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The other prompt fill I wrote today ended up being full-story-length (~1100 wds) for Babylon 5, posted on AO3 as Exercises in Linguistics.

The prompt was: G'Kar and Londo (slash or gen, up to you!) and Language. Set in early season 5, probably between about 5x02 & 5x06.

( Exercises in Linguistics )

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Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly

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vriddy

I was growing really antsy about the missing notifications because day after day the tickets were piling up yet the problem didn't seem to get acknowledged anywhere (not in the known issues on the support page, not on

dw_maintenance, no replies to those tickets... I even went to check the dreamwidth github issues but crickets there too :C).

Anyway, behold! A few of the (many, many) tickets about notifications were updated with the following:

"Our developers have been looking into this and finally figured out what was going on. There's a fix in, and notifications should start flowing again. I can't say if you'll get the old ones, but new ones should be fine."

I can't wait! Thanks to the "Recent Comments" page which I'm checking first like a kinda inbox, I'm fairly sure I'm not missing anything posted anywhere on my journal. Unfortunately, because I have a couple of active posts at the moment, the "Recently Posted" page isn't as useful to me and if someone replies a couple of weeks later to a comment I left on their journal, which is usually one of Dreamwidth's strengths, I'm unlikely to see it if the notification gets dropped :C

Glad a fix is on the way and hope it's coming to us soon!! To all the chit-chat and associated notifications!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😆 (Yes I'm constantly trying to get my inbox under control but not like this 😱 XD)

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https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/813555802915962880

OK i lost my mind slightly about the tailored jeans and had to write something. yeah the rest of my shit is deeply entangled and i no longer know good from bad. but! here is slightly under four thousand words of Shane Hollander learning to dress himself.

(Did I delete over five thousand words of Rose and Shane gossiping? Yes. Maybe I’ll find somewhere to add them back in.)

Bespoke, on AO3
“Are these, uh… tailored?” Shane asked, because saying nothing would sound even weirder.
“Of course they are tailored,” Rozanov said. “How else am I going to find jeans that fit?”

https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/813555802915962880

sholio

Catching up on some older prompts now that I'm in between books.

1. EvS on Sakhalin

Prompt: EvS, that last night on Sakhalin between when Biggles first speaks to him and his escape the next day.

Posted on Tumblr here.

( Under the cut )

2. EvS & Algy (Biggles/EvS implied)

Prompt: Set post defection in London. A misunderstanding leads to Biggles being told that Erich is cheating on him. After some angst and h/c, their relationship is even stronger.

This went in a Direction. Also posted on Tumblr.

( Under the cut )

cornerofmadness

SF, one of our wildlife profs stops me on the way to lab to tell me our mutual friend PQ was here to do a guest lecture. He was partially the inspiration for Josh in These Haunted Hills PQ was a naturalist in the Hocking Hills (which is how SF knows him) and is part of my steampunk group and also loves ghost hunting and beer making (how I know him) I didn't get to hear the lecture because I had lab but I did get to talk to him about our upcoming Steampunk con in Lousiville.

The cheater finally came to lab pretending like it's all alright. It is not and I do feel a little bad that she doesn't seem to know how much trouble she's in. Ah well.

Any of my British mystery fans know Whistable Pearl? I'm starting it tonight.

My coffee shop has this month a new latter Almond Joy. This one is very good. I'll need to make it myself.

So The Amazing Digital Circus dropped a teaser trailer today for the 9th episode which is the last one and it will also be released in the theater early. this worked out horribly for Hazbin, just saying. I didn't know where to get tickets because I'll be traveling at that time. I dicked around and by the time 3 hours went by Pittsburgh was sold out. However, Huntington barely sold ANY tickets. So yeah I have tickets now.

I did a little writing. This was for

spikesgirl58's 6 words challenge. It's a potential chapter in my new novel. It may or may not happen. I'm thinking about it. It has seen zero editing so be warned.

Speaking of warnings, there is a minor mention of drug addiction, also mentioned (in no detail) child sexual abuse and PTSD. Also minor blood, mentions of sex work

( Brush with death )

And the Friday Fannish rec for Fannish 50

Coming Back Inspector George Gently

Making A Splash Torchwood

Safe And Sound Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Miss Mabel Make Plans Teen Wolf

On His Level Hazbin Hotel

Eggsplanations Torchwood

Mysterious Messenger The Fantastic Journey

Curious Hazbin Hotel

Munch Ado about Cookies The Owl House

A Narrow Escape Inspector George Gently

I May Have Hurt Your Head, But You Hurt My Heart Hazbin Hotel

Multiple Signals Hazbin Hotel

no exit (huis clos) The Amazing Digital Circus

Belief Torchwood

Head Over Heels Starsky & Hutch

Gently Going Undercover Inspector George Gently

The Perils of Paperwork Teen Wolf

The Past Reconfigured Stargate Atlantis

Who Needs Sleeping Nettles The Owl House

Lost Souls MCU

Black/Blue Hazbin Hotel

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Hudson & Rex

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marginaliana

Various Opinions:

--The hour-long Dimension 20: On A Bus was a delight but probably would have been more of a delight at half the length. I think the concept couldn't quite carry that much time and the humor of 'everyone is losing their shit' got repetitive after a while. That said, Brennan's "I'm sad because of capitalism" made me choke on my own spit.

--I've been re-watching my favorite playthrough of Hollow Knight and we just got to the episode that makes me choke up as we learn that ( spoilers )

--This is the absolute smallest of the horrible things JKR has done, but remember when it used to be a fun little fan game to chat about your blorbos and assign them Hogwarts houses? It's not fun anymore. I hate that.

--I'm writing a smut fic and I might actually have to go watch some porn to work out the logistics of how the bodies fit together for this particular situation. Not something I've done before!

--Iceland was magnificent, by the way. We went inside a tunnel in a glacier!

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For those not familiar with the schedule over there, the Medium Mood Track lasts about three months, and covers all of the higher-level moods: The fifteen absolute minimum moods you need for a complete custom mood theme, and the next nineteen that have moods that branch off of them (plus two extra). If you want to create a custom mood theme that's fairly well filled out but don't want to go for the whole 132 graphics, the Medium Track may be for you!

If you want to try and min-max your mood theme, on the other hand, the Minimum Track has also restarted; it lasts six weeks, and takes you through the bare minimum fifteen moods you need for a complete custom mood theme, plus the next three most populous higher-level moods, so you get the most image diversity for the least amount of work 👍

Feeling ambitious and want to go for the whole thing? Jump in now and follow along with the Medium and Maximum Tracks simultaneously! The Medium Track will catch you up to all of the moods the Maximum Track has already covered, while the Maximum Track covers all of the moods that aren't in the Medium Track.

Come check it out, and maybe earn some Dreamwidth points while you're at it!

Current Mood: bouncy

mific

Minor update to yesterday's post.

One of those scary buzzy alerts on my phone just now, for the cyclone later today and tomorrow. No change from yesterday, just grumbling that I hate how those alerts startle me and raise my anxiety. Which is the point, I know! The eerie calm has broken - a light wind now and I just looked up and saw sun on the garden, but a sky becoming dark and lowering beyond. Peak cyclone time is the small hours of Sunday morning. Guess I'd better go outside and see what needs tidying away, then find the camping gas box in the garage. I'm very lucky that's all I need to do.

ofearthandstars

Artemis II. Amaze Amaze Amaze. 💚💙💜

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chocolatepot

Feeling happy and curatorial this week, I restarted Wedding Wednesday and Footwear Friday on Bsky/Tumblr (and will get back to Miniature Monday as well): they've always been opportunities to practice clear but elegant label-writing, nd now I need that more than I have in several years.

I'm also psyched to eventually meet up with the Western NY Costuming Community after so many years of just not being near any groups. They're having a literary-themed picnic in early June and that will be mere weeks after I move out there, so I CANNOT try to make something, but at the same time I am so itching to do it. No!!! By now I don't think I have anything historical that fits ... Well, actually, I have a ca. 1908 blouse I made for everyday wear (except it looks way too frumpy as modern dress), and surely I could put together a walking skirt and be like "this is for The Secret Garden". And just be without a corset because the blouse is loose enough for it not to be too horrendously obvious.

Also having my usual "moving to a new place, is this when I finally get started with the SCA?" feelings. Thescorre has a lot going on.

luthien

The Secret Marriage (11286 words) by Luthien
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander, Yuna Hollander, Svetlana Vetrova, Hayden Pike
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Marriage, Secret Marriage, Wedding Planning, Blow Jobs, Tea, string, Ilya Rozanov is a Menace, Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander, Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov, mothers, mothers and sons, Friendship, Good Friend Svetlana Vetrova, Good Friend Hayden Pike, Svetlana Vetrova Finds Out About Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Hayden Pike Finds Out About Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, 69 (Sex Position)
Series: Part 2 of The Secret Marriage
Summary:

Shane Hollander marries Ilya Rozanov on a Friday at his cottage by the lake.

Shane and Ilya decide to get married during their time at the Cottage. It's a secret from nearly everyone, but even secret weddings still need some preparations.

Follows on from 'Out of the Closet'.

conuly

Edit: fuck, I forgot to include Smallville! Uh, vote for that as the last option I guess.

1. Results will be non-binding

2. I will not watch anything starring anybody who then went on to perform in the God's Not Dead franchise. This isn't even about their abhorrent beliefs, it's about their apparently low artistic standards. I only am barely including Xena on this list because we can just skip crossover episodes. Please do let me know if I accidentally listed a Big Mistake in that regard

Poll #34464 Old TV

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24

View Respondents

What are we gonna watch together?

View Answers

Teen Wolf
2 (8.3%)

Stargate (any)
12 (50.0%)

Xena
8 (33.3%)

X-Files
8 (33.3%)

Scrubs
3 (12.5%)

Something else that you'll put in the comments
1 (4.2%)

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部首
水 part 22
添, to add; 淼, flood (not often used but it's a neat character); 清, clear/Qing dynasty ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=85

语法
3.21 就是 for denying the previous clause
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-3-grammar

词汇
白酒, Chinese liquor (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
我们家这臭小子又给你添麻烦了, this brat of ours has troubled you once again
我这人不求名利，就是想把我自个知道的一切告诉给所有人, I'm not looking for fame, I just want to tell everyone what I know
[no 白酒]

Me:
你再来一遍，我没听清楚。
不要让他喝白酒啊，他一喝一口就睡着啦。

stonepicnicking_okapi

ETA: there's a prompt fest at Spring Renewal if you are into that: https://spring-renewal.dreamwidth.org/

So I went by my public library and they were doing the tiny scrolls of poems for National Poetry Month so I got two (one for me and one for Minisculus who I was taking for his annual check-up) so I had us unroll them at lunch...and they were the same poem! No fair! This one. So I used it in a collage.

Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell

Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all
The little lesser hills which compass thee,
Thou standest, bright with April’s buoyancy,
Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall
Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call
Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy
And cast a cloud of crimson, silently,
Above thy snowy crevices where fall
Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath
Melts at their phantom touch. Another year
Is quick with import. Such each year has been.
Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeat
Some jewel to thy diadem of power,
Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.

bluapapilio

Episode 10: Why is an adult in a tournament full of kids, anyway? And he has a long blond goatee, what do you mean you can't tell if he's visited outside of costume. He said Aichi's full name who was like 'how do you know me'. I'm sorry but YOUR NAME WAS JUST CALLED OUT WHEN YOU WON YOUR FIGHT of course he knows you! And your name is on the board! It was a clumsy way of showing that the ninja is someone he knows, like...his teacher.

Episode 11: Aichi won against his teacher de gozaru. It's nice to see more girls playing, too bad they had to go against each other. Aichi, Misaki, Kamui and Kai made it through. Misaki can be pretty shy hm.

So it's Aichi vs Kamui and Kai vs Misaki next.

Episode 12-13:

What is that card supposed to be?

I feel a little bad for Misaki, she didn't stand a chance in the end.

Aichi's fight was hard to watch but it was really realistic, Kamui has fought a lot more people than Aichi, Aichi didn't know anything about what the cards in Kamui's deck could do. He was not ready to face Kai even if he did win.

Kai unsurprisingly won against Kamui.

The last four are entered into the biggest Vanguard tournament. I guess we'll be meeting more characters from hereon? :O

Episode 14: Kamui takes Aichi to another shop where last year's regional tournament winners are.

Good lord that Nagisa is annoying. Physical assault is not funny even coming from a child. This whole plot is gross, if Aichi loses against Nagisa's big brother she gets Kamui and Aichi has to fuck off, really? 😡

The Granblue deck is cool but I was too irritated about why they were dueling to pay attention. :| In any case Aichi lost... I hope Kamui never goes to that shop again, ew.

Oh, Emi's going to play too!

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sholio - Promptfic from Tumblr 2: Babylon 5 edition
apod_feed - (no subject)
vriddy - PSA update regarding the Dreamwidth notifications
bomberqueen17_feed - new fic: Bespoke
sholio - Biggles promptfic from Tumblr
cornerofmadness - That was nice
chestnut_pod - Frederick Ashton's Sylvia (ABT)
marginaliana - Sighs Queen
soc_puppet in dw_community_promo - Mood Theme in a Year: Second Medium Track Run
mific - I am alerted!
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ranalore - my imperfections remind you of theirs
bluapapilio - 🌈BL Manga Check-in: "Amanojaku ni Koishite!"
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luthien - FIC: The Secret Marriage (3/?)
conuly - Given E's predeliction for 1990s - 2000s tv, what is she going to watch next?
askamanager_feed - weekend open thread – April 11-12, 2026
nnozomi in guardian_learning - 第五年第九十天
stonepicnicking_okapi - Collage Journalling: Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell
bluapapilio - Anime Check-in: Cardfight!! Vanguard ep. 10-14

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Promptfic from Tumblr 2: Babylon 5 edition

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PSA update regarding the Dreamwidth notifications

new fic: Bespoke

Biggles promptfic from Tumblr

That was nice

Frederick Ashton's Sylvia (ABT)

Sighs Queen

Mood Theme in a Year: Second Medium Track Run

I am alerted!

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my imperfections remind you of theirs

🌈BL Manga Check-in: "Amanojaku ni Koishite!"

(no subject)

FIC: The Secret Marriage (3/?)

Given E's predeliction for 1990s - 2000s tv, what is she going to watch next?

weekend open thread – April 11-12, 2026

第五年第九十天

Collage Journalling: Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell

Anime Check-in: Cardfight!! Vanguard ep. 10-14

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