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Willow: I found it! Meredith Todd died in a car accident last week.
Buffy: How was her neck?
Willow: Fine, except for being broken.

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umadoshi: (Newsflesh - he'll kill you (kasmir))
(I cannot) touch her, make her conscious [Or, the eternal WIP where things go very, very differently near the ending of Feed] (15393 words) by umadoshi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Georgia Mason/Shaun Mason
Characters: Georgia Mason, Shaun Mason, Mahir Gowda
Additional Tags: POV First Person, Adopted Sibling Incest, Canon Divergence, Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued, incomplete but not a WIP, as finished as it's getting
Summary:

In which Shaun learns something significant late in Feed that he canonically doesn't find out until Deadline, and everything goes very (very, very) differently.



I started writing this canon-divergence AU a looong time ago, and I've likewise known for a long time now that I was never going to finish it--partly because Newsflesh hasn't been my primary fandom for several years, and partly because of how much plotting it was going to take to do it to my satisfaction. This parts ways with the series canon toward the end of Feed, and thus everything that happens to the main characters in Deadline and Blackout would never have happened, but all the political machinations and truths about the virus were still things that would have to be played out and...yeah.

But the emotional arc of this story, most of which I did get written down, is some of my favorite writing I ever did in this fandom; I kinda think that if I'd ever managed to assemble an intact story, it would be among the things I'd be proudest of.

I've decided to post it anyway, because what else would there be to do with it? So this is the heart of it--a bit fractured and strung like beads along a thread of story, but all there. Please ignore any minor wobbliness in the timeline/internal continuity, 'kay? And towards the end, I've left in a few plottier bits to give some idea of where this would have gone as an intact story.

This should make sense if you've only read Feed, but it does include one of the series' largest spoilers and hint at another one (both revealed in Deadline in canon).

And the standard notes: this is unbetaed, and the title comes from Linda Gregg's poem "There She Is".
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
Blackberries! I think it's cool that you can see the entire progression here, from green to red to black.




15 more back here )
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
Between Midnight and my bladder, I was up before 4am this morning, over an hour before the alarm went off. The original plan was to go back to bed, but I didn’t think I’d get back to sleep so I just stayed up and fed the cat. (So if you saw an early post and/or comments from me, that’s why.)

I had chiropractic and dental appointments this morning. I hit the Pharmacy while I was downtown, but decided not to walk around the park in the rain. Because I might melt. *g*

I did two loads of laundry (both washed, dried AND folded!), hand-washed dishes and emptied the dishwasher, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals and cut up some of said chicken for said meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I made cornbread to go with the chili. I also did some banking for mom.

I visited mom, read more in Hatshepsut, and got ~3,500 more words typed in! I had some extra time between appointments this morning, so I spent it typing. Based on the number of hand-written pages left, I’m estimating ~2,000 more words need to be typed in. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Temps started out at 57.6(F) (and according to TWC app, the high today is supposed to be 57, so not only is it going to be cool, it’s not going to get any warmer!). It started raining about 4am and rained most of the day. The heavier rain was in the morning while the afternoon was mostly sprinkles and drizzles. Despite the all day rain we only got about an inch. Temps topped out at 54.5. Yep, the temps just went down from the morning. I actually turned on the furnace for a short time to get rid of the chill/damp in the house. (Pip even turned on the oil burner at work!)


Mom Update:

Mom was a bit better today.more back here )
burnhername: Faith pic with the word editor (SH editor Faith)
VAMPIRE: And that's when they do the experiments.
SPIKE: And, uh, they are? The government? Nazis? A major cosmetics company?
VAMPIRE: Who cares? All I know is, one minute I'm running from the slayer, and the next thing, I'm here.
SPIKE: The slayer! I knew it! I knew it!
VAMPIRE: Yeah, she took apart my crew, and led me straight to these guys.
SPIKE: She set me up, too. I always worried what would happen when that bitch got some funding. (frustrated but also impressed)

~~The Initiative~~




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nondenomifan: William Pratt sitting in mother's den, word editor on left side of pic (Wm. Pratt)
PRINCIPAL WOOD: Now, guys, look, we can settle this one of two ways. You can repaint the walls, or I can suspend you and report this little incident on your permanent record.

PUNK #1: Fine. Do that.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: OK, I was bluffing. I hadn't really thought that one through. (leans forward) Listen, this whole permanent record thing is such a myth anyway. Colleges never ask for anything past your SAT scores, and it's not like employers are gonna be calling up to check to see how many days you missed back in high school. So, listen, I-I could suspend you, (stands, walks around desk) but that would mean calling your parents, alerting your teachers, filling out paperwork, and, quite possibly, having to talk to the school board—(sits on desk in front of them) all of which sounds positively exhausting to me. No. No, I think it would be much easier if I just called the police, let them deal with it. (looks in their eyes) Oh, and, in case you're wondering, this is the part where I'm not bluffing.

PUNK #2(looks at the other boy): We'll repaint it.

PRINCIPAL WOOD: Good job.

~~"Never Leave Me," BtVS, S7E9, Source ForeverDreaming.org TV Transcripts~~




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spinning on a spinning wheel

Aug. 20th, 2025 04:19 pm[personal profile] yhlee
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)


Spinning at a spinning wheel - not a tutorial or demonstration of good spinning, and most of the wheel is out of frame so you can see the main ~action. I am still a beginner, and I think I foxed up some of the terminology. But my advisor was curious so I recorded this.
runpunkrun: Dana Scully reading Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' in the style of a poster you'd find in your school library, text: Read. (reading)
You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible, by Margaret Eby:

A gentle and funny book about how to feed yourself when that seems impossible.

This book offers three things: permission, inspiration, and recipes, in about those proportions if this were a list of ingredients. The chapters are arranged in increasing order of effort, from, basically, eating straight out of the fridge, right up to chopping stuff up and turning on the oven.

Each chapter starts with a theme and a bunch of ideas about how to turn things like eggs, greens, beans, noodles, dumplings, and canned foods into a meal, then finishes with one or two basic "do exactly this" recipes. The permission is throughout. Yes, it's okay to eat popcorn for dinner. Yes, a dip is a meal. Yes, you can just eat cheese with your hands. I gotta say, though, there is A LOT of cheese and dairy in this book. And, it's true, if I could eat dairy, a lot of my eating problems would be solved, but alas.

Still, I love the energy of the book and how funny and relentlessly kind Eby is. From the introduction:
When food felt like a chore, I kept reminding myself: the best food is the food that you'll eat. This is the mantra of this book. Michael Pollan famously had three rules for eating: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." That's nice for him! Here, we're gonna stop with the first one. And we're going to make it easy.
And there are a lot of easy ideas in here! Frittatas! Hummus! Smoothies! For when you're too tired to even chew!

This is more of a survival guide than a cookbook, though, as some of the cooking advice is a bit on the thin side, and if you're new to cooking, you might not know, for example, that you'll want to undercook pasta if you're putting it into a casserole, something Eby fails to mention. The book is probably best for someone who already knows the basics, but just can't imagine lifting a spoon or picking up a frying pan. Eby has a lot of suggestions for things to cook in the toaster oven and the microwave, and the most involved this book gets is casseroles and stirfrys. There are even two (2) quick desserts.

Recommended! Though if you have dietary restrictions, you'll have to do the extra work yourself to make this book work for you (just like every other day) and large sections of it might not, but I think it's still worth it for the inspiration and the reminder to go easy on yourself. You're doing the best you can.

Wednesday Reading Meme

Aug. 20th, 2025 05:55 am[personal profile] spikedluv
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: Answers in the Ashes (The Inn at Holiday Bay) by Kathi Daley, Once Upon a Mystery (The Bookstore at Holiday Bay) by Kathi Daley, Halloween Moon & Thanksgiving Past (The Cottage on Goosberry Bay) by Kathi Daley, Opera and Old Lace (The Bistro at Holiday Bay) by Kathi Daley, and some fanfic.


What I am Currently Reading: Still working on The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney. I also started An Archer's Awakening (Of Crowns & Quills) by Casey Morales as my ‘light’ reading to go with the heavier reading of Hatshepsut.

(Funny thing, I didn’t remember the book when I read the blurb, but apparently I’ve already read it. o_O Some of it came back to me when I started reading it, but not enough for me to feel comfortable going on to the second book. So I’m actually re-reading this one. So many books, too little brain.)


What I Plan to Read Next: I have some library books out, so one of those. Probably the next Amelia Peabody.
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
I hit Price Chopper while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park.

I did a load of laundry (washed, dried AND folded, though I had to make myself complete the task), hand-washed dishes and did a load in the dishwasher, took Grant for a short walk, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter.

I also hit the bank on my way home from mom's and browned ground beef to put together chili for tomorrow’s supper. Tonight, at Pip’s suggestion, was sausage and eggs.

I visited mom, read fanfic, and typed in ~1,200 more words on my fic! Finally! It’s been a while since I’ve typed in anything.

Temps started out at 48.9(F) and reached 75.4. Today was not nearly as nice as yesterday because it was very cloudy all day. There was some spots of blue sky and hints of sun, but overall, clouds. We’re supposed to get rain starting at midnight and lasting all day tomorrow through to 8am Thursday morning. We’ll see.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay today. more back here )

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Aug. 20th, 2025 03:47 pm[personal profile] thawrecka
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I said I was going to give myself a break between the end of the filler arc and the beginning of the Fullbring arc, but I watched episodes 343 and 344 of Bleach anyway. I enjoyed them! I've relaxed on the Fullbring arc since I first read it forever ago and enjoy it a lot more, and thus far I'm liking the anime version. Captures Ichigo's obvious denial about how much he misses his powers and his shinigami friends well, and the way he's drifted back to spending more time with Keigo and Mizuiro without sharing anything real or deep with them, and I love the scene where he and Ishida argue while fighting that gang just as much animated. They're so funny and so silly. And TBH, I love that so many of the characters have after school jobs. I'm preparing myself to be disappointed all over again with how it deals with Chad, but I think I'm going to enjoy how it deals with Ichigo and Ishida all over again.

Famed Australian film critic David Stratton died last week, so I decided to watch more movies in his honour. Unfortunately um I watched Rashomon and was underwhelmed. I guess every serious film fan will disown me now. It really does feel like a short story unnecessarily dragged out to movie length. Longest 88 minutes of my life. The best part is the fourth memory, which isn't even from Akutagawa's stories, but has better acting from everyone. There are good bits, but also... it's too long. I mostly feel it's too long.

OTOH, I watched When Harry Met Sally for the first time, and you know what? It's good. It's really good and really funny, and captures an emotional truth. The joke about Ethiopian film has not aged well, but everything else is delightful. That romantic ending speech really brought a tear to my eye. And remember when people were allowed to look like that on screen? No one in this movie is bad looking but everyone looks so normal.

SGA/SG1: So Good to You by busaikko

Aug. 20th, 2025 04:58 pm[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] fancake
mific: John sheppard looking sad or worried against stone wall, half out of frame (Shep - sad)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis, SG1
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Vala Mal Doran, Cam Mitchell, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Rating: Teen
Length: 6000
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: busaikko on AO3
Themes: Marriage of Convenience, Teams, Ambiguous relationship, Humor, Friendship

Summary: Rodney had extorted a promise from John to not get recruited into SG-1 while he was on temporary re-assignment to the SGC. As John finished reciting his marriage vows from the crib-sheet Mitchell had handed him, he suspected Rodney would never let him live this down.

Reccer's Notes: With Atlantis stuck in San Francisco, John goes out with SG1 on a mission that needs his gene, but the local Ori-worshipers require those entering the sanctum (where there may be ZPMs) to be married. So John and Vala get hitched, and are able to trade for not one but three ZPMs, which is just as well as later in the story John desperately needs both Vala and the ZPM-power. The story focuses on John and Vala's friendship which develops after their marriage and despite John returning to Pegasus, then later deepens into something more. Cam is initially a dick due to jealousy as he and John had a past fling, but he gets his head out of his ass. The John/Vala relationship is wonderfully written and we're left in the end with it still being an little ambiguous (this is Vala, after all), but definitely hopeful. A lovely read.

Fanwork Links: So Good to You

moar yarn

Aug. 19th, 2025 09:15 pm[personal profile] yhlee
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)
What I do when sick: more spinning.





Now that I can spin wool blends at all, next up: working on consistency.
starwatcher: Western windmill, clouds in background, trees around base. (Default)
 

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: Hermione/Harry
Characters: Hermione, Harry, Hermione's father and mother, Harry's mother, other canon characters
Rating: Teen
Length: 31,500 words
Creator Links: CatsAreCool / Rachel500 / TrekCat
Theme: Marriage of convenience, AU: Fork in the road, Working together

Summary: Lady Hermione Granger needs to get married in order to secure her inheritance and everybody agrees that the best candidate to help her is the Earl of Gryffindor, Defeater of the Dark Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter.
        There's just one problem: they're not friends and Hermione may have once told him, thanks to some meddling Weasleys, that she'd never get involved with him.

Reccer's Notes: Excellent story. AU - Hermione never cared much for Harry, but when she's required to marry, he's the logical choice. I love how they discuss it like adults, reach a mutual agreement, and then find themselves gradually falling for each other. And all of this adult attraction goodness is nicely interwoven with an intriguing mystery. It's a well-told story with a thoroughly satisfying ending.

Content Notes: Canon-typical violence including attempted murder via spells, mention of old-fashioned patriarchal approaches to women including conc.ept of ownership and arranged marriages, use of love potions. Mildly anti-Dumbledore, anti-Ron and Ginny Weasley

Fanwork Links: A Convenient Arrangement by TrekCat at AO3
 

Next-gen Fruits Basket fans

Aug. 19th, 2025 04:12 pm[personal profile] umadoshi
umadoshi: (Tohru & the pretty boys (flamika))
Over the last...several months?...[personal profile] wildpear introduced Pumpkin and (to different extents) a couple of other teenagers to Fruits Basket. Pumpkin got the double anime experience, starting with the 2001 anime and then going on to the 2019 anime, and while they were still working their way through the latter, they also restarted it to show it to two different people, including M, Pumpkin's agemate among our local friends' kids. Throughout, [personal profile] wildpear texted me intermittent reaction updates, which was a delight.

Now that they're all finished (on the anime front), [personal profile] wildpear brought Pumpkin and M over for an intergenerational fandom yard hangout last week! (Of the 2001 anime, M has only seen the very ending, in a sort of "must know what the horror actually is". For anyone who doesn't know, the original anime is mostly really charming and has a lot going for it, with most of its weaknesses being pretty understandable given when it was made and where the manga was at that point, but its ending is a straight-up travesty and an abomination.)

Jumping ahead a bit: you may notice the absence of the manga in the above, which has now been resolved! I initially had been like, "Well, I have a lending set, and its day has come!", but by the time the visit actually happened and I'd unearthed said set (a combination of the five 2-in-1 hardcover volumes Tokyopop managed to release, and the rest of the series in the standard Tokyopop edition), I'd talked sense into myself and decided to make it a gift instead. I'm not actually sure the lending set had ever gone out of the house (other than [personal profile] wildpear, the only person who'd ever read my hard copy was my sister, and that predated the lending set, IIRC), and I didn't honestly need four sets* in the house, even if one of them is in Japanese. So that box has gone off into the world, and while I warned everyone that manga spines aren't as sturdy as anyone would like, they don't have to worry about keeping the books pristine for me.

Anyway! Seeing the three of them was lovely. cut! )

Sunflower Auction

Aug. 19th, 2025 07:52 am[personal profile] spikedluv
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
Bidding at [personal profile] sunflower_auction, to benefit Ukraine, is open!

My offer is HERE.

(There are only 10 offers, so it's very easy to scroll down to see them. Some are offering fic, and some art. Please go check them out!)
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
I hit Walmart and the Dollar Tree while I was downtown. (I also stopped in at the Shoe Department to see if sneaker companies had magically started making women’s 10 1/2 or non-ugly men’s sneakers. They had not.) (Later on I stopped at Sunnycrest to see if they had the beef sticks Pip likes; they did not.)

I did two loads of laundry (including bed sheets, so also stripped and re-made the bed; both loads got washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes and emptied the dishwasher, took the dogs for a couple walks, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and shaved.

I read more Hapshetsut and watched some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 48.6(F) and reached 73.2. It was sunny with a light breeze, which was perfect. Needless to say, I did not wear the shorts and tank top I had laid out last night. This morning definitely called for capris and a t-shirt. And a sweatshirt, natch.

Since the high for today was only supposed to be 70, I turned off the AC (we only have one in the bedroom) and opened windows to get some of that cooler air inside the house in the morning. Hopefully we won’t have to turn the AC back on for a while. That would be nice. While I appreciate the cold temps the AC provides when it’s 90+ out, I really do prefer a nice fresh breeze if I can get one.


Mom Update:

Mom was not doing great. more back here )
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DAWN: There you are. Knew you were under that dirt somewhere. (nervous laugh)
Buffy doesn't react, just stares at her reflection. Dawn looks nervous, turns back to the sink, then back to Buffy.
DAWN: (false cheer) You remember what Mom used to say? "Either wash that neck or plant potatoes." (Buffy still doesn't react) Yeah, I never thought it was funny either.

~~After Life~~



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Xander: Oh, that's meaningless drivel. I'm not interested in Willow like that.
Buffy: Yeah, but you got used to being the Belle of the Ball.
Xander: No, it's just... this Malcolm guy? What's his deal? I mean, tell me you're not slightly wigged.
Buffy: Okay, slightly. I mean, just not knowing what he's really like.
Xander: Or who he really is. I mean, sure he says he's a high school student, but I can say I'm a high school student.
Buffy: You are.

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