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petra has posted that if you donate at least $25 in cash or food to a food bank at any point between now and the end of the Trump Administration, and you either share a fandom of theirs and want a drabble or poetry for that fandom, or if you want original poetry, comment to

petra about your donation and they will write for you.

For full details, including where to post your comment-of-donation and your writing request see their Dreamwidth post.

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pushkin666

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badly_knitted posting in

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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question (courtesy of

cora): What was your last project that got put into "time out" and why?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

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stonepicnicking_okapi

Me to self: JUST KEEP GOING! DON'T LOOK AT THE CALENDAR!

New stuff in Bold

( old stuff )

Day 2: Kinktober - Coming Untouched - BTS - Rating: Teen: Vampire AU called This Moon, That Moon, Chapter 1: https://archiveofourown.org/works/72297901/chapters/188239031
Kinktober - Ageplay - Yoonjinmin Omegaverse AU: Date Night: Explicit: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65825563/chapters/188223446

Whumptober - "You've got a lot of nerve..." & Sewer - BBC Sherlock: Gen: https://100words.dreamwidth.org/786853.html

( more old stuff )

Kinktober Day 17: Service Kink: BTS: SUGA/jhope: Maid Cafe AU: Rating: Mature: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37632481/chapters/189603971

Kinktober Day 19: Creampie & Sensory Deprivation & Electricity: BTS: SUGA/jhope: AU: Rating: Teen: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37632481/chapters/189604811

stonepicnicking_okapi

1. Today is National Chocolate Day in the US. Not that I need a reason, but I decided to celebrate by getting a mocha and a chocolate croissant at Starbucks today.

2. I have only 1 client today so I worked on some Kinktober and Whumptober prompts.

3. I am taking Minisculus to the library when he comes home from school and getting Agatha Christie's Hallwe'en Party! I am so so so happy about the timing. I can't believe my turn came up just in time for the holiday. I have read it several times and done a fic on it so read it thoroughly, know parts of it almost by rote, but, still, for All of Agatha, it is up! Really good timing.

4. Thursday is Minor's cross country regional championship. The boys have a half day on Friday because it's the end of the quarter. Time is flying.

The comments section on this video is hilarious, e.g., my favourite, which is: Opened this while waiting for the bus. Now I’m sprinting across rooftops in the rain.. This is my background writing music at the moment.

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badly_knitted

Title: Marksman
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, JJ.
Rating: PG
Setting: During the manga.
Summary: Dee admires Ryo’s skill with a gun.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Marvel’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Marksman... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Wait And Watch
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Fifteenth Doctor, Ruby.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 970: ‘Rise’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Doctor has a treat in store for Ruby.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Wait And Watch... )

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badly_knitted

Title: Feeling The Weight...
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 889: Chain at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Rift is having fun at Torchwood’s expense.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Feeling The Weight... )

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shadowhive

This guy!

I somehow was blessed by the ticket gods and actually managed to get a ticket this time. (I wasn’t anywhere near as stressful as Sleep Token which had meant I needed to use a whole other site)

I did have to search a few times. The first ticket that came up was way at the back and I knew I’d not be able to see a thing. (And yeah I went for seating, I know there’s no way I could see from the standing area.) after a few searches of ‘nothing available’ one came up and it’s crazy that the first ticket was way at the back and this one was at the side of the stage* so of course I nabbed that even though it was more than I expected.

*It seems to be block 1 which is right next to the stage and the row is pretty close to, but the site doesn’t have a thing to clearly show where the ticket is and gives you just under 2 minutes to make the decision so I had to act fast. I’m assuming as the price is the highest of the listed seating prices that I’m right.

VIP sounds ludicrous though, it’s an extra few hundred on too (I’m not kidding one of the vip options was £300) which sounds absurd especially because it’s so vague. One of the things is you get an ‘exclusive merchandise package’ but it doesn’t say what that means. Is it a tee? A hoodie? A pen? It could be anything and that feels off putting to me (especially since I saw one thing say a meet and greet isn’t listed so what’s the point?)

But anyway! Yipee I’ve got the ticket so now I can rest easy for the rest of the day.

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templefugate posting in

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Hi, everyone! I’m

templefugate, and I am your ghost host this week.

As a reminder, we are using a new posting schedule. Sundays are for Lonely Prompts and sharing the fills that you completed during the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new themes and prompts, and Saturdays will remain a Free for All.

In honor of Halloween being three days away, today's theme is horror movie titles. Prompts should be the title of a horror movie.

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ DC, Teen Titans ensemble, Chopping Mall (1986)
+ The X-Files, Dana Scully & Fox Mulder, Friday the 13th (1980)
+ Any, any, The Devil's Doorway (2018)

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! comment_fic

tag=Horror movie titles

stonepicnicking_okapi

The Spook Me collection is live. This year I did a poem and two stories. "The gift of the apple thief" was posted on Sunday and then there are these two. One called Lilac Mar (a sort of Turn of the Screw post-canon) from the Carmilla fandom [OG Vampire of Vampires, SUCK IT, STOKER!!!] and my BBC Sherlock Ice Road Trucker AU version of "The Empty House." (I am fairly certain that Sherlock & Jim becoming shapeshifting ghost crows is much more entertaining than what Gatiss & Co came up with).

Lilac Mar (2250 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carmilla | Mircalla Countess Karnstein/Laura
Characters: Carmilla Karnstein, Laura (Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon, Community: spook_me, Story within a Story, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Alternate Universe - Vampire, POV First Person
Summary:

Laura becomes a governess but cannot escape Carmilla.

For 2025 Spook Me Ficathon. A bit of Carmilla & Laura in a Turn-of-the-Screw setting.

The Empty Haul (6178 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Jim Moriarty, Sebastian Moran, Mycroft Holmes, Ronald Adair
Additional Tags: Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon, Community: spook_me, Supernatural Elements, Corvids, Alternate Universe - Ghosts, Hurt/Comfort, Story: The Adventure of the Empty House, Ice Road Trucker AU, Ravens, Crows, Dreams vs. Reality
Summary:

John Watson is an ice road trucker grieving the death of his best friend. The senseless murder of fellow trucker ol' Ronny Adair will send him on a journey of discovery and bend his notions of life, death, and the strange bird the elders call the snow crow.

For 2025 Spook Me Ficathon. Ice Road Trucker AU of the ACD story "The Empty House." Note: not every plot point is tagged to preserve the element of surprise. Read at your own risk.

sixbeforelunch

It annoyed me that that meme was missing J of all letters. I asked

kingstoken for a prompt and she gave me "jelly beans". I looked them up on Wikipedia and learned something new about early 20th century slang. And then I wrote a thing.

Jelly-bean McQueen

Sherlock's American informant was knowledgeable, but Watson found his dialect quite unintelligible at times. "I've heard him called Jelly-bean McQueen," the informant said, "And by golly it fits. That boy's a Jelly-bean if ever there was one."

"A what?" Watson asked.

"A Jelly-bean," Sherlock said.

"I am familiar with the confectionary, but what has it to do with our suspect?"

Sherlock tutted. "Really, Watson, you must keep up with the slang of the modern times. A Jelly-bean is young man made of more flash and style than substance, and generally quite idle. A fop. A dandy. Naturally."

"Oh, yes. Naturally."

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(Per Wikipedia this slang came into use in the 1910s and 1920s, so it just fits the timeline of ACD-era Holmes.)

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kaffy_r

Music Meme FTW

I have an unfinished meme exercise sometime in the past, possibly about four years ago. But I'm not going to go back to that one, why do that when I can try another one and only get halfway through it? This one's about music, and that feels like one I actually might get through. It's worth a try at least. Many thanks to

shipperslist for the list of music-related questions. Let's see how this turns out.

1. A song that you discovered this month: Since I already talked about RM's "Tokyo" a few days ago, I'm going give you a solo piece by Yeosang, a member of the eight-man KPop group Ateez. He's one of the members who I've discovered well after becoming fond of some of his group mates. He's a lead dancer, what's known as a sub-vocalist - he has a nice deep voice - and a "visual," which is a thing I understand, but which isn't one of my favorite bits of KPop culture. (Yes I enjoy them being pretty, but I don't like the idea of "pretty face" being an official position especially since the members of any idol group have to be good at everything. Everything.)

This song is full of near-operatic symphonic swagger. I'd like it even if it was all in Korean because of how it's put together, and how well Yeosang and his dance crew use it in this music video. The English subtitles give me a little more of a hint about what the song means to him, and that's another reason I like it.

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