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[Podfic] Oh freddled gruntbuggly (23 words) by peasina, MelancholyMorningstar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leia Organa & Darth Vader
Characters: Leia Organa, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader
Additional Tags: Bad Poetry, Vogon Poetry (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:

Darth Vader learned his torture tactics from the Vogons.

Current Mood: i don't need a vader icon
Current Music: Thy micturations are to me

petra

This due South comic is flippin' brilliant, and I don't just say that as someone who loves the way the artist draws RayV looking at Fraser.

( Other things I liked about it )

Ahem.

Give it a go. It's short! It's cracky! It's pretty!

And I have the right icon for it.

Current Mood: charmed
Current Music: If you've ever been a lady to begin with

raspberryhunter

This year I wrote Opera RPF/Don Carlos (Verdi), 18th CE RPF/Sieben Jahre (Kinkel) and Blood on the Clocktower fic.
( Discussion. )

pensnest

I did just squeak in before the reveal with yesterday's recs, happily. Not that it matters, because there are so many authors around for Yuletide, and I maybe recognise a handful of names—I doubt I'd go looking for Writer X's Stuff. Anyway, I hope you all had a chance to read through whatever may have caught your eye.

My story was With What Intense Desire, a Mansfield Park fic which changes the end of the story so that Fanny goes home earlier from Portsmouth, and gets to listen to Edmund whingeing about Mary in person instead of reading his letters.

My recipient wanted Fanny to be happy, and my conclusion from re-reading was that Fanny's truest source of happiness is being at Mansfield, at Home, in fact, so that is what I gave her. I may not have been quite heavy-handed enough, as nobody in the comments said they were glad to see her becoming the mistress of Mansfield Park, but there it is. It was fun to do, mostly because I was able to adjust Fanny a wee bit so that she gets more impatient with Edmund, which I do myself.

The title is from a quote in Chapter 45, "With what intense desire she wants her home," from Cowper.

So, that's Yuletide done for another year!

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Snowflake Challenge 2026, challenge no. 1: The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I seem to have introduced myself many, many times, as I've been doing an online journal since I joined LiveJournal in 2005, and have (I think) done at least some of the Snowflake Challenge every year since it began.

So rather than reiterate how I came to be a fanfic-fandom person, I'm going to send anyone who's interested to the Snowflake 2022 post I made, in which I introduce myself via some posts. A selection of my posts, rather than a(nother) post About Me. The first is a love letter to fandom; the second mourns the death of a creative idol of mine (Stephen Sondheim) and also mourns the country I wish I lived in. The third is about death, though possibly a bit less miserable than that sounds. And there's a bonus fourth, to cheer you up a bit—a really unhelpful phonetic alphabet. As a collection, I think they give quite a good idea of Me, though I'm not usually quite so death-focused.

What do I want from Snowflake this year? I'm not sure. Some entertainment, maybe the discovery of a couple of new people to interact with? As much as anything, I have the feeling that this is a little burgeoning of posts, and I would like to be part of that.

What do I want from DreamWidth this year? Hmm. I'd like to put in a bit of the energy that I've been frivolling away on Reddit lately—although on Reddit I am somewhat more astringent and wit-focused, I think, than I am in this my own space. I hope there will be more discussion of Stuff I'm Interested In, whether that may be barbershop or fandom in general and the changes it has undergone of late, or the pleasure-pain of writing, or what to wear to dance at my daughter's wedding, and more. We shall see.

trobadora

My second Yuletide fic is a crossover! My recipient prompted for a Guardian crossover with Da Qing, so I included a tiny cameo in Heart-Seed, Heart-Flower - and then I couldn't resist writing more about what happened.

Because:

Da Qing is always so much fun to write!

I had a dragon! And Dragon City should have a dragon in its history, right?

And most importantly, my story was already about someone travelling realms and healing worlds with magic water/flowers, so naturally I had to have him do the same for Guardian and provide a fix-it there, too. *g*

(The story turned out very Guardian-heavy, so it's just as well that I didn't manage to finish it in time to put it in the main collection.)

Also, I have to share this because I used it for the fic, and it's very cool: Here is a time-lapse video of a cotton plant! It has white flowers, while the one in the story is yellow, but still. *g*

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Dragon of Flowers, Dragon of the City (2,275 words)
Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), Thermos "Flower Series" Commercials
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Da Qing, Zhu Yilong's Thermos Character, Zhao Yunlan, Shen Wei, SID team
Content Tags: Canon Divergence (for Guardian), Episode Related, Episode 37, Fix-It, Hallows Shenanigans, The Wick of the Guardian Lantern, Magical Flowers, Cross-dimensional Wanderers, Saving Worlds with a Magic Bottle, Dragon City is named after a dragon
A/N: Many thanks to

china_shop for beta-reading!

Summary:

Lao-Zhao leaned forward, resting an elbow on a knee. "I thought you got all your memories back."

"Yeah, yeah." Da Qing waved a hand in the air, dismissively. "Not remember like 'I don't know my past', remember like 'where did I put my keys'. Except not my keys."

vass

Heads-up re LiveJournal, if you haven't heard: if you still have stuff you care about there, you should probably save it now.

Yuletide reveal: I wrote A Night at the Opera for

mage-pie. I already knew them from Discord, and their prompts were very much in line with what I wanted to write. Good experience.

Tonight I unplugged my desktop, opened up the case, and gave it a clean. I am happy to say that it booted again afterwards. I haven't yet dared to try Hollow Knight again since, though. (What prompted me to do this was having the computer spontaneously shut down twice while I was playing Hollow Knight. In the same region.[*] It's a hot day, and heat plus not having cleaned the case since mumbleevermumble plus spontaneous shutdown while playing a game made me think "overheating".)

[* City of Tears, near the Watcher's Spire.]

dine

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philomytha

I matched one of my 'why not try this' fandoms this year in Yuletide and had a lovely request for Heyer's Cotillion. I've never written Heyer fic, or any Regency romance fic unless you count the more Heyeresque parts of Bujold, but she's a longstanding favourite author and I wanted to have a go, and Cotillion is such a fun book, one of my absolute favourites of hers. And Lord Legerwood is one of Heyer's many delightfully sardonic older men and so writing his POV was tremendous fun - I had a couple of false starts trying to write something for this request, but once I started writing Lord Legerwood it all came together very smoothly. And a comedy of misunderstandings seemed very appropriate for Heyer.

By Special Licence (Heyer - Cotillion, canon pairings, epilogue, 2000 words)

To get into the spirit of the thing, as well as reading Cotillion a couple of times through I have been slowly reading through all the Heyers, partly to get the voice and also because it's always like this when I pick up one Heyer: I have to read all the other ones immediately afterwards. I haven't reread any of the Georgian ones yet because I wanted to keep my head in the Regency voice, but now that my fic is all done I will be getting to them because what can beat These Old Shades - the first Heyer I ever read, not necessarily the best place to start except of course it is the best place to start. Anyway, I have been reading through the Regencies more or less in favourite order, so I've now reached Arabella - which has many things I do love but the 'told a silly lie and now have to stick to it' trope isn't one of them. (Top ten Heyer Regencies, not in order: Frederica, Venetia, A Civil Contract, Cotillion, Friday's Child, The Nonesuch, The Foundling, The Unknown Ajax, The Reluctant Widow, Black Sheep.) But even my least favourite Heyers are still fun to reread.

And as well as what I wrote, the authors of my gifts are revealed:

morvidra wrote Happiness In Time Of Joy (Wimsey missing scenes from Busman's Honeymoon)

longwhitecoats wrote Double Exposure (long Wimsey casefic with Harriet/Peter/Bunter)

fullborn wrote Wandrers Nachtlied ('The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' Theo/Clive fic).

Thank you all very much!

dine

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petra

The sum of ourselves (468 words) by Petra, Teland
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Roy Harper & Koriand'r & Jason Todd
Characters: Roy Harper, Koriand'r (DCU), Jason Todd
Additional Tags: Nostalgia, Crack, Pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths Canon
Summary:

Red Hood and the Outlaws sit around chewing the fat after their first successful mission.

Current Mood: bananas
Current Music: When someone asks me, "What is that funny thing you've got?"

cahn

I ended up reading a few things over the fall :)

( This got longish. Don Karlos (Schiller), Heart of Princess Osra and Prisoner of Zenda (Hope), Sieben Jahre (Kinkel) )

petra

There is no stagnation in the heavens;
They spin on, shedding their light, as we watch.
So too, below, change both kneads and leavens,
Now squashing flat, now lifting heart and crotch.
The dearest lover's touch, once memorized,
Arouses in absentia, but its shade
Can't match the novel zing of lust surprised.
The chaos factor that brings us arrayed
To catch new paramours, or woo the caught,
Is lightning flash astonishment that's chased
In renewed union and a clinch red-hot,
With new-found passion or love long-embraced.
So bring to bed good novelties and play,
That you may keep love fresh, as dawn starts day.

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Many happy returns of the day, dear heart!

Current Mood: versical
Current Music: But as year turns year, I'll always be here, in springtime or wintry weather

everysecondtuesday

Hi! I have previous past letters with likes lists and prompts that still hold true, so feel free to peruse old letters, though please be aware of my current DNWs and requests.

For ease of finding me: tuesday.

What I've written and what I want as a gift can differ, so for best results, please rely on my likes and DNWs over what you may find on my AO3 works page.

This letter is A Lot due to having years and years of material to copy-paste from for my general likes, etc. I'm taking advantage of how Chocolate Box is set up to request a single fandom I'm excited for, and if a work has my requested relationship and medium, so long as it avoids my DNWs, I will be very happy! This is just to give my creator a ton of direction for things I do like and some optional prompts if my creator wants them. You can skip to the things you think will be relevant in the letter, or the whole letter entirely.

( Text Likes )

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Do Not Wants

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( DCC AI/Carl request & fandom specific DNWs )

silent_gluk

И вот снова пятница, первая в этом году, а значит, с вами безмерно благодарная за помощь и поддержку жаба с первым же в этом году отчетом.

Правда, событий у нас нет совсем.

По медицинской части - ждем "послепраздников". С зубом - думаю, не удастся ли дотянуть до тепла и весны.

По бытовой - в общем, тоже. Вот Новый год встретили. Каждый раз хочется чего-нибудь особенного, и каждый раз получается традиционно. Впрочем, традиции - это тоже неплохо, а отсутствие перемен (которые обычно к худшему) - так и вовсе хорошо. За порядок по-прежнему ведется борьба, с замком, телефоном для Ка-Мыши, миграцией с мейл.ру и поиском запасного аэродрома для миграции с Гмейла по-прежнему же ничего не сделано, с водой тоже, на "Чудовищ глубин" и на зубы не отложила... В общем, достижений нет. Разве что вот хануккию почистила и убрала. Хотя бы одна посылка с Алиэкспресса зашевелилась. Это хорошо. Руководство ЖЖ озверело (чтобы не сказать словами О.Громыко) и выкатило требования к аккаунтам для написания постов и комментирования. Мы-то с Ка-Мышью подходим... пока... но сам факт мне не нравится (да и почти никому не нравится). С другой стороны, может, русскоязычное сообщество на Дримвайдсе зашевелится и оживет. "Самые отсталые слои населения облачились в джинсы", в смысле что даже в наших краях появились электробусы. Почему-то на социальном маршруте. Он, конечно, длинный, но редко ходящий (может, поэтому - что на него надо мало машин?). Удивлена. Жду Вескона, ищу свободные дни, чтобы втиснуть наконец отчет с Зиланткона.

По финансовой части - пенсия пришла, но пока не дистрибутирована. До дистрибутации - недели две, до пенсии - недель 5. (Вот в чем недостаток раннего прихода пенсии - уж очень долго ждать следующую). В счет долга - 6.000, долг 68.000.

Еще раз спасибо вам всем! Я все вспоминаю тот Новый год, который вы помогли устроить нам с Романом... Пусть у вас вся жизнь будет сплошным праздником! (Ну или пока вам не надоест).

Current Mood: испуганное
Current Location: Москва
Current Music: Ниэннах - Тень истины

petra

Oh, Streetcar! being the Simpsons' musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire, which also takes place in New Orleans.

If you haven't seen it this decade, click through first, to hear Ned Flanders belt "HELL" if nothing else.

Tell me Louis didn't think his life would be a Mardi Gras, once upon a time.

"I think it's supposed to symbolize her descent into madness."

Current Mood: it's a while till Mardi Gras
Current Music: And here's a tip from Blanche you won't regret

lannamichaels

Me: Oooh this new Mountain Goats song Cold At Night is so good!

Me, on repeated listens: hang on, who is that person doing backing vocals?

Me: That sounds like Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Me: That cannot be correct.

Anyway. Yes, it is Lin-Manuel Miranda.

God, what is it about the Mountain Goats and making me ache to write poetry. They really took up that space vacated by Leonard Cohen.

petra

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Hi, I'm Petra. I'm a writer and avid reader, primarily focused on fanfiction and poetry, who will write damn near anything for a drabble or a limerick at a time in one of my many fandoms, and I currently have a writing offer open here if anyone has any relevant requests they'd like me to entertain.

I am still very stuck on Star Wars, but I have never been monofannish, so if something else on my list pings your brain, by all means, prompt me!

I don't write about my personal life much, so here's the tl;dr -- 40's, they/them pronouns, happily married, happily employed.

I like Snowflake Challenge because early January is dark and miserable in my area, and it helps to have something to look forward to.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Asparagus and watercress and fiddle-ferns and lettuce

beatrice_otter

LiveJournal has been owned by Russians for some years now, and they just announced some changes on the Russian side of the service that are not announced on the English-language side: https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html

Basically, they're going to be cutting off contact between Russian language users in Russia and Russian language users who are outside of Russia, and between English-language users and Russian-language users. Plus some other miscellaneous stuff.

denise has a thread on Bluesky where she analyzes why she thinks they're doing this. There's a good chance they're planning on either shutting down or selling the English-language version of the site.

If there is anything on LJ that you like that is not backed up somewhere else, now might be a good time to fix that. If it's your content, there are several ways to download it (linked in the thread above), including exporting it to Dreamwidth. If it's not your content, you can still ask the Internet Archive to save a copy of the page.

twistedchick

The Post Office's little announcement that letters and objects won't be postmarked on the day they're received any more is a nastygram to mail-in ballots, and a removal of the status of a postmark as an official government designation of date and location.

petra

Madalena's Ballad of Great Success provides the sheet music. And now, this link is where you can listen to the song! Come get it stuck in your head with me!

Current Mood: time to comment
Current Music: This is the best life has ever been

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petra - Podfic: Oh freddled gruntbuggly - Darth Vader reads his poetry to torture Leia
petra - Recommendation: Luck, be a lady - due South fancomic by gjdraws
raspberryhunter - Yuletide reveal
pensnest - Snowflake Challenge #1
trobadora - FIC: Dragon of Flowers, Dragon of the City (Guardian/Thermos "Flower Series) [Teen]
vass - Various
dine - (no subject)
philomytha - Yuletide reveals!
dine - begin as you mean to go on
petra - The sum of ourselves - DCU story, co-written with Té
cahn - Stuff I read over the fall
petra - The great callipgyian spheres - sonnet for minoanmiss
everysecondtuesday - Candy Hearts Letter
silent_gluk - Отчет
petra - Vids that will never be: Oh, Streetcar! + Interview with the Vampire (TV)
lannamichaels - My ability to identify Lin-Manuel Miranda by singing voice continues to amaze me
petra - Snowflake Challenge #1 - Introduction
beatrice_otter - LiveJournal making changes--back up your stuff
twistedchick - (no subject)
petra - Yuletide Story Received Update - The Galavant Song!

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