How to Post Frequently on Dreamwidth

Jan. 9th, 2026 01:22 pm
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A friend asked for suggestions of ways to maintain posting momentum after [community profile] snowflake_challenge ends. There are plenty of ways to build momentum and keep up your posting frequency. Here are some ideas.

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Friday Word: Eucatastrophe

Jan. 9th, 2026 10:19 am
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Eucatastrophe - noun.

Coined by J.R.R. Tolkien in his essay "On Fairy-Stories" (1947), which is in-turn based on a lecture from 1939, is a word to describe a miraculous turn of events in a narrative. You could even say it's a word that avoids catastrophe ;-D The "eu" prefix is from the Greek word for "good".

Eucatastrophes are often swift and unexpected, such as the Prince waking Snow White or the One Ring falls into Mount Doom.



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[community profile] snowflake_challenge's fifth request is upon us, and it asks us to do things taht some of us are not very comfortable with:

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.


A few things that will hopefully be manageable )

K-9 Cosplay :D

Jan. 9th, 2026 07:08 pm
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I'm not brave or savvy enough anymore to wade in other socmed platforms, but thankfully I have friends who are... and found K-9 COSPLAY!!! :D :D They look SO COOL!!!!!

This is Oboro (CN: blood) by [twitter.com profile] suigei_cos. It feels kind of crazy to see the blood actually red haha since the manga is all black and white. When we get an anime, which we totally will for sure yes, I'm so curious to see what kind of shade they go with when animating his power.

Then more Oboro (CN: still blood!) also by [twitter.com profile] suigei_cos. With fire and smoke effects!!! Looking SO COOL!!! 😍

Oboro on a date with Ren or so Oboro says XD Also by [twitter.com profile] suigei_cos.

And my beloved Ren solo by [twitter.com profile] 323runaruna aaaah looking seriously incredible. SO COOL! COSPLAYERS ARE SO POWERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍

I shall go and lie down for a while now.

US Politics: Abolish ICE

Jan. 9th, 2026 01:32 pm
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Minneapolis shooting thoughts, neither coherent nor polite )
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two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #4 - Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page. Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

Fanfic Research That Has Sparked Joy )

Clueless losers.

Jan. 10th, 2026 06:00 am
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Confession: I have never watched The Office, any version, but oof, this dissection of it in the context of a three-tiered understanding of organisations focused on “Sociopaths” (executives), “Clueless” (middle-managers) and “Losers” (everyone else) was wa-aa-aa-ay too close to home.

I spent my career bouncing between being one of the Clueless and one of the Losers, depending on my level of burn-out at any one time, and come from a family of very successful Clueless.1 The handful of years I spent being forced up to the Sociopath level, mostly by proximity and circumstance, burned me out so hard I retired at age 41 and vowed never to go back to 9-to-5 corporate life.

And, yes. This genre of just-so pop psychology should be taken with a grain of salt, et cetera, but given most real, MBA-taught management books aren’t much more rigorously scientific than this blog post . . .

  1. Mum and Dad were both public servants, where I feel this mindset can get you much further than in the private sector, given that the actual top of the Sociopath triangle is reserved for elected Ministers.

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[community profile] snowflake_challenge 2026: Day 5

Jan. 9th, 2026 01:37 pm
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Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.


Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.


1. If you read and like any of my fics, please leave kudos and/or comments! I love both!

2. I also welcome any art, podfics, etc. on any of my fics. If anything inspires you I love seeing how people interpret my stuff into new works. Please provide me with a link to the work so I can add it to the fic and boost it! My transformative works policy is on my profile page; if you're interested in podficcing, please see my additional notes re podfics.

3. And most importantly, I wish for more justice, kindness, and peace in the world.

Previous Days
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Title: Feeding Time
Author: [personal profile] goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 408 words
Warnings: none

Notes:

For [community profile] mcsheplets prompt #129 - pet

For [community profile] sweetandshort January 2026 prompt - where are you?


Summary:

There was a movement in the grassy field ahead of him. Aha! John moved slowly, not wanting his prey to escape.



Feeding Time on AO3

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Regina Keim posted to the private Fraser/Kowalski Facebook group about the old RideForever due South Fic Archive (which was originally on the now long-dead geocities domain) being saved/archived at oocities.org.

You can only search by Author, as far as I can tell. But of the few fics I've briefly checked, some authors include character/pairing/rating etc. information at the top of the fic.

A few issues:

  1. oocities.org seems to be very, very slow in responding.
  2. I got a security warning due to browser certificate mismatch.
  3. depending on your system or browser colors, when you click on a fic, it may look like a totally blank page.

work-arounds for these issues )

Besides site certificate mismatch, the missing text I suspect is because of html page code circa early 2000s that does not play nice with modern browsers - understandable for an archive that may last have been updated seventeen years ago.

Also, for some authors, clicking on their name seems to go to their own individual web page. There may be broken links, as a result.

round #19 - results.

Jan. 9th, 2026 08:27 pm
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Thanks to everyone who voted, here are the results from the nineteenth round.
Congrats everyone! =)

1st Place2nd Place 3rd Place
Onbvhnof o
[personal profile] wickedgame [personal profile] magicrubbish[personal profile] wickedgame  
Best ColorBest CropBest Composition
[personal profile] wickedgame[personal profile] goodbyebird[personal profile] wickedgame

The next color is ORANGE =)

Snowflake Challenge 5: Wishlist

Jan. 9th, 2026 12:01 pm
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Snowflake Challenge 5: Wishlist

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.

If you have wishes for transformative works of your own works or another's work, remember to include links to those sources in order to make it easier for people to create.

Be sure to check out other people's wishlists. Maybe someone will grant your wish! Maybe you will be inspired to grant a wish! If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

This is one of my favorite challenges. It can be difficult for a lot of people to ask for things, so remember not to put too much pressure on yourself for coming up with the perfect wishlist! Your wishes could be something you're recently interested in or something you've wanted for a long time but were afraid to ask for or anything in between. There are no limits!



Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

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LJ back-ups, quicker than I thought

Jan. 9th, 2026 12:48 pm
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Guess how many LJ pages I had bookmarked. 14. Only 14!

I decided just now to sit down and finally back up my old bookmarks on Livejournal before I lose the chance (see this post for more info). I never had a personal journal there (did take over an admin account for a community, at one point) but I remember reading loads of fic on LJ, across various fandoms. I decided to find all the LJ links in my bookmarks manager and then export them as PDFs/find them on the Wayback Machine as needed.

And then, was floored to see that I'd only bookmarked a handful of fic. Where had all the rest of them gone? I remembered reading and lovingly cataloging so many works back in the day.

Then I had the epiphany that I had saved them all NOT in my browser bookmarks manager, but in fact in Delicious, which is dead as a doornail. I probably knew this at one point, but had blocked the memory out because it made me too sad to think about.

I guess my back-up efforts will take much less time than I'd originally thought.

Snowflake Challenge #5

Jan. 9th, 2026 05:29 pm
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Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.


Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.


1. MotoGP: This isn't really something me to receive but I want my beloved Marc Marquez to win his 10th title this year, and not get injured again. The poor guy is so badly beaten up from racing, since his huge crash in 2020, that he regularly needs to be 'serviced' and put back together again, taking time off racing to recover. He didn't even race the last 2 months of 2025 due to a bad crash. So racing gods, be kind to him πŸ™

2. Activities: Related to that, a prize that allows me to go to my home MotoGP race this year and stay in luxury accommodation all weekend by the track.

3. Fanfic: Some Blake's 7 fans to read my epic, post show series about the long lost children of the original characters going to Gauda Prime 20 years later to find out what happened to their parents. Full of drama, in jokes, hope, confrontations, resolutions and how people change as they get older.
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Title: Cold Shiver
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set in S6, during ep. 6x16 β€œHell’s Bells.”
Summary: Buffy’s inner realization about Spike.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #476 - Regret

Crossposted: [community profile] drabble_zone, [community profile] anythingdrabble, My journal

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READ: Cold Shiver )

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