extrapenguin

Today we went to the walk-through display Lights on the Prairie. It was awesome. :D

1/2 mile of Christmas lights walking through pine tree paths and a beautiful view across the pond.
Games, hot chocolate, and light snacks are available in the pavilion afterwards.
GPS address: Prairie Land Gymnastics and Tumbling
Friday and Saturday nights 5-8 PM, November 28-January 3
2151 CR 1300 E, Lovington, IL, United States, Illinois
(217) 508-3199
Free event, but donations are appreciated to support the project.

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Current Mood: happy

grundyscribbling

Title: Sun, Sand, Surf
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Summary: Anariel takes up a new project.
Word Count: 1025
Note: Running a day behind, as a head cold meant I crashed fairly early after Christmas dinner.

( Sun, Sand, Surf )

cornerofmadness

Colourful Prose Torchwood

Forever And Always FAKE

I Lived Here, I Loved Here, I Thought It Was True Hazbin Hotel

He Would Kill The Plant Hazbin Hotel

Celebrating With Friends Torchwood

Minor Injury The Fantastic Journey

It'll be a wonderful life, Amity Blight. The Owl House

Merry Little Christmas Hazbin Hotel

What Is Enough (Language of Love) Hazbin Hotel

Payback. The Murderbot Diaries

Blue Christmas Hazbin Hotel

Six Things Arthur Learns About Merlin Merlin

Drowning in Love (and the tentacles aren't helping) Hazbin Hotel

The Christmas Cookie Torchwood

What Is Enough (Language of Love) Hazbin Hotel

Smells Like Heaven Hazbin Hotel

Trust Fall Teen Wolf

Finding Hope Due South

What Does the Spleen Do? [Cryptic Criss-Cross]
Crossword Puzzles

Mistakes Were Made Hazbin Hotel

In Velvette’s Tower Hazbin Hotel

The Privileges of the Purse Doctor Odyssey

Still Here Together Temeraire

Farewell to the Monsters Grimm

To Make a Dream 镇魂 | Guardian

Min Holly's Christmas 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS

Behind Blue Eyes Batman

A Weekend Off the Grid Teen Wolf

Got My Eye On You Hazbin Hotel

petra

A little bit: Genghis Khan (1438 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex
Relationships: Bruce Wayne/Everyone's Mother
Characters: Bruce Wayne, John Grayson, Mary Grayson, Barbara Eileen Gordon, Jim Gordon (DCU), Sheila Haywood, Catherine Todd, Willis Todd, Crystal Brown, David Cain, Sandra Wu-San, Oliver Queen, Bonnie King-Jones, Sandra Moonday Hawke, Diana (Wonder Woman), Clark Kent, Talia al Ghul, Isis (DC Comics), Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Janet Drake
Additional Tags: Pairing Tags in End Notes, Bruce Wayne Has a Superpower, Bruce Wayne's A+ Parenting, Drabble Sequence, familial duty, Extremely Dubious Consent, Sex Pollen, Catbaby - Freeform
Series: Part 18 of Fandom Bicycle (One Character/Everybody Else)
Summary:

In which the parentage of various heroes is elucidated and the answer to "Who's your daddy?" is definitively: "Batman."

Current Mood: as me as it gets
Current Music: But you can't be free, 'cause I'm selfish, I'm obscene

torachan

1. It rained a little bit off and on today, but mostly off. Aside from taking a few walks in the neighborhood, we just stayed home anyway, so it didn't really matter, but I've had enough rain for now.

2. Carla made a super delicious dinner tonight. A beef roast and cheesy potatoes, steamed broccoli (the least exciting of the bunch but still tasty), and Alex brought some take and bake garlic bread, which I had a little bit of even though I shouldn't. There was also some of the ube Christmas cake for dessert.

3. Gemma's a sassy girl.

zhie

So my site is having some access issues, and AO3 is running slow to do anything this weekend. And then I remembered - I have this place. This place likes archiving of old fanfics, right? Sure. I'm going to tell myself that and start dropping them like it's as hot as the weird CAPTCHA I had to do when I was logging in. Here's a throwback from LOTRO.

Title: Always in My Heart
Author: Zhie
Summary: A lonely night spent all alone.
Rated: General Fiction
Categories: Stories of Arda > Bunniverse (PPB-AU) > Third Age Characters: Bainith, Valanyonnen
Awards: None
Challenge: International Day of Slash
Genre: Dramatic, Romantic
Special Collection: None
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Word count: 300 Read: 3135
Published: March 01 2014 Updated: March 01 2014
Story Notes:
IDoS 2012. Inspired by the song: Somewhere by Within Temptation. Bainith created by me; Valanyonnen created by AeonDelirium.

On the top of a rock that served as an island in the middle of a pond in Rivendell, a lone elf sat hugging himself. He was speaking, but no one heard him, nor saw anyone else with him.

If they could hear him, they would have listened to his whispered promises to a love he slowly came to believe he had lost.

“I will find you somewhere,” he promised as he rocked himself to sleep some nights. “I will keep on trying, until my dying day.” He would worry the silver band on his finger, wrapped in a cloak of deep blue with silver embroidery, pulling the edge to his nose to inhale the familiar scent. “I just need to know,” he whispered. “I just need to know whatever has happened. The truth will free my soul.”

He would close his eyes, wrapping the cloak tighter, hoping to open them to find his beloved standing there. “I want to embrace you and never let you go,” he admitted to the darkness.

When weeks became months and his trails reached dead ends, he still came back to that spot and still spoke quietly into the night. “I almost hope you are in heaven so no one can hurt your soul,” he wept when he thought of all the terrible, awful things which could be done, all of the reasons why he was left unfound. “I am living in agony because I just do not know where you are.”

When the sobs silenced, the tears dried, and the morning chased away the darkness, he would rise and promise, “Wherever you are, I will not stop searching. Whatever it takes me to know.” He would catch a gleam of sunlight from the ring and sigh. “You are always in my heart, Valanyonnen.”

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100words

Title: Welcome, Saphyr
Fandom: Identity V
Rating: General

( welcome, saphyr )

sixbeforelunch

For anyone who read Mansfield Park and wished that poor Fanny had been given a third option.

Our Groves Were Planted to Console (17711 words) by ChronicBookworm
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, AUSTEN Jane - Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fanny Price/Original Male Character
Characters: Fanny Price, Original Characters, Mrs. Norris (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Sir Thomas Bertram
Additional Tags: Courtship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Family, Family Dynamics, Slow Burn, Strangers to Friends to Lovers
Summary:

Dr Grant receives a prebendary at Westminster before Mr Crawford can propose to Fanny. Fanny likes the new occupant of Mansfield Parsonage much better than the previous ones.

conuly

Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter's balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

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corvidology

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marycatelli

I come to the end of the story.

All the forces have collide, and resolve. I evade it. A lot. And then I realize that I was coming down with a cold, and blame that.

But it's not going to be pretty after the recovery.

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goals_on_dw

Organizing Your Belongings for when you Don't Want to Organize Your Belongings by

buttonsbeadslace

For me, the difficult part about organizing is setting aside time & mental energy to go through a whole pile of items in one sitting. This is a method for answering questions like "Which of these pairs of pants actually fit me well?" or "What supplies do I need for This Activity?" not by asking that question over and over for a bunch of items, but by going about your daily life and letting the answer shake out by itself.

The basic idea is simple: you choose a temporary new place to put the type of things you are trying to organize, but you do not, initially, put anything in there. Items go in the temporary new place after you have used them in the course of your regular item-using.

This is an absolutely brilliant approach for people whose main obstacle against organizing is the inability to find a big enough chunk of time and energy. Here you don't need that, you just move things as you use them. It makes the last round of cleanup much quicker and easier. You can also combine that round with the "box it and ignore it for X time to see if you miss it" technique. \o/

Current Mood: impressed

erinptah

Doing a re-listen of books 1-2 in the Book of Dust trilogy, since book 3 just came out.

I just finished the first one, La Belle Sauvage, liveblogging it on Mastodon and on Bluesky, Here’s a roundup post.

(I haven’t read this book since it came out in 2017, and I deliberately didn’t reread my original 2017 reaction post to LBS until now. Feel free to look through both, see which things I had different reactions about, and how many times I just noticed the same thing twice.)

( This starts off so strong. Like Lyra opening TGC, Malcolm is an active, curious, fun kid... )

bluerosekatie posting in

smallfandomfest

Title: Moon Jelly Night
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: H2O: Just Add Water (tv)
Pairing/Characters: Cleo Sertori & Emma Gilbert & Rikki Chadwick & Bella Hartley, background Cleo Sertori/Lewis
Rating/Category: F/M, Gen
Prompt: H2O: Just Add Water, Cleo & Emma & Rikki & Bella, Bubbly mischief
Spoilers: Set post-canon
Summary: Lewis witnesses the mermaids during a particularly silly moon spell.
Notes/Warnings: Fic is archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.

Read it on Ao3 here!

torachan

The rain for this week was predicted to be pretty heavy, so we were prepared just in case, but as it actually got closer, it seemed the worst would be on the 24th, and then lighter rain on the 25th. We still planned to take parkas and umbrellas, but that morning it was dry and the forecast said there might be some light rain in the afternoon, but not a steady all-day thing, so when we got to the park we actually ended up leaving the parkas and umbrellas in the car.

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guardian_learning

部首
心 part 1 xīn
心, heart; 必, must; 忆, memory ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=61

语法
2.10 A little: 一点 vs 有点
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-2-grammar

词汇
材料, materials; 身材, figure ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
有一个问题我必须现在就问你, there's a question I have to ask you just now
没事，就是有点难受, I'm all right, I'm just a little upset
在材料送到之前我们也是无可奈何, we're at a loss until the materials arrive

Me:
突然好想你，突然锋利的回忆🎵
那个帅哥你看到了他的身材吗？

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Current Music: Living In A Winter Wonderland

kaberett

My mother has today loaned me some knee-high compression socks in a fun design and... the amount of presyncope I've been getting on standing up from squatting is approximately None, despite feeling while squatting like It's Gonna Be A Bad One When I Stand Up. So I'm probably going to be buying myself more of them as my mother's present to me for this winterval.

Obviously I was delighted when I got to page 7 and found the rainbow...

bluapapilio

Using my TV Show PTW boardgame.

I completed 6/6 from my last challenge, I enjoyed them all so much I totally neglected my Asian drama challenge......

Avatar: Thriller (Dark)
Skill: Cover 2 shows with 1 prompt

Roll #1

A 10, prompt: longest titled. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir can't be beat in this category lol

Roll #2

A 5, comedy element. Danny Phantom.

Roll #3

A 6, generate from PTW list. #45. Took a while because I had to do some research and removed a few things;; Maniac is the result, it's about 2 people who do a trial of pills to try and solve their problems but it leads to dream-like worlds in their minds where they keep connecting with each other.

Roll #4

A 10, prompt: contemporary. Red Rose,

Roll #5

An 8 and the end. This was hard because there's a few things I'd be happy to continue, but I'm going with Camp Cretaceous as my reward. I totally forgot to use my skill ahhh.

TV Show PTW List:

[Animation/Superhero] Miraculous Ladybug
[Animation/Superhero] Danny Phantom
[Drama/Sci-Fan] Maniac
[Drama/Horror] Red Rose
[Animation/Adventure] Camp Cretaceous

Current Mood: working

melagan

SGA Secret Santa Stories are up!

You can find them Here

I filled a pinch hit this year, as well as writing for my giftee. In return, I received two wonderful stories.

A Good Start and Real (with bonus art)

Lucky, lucky me!

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Today's Adventures

12 Days of Christmas, Day 1

Be back with a proper post soon

A little bit: Genghis Khan - DCU drabble sequence, Bruce Wayne/Everyone's Mother

Daily Happiness

FIC: Always in My Heart

Identity V - Welcome, Saphyr

fic rec

Ancient Music by Ezra Pound

12 Days of Christmas, day 1 for smallhobbit

ah, endings

Organizing Your Belongings for when you Don't Want to Organize Your Belongings

Re-listen Liveblog: La Belle Sauvage

Fanfic, H2O: Just Add Water (tv), Cleo & Emma & Bella & Rikki, bubbly mischief

2025 Universal Studios Trip #2 (12/25/25)

第四年第三百五十二天

Kamen Rider Gotchard + Kamen Rider Girl's Remix Fic: Staying Warm

[embodiment] ... huh.

December+ TV Show PTW

SGA Santa Stories