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meme: fic writer questions

continuing the "this would be too long as a thread on bluesky, so here it is as a dreamwidth post" idea i mentioned in my last post.

i’m also going with a bonus idea: if i like a long meme with numbers, i won’t try to get people to ask me all the questions and i’ll just do the meme. honestly, when i do a meme like this, i’m lucky if i get one reply! no reason to wait, you know?

anyway, here's the meme. let's go!

( fic meme. )

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250422.html

What's different about this Moon?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250422.html

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World Book Day

The official theme for World Book Day 2025 is:

"Read Your Way: Diverse Books for Every Mind"

This theme emphasizes the importance of inclusion and diversity in reading. It encourages readers to explore different voices, perspectives, and cultures through literature, promoting empathy and global understanding.

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This Lady Really Takes The… Well, Not The Cake, Anyway

Posted by Not Always Right

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The cashier scanned her two items, the lady paid, and I was just starting to get them back into her cart when an ear-splitting bellow shattered the relative peace of the entire front end.
Lady: “NOOO!”

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Daily Happiness

1. I had another work from home day. I'm about halfway caught up with my email and fully caught up with teams. Tomorrow I've got a couple meetings, so I've got to go in to the office, but I might work from home again on Thursday to finally catch up on everything.

2. When Carla was out today she stopped at Uncle Tetsu's, a Japanese cheesecake chain. They have a sakura cheesecake right now and we had some after dinner tonight and it was sooooooo good. I normally prefer New York style cheesecake to the Japanese fluffier style, but this was really good consistency and the sakura flavor was amazing.

3. I finished playing The Plucky Squire. Overall it's a pretty fun game, but it is not just a straight action adventure game. There are a bunch of (frankly not that fun) mini games for the boss fights and stuff where you have to play other styles of games and that is not what I signed up for. Like for one character's boss battles you play a Mike Tyson style boxing game, for another it's a rhythm game, and for the third it's a Puzzle Bobble type. Then there are some stealth sequences where you have to sneak past enemies who can kill you instantly if they sense you, and if they sense you there is no way to run to escape, even if you're close to a place you could get away. You're just instantly dead. And the final battle is a space shooter type. The good thing is that if you die in a boss battle you can sometimes restart partway through, not all the way at the beginning, and the stealth sequences have multiple checkpoints and you'll respawn there rather than back at the beginning. But I would still have preferred not to have that "variety" in my action adventure game. Still is a fun game, though. But if you suck at those types of games it might ruin it for you.

4. I finished editing all my Disney Japan pics, so hopefully I can get the last day's posts written up later this week.

5. Jasper is just so handsome.

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recurring posts

Good News

Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?

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japan 2025

2025 Disneyland Trip #23 (4/5/25) Tokyo DisneySea (Part 2)

When I last left off, we had just checked out the big gift shop at the Fantasy Springs hotel and were exploring the land while waiting for our return time for the Peter Pan ride.

( More DisneySea adventures! )

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prompt: #431 - toska

[Amnesty: Challenge #431: Toska] Original Poetry: 'тоска'

Title: 'тоска'
Fandom: Original Poetry
Rating: G

( тоска )

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Today's Adventures

Today we went out shopping.

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Insect Apocalypse

Insects are disappearing due to agriculture -- and many other drivers, new research reveals

New paper highlights 500+ interconnected drivers behind global insect decline.
Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide, but why? Agricultural intensification tops the list of proposed reasons, but there are many other, interconnected drivers that have an impact, according to new research.

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You Don’t Have To Sandwich Yourself In The Middle Of The Line To Get A Sandwich

Posted by Not Always Right

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Read You Don’t Have To Sandwich Yourself In The Middle Of The Line To Get A Sandwich

We line up, and two other customers get behind us as we start the process. I'm second in line and as I get the meat on my sandwich, the rude man walks up. He plants himself in front of the veggies; right in the middle of the counter where you build your sandwich; and stares at the menu.

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movies

I don't watch a lot of movies, except I was on planes with two very long library ebooks to read and so of course my brain was like "movie time!", sigh. Anyways.

The Wild Robot, 2024. I basically more or less liked this but I didn't love it. Maybe it's just that I'm old and it's a kids' movie, but it felt a little rushed, like there were several times I found myself thinking that a scene would have been better and hit harder if they had just given it a couple more beats or a little more space to breathe. I was also disappointed that they backed down from the "predation is a normal part of animal life and predator animals aren't "evil" or "bad guys"" message with the idea that actually predators could just refrain from predation and "choose kindness" if they wanted to. Some nice animation though, and some really nicely done worldbuilding in the background details.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E., 2015. I had never seen this but am sort of adjacent to the fandom-once-removed, like, some people I follow on Tumblr for other reasons sometimes reblog stuff about it. It was fun and I'm sorry they never made another one, although apparently one of the stars was like a serial harasser/abuser so I suppose I'm glad for everyone who didn't have to work with him again.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, 2024. I didn't actually watch this on the plane, but Q started it on the plane and didn't have time to finish it and I was sort of curious about it so I rented it for him. It was fun but wasn't great. There were definitely moments when they hit a good gag or a good vein in the nostalgia mines, but there was a lot going on and it didn't all mesh together that well, and it kind of felt like they got to the last act and were like "shit we'd better resolve all this" and some of that was pretty abrupt. The Elfman theme is unbeatable though, and it was interesting to see the story they came up with for Lydia's life.

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(I still think the 2016 Ghostbusters was by far the best of this sort of nostalgia-mining, and I will forever be annoyed that dudes managed to sink not only any sequels but any other genderbending reboots. A crass, gross woman Beetlejuice - maybe playing against Keaton instead of replacing him - might have been a fun character.)

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Fandom stuff

- I signed up for

seasonsofdrabbles. Come join me! ~~So I have someone to write for.~~

- After my first

hurtcomfortex idea got increasingly complicated with less and less direct h/c, I now have a new idea that is directly h/c and much simpler. Which is great, because I can tell it's going to be a long 'un. (That's why the writing period for this exchange is so long, right? Because h/c takes lots of words??) So now I have 400 words, and the deadline isn't for like six weeks! Woo!

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Back home

And finally our work in

mashfanficchick's mother's house is completed!

I got up at 11:00, had coffee, showered and dressed.

mashfanficchick's friend Liz G came at 12:00 and we met her at the house, and took two trips to the storage unit, bringing the last boxes over.

Then we had lunch at a Chinese restaurant, which was delicious.

Finally, Liz G drove a few things from the house to

mashfanficchick's apartment, and the very last thing of all,

mashfanficchick and I walked a folding table that wouldn't fit in the car from the house to the apartment. And that was that.

I stayed awhile longer, to hang and relax, and then I Ubered home.

I got home a little after 6:00 and fed the pets, and puttered on the computer til 7:00 when I Skyped the FWiB.

We talked til 8:00 when I had my Al-anon meeting. That was very small but good. M wasn't there. I hope she's OK.

Then I had a little to eat, and texted with the Kid about funeral arrangements. A depressing subject but now that Oldest Brother has entered hospice, pretty necessary. It looks as though we'll do a direct cremation with a service at the crematorium, followed by a two hour memorial at the funeral home. I hope that cousin Cliff will be able to do the service.

Went to the bedroom and played solitaire, then came out and fed the pets again. Time for bed pretty soon.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The house is done.

3. Good lunch.

4. The Kid.

5. Cousin Cliff.

6. My copy of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish came.

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Poet's Corner: Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic by Grisel Y. Acosta

I love an ekphrastic and this is proof that poetic forms we might think of as nothing but wordplay or for children (e.g., abecedarians or acrostics) can be very sophisticated and serious.

Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic by Grisel Y. Acosta

after Remedios Varo’s Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista

another face has sprouted in my chest
beastly, that’s me, a super freak
cavorting with your skull in my grasp
displaced personalities cannot be cloaked
ever, they will grow like a haunted
fever of wispy hair
gathered in a basket, along with time, a
half-filled vial of poison &
illusions of tick-tock-clocking syringe
just let me explain:
killing myself is not an option
let me try to live with my
multiple personas and their infinite masks, why
not weave them into a poncho
of chartreuse green, grow them,
pouch them, wear them like horns
question my memories, befriend
radical thoughts and nightmares
solemn my specters behind
tenuous doors with intimidating bells
understand the unexplainable, develop
venom as Tilda Swinton couture
when dreams become a snail shell planted
X, marks the spot of this treasure I shall reveal,
yell on a mountain, YES, this is mine, I will
zap my fears—I can face all the faces, darling, of course I can

--

This is the work of art which inspired the piece:

varo painting

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, April 22

MANNY: Gary's gone.
BUFFY: Gary. Oh, the guy that helped me out at the counter yesterday?
MANNY: He didn't show up this morning.
BUFFY: Well, shift's just starting.
MANNY: He was supposed to unlock early this morning. Didn't show. Pull his card.
BUFFY: Well, I'm, I'm sure, you know, he's just late. He didn't seem like he was leaving.
MANNY: I'm moving Timothy to counter. You're on grill.
BUFFY: Me?
MANNY: I've been watching you.
BUFFY: B-but I-I don't know how to grill.
MANNY: Just think. This is the last day you'll ever be able to say that.

~~Buffy Season 6 Episode #112: "DoubleMeat Palace"~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

excerpt from I want you to want for me (Buffy/Tara, unrated) by pelorsdyke

Intertwined, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, E) by BloodyThorn

Transitory, Chapter 16 (Buffy/Spike, T) by GhostsInLove

[Chaptered Fiction]

Anti-Hero Ch, 1/12 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Willow25
Where Do We Go From Here? Ch. 1-11/11 (COMPLETE) (Buffy/Faith, M) by storiwr
but i never thought i'd live to see it break Ch. 4 (Giles/Jenny, T) by jennycalendarswife
Into the Initiative Ch. 7 (Buffy/Spike, T) by heckate
Choices Ch. 2 (Buffy, Ensemble, T) by DestinyMaverick
animal planet Ch. 1-2/2 (COMPLETE) (Xander, Ensemble, T) by belledamn
Soulless Seer Ch. 4 (Drusilla/Buffy, M) by desicat
Better Things to Do Ch. 6 (Buffy/Spike, T) by BeneficialAddiction
Incarnate Ch. 36/38 (Buffy/Spike, M) by TheSigyn
Sojourns in Heaven Ch. 1-2/2 (COMPLETE) (Angel/Connor, E) by playitwithsometenderness

The Purrfect Con, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, G) by flootzavut
The Choice To Stay, Chapter 24 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Spikelover4ever
Buffy Falls First, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, E) by buckrogers687
A Morning After, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, M) by TwilightChild
Anti-Hero, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Willow25
The Plan, Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, E) by NotYourGrave
... she just went to get some more paint, Chapter 5-6 (Buffy/Spike, G) by flootzavut
spike and the stakes, Chapter 22-24 (Buffy/Spike, T) by jewelram
The Zeppo In Time, Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, E) by CheekyKitten
Sojourns in Heaven, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, E) by elements

Heroes, villains and Slayers Ch. 7 (Buffy. M, multiple xovers) by DoctorSkywalker

My Calendar Girl, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Maxine Eden
The battle of the rhymes, Chapter 25-27 (Buffy/Spike, M) by JSBirsa
Sojourns in Heaven, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, E) by elements

[Images, Audio & Video]

Icons: 1 new BtVS and 4 new AtS icons () by Nondenomifan

Artwork: Fred & Gunn () by artsying-ifer
Artwork: Buffy & Spike () by miehczyslaw
Artwork: Andrew () by garscrucible
Artwork: Warren () by garscrucible
Artwork: Spike & Drusilla () by miehczyslaw
Artwork: Summers family (Spuffy) by flyora
Artwork: () by
Icons: Willow Icons () by editshit
Icons: Buffy Icons () by editshit
Manip: Episodic art for BtVS 04.04. “Fear, Itself” () by revello-drive-1630

Video: Wesley & Lilah | It means something that you tried () by bacinaru
Video: Faith Lehane | ANIMAL () by alvxprodz
Video: we could be so good | Spike & Buffy () by Pinkly
Video: () by

[Reviews & Recaps]

Episode 8- I Robot, You Jane by genZcommentary

Rewatch: S1 E3 - The Witch by torturedspike
Rewatch: S1 E2 - The Harvest by torturedspike
Rewatch: S1 E1 - Welcome to the Hellmouth by torturedspike
More Buffy rewatch thoughts: “Real Me” & “The Replacement” by disquietiswhatitis
AtS Ep 15: Orpheus by sweetcritique
Ep 14: Release by sweetcritique

PODCAST: Episode 63 - No Good Way to Drink Blood (The Initiative) by Sunnydale Diaries
PODCAST: BTVS 616 - Hell's Bells by Another Buffy Podcast
PODCAST: Angel S4E15: Orpheus by Booze and Buffy

[Community Announcements]

2025 Schedule & Rule Changes by fandom5k
Promotion Day by [community profile] fic_promptly
Tuesday Prompt: After Big Events by comment_fic

[Fandom Discussions]

Alot of the lore questions can be answered with, "yes, Spike is just a fucking freak." by exceptional_tortoise
Rewatching Buffy 3x02 and Willow is coming off as extremely selfish. by herefortheships
You know what’s fucking me up on my Angel rewatch? by dream2nite
Ok putting together that Anya post made me so mad about her death all over again. by 5bi5
I absolutely adore that Angel gives Buffy a cross, a coat, and a pendant that destroys a Hellmouth. by desicat-writer
but the class protector award is such a beautiful moment of recognition by femmedefandom
I’ll be honest, as someone that is feeling very apprehensive about the new reboot by djmanemihi
I wish I was a Xander hater, and don’t get me wrong I see the vision, but I physically cannot hate this man. by duckwnoeyes
I keep seeing newer Buffy fans say it’s a plot hole that the show says vampires can’t go in sunlight and then had Spike running around in a blankie by aphony-cree
I get that they wanted to keep Xander as the sort of “Everyman” in a group full of the supernatural-inclined, but it becomes less and less effective with the show’s progression by femmedefandom
kind of random but who’s your favorite Buffy character and/or duo !! by andromellax
my favorite horror movie? oh idk probably how spike died thinking buffy didn’t love him by ierofangz
Can we talk about that bit in “Surprise” where Jenny tells her uncle that Angel saved her life and he just straight up doesn’t care? by sunnydalelibrarian
Okay i dont wanna post tragic stuff about Buffy all the time but by roseraintears
explain your dream Spuffy date by boopsterliv
I feel like bangel shippers attacking spuffy girlies r missing the age gap point by camellcat

So who here still takes smg seriously as a badass? by Bighomiephil1978

Just for fun—what are some alternate storylines you think could’ve worked in the show? by Say_it_how_it_is_87
Season 6-7 Spuffy goodness. by Icy_Studio_9155
Evil Angel> Good Angel by moon_bear04
Buffy vs Faith by BodyAthletics
I totally forgot about these commercials by Minimum_Ad_2176
Watching Season 1 and had a thought... by inconspicuous2012
Chatting about Buffy. Season 5-7 (Rant warning) by Icy_Studio_9155
BUFFY VAMPIRE LORE that was never really answered by Automatic-Adeptness4
Foreshadowing in earlier seasons by Candid-Concert-8233
I’m happy he didn’t stay around even as a recurring by KENZOKHAOS
Moloch & Fyarl by Reasonable_Beach1087
As You Were question by Tuxedo_Mark
Xander? by casabonita93
"I'm here to kill VAM-PYRESS" by moralhora
To eat or not to eat by lindaecansada
Just another day... by SparklingStars82
16 yr old Xander & 18 yr old Parker by Illustrious-Double33
Joss Whedon by BodyAthletics
Sorry, I just had to! by SparklingStars82
Just finished all of Angel and I need to rant by a7_mad1991
Angel… by Single_Secret6566
I made some BTVS text posts by No-Resolution-5927
May 19th 2004 was the last episode of Angel. If you could expose one or more characters from either show to a piece of media from after that time, what would it be? by VisibleCoat995
Harmony by Acceptable-Kiwi-9251
An appreciation post for Spike's messy hair by BunnythatMeows
Anne by confusion_diffusion
A lot of male characters in the show are attracted, in love or obssessed with Buffy, I noticed by Cailly_Brard7
These things? Never useful! by robin_888
The pressure put on Buffy in Season 7 by Lloronalina
Need help finding a song from season 2 episode 5 Reptile boy by imdevilone
I'm a little disappointed that it won't be Buffy's story by debujandobirds
I never liked Spike until... by webmotionks
Kennedy really wasn't doing herself any favours by SuperiorLaw

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rl: health

Daily Check In

*\o/*	Word Count	Step Count	Headache?
Daily	254	8,303	no
Monthly	9,554	217,636	5 days

If you are going to include prescription drugs in your fanfic ... pt 2

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"Exhale" as a Noun

Silly question but when did "exhale" become a noun? I've been seeing it everywhere in fan fic lately, everywhere an "exhale," not one fic with an "exhalation"--or a "he exhaled." I figured it was a fan fic thing.

Then I saw an "exhale" in the poem "Forgotten Portraits," on my son's AP test study list.

The dictionaries are pretty much still telling me "exhale" is a verb.

This is, of course, all my language snobbery and utterly irrelevant, but when did this happen? What memo did I miss?

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count my hopes

This is for Earth Day, but it also now makes me think about Maybe Happy Ending, which we saw in New York last week and absolutely loved. There are some parallels, although this is not (obviously) a poem about fireflies.

( I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth )