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Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote in [community profile] awesomeers2025-08-02 07:50 am
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Just One Thing (2 August 2025)

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-08-01 09:56 pm

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 11

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 11 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volume.

Read more... )
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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-01 05:52 pm
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Challenge 487: Crowd

Our new challenge is:

CROWD



As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Sunday, August 10th. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

Also, keep an eye out for the next [community profile] ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the [community profile] ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)
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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-02 11:19 am

Guardian: fic: Take back the world

Title: Take back the world
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: T-rated
Length: 1288 words
Notes: Much thanks to [personal profile] trobadora for insta-beta. <3
Tags: Wang Yike/Zhang Ruonan, Oblique allusions to canon sexual assault
Summary: One day, everything falls apart.

Take back the world )
paradoxcase ([personal profile] paradoxcase) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2025-08-01 03:04 pm

Light Black #10 [The Fulcrum]

Name: Peatäro's Story
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #10: Pull
Styles and Supplies: Panorama, Stickers ("A CIA handbook taught torture methods, and stressed the importance of psychological over physical torture. The threat of inflicting pain triggered fears more damaging than the pain itself, because people often underestimated their capacity to withstand pain."), Tempera (these cards with the spread Positive / Negative / What you should do), Novelty Bead (this image, given here)
Word Count: 3655
Rating: T
Warnings: Description of Slavery
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Peatäro
In-Universe Date: 1912.2.4.2
Summary: Qhoroali observes a substance, and Setsiana talks with Peatäro.
Notes: Hopefully it's not too hard to follow this mobius strip plotline.

Peataro's Story )
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Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote2025-08-01 08:54 pm

1SE for July 2025



There is a lot of wildlife in here, and for some reason both Keiki and my voice feature quite often.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-01 03:45 pm
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StarWatcher ([personal profile] starwatcher) wrote in [community profile] ebooks2025-08-01 12:35 pm
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Today only -- Aug 1st -- big ebook sale.

 

As in the title. Sale ends at midnight; I assume USA Eastern time (GMT -5, I believe). Links to all the booksellers -- Amazon, Apple, B&N, Google, Kobol.

This is the main link; you can filter by genre in the top menu.

Happy reading!

 
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miscellaneous_section ([personal profile] miscellaneous_section) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2025-08-01 02:37 pm
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Daily Check-In: Day 1 (August)

Good afternoon! It's the start of a new day, a new month.

So, what are your plans for next week?
  • Finish a WIP (whether it's a oneshot, a fic for a challenge/fest, or multi-chapter fic)
  • Start a new project
  • Get some editing done
  • Take a break
  • I have some plans that are other than writing.
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] get_knitted2025-08-01 07:21 pm

Check-In Post - Aug 1st 2025


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: What do you like to listen to / watch while crafting?


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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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-08-01 10:32 am

Round 177: Marriage of Convenience

Photograph of a young Vietnamese couple in a sunny urban environment, with added text: Marriage of Convenience, at Fancake. A bride in a white dress and sunglasses leaves her groom behind at a bus stop. The bride is smiling and carrying a bouquet of lilies as she hikes up the long skirt of her dress and walks away. The groom is in the background, wearing a dark grey suit and sitting on a bench. He's blurry, but it looks like he might be smiling at her.
Our theme for August is marriage of convenience!

These partnerships are made for practical, political, or professional reasons rather than personal ones, but they rarely stay that way...

Since this is a Flashback Round where we revisit a theme from the early days of the comm—marriage of convenience was a Cupcake Round back in 2014—this month it doesn't matter if a work has already been recced for this theme, go ahead and rec it again!

The tag for this round is: theme: marriage of convenience

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

Rules! )

Posting Template! )

Promote this round! )

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smallhobbit ([personal profile] smallhobbit) wrote in [community profile] allbingo2025-08-01 02:45 pm

Crime Classics Bingo

August's Bingo Fest is the British Library Crime Classics Bingo, with titles taken from the very long catalogue of books. Publication began in 2014 and every month a new book is published. These are all from the Golden Age of crime (approximately 1920s to 1950s), most books are full length novels, but there are also a number of short story collections. Details are available on the British Library website.

You are welcome to use whichever medium you like for completing a bingo. The fest will run from 1 August to 31 August.

The list of prompts is below, together with a sample card, but you are very welcome to make your own card as well.

And if you post to AO3, then do feel free to add to the allbingo collection.

Firstly, here are the main titles to choose from


Prompts


The Man Who Didn’t Fly Someone from the Past Serpents in Eden Tea on Sunday The Black Spectacles
Tour de Force It Walks by Night Settling Scores Still Waters  Final Acts
Twice Round the Clock Antidote to Venom Deep Waters Family Matters Cat and Mouse
Silent Nights Not to Be Taken He Who Whispers Excellent Intentions Fear Stalks the Village
Green for Danger Quick Curtain Crossed Skis Before the Fact The Wheel Spins


But, as you might expect many of the titles include the words 'Death of' or 'Murder of' I've taken these out, so you can add, or create a small card with, either (or both):



People/clothes




Places
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turps ([personal profile] turps) wrote2025-08-01 02:26 pm

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It's been a while but to catch up. I finally got to see Fantastic 4 on Sunday, and really enjoyed it. We were supposed to go on Saturday originally, but realised we'd double booked ourselves with a day out that had been organised with James' team from work. Everyone was going to meet at Tynemouth, and while meeting new-to-me people at the beach wasn't first on my list of enjoyable things to do, I was still looking forward to it -- a little anyway.

But, in the end, that didn't happen as James had an AMC flair on Friday and had to come home from work. He's got a bit of a clawed hand atm, and was in his wheelchair when we went out at the weekend, but will be fine. Really, all that helps is time, and he's been to the doctors on Monday, who wanted to sign him off work for two weeks, but settled for one for now, extending if needed.

We had gone to MetroCentre to see Fantastic 4, and they were having a FanFest thing going on with various cos players and fannish stalls going on. We got some fun photos, and checked out lots of merch, and it was a good way to spend some time before the film. I posted some photos on Insta if people are interested.

I watched The Old Guard 2 last week and it was okay. I've seen no one discuss it though, unless I've missed those posts, which is surprising considering how popular the first film seemed to be.

I was at class last Wednesday, and there was new equipment, a big box that was about thigh height. cut for length about class and gym stuff )

Other things this week. I went with James to the limb centre so he could have new straps put on his legs. Then yesterday we took my MiL out for lunch, just staying locally, but it was a nice day.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-08-01 08:49 am

Empath by Hoa Pham



Many people spend their lives wondering if there's a point to their existence. Vuong and her clone sisters have a purpose. With a little investigation, they might find out what it is.

Empath by Hoa Pham
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oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote2025-08-01 10:15 am

Don't You Know Who I Am

Well, this person does Know Who I Am, which was why they were looking 'very hard' for me 2 years ago -

- and failed to find me.

WTF BBQ

That is me, Dr [personal profile] oursin, that under my passport and BL user pass name has a website and blog that are the top hits when you search for that I will concede not uncommon name? Who is in a commonly used academic database as well as the increasing slop-filled academia-edu, and on Linked-In? (not that I use the latter much/at all but it would be a point of contact).

Where were they looking? were they using a Ouija board in case I'd passed over? Bloodhounds?

Okay, they are even older than cranky ol' hedjog, but since they still seem to be editing the journal they have been editing since Time Immemorial, and discovered I was currently active because I did reviews for it recently, and would like me back on the Editorial Board since I am still around, assume that most of the marbles are still there.

But honestly, JFGM?

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oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote2025-08-01 10:04 am

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Happy birthday, [personal profile] br3nda and [personal profile] wizardtower!
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Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote in [community profile] awesomeers2025-08-01 09:18 am
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Just One Thing (1 August 2025)

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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dark_kana ([personal profile] dark_kana) wrote in [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day2025-08-01 09:50 am

Friday 01/08/2025


1) a free afternoon ^^

2) going to the library with my daughter

3) trying to get some fun things planned