Title: Towards The Rising Sun Fandom: The Fantastic Journey Author:badly_knitted Characters: Varian, Fred, Scott, Liana, Jonathan Willaway, Sil-El. Rating: PG Spoilers/Setting: After the series. Summary: It’s a long journey, but the band of travellers finally reach their destination. Word Count: 1928 Content Notes: Nada. Written For: Weekend Challenge Big Break at 1_million_words, using The Long Way Home & Stuck at the Gates. Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
I've decided 2026 will be the Year of Crafting (and Other Creative Endeavors).
And in typical crafting fashion, I started multiple projects and haven't finished any of them yet! Yay! But the day I decided this I did manage to finish one small thing, which is I drew this pixel art of a food item from Stardew Valley:
Nothing particularly fancy, it just felt cathartic to ignore my phone for an hour and draw colored boxes. A lot of this thought came about because I know I just spend Way Too Much Time on my damn phone. Usually tiktok or reddit or tumblr or whatever. Too much doomscrolling. I know everything is terrible and I do what I can in life to help combat that. But scrolling on tiktok isn't activism and all it does is cause me psychic damage. So, here's to a little less of that in 2026.
I also need to get back onto doing my pottery regularly. I really let it slack off in the last half of the year. I have a whole batch of stoneware items I just need to glaze and fire. Must get off my butt and do that.
I did really well in terms of writing fic in 2025, publishing 8 fics (for over 50k words total)! So proud of myself for that. Would really like to keep it up. (Thank you Criminal Minds for the creative juices.) Also I got really into gifmaking over on tumblr, and I just love making gifs, and I've been learning new techniques and methodologies and expanding my skills.
I've also made the conscious choice when I find myself doom scrolling but not in a situation where I can do anything else (eg, I'm lying in bed) then I close the app and play a game instead. I have several logic puzzles and daily word games, and they have the added bonus of helping me use my brain instead of letting it rot, haha. And usually if I'm in bed trying to sleep, I might scroll tiktok for 2 hours if I let myself, but if I switch to a word game I get sleepy shortly and can go to sleep. I know the better thing would just be to uninstall tiktok, but I also know I won't stick to that. Just gonna try the whole moderation schtick first.
Wishing everybody's 2026 to be a little brighter. <3
Title: The Duel Author: badly_knitted Characters: Tosh, OCs, Team, Owen. Rating: PG Word Count: 730 Spoilers: Nada. Summary: Having offended visiting aliens, the team find themselves challenged to a duel. Who will be their champion and fight for their honour? Written For: The prompt ‘any, any, choose your weapon: foil, epee, sabre’, at threesentenceficathon. Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
Title: Looking Forward To Most Rating: R Warnings: No Warnings Apply Fandom: S.W.A.T. Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort Summary: Donny gets poisoned. Word Count: 2,873
If you unfollowed me because I was updating so many icons, I'm done now and probably will never do that many at once again. Sorry about that! Just had a backlog to make up for.
It looks like there were two bills regarding Venezuela introduced yesterday:
H.Con.Res.68 - To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.
(I saw the AP mention that a war powers resolution to limit further attacks on Venezuela advanced in the Senate, but I'm unclear if that referred to either of these)
ETA (1/9/2026): I think this is the resolution mentioned by the AP:
S.J.Res.98 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.
Drabbles and limericks for people who requested them: Chrestomanci due South + Murderbot due South + Venom Interview with the Vampire (TV) KPop Demon Hunters Pride and Prejudice Singin' in the Rain Slough House Star Wars
Prompt me if you would you like something in one or more of my fandoms. I may not get to you today, but we can have Even More Joy Day tomorrow!
Current Mood:joyful
Current Music:Hearts unfold like flowers before thee
Trying something a bit different for the annual Sutcliff this time.
We Lived in Drumfyvie (1975) is a series of short stories about the history of a fictional Scottish town (nothing to do with the real Fyvie in Aberdeenshire, setting of my favourite ballad), from its creation as a burgh by David I in the twelfth century to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee at the end of the nineteenth.
Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!
We had a kitty by our mother's house, his name Cebola (means onion in Portuguese). He's fat brown tabby, lazy, but very comforting to have around. Though found out recently that our mom has an allergy to cats, but its fairly mild according to her ._.
At the place we lived at had another kitty, Bibi, who's a mostly white calico who seems to be scared of us ;_;
Look, bakers, I'll be the firth to admit I'm not so great with numbers...
...but something here just doesn't add up:
Major props for helping "Keydunce" celebrate such a special milestone, though.
The kind of milestone, in fact, that most of us will spend the next few seconds trying to pronounce. (I'm going with "three-und." Or maybe "Thirnd.")
Hey, is it just me, or have you noticed families having LOTS of kids these days?
Not to mention getting super lazy naming them all.
(Johnny Five's sister? We can only hope.)
Ok, now you're just making stuff up.
Maybe if you skip the number superscript all together...
Nope.
Well, bakers, I guess you're just going to have to spell them out. That way there's no chance of any of these piddly little technical errors, you know?
I don't... how could... WHY... Oh, never mind.
Happy Liberation Day, Kanaan.
Thanks to Kajal, Kailey S., Anony M., Moira B., Beth M., Tyffani C., Alison U., & Crystal T. for putting two and two together... and getting all sixes and sevens. (That one's for you British mates. Smoochies!)
*****
P.S. I found the COOLEST toy for helping kids learn their numbers:
These would make awesome cake toppers; then you can surprise them by showing the number is really a robot. As of this writing they're on sale for over 50% off, too. SCORE.
Title: Life’s a Beach Fandoms: Friends, Lucifer, Revenge Author:veronyxk84 Characters/Pairing: Chandler, Monica, Joey (Friends); Emily/Amanda, Nolan (Revenge); Lucifer, Chloe (Lucifer) Rating: PG Content: 9 icons with beach scenes from 3 TV shows. Disclaimer:This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.
haka (HAH-kah) - n., a Maori group dance with rhythmic chanting, vigorous facial and arm movements, and foot stamping.
Traditionally a war dance, now performed as to show respect during ceremonial greetings and funerals, but better known internationally as a challenge to opposing teams at sports events -- the New Zealand rugby union team aka the All Blacks is associated with this, as they've been performing a haka before matches since an 1888 tour of the United Kingdom [Sidebar: of note, most of that team were in fact Maori], but other New Zealand national teams also do it. From Maori, of course, though there are dance-related cognates in other Polynesian languages such as Hawaiian haʻa, dance, and Tongan haka, hand action made while singing.
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