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Saturday. The almost-full moon is casting tree-shadows over the snow in the Long Back Yard.

I wrote new words today! And did actual Brain Work on the WIP. And changed the bed, and did a load of laundry, and one's duty the cats; made lunch and was able to eat it, after.

Yes, we have reached the part of the whole pain thing where -- POOF! All gone. Just joking. You may now carry on with your life until I decide to randomly take five freaking days and fill them with pain and despair.

Sigh.

The cats were very happy that I joined them in Steve's office to work today. It really is the preferred space for serious endeavors, though the comfy chair in my office is, of course, very nice.

I made the Executive Decision to join Cook Unity, and have ordered in four meals, which will be delivered on Friday. This means I am guaranteed to have four (hopefully) good meals to eat, and will take the whole Cooking Angst off of my Angst Plate, which is currently overfull with Deadline Angst. I'm viewing this as a short-term thing to lower the overall anxiety in the household. Since they say I can cancel or put it on hold at my discretion, as soon as the book's turned in, I'll be doing that. Yes, I need Staff. Also, probably, a keeper.

Looking forward to next week -- we have Rookie's second birthday on Monday, March 2. All of Tuesday is reserved for errands, with needlework in the evening. Wednesday, Thursday, and most of Friday I am Free to Write, and on Saturday?

I'm going to a magic show.

So, I'm really, yanno, happy, that my back has decided to return to normal.

Yes, I've seen the news.

How's everybody doing?

Oh. Here's a picture of Rook helping me make the bed.

loganberrybunny

Public

Just as with the by-election, I can't give you any one-line "hot takes" on the war in the Middle East, either. I'd be suspicious of anyone who did, to be honest. I don't intend to weep for Khamenei if he really is dead. One of the world's genuinely evil men. The children at the school, of course. Khamenei, no. It's also far too simplistic to say "Everything is the West's fault", however much you (and I) may detest Trump and Netanyahu. Constantly putting all the blame on "the West" is a lazy way of looking at it. The BBC stories of celebrations in Iranian towns tonight at the reports of Khamenei's death do seem to be genuine, not events set up for the reporter.

However, what comes next will be crucial, even if – if – the current regime falls. Remember Russia, where getting rid of the openly corrupt Yeltsin brought the country Putin. I don't know enough about Iran to be able to say what realistic outcome would be best for its people. Ideally they should be the ones to choose, but it's also unrealistic to expect the world to be in neat little frontiered boxes. It never has been. All I can be sure of is that no sensible person likes war. It is better to have peace, in the senses of non-violence, amity, concord and harmony. Can that happen? In theory, yes. Will it happen? Ay, there's the rub.

For context, I was opposed to the 2003 Iraq War from the start, at a time when the near-unanimous opposition that we all remember had not yet fully coalesced. Even as late as mid-March about a quarter of Britons supported military action even if no WMDs were found and no UN resolution were passed. "Regime change" wars often go very badly wrong. There are a few exceptions: the American invasion of Panama really did bring democracy to that country. Arguably also Tanzania's invasion of Uganda to depose Idi Amin, though there the result was simply "not as bad as Amin" instead of actively good. But we notice them because they are rare. I am highly sceptical this one will be different. But we shall see.

Current Mood: uncomfortable

petra

i want to raise a city behind his teeth (9422 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Virgin Obi-Wan Kenobi, Loss of Virginity, First Time, Coming In Pants, Oral Sex, Intercrural Sex, Anal Sex, Rimming, Infidelity, Identity Porn
Summary:

Obi-Wan celebrates becoming a Jedi Master and Anakin's knighting by thoroughly ridding himself of his virginity with Anakin's assistance; Obi-Wan mourns the loss of his padawan and consoles himself with several partnered orgasms. Anakin contributes to both sets of emotions.

Current Mood: unidentifiable
Current Music: Love me for what I am; I am somewhat imperfectly me

nanila

Watch on YouTube

I spent a lot of the first half of the month travelling, and the second half of the month recovering from the travelling while also working. I feel this video reflects those two halves pretty accurately.

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Fandom: Wuthering Heights (inspired by the 1847 novel and the 1967 BBC series).
Title: The Light Within Shadows
Characters: Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Ellen Dean, Hindley Earnshaw, Joseph, Edgar Linton, Isabella Linton + Original Characters
Relationship: Heathcliff / Catherine
Rating: Mature
Chapter 2 TW: References to death and grieving, physical effects of drug and alcohol abuse, blood / injury, reference to gambling, subtle reference to past animal abuse.
Chapters: 2/?
Word Count so far: 3,660
Chapter 2 Summary: Like a crystal shattered by frost, Wuthering Heights has become a place of darkness. Can Heathcliff help Catherine and her family find their way back to the light?

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/79804616/chapters/210978191

ofearthandstars

From this week's

thefridayfive:

1. What made you happy this week?
I managed to knock out a fair amount of tasks at work, and also achieved some monthly goals (planning for upcoming trips/birthdays). Feeling accomplished is good.

2. What made you sad?
I can't say that I've felt particularly sad over the last week, but I've been doing a lot of continued grieving over work and personal life changes in the last year.

3. What made you angry?
The news—from Kansas, from Minnesota, from EPA, from Iran, from everywhere. I'm so tired of terrible people being terrible.

4. What are you looking forward to in the next week?
My SO has a birthday next weekend, and we'll be celebrating that as best we can.

5. What are you not looking forward to?
My daily work is a bit of a slog right now, and it's hard to stay mentally motivated and engaged.

maju

It's a beautiful sunny day today and feels almost spring-like outside. However, I guess winter isn't quite over - the forecast says it will possibly snow tomorrow. I enjoyed a decent walk outside this morning (6 km/4 miles) but I'm not confident that I'll be able to repeat it tomorrow.

I've decided to try leaving my current puzzle out so I can work on it in short spurts whenever I feel like it. I'm a bit nervous about the girls wanting to get involved and pieces getting lost but hoping they will want to help without pieces going missing. Or that they will just ignore it since it's beyond their current skill level I think. Maybe not Violet's or even Eden's, but definitely Aria's. Anyway, we'll see.

My son in law has taken the girls to a roller skating event this afternoon. I believe it's with Violet's scout group, but all the girls have gone so it's a quieter than usual Saturday afternoon.

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10 out of 20

A bit early this time ;). You can still post your February works until today, midnight in your timezone.

Under the cut, you will find a list of 20 prompts for March. Your mission is to grab at least 10 of them and create a little something for it. Keep in mind, even if it is not the meaning of the challenge, no one will punish you when you only grab one or two prompts. Every work is welcome.

To complete the challenge, you can create up to ten single works or combine one or more prompts in one work.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height. Please stay to the maximum, even if you use more than one prompt in your work.

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Current Mood: chipper

serafaery

Put a collar on Avalanche this morning, she couldn’t care less. Yay! Target has an air tag holder, I’ll grab one today.

Going to the desert next week and so nervous about leaving her, even though this house is so much nicer to be left in than the little apartment was. But now that she’s used to the cat door, I’m nervous she’ll bolt when she’s locked in for days, but I don’t feel ready to leave her with access to the backyard unsupervised for several days. Sigh. She can’t get out but something could happen, other animals could get in, or maybe the fence could fail (there are spots of weakness).

An air tag would make me feel better about leaving the cat door open. Still not sure if I will.

I left it unlocked last night but she came in and slept with me all night until the birds started singing.

(I don’t sleep soundly past my first couple hours anymore, it’s been this way for months, I’m constantly half awake, despite the hormones, so I know she was with me all night. I do sleep more if I get hard exercise, but my body hasn’t tolerated that recently. Tomorrow might be a day for dog mountain, to try to fix that, and my mood, and this nausea. That mountain fixes everything.)

I love how she walks on the kitchen counters when Josh isn’t home lol. She’s smrt. (I don’t care to discipline her unless I’m actively cooking, but Josh always does.)

…

I need to stop reading the grief book I started, there’s only about an hour left but it’s detailing the end of someone’s glioblastoma (brain cancer) and I don’t think I should continue.

One of my favorite customers, a friend who survived breast cancer 8 years ago - one of the ladies who was forced to take estrogen blockers (which my team wants me on) so I saw first hand what it does to someone’s body and skin and hair and joints - got a totally different kind of cancer, a lung cancer that she had to do more chemo and radiation for. She’s 71 and had been such an inspiration to me, she does absolutely everything right, she exercises every day and has a robust social life and eats healthy anti-inflammatory food, it’s just shocking and I’m so messed up over it. They caught it before it spread but her tumor is large. This is the most common kind of lung cancer (non-smoking) and it’s the deadliest because it has zero symptoms. The only reason she had a chest x-ray and caught it was due to a cold she got back in December that was lingering. I’m just so terrified for her. She still has hair but she cut it short, she’s only ever had long hair so she is “adjusting” :((((((

…

Cannot shake this nausea. I should eat but can’t. Pretty sure it’s depression and not any sort of illness. Also poor eating habits, but saltiness and an apple for dinner has never resulted in nausea the next morning.

Maybe food and a bike ride with Cynthia will shake me out of it. If I can just get a little down.

sovay

I have spent the literal entirety of my legally adult life watching the country I was born into try to fait accompli its way into Armageddon and I have to say that it was not an enticing novelty a quarter of a century ago, either.

Current Music: The Pack a.d., "Rid of Me"

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This week's challenge is:

I Feel Lucky

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Each challenge ends when the new challenge is posted, but if you're a few days late that's still fine.

NEW RULE: DOUBLE AND TRIPLE DRABBLES ARE ALSO ACCEPTED ;)

Have fun!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Title: Instant Karma
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 490: Amnesty 49, using Challenge 478: Smoke.
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dee is feeling a bit smug about being an ex-smoker.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

Instant Karma

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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How is the writing going today?

Poll #34302

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wrote
2 (66.7%)

edited
1 (33.3%)

posted
2 (66.7%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (33.3%)

planned
1 (33.3%)

had a break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
0 (0.0%)

We've made it to the end of the month, have you made progress on any goals you set for yourself?

Feel free to share a snippet of something you're working on. Link to something that you've posted recently. Chat amongst yourselves.

heleninwales

It's the last day of February and I've added another 7835 words to the novel. I've kept up with the Get Your Words Out habit pledge and either wrote or did something useful to progress the novel every day this month.

Writing progress
February writing goal: 8,000 words

A Deadly Gift

Total words this month: 7835 / 8,000 (96%)
Words in novel (to nearest 100 words): 89,400

Get Your Words Out

28/28 in February

57/300 so far for the year

soemand

Latest Mixtape. A crate diggers delight, anchored by 7h du matin; a delightful recent find.

Side A — Le Matin

7 heure du matin – Jacqueline Taïeb 2:18
Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo 4:08
Hazy Shade of Winter – The Bangles 2:47
Breakout – Swing Out Sister 3:48
Up the Ladder to the Roof – The Supremes 3:16
Sunday Morning – The Velvet Underground & Nico 2:55
Three Button Hand Me Down – Faces 5:47
Ce matin‑là – Air 3:39

Side B — The Groove

Les Fleurs – Minnie Riperton 3:19
Prelude – Janko Nilovic & The Soul Surfers 2:48
Gipsy Funk – Janko Nilovic 4:04
The Snake – Al Wilson 3:29
Medley: Walk A Mile In My Shoes; Twenty Five Miles – Melba Moore 4:06
Soul Impressions – Janko Nilovic 3:24
Belle – Al Green 4:49
War – Edwin Starr 3:27

petra

( I hate this timeline )

Current Mood: what the fuck
Current Music: As the world falls down

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(TAG NEEDED: "based on: theatre" or similar)

angel - 300 words - Fleeting (Star Wars) Anakin and Padmé share a moment, but like all the others, it can't last long.
~~broken mirror~~
~~carpe diem~~
circle - 200 words - But on this battlefield, no one wins (Star Wars) A Jedi, attacked by his men, survives the initial onslaught but soon succumbs to his wounds.
evil - 333 words - Play Along (Original Work) You are held captive, and your captor expects you to be grateful for it.
fight - 200 words - Don't Bring the Force to a Food Fight (Star Wars) A group of young Jedi are made to clean up the mess they made.
~~fire~~
~~I love you~~
journey - 200 words - The Path Forward (Star Wars) Yoda considers the path ahead of him in the wake of Sidious's victory.
~~mercy~~
music - 300 words - And for a moment I forget just how dark and cold it gets (Hadestown) Eurydice watches Orpheus work, until she can't anymore.
~~number~~
~~peace~~
shadow - 200 words - Behind the Facade (Star Wars) Anakin joins the circus, but finds only cruelty.
silence - 200 words - A Memory (Star Wars) An accomplished clone trooper wonders why his dreams feel more like nightmares.
stay strong - 100 words - Memento (Star Wars) A rebel intelligence agent finds a holo that they think Leia should have.
~~troll~~
~~water~~
~~white~~
wisdom - 100 words - Nosebleed (Star Wars) Anakin gets a nosebleed while on a mission.

oursin

We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe:

In his groundbreaking documentary, We Were Here, Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe that he found: princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knights—all revealed through art from the period.

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This is an older piece but I don't think I've posted it before: Taking Photos of the First Women’s Liberation Conference

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Q&A: Bidding farewell to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust:

The Shropshire site, which comprises 10 museums and 35 listed heritage buildings, is transferring to the custodianship of the National Trust on 2 March after a challenging period that saw it grapple with severe flooding and falling visitor numbers.
Supported by a £9m government investment, it is hoped the takeover will secure the site’s long-term future and enable it to benefit from the National Trust’s high profile and visitor expertise.

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Ultraprocessed food: whaddya know, It's All More Complicated.... People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them - not all are junk foods.

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Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds: Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

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rolanni - Same as it ever was...
loganberrybunny - Thoughts on things
petra - i want to raise a city behind his teeth - Star Wars story, Virgin-Wan Identity Porn, Petra stylée
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lilly_c in writethisfanfic - check in day 28
heleninwales - Writing progress
soemand - 7h du matin
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i want to raise a city behind his teeth - Star Wars story, Virgin-Wan Identity Porn, Petra stylée

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The Light Within Shadows - Chapter 2 - Mature AU Tale Inspired by Wuthering Heights

Friday Five Feelings Edition

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March 2026: 10 out of 20

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Good Days Are Ahead

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How about I create a mess and then solve the mess and then I'll be a hero

Challenge # 491: I Feel Lucky

FAKE: Instant Karma [Amnesty 49, using Challenge 478: Smoke]

check in day 28

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