Fic for EstelRaca: Hole in the Sky

Jun. 14th, 2025 04:11 am
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Title: Hole in the Sky
Recipient: EstelRaca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD canon/ Cthulhu Mythos
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Horror, (minor?) Character Deaths, Bittersweet Ending
Summary: In the early days of the Great War, battles are fought on many fronts. Some will never make the mundane news. Some weapons are never thought to be such. Many sacrifices are lost to history forever - and without them there might not be a history at all.

Read On AO3: Hole in the Sky

In (near) Prague

Jun. 14th, 2025 08:18 am
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On an ice hockey camp in Slaný, near Prague. I flew out on Thursday afternoon with two friends from Kodiaks. We arrived at the rink hotel in time to check in, have a little walk down to the nearby supermarket and get food, and settle in for the night. For reasons the three of us were all sharing a dormitory room the first night, and we decided the perfect film to watch over our picnic dinner was Inside Out 2 - also set at a 3-day hockey camp. I hadn't seen it before, though the other two had, and I enjoyed it very much.

Friday morning was pretty relaxed; a fourth Kodiak joined us after leaving home at awful-o-clock in the morning, and we were moved into the nicer ensuite twin rooms in pairs for the rest of the camp. We met in the dressing room at 1pm, were on ice at 2pm and again at 6pm, with a stickhandling session in between. Then dinner at 8 and falling into bed not long after.

It's excellent coaching, I'm being pushed well out of my comfort zone and the balance of drill and rest in each session and between sessions is just right. I hit my "cannot actually skate any more" limit about 3 minutes before the end of the last ice session.

Today will be two ice sessions at either end of the day, with video review (argh), optional swim+spa (yes!), and stickhandling again in between. My muscles this morning are making themselves known but I'm not exhausted. All is good. Time to go get changed.

Just Married signups

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:12 pm
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[community profile] justmarriedexchange signups are open through the 22nd. I immediately pounced on it, to no one's shock, but I SWEAR this is the last thing I'm signing up for until I at least get my casefic and Summer of Horror written.

Also, [community profile] hurtcomfortex is having a long reveals delay (until early July) in case you might want to treat someone. Hurt/Comfort-Ex requests on the AO3 app.

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Jun. 14th, 2025 02:34 pm
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Operation Atacama: The $1m cactus heist that led to a smuggler's downfall

"These were incredible plants, they were ancient plants, hundreds of years old," says Cattabriga. ... "They were perfect."

Creative Jam

Jun. 14th, 2025 01:14 am
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Welcome to the 144th Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, June 14-Sunday, June 15. The theme is "Good vs. Bad."

Crowdfunding Creative Jam

Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.

Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.

Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.

Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.

Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.

Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.

Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.

Write Every Day Day 14

Jun. 14th, 2025 12:26 am
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writing prompt is slightly nsfw )

Something about the prompt appealed to me maybe because life is hard right now in my neck of the woods but some of that can definitely become story

I could have sworn I wrote nothing but I knocked out 1300 words of my next Yahtzee story. This one feels like it’ll be nothing but a bridge.


Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day thirteen -[personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity,

other days )
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In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Round 151, Hour 5

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:03 pm
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probably not gonna be able to keep my eyes open for the anchor post, but the Rush continues!

Fandom50: #16

Jun. 13th, 2025 11:03 pm
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1990, [redacted a lot of depressing anecdata]. Let's just roll the credits, hmm? Nine movies because I was choosy... and honestly don't have much to say about movies of this year.

~ Tremors - AWW YEAH a hella good creature feature. To be honest? This was like catching old 50s B movies on TBS, because those creature features were my kind of camp horror comedy.
~ The Hunt for Red October - I can't remember much of this film, but there were some pretty people in it.
~ Ghost - +sighs+ Patrick and Whoopi, I loved. I am still on a fence about Demi's acting, but she's pretty.
~ Quigley Down Under - the movie that reinforced lessons I had begun studying due to "Beds are Burning" by Midnight Oil. It's also the movie that put Alan Rickman on my radar properly. I love his villainy here.
~ The Rescuers Down Under - Hmm, two Aussie based movies for me this year? MARAHUTE! Not quite mixing the adventure and scary like the first, but a DAMN GOOD FILM.
~ Predator 2 - So I enjoy the first. So much. BUT THIS?! This movie started solidifying actual lore for me (BLESS DARK HORSE COMICS) and the yautja in this one is BADASS.
~ Mermaids - A really sweet film, and the cast? +faints+ Hoskins, Cher, Ryder, Ricci? Excellent. A little angst and harm to children warning.
~ Hamlet - So I rather hate putting this on the list. And I know it is seriously panned. But honestly? Seeing this in the theater, watching EVERY ACTOR CHEW THE SCENERY? Made me delighted at an above the top performance. Just wish the fucker in the lead role wasn't... himself.
~ Kindergarten Cop - Sweet. Funny. Dramatic at parts. "It's naht a too-mah" Was surprised when I went back to find that his partner that was supposed to do the teaching and got sick was Iza from Clan of the Cave Bear.

Fave? Toss up between Predator 2 and Kindergarten Cop.

Round 151, Hour 4

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:12 pm
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*stumbles over a research pit but thankfully doesn't fall in* lemme just seal that up real quick, the last thing I need is to worry about how my supernatural school is accredited

what dangerous gaps in your story are you dealing with this Hour?

Fannish Friday

Jun. 13th, 2025 08:41 pm
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Today I went to the expensive greenhouse today and got chocolate mint and trailing rosemary which I have never seen before. Still edible like the standard rosemary this one cascades and can be used as ground cover. I like that idea.

The surgeon here refused to see me because I'm from out of state and at this point by the time we got the ball rolling I'd have to go b ack. If the pcp I wanted to take over here would have called me back....but I did find out my phone was called two days ago but never rang thru. Gah. Whatever. I have an appointment when a new to me surgeon back in OH. His name is sever...not the best name or THE best name for a surgeon depending on how you look at it.

OPI nail polish did a zodiac theme. Gemini was boring white so I bought Scorpio instead beautiful blue

My friends sent my parents 60th anniversary cards. They were so happy with that.

Here's a chapter from a long delayed upcoming Hazbin Hotel sequel written for [community profile] allbingo's drag prompt and [personal profile] spikesgirl58's 6 word challenge. the 6 words were Wacky, Patch, Moldy, Voiceless, Easy & Ragged

story scene under here )


Fannish 50 recs


Ellipsism The Owl House

new friends in strange place
陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng TóngxiùThe Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Bad Judgement Torchwood

Out Of The Shadows Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sweetness Follows ゴールデンカムイ | Golden Kamuy (Manga)/Suikoden III

Solar Smash II The Murderbot Diaries

substitute Star Trek: Voyager

Learning to Bear Overwhelming Grief 9-1-1/Teen Wolf

One Good Hoax Deserves Another Murder She Wrote/V

Marked The Murderbot Diaries

It Doesn't Matter Anymore Hazbin Hotel

Temporary Host Torchwood


Wish I had the power to make you stay Oxventure (Web Series)

Bottled Poetry Stargate Atlantis

petals in a storm 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

Eating Weird Things At the Fair 9-1-1

Musical Poetry Hazbin Hotel

Beach Blanket Bimbos Stargate Atlantis/Real Genius

SHOW ME YOUR FEET! –Bryrin #1FanCritic Hazbin Hotel

Love And Trust Torchwood

Round 151, Hour 3

Jun. 13th, 2025 09:20 pm
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Earning my spot in Superhell, what are y'all up to?
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Due to a missed tickybox, this year's signup form does not have a dedicated box for linking exchange letters. If you have an exchange letter, please paste the letter link in the Optional Details box instead, clearly marked Letter.

Thanks to the participant who pointed this out!

Freedom, sweet freedom.

Jun. 13th, 2025 10:04 pm
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Okay, the work week is finally over. I took a nap after work, because I slept like crap last night, and I'm feeling much more like a human being again even though I'm still tired. My brain's definitely not in a great place, but overall today was much better than earlier this week. So that's a big step in the right direction at least.

It's, uh, been a week. Such a week. 🙃

My plan is to not leave the hotel at all tomorrow or Sunday, and if I'm lucky I might be able to avoid all human interaction if I'm careful. I'm hoping to get up relatively early tomorrow to get a load of clothes washed and some cleaning done in the suite, and then I'm going to spend the rest of the day playing video games which I haven't done in ages despite my multiple attempts to do so.

Damn, I needed that

Jun. 13th, 2025 09:26 pm
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I successfully walked about 14-15 miles, my first long walk since October. It's amazing how your cardio fluctuates on almost a daily basis in reaction to exercising or not exercising, but your legs can remember things you did last year.

Verdicts:

Knee held up! Knee held up! There was one spot where I was going downhill pretty steeply, and it started to protest, but I managed to shift my weight to take the strain in my hamstrings and glutes--like you're supposed to--and my knee went, "Finally!!"

My feet did an okay job. I forgot my massage ball at home in another bag, but I discovered if I just find a hard and solid surface with a ninety degree angle, like a curb or a bench, not sharp enough to cut the skin, obviously, but sharp enough to really dig into the muscle, I can rub the arch and heel of my foot back and forth over it, and I'll get pain relief for at least a mile, sometimes more.

Was still in a substantial amount of foot pain, especially after 8 miles, as I cannot be bothered to stop walking, take off both my shoes, massage each foot in turn, tie my shoelaces again, walk a few steps, discover that I have tied them too tightly or loosely, take them off again, and retie them, every mile. Would rather push through pain. But the important thing is I managed some pain relief when I needed it! Also psychologically, that just helps, knowing you can if you need to.

Glutes still super tight and painful starting at 10 miles. I learned last year how to fix this, but since the answer was "Fuck up your previously rock solid knees for months," I didn't dare. My currently incredibly fragile knees might never recover. So I just decided the pain was tolerable, as I did before I discovered the joys and painful side effects of glute stretching, and kept walking.

All in all, I think I could have done 20 miles easily. Pushing through pain, but after 10 miles that's normal for me, so it counts.

The number one problem I had was with my back. Mid to lower, mostly. Which is not a spot that has historically bothered me, but I think the decluttering has not been good for it. I think I must have lain down 3 times and sat down at least 3 times on this 14 mile walk, just to get back pain relief.

Walking conditions were the Platonic ideal: 16-23 C, partly sunny and partly cloudy, breezy, no rain despite the 80% chance of showers forecast when I set out, Friday so I had the forests to myself! <3 It was very peaceful and lovely.

Oh, yeah, the point of the walk: I went to a farther away forest than my usual next-door forest (though I also passed through that one), one that has a steep hill with steps carved in it. I've never managed to run all the way up it in my life (I've done half of it a couple times), and I didn't today, but I treated it as training: I walked up and down it 3 times. I got super out of breath on each uphill, and my legs started to burn, so it was a fantastic workout! This was the downhill that set off my knee the first time, but then I figured out a stride on the second hill rep, which allowed me to cut 15 seconds off my time, and the third time I cut another 15 seconds off, bringing me from 2:30 down to 2 minutes. My uphill time remained 2:05 on all three reps.

I'm relieved that despite the lack of training and all the injuries, my hiking fitness remains approximately as good as ever (modulo the back). I was starting to worry about all my hiking plans for the September road trip!

I'm going to try to do a 20 mile walk next week, remember to bring my massage ball, and see if I can push closer to 30 like I was doing last year.

Oh, yeah, no blisters and no chafing, because I have awesome shoes (love you, New Balance) and also have learned some things in my years of suffering! Petroleum jelly ftw.

Oh, and when I say "Damn, I needed that," 80% of my time lately has been spent on tedious and annoying work tasks, tedious and annoying Peter Keith tasks (and quite frankly I am sick of this bio right now), tedious and annoying decluttering.

I am so burned out on writing up my historical research findings that when it's like "You could post to [community profile] rheinsberg!" or "You could tell salon about this cool thing you found," or "You could make a blog post about raccoons like you kept promising for a while," my brain is like, "No! You can't make me! I'm doing all this writing up of my findings already, and then I'm supposed to do more writing up of findings??? How igneous of you!" So here we are. Hopefully my brain cooperates better soon.*

In the meantime, I finally gave into its pleadings to do something that isn't a tedious and annoying task for one of my major projects, and it is pleased and wants to do this again. It's actually pretty happy to push through the pain of tight muscles if doing so means not having to write up another finding, write more unit tests, or work on finding a new home for any more junk.

Pain is good! Pain is fun! Pain is at least interesting. :P

* Those of you in salon may notice that it made an exception for the one super dramatic finding, but that I keep hinting at other findings, and then I can't make myself.
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Title: Rumour Has It
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Holmes (& Terry Pratchett’s Discworld)
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: A mysterious illness is spreading throughout Ankh-Morpork and the city’s population is scrambling to find the culprit behind it. The rumour mills are running wild. Unable to get to the bottom of it all, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch seeks the advice of a long-retired detective and his faithful chronicler - How could Sherlock Holmes resist a case as puzzling as this one?

Read on AO3: Rumour Has It

Round 151, Hour 2

Jun. 13th, 2025 08:14 pm
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Words? In my document? It's more likely than you think!

Might they even be in your document?

Round 151, Hour 1

Jun. 13th, 2025 07:37 pm
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*tetris music intensifies*

Round 151, Hour 0

Jun. 13th, 2025 06:27 pm
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Beep boop! We're at Zero Hour, get your zeroes and ones here!
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