Monday, July 28th, 2025 09:29 am
Title: Hidden Treasures
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/Shelter (2007)
Rating: PG13/Gen(/Slash)
Pairing/Characters: Jessica Fletcher & Shaun Andrews (appearances by Zach and Cody; Zach/Shaun mentioned)
Length: 3,700 words
Spoilers: Takes place during some unspecified early season of Murder, She Wrote and post-Shelter.
Summary: Jessica Fletcher is invited to teach a couple of weekend writing seminars at CalArts.
Author’s Notes: CalArts doesn’t have a Creative Writing program, but I had the thought, what if it did? o_O Written for [community profile] smallfandomfest for the prompt: Murder, She Wrote (tv)/Shelter (2007), Jessica & Shaun, they meet at a writer's conference (or place of author's choice). Title take from the quote by Wanda Hope Carter: "Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them out and enjoy their riches."
Feedback: Would be greatly appreciated.
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Posted: July 28, 2025

Read Fic @ AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68299676
Monday, July 28th, 2025 08:32 am
I washed, dried and hung up Pip’s uniforms, hand-washed dishes, made myself French toast for breakfast, stirred up tuna salad (without the usual celery) and added sliced cucumber for lunch at mom’s, and scooped kitty litter. After my visit to mom I washed, dried and folded another load of laundry, hand-washed more dishes, did a load in the dishwasher and shaved.

I printed off my SFFest fic and gave it a re-read. I finished the Kindle cozy and started the next Clare Fergusson.

Temps started out at 70.2(F) and reached 87.4.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay. more back here )
Monday, July 28th, 2025 02:16 pm
Fandom: The Expanse
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Camina Drummer
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: Pastel pencil on paper
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: [tumblr.com profile] livesinyesterday
Why this piece is awesome: A gorgeous portrait of Drummer! Aside from the great likeness, I'm fascinated by the contrast between Drummer's signature black and the wide range of pastel colours the artist used for her face, in a way that still makes it come together as a coherent and perfectly natural whole. Really great.
Link: https://livesinyesterday.tumblr.com/post/629089413361795072
Monday, July 28th, 2025 08:11 am
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Spanner Kurogane (Kamen Rider Valvarad GT) & Steamliner from Kamen Rider Gotchard
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Monday, July 28th, 2025 07:07 am


The invader has been captured!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

Monday, July 28th, 2025 05:29 pm
I watched this with a big smile on my face, almost as big as the gigantic moth sitting on the curtain in my room right now.

It's so sweet! As Blusie would say, my blood turned to sugar dust.



The movements are so cute, as cute as can be, really. I love how they choreographed this. I love the all-pink styling and the heart stickers a couple of them are wearing on their cheeks. The styling especially suits Hyunsuk, who captured my eyes, but as ever, Yonghee captured my heart.
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Monday, July 28th, 2025 12:22 pm
Title: Alone At Last
Fandom/Pairing: Super Lovers - Haru/Ren
Summary: There are worse things than being stuck together during a typhoon...
Rating: PG-13
Content: Adopted sibling incest, age gap, caught in the act, making out
Disclaimer: スーパーラヴァーズ is the property of Abe Miyuki, I'm just borrowing the characters to play with them. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt or abused in the writing of this story.
Notes: 650+ words. Written for the prompt bad weather. Many thanks to [personal profile] zabimitsuki for beta-reading this for me! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3
Monday, July 28th, 2025 12:08 pm
 
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Monday, July 28th, 2025 09:49 am
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Monday, July 28th, 2025 09:58 am
Title: Graveyard Picnic
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set in S6, some time between eps. 6x17 “Normal Again” and 6x18 “Entropy”
Summary: Buffy and Spike meet at the graveyard, but the break-up is still too fresh.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #399 - Severe

Crossposted: [community profile] 100words, [community profile] sweetandshort, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark


READ: Graveyard Picnic )
Monday, July 28th, 2025 09:24 am
It's a bit funny, I've been getting more comments on my fics lately.

People coming back to re-read, a couple of new commenters, and some people who just say "good fic".

--

I made quilts! I mean, I'm almost always making quilts, but this year is kind of the "oh fuckit, I'm going to just sew stuff because I have SO MUCH FABRIC and I need to be rid of some of it" attitude.

Also, I have a list of people the length of my arm who I would like to give quilts to, and still have not. Need to pull my finger out.

There's a local woman who I get to quilt my quilt tops, and while she's decent, it's not quality work. Which is fine by me. It stiches the top and backing together, I bind it, it's cheap and DONE. But a few quilting friends of the...older persuasion...have been nudging me to try other quilters. And I might for these quilts:

the peacock communique quilts )

--

Just had a sparky (electrician) around to quote for some work. Chatty guy. I always seem to get the chatty tradies. We'll see how much they charge, although he seems a decent sort.

--

Creative writing last week was almost completely non-existent. I'm just losing my will to put words on a page, to tell stories.

I'm going back and re-reading old book series, though. I re-read The City Who Fought from McCaffrey's Brainship series, and am once again SUPER DOOPER MAD at the "sequel" all over again. Which was written by McCaffrey's co-author for The City Who Fought, and was vastly inadequate to the characters, the Brainship series, and whatever genre they were writing int.

Fortunately, The Ship Who Searched (co-written with Mercedes Lackey) is still my happy place, tyvm. I could take a thousand stories of Tia and Alex exploring the galaxy.
Sunday, July 27th, 2025 10:38 pm
1. SOMETHING IS EATING MY GARDEN. I don't know what; my guess is either a) moose (we know there's a cow-calf pair hanging around; we've caught them occasionally on the driveway game camera), or b) a porcupine. Which would never have been on my radar as something that would eat a garden if I hadn't seen it in the backyard a week or two ago, absolutely going to town munching on raspberry bushes and fireweed. I feel like the way that the garden is getting decimated is consistent with something low to the ground that's pulling down pea vines and similar, and also doesn't eat too much in one go. But after we put up loose wire fencing around one of the beds, it apparently got into it anyway and ate a bunch of my lettuce and some of the remaining pea vines. Porcupines can both climb and dig, so it's possible a motivated one could get over loose fencing pretty easily - but the damage pattern this time could also have been something leaning over and eating from the top. I CAN'T TELL, but it is really annoying because it's taken out nearly all my peas and a bunch of the salad stuff. I picked some broccoli tonight even though I didn't need to use it yet, because my broccoli heads are just about fully crowned and I'm going to be incredibly annoyed if I wake up tomorrow to find that they've been devastated as well.

2. I got to pet puppies today! One of the people in my TTRPG game group has a dog (a Great Dane) that had puppies, ELEVEN of them - the 101 Dalmation jokes write themselves - and invited us over after gaming to pet them if we wanted to. They're about 3 weeks old, eyes open and toddling, but still potato shaped and incredibly soft and pleasant to hold. Puppies. <3 (I miss having a dog, although I don't want a Great Dane for a number of reasons. Handling someone else's puppies is delightful, though.)

3. Summer of Horror authors revealed, including my very unsurprising offering. I continue to be delighted with my deliciously spooky/romantic gift!

4. The Biggles prompt fest is also going delightfully.
Monday, July 28th, 2025 07:59 am
Ukweli Roach as DI Jack Caffery in Wolf, underwater.

DI Jack Caffery from BBC’s Wolf
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Monday, July 28th, 2025 01:26 am
I need to write some shit down so I can sort it all out.

Will add to it as I remember things I need to deal with so I can unload them from my brain.

Primarily of interest to me. )
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Sunday, July 27th, 2025 10:37 pm
Gukmu has done a cover, trad-style vocals, of what was released as an instrumental track called "Score Suite" on the KPop Demon Hunters OST. (I hope that's an accurate description---short though it be, I hesitated thrice while typing it. Haven't seen the film.) I think this unrelated clip has the film version, though since it's actually a chunk of the film as released, it may get C&D'd.

The Korean voice actors for Rumi, Mira, and Zoey have covered "Golden" as a trio, with a fairer distribution of lines: Shin Na-ri, Kim Do-young, and Kim Ye-rim, respectively.

Arden Cho, who voices Rumi's spoken words in the film's NorAm release, has teamed up with Cha Eun-woo, one of the rl inspirations for the character Jinu, to cover "Free." Cho's channel has also released ... an informal chat? Not sure what to call it; it's cute.

Billboard Korea has released a short interview (in Korean, with English subs) with several members of The Black Label, which produced some of the OST's songs. The group is a good example of the contemporary blurring of whether an entity (and its member individuals) is primarily diasporadic or peninsular.

ETA JTBC has now interviewed Ejae as well, which I link mostly because it has not only English and Korean subs but a Korean sign language interpreter.
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Monday, July 28th, 2025 01:27 am
I’ve been meaning to read more Adrian Tchaikovsky for a while now, first because a number of my friends really like his stuff, and then also because I read his book The Doors of Eden and really enjoyed it. (The character work in that one was hit or miss, but the speculative biology was enormous fun in directions you rarely see done well that also aimed directly at my interests, so I had a great time with it.)

The joy of finding a very prolific author is that there’s a ton of stuff to read, but the difficulty of finding a very prolific author is figuring out where to start. Handily for me, this one was on the short list for the Hugos this year! And it was my top pick – I really loved it.

More details -- no spoilers beyond the first few chapters )
Monday, July 28th, 2025 12:04 am
The Desert Links Compendium is a collection of links assembled to encourage learning about and appreciation for the ecology, history, and cultural heritage of deserts and drylands, with a focus on the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Mojave Deserts.