one, lonely donkey chewing on an electric fence

Title: Fallen In Battle
Fandom: War of the Worlds (1988-90)
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Harrison Blackwood, Paul Ironhorse.
Rating: PG
Setting: Seasons 2, Episode 1.
Summary: An alien clone of Colonel Ironhorse wreaks havoc on the Blackwood Project.
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 507: Amnesty 84, using Challenge 15: Double.
Disclaimer: I don’t own War of the Worlds, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

I wrote three Candy Hearts treats this year!

Battement d'ailes (750 words) by Andraste
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Red Shoes (1948)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Julian Craster/Victoria Page & Boris Lermontov
Characters: Boris Lermontov, Julian Craster, Victoria Page
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Canonical Character Death, Suicide, Candy Hearts treat
Summary:

The beating of wings.

(Or: a The Red Shoes daemonverse AU.)

À la carte (1001 words) by Andraste
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Shock.wav & The Vees
Characters: Shock.wav, Vox (Hazbin Hotel), Valentino (Hazbin Hotel), Velvette (Hazbin Hotel)
Additional Tags: Val is briefly weird about food, Candy Hearts treat
Summary:

Shock.wav is a growing boy dog shark dog thing. Just as well there's always someone around the tower to feed him, whether they meant to or not.

Menuet (1806 words) by Andraste
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Anora Mac Tir/Celene Valmont
Characters: Anora Mac Tir, Celene Valmont
Additional Tags: Accidental First Date, Or Is It?, Candy Hearts treat
Summary:

A map is not the territory.

Or: the diplomatic talks between Ferelden and Orlais that take place during Inquisition take a turn.

This afternoon, I made this lemon cake because 1. I had an open container of ricotta I wanted to use up before it spoiled, and 2. I've been looking for a nut-free alternative to my favorite lemon cake since one of my nieces has a tree nut allergy. It turns out I did not have enough ricotta, but I made it up with sour cream, and the cake seems fine. It did stick to the pan in one small spot so I didn't take a picture of it since it had a gash in it, but it tastes great. The trick of adding turbinado sugar to the glaze to make it crunchy is a good one, too.

I also made dressing for coleslaw, which I've never done before - always just bought the pre-made deli version - and it's ok, not great. Not tangy enough, tbh. I wonder if replacing some of the mayo with buttermilk is the way to go. I ate some with a steak I pan-fried for dinner and that was nice. I don't have steak very often, but sometimes it goes on sale and I get it.

We're supposed to be getting between 12"-18" of snow tomorrow/Monday (wait, I just checked, and the current forecast is 39% likelihood of at least 18" if not more, wow), and I'm supposed to go into the office on Tuesday, so I guess we'll see what actually materializes, whether the streets are cleaned, and how I feel on Tuesday morning. Supposedly we're getting a free lunch, but I don't know when the consultant who is supposed to be buying it for our in person meeting is flying in, idk what is going to happen. There was some back and forth on Teams today about the storm and they are notifying everyone to be remote on Monday, which is the smart choice.

Anyway, my menu is not very cozy - I was planning on making that lemony macaroni salad for lunches, and some baked oatmeal with cherries and chocolate chips for breakfast. I do have bread, milk, and eggs, so there could always be French toast! Though I did make that on Wednesday when I realized it was Ash Wednesday (and that I'd completely forgotten Shrove Tuesday). I'll probably have pasta for dinner tomorrow regardless, since it's Sunday.

Today, I watched Batman Ninja, which features the Batfamily time traveling back to feudal Japan (but so much Joker and I am so tired of Joker), and then its sequel, Batman vs. the Yakuza League, which I enjoyed more because it has Wonder Woman in it and she's fantastic as always. It also features ( I guess this is a spoiler ) It was weird to me though that we got 4 Batboys (Jason's feudal Japan headgear is HILARIOUS), but no Cass or Babs at all, and I didn't love the art for Selina. Someday we'll get an animated version of Wayne Family Adventures and the girls and Duke will get their due!

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Title: Appleading
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Wheel of Time (technically just the books but it's not really contradicting anything re the show either)
Pairing: Liandrin Guirale & Moghedien, Liandrin Guirale/Moghedien
Tags: Ficlet, Control, Power Dynamics, Choking, Torture 
Rating: M
Word count: 632

Summary: In an old townhouse in Amador, Liandrin begs with eloquence she didn’t even know she possessed. It’s a wonder what fear can do, to loosen tongues and inhibitions.

Author notes: Response to merryfortune's prompt of You're appealing to emotions that I simply do not have (from 'It’s Hard to Say ”I Do”, When I Don’t') over at likealighthouse's Fall Out Boy Femslash Febrary Ficathon. Takes place during Book Five when Moghedien catches the Black Ajah in Amador. This is unbetaed so if you spot a typo/mistake, please do let me know. Except for the title which is me mangling the English language on purpose. For my amusement.

Appleading on AO3

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I posted some recs for Candy Hearts here.

Fandoms:
True Detective: Night Country
Heated Rivalry
Original Work
Wake Up Dead Man

Fandom: xxxHoLiC
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: eyelid injury
Author notes: The title is from The Sliced Eyelid by Yumi Fuzuki. (The translator is not credited.)
Summary: It’s the eye, after all.

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Title: For Self Defence
Fandom: War of the Worlds (1988-90)
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Harrison Blackwood, Paul Ironhorse
Rating: PG
Setting: Between Seasons 1 & 2.
Summary: Harrison hates guns, but he’ll have to learn to use one at some point.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 507: Amnesty 84, using Challenge 14: Performance Anxiety.
Disclaimer: I don’t own War of the Worlds, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble

Cannot BELIEVE I still have an SPN icon!

Anyway ... I first started making fanvids for fun in 2002, but I began posting them on LJ in 2006, and since 2026 is therefore my 20th anniversary of posting the first one (#what) and I've been wanting to get more of them on AO3, I decided to make that a project for this year!

So here's my 2006 one and only Supernatural vid, Life is a Highway.

This isn't the first one I put online, but of the 2006 vids I think it's probably one of my favorites and a good one to start with. Contains clips up to late season one because that's all I'd watched at that point and most of what was available. Here's the original LJ-imported-to-DW post. Please enjoy this dive into an alternate reality a moment in time when season one of Supernatural was literally All There Was.

Some notes if you'd rather read them afterwards

Obviously at this point all I have is the exported file rather than the original vidding files (as this was at least 5 computers ago) so 2006 quality is what you're getting, including some slight wonkiness with jerky video and slightly odd cropping (I was screencapturing the video, which explains both the slight borders that occasionally appear - I got a lot better at cropping later - and a few instances of jerkiness as my 2006 computer struggled to render the video). The credits also include my original 2000s-era LJ name, which some of you may remember.

IIRC, I was making these earliest vids on a really old copy of Adobe Premiere that I had absconded with from my college computer lab in the 1990s.

Also posted on AO3.

If you want a 12 Mb download in 2006 quality, you can download it here!

Also, an interesting bit of context on the 20th anniversary vidding project - I discovered recently that I uploaded a bunch (most? all?) of my older vids to Vimeo in 2016 on the private setting, so apparently I was planning a *10th* anniversary vidding project, but got derailed somehow. What is time.

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Rose Landry, numerous Reddit OCs.
Rating: Teen
Length: 20,175
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply. Some of the Reddit comments contain terrible advice!
Creator Links: OpalApparition on AO3
Themes: Inept in love, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, Humor, Unusual format & style, Epistolary, Outsider POV, Angst with a happy ending

Summary: I (26M) want to invite man I sleep with (26M) to my house to spend the weekend. Help me not ruin it.

Or: Ilya Rozanov goes to the internet for dating advice

Reccer's Notes: This is a long (9 chapters) social media epistolary fic based on Reddit, where Ilya asks the internet for advice before the tuna melt hookup. It's funny, very cleverly done, and the responses from Reddit users are often hilarious. We start with Ilya's post (he's orangespyder617 - his sports car name & Boston area code), and later, Shane (gingerale_MTL) also separately posts after he's bolted in panic and is dating Rose, and has realized he's really messed things up. There's some fun for the Reddit users in speculating about who these two rich, inept in love guys might be, and also later after Shane posts as Ilya has wiped his former thread by then but some users remember it and join the dots. Rose herself (kidnapped4times) also posts wanting advice about how to tactfully tell her boyfriend he's gay, and finally Ilya posts again. It reads exactly like Reddit, although I suspect with way fewer trolls, and the users often post memes and links to vids which work, and add to the realism. Throughout, Ilya and Shane amply demonstrate their ineptitude in love, starting with POSTING TO REDDIT ABOUT IT AT ALL! I grinned a lot.

Fanwork Links: Tuna Melts and Longitudinal Studies

Our new challenge is our eighty-fourth:

AMNESTY

During amnesty challenges, you can post works for any of the challenges we've had to date: ( Complete list of prompts )

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Of course, you're always welcome to post multiple works to any challenge if you finish them before the challenge closes, but that isn't always possible. So dust off those unfinished works and half-formed ideas -- now is the time!

In amnesty rounds, include the challenge you are posting for in the subject line of your post (eg, Blanket: Heated Rivalry: Fanart: If on a winter's night).

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Sunday, 1 March. No sign-up required.

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The Melt challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Icons for Melt: Stock and Terminator 2 by innitmarvelous_og
FAKE: Fanfic: Bad Weather Blues by badly_knitted
Mass Effect: Andromeda: Fanfiction: Ice Melts by infinitum_noctem
Melt: Original: Baking: Melting Moments by smallhobbit
Ace Attorney: Fanfic: The Snowflake by refuse2shine
S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Stuck by darkjediqueen
The Professionals: Fanfiction: Feverish by lucy_roman
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Far From Over by veronyxk84
art - Salvador Dalí: icons: Disintegration of Memory by highlander_ii
Torchwood: Fanfic: The one that got away by m_findlow
Duang with You: Fanfic: the whole universe converges here by bluedreaming
The Story of Kunning Palace: fanfic: all claws and teeth by teaotter

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Amnesty round coming right up.

Staying up until 2am to bang out post-episode fic, like it's the days of yore...

Lie By Omission (1523 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Additional Tags: Season/Series 02, Established Relationship, Complicated Relationships, Lies, Worry, why did jack think robby had already left?
Summary:

And hell, if Robby was going to get all up in Jack's business, he could return the favor. "Why didn't you tell me you were on shift today?"

Jack actually felt Robby tense against him. "I told you I was leaving today."

Which didn't actually answer his question. "As the priests liked to remind me, a lie by omission is still a sin," he drawled.

Just come back from watching “Wuthering Heights”. I’m not mad about it, in either sense. Here be incoherent thoughts:

- it’s a 2 hour long music video: glib, flamboyant & silly.

- the child actors were GREAT. Bless them. Cracking work, really sad that the story scooted forward to the adult actors so fast.

- I love Margot Robbie & I mean no disrespect when I say ( Read more... )