name in the subject line
Include your AO3 username in the body of the email

For example, if your AO3 username is yuletidehippo and you want to claim Pinch Hit #42 for AwsomRecip, you might email us with the subject line “PH 42 for AwsomRecip” and “I’m yuletidehippo on AO3” in the body of the email. As was the case previously, if you don’t receive a reply you did not get the pinch hit.

Thanks to everyone who has claimed pinch hits so far!

CLAIMED - PH #1: The Children Act - Ian McEwan, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong, Wraeththu - Storm Constantine

Request 1 by 5_Paragraph_Essay
The Children Act - Ian McEwan
Characters: Fiona Maye (Children Act), Adam Henry (Children Act)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Aww, Adam loves Fiona so much! I adore the tenderness of their age-gap relationship as well as its inherent eroticism. Go there, PLEASE! Dive deeper into their feelings for one another, perhaps focus on Adam’s elaborate sexual fantasies of Fiona (he’s a teenage boy; even though he’s ill he must have them) and/or Fiona daring to imagine what it would be like with a much younger man. Alternatively, make them earn that happily-ever-after for real.

No letter

Request 2 by 5_Paragraph_Essay
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Characters: Trevor (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong), Little Dog (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

This book and its elegiac prose moved me so much. I just want more of this tender first-love relationship! Outtakes from the farm, the barn, whatever. Even its bad ending, if you want to go there. I’m fine with treatment of drug addiction or excrement during anal sex, assuming that any of these more outré canon elements move you.

No letter

Request 3 by 5_Paragraph_Essay
Wraeththu - Storm Constantine
Characters: Abrimel (Wraeththu), Ponclast (Wraeththu)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Ponclast has one of the biggest character arcs of anyone in this mythos, from early Uigenna, to militaristic overlord for the Varr, to black widow mother of monsters, to … a kind of redemption on another planet/dimension? And I love how Abrimel intervenes in Ponclast’s journey, first to be manipulated for strategic gain, later love and be loved in return. I’d love more of their darkly tender relationship, perhaps more about their reunion, after the author leaves them to get on.

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CLAIMED - PH #13: ジュエルペットハッピネス | Jewelpet Happiness (Anime), うらら迷路帖 | Urara Meirochou (Anime), アイカツ! アイドルカツドウ! | Aikatsu!

This pinch hit has been claimed, but you're welcome to write a treat!

Request 1 by Fircoal
ジュエルペットハッピネス | Jewelpet Happiness (Anime)
Characters: Sapphie (JewelPet), Lapis (JewelPet), Sango (Jewelpet)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

Prefer to see Sapphie and Lapis together, but in general I'm fine with stuff focusing on any of them I love them all. Would like them to be in character. Reading the few fics of them (mostly ones I wrote) might give an idea of what they're like. x3 I like fluff and silly stuff!
DNW: Gore, Character Death, Anything dark or too painful. Bits of angst is fine but not too much.

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Request 2 by Fircoal
うらら迷路帖 | Urara Meirochou (Anime)
Characters: Chiya (Urara Meirochou), Tatsumi Kon
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Would like to see the two of them together and focusing on their bond. Prefer fluffy and silly stuff!
DNW: Gore, Character Death, Anything dark or too painful. Bits of angst is fine but not too much.

No letter

Request 3 by Fircoal
アイカツ! アイドルカツドウ! | Aikatsu!
Characters: Saotome Ako, Hanazono Kirara
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Would like to see the two of them together and focusing on their bond. Prefer fluffy and silly stuff!
DNW: Gore, Character Death, Anything dark or too painful. Bits of angst is fine but not too much.

No letter

CLAIMED - PH #22: Psychic Force, ジャイアント・ロボ - 地球が静止する日 | Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Anime), Phantom Brave, Fatal Fury

Request 1 by MarsDragon
Psychic Force
Characters: Burn Griffith, Richard Wong, Keith Evans, Regina Belfrond
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I've asked for this all before. Here's a link to previous letters: https://marsdragon.dreamwidth.org/ and to previous requests: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/everything/username/MarsDragon

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Request 2 by MarsDragon
ジャイアント・ロボ - 地球が静止する日 | Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Anime)
Characters: Alberto (Giant Robo), Cervantes (Giant Robo), Genya (Giant Robo), Worldbuilding (Giant Robo)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I've asked for this all before. Here's a link to previous letters: https://marsdragon.dreamwidth.org/ and to previous requests: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/everything/username/MarsDragon

No letter

Request 3 by MarsDragon
Phantom Brave
Characters: Ash (Phantom Brave), Marona (Phantom Brave), Walnut (Phantom Brave), Worldbuilding (Phantom Brave)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I've asked for this all before. Here's a link to previous letters: https://marsdragon.dreamwidth.org/ and to previous requests: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/everything/username/MarsDragon
I haven't played The Lost Hero yet, do with that information what you will.

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Request 4 by MarsDragon
Fatal Fury
Characters: Terry Bogard, Billy Kane, Kain R. Heinlein (Fatal Fury), Rock Howard (Fatal Fury)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I've asked for this all before. Here's a link to previous letters: https://marsdragon.dreamwidth.org/ and to previous requests: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/everything/username/MarsDragon

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Canon promos/links: Psychic force: a post on DW, a post on LJ

CLAIMED - PH #38: The Philosophers Series - Tom Miller, Bluestone 42 (TV), The Snopes Trilogy - William Faulkner

Request 1 by Zabbers
The Philosophers Series - Tom Miller
Characters: Sarah E. Stewart (Philosophers Series), Janet Brock (Philosophers Series), Hortense "Teeny" Millen (Philosophers Series), Worldbuilding (Philosophers Series)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

There's so much fun worldbuilding in these books and many specific possibilities for more worldbuilding, with hints of other spheres of expertise and future and past developments not fully described. There's something about systematized, empirical magic-making that's so satisfying; I enjoy the organized, institutional, even hierarchical touches in this universe. I liked the in-universe quotes from books, and reading about how specific sigils are done and were standardized, and learning about how women discovered and developed magic first as a folk practice and then brought it into the public sphere, and how it complements (and to a light extent even how it clashes with) parallel technological and cultural developments over its history. (The worldbuilding aspect I'm not as interested in is the political, whether that's Washington politics, Trenchers, or coups.)
Some things I'd like to see explored: how hovering develops in the future of the books side by side with conventional aviation (especially post-WWII); traditions and history of the United States Sigilry Corps; the immediately post-canon, pre-WWII lives of the characters nominated; Empirical Philosophy academia and texts and home instruction; County Philosophers and other jobs for sigilrists; Eupheus-powered travel; the General's Cup endurance flight; fiction about sigilry; camaraderie, sisterhood, and love (whether romantic or platonic) between empirical philosophers.
Other characters beyond my request who I also like are Robert Weekes, Gloxinia 'Jake' Jacobi, Edith Rubinski, Missy Pitcairn, Lennox Murchison, Bertie Synge, Emmaline Weekes, Brian Mayweather.
Feel free to diverge from the future hinted at in the books if you have a different idea for how the future of sigilry could go. I'd love it if in the latter half of the 20th century, empirical philosophy is 'allowed' back into legitimate use in the States, or an AU in which its practitioners never go into exile works too. In fact, feel free to diverge from the events in the books if you'd like, as long as you keep the physical way it works and the sense of scientific inquiry and traditions of the Corps and the schools and the many types of work women do with their philosophical skill.
Outside of canon-divergence, I also opt in to any fusion or crossover in which John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis gets to use the hover sigil (please make him at least eventually as good at it as early Robert, anyone who can make her living at it, or any of the other Threes). I'm signed up for the Two for One sub-challenge. I welcome treats.
(click for) DNWs:
- Trencher violence; smokecarving as chemical or biological warfare; bonekill
- Danielle Hardin/Robert Weekes as endgame
- 21st-century politics and events; apocalypse, genocide, mass social and civil unrest, epidemics; physical disasters people can't escape; "crapsack world" dystopias; child/domestic/institutional abuse
- harm to civilian bystanders
- accidents with current-day civilian vehicles (e.g. private and for-hire automobiles; passenger planes, rail, buses, ferries)
- nuclear explosions (or threat of annihilation by nuclear explosion); doomsday devices/weapons of mass destruction; radiation sickness
- burns/fire: burns beyond 1st degree, including hot fluid/chemical (scars from past events ok, but no details of its being a burn-type experience); charred/on fire bodies/parts alive or dead (food ok, not people); out-of-control fire or aftermath (e.g. campfire ok); ashes from bodies or destructive fire; description of heat damage to materiel or being trapped with burning heat
- accidental discharge of chemical projectile weapon
- decapitation
- pregnancy, childbirth, related complications; parent-child relationships/issues, childrearing
- intergenerational incest
- de-aging to childhood/adolescence (flashbacks/memory of actual childhood ok)
- major character death
- major illness
- death of grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts/uncles, cousins
- funerary rites and objects; corpses
- negative 'ugh'; the words 'gross' or 'yuck' for non-physical disgust ("Sticky! Yuck!" ok, "I find that reprehensible. Yuck" no); the words 'daddy', 'mommy', 'titty', or 'niche' in any context
- intragroup social status struggle (power struggles not based on manipulating social opinion ok)
- weddings
- fungus, tumors, disordered organic growth
- readerfic
- smut
- if there is Stargate, DNW: onscreen Keller, Michael, Jackson, or Kavanagh; Atlantis' secession; the term 'AR-1'

Letter:
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Request 2 by Zabbers
Bluestone 42 (TV)
Characters: Nick Medhurst (Bluestone 42), Philip Smith (Bluestone 42)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

I just love this show, this unlikely comedy, with its clever humor in the face of very trying, high-tension circumstances, the rough and tumble camaraderie (bad jokes and terrible games to let off steam but also at the end of the day caring about and for each other's hurts and stresses in their awkward way), the fact that they actually are quite reasonably competent and responsible and professional (while acting like they're not) and well-trained even though you can really only be so prepared for something so difficult (and their weaknesses can get in the way), the jargon and protocols, the zippy and irreverent tone, the foibles and the insecurities and the quirks (you might say caricatures) and the way they face their fears.
I like to see them thrive, and for Bluestone 42 and the military in general to be somewhere that works pretty well for them each in their own way, somewhere they belong. They can be irreverent and jaded, but at the end of the day, it's a way of life they've all chosen. (Basically, I'm not looking for a critique or wider political picture beyond the tone of the show.)
This year, I especially have a hankering for Nick and the Colonel, their shared background that they know very well puts them kind of out of touch as much as out of reach, but that defines them for better and worse like any other culture, and they admit it and work with it; and the mentorship, which reflects that and also their personalities (wry and irreverent? perfectly willing to be self-serving sometimes and having to figure out how to turn that off when it's serious and the others' well-being becomes very important to them? reluctant to directly talk about things?). I love the mentorship, and the roundabout way it happens.
Other favorites include Mac, Rocket, and Bird.
I'm also always open to a Stargate Atlantis crossover in which the Bluestone 42 characters get deployed to the Pegasus Galaxy, or John Sheppard is seconded to Helmand, or these characters just know or meet each other. I'm signed up for the Two for One sub-challenge. I welcome treats.
(click for) DNWs:
- post-canon politics and events; apocalypse, genocide, mass social and civil unrest, epidemics; physical disasters people can't escape; "crapsack world" dystopias; non-canonical child/domestic/institutional abuse
- vehicular accidents involving current-world civilian vehicles (military vehicles ok, historical vehicles that still exist today but are uncommon, such as horse carts ok)
- nuclear explosions (or threat of annihilation by nuclear explosion); doomsday devices/weapons of mass destruction; radiation sickness
- burns/fire: burns beyond 1st degree, including hot fluid/chemical (scars from past events ok; but no detailing of its being a burn-type experience); charred/on fire bodies/parts alive or dead (food ok, not people); out-of-control fire or aftermath (e.g. campfire ok); ashes from bodies or destructive fire; description of heat damage to materiel or being trapped with burning heat
- accidental discharge of chemical projectile weapon, unless it's pointed away from any people
- decapitation
- pregnancy, childbirth, related complications; parent-child relationships/issues, childrearing
- intergenerational incest
- de-aging to childhood/adolescence (flashbacks/memory of actual childhood ok)
- non-canonical major character death
- major illness
- death of grandparents parents, siblings, aunts/uncles, cousins
- funerary rites and objects; corpses
- negative 'ugh'; the words 'gross' or 'yuck' for non-physical disgust ("Sticky! Yuck!" ok, "I find that reprehensible. Yuck" no); the words 'daddy', 'mommy', 'titty', or 'niche' in any context
- intragroup social status struggle (power struggles not based on manipulating social opinion ok)
- weddings
- fungus, tumors, disordered organic growth
- readerfic
- smut
- if there is Stargate, DNW: onscreen Keller, Michael, Jackson, or Kavanagh; Atlantis' secession; the term 'AR-1'

Letter:
https://zabbers.dreamwidth.org/5221.html

Request 3 by Zabbers
The Snopes Trilogy - William Faulkner
Characters: Jack Houston (Snopes - Faulkner)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

He's a side character, a device for what happens with Mink and ultimately Flem Snopes, but he's so vivid, both in small behavioral details during the main narrative that convey his personality and in the extensive digression into the side story of his life. I have a weakness for his kind of taciturn, uncompromising, stern, prickly, suffers-no-fools, island-like, stoic-yet-deep-feeling character. The sense that what happens with him is kind of inevitable and has a momentum as quietly forceful as he is, and that he knows it and tries to escape it, but can't, is really compelling to me. I especially liked him in the horse-shoeing scene, the way he accepts no nonsense and instead just does what needs to be done himself, but without making a fuss about it or nor any concessions to social lubrication.
I'd just like more of him! Whether in his school years, his years away from home, or after he comes back; if you'd like to see what happens in a canon-divergence AU or somehow extract him from the difficult context of Yoknapatawpha County into an AU or fusion/crossover that's far-flung but preserves what he's like at the core (while exploring the differences the historical and cultural context--and maybe personal history--makes or doesn't make), that'd be very interesting to me too. I'm signed up for the Two for One sub-challenge, though I don't have any specific suggestions for fandoms to pair with. I welcome treats.
(click for) DNWs:
- 21st-century politics and events; apocalypse, genocide, mass social and civil unrest, epidemics; physical disasters people can't escape; "crapsack world" dystopias; child/domestic/institutional abuse
- accidents with current-day civilian vehicles (e.g. private and for-hire automobiles; passenger planes, rail, buses, ferries)
- nuclear explosions (or threat of annihilation by nuclear explosion); doomsday devices/weapons of mass destruction; radiation sickness
- burns/fire: burns beyond 1st degree, including hot fluid/chemical (scars from past events ok, but no details of its being a burn-type experience); charred/on fire bodies/parts alive or dead (food ok, not people); out-of-control fire or aftermath (e.g. campfire ok); ashes from bodies or destructive fire; description of heat damage to materiel or being trapped with burning heat
- accidental discharge of chemical projectile weapon
- decapitation
- pregnancy, childbirth, related complications; focus on parent-child relationships/issues, childrearing
- intergenerational incest
- de-aging to childhood/adolescence (flashbacks/memory of actual childhood ok)
- major illness
- death of grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts/uncles, cousins (ok that some of these people did die at some point to allow current situations to happen, but please don't address it in your text)
- funerary rites and objects; corpses
- negative 'ugh'; the words 'gross' or 'yuck' for non-physical disgust ("Sticky! Yuck!" ok, "I find that reprehensible. Yuck" no); the words 'daddy', 'mommy', 'titty', or 'niche' in any context
- intragroup social status struggle (power struggles not based on manipulating social opinion ok)
- weddings
- fungus, tumors, disordered organic growth
- readerfic
- smut

Letter:
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Canon promotion: The Philosophers Series

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Title: Hallowe'en at Holmes Hall
Fandoms: Sherlock (BBC)/Hamlet
Ratings: G
Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Greg Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Jim Moriarty, Sebastian Moran, Horatio, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Laertes, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Hamlet, Polonius, Hamlet Snr
Prompts: Hay Ride, Frighten, Prank, Smarties (Generic table)

Hallowe'en at Holmes Hall on AO3

Title: A Capital Fog
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Ratings: G
Pairings: Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson
Prompts: Poisonous Atmosphere, Disguise, Fog, Beekeeping (Sherlock Holmes table)

A Capital Fog on AO3

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This morning was marked by construction on a loudly adjacent street, a constant window-juddering for hours from which I finally managed to fall asleep just in time to wake up for my doctor's apppointment. The amount of sleep on which I have run this last week is not sufficient to sustain intelligence. This meme I stole from

foxmoth might still have required thought to complete: the seven deadly sins of reading.

1. Lust, books I want to read for their cover.

None at the moment, but the mysterious attractiveness of cover art has in the past memorably led me to check out P. C. Hodgell's God Stalk (1982), Larry Niven's The Integral Trees (1984), and Tanith Lee's The Book of the Damned (1988).

2. Pride, challenging books I've finished.

In terms of personal time put in, Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), Robert Serber's The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb (1992), and Yiannis (Anastasios Ioannis) Metaxas' Μετά όμως, μετά . . . (2017).

3. Gluttony, books I've read more than once.

I don't even keep track! Elizabeth Goudge's The Valley of Song (1951), Mary Renault's The Mask of Apollo (1966), Ursula K. Le Guin's The Complete Orsinia (2016).

4. Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest.

I don't keep a to-read list. I have failed to get around to whole chunks of the Western canon in English.

5. Greed, books I own multiple editions of.

Not counting books that had to be re-bought specifically because their original editions were perishing through use, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1967), Patricia A. McKillip's Riddle-Master (1976–79), and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast (1946–59).

6. Wrath, books I despised.

Books I disliked seem to slip from my mind more easily than the other kind, but I bounced definitely off Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (1948), Alan Moore's Watchmen (1987), and A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book (2009).

7. Envy, books I want to live in.

I do not want to live in most of the books I read for a variety of reasons, but from elementary through high school the answer would have been hands-down, one-way, Anne McCaffrey's Pern. These days I would take a study abroad in Greer Gilman's Cloud. Lloyd Alexander's Prydain remains the site of my sole official, never-written self-insert.

Appropriately enough to wind up a book meme, I have just been given two poetry collections in modern Greek by the friend of the family who has the olive groves outside Sparti. I remain amateur in the language and the Nikos Kavvadias looks incredibly maritime.

Current Music: Niecy Blues, "Exit Simulation"

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Posted by ManicSixieDreamGirl

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73222616

by ManicSixieDreamGirl

What happens when you throw together a repressed Time Lord, a gobby Australian, an alien aristocrat and a reluctant would-be assassin, in a spaceship that is as claustophobic as it is infinite?

A tale of obsession, pining, jealousy, romance - and learning to share.

Words: 4738, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi
Characters: Fifth Doctor (Doctor Who), Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Nyssa of Traken
Relationships: Fifth Doctor/Vislor Turlough, Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka, Fifth Doctor/Nyssa of Traken
Additional Tags: Polyamory, Obsession, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Jealousy, Sentient TARDIS

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73222616

purplecat

Goodness it is ages since I did a meme and, I suspect, even longer since I actually managed to write any fanfic, however the A-Z meme got me curious so without more ado.

After the Apocalypse (Becker, Lester, Primeval Zombie AU, Teen, 1076 words)

Baba Yaga between the Worlds (Natasha, Clint, MCU, ALl Ages, 888 words)

Challenges and Discoveries (Evan, Howard, Primeval:New World, All Ages, 3898 words)

Dinner at the Eagle and Child (Liz, Silver, Doctor Who/Sapphire and Steel crossover, All Ages, 1490 words)

Elle n'a pas Peur des Fantomes (Adele, Agathe, Frankenstein's Creature, Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec/Frankenstein crossover, 6174 words)

Foiling the Irulon Invasion (Donna, Eleven, Doctor Who, All Ages, 745 words)

Guardians of the Anomalies (Cutter, Stephen/Ryan, Groot, Rocket, Primeval/MCU AU Crossover, All Ages, 1093 words)

Harriet Vane's Medieval Mysteries (Eowyn/Faramir, Tolkien/Primeval crossover, All Ages, 2011 words)

In which Zoe Washburne meets Esmerelda Weatherwax (Zoe Washburne, Esmerelda Weatherwax, Firefly/Discworld crossover, All Ages, 3015 words)

Just the Fear and the Hatred (Robin of Sherwood, All Ages, 3093 words)

Kidnapped! (Stephen/Ryan, Clint Coulson, Primeval/Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D crossover, Teen, 2530 words)

Livermorium (Clara, Silver, Doctor Who/Sapphire and Steel crossover, 853 words)

Martha and Yaz Adventure in Time and Space (Martha, Yaz, Doctor Who, All Ages, 3890 words)

Not a Creature was Stirring, not even a Mouse (Claudia/Ryan, Primeval, All Ages, 4413 words)

Operation Golden Age (Reprise) (Claudia, Ryan, Primeval/Doctor Who crossover, All Ages, 5510 words)

Playing at Fighting Monsters (Ryan, Sapphire, Steel, Primeval/Sapphire and Steel crossover, All Ages, 1215 words)

Query. Fact. Supposition. Suggestion. Agreement (BB-8, Rey, Star Wars, All Ages, 413 words)

Rain and Blessing (Connor/Becker, Connor/Ryan, Primeval, All Ages, 593 words)

Side Quest (Harry, Sarah, Four, Doctor Who, All Ages, 6388 words)

Twelve and a half Times Silver didn't meet the Doctor and One and a half Times he did (Silver, Doctor Who/Sapphire and Steel Crossover, All Ages, 2253 words)

Waes Hael (Stephen/Ryan, Primeval, All Ages, 4511 words)

Yangchuanosaurus in the Undergrowth (Stephen/Ryan, Primeval, Teen, 1483 words)

tinny

characters20in20 round 19 : another round I signed up for to make use of the many caps I took, this time of Ling Buyi from Love Like The Galaxy. Enjoy!

Teasers:

( 20+7 icons )

Comments are love - and concrit, too. <3 Take and use as many icons as you like, credit is appreciated. Texture and brush makers: here in my resource post.

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Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73218531

by Anonymous

The Master hypnotises the Doctor to reveal their deepest, darkest, fantasy. Come to find out, the Doctor's "darkest fantasy" is some domestic '50s housewife shit.

Hijinks ensue.

Words: 963, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 9 of Thoschei One Shots (Explicit)

Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who), The Master (Simm), The Master (Doctor Who)
Relationships: The Doctor/The Master (Doctor Who), Sixth Doctor/The Master (Simm)
Additional Tags: Crossdressing, Crossdressing Kink, Housewife Kink, Blowjobs, Dom/sub Undertones, Dom Doctor (Doctor Who), Sub Master (Doctor Who), Thoschei, Praise Kink

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73218531

john_amend_all

Memed from

thisbluespirit and

pedanther:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

Ac Velut In Somnis (DW / Knightmare, 30179 words)
Between the Old Year and the New (S&S / Lord Peter Wimsey, 4361 words)
Child of the Gods (DW / Federation of the Hub, 3892 words)
Death on the Marsh (DW / Doctor Syn, 19455 words)
Extra-Curricular Activity (DW, 12014 words)
False Arrest (DW, 943 words)
Genius and Geniality (DW, 30233 words)
How The Other Half Lives (DW, 3366 words)
In the Bag (DW / Adam Adamant Lives!, 1843 words, major character death)
Just Keep On Trying (DW / Portal, 3091 words)
Klepsmnemon (DW, 36398 words)
Legman (Red Dwarf / Miss Marple, 515 words)
Mayhap You'll Never See Such Another (Professor X / Inspector Morose, 1239 words)
Near Miss (DW / Blackadder, 100 words)
Old Shame (DW, 1172 words)
Party Piece (DW / Kaldor City, 1015 words)
The Quest of the Chocolates (DW, 735 words)
Red for Danger (AAL! / Green Knowe series, 594 words)
Samantha's Turn (DW, 6355 words)
Thy Ravish'd Hair (DW / The Goon Show, 3297 words)
Unbearable (DW [This Time Round], 3696 words, author chose not to warn)
Valen's Angels (B5, 864 words)
With Hilarious Consequences (DW, 568 words)
(For 'X' I'm afraid I've drawn a blank)
You'll Have Had Your Alternate Reality (You'll Have Had Your Tea, 1000 words)
Zombie (DW, 100 words)

Total score: 25/26, from 354 works on AO3.

I was pretty sure I wouldn't have any trouble with Z, and in the end I didn't even need to venture out of AO3 to exhume Zoë Heriot and the Elf-Knight to get there. If I ever do take up my keyboard again I'll have to consider what can be done with X, though.

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Posted by fantomeq

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73212681

by fantomeq

The Doctor sends Ace to a club in modern-day London to catch a vampiric serial killer.

Words: 6244, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ace McShane, Seventh Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Vampires, 21st Century, Clubbing, Manipulation, mention of periods but I promise it’s not weird, Flirting

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73212681

scripsi

Gakked from all over my f-list.

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

Whenever a letter has more than one fic, I have shamelessly chosen the one I felt most to share. Leaning towards one-shots, and trying to spread the fandoms around.

A. All That You Love Will Be Lost (Doctor Who, Ninth Doctor & Nyssa of Traken)
B. But A Dream (Victoria, Queen Victoria/Lord Melbourne)
C. A Conversation In the Drawing Room, And Other Letters to Mrs. Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Emma Pole/John Childermass)
D. The Devourer (Peter Pan, Captain Hook)
E. Elizabeth’s Child (Emily of New Moon, Elizabeth Murray)
F. The First Passion, And the Last (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/River Song, Missy/River Song)
G. A Gift For Her Heart (Ivanhoe, Rebecca of York/Brian de Bois-Guilbert)
H. Homeward (The Borgias, Cesare Borgia/Micheletto Corella, Lucrezia Borgia & Micheletto Corella)
I I Always Wanted To Be A Pirate Queen (Doctor Who. Liz Shaw & Delgado!Master)
J. Juliana and John (The Man In the High Castle, Juliana Crane & John Smith)
L. Little Miss Sunbeam (Doctor Who, Delgado!Master & OC)
M. Make Her Yours (The Queen’s Gambit, Beth Harmon/Vasily Borgov)
N. Nothing Interesting Ever Happens in Perivale (Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Smith & Ainley!Master & Third Doctor)
O. Only Forever (Labyrinth, Jareth/Sarah Williams)
P. A Place In the Shadows (Penny Dreadful, Vanessa Ives & Sembene)
R. Requesting Comfort (Agent Carter, Peggy Carter/Ana Jarvis/Edwin Jarvis
S. Susan, Once Queen of Narnia, Always Queen of Narnia (Piranesi & Chronicles of Narnia, Piranesi & Susan Pevensie)
T. Three’s Company (The Mummy, Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell)
V. Visiting Time (Doctor Who, Delgado!Master/River Song)
W. Wedding Nerves (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Jonathan Strange/Arabella Strange)
Y Yellow, Sweetie? (Doctor Who, Eleven Doctor/River Song)

22 letters out of 26 covered. I missed out on K, Q, U, and X. But with 123 fics, I'm not surprised I have covered most of the alphabet.

lirazel

Hey, I woke up at 2:30 this morning and wrote something really fucked up, and I am just stupidly proud of it!

denouement (500 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Melissa "Mel" King/Frank Langdon, Melissa "Mel" King & Frank Langdon
Characters: Frank Langdon
Additional Tags: tagging both / and & because i honestly don't know, Hurt No Comfort, Angst, Just angst, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Second Person, there is nothing but bleakness here, You Have Been Warned, addiction is a helluva drug
Summary:

Santos takes longer to put two and two together. It gives Langdon enough time to increase the collateral damage.

[Or: exactly 500 words of how it could have been]

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