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The deadline for works due has passed - if you had an assignment and did not turn in one or request an extension, you have been defaulted. If you do not yet have a gift on your gifts page and you believe you should have one, do not fret! Several creators have extensions. If you have any questions, feel free to email us. Below are the latest pinch hits. These are due March 29, 2026, 11:59 am CDT (UTC-5) (Timezone Converstion). If you need more time to complete a fill, please let us know! We're happy to work with pinch hitters. :D

All PH fills must meet all Love You a Latte 2026 Fanwork Minimum Requirements (1000 words of fic/1 complete artwork on unlined paper).

To claim any one of the following, please respond to this post (all comments are screened) or email ao3modball+latte@gmail.com with your AO3 username to claim. We encourage all pinch hitters that did not originally sign up for Love You a Latte to sign up under our Pinch Hitter Requests post!

( PH 1 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest )

( PH 3 - NoPixel (Web Series), Video Blogging RPF, Runescape (Video Games), 仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon) )

( PH 11 - 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) )

~~( CLAIMED PH 12 - Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Miraculous Ladybug, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling )~~

~~( CLAIMED PH 13 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) )~~

( PH 14 - Katekyou Hitman Reborn!, The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Twisted-Wonderland (Video Game), Durarara!! )

umadoshi

Having a week's break from the spring crunch (and a couple of those days as actual days off, not just regular workdays) meant I was able to get some reading and a bit of watching done!

Reading: On the novel(la)s front, two by Seanan McGuire and one by Rachel Reid. Butterfly Effects (the newest InCryptid) was good and also one of the major "wow, the reality (or maybe the scope, rather) of this series bears almost no resemblance to the impression given by the first handful of books" installments; the existence of multiple dimensions comes up very promptly in the early books (I think in the very first), but it was still a big shift to have that become part of the hands-on reality that the characters are dealing with.

Next I read Game Changer, the first book in Rachel Reid's Game Changers series, AKA the Heated Rivalry source material. I expected this to have far more detail on the Scott/Kip relationship than the show did, what with it being a novel that basically got turned into a single episode, but was a bit surprised by how many (most) of the detail in the show was completely different than the book, while the broad strokes are the same. (Also, I feel like I saw more than one reference to show!Kip being very physically different from book!Kip--I'm very sure I saw the word "twink" in play for the book iteration--and am baffled by where that came from, because...no? Anyway.) It was fine. I didn't love it, although I did appreciate many moments that were particularly fun in the context of the show.

And then I read Through Gates of Garnet and Gold, this year's Wayward Children novella. The sheer cost of these novellas made me decide within the last few years to just go for the digital versions rather than hard copies, and this year I opted to simply get the ebook from the library, which is why I read it a couple of months after it came out. I'm just not invested in this particular series. Ah, well.

For manga, I read the fifth omnibus of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, which includes the three volumes available in English that I hadn't previously read at all. (Did I buy vol. 13 and 14 in their original single-volume release and then have to buy this omnibus volume to get vol. 15? Yes. >.<) A sixth omnibus English volume has been scheduled and delayed repeatedly, so I knew there was still at least a fair bit to go--the three volumes to be bundled in that one--but after this catch-up was the first time I actually checked for info online, and I was not braced to see that it's up to 31 volumes in Japan and ongoing. o_o I have no clue what's going on with the English release, but I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say it's probably a mess.

Non-fiction: still reading a chapter of Braiding Sweetgrass here and there, and I've also started (but not gotten far into) Crystal Wilkinson's Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks.

Watching: We're caught up on The Pitt and have a couple episodes of Frieren yet to watch. (Am I right that this season of Frieren is over now?)

We also finished our watch of Heated Rivalry--my second time, and basically

scruloose's first, except for the part where they saw most of the finale with minimal context back when I watched it. They also had some random bits of info in advance for their watch, because when I was initially watching it I wasn't at all thinking in terms of "this is a thing they may wind up watching" (they have much less interest in watching things in general than I do), so I'd been blithely telling them random stuff here and there before we got to the point of "perhaps

scruloose will watch Canada's new national export after all". La? But they really enjoyed the show, which is the important thing. ^_^

Current Mood: restless

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Hello everyone! It's check-in time again to see how we're all getting along with our meta importing.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) Do you feel you're making the progress you wanted to with preserving your work?

2) Did you write new meta based on the last post's prompt? Share it here! Or if you didn't, share a link(s) to a work that's now housed elsewhere that you'd like to get more eyes on.

And if you've been lurking, remember that you can join in to this challenge at any point during the month. The important part is getting started!

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sufficiently_advanced_ex

Assignments are out!

Here are some initial Pinch hits. Please reply to this post or email sufficiently.advanced.ex@gmail.com to claim. Please include your Ao3 username and the number of the pinch hit you are claiming. These will be due Sun 03 May 2026 10:00PM EDT!

( PH 1 - The Founders Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett, The Long Way Round - Naomi Novik, Olondria - Sofia Samatar, Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik )

( PH 2 - Le Petit Prince | The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle, xxxHoLic (Manga) )

( PH 3 - The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, The Hierarchy - James Islington, Green Creek Series - T.J. Klune, Feast While You Can - Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, Doctrine of Labyrinths - Sarah Monette )

( PH 4 - The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison, Emelan - Tamora Pierce, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien )

dolorosa_12

I've been ridiculously happy and full of energy all weekend — a side-effect, I assume, of the sunshine, warm spring weather, and abundance of flowers and birds. Whatever the cause, I've made good use of this uncharacteristic energy: throwing myself enthusiastically into my classes at the gym, swimming my laps so quickly that I managed 1km in twenty minutes this morning, and undertaking loads of spring cleaning and garden work. In the past two days, I have dusted all hard surfaces in the house, wet-dusted all the internal doors, swept the floors (this latter is something I do weekly anyway, but the dusting necessitated bringing it forward), swept the outdoor deck, weeded stinging nettles from the lawn, and gathered up all the bark mulch from the vegetable garden that the birds had hurled all over the surrounding patio. Inevitably, half an hour after I cleaned up the mulch, the same birds and returned and thrown it back over the path again. I'm glad that our vegetable garden is alive with worms and bugs that the birds want to eat, I just wish they wouldn't do so with such enthusiasm!

I've bought a bunch of heirloom seeds from this woman, and I had planned to sow them over the weekend as well, but the weather next week is going to be cold and frosty again, so I decided against it.

Yesterday Matthias and I had our first outdoor market food truck lunch of the year in the gorgeous patio beer garden of our favourite cafe/bar, in which every table was taken, with people and dogs of various sizes revelling in the sunshine.

In the evening, we watched Sentimental Value, the Norwegian-language film. It's both a movie about making movies (in well trodden Oscar nominee fashion), and abut dysfunctional family relationships — in this case, between an ageing screenwriter/director and his two adult daughters, who is trying to bring a comeback film to the screen dealing with his own complicated family history and mending the relationships with his daughters — with beautiful, functional Scandinavian architecture as the scenery. I liked it a lot, and particularly appreciated that this version of this type of story was capable of understanding that this kind of neglectful paternal relationship really messes up the children, and that immense talent and driven sense of vocation in the chosen career is no excuse (and in fact makes the hurt even worse, because it's so obvious to the children that their parent prefers being in his workplace setting, and is so immensely valued for what he is and does for all the colleagues and mentees in that setting, in a manner that he never demonstrates in the family). (Touching a raw nerve? The film touched all of them.)

Books this week have been a mixed bag in terms of genre and content, but all equally good. On a whim, I picked up Hostis (Vale Aida), a historically divergent (to put it mildly) take on Hannibal and Scipio which was tremendous fun. If you've read the author's fic about these two figures (including an In Space AU; I think it's fine to link the two identities since the author does so on AO3), you'll know what you're in for. I'm only sorry to see that so much time has passed since Hostis was published, since it ends on a huge cliffhanger, and I wonder if Aida experiencing any difficulties in writing the follow-up.

I then moved on to Three Years on Fire, the third of Andrey Kurkov's diaries about his experiences living through Russia's fullscale invasion of Ukraine. This one covers late 2023 up to early 2025. It's interesting (and sad) to read it so soon after the second volume, as the change in tone and expectation is so extreme — although fairly representative of shifts I've witnessed in Ukrainian society as a whole. There's less optimism, although still incredible resilience, and a sort of weary resignation that things will get worse, but that the only way out is through, and therefore they must keep enduring, as the only other option is to give up, and cease to exist as an independent nation where the chance at a future of democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, and respect for human rights is possible. In spite of this heavier tone, Kurkov is still a forensic observer of the human condition, with a keen eye for little episodes and moments to serve as representative illustrations of life in the 21st century as a civilian in a country at war.

I was a bit at a loss as to what to read next. I'm still waiting on a bunch of library holds to come in, so I elected to start an Earthsea reread, having not returned to this series for a good ten years at least. It's not really the right time of the year for it — they feel like such autumnal books to me, although I guess The Tombs of Atuan has something of a vernal undercurrent, given that it's all about a young woman living buried beneath the earth, and bringing herself from darkness into light, under the open sky. The uncritical sexism of the early books aside, the series remains to me an incredible work of literature: gorgeous language, well-considered, meaty ideas concealed in simplicity, and beautiful, beautiful imagery that is at once uncanny and familiar. It's remarkable to me how good Le Guin is at creating such a strong sense of place for a place that does not exist.

Of course, to me, the strongest pull is all those other oceans, and all those sunsets and sunrises, just beyond the last known shore. My journal's title is 'Beyond Selidor,' after all.

conuly

In which this teacher earnestly wants a word to substitute for "chink" in Midsummer Night's Dream, and one person suggests kink which doesn't mean the same thing.

And on the one hand, I'm sure they all have their hearts in the right place, but on the other hand, maybe they should collectively teach a different play instead. Shakespeare wrote plenty of comedies, just pick a different one off the shelf.

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holmestice

Name: deelaundry aka Dee Laundry
Contact email: deelaundry@yahoo.com
AO3 username: dee_laundry
Treat preference: Yes, please

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): fic, vid
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Podcast/Radio: Sherlock & Co. TV/Film: Sherlock BBC; House MD; Ritchie Films; Granada TV Show.
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holmestice

Name: B2BMilde

AO3 username: B2BMild
Treat preference: Yes please

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Books: Doyle - Canon TV/Film:Granada TV Show; Rathbone Films; Howard Holmes; The Great Mouse Detective
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson, Holmes&Watson Friendship, Mrs Hudson, Lestrade, Mycroft, Fem!Holmes/Fem!Watson
I like working with one or more of the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Post-Reichenbach; Alternate Universe; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Established Relationship; Crossover; Friendship; Humor; Case Fic; First Kiss; Friendship; Drug Addiction; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Alternate Universe - Genderswap; Love Confessions; Feelings Realisation; There Was Only One Bed; Drunken Confessions; Miscommunication; Mutual Pining; Friends to Lovers; Enemies to Lovers; Comics and Art
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;
I am willing to create for the following squicks and/or kinks: drug abuse, alcoholism

I want to receive:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art, comics
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Books: Canon TV/Film:Granada; Rathbone Films;The Great Mouse Detective
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson; Holmes&Watson Friendship; Fem!Holmes/Fem!Watson
I like stuff in the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Domestic Fluff; Post-Reichenbach; Alternate Universe - Genderswap; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Friends to Lovers; Kidfic; Petfics; Friendship; Humor; Case Fic; First Kiss; Friendship; Drug Addiction; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Friends to Lovers; Insecurity; There was only one bed; Drunken Confessions; Alternate Universe- Different First Meeting; Running into each other unexpectedly!
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;
I wouldn’t mind any of the following squicks and/or kinks: None

Please include further details about what you’d like to receive:
-I'm a real sucker for romance, so anything like that would be lovely.
-I love fan art that takes the form of different media, like comic book/romance book covers, vintage adverts, movie posters- (eg. rathbone holmes and Watson in a 1940's romantic movie poster/acd Holmes and Watson in a Victorian magazine advert) Have fun playing with tropes and figuring out ways to incorporate Holmes and Watson into different styles of media!
- If you want, try exploring screen adaptations in a genderswap, like rathbone or granada

IMPORTANT-:please no references or explicit mentions or descriptions of sex acts, genitals and sexual arousal.
I am ok with receiving/creating works that include- kissing, cuddling, flirting, sharing a bed, admiration of looks etc.

I'm so excited to take part!

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mdlbear

Not a bad week. Home from the US Sunday noonish (was not keeping careful track, because at that point I'd been more than 24 hours without sleep). Predictably, sleeping better (or at least longer) than usual all week. Walks 6 days out of 7, plus bonus st/roll with N and (new scooter)Gizmo on Wednesday.

Gizmo is heavier than Lizzy, and doesn't fold as well, but he's more than twice as fast. N went and bought a helmet -- purple with flowers. Her name is Kore, which is "Colleen" translated from Irish to Greek. Lizzy is still in the shop - no telling when she'll be back. Yes, we name a lot of our stuff.

N and I have been checking out book marketers. A bit expensive, but we want to do a good launch for her next one, and need someone who knows what they're doing.

Linkies: 41-Year-Old Woman Celebrates One Year With Her AI Octopus Boyfriend and Says She’s “Fully Satisfied”

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: not bad
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: Not enough

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vforvictoryexchange

Only relationship tagset questions this time!

If your fandom is listed here, please double check your nominations for fandom disambiguation:
Angel The Series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
DCU (comics)
Dracula Rising
Haikyuu!!
Hazbin Hotel
New Dangan Ronpa V3
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Jujutsu Kaisen

If your fandom is listed here, please add your choice of Hinge to your nomination:
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Other Questions:

Nominator of Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood/Edward Ferrars (Hinge Any) (OW) - you've disambiguated this as an Original Work but nominated it under Sense & Sensibility. Please change it to whichever is correct.

Nominator of Aerith/Cloud/Tifa (Hinge Cloud) - you haven't disambiguated this, and it's currently trying to associate with the Final Fantasy VII Remake & Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024) fandom. Is this correct or do you want it with a different fandom? Please advise and disambiguate.

Thank you to everyone who's been nominating freeforms and relationships so far - it's wonderful to see such a big interest in a brand new exchange!

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tolkienrsb

Folks, important news regarding TRSB 2026:

We will NOT be posting updates/announcements here this round.

The pinned post, with this year's schedule and links, has been updated. However, we will not be routinely posting here over the course of TRSB26 - major announcements will be made on Tumblr, Discord, and by email.

At the conclusion of TRSB25, we asked participants to fill out a survey to give us feedback and potential improvements. Of the survey responses, only two used DW as a communication method, and only one felt it worked well. Looking at that feedback, the mods concluded our effort is better directed to the more heavily used communication methods. The mod team only has so much time/energy we can put into the event, so we don't want to spend it on something that isn't useful to participants.

If you have questions for the mod team, please email or ask on Tumblr.

james_davis_nicoll

One determined man struggles to save humanity from the mutant scheme to avert doomsday.

Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak

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kinkmemes

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kinkmemepromo

a kinkmeme for the call of duty franchise at large with a specific focus on dead dove content.

there's a sister community on pillowfort as well; i'll be doing my best to mirror prompts between the two

subscriber list is hidden, IPs aren't logged, and you can post anonymously!

would love to see you there 🙂‍↕️

cod_deaddove_kinkmeme
intro & guidelines | submit a prompt | view other submissions

andrewducker

1. Some Divorce Trends That Aren't Leaving Your Partner Mid-Hike: (tags:satire funny relationships murder )

toothpastepancake

Sigh. I cannot catch a break!

I'm really feeling the loneliness lately, y'all. I don't know. I left exchanges and decided to stop doing them because I just don't fit in or mesh there, I guess. And I used to be so excited about exchanges, but I can't seem to make it work. I find that in general, my autism and intellectual functioning issues get in the way of me living a fulfilling life in almost every way. I love being around people and doing things for others to make them happy... that is all I have ever wanted to do. I don't know how to tell people "please be patient with me I'm intellectually disabled" without sounding like... oh poor me pity me or making people see me as lesser. But the truth is I just do not function the same way as other people in these spaces do - even other neurodivergent people - because of that disability and it is turning out to be an insurmountable barrier.

I don't like to talk about being intellectually disabled. It's not something I try to think about and having such a low IQ is notsomething I really was aware of until rediscovering old paperwork a bit ago. I have a lot of internalized ableism around it and I don't really have anyone to talk to about it because I bring it up in therapy and am told to not put myself down even though it's... just a fact? So it's just sort of a specter that hangs over me at all times, constantly mocking me in ways only I can see and hear. It's like plastic wrap around my head, suffocating me slowly and keeping me isolated from the rest of the world because all I can do is focus on the simple mechanics of maintaining breath. I don't know where I'm going with this metaphor. The point: it sucks, and it hurts, and I feel like an alien plucked out of its home universe and forced into a different, cruel world! I feel like the thing that doesn't get bought at the yard sale so you leave it out on the curb for free and then it doesn't even get picked up by trash collection. I feel like a seedless peach pit, just hard and useless. You know? I would never judge anyone else for this but I have a lot of internalized ableism I'm going to have to work through all by myself and it's hard.

Anyway, I'm never going to stop searching for that one place I fit in but man. It's going to be a long journey I think.

I'm just sort of hanging in there. The month is almost over and I haven't even reached my writing goal for it. I'm going to try and get some writing done soon. I did write one fill for Rare Kink Buffet and I wrote 300 or so words on my original novella and I am now 3/10 on 10trueloves! So that's pretty fun. I'm trying to focus on getting through my many hoarded prompt lists/cards/tables/challenges. In 2025 I wrote for others and in 2026 I think I write for me.

I hope you are all well.

sholio

We went and saw Project Hail Mary this afternoon. It was terrific. I loved it.

You can read my (positive and spoilery) reactions to the Project Hail Mary book at this post from 2024.

If spoilers matter to you, I recommend very strongly going in as unspoiled as possible, including not watching the trailer.

( Talking about the movie some more, and movie vs book )

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sufficiently_advanced_ex

Hi all, we sent an email a couple hours ago to one participant who is unmatchable currently - please check the email associated with your AO3 account to see if you got this email!

siderea

[requires both audio and video]

Jonasquin on YT (previously) has written a wholly original motet in the 16th century style after Desprez upon the cantus firmus "Seven Nations Army", for the words of Psalm 10, verses 2, 3, 7-11.

Comment would be superfluous.

2026 Mar 20: Jonasquin YT: "A 16th century motet for the US President"

Watch on YouTube

Click through to the video on YT to see the translation in the description.

muccamukk

Is there a retelling of Sleeping Beauty (the general plotline, not the ballet specifically) in any media that deals with the whole castle being asleep for a hundred years?

Like, I assume that A Castle is a significant economic unit, and having it fuck off behind a hedge for five generations, and then pop back into life has some effects on the surrounding countryside? (I guess in the ballet they put the whole kingdom to sleep? WHICH I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT!)

Like your daughter is a maid in the castle, then poof! behind a hedge! But then she's back to meet her great grand nieces?

What if you had a financial relationship with the castle?

What if the neighbouring duke or whatever wanted your land? I assume he'd just take it, at that point, but then poof! the castle's back?

But also, the fey showing up and doing things seems to be normal and expected in this universe, so maybe people are just used to it, and have contingency plans for people stuck sleeping behind a hedge for five generations?

Anyway, is there like a novel that deals with this? If not Sleeping Beauty directly, then something similar, where it's a whole bunch of people forming a significant political and economic unit essentially yeeted out of time for a hundred years?

(Hard no on anything that involves the rapey version of Sleeping Beauty.)

which_chick

The plan was to go to Mom's and do the met livestream for Tristan and Isolde (Wagner opera). The tickets were $24.00 each. We got there and sat down and waited for the opera to start.

( This was going to be a review of the Met's production of Tristan and Isolde )

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seasonsofdrabbles

The next round of Seasons of Drabbles is right around the corner! See the spring schedule below:

Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, March 29 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, April 5
Signups close: Sunday, April 12 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, April 15
Assignments due: Saturday, April 25 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, May 2 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Tuesday, May 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time

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worldbuildex

Sign-ups are now closed and matching is in progress! If your username starts with O or d, please check the email associated with your AO3 account for an email from worldbuildmod@gmail.com. When we've heard back, or in about 24h (whichever is sooner), we'll finalize matching and send out assignments!

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wiscon

WisCon 48 exclusive art 'The Gatherer' is presented by Rachel Quinlan.
To view more of her work go to https://www.rachelquinlan.com/

( The Gatherer )

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holmestice

Name:

kingstoken
Contact email: kingstoken6@gmail.com
AO3 username:

kinsgtoken
Treat preference: Yes, I'm happy to receive treats

I will create:
A fanwork of the following type(s): fic, graphics,
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Rathbone Films; The Great Mouse Detective, A Study in Emerald
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson, Basil/Dawson
I like working with one or more of the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Case Fic; First Time; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence;
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 2) non-explicit sexual content; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes;
I am willing to create for the following squicks and/or kinks: canon-level violence.

I want to receive:
A fanwork of the following type(s): art, fic, vids, graphics, podfic,
In one or more of the following parts of fandom: Rathbone Films; The Great Mouse Detective; Sherlock & Daughter; Sherlock Kisses Watson sketch from The Peter Serafinowicz Show (seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVwntrMQGsQ)
For one or more of the following characters or relationships: Holmes/Watson, Basil/Dawson, also enjoy Lestrade and Mycroft as secondary characters
I like stuff in the following categories: Fluff; Angst; Alternate Universe; Romance; Hurt/Comfort; Humor; Case Fic; First Time; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence;
With any of the following ratings: 1) suitable for general audiences; 2) non-explicit sexual content; 3) explicit sexual content; 4) mild to moderate violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes; 5) moderate to explicit graphic violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes
I wouldn’t mind any of the following squicks and/or kinks: I'm okay with canon-level violence, mild torture for hurt/comfort situations,

Please include further details about what you’d like to receive:
Do Not Want: Non-con, Permanent character death, Detailed descriptions of gore like blood, viscera, etc. Anything involving feces or urine, cheating, 2nd person POV, tragic endings

Rathbone Holmes prompts:
-anything about the two of them surviving the real trials of WWII together, like The Blitz, rationing, in one film we saw that Watson had gone to the country to volunteer at a home that looked after wounded soldiers so if you would like to explore Watson's medical service that would be good too. Also, assuming in this universe Watson's army service would have been in WWI, does he have any trauma or PTSD around that, and having to go through another war? Maybe going through all of this together convinces them to stop hesitating and get together.
-in The Spider Woman the villain set it up so that Watson would kill Holmes and not even realize it, we can assume that Watson found out about this afterwards, how did he feel about this? How did Holmes feel knowing that his beloved companion would be the instrument of his own death?
-in The Woman in the Green Dress, hypnotism is used on both Watson and Holmes at different points, and I really thought Moriarty was going to have Watson hypnotized and he would be sent to harm, kill, (or in my fanfic brain) possibly seduce Holmes. Also, what if Holmes had actually been hypnotized and hadn't just been pretending? How does Watson care for Holmes after he was recused from Moriarty?
-in the Pursuit to Algiers at the beginning of the film it is mentioned that Holmes is unwell and the Doctor has prescribed a long vacation for rest, what do we think is the issue? I picture Holmes collapsing from exhaustion after they made sure the prince has made it to safety and Watson must care for him
-sex pollen (or cuddle pollen!), there is exactly one sex pollen fic on AO3 for this fandom and I would love to read another one
-Holmes & Watson having to pretend to be a couple for a case
-Holmes’ enemies hurt Watson to get back at Holmes. So they kidnap him, or beat him up, or something else, to send Holmes a message. You can make it a canonical enemy like Moriarty and his gang, Baron Gruner, etc, or you can make up your own evil villain.
-Watson gets drugged in some fashion (by accident? by some villain?) and it makes him overly affectionate and amorous with Holmes. Also, maybe cue scene after he has sobered up and poor Watson is so embarrassed, but maybe it leads to them having a discussion around their feelings for each other?
-Watson has made the acquaintance of a widow woman on a neighbouring street, and somehow Holmes has discovered that every once and awhile Watson and this woman engage in “intimate relations” i.e. sex. This greatly disturbs Holmes, but he has a hard time understanding why at first, it takes some introspection for Holmes to realize it’s because he has romantic feelings for his Watson (About the widow, I see her being an independent woman about the same age as Watson, and she has no interest in marrying Watson, they just like to have a little fun on occasion)
-Watson sustains a severe head injury, and afterwards he has trouble concentrating or experiences mood swings, or anything else you can think of, and Watson is afraid he is no longer a fit companion for Holmes

The Great Mouse Detective prompts:
-any hurt/comfort is appreciated. Maybe Dawson patches Basil up after his encounter with Rattigan, or maybe Dawson gets hurt/ill and needs to be cared for
-a villain goes after Dawson for some reason (to get back at Basil, because Dawson helped someone the villain hates, etc) and Basil goes into protection mode, no one hurts his companion!
-Dawson adjusting to living with Basil, with his constant experiments, his bouts of melancholy, etc., and maybe Basil having to learn to have a little consideration for his new flatmate. Also, how chuffed is Basil that he has a companion now just like Holmes has Watson, I'm sure he's very pleased about it.
-Basil is in trouble (kidnapped?, trapped?) and Dawson has to try his best to find clues and use Basil's network and tools to find him before it's too late
-If you're an artist and want to show me what you think the mouse versions of Lestrade or Mycroft look like, and what their names would be, that would be delightful

Sherlock & Daughter prompts:
-Watson was so huggy and clingy when Holmes found him because he was drugged, I would love to see more of that, maybe during the carriage ride back or at their return to Baker St. Just Watson not wanting to let Holmes go.
-if you want to explore any internal angst either felt during their separation that would be great, and maybe once they are together again it leads to the two of them revealing their feelings for each other
-Holmes and Watson trying to co-parent Amelia in some fashion, like they have a young woman living with them that might need some guidance on occasion, are they good at it? Bad? Somewhere in between?

The Peter Serafinowicz Show prompts:
-if you would like to try and make sense of the case going on in the background go right ahead
-Holmes appears to become amorous when he solves a case and Watson praises him, has this ever happened or almost happened at inopportune times or places? Do they have to try and restrain themselves until they get to the nearest private room?
-Watson seems quite shocked at Holmes behaviour, obviously they have been working cases before and this has never occurred, what made the dam break for Holmes in this case?

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AO3 Link | Distraction from Grief (200 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Birds of Prey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sandra Wu-San, Dinah Lance
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, [Birds of Prey Vol. 1 - 1999-2009]
Summary:

Shiva pushes, so Dinah can put it behind.

Distraction from Grief

Move. Evaluate. Decide. Commit.

Shiva was making her work through her grief for Sensei in the way that mattered, now that they had foiled Cheshire's plan. Both of them excelled in the Arts, but the difference was being felt in every muscle, joint, and tendon as Dinah worked through the spar.

Shiva was a master, effortless in blending her many forms to always meet any rally that Dinah made, preventing Dinah from winning. Yet, Dinah also recognized that Shiva was having to rely on that blending to keep the upper hand.

In a formal, single style spar, Dinah and Shiva would likely be evenly matched.

Like this?

Dinah had to smile, a genuine one, to be pushed so far, so hard, so long.

Was that what Shiva had been waiting for? As the next move saw Dinah on the mats and Shiva pinning her, full length, hand in knife-strike pose at her throat.

"You choose life, not dwelling on death," Shiva purred, and damned if that didn't make Dinah remember other aspects of living that were worthwhile.

"Care to live a little with me, grab a hot soak, some good food?"

"Sensualist."

And yet, they moved together in that plan.

kaberett

Today was A Travel Day; yesterday, in preparation for same, I Ran Errands, including "acquiring Tiny Cake" and "visiting the pharmacy".

On the way from those two jobs to the next couple, I passed Several Good Things.

One was a new-to-me flavour of completely ridiculous daffodil:

a double daffodil, with white petals and inner trumpet, protruding past a much shorter orange outer trumpet

It's a double not in the sense of having a confusing froth of intermingled trumpets (as of Double Fashion or Double Camparnelle, both of which exist locally), but in the sense of having two nested trumpets, one shorter and orange, from which the longer white one protrudes. I have never! previously! seen a thing like this! I am really enjoying my current streak of encountering varieties of daffodil that make me go "what the fuck???"

Shortly thereafter I checked over my shoulder while crossing a tiny bridge and was startled and delighted to see A COOT UPON THE NEST that, last I passed it, was clearly still derelict. Obviously I went back and Gazed Upon It for Some Time and was eventually rewarded by it STANDING UP to reveal SEVEN??? (possibly) EGGS!!!

And the Egyptian goslings were peeping about the place when I subsequently passed them on my way back up the hill. A+ errands would run again.

greghousesgf

I finished off the last of the muscle relaxants last night and the pain has not come back, it just feels a little tender. They apparently turned on the pool heater because it doesn't feel like ice water now so I swam some laps, if D. and A. ask about using my pool again I'll be happy to have them over.

I don't know why

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Current Music: Velvet Underground

sanguinity

Life has been very busy and I am behind on posting all the things, but this morning I had a few free hours. I spent it writing fic.

Better than Tons of Gold and Cases of Diamonds

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas for PhoenixFalls
Edmond Dantès/Abbé Faria
Imprisonment, Canon Compliant, Making the Subtext Text, No Betas We Die Like Abbé Faria
Major Character death, 1300 words

Dantès swore that nothing but death would part them. Nothing but death did. Scenes from a sort of marriage.

The last couple of weeks, I've been reading The Count of Monte Cristo with

monte-cristo-daily. We're only just past the Château d'If, so please don't spoil me, I know nothing. (Right now Dantès is buying everyone boats: I heartily approve!)

But from the moment Abbé Faria was introduced, I shipped it. Alas, when I turned to AO3, I discovered this was a "when not even the sickos on AO3 have your back" kind of moment. So I fixed that. ;-)

Inaugural post for the 'ship, hooray!

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I made this Shanghai scallion flatbread this afternoon and it is really good but if you should endeavor to make it, I have 2 warnings:

1. whatever you think is "medium heat" when you're cooking it is too high. No, lower than that. Or don't go the full 12 minutes recommended, but I think that might be harder to gauge.

2. be careful when flipping it over! Remember that sesame seeds will pop in hot oil and things will spatter, so really and truly, be careful!

Otherwise, it's delicious, A++ will make again. On lower heat next time. The only thing I did differently was use toasted sesame oil on the inside before I put the scallions on. Also, I think it could hold more than 1/2 cup of chopped scallions, but that is just me. Oh, and I used five spice powder instead of ground Sichuan peppercorns because I don't like that much heat and so I do not actually have Sichuan peppercorns in the house. Anyway, I did it all by hand and it was easy enough. I can't recommend a Danish dough whisk enough if you enjoy making bread and don't have a stand mixer.

I had big plans to also make blood orange gelato - blood oranges are in season right now and on sale! but the ones I got are like, bruised to hell, so that is probably why the sale price - but I don't have room in the freezer for it. Bah. Pre-made chicken tenders were also on sale and I bought them to make for lunch this week and they are taking up a lot of space (there are only about 12 in the bag but the bag is enormous. so annoying! I suppose I could rebag them in something less full of air. Hmm...). Anyway, I am contemplating zesting and juicing the oranges and freezing that, but again, space is at a premium in there. One day I will have a full-size fridge. or a chest freezer. Either way. and I will be so happy.

Soon, I will take the rack of babyback ribs I bought this week (not on sale alas) and give them a dry rub before they go back into the fridge overnight to be roasted low and slow tomorrow. And in the morning, before I have to devote 4 hours of oven-time to the ribs, I plan to make pecan shortbread because I still have like 2 lbs of pecans from my Christmas candied pecans project. It's an Ina Garten recipe, so I anticipate it will be good! And I will eat a few of them for breakfast each morning next week.

And after reblogging this post, I have also been contemplating making gyoza for Easter since I'll have a 4-day weekend and could do it in stages, though I have never done it and don't know how to pleat them so I'm going to have to watch some videos - any recs for that? I'll also try to clear out some space in the freezer to freeze some for later. *g* But they look so good! I do love a dumpling.

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sholio

I posted some more Babylon 5 fic in the last couple of days: a new Londo/G'Kar fake dating fic plus a new chapter of the B5 catacomb WIP.

It's been a year this month since I started watching the show - my first post under the B5 tag was posted March 3, 2025 after watching the first couple of episodes. Still completely gone on it! I regret nothing!

In other news, NYT gift link to an article about Paul Brainerd, creator of Aldus PageMaker and inventor of the term "desktop publishing." This was a fascinating nostalgia read for me because, while I had no idea of the actual history, this guy (and Adobe and Apple) created the professional world of my young adulthood. My first job out of college in (I think) 1998 was working in the layout department of a newspaper that had just recently (last few years) gone from paste-up to an all-Mac layout room using a program similar to PageMaker from a third-party software maker that no longer exists. PageMaker - which I also learned to use in the college computer lab, and later at work - was the direct predecessor of InDesign, widely used even today. It's interesting to think back on those old newspaper days and how thoroughly they shaped me and continue to shape me. The computer/layout/marketing experience I got as a layout artist in the late 90s and 2000s has been immensely useful for my current self-publishing career.

It continues to be horrendously cold. We've been sitting under a high-pressure ridge and have had gorgeous sunny days that are absolutely freezing. It was -20F when I got up this morning and it's 0F out there right now. My husband's (uni-age) students are over here today because they wanted to help him dig out an ancient non-working snowblower that someone gave us ages ago from a snowbank and try to get it working again. (We do actually have TWO other snowblowers. This is just for fun.)

I took this picture on a walk up our driveway to the highway to get the mail a couple of days ago:

a long expanse of snow-covered road with piles of snow on each side

At least at this time of year, the sun warms it up SOMEWHAT during the day - in January it can sit at -40 24/7 for weeks; at this time of year we're still experiencing 20-40 degree increases during the day .... which is still barely enough to push us above 0F. The 10-day forecast shows that it will be glacially (haha) warming up, but still may not have crawled into above-freezing temps by the end of the month. UGH, I'M READY FOR SPRING.

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It's a wrap! Or a warp. I like to offer you an informed choice. ;-)

Film: Nouvelle Vague, 2025, is US / French film about the making of A bout de souffle. So it's a Richard Linklater homage to Jean-Luc Godard - a movie god making a film about a god of cinema, or at least a godard of cinema. Exactly as you'd expect in every way. I felt it didn't quite deserve full marks due to minor blandness and predictability, but there are no actual faults with the film: the audience gets what it deserves. ;-) 4.5/5
P.S. That dance scene from Bande à part referenced again (but Le Week-End is still my fave recreation).
P.P.S. So, now I've mentioned the other film, Nouvelle Vague has a smart script with slick direction and cinematography and production... but it's also sorta shallow compared to Le Week-End, which gave audiences three truly great film actors* allowed space by the director to explore everyday human experience in depth. Both movies focus on trivia, one more intellectually and one more emotionally, but only one of them finds additional profundity. Quoting philosophical one-liners is not in itself a profound activity and any parrot can be trained to do it. Nouvelle Vague is a tribute, while Le Week-End is an original.
* Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, and Jeff Goldblum.

Film: Grass, a Nation's Battle for Life, 1925, US / Bakhtiari documentary film about the seasonal migration of 50,000 of the Bakhtiari (Lurs) and all their sheep, goats, cows, horses, donkeys, and dogs from exhausted pasture to fresh pasture, across several rivers including the Karun and over a snow covered mountain pass through the 4,221m Zard-Kuh subrange. Just crossing the river takes a week! (Spoiler for history: when the team considered remaking the film in 1947 they were told the migration was now done mostly in cars and trucks.) It is, of course, a silent movie, although the music track for the screening I attended was painfully ear-splittingly loud for no apparent reason. There are explanatory intertitles throughout, beginning with typical USian self-congratulatory racism about "Aryans" supposedly originating in West Asia and progressing westwards as civilisation progressed... with the implication that Hollywood is the peak of human culture, lmao (USians: so modest!). If you're wondering why the intertitles keep shouting "Yo, Ali!" it's because the Bakhtiari are Shia Muslims.
Presenter: Marguerite Harrison.
Conclusion: worth seeing on a BIG screen for the spectacle, but the commentary is as racist as most "Aryan" ethnography of the time. No rating.

Film: Köln 75, 2025, is a German film about... well, that's a problem because it doesn't know what it's about. ( Cut for moaning. )
Conclusion: the filmmakers and their male gaze didn't find Vera Brandes that interesting as a central subject, they couldn't focus on their hero Keith Jarrett, so they produced a confused hash spiced up with teenage girl sex-appeal for their chosen audience. No rating because the film is too inconsistent.
P.S. There's a documentary, Lost in Köln, 2025, which I haven't seen but I'm guessing would be a more worthwhile investment of time than... whatever this was that I watched.
P.P.S. Only fun if you understand German but... Floh de Cologne - Sei Ruhig Fließbandbaby.

* Piano tuners being a hot theme for movies made in 2025 for some reason?

Current Music: Floh de Cologne - Sei Ruhig Fließbandbaby

snickfic

The Revenant (2015). A wilderness guide (Leonardo Dicaprio) left for dead after being mauled by a bear goes on a revenge quest against the trapper (Tom Hardy) who killed his son.

As suggested by that summary, this extremely whumpy, if you're into that, to a point well beyond realism. Somehow our guy Glass struggles through total wilderness for tens of miles with myriad open wounds and a broken leg, and rather than dying of deprivation, exposure, or infection, he actually gets better. By the end of the movie he's barely even hobbling anymore. Also, the people in this movie spend so much time tromping through and even immersed in barely-melted icewater that I expected them to either die of hypothermia or lose some toes to frostbite in the first twenty minutes.

This is also an incredibly linear movie. There are no surprises here, no unexpected decisions or developments. No depths of character are revealed. It's also incredibly male-centric. The only female character with lines is Glass's wife, who's dead before the movie even starts, and the only other woman on screen is a Native woman-shaped Macguffin who gets raped on screen, then rescued, but never gets to speak. Even worse than that, to me, is that we get nothing of Glass's relationship with his half-Pawnee son at all. Other than simmering resentment over unjust treatment, we don't have any sense of the kid's personality or Glass's dynamic with him, which makes for a weaker movie and also makes it hard to believe in the movie's pretensions of giving a shit about the effect of European colonization on Native peoples.

I watched this for the scenery, and I will say it was great on that front. Lots of snowy crags, excellent! I also really enjoyed Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson, who round out the cast.

Cannot believe this beat Mad Max: Fury Road for best picture.

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Stalker (1979). Wikipedia summary: a man called a stalker guides two clients through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where there supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires.

This is a Soviet movie by director Andrei Tarkovsky, who also did Solaris. If I'd realized that, I could have better set my expectations for this movie. I watched it because the premise gave me cosmic horror vibes and specifically because it felt like a precursor to a bunch of more recent cosmic horror that I've loved or at least loved concepts from, including Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy and movies like A Dark Song, Malefique, YellowBrickRoad, and Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made. (If you're not familiar, this a hilariously idiosyncratic list of widely varying quality, lol. There's a reason you probably haven't heard of most of those.) Maybe, I said, this is the original source of these other things I love!

Unfortunately, while this does promise many horrors, it delivers none of them. Very possibly it was an inspiration for those other things, but in the sense that other people watched this and were like, "okay but what if this were actually a horror movie."

The first hour or so is my favorite; I was genuinely shocked when the sepia filters of the real world give way to full color in the Zone, and there's some great tension as our stalker navigates the Zone using methods that hint at incomprehensible dangers. However, the longer we go without encountering any of those dangers, the harder it is to believe in them. By the time we finally arrive at the possibly magical room, I was more than half convinced that the dangers were all imagined, and the glimpse of two decaying skeletons came too late to change my mind. And then! We DON'T EVEN GO INTO THE ROOM. NO ONE GOES INTO THE ROOM. *flips over table*

Tarkovsky was not trying to make the movie I wanted to watch; he was much more interested in big philosophical questions and really long takes, and I gather this is considered an all-time classic for those reasons.

This was apparently an adaptation-in-name-only of the Strugatsky Brothers' novel Roadside Picnic, which I happen to have already have on hold at the library for unrelated reasons. I'm interested to see how it compares.

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Rather than share each item individually, I'm just going to link to

goodbyebird's mostly good news links roundup. There's some fantastic environmental and sociopolitical news there.

I'll add to all this with the news that you can now walk around the entire coastline of England. It's worth reading the article in full, because this undertaking is extremely impressive and future-focused.

Another good news story, via 2022 Ukrainian Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: the tropical plants in the greenhouse of Kyiv's Hryshko Botanical Garden survived Russia's winter bombardment of energy facilities, thanks to the concerted efforts of staff and ordinary Kyivan citizens.

And I just find this latest batch of artistry from

wisdm, in which he styles the celestial bodies of the solar system in high fashion clothing, to be breathtakingly good.

I've basically been immersively living in these two songs for the past week:

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And I don't think I've had Edna before??

Recuerdo

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

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13 books new to me, and save for one mystery, all fantasy. Man, fantasy is just eating SF's lunch. Not that that will be reflected in what I actually review.

Books Received, March 14 — March 20

Poll #34393 Books Received, March 14 — March 20

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The Siren by Tomi Adeyemi (October 2026)
8 (20.5%)

Twined Fates: Tangled Hearts, Book Three by K. Bromberg (October 2026)
0 (0.0%)

Light of the Song by Joyce Ch’Ng (September 2025)
8 (20.5%)

The First Flame by Lily Berlin Dodd (November 2026)
1 (2.6%)

A Destiny So Cruel by Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman (November 2026)
1 (2.6%)

Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw (October 2026)
12 (30.8%)

Bad Company by Sara Paretsky (November 2026)
7 (17.9%)

The Kings’ List by Jade Presley (May 2026)
2 (5.1%)

My Unfamiliar by Mara Rutherford (December 2026)
8 (20.5%)

Ghosted by Talia Tucker (November 2026)
3 (7.7%)

The Mystic and the Missing Girl by Vikki Vansickle (September 2026)
6 (15.4%)

The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo (October 2026)
12 (30.8%)

Chosen Son by Adrienne Young (November 2026)
2 (5.1%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
31 (79.5%)

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The small multi-flowered yellow narcissus are still blooming, while the later narcissus in pale butter yellow and white haven't started yet. It has not been a good spring for daffodils -- yet? It's finally time for the native flowers: violets are rioting, the red buds are beginning to shimmer with color. One red bud i had transplanted some years ago on the south berm has blossoms. The volunteer at the other end of the berm seems strangely inert. The surviving dogwoods are opening their white bracts to the sky. I've lost some creeping phlox to a combination of weeds and drought. The spice bush blooms seem to have been lost this year, overwhelmed by the grey-green leaf-out of the invasive autumn olive and possibly their own leaves. The Chickasaw plum had so many flower buds, but i think rain and freezing weather limited the show. A juneberry in the woods by the driveway has a few high blossoms. The one i have planted still waits for the right time: perhaps it still needs a few years.

We have been in "severe" drought since January, the longest since we moved here, and the most severe since a terrible "exceptional" drought in 2007-2008. (None of this like California drought, which was "exceptional" from 2014 to the end of 2016.) No indication of any frost chance for the next ten days, barely any rain. I've probably wasted all the money i have spent on grass seed.

It was overcast last night so i missed the moon-Venus conjunction and any chance of dim aurora.

I am intending to see some family at lunch today, and to dig and assemble my new raised beds. I hope to get the complicated parts -- assembly, leveling the site, trenching the French drain and adding coarse gravel, a screen, and finer gravel mostly done this weekend. Then i think smaller efforts trundling fill from various sites will be easier.

The Thomasville citrangequat has been ordered; tabs open for two pineapple guavas and a yuzu. I've ordered seeds of goat's rue (Tephrosia virginiana), a native legume with showy flowers, as a nitrogen fixing cover crop. I am imagining adding a few artichokes to act as a cover, too, until the trees fill in. Maybe a lavender.

My performance at work this week was not good, much frittering, and that needs to pull around.

mific posting in

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Dave Sheppard, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Sam Carter, Radek Zelenka
Rating: Teen
Length: 7998
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: busaikko on AO3
Themes: Siblings, Family, Post-canon, Outsider POV

Summary: Dave Sheppard learns more about his brother and gets drawn into a tangle of secrets and truths.

Reccer's Notes: This is from Dave's POV, as he and John cautiously reconnect via emails, then more, after their father's funeral. I really like Dave here, separated from his wife and still in love with her, baffled by John and wanting to understand him better. They do gradually reconnect, and eventually some Trust shenanigans lead to Dave meeting all John's team and being read in about the Stargate program. The characterisations of Dave and John are excellent, with Rodney's relationship with Jennifer Keller, then with John, happening in the background. One of my favourite Dave Sheppard fics.

Fanwork Links: Just So Long and Long Enough on AO3
And there are two podfic versions: by juniperphoenix and by cookiemom6067

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