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azurelunatic) wrote2025-10-31 10:39 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2025-10-31 10:39 pm"However much candy you want, the answer is yes."
23 trick-or-treaters this year, likely due to rain and construction. The last four were after we had started picking up and bringing things inside, and in fact after we'd sorted the candy into Keep and Share. (The Share candy stays outside overnight for the late crew, then goes with Belovedest to work. We don't have particularly much trouble with raccoons.) In the last party, the one with the umbrella hat and some sort of Studio Ghibli makeup (white face, red eye triangles) was enchanted with the glow sticks and picked one of the very few blue ones.
This year's innovation was doing the Wizard of Oz + Dark Side of the Moon thing with (much less cleverly timed) Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast (Which is 4 hours of very silly DJ work), some of the Halloween episodes, with Addams Family Values on mute (several times through). We got the inflammable tango to "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and a few other silly confluences. I think this is one of the ones where precise timing doesn't help all that much, but it's great when it happens. By the time the show had run out of explicitly spooky songs, it got a little less entertaining.
Belovedest was Jigglypuff. I was a very tired Dulcie (wearing my own nightgown and some exhaustion makeup). I ordered the wrong crust on 2 out of 3 pizzas, and the 3rd one was gluten free.
This year's innovation was doing the Wizard of Oz + Dark Side of the Moon thing with (much less cleverly timed) Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast (Which is 4 hours of very silly DJ work), some of the Halloween episodes, with Addams Family Values on mute (several times through). We got the inflammable tango to "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and a few other silly confluences. I think this is one of the ones where precise timing doesn't help all that much, but it's great when it happens. By the time the show had run out of explicitly spooky songs, it got a little less entertaining.
Belovedest was Jigglypuff. I was a very tired Dulcie (wearing my own nightgown and some exhaustion makeup). I ordered the wrong crust on 2 out of 3 pizzas, and the 3rd one was gluten free.
some kind of snark faery (arcanetrivia) wrote2025-10-30 03:46 pm
arcanetrivia) wrote2025-10-30 03:46 pmABC Fic Title Meme
(via delphi, here)
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.
(I assume that the intent was also that "An" should not count, even though it doesn't say so, although that turned out to be irrelevant for me.)
Drabbles are marked with an asterisk. I've only ever written for two fandoms, so there was no question of trying for breadth asdelphi did, but I've tried to tilt this away from Harry Potter (the first fandom, up through 2011) as much as possible, and within that to go for a little variety. (I tend to get fixed on a particular character or ship or two and do little or nothing but that! Although that said, the Monkey Island drabbles that range further afield were done for a Thanksgiving week smut-drabble challenge last year, so I was doing all kinds of random things I usually wouldn't.)
A - all blue and honey gold (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
B - Bottled (Harry Potter, Severus/Harry)
C - Cold Hands, Warm Hearts (Harry Potter, Severus/Aurora Sinistra)
D - Dress-Up (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
E - Electric* (Monkey Island, Guybrush, LeChuck; warning: torture, unwanted sexual response)
F - First Time's the Charm (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
G -
H - Heavy Wizardry (Harry Potter, gen)
I - Inspiration* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
L - Lilies are Red, Roses are Blue (Harry Potter, Severus/Lily)
M - Make Believe (Harry Potter, Severus & Lily friendship)
N - Night Music* (Monkey Island, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey)
O - Oil Slick* (Monkey Island, LeChuck/Largo)
P - Precision (Harry Potter, gen)
Q -
R - Really?* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
S - Starshine* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
T - Thirty-Three and a Third (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine/OMC)
U -
V -
W - We Now Join Monkey Island 2, Already in Progress (Monkey Island, gen)
X -
Y -
Z -
17/26, from a total count of 90 (I think) including three ineligible "untitled"s, one that started with 20 ("20 Random Facts About..."), and 9 that were in a collection of the "Five Things" format, so they also all started with a number. (That makes 77 instead of 90 if you just discounted all those.) I had 5 starting with "A" and 14 starting with "The", so that really took a chunk out of it.
delphi, here)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.
(I assume that the intent was also that "An" should not count, even though it doesn't say so, although that turned out to be irrelevant for me.)
Drabbles are marked with an asterisk. I've only ever written for two fandoms, so there was no question of trying for breadth as
delphi did, but I've tried to tilt this away from Harry Potter (the first fandom, up through 2011) as much as possible, and within that to go for a little variety. (I tend to get fixed on a particular character or ship or two and do little or nothing but that! Although that said, the Monkey Island drabbles that range further afield were done for a Thanksgiving week smut-drabble challenge last year, so I was doing all kinds of random things I usually wouldn't.)A - all blue and honey gold (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
B - Bottled (Harry Potter, Severus/Harry)
C - Cold Hands, Warm Hearts (Harry Potter, Severus/Aurora Sinistra)
D - Dress-Up (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
E - Electric* (Monkey Island, Guybrush, LeChuck; warning: torture, unwanted sexual response)
F - First Time's the Charm (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
G -
H - Heavy Wizardry (Harry Potter, gen)
I - Inspiration* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
L - Lilies are Red, Roses are Blue (Harry Potter, Severus/Lily)
M - Make Believe (Harry Potter, Severus & Lily friendship)
N - Night Music* (Monkey Island, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey)
O - Oil Slick* (Monkey Island, LeChuck/Largo)
P - Precision (Harry Potter, gen)
Q -
R - Really?* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
S - Starshine* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
T - Thirty-Three and a Third (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine/OMC)
U -
V -
W - We Now Join Monkey Island 2, Already in Progress (Monkey Island, gen)
X -
Y -
Z -
17/26, from a total count of 90 (I think) including three ineligible "untitled"s, one that started with 20 ("20 Random Facts About..."), and 9 that were in a collection of the "Five Things" format, so they also all started with a number. (That makes 77 instead of 90 if you just discounted all those.) I had 5 starting with "A" and 14 starting with "The", so that really took a chunk out of it.
mific (mific) wrote2025-10-31 12:14 pm
mific) wrote2025-10-31 12:14 pmDrawtober challenge days 21 - 31
And the final Drawtober prompts for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
drawesome - again combining more than one in each artwork. These ones turned out to have cosmological or geographical themes. All were made in Procreate - click on each for the full-sized pic. The individual posts, some with more detailed notes, are here.
drawesome - again combining more than one in each artwork. These ones turned out to have cosmological or geographical themes. All were made in Procreate - click on each for the full-sized pic. The individual posts, some with more detailed notes, are here.  |
| Celestial Rhythms - prompts: "rhythm" & "celestial". Based on various animations of the spiralling motion of our solar system planets as they charge along at over 200 kms per second. I snuck Pluto in there as well. |
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| Forgotten Treasure - prompts: "undersea", "forgotten things", and "map" |
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| The Big Bang - prompts: "noise" & "fire". Made with several different Procreate brushes |
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| Dancing on the Bridge of Stars - prompts: "bridge of stars", "bell", "mask", & "balls". The planets include Pluto and Ceres, because. |
some kind of snark faery (arcanetrivia) wrote2025-10-28 11:48 pm
arcanetrivia) wrote2025-10-28 11:48 pmEntry tags:
Almost 20 Monkey Island fic recs
Some of this is very old stuff (like, 20 years old in some cases) I found digging around in searches on LiveJournal and InsaneJournal, and a bonus one on FFN of even older vintage than that; also including some current stuff from this half of this year. Ranging all over the place in content and style--adventure, humor, friendship, whump, angst--and featuring a whole bunch of folks from Carla to Voodoo Lady. ( Read more... )
BTW, does anyone know why the "userhead" for AO3 profiles hasn't been loading lately?
BTW, does anyone know why the "userhead" for AO3 profiles hasn't been loading lately?
some kind of snark faery (arcanetrivia) wrote2025-10-28 09:55 pm
arcanetrivia) wrote2025-10-28 09:55 pmEntry tags:
fic recs: MST3K, HHG, Rocky Horror
Roll Opening Credits by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
sleepymarvel
Fandom: MST3K
Characters: Joel, Crow, Tom, GPC
Rating: General
Words: 2238
Author's summary: Joel's first moments on the satellite and the five stages of grief.
Author's notes: Takes place during the first few weeks Joel is in space.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Five Stages of Grief, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Character Study
My comment: "I like the device of the stages of grief. Neat idea."
Quote:
Joel sits on the floor in the center of the bridge and decides he won't cooperate. He'll wait until everything returns to normal. He'll wait till Dr. Forrester explains exactly what's going on. There has to be an explanation.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Transexual, Transylvania byatrovel
Fandom: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairing: Frank N. Furter/Everyone, Frank N. Furter/Arthur Dent
Rating: Teen
Words: 2523
Author's summary: Arthur Dent meets an alien he can actually sort of relate to.
Author's notes: i doubt this appeals to anyone except myself. it doesn’t really matter though, because myself is who i wrote it for. (also i haven’t brushed up on my h2g2 knowledge in quite a while so apologies for any inaccuracies or mischaracterization! frank on the other hand i have no excuse for i’m just not that great at writing him i think)
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Post Rocky Horror-Canon, Except Frank didn’t die, Crack Crossover, Crack Treated Seriously, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, but only kind of, Unexpected Bonding, I don’t know what this is, Frank is Zaphod’s ex-situationship, Bisexual Freak Ford Prefect, Frank just went back to Transexual instead of being killed
My comment: "Neat concept. I quite like it. From what I remember of Rocky Horror, I think you nailed Frank's tone of speaking, like that he made Arthur's name sound "thick and sticky"."
Quote:
Arthur perked up, not unlike a dog upon hearing the front door opening. “I’m sorry, did you say Earth?”
“Yes.” Frank looked at him. “Tiny blue-green planet. Fun little people with all these silly rules. Fascinating culture, really, because it’s ridiculous how-“
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On the 125th Story byRandom_Guise
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters: Arthur, Benjy Mouse, Frankie Mouse
Rating: General
Words: 2439
Author's summary: Arthur Dent has another encounter with Benjy and Frankie Mouse shortly after arriving with his group at Milliways. I don't own these characters, and even if I did I would still follow good advice and Don't Panic. Written as my 125th story (at the time).
Author's notes: For my 125th story, a tale that ends up ON the 125th story, with a few stops at earlier stories along the way. The building has a bit of inspiration from the Heinlein story "...and He Built a Crooked House".
Author's warnings: None
My comment: "Good one, very Adamsesque tone!"
Quote:
"That's the easy part. We've brought you to a special building; you're in the basement of a building 125 stories tall" Benjy explained. "Actually, none of the floors exist together but thanks to an extension into the fourth spacial dimension…"
"…it's amazing what you save on property tax by doing it that way…" Frankie interjected.
Fandom: MST3K
Characters: Joel, Crow, Tom, GPC
Rating: General
Words: 2238
Author's summary: Joel's first moments on the satellite and the five stages of grief.
Author's notes: Takes place during the first few weeks Joel is in space.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Five Stages of Grief, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Character Study
My comment: "I like the device of the stages of grief. Neat idea."
Quote:
Joel sits on the floor in the center of the bridge and decides he won't cooperate. He'll wait until everything returns to normal. He'll wait till Dr. Forrester explains exactly what's going on. There has to be an explanation.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Transexual, Transylvania by
Fandom: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairing: Frank N. Furter/Everyone, Frank N. Furter/Arthur Dent
Rating: Teen
Words: 2523
Author's summary: Arthur Dent meets an alien he can actually sort of relate to.
Author's notes: i doubt this appeals to anyone except myself. it doesn’t really matter though, because myself is who i wrote it for. (also i haven’t brushed up on my h2g2 knowledge in quite a while so apologies for any inaccuracies or mischaracterization! frank on the other hand i have no excuse for i’m just not that great at writing him i think)
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Post Rocky Horror-Canon, Except Frank didn’t die, Crack Crossover, Crack Treated Seriously, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, but only kind of, Unexpected Bonding, I don’t know what this is, Frank is Zaphod’s ex-situationship, Bisexual Freak Ford Prefect, Frank just went back to Transexual instead of being killed
My comment: "Neat concept. I quite like it. From what I remember of Rocky Horror, I think you nailed Frank's tone of speaking, like that he made Arthur's name sound "thick and sticky"."
Quote:
Arthur perked up, not unlike a dog upon hearing the front door opening. “I’m sorry, did you say Earth?”
“Yes.” Frank looked at him. “Tiny blue-green planet. Fun little people with all these silly rules. Fascinating culture, really, because it’s ridiculous how-“
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On the 125th Story by
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters: Arthur, Benjy Mouse, Frankie Mouse
Rating: General
Words: 2439
Author's summary: Arthur Dent has another encounter with Benjy and Frankie Mouse shortly after arriving with his group at Milliways. I don't own these characters, and even if I did I would still follow good advice and Don't Panic. Written as my 125th story (at the time).
Author's notes: For my 125th story, a tale that ends up ON the 125th story, with a few stops at earlier stories along the way. The building has a bit of inspiration from the Heinlein story "...and He Built a Crooked House".
Author's warnings: None
My comment: "Good one, very Adamsesque tone!"
Quote:
"That's the easy part. We've brought you to a special building; you're in the basement of a building 125 stories tall" Benjy explained. "Actually, none of the floors exist together but thanks to an extension into the fourth spacial dimension…"
"…it's amazing what you save on property tax by doing it that way…" Frankie interjected.
Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (azurelunatic) wrote2025-10-28 06:25 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2025-10-28 06:25 pmEntry tags:
Milestone
Video appointment with chemotherapist today. I'm done with immunotherapy! The scan says I've been stable.
I still have:
* bone strengthening (not marrow encouraging) med every 12 weeks, infused
* Scans every 3 months
So that means a trip or two to the cancer center every 3 months, although if they keep it at 3 months for the one and 12 weeks for the other, they may fall out of sync.
I should probably celebrate this?
I still have:
* bone strengthening (not marrow encouraging) med every 12 weeks, infused
* Scans every 3 months
So that means a trip or two to the cancer center every 3 months, although if they keep it at 3 months for the one and 12 weeks for the other, they may fall out of sync.
I should probably celebrate this?
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dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 am
mark) wrote in dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 amDatabase maintenance
Good morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
mific (mific) wrote2025-10-24 09:55 pm
mific) wrote2025-10-24 09:55 pmI am the Hurt and the Comfort
I am the Hurt and the Comfort
I am the evil tyrant, the abusive parent.
My charges are cruelly abandoned, tormented, neglected.
Trapped in small prisons their limbs strain, distorted,
They grow starved and pale, yellowed with hunger,
Allowed barely enough water to survive, brittle with thirst.
Then I am the saviour, making all things right.
I free them from their prisons, tuck them into lush new homes.
To the starved and the thirsty I give food and drink.
I bathe them in gentle water, straightening their abused limbs,
Debriding what cannot be saved so the whole may thrive.
This is about gardening.
God, how I love repotting.
