mithen

Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #290 – Princess!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2895

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next week.

You may now post your Challenge 290 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3206/

Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

https://xkcd.com/3206/

jalopnik_feed

https://www.jalopnik.com/2095049/2021-porsche-911-5-year-depreciation/

A Porsche 911 is an expensive vehicle, so you might want to look at an older example if you want one for yourself. But just how much cheaper is a 2021 model?

https://www.jalopnik.com/2095049/2021-porsche-911-5-year-depreciation/

mific posting in

stargateficrec

Shows: SGA
Rec Category: threesomes+
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay/Ronon Dex
Categories: M/M/M
Words: 3200 total
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:

dedkake
Author's Website: dedkake on AO3
Link: not an elf, and the sequel sensitive, on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: These linked fics are funny, charming and (in the sequel) super hot! John's sensitive about his pointy ears, in more ways than one! A lovely OT3 series.

( snippet of the fic under here )

sharpiefan

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hannah

In looking through the stuff on my floor today, in trying to figure out what I don't particularly want anymore, I made one of the bigger decisions in that vein in a while: I tossed out old novel drafts.

I don't need them anymore, and while I want them, I don't want them enough to keep them around. I've got the full drafts on my hard drive. I figured I didn't need the notes I took anymore, so the pages they're on might as well get set aside for recycling. It's a decision I've wanted to make I haven't bothered to make until today. Speaking of, there's four bags of books set aside for another Strand run - mostly from high-end salvaging through the neighborhood, a couple I bought ages ago that I have to say goodbye to. If I'd wanted to give them to someone, I'd have done so by now; keeping them is more a reminder of the idea of giving them to someone, the idea of that someone, than any specific plans I haven't acted on yet. It's something I need to accept over and over again, and each time it's the same stages and steps of the process of doing so. Investing in another external hard drive so I can divest myself of DVD box sets is aspirational in comparison.

I've got a box set aside for papers. If it fits in there, I can keep them. That's the goal. The best way to achieve that goal is to find the papers I've got that could conceivably be put in there. First, though, the Strand run tomorrow, and a library run for some of the DVD box sets to find their way to another good home.

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: The Easy Way - Dar Williams

tcampbell1000 posting in

scans_daily

When we last left our intrepid heroes, they were at Doomer Disneyworld, trying to figure out how theme park employees have outlived the rest of the population of this alternate Earth. As you may have deduced, they haven’t: the employees are all animatronic robots.

The JLE keeps trying to investigate in the face of the robots’ relentless cheer, but they can only hear “It’s a Mauled World After All” so many times before they snap.

( 🎶 It’s a world of fallout, a world of trash, it’s a world of rubble, a world of ash, and it has to be said, it’s too bad we’re all dead… 🎶 )

lb_lee

Mori: Rawlin pencil doodle behind the cut!

( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/14700.html

jalopnik_feed

https://www.jalopnik.com/2094783/highest-mileage-car-ever-volvo-p1800/

Older cars are generally seen as more reliable than newer cars. Regardless of whether that's true, the car that racked up the most miles was a 1966 model.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2094783/highest-mileage-car-ever-volvo-p1800/

senmut posting in

10trueloves

Title: Strange Support
Fandom: DCU Comics (Green Arrow Vol. 2)
Character: Dinah Lance(&Shado)
Theme Set: Table 4
Prompt: Tears
Rating: General Audiences / PG
Spoilers/Warnings: Canonical death referenced

Strange Support

Dinah knew she wasn't alone as soon as she stepped into her house, but the assassin there was quick to show she was not openly armed. In fact, Shado's eyes were filled with concern, and it was not for the sleeping child on the couch, but for Dinah herself.

"I thought, perhaps, you needed support."

Shado's words broke her reserves, letting Dinah weep. What even was her life that Oliver's one-night fling had come to give more of herself than any hero in the community?

Shado held her, eased her down on the end of the couch, and stayed close.

paradoxcase posting in

rainbowfic

Name: First Kiss
Story: Tales From the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Singularity
Colors: Warm Heart #25: Spite
Styles and Supplies: Gesso, Silhouette, Life Drawing, Tempera ("Seven of cups is the card for day dreaming, illusions, wishful thinking, and fantasies. This card usually shows up when you have plenty of choices and need a vision to make them a reality. This card prompts you to prioritize your values and goals, and differentiate between what is truly important to you and what merely appears enticing in the moment. It serves as a gentle warning not to lose yourself in a maze of illusions and distractions."), Oils ("I wish I had your confidence."), Stain ("Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." - Anthony J. D'Angelo)
Word Count: 2405
Rating: PG
Warnings: Teenagers (Also, there is another trans character in here who is being misgendered/deadnamed due to not having figured out they are trans yet. However, since they don't actually figure themselves out during the course of this piece, which character it is will remain a mystery for the time being.)
Characters: Garrett Thomas, Benjamin Thomas, Casey Hanby, Victor Thomas, Matilda Bren
Summary: Garrett and Benjamin make a bet.
Notes: The full name of this plot thread is a slight spoiler at the moment, so for now it will just be known as "Singularity". This is related to the Grant/Scott/William plotline in that it is partly about Grant and Scott's younger relatives (see the Sim Notes for how all these guys are related), and I'll be leapfrogging these two plotlines for a little bit. One other thing to note here is that these are supposed to be fairly young teenagers at this stage in the plotline, but I wasn't really thinking about whether they'd be able to drive yet or not, since Sims teens can all drive as soon as they age up from children. So please just imagine that the driving age in Sim World is like 13 or something.

( First Kiss )

( Gesso Notes (162 words) )

( Sim Pictures and Notes (731 words) )

cosmolinguist

This morning I got to call one of the candidates we interviewed yesterday and offer her the work placement. That felt nice.

But also weird. I've never done anything like this before! I am in a very technical sense her line manager, in that her actual manager, my manager, is now on leave for the next week and a half and he asked me to take care of this. Which meant not just the fun phone call but doing paperwork, and that meant having to write down my own name and contact details where it said "Manager."

Wild.

The less said about the rest of the work day the better, but the rest of the day was good. I went for a nice long walk in the warm(ish) drizzle with Teddy, who drank from so many muddy puddles that he had a big dirty circle on his snout. Like the dog equivalent of a kid with a milk mustache. The air smelled amazing, the plants and the soil are starting to wake up.

Then angelofthenorth invited us over for cheesy toad in the hole, which is a genius idea and I think I might have to make it in future. It was great to see her, and Mr Smith.

And since we'd all planned to go to the gym, she and I walked there while D drove V home and then came back to join me (Miriam having gone swimming). The gym is so much more fun with him there.

sage

( books: Pratchett )

yarning
Went to yarn group Sunday and worked on the pink kickbunny. Spent the week making balaclavas for Minneapolis protesters.

healthcrap
Massive vertigo the last few days. Really annoying. Psych and allergist tomorrow.

#resist
+ https://standwithminnesota.com
+ https://projectreliefme.com (mutual aid in Maine -- the ICE surge in ME is over, but they arrested 200 people there and their families still need help.)
+ On the state of the Haitian immigrants in Springfield
+ Feb 17th: #50501 Protest: Impeach Trump, Abolish ICE
+ March 28: #50501 No Kings Protest #3

lb_lee

This weekend, February 13-15, we will be tabling at Boskone 63, at the Westin Boston Seaport District, Boston, Massachusetts. Tabling hours will be 4-8 Friday, 10-6 Saturday, and 10-3 Sunday. To make up for the sick day at Arisia, we will be debuting four new titles, creek don't rise! All of them are short stories, and two of them contain all-new material available nowhere else (yet): Sacrificial Stories of the Neverwas, a collection of imaginary folk takes on the nature of sacrifice, and Kayfabe in the Coliseum, a pseudo Greco-Roman tale of prizefighting and metanarrative.

The other two are a zine version of Crazy Boys Get Money (with an illustration I'm proud of!) and Time is a Mobius Strip, which is a compilation of two short stories, "Ana, Chronistic", and "Chrone," originally published in Flights of Reality under the name "Better Luck Next Time."

All of the stories have been edited for print. Hope to see you there!

EDIT from Rogan: Just realized this I guess makes Crazy Boys Get Money a Valentine's Day debut. Well, maybe it's happier than Red Roses, Old Horses?

Current Mood: working
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/14364.html

raisedbymoogles

Almost over :( I'm sad but also feeling energized to get back to my ongoing projects

Transformers G1, Spike, OCs - in-universe conspiracy theory

FF7, OCs - casual dehumanization

FF7, Marlene and Barret - I knitted it just for you, but it might be a bit big.

Transformers G1, Jazz, Megatron, Starscream - coming across a passed-out drunk person and drawing on their face

aurumcalendula posting in

cnovels

Seven Seas announced today on bluesky and twitter that they're launching a label for baihe and new baihe licenses will come soon! (I'm assuming label = imprint)

sineala

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing, because I still don't have the brain. I guess technically I reread Iron Man: Crash for Book Club. Maybe I should go give myself credit on Goodreads for that. I mean, it's a graphic novel, so it should count. It's really bad.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Alien vs. Captain America #4, Ultimate X-Men #24 )

What I'm Reading Next

I am really hoping for more brain soon.

Current Mood: tired

cyberghostface posting in

scans_daily

( Scans under the cut... )

jalopnik_feed

https://www.jalopnik.com/2094534/atkinson-cycle-engine-explained/

You're probably familiar with the standard combustion process that powers most cars, but some engines use a more efficient cycle that dates back to the 1800s.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2094534/atkinson-cycle-engine-explained/

kaberett

a shelf fungus at the base of a tree, shading from brown in the centre via rich orange to pale yellow at the edge

a clump of purple crocuses, nestled between tree roots

a clump of snowdrops, with the green tips of the inner petals clearly visible

(Which last I took in part because A only discovered last week that many snowdrops have decorative green bits on their frilly inner noses, courtesy of a waist-high planter outside one of our local pubs!)

[#290 | Princess] Results Post

Installation

Here's How Much A 2021 Porsche 911 Has Depreciated In 5 Years

"not an elf" and "sensitive" (by dedkake) (Gen, & Explicit)

(no subject)

Gleaming piles.

Bad Men/Dead Fools: JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE #18-19 (JLI 56)

Rawlin sketch: digitigrade

60 Years Ago, The Highest Mileage Car Of All Time Started Its Journey

Fic: Strange Support (DC Comics, Dinah Lance & Shado)

Warm Heart #25 [Tales From the Neighborhood]

The manager type

What I'm Doing Wednesday

LB tables at Boskone this weekend!

3SF 26 #21

Seven Seas announces they're launching a Baihe label

Wednesday Reading Meme

The Invaders #32

What Is An Atkinson Cycle Engine And Why Do Automakers Use It?

[picspam] from yesterday's trudge in the rain

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