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Imagine you wake up
with a second chance: The blue jay
hawks his pretty wares
and the oak still stands, spreading
glorious shade. If you don't look back,

the future never happens.
How good to rise in sunlight,
in the prodigal smell of biscuits -
eggs and sausage on the grill.
The whole sky is yours

to write on, blown open
to a blank page. Come on,
shake a leg! You'll never know
who's down there, frying those eggs,
if you don't get up and see.

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Me: What do you think the word apocalypse means, exactly? No, nevermind, I get it, you think it means zombies.

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This time for Future Sight (a companion to my Pokepod Xatu fic). It's actually a gift for

peasina, but as I said elsewhere, getting your work podficced can feel like it's a gift to you, even when it's for someone else!

Anyway, go check it out over here, and please consider leaving comments and/or kudos for the recorder,

AeliaPods!

Current Mood: giddy

conuly

We are less than halfway through book 10, and there are two more books to go, and to be honest I am not sure how he's gonna get out of this without authorial assistance and a few blatant ass-pulls. But I digress.

He's caught by the big bad, who is terrifying on a deep personal level due to longstanding trauma, and the man gives him a speech: "Work with me, or I'll use mind control to force you to do my bidding anyway".

And obviously he could never have gotten away with it, first because the villain is smarter than your average bowl of tapioca but also because the author really wants for him to be in deep shit right about now - but why does he have to go out defiantly? Why can't he just say "Wow, you really got me backed into a corner here?" and then, I don't know, lie? It's not like he's so committed to honesty, either. He lies all the time! Lies, misleads people, makes plans that involve betraying multiple at the same time so they all kill each other instead of him... he is not an honest or trustworthy person. But now, now he's gonna stand on his principles and admit to it?

Geez.

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which introduced me to Roost, in which your messages are carried at the speed of bird.

And today I discover that there's another one!

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Fandom: Pokémon
Summary: Five things that Magnemite found, and one that it returned
Mirrors: On AO3 (with podfic!)
Wordcount: About 2100
Ships: None
Notes: Written for

pod_together's 2026 challenge, in a team with

peasina; if listening to podfics is something you do, I highly encourage you to do so with this one; my teammate blew it out of the park! You can find a version with and without music and sound effects at the AO3 link above, as well as a cover for the podfic.
Fic: ( These Are a Few of My Favorite Things (Or: Finders, Keepers) )

Current Mood: bouncy

conuly

Summer grass aches and whispers.

It wants something; it calls and sings; it pours
out wishes to the overhead stars.

The rain hears; the rain answers; the rain is slow
coming; the rain wets the face of the grass.

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Dammit, this show isn't supposed to make me have feelings. But suddenly, feelings are being had!

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Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in ‘Transformers,’ Dies at 85

In pictures: Remembering actor Tim Curry

conuly

Please check sunrise/sunset times before you have your protagonist woken up at an ungodly hour by the sunrise in the middle of a London winter.

The sun doesn't rise in NYC at 6am on Christmas Day, and London is further north than we are - up by Calgary, actually - so they get even less winter sun than we do. (Not even counting the cloud cover, which I'm just going to assume is... well, you know, busy doing its London thing.)

Like, c'mon, it's basic factchecking.

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In light of Dolly Parton's recent passing, I would like to encourage people to check out The Imagination Library; if you've got a few bucks to chip in, it's a really worthy cause, and if you know a kid under five who could use a few more picture books in their life and who lives in one of the five countries the Imagination Library serves, I think that Dolly Parton would be real pleased if you signed them up.

Edit: Confirmed via US Magazine: "...in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

Current Mood: crushed

conuly

Aaaaaaaand got to hear my fave song from the audiodrama live, plus they had creme brûlée, so yay.

But now for two days of rushing around on not quite enough sleep, eep!

soc_puppet

After more than a year since I first outlined it, Tipping the Scales (SVSSS, GYX x ZZL) has decided it's time to be written 😂 What a time to insist on that! I'd gotten so used to, "It's not time yet. The stars say it's not. Check back later," it's a surprise to actually be making progress!

But a good surprise. I've written maybe five hundred words today? Maybe more? So. 10% to 18% done, give or take. Here's hoping they keep rolling smoothly!

In other writing news,

pod_together fics and podfics start going live next week. I've listened to the podfic my partner produced, and I can hardly wait for everyone else to hear it, too!

In quilting news, I've gotten a start on hexagons! I'm working on the dark blue at the moment, with light blue to follow, and then I'll have to decide how to approach the background since it turns out I don't have quite enough gray for it. Odds are good that I'll just use the wrong side of the light blue, since I almost certainly have enough of that, but I'll stitch some more hexagons up first.

I also put together a few more hexagon quilt patterns, but I'll share those over here later. You can check over on my Tumblr if you want a sneak peak.

Current Mood: productive

conuly

If it's freshman year of high school, and both in canon and in your fic the protagonist meets his girlfriend freshman year of high school, then he cannot talk yet about how he "always" spends his summers at her family's lake house. He hasn't done that yet! He can't even say that in summer after freshman year because at that point, it's only happened once.

If your protagonist has been at their job for three weeks, their boss can't complain that they take every third Friday off. Yes, you remember very well that this was a running complaint by the time the series started, but your fic is a prequel and that hasn't happened yet.

Please. Think a little. All I'm asking here.

(These examples are made up in my head, but it comes up a lot.)

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O New York City!
Your sky is sharp.
Saw the light grow
and fill in January
with a Delft blue,
clear as Vermeer
at the Frick: clarity
I love most of all.
City I could marry.
A brilliant violet
streaks the edges.
Uzbekistan market,
I taste your mint,
meat and beets.
Couldn’t sleep again.
The cut hyacinths
hold a musty scent.
All these shadows
by Jasper Johns.
I hear the traffic
on 6th. The air clean.
The snow like felt
upholsters the streets.
I look out, I look up.
I am at the height
of the cross now—
so close I can touch it.
My mother is dead.

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As always, the second team is my favorite. The third... okay, I want to hate Larkin because of what he said to his sister that time, but every time he opens his mouth it's just painful. Somebody needs to hug him.

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(Also, this seems to be the first actually cool night we've had all summer. I seem to remember them being more common?)

Either the basement flooded solely due to an inordinate amount of rain or somebody has moved the antiflooding sandbags from the basement door to the outside.

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conuly - Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove
conuly - "it was like an apocalypse except there’s no zombies but a government organization taking over"
soc_puppet - New podfic again, ZOMG!
conuly - The protagonist is caught by the big bad
conuly - Yesterday or the day before I read a DW entry
soc_puppet - Fic: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things (Or: Finders, Keepers)
conuly - Summer Grass by Carl Sandburg
conuly - Listened to the season finale of Sorry About the Murder
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conuly - Dear writers of the world
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soc_puppet - In Memory of Dolly Parton
conuly - Went to The Reality Shaper concert
soc_puppet - State of the creative projects
conuly - Dear fic writers, please keep track of where you are in relation to canon
conuly - Window by Spencer Reece
conuly - Doing a relisten to Inn Between, waiting and waiting for an announcement of Season Six
conuly - Aaaaaaaand our basement flooded
conuly - Oh ew. Ew, ew, ew!

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Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove

"it was like an apocalypse except there’s no zombies but a government organization taking over"

New podfic again, ZOMG!

The protagonist is caught by the big bad

Yesterday or the day before I read a DW entry

Fic: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things (Or: Finders, Keepers)

Summer Grass by Carl Sandburg

Listened to the season finale of Sorry About the Murder

(no subject)

Dear writers of the world

(no subject)

In Memory of Dolly Parton

Went to The Reality Shaper concert

State of the creative projects

Dear fic writers, please keep track of where you are in relation to canon

Window by Spencer Reece

Doing a relisten to Inn Between, waiting and waiting for an announcement of Season Six

Aaaaaaaand our basement flooded

Oh ew. Ew, ew, ew!

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