Poem: "The Far Call"

Jan. 10th, 2026 12:17 am
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This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills "The Far Call" square in my 1-1-25 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. It was sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred.

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If you wanna know if he loves you so (150 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Summary:

"May I?" says Master Qui-Gon's padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, reaching toward Anakin's shoulder and leaning down.


*

This is not the first thing I have written recently that was all [personal profile] teland's fault, but it sure is the first Star Wars she's responsible for.

There are discussion questions in the first comment.

Philosophical Questions: Success

Jan. 10th, 2026 12:02 am
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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Is it more or less difficult to be successful in the modern world than it was in the past (10, 50, 100, or 1,000 years ago)?

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Stayed up too late last night

Jan. 10th, 2026 12:25 am
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After I wrote here didn't get to bed until 5:00 am. Slept til 10:00, woke up to be reminded that I had a therapy appointment at 10:30. So I stayed up and had my visit with the therapist, then went back to sleep for some hours. I forget what time it was when we both finally got up.

So we had breakfast/brunch/lunch of smoked fish and cream cheese on gluten free sandwich things, which was really delicious.

Then I took a shower and got dressed.

And then I remembered that I was supposed to call the oncologist and try to get my appointment changed so RK could take me. It was after 4:00 by then. I called, and got a call back time for 4:30. They called back by about 4:35, and I tried to get the appointment changed but the doctor had already left for the day so they couldn't make the appointment and will call me back Monday.

Then [personal profile] mashfanficchick and I went to Dunkin Donuts and had beverages, and then I left for my meeting.

I actually got ther with enough time to have my pizza for dinner before the meeting. The meeting was very good, we got two newcomers.

After the meeting, M drove me to the bus stop. He left me at 9:00, when the bus was supposed to come at 9:05. It didn't. It was nearly a half hour late. And my transit apps, both of them, were no help at all. I was very frustrated. Worse, it turns out the FWiB wasn't getting my emails , and so didn't email me. I was getting more and more frustrated.

The bus finally showed, and I got to 31st and Linden with only 5 minutes to wait til the 61 showed up. So I took that, and just t cement my bad mood, he didn't stop for my stop request until I said "Hey, the stop" and we were almost in the intersection.

The FWiB, not knowing I had been trying to get him for 45 minutes, sent me an annoyingly cheery message when he finally got one of mine. I snapped back, and snarled all the way home.

When he told me he hadn't gotten my other emails, I started to calm down, and [personal profile] mashfanficchick called me and we talked for a bit which completed the process.

Except that when I went to Team the FWiB, we had technical difficulties again. We finally got through to each other but I had the damn ding-ding-dinging of the Teams app giong through the whole call.

But I survived, and we had a nice chat. Then I got off and started here.

Now it's time for bed.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. [personal profile] mashfanficchick

3. My meetings and the people there.

4. The rain had stopped by the time I was waiting for the bus.

5. Smoked fish.

6. Bed soon.

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Jan. 9th, 2026 09:34 pm
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Hockey again, but I will put most of it under a cut. Photo is some of the rookies in their Pride Night fits from last night



hockey and some cool pictures )

Challenge 422: Teen Wolf: G

Jan. 10th, 2026 12:01 am
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Derek’s Little Family (500 words) by look_turtles
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Eli Hale (Teen Wolf)
Additional Tags: Stiles Is Eli’s Other Dad, No mpreg, AU
Summary:

Au.

Set after the events of the show but before the movie, Derek tells Stiles that they have a son from The Nemeton.



An: I know Stiles’ grandad is an awful person but I like to think that he names Eli Elias because it’s his dad’s middle name.

Written for the anythingdrabble prompt: Important

teen wolf )

Survived the day

Jan. 9th, 2026 11:54 pm
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That meeting started too early and went way too long. That said it wasn't as awful as it could have been. We spent too much time on active shooter drills, not because it's not important but because we keep getting promised changes that never happen. This time I held up my work key chain that has over 30 keys. HOW am I going to find the right key fast enough to not get shot trying? I was told we can buy that bolt lock for the inside of the door if we want one...ME? Jesus.

There might be enough money to keep my building from falling in. That's good to know.

The new football coach seemed to be a cross between a tent revival preacher and someone honestly wanting to rehab our team (you know the one that's been here 1 year, lost half to expulsion for bad behavior and this is our third coach!)

The AI training went on too long. SO long. We're instructors. We KNOW the brain can't handle 2 hours of lecture.

Came home to no phone and no functioning cell phone (I have a land line because 90% of the time the cell doesn't work out here).

Then into the writer's zoom where I mostly did editing of the novel. Still hoping for beta readers for the Overlook short story.

And I'll do fannish fan recs tomorrow because then I had to fight with kickstarter about my pledge (still isn't done) and fight with United health care which still thinks I'm a member and well now I am again but it took forever to update everything.

Such a frustrating day.

Daily Happiness

Jan. 9th, 2026 08:54 pm
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1. It's the weekend! I am continuing to feel fairly optimistic about the upcoming February deadline at work, so hopefully that won't change. There's enough other stress going on outside of work.

2. Chloe doesn't really like any of the other cats but Molly, though her tolerance level for the others varies. She is the least tolerant of Jasper, though, so it was so nice to see her, Molly, and Jasper all on the bed together! And it happened two days in a row, too!

Snowflake Challenge Day #5: Wishlist

Jan. 10th, 2026 12:36 pm
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Challenge Day #5: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

My wish list:

1. Recs for music with female vocallist, or music by female composers. I like a variety of music: metal, rock, Celtic, pop, bardcore, country, etc. Music in non-English languages are welcomed! A sampling of my favourite singers/bands: Loreena Mckennit, Dar Williams, Vienna Teng, Within Temptation, XG, etc.

2. Recs for interesting blogs to follow. Books, nature, history, cute animals, trivia, tabletop RPG, world building, art and craft, or anything you find interesting

3. Stolen from [personal profile] kingstoken : Go to arab.org and "click to help", it's free. All raised money goes to UN agencies. 



Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

My Fandom How To Posts

Jan. 9th, 2026 09:57 pm
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Someone asked about resources for more fannishness on Dreamwidth. I already have a bunch of relevant posts, so here are the links for those.

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Weekly Reading

Jan. 9th, 2026 08:12 pm
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Recently Finished
Hummingbird Salamander
A woman is given a mysterious taxidermied hummingbird and a mysterious note and throws her entire life away trying to find out why. I did not like this much at all, but I think I would have liked it better if I hadn't been listening to the audiobook. The narrator was lovely, no problem with her. But the writing style was reeeeeeeeally annoying to listen to. I've read Annihilation and the two original sequels (haven't read the recent one yet) and don't remember if it was like this in those and I just vibed with it better because I can skim or if he changed his style up a bit, but it's super annoying here. The narration is also very rambling and goes over and over the same things so many times, which also gets annoying to listen to, but would have been easier to deal with when reading. But that wasn't the only issue as the story itself also felt very weak to me. The final reveal at the end was interesting, but the rest was just pretty boring. Also the constant focus on the protagonist's size felt weird. She is stated to be six foot and 230 pounds, which is large for a woman, but not so out of the ordinary yet it's treated as if she's the hulk or something, and constantly commented on by herself and others.

My Name Is Leon
London, 1981. Leon is a half-Black nine year old boy whose mom has a breakdown and when he and his baby brother are put in foster care, his brother, who is white, is quickly adopted, leaving him all alone. I really liked this a lot.

Tsumetakute Yawaraka vol. 6

Hen na Ie vol. 6
This is the first volume in the sequel series. So far I am enjoying it a lot! Curious to see if it will be as wild as the first one (knowing the author, I'm sure it will).

Ore Monogatari vol. 14
I had no idea there was a new volume out! Well, new is relative, as it came out in 2024, but the original series ended in 2016. This collects some bonus chapters of them in college.

My Home Hero vol. 25-26
Finally finished this. The ending was satisfying and overall I enjoyed the series a lot.

2026 Schedule and Important Links.

Jan. 10th, 2026 02:58 pm
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[community profile] caseficexchange is a fanwork exchange focusing on investigations. These can be solving murders, retrieving stolen items, finding missing people, missions and solving mysteries. As long as it centres on the requested characters mainly interacting with an investigation, it fits with the exchange.

We have a minimum of 3,000 words (or work equivalent) and allow fic, comics, and podfic. You must have an AO3 account and be 18+ to participate.

2026 Schedule

    Nominations: Friday 16 January to Friday 23 January [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
    Sign-ups: Sunday 25 January to Friday 30 January
    Assignments out: (Mod to fill once they've been dispatched)
    Works due: Friday 1 May
    Extension deadline: Friday 15 May
    Deadline to add fandoms for non-guarantees*: Friday 15 May
    Collection reveals: Friday 12 June
    Creator reveals: Friday 26 June

The exchange runs on EDT/EST time. All deadlines are 11.59pm EDT/EST.

*Participants who choose to sign up with less than 3 unique fandoms (and who are pinch hits) have until this deadline to add additional fandoms to their request.

Important links



Current Phase

    We're excited for ROUND 2! Moustaches are being groomed for twirling. Tumblrs are being scoured. We're remembering what we requested before because 2025 felt like 84 years ago. Nominations are open!

2026 Rules and Guidelines.

Jan. 10th, 2026 02:55 pm
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Detectives, investigators, citizen detectives, and nosy busybodies (and to anyone we left out)—please ensure you familiarise yourself with the rules and guidelines for participation.

Please feel free to leave any and all questions in the comments (anonymous commenting is on) or email gumshoeagency@gmail.com. Please include your AO3 username when you email. (If you email us, please allow 2 business days for a response before following up.) We will not be responding to Discord messages.

House Rules )

What Counts? )

Nominations )

Sign-Ups )

Assignments )

Assignments: About Mediums )

Posting )

Extensions )

Defaulting )

Pinch Hits )

Treats )

Commenting )

Thank you for your interest. We hope you have fun participating in the exchange, even if that's browsing the works once we're open!
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A friend asked, "How do you choose the starting point of your fic/story?" Here are some thoughts...

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