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Knock on the Door for Fic or Treat!

Oct. 8th, 2025 09:42 pm
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Fic or Treat
[community profile] ficortreat

Impala-Chick's Door


DW username: [personal profile] impala_chick

Light is on for: Anyone wandering by!

What's in the Bowl? Short fic, Short fanmix (4-5 songs), Set of 2 icons, or you can just say trick or treat and I'll surprise you with Halloween lore!

Let Me Know: Your gift will have some kind of Halloween theme unless you say otherwise :) Please specify if you'd rather have something spooky or something fluffy. Prompts are very much appreciated.

Fandoms and Characters I'll Make Gifts For:
-Marvel Cinematic Universe (Sam/Bucky, Bucky/Natasha, Steve/Tony)
-Doctor Odyssey (Tristan/Avery/Max)
-Band of Brothers (Webster/Liebgott)
-Generation Kill (Brad/Nate)
-Watcher Entertainment RPF (Ryan/Shane, Andrew/Steven)
-Roswell New Mexico (Rosa/Isobel, Liz/Max/Kyle)
-Challengers (Patrick/Art/Tashi)
-Masters of the Air (Curt/Bucky, Buck/Bucky, Curt/Buck/Bucky, Rosie/Harry)
-Jujutsu Kaisen (any)
-The Conjuring Universe (any)
-The Raven Cycle (any)
-Merlin (Merlin/Gwaine)
-Any horror movie

I like making ship-specific things, but you can also just request a specific character from the above.

Other info: I don't want to write non-con or body horror, but all other spooky tropes are on the table if you'd like to request one. Happy Halloween :D

Convergence on Lawndale - Part 14

Oct. 9th, 2025 03:31 pm
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“There it is,” the Doctor said as he lead the others into the Morgendorffers backyard from the laneway.

“That blue box?” Kim asked.

“Yes,” the Doctor answered as he unlocked the ship.


Kim looked around the Console Room as the Doctor went to the console. It was actually bigger on the inside than the outside. “This is weird, like in a good way. Usually, rooms like this belong to someone I’m fighting.”

“You fight people a lot?” Kaelyn asked.

“Only villains causing trouble others can’t deal with,” Kim answered.

“And your brothers,” Ron added.

“I don’t fight the tweebs like I fight the villains.”

“Tweebs?” Kaelyn asked.

“Her brothers,” Ron said. “They’re twins.”

“And dweebs. Therefore, tweebs,” Kim added.


The Doctor rolled his eyes at Kim and Ron’s description of Kim’s brothers as he adjusted the Scanner to scan Lawndale at the time of the flicker.

The data came back quickly. “There was an electromagnetic pulse that interfered with the electrical grid,” Kim surmised. “Could you share it with the Kimmunicator?”

“I doubt Wade Load would make more of it than I can,” the Doctor said,

“You know who Wade is?” Kim asked.

“I’m a time traveller. It’s not spoilers to say that you and Ron continue to make an impression on the world by thwarting various schemes into your young adulthood. Wade is part of that.”

“And yet you hadn’t heard of Kaelyn?” Ron asked.

“She probably doesn’t make much of an impression in comparison,” the Doctor said.

“I guess not,” Kaelyn said. “But there isn’t anything about what may have affected Stacy in this data.”

“True, I just scanned for the EMP first,” the Doctor admitted. “I’ll scan for psychic energy next.”


Kaelyn watched as the Doctor ran the next scan, and then the screen showed something. ‘The TARDIS must be very advanced,’ she thought.

“There is something,” the Doctor said. “But it’s still inconclusive.”

“Meaning?” Kim asked.

“Stacy may not be the only one who felt something,” the Doctor said.

“You mean others in Lawndale?” Kaelyn asked.

“Yes,” the Doctor said as he refocused the Scanner to the present. “The portal is stable.”

“That’s good,” Kim said.

“But even if it’s not, I can get you back to Middleton.”

“I can believe that,” Ron said.

“But we haven’t found out much,” Kim said. “We need to get back to the portal and fill Wade in.”

“I’ll just run another scan,” the Doctor said. “More intense.”


“Concerning,” the Doctor commented.

“What is it?” Kim and Kaelyn asked at the same time.

“The portal is causing weakness in space-time; along the path it is moving through with the Earth’s rotation and orbit. It’s barely perceptible, but it’s there,” the Doctor answered.

“And it would be leaving the same weakness in Middleton, right?” Kim asked.

“Yes. But the Earth still wouldn’t be in the same place, with the Sun having continued on it’s own orbit through the Galaxy.”

“How is it concerning?” Ron asked.

“It can be exploited to cause further problems,” the Doctor answered.

“But it’s not the only problem, is it?” Kaelyn asked.

“We still don’t know who made that device,” Kim said.

“We should find out,” Kaelyn said. “I could ask my parents.”

“And we’ll head back to the portal to check in with Wade,” Kim added. “See if he has gathered any more information on what may be happening.”

“Both good ideas,” the Doctor said as he adjusted the scanner and ran another scan.


Kaelyn watched as the scan resolved. The portal was stable.

“Whatever that power source is, it’s stable. It won’t run out any time soon,” the Doctor said.

“I suppose that is a relief,” Kim said. “we won’t need to rely on you to get back to Middleton.”

“I can be reliable!” the Doctor retorted.

“Most often,” Kim said. “From what I have heard from UNIT.”

“I’m sure they exaggerated,” the Doctor said.

“Probably,” Kim said. “Ron and I are heading out now.”

“I’ll run more scans.”


Kim and Ron stepped out of the TARDIS.

“What do you think about what the Doctor found?” Ron asked.

“I’m not sure what to make of it. But there is certainly more going on here, which is why we have to hurry.”

“On it, KP!”

The TARDIS doors opened again. “Wait!” Kaelyn said.

“You want to come with us?” Kim asked.

Kaelyn shrugged. “It would be better than staying in the TARDIS.”

“Come along, then.”

Last 3 Things Part II

Oct. 8th, 2025 09:19 pm
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Last 3 TV shows I watched:


•9-1-1 Lone Star Series Finale: Finally, a lovely happy ending! This last season was not my favorite, but I liked how they tied everything together at the end. Except for Grace & Judd, I was sad we didn't at least get to see her again.

•Doctor Odyssey Finale: Boo! How could they break up my OT3 like that! After all of the really fun and really progressive relationship explorations this season, I thought they did Tristan dirty at the end :( But at least they ended with the three of them on the pool deck together.

•Surreal Estate 2.02: Hilarious and fun and spooky too. The season 2 premiere didn't grab me but this episode had a bunch of heart and I'm re-invested :D

Next 3 TV shows I want to (re)watch:


•Surreal Estate Season 2
•Umbrella Academy final season
•A rewatch for a fic exchange

Last 3 albums I listened to:


Greetings from Your Hometown by Jonas Brothers ♥ Many new bangers that I love. Backwards is my current favorite.

Man's Best Friend by Sabrina Carpenter. The sarcasm about men being shit but still expecting the sexiest girls - such scathing and deserved commentary. Especially the track Tears!. No one is really doing it like her. Although I think I like the previous album better.

Gold Star Baby by The Aces. A disco album! A lot of the lyrics make me laugh, too. Favorite track is Spending the Night.

Next 3 albums I want to listen to:


• Demi Lovato's new album It's Not That Deep comes out October 24!
• 5 Seconds of Summer's new album Everyone's a Star! comes out November 14!
• Conan Gray?? I loved his performance of Vodka Cranberry so I should listen to his other stuff.

Zee Empire Bingo 2025 Fill 10

Oct. 8th, 2025 08:38 pm
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Creator: innitmarvelous_og
Title:
Four Leaves
Fandom: Stock
Characters/Pairings: None
Prompt: Four-Leaf Clover
Word Count/Medium: 2 icons
Summary: Two icons of four-leaf clover
Rating: None
Warning: None

current fandom comms/events

Oct. 8th, 2025 12:02 pm
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[community profile] mcu100 is a a bi-weekly MCU themed community challenge where you join a team and write as many 100 worded drabbles to earn points for your team

[community profile] allbingo is hosting Fall Fest through the month of October. There are both pre-made bingo cards or you can create your own with the available prompts.

[community profile] ficortreat is open for another round. You can create a "door" (instructions at link) and offer what you're willing to create and then go around other people's "doors" and see what they're offering too.

[community profile] booknook is still accepting sign-ups for October Review-a-Thon 2025, where you pick a book and sign up for a date to post your review.

[community profile] cap_ironman, a Steve/Tony community, is running 2025 Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts. Sign-ups for the exchange close on October 9th, 10PM EDT.

[personal profile] koreanfandomsex, a multifandom exchange for Korean fandoms, is open for sign-ups until October 12th, 11:59PM Pacific.

[community profile] be_compromised, a Clint/Natasha community, is running Secret Santa 2025. Sign-ups are open until October 13th, 4PM GMT.

[community profile] julybreakbingopresents is running for Halloween Horror Bingo. Sign-ups are open until October 13th, 11:59PM Eastern.

[personal profile] amperslashexchange, a fic and art exchange for ambiguous relationships that are hard to definitively classify as either platonic (&) or romantic/sexual (/), is open for sign-ups until October 14th, 11:59PM UTC.

[community profile] holmestice, a gift exchange for all Sherlock Holmes fandoms, has opened signups for Winter 2025 until October 14th.

Rainbow Connection Flash Exchange is a multifandom flash exchanged hosted on AO3, dedicated to rainbow or colour themed fics. Both nominations and sign-ups are open until October 16th, 3PM EDT.

[community profile] seasonsofdrabbles is accepting nominations for their Fall Round. Nomination will remain open even once sign-ups open and will close on October 19th, 11:59PM Eastern.

[community profile] smallfandombang, a Big Bang challenge for small fandoms (less than 2000 works), is open for author sign-ups until October 31st.

[personal profile] elasticella is running Hotties Haunting the Narrative: a festive femslash ficathon until November 1st.

[community profile] fancake's theme of the month is: uncommon settings. Click on the banner below to learn more.

Photograph of the full moon encircled with added text: Uncommon Settings, at Fancake.

Making History

Oct. 8th, 2025 06:41 pm
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Making History by KJ Parker is a novella in which 12 academics are tasked by the First Citizen of their country with creating an ancient city that will demonstrate to the populace that the war he wants to wage is justified.
It's very short but also very convoluted and intricate, with far too many indistinct characters (and names) and quite a lot of detail about different archaeological and linguistic things.
At one point, the narrator actually says that he's about to be really boring for a while and he wouldn't blame the reader for skipping ahead a bit...
It's also rather scattershot, with different important characters and plot points coming out of nowhere quite late on.
It gets really fun and interesting in the second half, though, so I'm glad I persevered, since it goes in some unexpected directions and the last few sentences in particular made me laugh out loud.

BtVS Double Drabble: Leaving Home

Oct. 8th, 2025 06:35 pm
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Title: Leaving Home
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 470: Amnesty 47 at 
[community profile] drabble_zone, using Challenge 465: Away.
Spoilers/Setting: Start of Season 4.
Summary: Starting college is a scary prospect.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

FAKE Double Drabble: Working Hours

Oct. 8th, 2025 06:25 pm
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Title: Working Hours
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: During the manga.
Summary: The hardest part of being a cop isn’t the danger.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Irregular’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Double Drabble: Intimidation

Oct. 8th, 2025 06:17 pm
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Title: Intimidation
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Weevil.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 886: Bite at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto confronts a rogue Weevil.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Abide by the rules

Oct. 8th, 2025 04:44 pm
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Ok I’ve not done a spooky season recap for a few days so! Here goes!

Day 5: Wednesday - Call Of The Woe, Shoto spooky stream, A Haunting In Venice, Forty Five - Order Of Simplicity

(Wednesday/A Haunting In Venice thoughts here)

Other than the things mentioned in the post there was Shoto’s spooky stream though I did tune out a bit. Sometimes I do, it becomes more listening to him play than watching. Which if anyone has seen him stream knows he has a nice voice. Then I continued the who audio I started in the night.

Day 6: Forty Five - Casualties Of War, Him, Mystery Film - Good Boy, Forty Five - The Word Lord

(Film thoughts here)

Monday was mostly, as I expected the two films. Though I did finish Forty Five which was a good selection of one parters. They were all quite varied which was good, though I think the Word Lord was my fav of the set (and did make me wish it was longer).

Day 7: Eso, The Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror, Treehouse Of Horror II

Tuesday was an easier day, I did some of a quest on ESO (I meant to go back on later but got sidetracked) and two eps of Treehouse Of Horror. Sometimes I do a run of them around Halloween so we’ll see how much of a run I’ll do. (I do wish Disney+ had an option to just… play them instead of each ep wanting to play the next of season. The Raven is easily my fav segment of the first two. It’s honestly such a classic and I love that they did it.

***

There was an additional annoyance I didn’t mention in Monday’s post. I had an email from Student finance saying there was something missing, so I looked and they want my I’d which they didn’t mention before, then when mum found my stuff to do it I just got an error and the website has been down ever since. Like what the fuck? It’s another stress I don’t need.

Anyway.

I’ve not heard anything about the missing bag, but there is a purple fabric bag listed on the lost and found site so I have sent in my info for it for them to check. I don’t expect to hear anything though.

Today I went to see The Long Walk. Beforehand I went in the Poundland and got the bat tea light holder I lost, then a K-2S0 Funko and bitty landspeeder from smyths and, after debating, a replacement to the missing hocus Pocus bag.

On the train I read the Who magazine that came today and there’s a Halloween set of audio stories which I’d been curious about but now I want more cause Jonathan Sims (of The Magnus Archives!) wrote one. And there’s an article about the Dugga doo song though I’ve not read yet.

The trailers were the same ones I saw Tuesday: 28 years later, Keeper, Shelby Oaks, Black Phone 2 and Good Boy.

Thoughts under the cut.

Read more... )

I feel I’m cursed though. On the way back to the train (which I didn’t miss this time!) I passed the art gallery and bam! My messenger bag strap broke. Fuck! I’m baffled how it happened because there wasn’t anything heavy in it and when I sat down to check it was the metal part that had snapped. Like ??? How does that happen?

I’m so annoyed cause it was my main bag (I have two now one with my wallets/meds/phone and this one which has my pad and usually a magazine or something). I have ordered one I saw in prime day, a rogue one one, so we’ll see if it’ll be any good.

Tonight I’m gonna rest, then it’s a tutorial and celebrity traitors, then I’ll likely game some. I might have another trip Friday but we’ll see.

Taking Candy

Oct. 8th, 2025 09:34 am
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Requested on Tumblr by realitysperception

Continuity:
 G1

Rating: General

Characters: Starscream, Rumble, Frenzy

Tags: Double Drabble, Halloween Costumes

Summary: In which Starscream questions Rumble and Frenzy dressing up like trash.

Crossposting: AO3 | Tumblr

Read more... )

 

been busy

Oct. 8th, 2025 05:23 pm
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My unemployment benefits are running out soon and my disabled benefits are not... denied, just whoops slipped by, I'm not doing that dental technician formation this year and the employment agency is sending emails about electrician and plumber formation. I was supposed to attend a visioconference last Wednesday but I fried my laptop's keyboard juste before. So it was sound only. (My laptop is OK in the end, the keyboard dried off and is working again.)

I'm struggling with my disabled benefits case.

But!
Last Friday Kay O'Neil came to my town for a book signing tour so I got two books signed + a third for a friend. Whose birthday was that night. The party was great.
And I have a massive squish on the newest addition to our little gang.

Saturday saw a different book signing. A third installment in a children's book series With Dinosaurs in it, and the first book of a five-book series about an upperclass girl obsessed with weight lifting; looks promising.

Sunday... nothing. Rest.

And today I want to the electrician school for their open day. Looks promising too but. There are like 20 spots for 150 to 200 candidates and I'd have to find a work/study placement.

Instruments and Paradise

Oct. 8th, 2025 03:55 pm
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The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable is set in the early 1700s in Venice and charts the life of Anna Maria della Pieta, a young woman abandoned at an orphanage at birth, who grew up to be one of the most celebrated violinists of the age. She was taught by Vivaldi, and the novel fills in the gaps of her story, suggesting she may have had quite an influence on his music.

It took me a while to get into this book, since I didn't like Anna Maria much, especially as an eight-year-old, but also in her later teenage years. She shows unbridled ambition and self-absorption, to the exclusion of all else, and to the detriment of her friendships with other girls in the orphanage.

But the book is well written and vivid in its depiction of 18th century Venice and the world of these girls in particular. It's a fascinating portrait of the orchestra and Vivaldi's involvement with it, though it also has heavy themes of patriarchy, misogyny, abuse of power, marginalisation due to both gender and class, and a very toxic institutional environment.

It was very good, though I'm not sure I really enjoyed it - I was ultimately glad I persevered, though. I initially feared the ending would be too harsh, then that it would be too easy - and it managed to find a balance between the two, which was satisfying.


Paradise Lost by John Milton - in graphic novel form by Pablo Auladell - is an interesting way to tell the story of the fall of Lucifer and the ejection of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. It's not done in an art style that particularly appeals to me, but I really liked how the different realms and allegiances were denoted by text box colour - and some of the full-page spreads were quite spectacular. I enjoyed revisiting some of Milton's poetry and the reading experience as a whole was a good one.
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I have been feeling strangely isolated as of late, despite actually socialising. Usually this feeling would go away if I went to my Reading page, but it hasn't.

I've gone on a walk with Vara. That was last week, but it was nice, and usually I can go longer without getting lonely. Especially as I have done other social things since!

After X-pole started selling poles in India, someone I know from the pole studio I had to quit bought her own pole and started classes. I've been going to her to train, and that's a roughly weekly thing where I talk to her as well. She has just the one pole so she doesn't do group classes yet (group classes were one avenue where I'd meet new people, possible future friends). However, my instructor organised a get-together of pole girls, including her students, and I met a new friend, Nikki. We went and got cheesecake together and talked for two hours! It was lovely.

I also had a real-time discord typechat with a DW friend recently. So the data says I am connected, but I feel disconnected and I don't know why.

It feels different from the loneliness I used to struggle with before, because back then it felt like, life-threatening. Like an animal fear. But now it just feels like vaguely melancholic discomfort. I decided to write about it here because I've also had weeks of isolation without feeling any discomfot at all, especially when I was editing Bloodhunt Academy and doing little else. There are periods of writing that feel like Hermit mode and also feel comfortable. My theory is that I might feel differently once I'm deep into writing Book Two.

Sometimes it feels like the only way I'll know I'm not stuck in a timefreeze is by measuring the progress in my writing. I don't know if it's my brain, my circumstances, or the state of Everything, but thinking about a future is making me anxious instead of hopeful right now. I think it's definitely partly because tomorrow I'm launching the book and will have to reckon with how it does on the market, but it's also Everything in General. Like, TikTok kind of intimidates me, but is supposed to pair well with KU. I did a tarot reading asking about whether I should venture onto Booktok and drew Justice. At first I didn't know what to make of it, then cursory YouTube research enlightened me. About the new ownership it's going to pass into and associated legal agreements and political implications and... yeah. Now I know exactly why the Justice card showed up.

I don't even know how to explain what this anxiety is. It's not even my country and yet it's affecting Everybody. There's a certain amount of dread that I can't seem to disconnect from, unless I don't think about anything in practical terms at all, unless I stick to escapism, not even once in a while but All the Time. I've been meaning to post about k-dramas and CIX, and I haven't been able to, and I think it's because these feelings were in the bottleneck.

Well, tomorrow I'll do a launch post for Bloodhunt Academy and then I'll do the posts for all the fun escapisms I've been escaping into, now that this post has cleared the way, or something.

There's so many 'I think' and 'it feels like' in this post because nothing feels... certain or like it makes sense? I'm not sure. I don't know. How did my understanding of myself and my inner life fall apart like this when I'm literally spending more time with myself and my own thoughts than I have in years? I'm struggling to articulate anything going on within me. I'm also struggling to think about anything going on outside of me, except for random spurts of rage, which also aren't very logical or articulate. For example, someone has an opinion that is so harmful to people, that I don't even think about how to counter it or fight it with words, I just want to rip their tongue out and shove it down their throat until they choke and take their dangerous self out of this world. I don't want to have a moral high ground, I'm just angry and fantasising about violence feels like justice.

EDIT: That was not the note I wanted to end on, so. One thing about being in what feels like a timefreeze is that I'm trying to notice the things that seem unchanging? Mostly that's the critters I see on my walk in the apartment complex. The squirrels and cats and birds.

Zee Empire Bingo 2025 Fill 9

Oct. 8th, 2025 01:42 am
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Creator: innitmarvelous_og
Title:
In the Wind
Fandom: Stock
Characters/Pairings: None
Prompt: Blowing Dandelion Seeds
Card #: 3
Word Count/Medium: 2 icons
Summary: Kids blowin' dandelions puffs.
Rating: G
Warning: None

Experimental

Oct. 7th, 2025 10:14 pm
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Experimental

Summary: Franziska and Ema get kinky.

Fandom: Ace Attorney
Characters: Ema Skye/Franziska von Karma
Rating: E
Warnings: Under-negotiated (but very consensual) dom/sub
Notes: I'm doing Kinktober 2025 (using this list)! This one was for Day 3, nipple clamps, and ended up with some additional d/s and glove kink.

Are you sure you want to do this, Ema Skye? )

(no subject)

Oct. 7th, 2025 07:41 pm
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There are many things I struggle with, living here, but the changing of the seasons is something I think I will definitely enjoy. We have filled our calendar with lots of fall plans!

This Friday we're going to Blair's parents' again for dinner, and afterward we're going to a haunted house there in Sparta. It's an actual haunted place that they make into a walk-through for Halloween every year. Saturday when I get off work, we're going to go tear it up at Spirit Halloween.

There's a vampire-themed play that we and a few of Blair's friends have tickets for next weekend, and then the Sunday after that we're going out with her mom, grandma and sister to a big farm/orchard to pick apples, select some pumpkins from their pumpkin patch, go on a hayride, and enjoy everything else the orchard has to offer.

I'm pretty excited. Definitely, getting to enjoy Halloween is going to put me in a good mood, and hopefully also in a mood to keep up with these [community profile] ficortreat drabbles. (Which, by the way, my door is here if you're interested in anything I'm offering.)
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