The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Another Challenge
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Title: Another Challenge
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Scott, Fred, Willaway, Varian, Liana.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Entering a new zone, the travellers find there’s now a huge mountain in their path. What are they going to do?
Word Count: 1604
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 512: Obstacle.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
Speak Daggers to Her (Bast, volume 1) by Rosemary Edghill
Apr. 16th, 2026 08:23 amjames_davis_nicoll
Did Miriam Seabrook die of natural causes or was she murdered by her creepy coven? Witch Bast will find out.
Speak Daggers to Her (Bast, volume 1) by Rosemary Edghill
Inspector George Gently: Fanfiction: Perfect
Apr. 16th, 2026 01:07 pmlucy_roman posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Perfect
Author: lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: George and John are on their way to a crime scene. Some sheep get in the way.
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
Word Count: 326
( Perfect )
Author: lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: George and John are on their way to a crime scene. Some sheep get in the way.
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
Word Count: 326
( Perfect )
(social) media appearances
Apr. 16th, 2026 11:14 amrmc28Post-game interview on Facebook for the game against Invicta on Sunday (we lost 10-1). Favourite comment from a friend: "you both pulled such funny faces when the other one was speaking".
My feedback on the Hull camp shared (with permission) on their Facebook page: "I've enjoyed all the camps so far and I think they're good value for money. I think they're helping me improve as a player, and I've definitely seen other players level up in skill and confidence after attending. I'm very much looking forward to three whole days in July. I also really value the friendships I've been building with players from other teams, who I met because of these camps, and the mutual support we've been able to give each other over this past season."
Upcoming: BUIHA will live stream Nationals this weekend on YouTube, my games that will definitely be on it are:
- Sat 15:15 Cambridge Huskies v Leeds Gryphons B
- Sat 18:18 Cambridge Huskies v Nottingham Mavericks C
- Sun 14:20 Birmingham Lions B v Cambridge Huskies
- Sun 19:25 Oxford Women's Blues v Cambridge Huskies
(There's one more group-stage game that will be played on the other ice pad and not streamed, and then depending on how we do in group, we'll be assigned to the semi finals for either Bronze, Silver or Gold finals so we'll have up to two more games on Sunday.)
2026/055: The Weaver of the Middle Desert — Victoria Goddard
Apr. 16th, 2026 09:57 amtamaranth
2026/055: The Weaver of the Middle Desert — Victoria Goddard
She could weave those falling descants, those trilling calls, those infinitely varied notes into her work. Could she weave sound and silence together, craft a curtain that would keep a tent silent or hold the songs of mourning or merriment within its folds? [loc. 530]
Arzu is the eldest of the three daughters of the Bandit Queen, desert nomads whose world is strongly reminiscent of the Arabian Nights. Her younger sisters, Pali and Sardeet, have each had a novella to themselves (I find that I haven't read Pali's, The Warrior of the Third Veil), so it's Arzu's turn. But she is not as young nor as ambitious as her sisters. She's already happily married to a man of the clan, and her magic is founded on the gentle arts of weaving and threadcraft.
( Read more... )Small fandom pleasures
Apr. 15th, 2026 10:08 pmsholioI had a need for fluff and so I wrote me some (plus banter and a smidgeon of angst and sex) from my nebulous Babylon 5 post-canon fixit future: A Nice Little House on Narn.
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Today I discovered the existence of Murderbot Maladies, basically a whump / h/c event for May, but the list of prompts is AMAZING and I am going to reproduce it under the cut. As someone who has participated in h/c events basically since they have existed on LJ and similar, I can only say that this is perhaps the best prompt list I've seen, mixing as it does a number of serious h/c staples with such glorious inventions as "harpooned", "inhaled a drone", and "accidentally called Mensah 'Mom'".
( The prompt list )
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Today I discovered the existence of Murderbot Maladies, basically a whump / h/c event for May, but the list of prompts is AMAZING and I am going to reproduce it under the cut. As someone who has participated in h/c events basically since they have existed on LJ and similar, I can only say that this is perhaps the best prompt list I've seen, mixing as it does a number of serious h/c staples with such glorious inventions as "harpooned", "inhaled a drone", and "accidentally called Mensah 'Mom'".
( The prompt list )
reading about omelas
Apr. 15th, 2026 10:16 pmtoastykittenRe-read the original via a zine on the Internet Archive, bonus, includes the other short story "The Day Before the Revolution". Still really good.
Read The Ones Who Stay and Fight by NK Jemisin, and surprised to find that I didn't really like it.
Discovered Isabel Kim's Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole and found it pretty sharp and thought-provoking. Made me want to read more of her work and I read Wire Mother, which was great and pretty topical. Discovered she's on BlueSky and she made reference to the WM/AF literature discourse on Substack and I was like, oh, she loves mess. Anyway that discourse was discussed on the TrueLit subreddit and I went down a rabbithole for a bit.
Read The Ones Who Stay and Fight by NK Jemisin, and surprised to find that I didn't really like it.
Discovered Isabel Kim's Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole and found it pretty sharp and thought-provoking. Made me want to read more of her work and I read Wire Mother, which was great and pretty topical. Discovered she's on BlueSky and she made reference to the WM/AF literature discourse on Substack and I was like, oh, she loves mess. Anyway that discourse was discussed on the TrueLit subreddit and I went down a rabbithole for a bit.
Books
Apr. 16th, 2026 12:17 amysabetwordsmith posting in history
I found this list interesting:
The Best History Books of 2025: the Wolfson History Prize Shortlist
1 Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough
2 The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor
3 The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
4 Survivors: the Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin
5 The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda by Andrew Fleming
6 Multicultural Britain: A People's History by Kieran Connell
The Best History Books of 2025: the Wolfson History Prize Shortlist
1 Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough
2 The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor
3 The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
4 Survivors: the Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin
5 The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda by Andrew Fleming
6 Multicultural Britain: A People's History by Kieran Connell
wednesday reads and things
Apr. 15th, 2026 05:28 pmisisWhat I've recently finished reading:
After I finished The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow, I idly looked for fanfiction. There are all of two fics: one is Una/Owen smut, and the other is not actually for The Everlasting but is a sort of fusion, Palamedes and Camilla from The Locked Tomb Series in a plot drawn from The Everlasting...
...and I really liked it! Camilla Everlasting by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
DullestProdigalSon, about 23K, lots of very short chapters. You do have to have read Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, as it's very firmly based in those books, but I thought the translation of the Everlasting plot to the Locked Tomb world was very cleverly done. (You don't need to have read The Everlasting. There's some reference to "The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex" but you probably don't need to have read that.) In this story, Palamedes is the scholar/necromancer from the future who is sent back in time to help the famous Camilla Hect become a Lyctor. What's really cool is that in this fic, Palamedes was not the necromancer of the original narrative, but essentially overwrote that narrative to be the story we read in the novels, which I thought was very in keeping with the way that Harrow the Ninth rewrites the story of Gideon the Ninth, and also echoes Cytherea's actions in the first book. The character voices and general tone and style felt super-true to the Locked Tomb, too - overall an enjoyable read!
And...that's about all. I'm currently eyeball-reading The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, and listening to Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor (book 4 of the Bobiverse).
What I'm currently watching:
We noped out of Fallout S2 after two episodes, and are now about midway through 1923, one of Taylor Sheridan's numerous Yellowstone prequels. I had not been really inclined to watch it, but B roped me in with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, who I must admit are excellent here; however, the narrative strand dealing with the Indian boarding school is the most compelling (and horrifying) to me. (Living in Indian country now - Southern Ute land, near a college that is free for tribal members, who make up about half the student population, which incidentally was originally on the site of an Indian boarding school - I'm much more aware of this terrible part of our country's past.)
What I'm still playing:
I think I'm getting close to the climax of the second act (of three) of Ghost of Tsushima.
After I finished The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow, I idly looked for fanfiction. There are all of two fics: one is Una/Owen smut, and the other is not actually for The Everlasting but is a sort of fusion, Palamedes and Camilla from The Locked Tomb Series in a plot drawn from The Everlasting...
...and I really liked it! Camilla Everlasting by
And...that's about all. I'm currently eyeball-reading The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, and listening to Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor (book 4 of the Bobiverse).
What I'm currently watching:
We noped out of Fallout S2 after two episodes, and are now about midway through 1923, one of Taylor Sheridan's numerous Yellowstone prequels. I had not been really inclined to watch it, but B roped me in with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, who I must admit are excellent here; however, the narrative strand dealing with the Indian boarding school is the most compelling (and horrifying) to me. (Living in Indian country now - Southern Ute land, near a college that is free for tribal members, who make up about half the student population, which incidentally was originally on the site of an Indian boarding school - I'm much more aware of this terrible part of our country's past.)
What I'm still playing:
I think I'm getting close to the climax of the second act (of three) of Ghost of Tsushima.
Critical Role
Apr. 15th, 2026 07:14 pmsettiai
I've finally started my rewatch of the early episodes of CR4 so that I can properly get caught up on Critical Role. Actually starting it has been the hardest part, so I'm hoping that now that I've begun I can stick to at least one episode a day and more if possible.
It's definitely easier to keep track of things in the early episodes now that I actually know who everyone is and what's going on. Having advance knowledge of just what groups everyone will be splitting up into shortly seems to be helping as well, as I have a better idea of what's really important to focus on and what's not. I'm also picking up on some smaller details that I completely missed the first time around just because I was already struggling to keep track of who was who and such.
I'm hoping that this rewatch will help it keep my attention better than it was the first time around. 🤞🏻
It's definitely easier to keep track of things in the early episodes now that I actually know who everyone is and what's going on. Having advance knowledge of just what groups everyone will be splitting up into shortly seems to be helping as well, as I have a better idea of what's really important to focus on and what's not. I'm also picking up on some smaller details that I completely missed the first time around just because I was already struggling to keep track of who was who and such.
I'm hoping that this rewatch will help it keep my attention better than it was the first time around. 🤞🏻
Reader Rabbit (1984) · Writer Rabbit (1986)
Apr. 15th, 2026 03:07 pmpauraqueAs a kid I never played any of The Learning Company's dozens of Reader Rabbit games, so today we'll be correcting this surprising gap in my edutainment knowledge. zorealis suggested the first game in the series, 1984's Reader Rabbit, aka Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory. The alternate title sounds suspiciously Oompa-Loompaish to me, so fingers crossed that we will not meet with any gruesome poetic justice.
The game's menu offers nine options: Sorter, Labeler, Word Train, and six different Matchup Games. In Sorter you get a series of words, and you have to decide whether each one matches a given letter in either the first, second, or third position. If it matches, you move it over to the side, but if it doesn't you throw it in the garbage. (This obviously predates the 1990s eco-tainment craze, or else we'd be recycling.)
( More on Reader Rabbit )
Reader Rabbit was wildly popular and led to a slew of sequels and spinoffs. I had never heard of 1986's Writer Rabbit untildelphi brought it to my attention. Now, I'm not saying that playing this game will make you as good of a writer as delphi is... but I'm not not saying that.
While Reader Rabbit offers a solid but fairly staid selection of spelling exercises, Writer Rabbit is far more wacky. After punching out from a week of back-breaking labor at the Word Factory, it's time to attend Writer Rabbit's Sentence Party and cut loose with a mix of games mashing up sentence diagramming and Mad Libs. In the Ice Cream Game, you are given a phrase and have to identify it as either WHO, WHAT, DID WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, or HOW.
( More on Writer Rabbit )
You can play Reader Rabbit and Writer Rabbit on the Internet Archive, for the finest in lapine-themed edutainment. Did anyone else play a game from this series? There are a million of them!
zorealis suggested the first game in the series, 1984's Reader Rabbit, aka Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory. The alternate title sounds suspiciously Oompa-Loompaish to me, so fingers crossed that we will not meet with any gruesome poetic justice.The game's menu offers nine options: Sorter, Labeler, Word Train, and six different Matchup Games. In Sorter you get a series of words, and you have to decide whether each one matches a given letter in either the first, second, or third position. If it matches, you move it over to the side, but if it doesn't you throw it in the garbage. (This obviously predates the 1990s eco-tainment craze, or else we'd be recycling.)
( More on Reader Rabbit )
Reader Rabbit was wildly popular and led to a slew of sequels and spinoffs. I had never heard of 1986's Writer Rabbit until
delphi brought it to my attention. Now, I'm not saying that playing this game will make you as good of a writer as delphi is... but I'm not not saying that.While Reader Rabbit offers a solid but fairly staid selection of spelling exercises, Writer Rabbit is far more wacky. After punching out from a week of back-breaking labor at the Word Factory, it's time to attend Writer Rabbit's Sentence Party and cut loose with a mix of games mashing up sentence diagramming and Mad Libs. In the Ice Cream Game, you are given a phrase and have to identify it as either WHO, WHAT, DID WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, or HOW.
( More on Writer Rabbit )
You can play Reader Rabbit and Writer Rabbit on the Internet Archive, for the finest in lapine-themed edutainment. Did anyone else play a game from this series? There are a million of them!
i am the throat of the mountains
Apr. 15th, 2026 02:36 pmmusesfool
I knew Isa Briones was on Broadway, but I had never heard her actually sing until yesterday when I saw this on tumblr: Isa Briones sings "Who's Sorry Now" from JUST IN TIME | Now on Broadway. What a set of pipes!
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Today's poem:
Fire
a woman can't survive
by her own breath
alone
she must know
the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow
with the elusive
bodies
of night winds
who will take her
into herself
look at me
i am not a separate woman
i am the continuance
of blue sky
i am the throat
of the mountains
a night wind
who burns
with every breath
she takes
—Joy Harjo
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Today's poem:
Fire
a woman can't survive
by her own breath
alone
she must know
the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow
with the elusive
bodies
of night winds
who will take her
into herself
look at me
i am not a separate woman
i am the continuance
of blue sky
i am the throat
of the mountains
a night wind
who burns
with every breath
she takes
—Joy Harjo
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Bundle of Holding: Fellowship (from 2020)
Apr. 15th, 2026 02:11 pmjames_davis_nicoll
Core rules and supplements for the Liberi Gothica Games tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of heroism against world-shattering odds, Fellowship.
Bundle of Holding: Fellowship (from 2020)