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ysilme

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smallhobbit

One of the aims of the tour we've been on was to look at the sites of various classic WWII air war films and get a proper perspective on them.

( Three class films )

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

We have a potential volunteer for half of May. Would anyone like to split the month with them? Please volunteer in the comments!

My check-in: A couple paragraphs over lunch. Perhaps more this evening.

Day 27:

china_shop,

sanguinity

Day 26:

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 25:

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

glinda,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

trobadora

Where has the month gone?! All right, a lot of it has gone into writing, but that surely can't be all ... *looks around, waves at everyone* Hi! I'm still here. *g*

Anyway! I wrote longer stories for

fffx and

highadrenalineexchange, both of which revealed this month, and

fffx has already had author reveals. So now that I'm actually posting, of course this is the first thing to post about!

It took me a while to actually settle on what I wanted to write for this exchange. I had another idea that I hope to tackle some day, but I think I picked the right thing in the end! It came together pretty well once I actually decided.

It's Guardian again, canon divergence during the early episodes - set right after the face-stealer case (episode 4) and before the water kidnapping/Butler Wu case (episode 5). Zhao Yunlan gets to interact more closely with the Black-Cloaked Envoy, rather than Professor Shen, and gains some insights. There is coughing up blood and wound-tending and tea and conversation, and all of it takes place in a very constrained space, because I trapped them together. *g*

If you want, there's even a visual reference for the space they're stuck in, because my beta noted that things weren't completely clear, so I made myself a reference for editing purposes. Have a floor plan!

(And many thanks to

china_shop for beta-reading, as usual! ♥)

**

Title: Close the Distance, Lock Us In
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationship: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Zhao Yunlan & Black-Cloaked Envoy
Characters: Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan, mini-cameos by SID members
Content tags: Episode Related, Post-Episode 4, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Zhao Yunlan & the Black-Cloaked Envoy, Protective Shen Wei, Hurt Shen Wei, Protective Zhao Yunlan, Trapped Together, Black and White Energy, a bit of Hurt/Comfort, Identity Porn

Summary:

The Black-Cloaked Envoy slammed down into the nondescript little flat like a thunderbolt from the heavens, not a moment too soon.

Zhao Yunlan and the Black-Cloaked Envoy, trapped together early on: how much of a difference can it really make? Turns out, a surprising amount.

smallhobbit

The final set of views, which is a bumper edition:

( views from the window )

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

Would anyone like to volunteer for May? Or for half of May, if you'd like to split the month with someone! Please volunteer in the comments!

My check-in: Alibi sentence just now so I could check in for the day. (Indeed, his flesh had the gaunt and livid look of a cockfish who had ceased to take food.) More writing once I get this posted.

Day 26:

china_shop,

sanguinity,

ysilme

Day 25:

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

glinda,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 24:

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

grrlpup

I was scrolling through the friending meme for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, then realized there's actually a large handful of people whom I know at least a little on Dreamwidth but who have somehow fallen out of my Reading Page or not been added correctly. I catch them haphazardly via comments, secondhand news from sanguinity or other mutuals... but tidying up my circle is a better way. :D

So if you are one of those getting a notification that I've subscribed and/or granted access, that's what's going on, and thank you for sharing DW with me!

phoenixfalls

sanguinity spotted this challenge and pointed it my way; it was surprisingly meditative, approaching writing something with my primary focus being the syllabic length of the words, which managed to distract me from some of my usual indecisiveness that makes getting words from my brain to the screen rather like pulling teeth.

Title: Xenk and Ed in the Yard
Author: [Unknown site tag]phoenixfalls
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Relationship: Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar
Word Count: 375
Rating: Explicit
Tags: PWP, Marking, Single Syllable Smut Challenge
Summary:
Xenk pulls weeds on a hot day. Ed turns red, but not from the sun.

Link: On AO3

There's some delightful stuff in the collection as well; here are a few recs from what I've read:

'Sex' is a Word of One Sound, by sanguinity: Cabin Pressure, Carolyn Knapp-Shappey/Douglas Richardson
Herc and Sir Sext with Words of One Sound, by ChrisCalledMeSweetie: Cabin Pressure, Carolyn Knapp-Shappey/Herc Shipwright
Friends with Curses, by violsva: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar
Rod’s John, John’s Rod, by Zabbers: Stargate Atlantis, Rod McKay/John Sheppard

Current Mood: pleased

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

My check-in: Some light edits to two chapters of the longfic before sending it off to beta!

Day 26:

china_shop

Day 25:

china_shop,

sanguinity

Day 24:

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora

Day 23:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora

( More days )

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sanguinity

In honor of

3weeks4dreamwidth, a meme gakked from

regshoe, who had it from

goodbyebird:

Reply to this post saying 'icon', and I will tell you my favourite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favourite icon if you're one of those inhuman things that are actually capable of choosing between ~~YOUR PRECIOUS BABIES!~~ userpics.

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

My check-in: No conference today! Also, beta managed to get her edits done yesterday afternoon while I was watching a demonstration of modeling and visualization tools! So although I am blasted and stupid today after two days of overstimulation, I was still able to make a bevy of minor edits AND come up with a title and whatnot. I might just get this story posted after all…

Day 24:

china_shop,

sanguinity

Day 23:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora

Day 22:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

grrlpup

crocheted dog amigurumi, light brown and medium brown with embroidery-thread nose. The dog is a bit lumpy and haphazard, and sits on a sunny windowsill.

This is Oscar the dog, whom I finished making last night. Oscar’s kit was a Christmas 2024 present. Oscar has been sitting around in pieces on the dining room table for a long time; the crocheting of Oscar seems like a distant memory. It’s the sewing I just finished up.

I crocheted an ear in the wrong color, so decided one leg could be a different color than designated in the pattern as well, and it would all come out right.

I hadn’t crocheted since maybe age 9, so I was pleased to learn the basics again (in an age of free online videos made for left-handers). Will I make another amigurumi? I’m enamored of the backpack charms I’ve seen in Portland and Japan, so maybe an onion charm, in honor of Harriet the Spy.

This post originates at everyday though not every day. Comments welcome here or there.

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

My check-in: Another conference day, which meant another early morning, which meant another morning of editing while I waited for my coffee to brew. But I managed to send the story to beta before I took myself off to learn about transportation policy*, so we'll call that a success.

(*A far more engaging topic than it sounds like!)

Day 23:

china_shop,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

trobadora

Day 22:

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan

Day 21:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

Note: I'll be away from email again tomorrow, so my check-in post will again go up a couple hours later than usual. If that's inconveniently late for you, just go ahead and check in on the most recent post whenever is convenient.

My check-in: Got up early to catch my bus to the all-day conference (and shared the bus ride with a coworker, so I couldn't even write in transit!). However, I did sneak in a couple of edits first thing on getting up, go me. (Well, second thing: I started coffee first-first.)

Day 22:

china_shop,

dswdiane,

sanguinity

Day 21:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 20:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

svgurl

come-what-may-challenge is a challenge where they will post a "Maybe This or Maybe That" prompt every other day in May 2026 and create come up with works that are inspired by it.

retrowrimay is a month long challenge using prompts that were popular in the past. The prompt list is here.

may-lancholy is a multifandom prompt based whump event running throughout May

idproquo, a gift exchange for "iddy" fan works, is accepting nominations until April 24th, 10PM ET.

jukebox_fest, an event where creators exchange art, fic, or podfic, taking songs and music videos as the canon for inspiration, is accepting nominations until April 25th.

everythingisfemslashex, an f/f exchange (both canon and genderbent - cis and trans are welcome), is open for sign-ups until April 26th, 8PM GMT+1>

allbutromance, an exchange focused on all kinds of platonic relationships, is open for sign-ups until May 3rd, 8PM CEST (UTC+1).

whumpex, a multifandom "whump" themed exchange, is open for sign-us until May 4th, 8PM PST.

genprompt_bingo, a bingo challenge using gen style prompts, is open for Round 30 sign-ups.

whatif_au has opened sign-ups for their 3rd annual anniversary bingo challenge. It is running till July 31st.

3weeks4dreamwidth is running again this year! Click on the banner below to learn more. :)

3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!
Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥

grrlpup

Current books:

– The Man Who Died Twice, second in the Thursday Murder Club series about a set of crime-solving friends in a retirement community. I found the first book in a Little Free Library shortly after a friend recommended it… and then I found the second book in a different Little Free Library the day after I finished the first book!

They give me a Golden Girls vibe but more sophisticated, I suppose like really good GG fic would be. And every so often a line slays me, like this when the team is gathered at Ibrahhim’s bedside reviewing CCTV footage on his laptop:

“And there’s the clue!”
The shortsighted lean farther forward, and the long-sighted lean farther away.

– Kevin Henkes’ brand-new picture book Is It Spring?

Betsy Bird’s excellent review

I think I read this ten times, while I was eating my lunch today. Once for the paper colors. Once for the rhythm (and I read it out loud too). Once for the pattern of text and boxes (with a two-page box when spring finally springs for real… so good). Once to see if everyone’s eyes are dots all the way through. And of course following the scarf, and flipping back and forth between multiple views of the yard. Just exquisite. I felt reluctant to put it on the back-to-the-library shelf and will probably pull it down and read it again before I return it.

– Best recently finished: Candace, the Universe, and Everything, by Sherri L. Smith. Older middle grade or younger YA. Time shenanigans involving a school locker and magpies doing their thing. Also intergenerational friendship among Black women, characters pursuing art and science, and shifting school friend groups where no one’s a villain forever. Reminded me of the elements I like best in Madeleine L’Engle.

This post originates at everyday though not every day. Comments welcome here or there.

rugessnome

This semester I've been in a thermodynamics class that introduced the extremely generically named concept of quality: the ratio of mass in vapor phase to mass in liquid phase in a mixture at the ~boiling point.

I've also been reading Underwood Dudley's Numerology: What Pythagoras Wrought, a disapproving but light-hearted commentary on numerology, where at one point he introduces a similarly generic name and concept, for the context of dealing with the mutterings of charletans: content, or the probability of people disagreeing with a statement. Where a statement resulting in unanimous agreement such as "You regularly drink something containing water" would have a content of 0, and "You are Carl Frederick Gauss" (his example!) is so improbable as to be approximately 1.

And, juxtapose this with my randomly getting back into the_miracle_aligner, who does song covers in mostly ancient languages, but who chose "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" to put into his own tribal language, with a remark about what but an extremely relatable song?

aaand furthermore, the idea that what we know about other people's inner lives is inevitably curated...

eta: the point I am circling around is that we are privy to others' misery (and indeed any other emotional state) only inasmuch as that emotion is expressed to us, and our perception of the ubiquity of a given emotion is based on how much whatever our social circle+media has expressed that emotion.

"content" is a rather inapt or cruel lens for this idea, but something like its... complement (1-content) might be a better expression of the idea that you are likely not alone in a given emotion...

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: running up that hill midEng + heaven knows I'm miserable now in ?

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

Note: I'll be away from email for the next two days, so check-in posts will go up a couple hours later than usual. If that proves inconveniently late for you, just go ahead and drop your check-in on the most recent post whenever is convenient for you. (Just make it clear what day you're checking in for!)

My check-in: ~~No writing yet! A little later this evening, I hope!~~ I wrote a long chatty email to my cousin. It counts if I say it counts!

Day 21:

sanguinity

Day 20:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 19:

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

svgurl

My card for the

whatif_au bingo challenge.

Fake Relationship	The Staff	Medical	Decade Specific	Radio/Podcast
Politics	Food Service	Magic	Workplace	Dystopia
Fairy Tale	Air Travel	WILD CARD	Soulmates/Soulmates: Pet Edition	Tourism
Royalty	Ocean	Sentinel/Guide	Music	Reversals
Time Travel	Sports	Characters as Celebrities	No-one Dies	Superhero

rabidsamfan

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82932386

I am still sad.

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Write Every Day: Day 28

We're looking for a second volunteer to share May! Is anyone up to host half the month?

Three Classic War Films

Write Every Day: Day 27

FIC: Close the Distance, Lock Us In (Guardian: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan) [Teen]

View from the Window - April

Write Every Day: Day 26

my 3w4dw cleanup

Erotica 4 Barbarians Fic: Xenk and Ed in the Yard

Write Every Day: Day 25

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Icon Meme

Write Every Day: Day 24

Meet Oscar

Write Every Day: Day 23

Write Every Day: Day 22

current fandom events

Wednesday reading

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Write Every Day: Day 21

what if bingo challenge

More about how we lost Rubynye

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