3-sentence stories: Day 2

Jun. 23rd, 2025 11:02 pm
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Loving the stories so far! Here's the second prompt.

The challenge: Write a three-sentence story that involves the prompt and share it in the comments! The prompt doesn’t have to be used with the precise wording - just make sure it’s clear the prompt has inspired the piece.

There's no deadline on these stories, though sooner is better if you'd like others involved in the event to read and comment.

Day 2: Exploring dark places
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It's time for [community profile] tardis_library's annual Reccer's Bingo!

Reccer's bingo!

Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on Sunday 21st September 2025.

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card in the comments below. You can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded from the prompt list. (Feel free to interpret prompts as widely as you please, as long as the works you rec for each square still relate to the prompts in some way. )

2. Post your rec(s) for each square to this community. Please post recs for the same square together in the same post. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut. (1-5 recs per each prompt min/max.)

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.


3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo pattern comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card).

([community profile] hc_bingo's guidelines on how to achieve a bingo are still fairly comprehensive if you want to check out all possible variations.)


Once you're done, you can claim a brand new card, or use your original card for extras (again, see [community profile] hc_bingo link above for examples - e.g. reccing works that meet multiple prompts simultaneously etc.)

Treat recs for extras in the same way as the original bingo squares, with each individual fill/rec/rec set posted to the comm as one post.

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If you have any other questions about the challenge, please ask here or at the general comm sticky post. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

Just one thing: 23 June 2025

Jun. 23rd, 2025 06:46 am
[personal profile] jazzyjj posting in [community profile] awesomeers
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Green Lantern #185

Jun. 23rd, 2025 12:29 pm
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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils and inks: Dave Gibbons


Hal Jordan tries to live a normal life without his Power Ring.


Read more... )

Well well.

Jun. 23rd, 2025 07:13 am
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If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

I’m a bit sore today, aggravated by the fact that I’m wearing jeans and not my comfy pants. I don’t strictly need to wear them, but I want to be dressed and not in pajamas.

I played Breath of Fire 3 for five hours yesterday. I use autobattle as timer to play mobile games; playing the mobile game while the battle is running, that is. It works for me, but there was an event in one of them that my partners refused to participate in, and I really wanted the prize for finishing, so that’s what I spent my afternoon on. 

In other news, I cannot get comfortable. My right side feels like it’s being pulled forward and I don’t know why. This is going to make writing very difficult.
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I did a load of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, emptied the dishwasher, scooped kitty litter, and stopped at Stewart’s on the way home for milk. I dropped off a book at the library, started the next Amelia Peabody book, and finally got to see the current Murderbot. My brother and his GF were visiting mom when I arrived, so I got to see them.

Temps started out at 67.8(F) and reached high 80s. (Again, I wasn’t home to check.) Thunderstorms rolled in around 4am, which woke everyone up, and dropped quite a bit of rain between then and 8am. It didn’t rain again, and remained overcast, but it was hot and humid.


Mom Update:

Mom continues to do well. more back here )

2025 Rules and Guidelines.

Jun. 23rd, 2025 08:56 pm
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Please make sure you familiarise yourself with our rules, guidelines, and eligibility criteria. While Rare Pair shares a theme with a few exchanges on the circuit, we do have a few key differences in how we choose to run our exchange.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them on this post (anonymous commenting is on) or email rarepairexmod@gmail.com. (If you email us, please allow two business days for a response before following up.) We will not be responding to Discord messages.

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June Theme - Nooks & Crannies

Jun. 23rd, 2025 11:03 am
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It's the last week of June, so our last week of working on those forgotten spaces in our homes, whether we're cleaning or decluttering. Over the last few weeks, we've spent time in the bedroom, main living space and kitchen, so what do you have left to do? Is there a cupboard in a hallway or a garden shed or garage/attic space that would benefit from your efforts? Or is there a bit more needed in one of the spaces that you worked on earlier in the month?

How has the month gone so far, are you feeling like progress was made and was it useful?

We look forward to hearing how things have gone.
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Last night, when I was about to go to bed, I had a sudden revelation about Deltarune: Kris has a crush on Noelle.

No, hear me out, I swear I'm not just being an overinvested shipper. I mean, I am being an overinvested shipper, but I still think I have grounds for believing this!

There are minor spoilers for chapter four of Deltarune below the cut.


The case for Kris having a crush on Noelle. )


I'd love to write more Deltarune fanfiction, but it's tricky when there are so many unanswered mysteries! My main area of interest is Kris and their dynamics with other characters, but I feel I understand Kris less with every chapter that comes out. How can I write about them when I know so little about what's going on in their head?

I suppose that's why I'm doing so much rambling theorising. I can't write fanfiction, and these words have to go somewhere!

Excalibur #50

Jun. 23rd, 2025 10:32 am
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Words and pencils: Alan Davis

Inks: Mark Farmer


Phoenix dukes it out with Necrom with the fate of the Omniverse in the balance.


Read more... )

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: M/M
Words: 2758
Warnings: no archive-type warnings apply
Author on DW: [personal profile] the_spike (much of their SGA fic is here)
Author's Website: more fic on AO3
Link: Untitled SGA comment fic on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: It's a short, well-written story where John and Rodney are trapped in a basement off-world after a building collapses. There's some great snark and dialogue and when rescue is imminent, John finally makes a move. A fun read.

snippet of fic )

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Jun. 23rd, 2025 09:21 am
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I watched Hungry Earth / Cold Blood last night
and was struck again by
how very much
we do not predict the big ones.

Ten years into the future from 2010
so about 2020.

... it kind of works still, though, since it is grey enough to be early early, but also so small a setting. Like the piles of 'old' tech in the place they hide out in, once you've got a forgotten corner you can do what you like with it. And, adds a layer to reasons to wave themselves off...

Finders Keepers by Sarah Adler

Jun. 23rd, 2025 08:00 am
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Posted by Lara

A

Finders Keepers

by Sarah Adler
June 24, 2025 · Berkley
Mystery/Thriller

I picked this book up only because I loved Adler’s second book, Happy Medium. (I haven’t read her first yet) For this book, I didn’t feel particularly moved by the blurb. I wasn’t interested in anything to do with a treasure hunt and second chance romance is usually a turn off for me. Yet I still picked this book up and I am so very glad I did. This ended up being a Bad Decisions Book Club for me and an easy A.

Nina’s life fell to bits. Her promised permanent position at a college in Boston didn’t materialise and so she’s unemployed. She breaks up with her boyfriend because she realises that he doesn’t actually love her and she doesn’t have a place to stay because she was due to move in with her boyfriend and had given up the lease on her own place. So she ends up back home in a small town in Maryland living in her childhood bedroom. Nina is rudderless and so so lost.

But so is her childhood neighbour. Quentin had been living in Paris with his fiancee when his life imploded, so he’s back home as well, living on the other side of the duplex Nina’s parents live in. Nina and Quentin’s bedrooms share a wall and have windows very close together. Nina and Quentin haven’t spoken in 17 years until they are reunited by these circumstances. They had been the closest of friends, until things went wrong in their teens and Quentin moved away and cut contact with Nina.

Quentin and Nina start talking again tentatively, but there are so many hurt feelings to navigate. The conversations are fraught. Quentin suggests that they restart the treasure hunt they began as teens. Incidentally, it’s also the reason that their friendship ended. Drawn to each other, they nonetheless decide to go ahead with it, even if only for the monetary reward that Quentin says is still available.

The treasure hunt was set up by an eccentric seltzer magnate in the 1930s and no one had solved it in the intervening 100-odd years. As far as the treasure hunt goes, I enjoyed the clues and the process Quentin and Nina go through to try and solve it. There are hijinks and searches and library time. All very enjoyable to read about.

But if you guessed that the real gold lay in the emotional archeology they engage in, then you’d be right. Very slowly, they extend olive branches towards each other. It’s not all smooth reconnection, though. There are bumps in their road back to each other, but inexorably they move closer together, slowly like two magnets entrapped in the mud of the past, nonetheless drawn to each other. The emotions are so rich and full and real that it makes for a very fulfilling read.

There is a bleak moment in this book that a) really works and b) totally surprised me. I was sure this was going to be one of those books that just cruised towards a HEA, but things fall apart for our heroes in a surprising way.

I also really enjoyed reading about characters comfortably in their 30s. They’ve lived full lives and bring a lot to the table in terms of experience. Nina, in particular though, is lost. With her career on the rocks, she’s not at all sure what she should be doing next. She feels like a tremendous failure returning to her parents with her tail between her legs. She thought she was better than this small town, but the town surprises her with the ways in which it has changed.

The writing in this book is also really immersive and easy to get lost in. So often there would be sections that would make me gasp with delight because they were written so well. This is just one of them:

Just because we’ve made a deal to continue our search for Fountain’s treasure doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten what happened. It just means I’m willing to bury it back down in the deep, dark underbrush of my heart where it dwelled quite contently before Quentin’s sudden reappearance so rudely flushed it out from its hiding place.

Why is this book an A for me? First, for the myriad reasons I mention above. But also because I stayed up LATE reading this thing. I kept fighting sleep to try and get just one more page read. For context, my baby is now only waking once at night (okay, sometimes twice) so there was definitely the potential for me to get some good rest, but no! While she slumbered peacefully, I read voraciously. I would also periodically slam the book down on the bed and exclaim to my partner that this was Such a Good Book. I did this a number of times. These are my indicators that a book is something special. I heartily recommend this book to the Bitchery – it’s excellent!

New fic

Jun. 23rd, 2025 03:22 am
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I wrote an extremely silly fic for Highlander: The Raven. And it's short, at only 2,078 words.

Diminutive Disruption
Rating: G
Gen
No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Amanda, Lucy, Cassandra, Nick (although Nick has no speaking lines, he is very vocal)

I got knocked out by some illness going around, which was absolutely awful in a whole bunch of ways. So one of the ways I forced time to pass was by writing the most ludicrous thing I could think of, which involved Nick turning into his spirit animal, and then I roped Cassandra of the inexplicable wolfishness into my rationale, and Nick the small, angry terrier was born. It made sense at the time.

I also realized it was the best opportunity for me to utilize the silly "no beta" tag that often makes me smile. I almost never have a beta, but I find that tag unusable because it contradicts the tone I'm going for. Not so much here. Then I almost skipped it anyway because all I could think of was "we die like Claudia," which wasn't a fitting joke, but then I remembered Amanda's hair and it turned into a pun so bad I had to use it. Which sums up this entire creative process.

Audience Becomes Choir

Jun. 23rd, 2025 12:37 am
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This performance from AGT snagged my attention, in which the contestant turns the audience into a choir.

1) Some people with Bardic gift can share theirs with other people; it's rare but I've known people who could do it.  That's likely part of this.

2) Some people have a gift for conveying abstract ideas visually, which is rare enough, but doing it intuitively like that is really rare and impressive.  Musical scores are precise but take a lot of training to read, especially sight-read without practice.  Creating a visual representation of a song in three voices (high, middle, low) with indications of pitch and duration -- which works well as demonstrated -- is epic.

Business world: "Dammit, I wish we had someone that good with visuals to do whiteboard notes for our meetings."

Music world: "We saw her first."

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