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A weird thing happened today.

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In other news, the upcoming episode is still our #1 topic of conversation.

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badly_knitted

Title: Come Fly With Me
Fandom: A-Team
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: B.A. Baracus, Murdock, Team.
Rating: G
Spoilers: General for the series.
Summary: B.A. hates flying, which is unfortunate since it’s such a handy way of getting wherever the team needs to go.
Word Count: 573
Written For: My own prompt ‘The A-Team (Series), Team, Murdock loves flying more than anything, BA hates flying more than anything. It's left to the others to deal with the complications that arise,’ at

fic_promptly.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The A-Team, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

( Come Fly With Me... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Toxic
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Gwen.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1151
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack sends Ianto with Gwen on a Rift retrieval, and it’s a good thing he does, because it turns out his knowledge is needed.
Written For: Weekend Challenge ‘Unprepared’ at

1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Toxic... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

kaffy_r

Overly Loud Music in Ear Buds: Threat or Menace?*

It's been a minute since I last posted. Not, like, a real long minute, but a metaphorical minute nonetheless. For the last few days, it's been dank and grey here in Chicago, and the stress levels at Casa kaffy_rbob continue to be somewhere between Defcon 3 and 2, for all the reasons previously recited at tedious length.

When that happens, or continues happening, my go-to stress reliever, the one that effectively cuts my ability to get things done, but possibly saves a sliver of my sanity, is to put my ear buds in, and blast SKZ or Ateez at skull-rattlingly unhealthy levels right into my brain. It's a good thing that's actually a very bad thing, but I don't really care. If my hearing wasn't damaged by standing on a stage between very loud amplifiers, then my rock and roll card needs to be revoked.

But my stress level is now closer to Defcon 3, which is a bit of a relief. We finally realized that the idea of trying to balance Bob's permanent residence application at the same time as getting the house ready to sell and finding someplace to live in N. S., and getting decent movers who understand getting things across the border was stupid.

We're going to tell the movers who keep bothering us (admittedly because we contacted them first) and our very patient real estate agent that everything will be put on hold until the application is completed, in, and Bob gets accepted for permanent residence. I'd originally fought the idea, thinking that we could actually handle everything at once. I'm very glad that Bob convinced me otherwise.

So perhaps I won't have to turn my ear buds up to 11 for the next couple of days.

* and if you get that reference, congratulations - you've joined the "older than dirt, and still hipper than the room" club.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez, "Say My Name"

shivver

If you haven't seen it, well, spoilers...

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ffutures

This is an offer of the Awfully Cheerful Engine RPG from EN Publishing, described as a cinematic pop-culture action-comedy RPG.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Cheerful

This one is interesting - the rules system is deliberately kept simple and easy to understand, using mechanics seen previously in games like the Ghostbusters RPG, and the book contains eight fairly detailed settings with adventures. Inspiration for the settings/adventures includes big city ghost-chasing, archeological adventuring, a "high school with weird science" setting, teenage mutant thingies, and so forth. It's fun and cheap, and definitely well worth a look if you like its freewheeling style of play, and it should be easy to adapt the adventures to any RPG that isn't too rules-heavy, or import adventures for other system-light games to this one. Recommended!

badly_knitted

Title: Party Downer
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 450: Amnesty 45 at

drabble_zone, using Challenge 429: Party.
Spoilers/Setting: Retitle Boy.
Summary: Buffy has gone off parties.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Party Downer... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Undimmed
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 450: Amnesty 45 at

drabble_zone, using Challenge 116: Silver.
Setting: Many years the manga.
Summary: Dee and Ryo aren’t as young as they used to be.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Undimmed... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Outside Help
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, the Doctor, Aliens.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 866: Who at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Thanks to some outside help, some aliens are on their way home.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Outside Help... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

paranoidangel

What I Just Finished Reading
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman. I can't decide if I liked this or not. I couldn't get through the Thursday Murder Club because I didn't like the characters and wasn't interested in the murder. In this one I like the characters and would absolute be up for reading more with them in, but wasn't that interested in the murder. And found the short chapters cutting between characters made it hard to get into.

Clean Point by Meg Jones. This was awful. I thought it was a tennis romance, but then read the preview and thought it was an interesting tennis story about drugs and parents and coaches. That part of the story was interesting and would have been better if it had been the main part of the story. Sadly most of it was about the two main characters spending all their time thinking about each other's legs, which was dull and predictable. I kept reading for the tennis aspect and whether it was all going to end up happy or more realistic. I could have not bothered.

What I'm Currently Reading
Triangle: Imzadi II by Peter David. My Unconventional Courtship fic is set during this book. I skim-read bits when I started, but then my writing stalled. I finally have an idea for the next bit (if not the ending) and I thought reading this book would help me actually write it.

What I'm Reading Next
Is This Working? by Charlie Colenutt. A library hold that's just come in.

Mirrored from my blog.

lannamichaels

Improvement from the book: I can tell people apart! Yay!

Didn't recall that Pin-Lee is the lawyer until I went to go check who played the character. But I can tell them apart!

Pin-Lee is so fucking hot.

Gurathin's my fave. IIRC from the first book, he was the only one to distinguish himself as an individual character and I didn't like him. But he's so good here. Definitely favorite character.

There is something about Skarsgard that is driving me bonkers, and I think it's his voice/accent. Everyone else is so individual and he sounds so... like, it would be one thing if he sounded robotic but he doesn't. It sounds better when it has the helmet-voice-modifier thing going, but in general... IDK still feeling the whole "completely miscast" vibes.

Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon: every single person involved in this -- from the writers, to the set people, the props people, the hair and makeup people, the special effects people, the actors, the editors, everyone who had anything at all to do with it -- are having the time of their life doing this and it shows.

shivver

Nope, didn't get to actually sit down and write anything about "The Story and the Engine" last week, so I have to bundle it with "The Interstellar Song Contest". I just have no idea where my time is going nowadays.

( The Story and the Engine )

( The Interstellar Song Contest )

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ffutures

This is another offer for the Old School Essentials RPG which was offered yesterday - a collection of third party adventures from other publishers, also compatible with Basic / Expert D&D.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OSETreasures2

Lots of stuff here for old-school dungeon bashing, and if that's your style of play it may be worth a look.

badly_knitted

Title: Happy Dog
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, Dick the dog.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Dick is always happy when his temporary owners arrive home from work.
Written Using: The tw100 prompt ‘Tail / Tale’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.

( Happy Dog... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Too Close
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Rory Williams, Eleventh Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 924: ‘Barrel’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Black holes should be avoided at all costs.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Too Close... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Muddy Mess
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Tosh, Jack, Owen, Gwen.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 866: Who at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto only took the morning off…
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Muddy Mess... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

scifirenegade

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Current Mood: nervous

ffutures

After a fair amount of faffing around I've bought a refurbished HP Z2 Workstation PC on eBay for a little over £300, should get it by the end of the week. Specifications are

Intel Core i7 8700 processor 3.2GHz (MaxTurbo 4.6GHz)
32 GB RAM
Storage - 1TB SSD + 2TB HD
Form factor - micro tower
Windows 11 Professional

It doesn't have a graphics card additional to the motherboard, I don't expect that to be a problem for my purposes but I can put one in if necessary.

Since my experience of Windows 11 is limited, I'd be grateful for suggestions on anything I need to do to keep it under control - for example, when I switched to Window 10 I had to install a third party user interface program to make it work more like earlier versions.

reeby10

10 Jack Sparrow + 10 Jack Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean icons for

disney_20in20

Preview:

*Icons are free for use.
*Credit and comments are nice.

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ffutures

This is a bundle of Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, the complete and definitive version of the Old-School Essentials tabletop roleplaying rules set from Necrotic Gnome. Essentially, an updated and streamlined Basic D&D variant adding spells from AD&D.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/AdvancedOSE

As I seem to be saying a lot lately, this really isn't my sort of thing at all, but if it is it might be worth a look.

badly_knitted

Title: Animal Instincts
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Giles, Buffy, Xander.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 750
Spoilers/Setting: The Pack.
Summary: Giles didn’t initially believe Buffy when she insisted Xander wasn’t himself. In hindsight, that might have been short-sighted of him.
Written For: Challenge 474: Animal at

fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.

( Animal Instincts... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: A Brilliant Mind
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Tosh.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 554
Spoilers: Fragments.
Summary: Tosh is a rare treasure, and Jack is determined to give her everything she needs to flourish in her new job with Torchwood Three.
Written For:

lumiosecity’s prompt ‘any, any, precocious’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( A Brilliant Mind... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

romanajo123

Here's where you can find all my fic. Take a look!

AO3- AllyHR / human_nature ( I primarily use the latter)  archiveofourown.org/users/AllyHR

Teaspoon- (I am slowly uploading a lot of ,my DW backlog here) - Romanajo123

Dreamwidth- You Are Here!

What I Write- Doctor Who: I write a mix of eras/ characters/ ships. Over the past few years I've been doing more with the modern show. Plus a few tiny crossovers.

Once Upon a Time- Again, I do write a bunch of characters/ ships. Though my main is RumBelle (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin ) so you can definitely expect a lot of that. :) My fics are typically Het or Gen and don't go past a PG or Teen rating.

A Note on Prompts/Requests- Yes, I do them. But be aware I may take a while to get them done.

A Note on Rmixes/ Art/ Transformative- If you do get inspired by something I post , great! I only ask that you show me.

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Other Places You Can Find Me:

Tumblr- human-nxture

Goodreads-  www.goodreads.com/user/show/90753933-ally

scifirenegade

But in English, thank Yetaxa.

First, something serious.

Come on, Baby, Be My Tiger, a great essay on the many (three! why are there three??) versions of The Indian Tomb. It touches on the films' placement in German film history and orientalism/fetishisation/racism. A good read, recommended.

EDIT: Did you know, a lot of Germans thought Eschnapur was a real place?

And now, the silly.

Lost Media (TM) nowadays is all about stupid meat apps and American game shows. But the real lost media is all the Connie fan fiction hosted on the old Conrad Veidt Society website! From 1998! It predates the earliest known fic by over 10 years! (There are earlier Casablanca fics from the early 2000s, but, ya know, his character...)

One even seems to be FP1 fic! (The other is RPF?? I think??) No idea who the authors are, and appears no other fics were added.

Current Mood: absolutely knackered

reeby10

My parents are now back in Texas and I'm back to my normal schedule after a very full week of activities while they were visiting. I'm still so tired lol

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shivver - More DW ramblings
badly_knitted - A-Team Ficlet: Come Fly With Me
badly_knitted - Fic: Toxic
kaffy_r - Dept. of Not-White Noise
shivver - More thoughts about that last episode
ffutures - Another RPG Bundle - Awfully Cheerful Engine
badly_knitted - BtVS Double Drabble: Party Downer
badly_knitted - FAKE Double Drabble: Undimmed
badly_knitted - Double Drabble: Outside Help
paranoidangel - What I am reading Wednesday
lannamichaels - Murderbot TV episodes 1 and 2
shivver - "The Story and the Engine" and "The Interstellar Song Contest" (reviews)
ffutures - Another Old School bundle - OSE Treasures 2
badly_knitted - FAKE Double Drabble: Happy Dog
badly_knitted - Doctor Who Drabble: Too Close
badly_knitted - Double Drabble: Muddy Mess
scifirenegade - Double Feature, Black and White
ffutures - Computer update
reeby10 - Disney_20in20 - Round 11 - PotC
ffutures - Another Fantasy Bundle - Old School Essentials
badly_knitted - BtVS Ficlet: Animal Instincts
badly_knitted - Ficlet: A Brilliant Mind
romanajo123 - Where You Can Read My Fic!
scifirenegade - More Links
reeby10 - a full week indeed

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