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

cimorene

I've been drinking Decaf Twinings Earl Grey and some herbal blends. I tried the Finnish specialty teashops that I have ordered loose leaf from in the past, but they didn't have any decaf tea that I wanted, let alone decaf chai and matcha, which was what I was looking for.

Today I finally made an attempt with various search terms and discovered that it's pretty easy to get decaf matcha in the US, but I couldn't find a single shop selling it in Europe, not even in the UK. I did find a shop that sells decaf chai, but it seems to be because it's the EU branch of a Canadian company. Also Wax and I both got rage headaches from the horrible pseudoscience and health food marketing gobbledygook on the websites I kept landing at. Ugh!! Why are they taking over tea😭. It's TEA!

Now, I could get my family to send me some matcha powder, but the cost of shipping from the US is prohibitive, IMO, for a consumable product that you would want periodic refills of.

So maybe it's better to not even bother getting a milk steamer... IDK if it's worth it for primarily coffee lattes and the occasional chai? Maybe it is. I hadn't even had a matcha latte till ten years ago and I did like the other kind back then...

I guess I'm just really annoyed by the lack of availability. This is a global economy in all the bad ways but I can't get decaf matcha or Reese's Pieces!

Current Mood: Can't believe this
Current Music: I don't have a tea tag??

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At push of button, this year's Madness collection has 227 works in 183+ fandoms.

Madness collection

Main collection

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goss

Peace, Love and Joy to you and yours

Yay, 4-day long weekend! \o/

And thank you for the card,

dine! ♥ It arrived in the mail on Christmas Eve, just in the nick of time. ^__^

viridian5

I hope you guys have an idea that could help me. I've upgraded from the iPhone SE to 17--my SE was four years old, its battery was starting to suffer, and the screen had some cracks and dings that sometimes hurt my fingers--and the 17 is reacting weirdly to me syncing it into iTunes (on my PC laptop): it won't show recently played songs in iTunes since I started using the 17 and it randomly mixed up all the cover images of the songs on the phone. Is there a way to fix this? I've synced it four times tonight, and these things remain. (iTunes has all its recent updates.) My music is important to me!

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I'm testing out its camera. Yesterday was so dark and rainy that I could barely make out the details of this angel in person but the iPhone 17 rendered this.

I've shot this statue many times over many years in differing conditions and seasons and with different cameras, but I've never noticed the wing edges looking this sharp before. I also usually shoot this angel when it's completely or mostly dry, thus the color difference; the whiter the whole thing is, the drier it is. This angel has a fairly unusual look and design, which is why I keep going back to it.

My winter cemetery shots are most often about shapes and structure, since everything has been stripped bare, and that's certainly true here.

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I only sent out a few Christmas cards this year, mailing them the morning of the 24th. I think part of the delay came from me not getting any cards from anyone aside from

dine, so I didn't have many reminders. Nobody in my family sent me a card.

I ran out of tape completely halfway through wrapping the last present tonight! What are the odds?

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For seasons readings, I have a list of my Christmas-based fics here.

Happy holidays, folks!

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes

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Hello, Yuletiders–as you may have noticed, the anonymous setting on the Yuletide collection, which should hide all author names until reveals on January 1st, does not seem to be working as expected, and shortly after our planned works reveals, we had an unplanned reveal of author names. We’re very sorry for this unexpected breaking of anonymity!

We’re reaching out to AO3 to help us resolve the problem. In the meantime, we have updated all works manually, and author names should now be hidden again. If you notice we have missed any, please reach out to us privately at [email protected].

Again, our apologies–and we hope you enjoy the collection!

Yuletide Madness is scheduled to reveal at 9 PM UTC on 25 December, but this may be delayed if necessary to ensure author anonymity.

ETA: We know many of you have received email notifications to say, "The collection maintainers of Yuletide 2025 have changed the status of your work [work] to anonymous..." This is a result of us updating them manually to hide author names, in order to achieve the same effect you would expect from reveals in an ordinary Yuletide. Sorry for the confusion! You can safely ignore these notifications; we will reveal author names on January 1st, manually if we have to.

petra

Galavant:

Note the part where this is tagged as Original Music Composition! I GOT A GALAVANT SONG FOR YULETIDE!

There is a bug de-anonymizing the collection, so with any luck, my author will be willing to post more than the sheet music and save me from my current predicament of "I can sorta sight-read but not that well." I love the Madalena voice in this, so perfectly discontent with her amazing lot! and there's MUSIC!

Madalena's Ballad of Vast Success (1264 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Galavant (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Madalena (Galavant), Brief ensemble Galavant cast appearance
Additional Tags: Character Study, Inspired by the song What Am I Feeling (Galavant), Original music composition, Post-Canon
Summary:

Madalena stood on her balcony, in her castle perched high on a cliffside overlooking her vast and endless empire. "This is the best life has ever been. Everything I wanted is now mine... Yet sometimes it seems that there's something out there that eludes me, something I can neither buy nor take. But that's crazy! Who would dare deny me? Deceive or defy me? None at all! Well, almost none!"

Galavant 2:

The share button isn't working on Tad Cooper, a Life, which is an adorable summation of the life and times of Tad Cooper, as one can imagine from the title. I enjoyed the POV the author chose!

Slow Horses + Rivers of London:

My other Yuletide author took me up on my deep and soulful desire for Slow Horses + Rivers of London, and does great things with the interaction of law enforcement and Regent's Park, and the various characters. Spoilers for Diana Taverner's fate if you've only done the first book/show, but nothing that will surprise anyone. I love the way the mundane and magical intersect here:

The Spirit of Regent's Park (2370 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slow Horses (TV), Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thomas Nightingale, Diana Taverner, Jackson Lamb (Slow Horses), Emma Flyte, Molly Doran
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Yuletide Treat, add some magic to your spy show
Summary:

Newly minted First Desk Diana Taverner visits the Folly to find out who this Thomas Nightingale fellow is, and learns a few things about London that are closer to home than she expects.

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What I wrote:

2 stories!

Spot either and I'll write you a drabble. One of them is so me it hurts and the other is less obviously so but still extremely Petra.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Bear McCreary and sight reading

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Yuletide 2025 Collection Is Live Here!

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cimorene

We got a cold snap last night and a few millimeters of snow. It looks like the grass is coated in powdered sugar. Downstairs is still quite warm - 17° in the kitchen at lunchtime - but after I fed the cats at 7:00 am I went back to bed with a wool sweater on and I never got hot enough to take it off.

It's so nice to see Wax enjoying her fandom so much. She's had two objectively bad TV shows that she was super fannish about since the last time I had a fandom. I do like IWTV enough to get that excited about, but it still wouldn't be like her fandoms (911 and Roswell before that) because I can't get that into reading it (I have read some, but I didn't settle in) and wouldn't be able to write it.

The last fandom I was able to get into reading was Stranger Things 4 Steve/Eddie a couple of years ago, but that was also not quite the full fannish experience, because I wasn't as into the canon. I look over at her and see her chatting with people and reading furiously, and I remember that, and feel happy for her... but sad for myself.

She's even excited about Heated Rivalry - and I am too! But not nearly as much. I guess it feels more like I'm enjoying it as a member of slash fandom, and I'm keeping abreast of what's happening and getting the references, but, as I said once before... I am enjoying the show, which is good and well made, without really liking the characters very much, or the plot.

I was talking to Wax about this, and the absence of uncritical joy that I used to engage with in my 20s, and she diagnosed that I need to "open up my hating heart". I'm hating a lot more than I did when I was younger, it's true. The thing is that I don't know how to do that.

Anyway... I'm working on the second of the three triplet sweaters now, after Wax knitted most of the body of it. I finished the first sweater, after having to knit the first sleeve entirely twice - or rather knitting to the cuff beffore starting over - and now the same thing has happened with the second sweater. It's boring stockinette though, unlike the first sweater, and with very black yarn, so in order to count stitches and decreases I have to have a lamp pointing at it. Sigh.

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cimorene

I'm not a stranger to cramps in the arch of my feet! That's part of the reason that I stopped wearing high heels. I wore some knee-high leather boots that came to just below the knee as a young woman, shortly after the year 2000, usually in the fall and winter (purchased in the US, before moving to Finland was on my radar, so they were kind of for warmth but in a climate that wasn't cold enough to necessitate purchasing actual winter boots). They only had like a 2-3" heel, a chunky one, as was fashionable at the turn of the millennium, so they weren't a challenge to balance or particularly uncomfortable for ordinary walking around. But I soon noticed the pattern of cramps in the arch of my foot after days when I wore them, and that made me want to stop.

But I haven't had much of that problem since then. ( Read more... ) However, just in the last few years I've occasionally noticed a twinge or mini-cramp that goes away after a few seconds specifically in the arch of my left foot. It's never lasted beyond a moment or two until like... last week once when I was walking up the stairs and then yesterday in the grocery store, when it suddenly twinged so hard into a cramp that I spent a minute and a half limping and whispering "Ow, ow, ow!" until it subsided.

It doesn't have to be caused by age, of course, but I don't know what else could have caused it, unless it is protesting the fact that I have not been walking enough in the last year. I used to have a tennis-sized hard rubber ball to roll on the arch of my feet, when I was working on my feet a lot in retail. But I can't remember where I put it.

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I posted drabbles for people who requested them here:

DCU (Comics), Interview with the Vampire (TV), Jeeves & Wooster, Murderbot Diaries, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Wars Original Trilogy, and Venom (Movies).

Enjoy, whether it is a long night or a long day for you!

Current Mood: festive
Current Music: Let me come in and share your light

viridian5

I don't know what's been going on with the sunsets lately, but damn.

December 19, a sunset between rainstorms

December 20

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I didn't expect the latest iOS update to make such a huge difference to my CarPlay interface.

Current Mood: cold

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I got Whamagheddoned Wednesday, but I expected it. You can't go into midtown Manhattan during the day during this season without hearing "Last Christmas," most often blasting out the carriage of a pedi-cab.

I just updated to the new iOS. I don't like it. Why did they move around so many random things? Why the bubbles?

I'll be doing threeforthememories again in January since I always enjoy it.

I feel sad that I don't have anybody to be fannish with over Bergdorf Goodman's holiday windows. "Look! This window uses elements from their past 'Brilliant Holiday' and 'Bergdorf Goodies' window series!" Nobody else cares.

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" by Ben Folds Five

petra

Leitmotif of the year:
I can't focus on long things, but by all that's unholy, I can write limericks and drabbles! I wrote other things, too, but golly.

My best story of this year:
Stand back, I'm going to try science!, in which Obi-Wan accidentally gives Anakin a complex about his body, and Anakin 3D prints himself helpful things. This one is deeply silly, and yet affectionate.

My favorite and/or truest story of this year:
The leaves grow bright before they fall wins this one for me, with Anakin and Obi-Wan doing the Hades and Persephone dance, in their own particular, backward, inside-out and upside-down sort of way.

( Read on )

Current Mood: completist
Current Music: And a choir of archangels a-caroling come

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petra - A little bit: Genghis Khan - DCU drabble sequence, Bruce Wayne/Everyone's Mother
cimorene - Decaf tea is close to the clean eating abyss
yuletidemods in yuletide_admin - Yuletide Madness Is Live
goss - Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
viridian5 - And I turned 'round and there you go
yuletidemods in yuletide_admin - Yuletide 2025 Anonymous Period
petra - Yuletide Haul 2025
yuletidemods in yuletide_admin - Yuletide 2025 is live!
cimorene - Frosted grass, being a hater, sleeves
nuh_s in fandomcalendar - Platonic Rare Pair Flash
mahmfic in fandomcalendar - Star Wars: Clone Exchange, Valentines Exchange
linky in fandomcalendar - Tokusatsu: Tokurecs December 2025 Monthly Self-Reccing Period
yuletidemods in yuletide_admin - 36 Hours to Reveals
cimorene - Who knew that aging also produces cramps in the arch of the foot?
candyheartsex in fandomcalendar - [MULTIFANDOM] - CANDY HEARTS EXCHANGE
petra - Happy Solstice!
viridian5 - Colors
lullabymoon in fandomcalendar - Inkingitout: 2026 writing challenge and support
viridian5 - Potpourri
petra - Story Index 2025

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

Decaf tea is close to the clean eating abyss

Yuletide Madness Is Live

Madness collection

Main collection

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

And I turned 'round and there you go

Yuletide 2025 Anonymous Period

Yuletide Haul 2025

Yuletide 2025 is live!

Frosted grass, being a hater, sleeves

Platonic Rare Pair Flash

Star Wars: Clone Exchange, Valentines Exchange

Tokusatsu: Tokurecs December 2025 Monthly Self-Reccing Period

36 Hours to Reveals

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Who knew that aging also produces cramps in the arch of the foot?

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Inkingitout: 2026 writing challenge and support

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