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Quotes:

"The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks."

"You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth."

~ Humphrey Carpenter

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cmk418

My first Fannish 50 post is about a film that I watched tonight, "One Battle After Another". It's written directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and inspired by the book "Vineland" by Thomas Pynchon. The film features wonderful performances by Leonardo DiCaprio, Benecio del Toro, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, and newcomer Chase Infiniti.

The book that the movie is sort of based on was written in 1990, but it felt eerily true to America in 2025. The fact that the film opens on an immigration detention center and that our protagonists are people actively working to help free the immigrants from the detention center and wage war for a number of social causes make them very easy to root for. Could they have chosen non-violence? Sure, but that might not have made for an interesting movie and as the catalyst character expresses, those other methods wouldn't have been as effective. There's also a shadow group of Christmas-themed (I don't know why) white supremacists that come in about a third of the way through the film and are mostly there to throw a wrench into things for the chief antagonist.

Like most of Anderson's films, the drama is balanced with a fair amount of comedy. DiCaprio's frustration when he's too high to remember all of the codespeak is a very funny moment. Benecio del Toro's character brings a lightness to the script in a buddy role. There are also absurd moments like the very visibly pregnant woman firing a machine gun and the whole "Hark the Herald Angels" song before a meeting with the white supremacists.

It's a fun movie, tense at points, but ends with what I think is a note of hopefulness for those of us in need of a little revolution.

asphaltcowgrrl

Thanks to

cmk418 I was alerted to a new bingo at allbingo. I created my own card and stuck with the books, plays, and poetry prompts.
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Current Mood: tired
Current Music: The Rangers trouncing the Panthers in the Winter Classic

tellshannon815

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Well, pretty much nothing has changed from my original introduction post, so that's here:

https://tellshannon815.dreamwidth.org/10100.html

Fandom wise, my three all time ultimate favourites are Lost, Dark and From, followed very closely by Yellowjackets and School Spirits, then Fringe, The Wilds, The Way Home, Doctor Who, The Hunger Games. Older favourites include Vampire Diaries-verse, Pretty Little Liars-verse, Once Upon a Time-verse, Arrowverse, Game of Thrones-verse, Supernatural. Riley Sager and John Marrs are my favourite authors.

Hoping to get the chance to discuss fandom and get to meet more people, also to cheer up the usual gloomy January.

badly_knitted

Title: Only Love
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG-15
Word Count: 1009
Setting: After Vol. 7.
Summary: Thanks to Dee, Ryo is finally able to be honest with himself about who he is.
Written For:

doreyg’s prompt ‘Any, any, With you, there's only love’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

( Only Love... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Odd Woman Out
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Tosh, Gwen, Owen.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 581
Spoilers: Set just before Greeks Bearing Gifts.
Summary: As much as she wishes she could, Tosh can’t bring herself to hate her colleagues.
Written For:

reeby10’s prompt: any, any/any, "I wish I could hate you", at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Odd Woman Out... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

erinm_4600

THIS IS OUR YEAR.

I mean, I'm going to do my damnedest to take Eddie Munson's words to heart, anyway. ((Separate post to break down season 5 will happen once I've recovered from season 5 ♥))

a rough list of my 2026 goals/hopes/intentions/thesaurus word here:

( OVERALL )

SOONER
+ Princess 2026 - I didn't really mention it before, because it felt too much like flashbacks to Girl Scout cookies and Jump Rope for Heart, and I hated having to knock on doors and ask for donations. BUT, it is for a good cause, and if you've read this far (I say as I cheated and left this part outside the cut so it would be seen), least I can do is give it a pimp.

Starlight has been a sponsor of the Disney races for a few years; and also work with Nintendo, to put Switches in hospital rooms, for kids to play while they're in treatment. Starlight also provides custom hospital gowns; arts&crafts supplies; and other programs to help distract kids who are suffering from the worst distractions to their lives.

-- End of Feb 2025, I agreed to join in the RunDisney Princess Weekend 10K on behalf of Starlight. I didn't think the person who I told would remember, so I didn't think anything of it. A few days before registration opened for 2026: THEY REMEMBERED.

-- My running team has a project to make quilt blocks chosen by dice; there are K-Pop Demon Hunters quilt block patterns; a shark and a corgi quilt pattern - and a UFO pattern that will be available very soon - and I've made a blanket for a giveaway. I've also made some plush stars; coasters; trying my hand at some basic keychains.

-- Also, if our entire team raises the amount we need before race weekend (end of Feb 2026), I've vowed to run* the 10K in full Lower Decks Boilmer cosplay. Right down to the purple hair. The hair dye is sitting on my bathroom counter, right now, just in case.

If I have piqued you interest in any way, you can take a look at the campaign page. No participation is necessary. It's just a link. If you really need that corgi butt quilt pattern made, but don't sew, I'll make it for you. Feel free to tell your friends, if you so choose - We're all friends here.

* there will be NO running, okay? Siriusly.

Okay.. enough of the sales pitch.

I wish you all a calmer and productive 2026 and know that even if I'm not posting here, I'm here like Roz.

I love all your faces ♥

(copy/pasted from LJ, the old way)

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fairyniamh

Quotes:

"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."

"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."

~ William Lyon Phelps

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cmk418

There's a Public Domain Bingo over at

allbingo, run by

cornerofmadness. Check it out.

Here's my card:

Free and Easy	Ash Wednesday	People on Sunday
The Faraway Bride	The Maltese Falcon	The End of the World
Outside the Law	The Door	You're Driving Me Crazy

cmk418

Good evening and Happy New Year! One of the things I want to do this year is post daily. Today, I'm in the midst of the annual deep clean and purge in the bedroom. I have not gotten very far, but I had done a significant amount earlier in the year, so it may just be that I've gotten some of it out of the way.

Anyway, this morning I got a Facebook video directed to me by

kerk_hiraeth which was about "Heated Rivalry" and that some men thought it was a Sapphic romance and went into this whole thing about men being afraid to show emotion, so anything that did had to be feminine and that HR is definitely not a Sapphic romance. (Until I write the fanfic where Rose & Svetlana hook up but that's neither here nor there.) But during the video which is from NYE, the vidder said that they were in the midst of doing their New Year's cleaning.

So, question for all of you, do you immerse yourself in cleaning projects either on December 31 or January 1?

TTFN
-C

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fairyniamh

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you’re doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

( Hidden Answer )

Crossposts: https://fairyniamh.insanejournal.com/428441.html

badly_knitted

Title: The Photograph
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Scott, Willaway, Varian, Fred.
Rating: PG
Setting: Years after the series.
Summary: Years later, Scott can still look at the photo and remember the people who had been his friends.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 59: Photo.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.

( The Photograph... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: End Of The Party
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1188
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The New Year Party is over, but Jack and Ianto can’t go to bed yet.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Weekend Challenge Ring In The New at

1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( End Of The Party... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

fairyniamh

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Wishing you steady progress, inspiring breakthroughs, and well-deserved recognition in 2026.

Quotes:

"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested."

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."

~ E. M. Forster

Crossposts: https://fairyniamh.insanejournal.com/428244.html

badly_knitted

Title: Homeless
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 482: On The Road Again at

drabble_zone.
Spoilers/Setting: End of Season 7.
Summary: With Sunnydale gone, all Buffy can do is move on.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Homeless... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Outrage
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: JJ, Drake, Dee, Ryo, Commissioner Rose.
Rating: PG
Setting: During the manga.
Summary: JJ is NOT happy.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Audacity’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Outrage... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Beneath Alien Suns
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 898: Burn, at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto prefers to avoid getting sunburn.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.

( Beneath Alien Suns... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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