DC Universe, Sandman: We could be heroes, just for one night, by Leigh Woosey.
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fancakeFandom: DC Universe; Sandman
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Morpheus, Alan Scott, Tomar-Re, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, OCs by the billions (including Reader?)
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 297
Content Notes: Nothing icky happens, but the story references Neil Gaiman’s Endless mythos;(1) dream transcript.
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Theme: Working Together, Action/Adventure, Gen, Just Plain Fun, Non-AO3 Fics
Summary: One for Sandman fans: I had a dream of Morpheus, who saw an invasion of earth that would go through the dreaming to reach target. Morpheus, who foresaw the plan even as it was being dreamt up by the aliens, was obligated to mount a defense. He recruited two sleeping Green Lanterns, one of Alan Scott of Earth and one Tomar-Re.
Author’s Notes: People are always telling me to keep a dream diary, this is a concession.
Reccer's Notes: Raw dream content notoriously tends to be some-assembly-required narrative material, but in a 29 August 2010 LiveJournal post(2), Woosey described this downright jackpot he received from Dreamland: a cool premise complete with plot, grand spectacle, a firm grounding in the canon lore (note the smooth incorporation of the various Elseworlds Batman scenarios), implicit invitation to the audience (what would you have been doing during the Big Event?) and a clear if haunting resolution. The title is my own![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metaquotes header.
Fanwork Links: We could be heroes, just for one night, by Leigh Woosey.
(1) Note that some commenters envisioned Morpheus from The Matrix.
(2) The entry has since been deleted; archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821194033/https://woogledesigns.livejournal.com/69811.html
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Morpheus, Alan Scott, Tomar-Re, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, OCs by the billions (including Reader?)
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 297
Content Notes: Nothing icky happens, but the story references Neil Gaiman’s Endless mythos;(1) dream transcript.
Creator Links: (Website): https://leighwoosey.co.uk/; (Instagram)
leighwoosey; (LiveJournal) woogledesigns; (Twitter) Theme: Working Together, Action/Adventure, Gen, Just Plain Fun, Non-AO3 Fics
Summary: One for Sandman fans: I had a dream of Morpheus, who saw an invasion of earth that would go through the dreaming to reach target. Morpheus, who foresaw the plan even as it was being dreamt up by the aliens, was obligated to mount a defense. He recruited two sleeping Green Lanterns, one of Alan Scott of Earth and one Tomar-Re.
Author’s Notes: People are always telling me to keep a dream diary, this is a concession.
Reccer's Notes: Raw dream content notoriously tends to be some-assembly-required narrative material, but in a 29 August 2010 LiveJournal post(2), Woosey described this downright jackpot he received from Dreamland: a cool premise complete with plot, grand spectacle, a firm grounding in the canon lore (note the smooth incorporation of the various Elseworlds Batman scenarios), implicit invitation to the audience (what would you have been doing during the Big Event?) and a clear if haunting resolution. The title is my own
metaquotes header.Fanwork Links: We could be heroes, just for one night, by Leigh Woosey.
(1) Note that some commenters envisioned Morpheus from The Matrix.
(2) The entry has since been deleted; archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821194033/https://woogledesigns.livejournal.com/69811.html
Daily Happiness
Jul. 5th, 2025 07:55 pmtorachan1. We had such a nice time at Disneyland this morning. Too sunny but otherwise lovely weather and so few crowds!
2. We stopped at the farmers market on the way home and got some stuff from our usual vendors (the fruit leather guy definitely knows me now) but there was also a new vendor, a vegan Jewish deli that had all sorts of interesting stuff. Carla got a jar of some sort of pickle relish and I got some pastries including a stone fruit "cheese" danish (idk what the cheese was but everything was vegan so it wasn't actually dairy) that was super good and a pistachio cardamom apricot hamantaschen, which I haven't tried yet but that flavor combo is a favorite so I have high hopes.
3. I love that feeling on the middle day of a three day weekend when you realize that you don't have work tomorrow. That keeps happening throughout the day and it's a pleasant surprise every time. Definitely looking forward to one more day of rest.
4. Jasper's definitely got the relaxing down.
2. We stopped at the farmers market on the way home and got some stuff from our usual vendors (the fruit leather guy definitely knows me now) but there was also a new vendor, a vegan Jewish deli that had all sorts of interesting stuff. Carla got a jar of some sort of pickle relish and I got some pastries including a stone fruit "cheese" danish (idk what the cheese was but everything was vegan so it wasn't actually dairy) that was super good and a pistachio cardamom apricot hamantaschen, which I haven't tried yet but that flavor combo is a favorite so I have high hopes.
3. I love that feeling on the middle day of a three day weekend when you realize that you don't have work tomorrow. That keeps happening throughout the day and it's a pleasant surprise every time. Definitely looking forward to one more day of rest.
4. Jasper's definitely got the relaxing down.
Small successes and mixed-up veggies
Jul. 6th, 2025 01:33 pmmificI'm very much in winter mode here as although some days are sunny, it's cold, and a lot of days are very wet. So not going outside much and not doing gardening, which I don't feel great about. I seem a bit beset by inertia in terms of things physical, possibly a mid-winter slump, but I'm doing indoors things just fine - well, the things I like doing, anyway. Not cleaning or organising! I do tidy up once a week before Fionna comes to vacuum, and occasionally the dishes get washed, but that's about it.
I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.
In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.
In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:
And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)
Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.
I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.
In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.
In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:
And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)
Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.
I'm a mercenary soldier and we all look the same
Jul. 5th, 2025 08:29 pmsovayI screamed in dismay in the middle of the night because I had just seen the news that Kenneth Colley died.
I saw him in roles beyond the megafamous one, of course, and he was everything from inevitable to excellent in them, but it happens that last weekspatch and I took the excuse of a genuinely fun fact to rewatch Return of the Jedi (1983) and at home on my own couch I cheered his typically controlled and almost imperceptibly nervy appearance aboard the Executor, which by the actor's own account was exactly how he had gotten this assignment stationed off the sanctuary moon of Endor in the first place, the only Imperial officer to reprise his role by popular demand. In hindsight of more ground-level explorations of the Empire like Rogue One (2016) and Andor (2022–25), Admiral Piett looks like the parent and original of their careerists and idealists, all too human in their sunk cost loyalties to a regime to which they are interchangeably disposable, but just the slight shock-stillness of his face as he swallows his promotion from frying pan to fire would have kept an audience rooting for him against their own moral alignment so long as they had ever once held a job. It didn't hurt that he never looked like he'd gotten a good night's sleep in his life, not even when he was younger and turning up as randomly as an ill-fated Teddy-boy trickster on The Avengers (1961–69) or one of the lights of the impeccably awful am-dram Hammer send-up that is the best scene in The Blood Beast Terror (1968). Years before I saw the film it came from, a still of him and his haunted face in I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)—smoking in bed, stretched out all in black on the white sheets like a catafalque—crossbred with a nightmare of mine into a poem. Out of sincere curiosity, I'll take a time machine ticket for his 1979 Benedick for the RSC.
He played Hitler for Ken Russell and Jesus for the Pythons: I am not in danger of having nothing to watch for his memory, as ever it's just the memory that's the kicker. No actor or artist or writer of importance to me has yet turned out to be immortal, but I resent the interference of COVID-19 in this one. In the haphazard way that I collected character actors, he would have been one of the earlier, almost certainly tapping in his glass-darkly fashion into my longstanding soft spot for harried functionaries of all flavors even when actual bureaucracy has done its best for most of my life to kill me. I am glad he was still in the world the last time I saw him. A friend no longer on LJ/DW already wrote him the best eulogy.
I saw him in roles beyond the megafamous one, of course, and he was everything from inevitable to excellent in them, but it happens that last week
spatch and I took the excuse of a genuinely fun fact to rewatch Return of the Jedi (1983) and at home on my own couch I cheered his typically controlled and almost imperceptibly nervy appearance aboard the Executor, which by the actor's own account was exactly how he had gotten this assignment stationed off the sanctuary moon of Endor in the first place, the only Imperial officer to reprise his role by popular demand. In hindsight of more ground-level explorations of the Empire like Rogue One (2016) and Andor (2022–25), Admiral Piett looks like the parent and original of their careerists and idealists, all too human in their sunk cost loyalties to a regime to which they are interchangeably disposable, but just the slight shock-stillness of his face as he swallows his promotion from frying pan to fire would have kept an audience rooting for him against their own moral alignment so long as they had ever once held a job. It didn't hurt that he never looked like he'd gotten a good night's sleep in his life, not even when he was younger and turning up as randomly as an ill-fated Teddy-boy trickster on The Avengers (1961–69) or one of the lights of the impeccably awful am-dram Hammer send-up that is the best scene in The Blood Beast Terror (1968). Years before I saw the film it came from, a still of him and his haunted face in I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)—smoking in bed, stretched out all in black on the white sheets like a catafalque—crossbred with a nightmare of mine into a poem. Out of sincere curiosity, I'll take a time machine ticket for his 1979 Benedick for the RSC.He played Hitler for Ken Russell and Jesus for the Pythons: I am not in danger of having nothing to watch for his memory, as ever it's just the memory that's the kicker. No actor or artist or writer of importance to me has yet turned out to be immortal, but I resent the interference of COVID-19 in this one. In the haphazard way that I collected character actors, he would have been one of the earlier, almost certainly tapping in his glass-darkly fashion into my longstanding soft spot for harried functionaries of all flavors even when actual bureaucracy has done its best for most of my life to kill me. I am glad he was still in the world the last time I saw him. A friend no longer on LJ/DW already wrote him the best eulogy.
Ask me to write you something!
Jul. 5th, 2025 07:55 pmpetraI am having a difficult brainweasel day, and would like to counteract that by making you some words. I am feeling poetic, with a side-order of "Drabbles are nice," so:
Comment with: Drabble or Poetry, Fandom(s) from the list of things I know, Character[/Character/etc.], Prompt (if any).
Feel free to publicize this.
Comment with: Drabble or Poetry, Fandom(s) from the list of things I know, Character[/Character/etc.], Prompt (if any).
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balance
Jul. 5th, 2025 06:41 pmchazzbannerI lightened up today by watching the video of the Silm Film project's casting day. Casting episodes are always fun! This is a pie-in-the-sky 30+ year Silmarillion tv series (including framing scenes of LOTR-area characters)
The funniest this is that Timothée Chalamet was cast as Estel (young Aragorn) for the framing scenes. He was cast when he was 21! (Yes, this project has been discussed - and scripts written - for at least ten years.)
For pure excitement you can't beat pulling the boxes out from under one of my beds, dusting them, and putting them back. Most of these were boxes of photographs. (Vacation photos? Probably.)
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The funniest this is that Timothée Chalamet was cast as Estel (young Aragorn) for the framing scenes. He was cast when he was 21! (Yes, this project has been discussed - and scripts written - for at least ten years.)
For pure excitement you can't beat pulling the boxes out from under one of my beds, dusting them, and putting them back. Most of these were boxes of photographs. (Vacation photos? Probably.)
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2025 Disneyland Trip #48 (7/5/25)
Jul. 5th, 2025 04:24 pmtorachanWe were expecting it to be crowded today because of the holiday weekend but it was actually one of the least crowded days we've ever experienced at the parks.
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Daily Check In.
Jul. 5th, 2025 05:55 pmadafrog posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Poll #33327 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 23
How are you doing?
I am okay
13 (59.1%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
9 (40.9%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
8 (34.8%)
One other person
10 (43.5%)
More than one other person
5 (21.7%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
July Theme - Hobbies and crafts
Jul. 5th, 2025 09:52 pmpeaceful_sands posting in bitesizedcleaningThis month's theme is Hobbies and Crafts - I remember thinking that it would be hard to quantify exactly what a month of bite-size work on this theme will look like last year. I don't know about everyone else, but I certainly found plenty of things to tackle.
For those of you seeking ideas, some of the things you might want to work on include: clearing and making the space you work in more conducive to productivity, organising supplies, organising currently underway projects, organising unstarted projects, dealing with finished projects, weeding out unwanted supplies/projects. If you are a collector or a sports participant, it might be sorting/cleaning collectibles or equipment of whatever description. Anything goes this month to suit the needs of your hobbies.
For my perspective, I have multiple hobbies and crafts that I dabble in, each with their own supplies *and their own clutter*, so over the course of the month, my first goal is to retrieve some of my crafting spaces - my dining room table is clutter filled which stops me painting, my crafting chair upstairs is filled with none crafting related items, leaving nowhere there for me to sit and my scrapbooking project is split between a variety of boxes in a variety of locations. As the owner of way too many books, a fight with my book storage is always an ongoing process, and as someone who has so many different hobbies and crafts I always seem to be in need of sorting through ongoing projects to decide which ones can I make progress on quickly/finish easily?
After that who knows what's next... depending on how long each of the above tasks take, I might also allocate some time to trying to finish some almost finished projects.
Let us know what your plan is for the month and keep us posted with your progress.
For those of you seeking ideas, some of the things you might want to work on include: clearing and making the space you work in more conducive to productivity, organising supplies, organising currently underway projects, organising unstarted projects, dealing with finished projects, weeding out unwanted supplies/projects. If you are a collector or a sports participant, it might be sorting/cleaning collectibles or equipment of whatever description. Anything goes this month to suit the needs of your hobbies.
For my perspective, I have multiple hobbies and crafts that I dabble in, each with their own supplies *and their own clutter*, so over the course of the month, my first goal is to retrieve some of my crafting spaces - my dining room table is clutter filled which stops me painting, my crafting chair upstairs is filled with none crafting related items, leaving nowhere there for me to sit and my scrapbooking project is split between a variety of boxes in a variety of locations. As the owner of way too many books, a fight with my book storage is always an ongoing process, and as someone who has so many different hobbies and crafts I always seem to be in need of sorting through ongoing projects to decide which ones can I make progress on quickly/finish easily?
After that who knows what's next... depending on how long each of the above tasks take, I might also allocate some time to trying to finish some almost finished projects.
Let us know what your plan is for the month and keep us posted with your progress.
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, July 5
Jul. 5th, 2025 10:48 pmveronyxk84 posting in su_herald
SPIKE: I'm a hero really. I mean, to be cast such an ugly lot in life and then to rise above it. To seek out better, nobler things. It's inspirational, isn't it? And the two of us... natural enemies, thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness. Utter trust. No thought of me biting you, no thought of you staking me.
BUFFY: Depends on how long you keep on yapping.
BUFFY: Depends on how long you keep on yapping.
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
- today doesn’t count: Part 45 (Buffy/Spike, collection rated M) by modestlobster
- Absolutely No Plums. (Buffy/Spike, G) by Noctirax
- Heaven (Buffy/Spike, E) by I_cant_find_a_name
- Coffee Shop War (Buffy/Spike, G) by desicat
- The One Where Tara is Spuffy's Sex Therapist (Buffy/Spike, Tara & Buffy & Spike, M) by tbssparkle
- Monster (Buffy/Spike, G) by Perelynn
[Chaptered Fiction]
- Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 381 (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure xover, T) by madimpossibledreamer
- I know I could’ve loved you, Chapter 1/? (Wesley/Lilah, G) by brutal4you, girlsullen
- Weight of Echos, Chapter 1/? (Giles/Faith, Buffy/Faith, M) by SchrodingersKatInABox
- Blood For My Valentine, Chapter 1/10 (Spike/Drusilla, Angel/Spike, OFCs, Fanged Four, E) by frozendeadgirl (empteed)
- The Blood Of A Slayer, Chapter 8/18 (Buffy/Giles, E) by Cosmic__Cowgirl
- The Ex-Files: Charming, CA, Chapter 14/? (Buffy/Jax, Sons of Anarchy xover, G) by Viwiel
- Watcher’s Diary, syllabically, Chapter 1/7 (Buffy & Giles, Giles/Jenny, Giles/Ethan, Giles/Joyce, G) by rippergiles
- Sins of The Father, Chapter 1/4 (Buffy/Giles, E) by The_Crazy_Knight
- The Sunnydale Imp, Chapters 70-71/77 (Scoobies & OC, T) by Bloodredtiger
- Bliss Took Hold, Chapter 40/45 (Xander/Spike, Angel/Xander/Spike, Angel/Riley/Buffy, E) by MysticD, nexiis6
- spite's as good a reason to take his power, Chapter 2/? (Angel/Buffy, Giles/Jenny, Spike/Drusilla, T) by Elegant_Pseudonym
- The Red Slayer:, Chapter 21/200 (Willow/Oz, Willow/Tara, E) by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer)
- Once Bound, Chapter 17/? (Spike, Angel, AtS ensemble, M) by spikes_guy
- Board Game Blues Rerolled, Chapter 2/? (Buffy/Giles, E) by mabus101
- Silent tides, Chapters 16-17 (Buffy/OC, G) by Aya1600
- What Old Eyes Have Seen, Chapter 3/6 (Xander, Grimm xover, not rated) by Distant_Echo_Of_The_Past
- In Another World Seeking Penance, But I've Been Turned Into The World's First Vampire!, Chapter 5/? (Faith/OFCs, Buffy/Faith, M) by BlueStories
- Unspoken [Part 10] Complete! (Spike/reader, not rated) by hiddndaydreams
- Adventures of a Retired Slayer, Chapter 18 (Buffy/Spike, R) by EnchantedWillow
- Edges of Acceptance, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Orange Wombat
- It starts with a game of pool, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by TheAcidQueen
- Thursday... what a concept, Chapters 5-7 (Buffy/Spike, R) by NotYourGrave
- The Proof Is In The Gouda, Chapters 2-3 (Buffy/Spike, R) by simmony
- Here Comes The Sun, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Melme1325
- A 200th Go, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, R) by BewitchedXx
- Life After Death, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Holly
- Apocalypse Prevention 101, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by VoronaFiernan
- See You Sunday, Chapters 1-10 (Buffy/Spike, R) by ClowniestLivEver
- Nothing New, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by number1angirl
- My Calendar Girl, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxine Eden
- Something to Believe In, Chapters 21-28 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Maxine Eden
- Crossed, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, R) by TwilightChild
- Refractions, Chapters 9-11 (Buffy/Spike, R) by CheekyKitten
- Miss Buffy, the Vulgar Witness, Chapters 4-5 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by Orange Wombat
- Wonderful New Beginnings, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by MagicEnergyKey
- Time Check, Chapters 4-5 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Willow25
- Dawn Pratt, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Orange Wombat
- If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck... , Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, R) by zinjadu
- Random Acts of Spuffyness, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Joan963z
- Her Lullaby, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by violettathepiratequeen
- When You Called Me A Fool, You Made It Sound Like "Honey", Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by LadyInQuest
- Hellmouth College Life, Chapters 4-5 (Buffy/Spike, R) by the_big_bad
- In Another World Seeking Penance..., Chapter 5 (Faith, M) by BlueStories
- Her Lullaby, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by violettathepiratequeen
- Hellbound With Me, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by acekoomboom
[Images, Audio & Video]
- Textposts: CANGELLLL (Angel/Cordelia, worksafe) by tiaragloryart
- Gifset: [Charles Gunn in AtS S4] (worksafe) by starryeyesxx
- Artwork: the cake (Warren/Andrew, worksafe) by garscrucible
- Artwork: [Cordelia Chase] (worksafe) by blue-star-charmer-art
- Artwork: [Drusilla] (worksafe) by blue-star-charmer-art
- Textposts: Jenny Calendar + text post memes pt II (worksafe) by calendials
- Artwork: Do you think he would’ve been more or less evil as a teenager im leaning towards more (Warren Mears, worksafe) by garscrucible
- Crafts: Finalizing the Buffy Shadowcasters :-) (worksafe) by chloe–summers
- Textposts: check out the embarrassing freak couple!! (Buffy/Spike, worksafe) by tenderjock
- Textposts: Buffy and Spike + text posts part ii (part i) (Buffy/Spike, worksafe) by obstinateheadstronggrrl
- Artwork: [Warren/Andrew drawing] (worksafe) by garscrucible
- Artwork: Muse-eum: Buffy Anne Summers (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by HappyWhenItRains
- Artwork: Muse-eum: Buffy back studies (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by HappyWhenItRains
- Artwork: Muse-eum: Nails (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by HappyWhenItRains
- Artwork: Buffy and Giles: My Miracle (worksafe) by CoffeeMilkLvr
- Fanvid: Lilah Morgan | I Know What I Am by welcometocaritas
- Artwork: you know you want to dance (Buffy/Spike, G) by glitterswitch
[Reviews & Recaps]
- I Will Remember You (AtS 8x1) by deniouroboros
- Something Blue (BtVS 9x4) by deniouroboros
- Hush (BtVS 10x4) by deniouroboros
- PODCAST: Take It Easy Joan (BtVS S6E8) by It Stakes Two
- PODCAST: S5. Ep22. Not Fade Away by Investigating Angel
- PODCAST: Angel 2.7 Darla by Buffy the Vampire Straya
[Fandom Discussions]
- wesley always relating to women (fred, lilah and faith), but trying to emulate men (angel) as a defense mechanism is so interesting to me by sslayerettes
- i don’t like lilah like at all but the scene where shes says to wesley „If I thought you‘d ever trust me, I would have never played you like that“ was actually kind of heartbreaking by prophecygirly
- do you ever wonder how much buffy’s confusion/disgust at spike trying to kiss her in fool for love was more about her being in a relationship at the time by slugessence, kazf0x
- i cannot believe [Buffy] did not launch the “does spike like me??” investigation after fool for love by blush-and-books
- we know that Giles left Sunnydale in season six because the actor wanted some time off [...] wouldn’t it have been cool to really use the opportunity to play around? by femmedefandom
- once thing i love about anya and spike is technically, they understand each other within the group dynamic more than the others by socratesgirlnextdoor
- I really appreciate the character of Joyce from BTVS by antiqueowl
- wesley and faith f*cked up watcher/slayer dynamic will always be fascinating to me and i wish we had seen more of it by sslayerettes
- amy the rat by silvermoon
- What are your thoughts on white haired Willow? by Big-Restaurant-2766
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✨glimmers and good things - day 2 ✨
Jul. 5th, 2025 08:57 pmbadfalconthree tiny joys, glimmers, or moments of soft comfort from today
💇♀️ Got my ( hair dyed magenta! ) Bright, bold, and very me — it’s always a bit of a transformation, and it felt good to see that vivid colour in the mirror again.
🎾 Jannik Sinner, Ben Shelton, Grigor Dimitrov, and Mirra Andreeva all won their Wimbledon matches today — every one of them brought something joyful to watch.
🍔 Takeout burgers for dinner. We were completely wiped — two hours at the hairdresser left us sore, dysregulated, and done. The burgers weren’t fancy, but they were warm and easy and enough.
That’s me for today. If you feel like sharing your glimmers, I’d love to read them 💛
Be gentle with yourself, especially if the good things were hard to find.
💇♀️ Got my ( hair dyed magenta! ) Bright, bold, and very me — it’s always a bit of a transformation, and it felt good to see that vivid colour in the mirror again.
🎾 Jannik Sinner, Ben Shelton, Grigor Dimitrov, and Mirra Andreeva all won their Wimbledon matches today — every one of them brought something joyful to watch.
🍔 Takeout burgers for dinner. We were completely wiped — two hours at the hairdresser left us sore, dysregulated, and done. The burgers weren’t fancy, but they were warm and easy and enough.
That’s me for today. If you feel like sharing your glimmers, I’d love to read them 💛
Be gentle with yourself, especially if the good things were hard to find.
Saturday
Jul. 5th, 2025 09:56 amsusandennisVolleyball was fine. Elbow coffee was fine. And now the rest of the day is mine which is VERY fine.
Dick and Jan (the new peops) were at elbow coffee this morning. They actually, officially, move in on Monday. The California king bed that they have slept on for years will not fit into their new bedroom so they are bed shopping. They said that the bad new is their bed won't fit but the good news is that Dick has now shrunken in his old age and he fits on a regular king which does fit! So win. They are a cute couple.
I got an email from Microsoft that they wanted $20 for another year of One Drive. Nope. After the password debacle, I'm over you, Microsoft. Plus, I pay for storage on my web site host so I'll just pop important stuff there. Mail is already copied so all I really need is the stuff on my Google Drive. Which is 23 4GB zip files. I was going to download them all and then upload them all but why? cheaper and easier just to plop them onto an external drive that I already have. So that's the plan.
I also figured out how to get Apple TV without fighting Apple. Somehow my Apple TV account got hosed and Apple won't let me back in. NFW am I going to call them which is my only option. BUT! Prime Video let's me subscribe through them AND they are having a sale. Win win.
Where there's a will...
My foot is far less purple and not nearly as hurty today. I did not even think about it while playing volleyball. And neither one of my feet or ankles are even remotely swollen. Nice.
There is stuff around here (Timber Ridge) that bugs me. Food stuff, services, stuff, options stuff. Having Scott and Julie around to point out all the marvelous thing here, has led me to rethink. I agree with them both that this place is lovely and impressive and comfortable and caring and a great place for me to live. But, I forget all of that when they replace french fries at lunch with fucking tater tots. Or they change the package receiving system so that I can't get my packages in a timely fashion. And then I tend to focus solely on the bits that are annoying.
I have two packages, neither of which is critical and one is a jacket I can't even wear til fall. I have a photo of the package being received so I'm fairly certain it won't get lost in the waiting. I have a lot of french fries in the freezer.
So what remains is training myself to NOT focus on the annoying bits. I think I can do that and that's today's project. I was going to do laundry but that will be tomorrow. In my fridge, for lunch I have fixin's for BLT's and two fried chicken thighs and one whole hot dog with chopped onions and potato salad. I'm not going to be hurting for meals anytime soon.
I having knitting to do and baseball to watch. And I might even watch some Wimbledon.
In 1985, I got to go to Wimbledon with my mother. My father gave her the trip for Christmas and then, at the last minute, could not go (union problems at work) and she asked me if I wanted to. ER.... yes!! We had a great time but it was, that year, the hottest Wimbledon on record. We fried our asses just sitting there moving our heads back and forth. I understand they are celebrating this 20th anniversary with even hotter weather. But, alas, without us.
I will be here in the cool, apartment remembering.
Dick and Jan (the new peops) were at elbow coffee this morning. They actually, officially, move in on Monday. The California king bed that they have slept on for years will not fit into their new bedroom so they are bed shopping. They said that the bad new is their bed won't fit but the good news is that Dick has now shrunken in his old age and he fits on a regular king which does fit! So win. They are a cute couple.
I got an email from Microsoft that they wanted $20 for another year of One Drive. Nope. After the password debacle, I'm over you, Microsoft. Plus, I pay for storage on my web site host so I'll just pop important stuff there. Mail is already copied so all I really need is the stuff on my Google Drive. Which is 23 4GB zip files. I was going to download them all and then upload them all but why? cheaper and easier just to plop them onto an external drive that I already have. So that's the plan.
I also figured out how to get Apple TV without fighting Apple. Somehow my Apple TV account got hosed and Apple won't let me back in. NFW am I going to call them which is my only option. BUT! Prime Video let's me subscribe through them AND they are having a sale. Win win.
Where there's a will...
My foot is far less purple and not nearly as hurty today. I did not even think about it while playing volleyball. And neither one of my feet or ankles are even remotely swollen. Nice.
There is stuff around here (Timber Ridge) that bugs me. Food stuff, services, stuff, options stuff. Having Scott and Julie around to point out all the marvelous thing here, has led me to rethink. I agree with them both that this place is lovely and impressive and comfortable and caring and a great place for me to live. But, I forget all of that when they replace french fries at lunch with fucking tater tots. Or they change the package receiving system so that I can't get my packages in a timely fashion. And then I tend to focus solely on the bits that are annoying.
I have two packages, neither of which is critical and one is a jacket I can't even wear til fall. I have a photo of the package being received so I'm fairly certain it won't get lost in the waiting. I have a lot of french fries in the freezer.
So what remains is training myself to NOT focus on the annoying bits. I think I can do that and that's today's project. I was going to do laundry but that will be tomorrow. In my fridge, for lunch I have fixin's for BLT's and two fried chicken thighs and one whole hot dog with chopped onions and potato salad. I'm not going to be hurting for meals anytime soon.
I having knitting to do and baseball to watch. And I might even watch some Wimbledon.
In 1985, I got to go to Wimbledon with my mother. My father gave her the trip for Christmas and then, at the last minute, could not go (union problems at work) and she asked me if I wanted to. ER.... yes!! We had a great time but it was, that year, the hottest Wimbledon on record. We fried our asses just sitting there moving our heads back and forth. I understand they are celebrating this 20th anniversary with even hotter weather. But, alas, without us.
I will be here in the cool, apartment remembering.
looking for a link/website
Jul. 5th, 2025 02:43 pmredbirdSometime in the last couple of months, someone posted a link to a site that had interesting looking shirts made of linen, for lower prices than most places charge. I forgot to bookmark it. Can anyone point me to it? or to something else that fits that description, even if you didn't see it here?
Edited to add: A the shirts were less expensive than I expected, which is a large part of why I'm interested. Those may have been sale prices, I don't remember.
Also, the were made of either linen or a linen blend, not "line".
Edited to add: A the shirts were less expensive than I expected, which is a large part of why I'm interested. Those may have been sale prices, I don't remember.
Also, the were made of either linen or a linen blend, not "line".
Guardian Readalong: Vol. 3, Chapters 17 & 18
Jul. 5th, 2025 08:12 pmfacethestrange posting in sid_guardian
Hi, and welcome to this week's installment of the Guardian novel readalong! ♡
Here are last week's chapters, and you can find all previous discussions in the schedule posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), or via the !readalong tag.
This week's chapters:
- Chapter 17: Guo Changcheng can't get ahold of the rest of the team, and drives alone to the nearest town. An angry crowd is begging the police to find their loved ones who went missing at Spring Harbor Resort. Guo Changcheng manages the crowd and promises them that the SID is already on the case. Zhao Yunlan's sacrifices some of the true Soul-Guarding Order to save Shen Wei. Shen Wei defeats the Chaos shadow that chased them, but Ghost Face stabs him in the heart with an icicle and takes him away, demanding that Zhao Yunlan brings him the Soul-Guarding Lamp in exchange.
- Chapter 18: Zhao Yunlan asks the Magistrate to take him to the Reincarnation Cycle in order to awaken Kunlun's spirit. Lin Jing regains the use of his senses and finds himself imprisoned at the Seal, surrounded by youchu. Ghost Face brings Shen Wei there too, and shackles him to the Merit Tree. Shen Wei is in pain, but he mocks Ghost Face and reveals that he's always had the power over the Mountain-River Awl, and that he has tracked Ghost Face and manipulated his actions. Ghost Face attacks him with the icicle again and Shen Wei passes out.
The corresponding chapters in the Chinese version on JJWXC/the fan translation are 98-99.
Excerpts:
( 1) Xiao Guo manages the crowd )
( 2) Zhao Yunlan's burns the Soul-Guarding Order )
( 3) Ghost Face kidnaps Shen Wei )
( 4) Lin Jing talks to the youchu )
( 5) Shen Wei mocks Ghost Face )
Questions:
Are you as surprised by Xiao Guo's bravery and competence as he is? What do you think about Zhao Yunlan's decision to sacrifice the Soul-Guarding Order? What's your favorite comic relief moment? Favorite angsty moment? Any thoughts about the many parallels between these chapters and their drama adaptation?
You can answer as many or as few questions as you like, or just comment without answering any of them at all! And if you see this post and you're not actually reading the novel, I would love to know what you think about any of this with limited context. :D
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Jul. 5th, 2025 02:08 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6756 ⌋
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Jul. 5th, 2025 02:04 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #968 ]
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