sunshine revival challenge #2

Jul. 9th, 2025 09:41 am
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Tunnel of Love

Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.

Since this is what I did most of last Sunday, I'll talk about how much I love baking. I love to bake. It's something I've done since I was a child. My mom was the one who taught me, with box mixes and canned frosting to begin with, before I moved on to making cakes from scratch. I remember taking a whole tray of cupcakes for a surprise party our class planned for our teacher in elementary school (okay, it was the girls. I vaguely remember us thinking the boys couldn't be trusted to keep their mouth shut so we left them out. I think we were, like, 10 or 11?). I also remember making birthday cakes and father's day cakes for my dad. I remember taking things for all sorts of class parties throughout the years really. When we had a project in elementary school on teaching the class "how to do something", I chose baking a cake and I remember switching from mix to wanting to do a scratch cake. My dad carefully measured out the ingredients in the morning before school so it would save me time. So much of my baking memories are tied to my family.

Baking is something that calms my mind. There's a precision to it that I appreciate. I'm someone who likes really exact instructions, which is why even though I have learned to like cooking, I do like baking more. You stick to a recipe and outside of mild variables, like the oven timing, it should come out right. And I like the results too! I have a sweet tooth, but I do like when people around me enjoy my baking. I am not great with taking compliments, but I like hearing them (who doesn't, right? lol)! I do like pretty things so it's been fun learning and practicing decorating as well.

People have made jokes about me starting a bakery in the past, and while there are many reasons I wouldn't, I do just like some thing just being an enjoyable hobby. And I will keep doing it. It's a nice way to spend an evening or a weekend. Doing what I love and sometimes, for the people I love. Because they're the reason I learned to do this in the first place. :)

cupcakes )
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28 juin : Une romance entre personnages trans
Family Compo, Sora/Yukari, PG, mention de mpreg
C'est un bébé ! sur AO3

29 juin : Quand les ex s’en mêlent
The Bifrost Incident, Loki/Sigyn (+Odin mentionnée), PG
Information privilégiée sur AO3

30 juin : Relation/personnage LGBT canon
The Engelsfors Trilogy, Linnéa et Elias, G
Effrayant sur AO3

30-Odd Days

Jul. 9th, 2025 04:27 pm
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I just realised that as of today, I've had this account for a month now! Here's a celebratory MS Paint & mouse doodle (I didn't want to set up my drawing tablet just for this)

I blanked on what a party horn was called and had to crawl over to Google to search, quote, "mouth blow party thing". But it worked!
(also excuse that the arrow is pointing more at it than at him. it's close enough.)

more fandom events

Jul. 8th, 2025 11:21 pm
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[community profile] flashexchanges is running size difference flash, a multifandom flash exchange featuring size differences. Nominations/sign-ups close on July 9th, 11PM UTC.

[community profile] sedoretuex, an exchange dedicated to celebrating the sedoretu (a specific organization of a poly marriage created by Ursula K. Le Guin), is accepting nominations until July 12th, 11:59PM EDT. More info, including the schedule/FAQ can be found HERE.

[community profile] raremaleslashex, a multifandom fic/art/podfic exchange focused on rare m/m ships, has opened sign-ups until July 13th, 8PM UTC.

[community profile] relationshipping, a gift exchange for incest ships (ships that are not canonically related are welcome for incest aus too), is open for nominations until July 13th, 9:59PM EDT.

[community profile] enemiestoloversex, a multifandom gift exchange focused on the "enemies to lovers" trope (though all ships are welcome, not just ones fitting that dynamic in canon), is accepting nominations until July 14th, 10PM UTC.

[community profile] austenexchange, a fic exchange focused on Jane Austen works, is open for nominations until July 15th, 10PM UTC.

[community profile] dreams_mayhem is running Hodge Podge, a multifandom challenge where each week players will fill prompts to score points by writing fics, creating poetry, or making graphics. Sign-ups are open until July 19th.

[community profile] fallingforyoufallexchange, a fall multifandom freeform exchange centered around ships getting together, is open for nominations until July 21st, 8PM EDT.

[community profile] scaldinghotcibingo is running Consent Issues Mini Bingo. Claims can be made until January 4th, 2026.

Endless Cycle

Jul. 9th, 2025 11:19 am
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New game in a series gets announced (or in this case, gameplay shown for the first time). Fanbase is a mix of 'oh man this looks horrible!', 'oh man why couldn't they have made a game as good as those Old Good Ones that play exactly the same' and/or 'you know what? suddenly the previous game in the series that we've been bashing on doesn't seem so bad!'. This has happened before. This will happen again. Good luck.
I see people complain that the graphics look outdated, though, and I genuinely have no fucking idea what they are talking about. It looks fine to me?

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Jul. 8th, 2025 01:25 pm
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I have discovered Enemies to Lovers exchange. o deer.

THAT being said, I really need to put a cork in the new exchange signups for a bit. Summer of Horror and Temperature Flash both reveal somewhere around this weekend, as well as that being the Casefic submission deadline. I have a pinch hit, I have things to edit, and I haven't even started Just Married.

Today it's rainy AND smoky, a wonderful combination.
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smaller plot bunny banner


I'm drawn to the idea of Rodney being ordered back to Earth. Only he doesn't want to leave, so he doesn't go back to Earth.

Why not? Because various Pegasus cultures step in. They recognize his value and put up a bidding war for McKay.

I want to see the SGC have to enter the Pegasus bidding war to get Rodney back (because we know the SGC will come to realize that Atlantis can't or won't function without him).

Which begs the next question. What would John do to get him back? The brain ponders...

*weeps* I don't need another bunny right now. How about you? Got any plot bunnies that are jumping up and begging for attention?

Do you side-eye them and pretend they aren't there? Kick them under the bed? Give up and feed them chocolate?

Notes on Native Ferns

Jul. 8th, 2025 03:43 pm
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I recently attended a class on Ferns at a local botanical garden. The class was a mix of botanical info, caring for ferns in a garden context, understanding how they function ecologically in the wild, and recognizing any ferns you might come across locally--I was mostly interested in the last two points so that's what these notes reflect.

Read more... )

AO3 stats update

Jul. 8th, 2025 08:23 pm
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Last year at the end of May, so just a little over a year ago, I made an AO3 stats post, and I thought it would be fun to look at it again and compare.

Numbers )

Drabbles mois des fiertés, partie 9

Jul. 8th, 2025 07:42 pm
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Bonjour ! J'ai eu des gros problèmes d'Internet, et vous allez avoir droit à une certaine quantité de posts très en retard !

25 juin : Yuri day
Rg Veda, Souma/Kendappa, PG
Une déclaration sur AO3

26 juin : Tout est bien qui finit bien
La passe-miroir, Blasius/Wolf, G
Mieux que des excuses sur AO3

27 juin : S’affranchir de la famille nucléaire
7 Seeds, Aramaki/beaucoup de personnes, PG
Une grande maison sur AO3

Dungeon Crawler Carl books 4 & 5

Jul. 7th, 2025 11:19 pm
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"The Gate of the Feral Gods" and "The Butcher's Masquerade." I'd say this series is pretty solidly scifi now, so I'm tagging it that way.

Random spoilers )

Moving on soon to book 6, "The Eye of the Bedlam Bride"! No future spoilers, please!

Change

Jul. 7th, 2025 05:28 pm
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So turns out I'll be jobless mid-September, not August 😅 I did the math wrong. When they said three months notice I calculated it as June, July and August. But the three months are actually June to July, July to August, and August to September.

So I'll finish in mid-September (since I was given notice mid-June). I'll get half a month's pay, around $250, more than I would if I finished in August.

Speaking of August, my dad is going to leave his current job by the start of it. So we're both going to be liminal around the same time. He said his workplace is planning to do 'restructuring' and he'd rather quit than be laid off. He's financially stable and wants to take this chance to do something he's interested in (Haskell). I'm happy for us both. But when he told me this, that night I had a stress dream in which I was telling a nonexistent coworker that I'm losing this job while someone was trying to break the door down, and I was terrified seeing the door strain against the latch. When I woke from it, I hallucinated my brother standing in the dark doorway. He disappeared when I yelled "Hey!" at him, but I was so freaked out that I couldn't sleep for a while.

Since I'm losing my job I'm going to have to make self-publishing earn for me sooner, which has significantly changed my self-publishing plans.
How my self-publishing plans have changed )

I saw this YouTube short by Kris MF about how she was laid off from her corporate job the same week that she got her book deal, and how she's decided to take it as a sign. It comforted me. Maybe I can take this as a sign, too. I never would have opted to publish on KU unless I felt like I needed to and the only way that was going to happen was if I lost my job 🤷🏻‍♀️ I just need to give things spiritual significance to cope and fight off depression, so this is what we're going with ✨

I also got emotional over this threads post by Jordan Lynde:

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Jul. 8th, 2025 04:07 pm
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I'm not too sure what to say today.
I bought Baba Is You on the Steam sale-- I was going back and forth on it, but I figured I might as well.
Deltarune got a patch, including these fix notes:
  • In a room where Susie destroys houses, she no longer stops moving erroneously after the battle. However, she now slides around erroneously. Apparently this is better
  • Attempted to fix issues on Board 1 where you can see duplicate Ralseis as well as make Ralsei disappear indefinitely.
I find that first one funny, as I do the second. "Attempted"? At least you attempted, though you using that word makes me feel like Ralsei didn't really want to listen to the fixes.
While I'm on the topic of Deltarune, I really need to finish Chapter 4. I got the game basically right as it was released, got 3 done pretty quick, beat the Jackenstein fight in ch4, and then just... ditched it. Though I'm sure I'll have a while before ch5 is released, so little-to-no rush here.
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I wrote eleven fics for MCYTblr Aufest Battleship. Eleven! And I actually like all of them and am even proud of some. Go me!

A Cast of His Face for [archiveofourown.org profile] Kaesa, Hermitcraft
1k, Bdubs/Etho, fantasy AU
Summary: Twelve days, five hours, and twenty-two minutes after Etho died, he walked into Bdubs' office.
Author's Note: The first fic I wrote for this event. I had the idea for a story combining Major Character Death + cloning + paperwork and this came out. I tried for a combination of funny and heartbreaking, and from the comments I succeeded :)

Undeath Certificate for [archiveofourown.org profile] salemoleander, Hermitcraft
0.3k, Cub&Cleo, afterlife
Summary: There's been an error with the paperwork regarding Cleo's afterlife.
Author's Note: Another case of "I looked at a tag combination and got an idea I really liked," in this case immortality + deity AU + paperwork. Perfectly suited for ZombieCleo, of course, and manager Cub.

In the Oldest Cell for [archiveofourown.org profile] januarymorning, Hermitcraft
1.6k, Grian/Cub/Scar, fantasy AU outsider PoV
Summary: I'd been alone in my cell for fourteen years when they finally threw someone else in with me again. An avian, with red and purple and blue feathers.
Author's Note: Same thing again. I loved coming up with stories for specific words even back in school. And writing low pressure first person outsider PoV was fun and surprisingly easy.

The Last Task in Grumbot for [archiveofourown.org profile] Kaesa, Hermitcraft
0.9k, Grian & Mumbo & Scar, among us mech AU
Summary: Mumbo had insisted on checking on Grian's mech one last time.
Author's Note: We were getting closer to the end of the board and needed more hits on Major Character Death, among us AU, mech AU, darkfic, and a few others, so this happened. Also featuring tasty betrayal.

Who will you eat tomorrow so we can rule together for [archiveofourown.org profile] zoewinter1, Hermitcraft
0.3k, Docm77, Among Us AU
Summary: The massive solar storm that made it necessary for all planetary bases to evacuate to the orbital station was the best thing that could have happened for Doc's cover. The dragon was a nice bonus.
Author's Note: We were close to clearing the board and needed more Among Us AU, iirc I wrote this on my way to work on public transport. Did not expect to write vore tbh ^^ and I had never written Docm before but I think it came out well.

I wrote these first five fics in four days btw. Something in the lava down in the Nether.

Soulmate Bond (Homebrew) for [archiveofourown.org profile] ggumdrop, Hermitcraft
0.6k, Cub & Scar, D&D AU
Summary: "Cub, I need you to listen to me."
"Who are you?“"
"I'm your soulmate. That's why you can hear me even in the antimagic field."
As soon as the voice mentions being your soulmate, you recognize where it's coming from: there's a tug inside of you, an invisible string connecting you to someone else. (Don't worry about it, it's homebrew.)
Author's Note: I rested during the first boss fight but came right back for the second board, and I think the idea of using 2nd person PoV for a D&D-style narration was cool. (I wrote parts of this during my lunch break at work. Seriously what was in that lava.)

Sounds So Splendid for [archiveofourown.org profile] zoewinter1, Life Series
0.3k, Gem & Scott & Impulse, space opera AU
Summary: “Impulse. We're a rock band on a space station. Why in the never-ending event horizon have you signed us up to be background musicians for an opera?"
“Because of the tax break, of course."
Author's Note: Iirc someone mentioned hitting space opera by having an actual opera in space somehow and I could not resist. I was also glad to get a hit on "taxes," I would have been disappointed otherwise. And I was particularly happy with the title for this one.

Teammates for Life for [archiveofourown.org profile] Sharo, Hermitcraft/MCC
0.8k, Cub&/Scar, canon divergence
Summary: Scar is anxious to meet his MCC teammate Cubfan135 for the first time.
Author's Note: I thought "canon divergence" and "different first meeting" would go very well together, thought of Convex, and then of MCC. I had fun with this one, especially making up a history for AU Cub (yes he won Minecraft Monday together with Techno, because I said so.) I had to do research!, look up MCC records and stuff, that was fun too.

A Dangerous Prize for [archiveofourown.org profile] Alice_not_Alice, Hermitcraft
4.2k, Etho & Cleo, fantasy AU
Summary: King Ren gives Cleo to General Etho as a war prize, not knowing that there are plans in motion.
Author's Note: Alice likes fae!Etho, fey bargains, power imbalances, situations where Character A is compelled by outside forces to hurt or bind Character B, and a bunch of other tasty things, and I was planning to write them something from the beginning. It took a while to finish because I had to figure out the ~scale, but I was happy with the roles I found for the characters. My one contribution to the grand battle against the Wither Storm.

The Upside of the Downside for [archiveofourown.org profile] Odaigahara, Hermitcraft
2.9k, Grian/Cub/Scar, Pyre fusion
Summary: As the Nightwings' Reader, Grian has a difficult choice to make before his first Liberation Rite. Who should have the chance to be freed from their exile? Cub and Scar would make the decision easier, if he could believe them.
Fusion with Pyre (Video Game)
Author's Note: Speaking of fics that I planned early, took me a while to figure out, and where I was happy with the roles I found for the cast: this one. I saw "video game fusion," looked at my Steam library, saw "Pyre," and could not get the idea out of my head. And it seems like I succeeded in making it understandable for people without knowledge of the game, which is good. I really like how the fusion turned out and might even be thinking of writing more in this AU one day (will probably not happen but who knows.)
I was very efficient with tags on this one considering how long it is (I got 27), that also felt good.

Potato Blossom Magic for [archiveofourown.org profile] im_always_stressed, Dream SMP
0.4k, Technoblade/Philza, sex pollen aftermath
Summary: Admittedly, out of everyone to get caught in a potato blossom cloud with, Philza wasn't the worst option.
Author's Note: We were very close to finishing the third board and sex pollen was one of the few tags still needed. I don't remember how I got the idea for this Techno/Phil snippet (which I wrote on my phone during my commute) but it was fun. It's been a while since I watched either of them so I rewatched parts of Techno's turtle stream and was reminded just how great they were together.

Aand that's it! 11 works and 13.469 words in total, over 17 days. I had such a great time. Hermitcraft is now my most-written fandom on AO3 with 20 works, followed by SGA with 17.

And I could not resist signing up for multifandom Battleship, which starts this weekend. I'm planning to take it a little slower, and I still need to add more prompts, but I also wasn't planning to do this much for MCYT Battleship so who knows.
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I have a couple of pinch hits that revealed that I must still post here on Dreamwidth. Writing's been agony again. I taunted myself by saying "well why do you NOT WRITE AT ALL ON PURPOSE for ALL OF JULY then, since you ain't writing anyway? Save yourself the anguish? See if you actually care?" then huh saw the sign-ups for [community profile] littleblackdressex were open and my favs had already been nominated, thus immediately played myself by signing up. First exchange sign-up of the year though! \o/

Otherwise I'm down to a writing goal of 100 words a day, which I wouldn't have been able to accept before getting blocked again (*pokes pokes* what's going on with ye) because I just know how much better I can do. However, after a long string of 0 days, actually 100 words a day is fantastic, yes. And something I can make myself sit down for. I'm fully prepared to reduce the goal to 50 words next if that's what it takes to make progress.

I still enjoy my stories! I get inspired reading other books!! What is going on!!!!

It is somewhat painful that this fic is the first thing I actually finish since my hurt/comfort + PHs exploits, but it is what it is. I guess crack just gotta crack, sometimes. There must be something deeply meaningful to ponder here.


Silent Killers | Wind Breaker | Hiiragi, Suou | 1.8k words | rated T | Crack treated seriously

Summary:
There's more than one way to commit murder in Furin.

Or, three times Suou is interrupted trying to talk to Hiiragi, and one time it's too late.
Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.
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Title: Year of the Cat
Author:[personal profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Life of Mars
Pairing:  Gene Hunt/Sam Tyler, Gene Hunt & Sam Tyler
Tags: Gen or Pre-Slash, Cats, Subtext 
Rating: G 
Word count: 2,111

Summary: Tyler,” Gene said, in tones that told Sam he’d already guessed the answer. “Did you adopt some flea-ridden moggy?”

Author notes: 
Written as a thank you for a beta [personal profile] smallhobbit did for me! The title is borrowed from the song by Al Stewart published in 1976. It has the same dreamlike quality of getting lost 'where they turn back time' and feeling your life 'like a river running through' as the show. The setting of the song (Vietnam) is rather different from 1970s Manchester but the last two verses resonate strongly, just swap the pronouns...

"Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay"
© Alistair Ian Stewart, Peter John Wood


Year of the Cat on AO3

Year of the Cat )

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Bleach fic

Jul. 7th, 2025 08:38 pm
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Piercing Moment (697 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bleach (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Rukia
Characters: Abarai Renji, Kuchiki Rukia, Ayasegawa Yumichika
Additional Tags: Piercings
Summary:

Rukia and Renji have a moment over an ear piercing. Yumichika is also there.

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Jul. 7th, 2025 08:16 pm
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I got to the end of the sword beasts filler arc of the Bleach anime. I was not so hot on the Zanpakutou Unknown Tales arc, but I can see why the Beast Swords arc is more highly regarded. It was fun and had a lot of heart. My favourite was probably the episode where Hisagi's sword had to take care of a baby, but there was a lot of good stuff. And back on to the actual plot of Ichigo vs Ulquiorra next episode.

I'm well into the last arc with my reread of Bleach. It really is messy. I think the fullbring stuff improved on reread, but this arc is actually less enjoyable on reread. It's so messy, and the overstuffed group of villain characters curbstomping the shinigami is not exciting, and idgaf about squad zero, and Yhwach is a boring villain. The Unohana stuff is so much worse, too; before her fight with Zaraki I thought maybe her clear and obvious grief for the captain general would make me buy the whole thing more, but I really don't.

But at the same time, there is still that stuff I love - Ikkaku and Yumichika running through the rubble, trying not to get blown up; Yumichika nearly saying the true name of his sword in desperation before he gets knocked out; Shiba Ganju showing up on his hog to get that just like old times feeling; Byakuya helping Rukia de-freeze after her fight; Renji increasing the amount of leopard print in his outfit.

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