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rounding the bases, we're headed for home (47406 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Melissa "Mel" King/Frank Langdon
Characters: Melissa "Mel" King, Frank Langdon, The Pitt (TV) Ensemble, Trinity Santos, Samira Mohan
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Divorced Frank Langdon, Developing Relationship, Demisexuality, Loss of Virginity, i don't think mel is a virgin but i'm writing this anyway, mel accidentally cockblocks herself, by underestimating how horny she'll be for frank, meanwhile he's just trying to be a gentleman, horndog!mel, horny virgin rights, body image stuff, cliche baseball metaphors, (apologies to the non-americans), if i was very cheesy i would subtitle this 'or how mel king hit her first home run', but i'm not THAT cheesy, mel knows what she wants and frank is going to give it to her, basically mel is a rollercoaster and frank is just along for the ride, just so much talking about sex and sexuality, and what people want and why, alan alda is the secret guest star
Series: Part 2 of batting 1.000
Summary:
“I want to, uh, cover all the bases, which I know is a silly metaphor, but I think I’m beginning to understand it now, and I don’t want to skip any of them, I know theoretically how they all work, but it might take me a while to master them, and I want to make sure that I’m competent at each thing before we do the next thing, but I already know I want to do the next thing and the next thing because, Frank, I want you so badly that sometimes I think I’m going into cardiac arrest.” She stops abruptly, a little breathless from the string of words and from realizing what she just said and how wide Frank’s eyes have gone.
 
Mel really did think she wanted to take it slow. Turns out she didn't know herself at all.


2025 Assignments

Oct. 27th, 2025 01:05 am
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Title: Just A Bruise
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Fred, Jonathan Willaway, Scott.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Varian gets on the wrong end of someone else’s fist. Again.
Word Count: 350
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 55: Bruise.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble and a half, 350 words.



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I told P that I was posting a tentacle fucking fic today. "Ah, just what I expected from you," he said, and smiled fondly.

A Song (Saying It Makes You Sick To See My Face)
(2871 words) by DoreyG
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Melinoë/Scylla (Hades Video Game)
Characters: Melinoë (Hades Video Game), Scylla (Hades Video Game), Dora (Hades Video Game)
Additional Tags: Tentacle Sex, Drunk Sex, canon typical snuff, Manipulation
Summary:

Melinoë found herself blushing despite herself, the nectar in her veins making her stay in place instead of hastily scrambling away. “I’m flattered-”

“You should be,” Scylla said ever so sweetly, and swiftly moved on before Melinoë could do more than tipsily roll her eyes. “Especially when you consider the kind of things that two people who don’t exactly hate each other can do together.”

30 Nice Days for November 2025

Oct. 26th, 2025 06:34 am
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30 Nice Days for November 2025, via paint colors from Sherwin Williams.

30 Nice Days for November 2025 )

Maddening

Oct. 22nd, 2025 11:23 am
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After escaping Sarn, The Master vows that he is DONE with The Doctor...

...This lasts all of thirty minutes.

Words: 436, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 7 of Thoschei One Shots (Explicit)

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Ten Cosmic Era Gundams for November 2025

Just because. ^_^;;

Ten Cosmic Era Gundams for November 2025 )

Challenge 197 - Results

Oct. 25th, 2025 10:58 pm
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Congrats everyone! 🎉🎈🏅 Thank you to all the participants and voters.
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Challenge 196: Flower Power 2 - Winners
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Talk To Me

Oct. 26th, 2025 04:58 am
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Posted by AnonymousDandelion

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Two years gone, with no word and no warning, while the neighbors gossiped and the police gave up hope and her mother tossed and turned each night. And then to simply turn back up on the doorstep, like nothing ever happened—

No, that’s not true. Barbara is certainly acting like something happened. Her eyes are different and the way she carries herself is different, in some indefinable way that a mother’s glance can’t miss.

Words: 500, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 18 of Flash Fiction Friday

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I know it is no longer news in the ravenous cycle of horrors that passes for the front page these days, but the fact that the man in the White House took a literal wrecking ball to it feels once again so unnecessarily on the nose, at least if it were satire I could be laughing. I know buildings are not human lives such as this administration ends and ruins with such pleasure of ownership, but the roses of the concrete-choked garden were real things, not just symbols, and so were the bricks and the tiles of the East Wing. I have nothing revelatory to say about this particular destruction in the midst of so much more personal violence except that I didn't want to let it slide into a tacit shrug, as if it were an ordinary exercise of presidential powers, another rock through the Overton window. Or a bulldozer.

Week in review: Week to 25 October

Oct. 26th, 2025 09:21 am
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I've been working on a system of noting down things for the blog post as I go through the week. Read more... )


At board game club, someone brought along a copy of Finspan, the fish-themed spin-off of the hit game Wingspan. Read more... )

While we were waiting for everyone to arrive, we also played a card game called Tacta. Read more... )


Since I've been playing a few logic puzzle games on the computer lately, Steam has started suggesting more that I might like. I've tried out a few demos, including:Read more... )


I mentioned last week that I'd signed up for a new service that sends notifications when an author has a new book out. I've received several notifications since then; none of them for the authors I'm really interested in, but the level of activity is promising.


Around the World in Eighty Emails continues. Phileas Fogg and his entourage have just set sail from India to Rangoon.

Book Chain, weeks 30, 31, 32 & 33

Oct. 26th, 2025 08:46 am
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#31: Read a book that is longer than the previous book.

In the absence of an obvious candidate, I decided this was my opportunity to finally get around to Harley Quinn: Redemption by Rachael Allen, which I've been meaning to read since I finished the previous book of the series last year. Then it took a couple of weeks for the library's copy to come in (during which I read other things, but nothing that fit the prompt), and then another week or so for me to properly get into it -- not because it's not good, but because one of the things it's good at is the sense of dread that pervades the first half, which had me reading a chapter or two and then getting stressed and putting it down again. Once the shoe had dropped and the plot really got going, I finished it in a day.

This was the third and final part of a trilogy, which I read at least partly because I was curious about how Allen was going to manage writing an inspirational young adult trilogy featuring a character whose standard origin story ends with her falling into a murderous cult and becoming a homicidal supervillain. That -- obviously, in retrospect -- doesn't happen in this version, where Harley gets a lucky break that leads to her having a significantly better emotional support network than in the standard version, so she has some wobbles but never loses herself and the darkest she gets is 'vigilante with somewhat questionable methods'. The first two books take an interesting stance that could be summed up as "Harley's standard origin story is what people think they know", so you get to see events that become rumours that resemble the standard origin story, but also see how the rumours are often missing or misrepresenting key details and in some cases are just plain wrong.

The third book has two things to achieve: first, to tell an exciting story about Harley and her allies investigating a series of kidnappings that the police don't seem interested in, which it does effectively, and second, to thread the needle of paying off the story's themes and plot threads while bringing the story to an end suitable for a young adult audience, which I'm not convinced it achieves. The author palms a few cards in order to bring the story to a tidy conclusion, which I found a bit too tidy; it gives up all pretence that this version of Harley is ever going to be a villain, even just in the minds of the public, and lets her settle down and enjoy the rest of her life without any lingering traces of the bad reputation that was gathering around her in the earlier chapters. It feels kind of like it's saying that all Harley's adventures are now over, which feels particularly odd since this version of Harley is still barely out of her teens. I would have appreciated a few loose ends, some indication that although Harley has resolved the main issues she still has adventures ahead of her.

Overall, I did enjoy the trilogy and I'm glad I read it.

Leverage Drabble

Oct. 25th, 2025 07:04 pm
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[personal profile] senmut
Their Holidays or read at SquidgeWorld (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Leverage (US TV 2008)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Characters: Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Parker (Leverage), Alec Hardison
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

They each have their own.






Eliot paid attention to the veteran holidays. He didn't much care for the complex behind it now, having seen all the ways it was abused, but most of those vets had died believing in an impossible dream worth protecting.

Parker, of course, was all about Santa and Christmas. She got to make up for the shitty holidays she'd seen as a kid.

But Hardison? Hardison went all out for Halloween. Decorations, costumes, and enough candy to kill a dentist was his philosophy. No one who showed up left empty handed, not even the parents. He needed them to be happy.
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Title: Be Still My Heart
Fandom: Canaan
Pairings: Canaan/Alphard al Shua
Characters: Canaan, Alphard al Shua
Rating: G
Length: 44 words
Author Notes: Inspired by fanart by Kay-I.
Summary: 3 sentence fic. Alphard and Canaan enjoy an intimate moment on the battlefield.

Read more... )

Alphabetical Fic Meme

Oct. 25th, 2025 05:09 pm
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I can never resist a fic-related meme, so of course I had to do this one I've seen going around lately:

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.

For each letter, I've just picked the one that comes first alphabetically. I will note that this leaves a couple of my stories out of consideration entirely because they start with non-letter characters. But never mind those, let's se what the alphabet gives us.

A - After the World (Good Omens (TV)/Disco Elysium, Aziraphale, Crowley, Harry du Bois (sort of))
B - Back from Outer Space (Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher/Ford Pines)
C - Captive Audience (The Good Place, Vicky, Janet)
D - The Dad Joke (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Frisk)
E - Earthly Pleasures (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
F - Fail Until You're Good Enough at It That It Starts to Look Like Hope (Disco Elysium, Harry du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi)
G - Galactic Peace Never Solved Anything (Farscape, John Crichton)
H - Hair Today, Gun Tomorrow (Blake's 7, Jenna Stannis, Jarriere, Jarvik)
I - I Could Give All to Time Except (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale)
J - Just a Few Bonecalls (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Papyrus)
K - Keep One Place, Just for Us (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, Crowley)
L - The Last Stop on the Tour (Doctor Who/Once Upon a Time, Clara Oswald, Emma Swan)
M - Maybe This Time (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/Missy)
N - The Natural Attraction of Opposites (physics anthropomorfic, electron/positron)
O - The Observer Effect (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Gabriel, Beelzebub)
P - The Pale, the Sea, and the Shore (Disco Elysium/Our Flag Means Death, Lena, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach)
Q - A Question of Interior Design (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
R - A Re-Examination of the Origins of the Doctor Myth (Doctor Who, OCs)
S - Save the Date (Doctor Who, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, multiple Doctors)
T - That Thing They Say About the Road to Hell (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, hints of Aziraphale/Crowley)
U - Uncommanded and Unforbidden (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
V - Vaster Than Empires (Doctor Who/Farscape, Zotoh Zhaan/Jabe)
W - Waning (The A Capella Version) (Farscape, Stark)
X -
Y - You (Gravity Falls, Stan Pines, Ford Pines)
Z - The Zombie Master, or PGP of the Living Dead (Blake's 7, Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Vila Restal, Del Tarrant, Dayna Mellanby, Soolin)

That's 25 letters represented out of 363 fics. You'd think by now I'd have written something starting with X, but no.

And, man, that's an interesting list of fics. I suppose it does actually represent my fic-writing range pretty well? Certainly there's a good mix of fandoms (with that period where I spewed forth insane numbers of Good Omens fics accurately represented). And quite a time span, too, with a couple of things I wrote just this year, and a few I wrote decades ago in what feels like an entirely different world, when I was an entirely different person and fandom was, you guessed it, entirely different. Or at least very different, anyway.
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In fairness to June Lockhart, the first time I ever saw her she was sharing the same episode of Babylon 5 (1994–98) as Londo's card-sharping tentadicks and the latter seared themselves rather more indelibly into my brain, but with less than five minutes of her own in T-Men (1947) she stole far more of the film for me, so much that even knowing that a century is a graceful point to depart from, I am still sorry the world no longer contains her and all of her time. She moved from film to television so early that I always wondered if she had been blacklisted like Marsha Hunt, but the answer looks like not. I loved finding out about her tastes in rock music and my experience of her most famous and long-running roles was almost nil. It means I remember her, perhaps unfairly, twenty-two years old and looking like the fair-haired avatar of all the white picket fences in the world, coming effortlessly up to speed on their shadows. She should have worked with David Lynch.

Saturday 25 October 2025

Oct. 25th, 2025 05:45 pm
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Dept. of The Darkest Timeline

Oct. 25th, 2025 04:19 pm
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This is Chicago. This is America

I'll be back with other things to say, happy things, or at least I hope so.

But right now, I give you this, taken as a screen shot from video a neighbor took as the ICE thugs ambushed him, and who shared it on some local news sites. 

It's my city.

It's my adopted country.

He's my neighbor. 

He's my brother.

They don't care. 

The cruelty, the racism and xenophobia, is the point.
 


What I'm Reading 2025 - 101-125

Oct. 25th, 2025 10:09 pm
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I am still alive! Vaguely. I just had a cold, and then P had a cold, and then I had a stomach bug that meant I basically just laid in bed for several days in a row and played Hades 2 (which I am still meaning to do a post on, but have no idea how to at this point)...

Anyway, have a reading post! I shall hopefully try to post more fanfic (for Hades 2, my beloved) tomorrow! Actually writing things (I have written one thing), woo!

Read more... )

I’m not sure if I’ll get to 150 or not this year, I guess I’ll see! There’ll either be two more reading posts, or one wrap up depending on how much reading I get done in the next two months or so. My pace has slowed since the beginning of this year. I mean, I’m generally in a far better place! But apparently this has translated to what feels like a reading block. Le sigh.

The Ghost of Culloden

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:34 pm
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Jamie Mccrimmon knows who he is. He's a piper, fighting for Scotland against the Hanover usurpers of the Stuart throne. Except...he wakes up, in a battle he already lived to see end, with soldiers over him. There are changes to his body he never imagined happening, and he keeps seeing strange visions, but he doesn't have time to question when soldiers are trying to hunt down anyone who fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie. He does the only thing he can - he runs, ignoring the strange knowledge he seems to have gained with no context for where it's from.

Meanwhile, the Doctor has been forced into servitude by the Time Lords in order to stay his execution. His current mission? Investigate a temporal anomaly in Scotland. Though far into the future of the man he loved, he can't help but be reminded.

Words: 2458, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Wherever you will go

Strange critters and plants

Oct. 25th, 2025 03:07 pm
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oooh let's see what I've wandered over recently in this wondrous world of ours:

Doll's Eyes - I have never seen it in the wild, but I have recognized its use in some creepy movies where the plants seemingly watch people. Honestly, I was glad I stumbled over it in reading things before I ever had a chance to see it in the wild. It's nice and spooky.

The Black Bat Flower is less creepy to me, and more o.O at how it developed. Plants that mimic animal shapes fascinate me. (There's a carrion plant that resembles a sea-star / star fish, for instance).

Bleeding Heart - the first "creepy" flower I ever read about, I think. I think they look fascinating, actually.

and critters:

Dragon Headed Caterpillar - it evolves, as all catties do, but the larval stage is just so CUTE to me.

Flying Snakes - My uncle's worst nightmare, given his deep-seated phobia once led him to sink the boat he was in due to a snake flopping into it with him. I love the idea of these guys just LAUNCHING themselves through the air.

Fossa - the jokes about cats running on dog software (hyena) and dogs running on cat software (foxes), have NOTHING on this critter that is a mongoose-type running on cat software. Very predator, very fierce.

Markhor - but it's just a goat, right? CHECK OUT THOSE HORNS! I had to give my tiefling OC those horns because they are TOO COOL.

Tufted Deer - cute name, right? When's the last time you saw a deer with FANGS?! Seriously, I saw these and started trying to figure out WHY they evolved those.

I hope you enjoyed these!

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