Day 9: Fic - Quantum Leap - Donna Elesee, Original Female Character
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halfamoonTitle/Link: Time Heals
Fandom: Quantum Leap
Character(s): Donna Elesee, Original Female Character
Rating: G
Prompt: The Scholar
Summary: The loneliness and unhappiness she'd felt from his sudden, never-explained leaving had finally dissipated. She only pitied him; he'd missed out on watching his bright daughter grow up to be a brilliant young woman.
Fandom: Quantum Leap
Character(s): Donna Elesee, Original Female Character
Rating: G
Prompt: The Scholar
Summary: The loneliness and unhappiness she'd felt from his sudden, never-explained leaving had finally dissipated. She only pitied him; he'd missed out on watching his bright daughter grow up to be a brilliant young woman.
Day 9: fanart, Warrior Nun - Yasmine Amunet
Feb. 9th, 2026 11:22 amsisterdivinium posting in halfamoonTitle: Dedication
Fandom: Warrior Nun
Characters: Yasmine Amunet, with Mother Superion and Camila in the background
Rating: G
Notes: Done with felt tip pens, Chinese ink and graphite.
Summary: Yasmine has done perhaps a little too much studying.
Over here, at my journal!
Fandom: Warrior Nun
Characters: Yasmine Amunet, with Mother Superion and Camila in the background
Rating: G
Notes: Done with felt tip pens, Chinese ink and graphite.
Summary: Yasmine has done perhaps a little too much studying.
Over here, at my journal!
Poetry: Knight in Shining Ardour
Feb. 9th, 2026 07:34 pmadoreKnight in Shining Ardour
byadore
My rage clawed out of my chest
And stood looking around fiercely for the enemy.
He was a radiant boy,
Never allowed to be anything else.
He blazed so that my eyes were drawn to him, fascinated.
Avidly, I watched him for what he would do next.
He didn't disappoint.
When he destroyed something, I was satisfied.
I had always wanted to be rid of it.
But I'd had too much guilt or too little courage.
When he screamed, I fell in love with his voice.
He was my rockstar.
When he cried, I collected his tears in a shot glass and cheered
Before downing them in one go.
They were a tonic.
What he killed made him more alive.
He was my knight in shining ardour
And I loved him best
When he crawled back in my chest
To recover in the warm dark quiet.
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adoreMy rage clawed out of my chest
And stood looking around fiercely for the enemy.
He was a radiant boy,
Never allowed to be anything else.
He blazed so that my eyes were drawn to him, fascinated.
Avidly, I watched him for what he would do next.
He didn't disappoint.
When he destroyed something, I was satisfied.
I had always wanted to be rid of it.
But I'd had too much guilt or too little courage.
When he screamed, I fell in love with his voice.
He was my rockstar.
When he cried, I collected his tears in a shot glass and cheered
Before downing them in one go.
They were a tonic.
What he killed made him more alive.
He was my knight in shining ardour
And I loved him best
When he crawled back in my chest
To recover in the warm dark quiet.
minarchism
Feb. 9th, 2026 06:57 amprettygoodwordminarchism (min-ar-KIZ-uhm) - n., a belief in the desirability and practicality of minimum government.
Coined in 1971 by libertarian writer Samuel Konkin, to describe what philosopher Robert Nozick proposed -- Konkin perferred what he called agorism, involving just a pure free market without any state. A minarchy is sometimes called a night-watchman state, typically described as having a military, a police, and courts, but few other functions. The coinage is from min(imal) + -archy in the sense of type of government.
---L.
Coined in 1971 by libertarian writer Samuel Konkin, to describe what philosopher Robert Nozick proposed -- Konkin perferred what he called agorism, involving just a pure free market without any state. A minarchy is sometimes called a night-watchman state, typically described as having a military, a police, and courts, but few other functions. The coinage is from min(imal) + -archy in the sense of type of government.
---L.
Just one thing: 9 February 2026
Feb. 9th, 2026 07:09 amjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt'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!
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!
Day 9 Theme - The Scholar
Feb. 9th, 2026 06:27 amcmk418 posting in halfamoonToday's theme is The Scholar.
Here are some ideas to get you started: Also know as The Sage, she has studied and seems to have a wealth of knowledge at her disposal. She enjoys teaching others and gives good advice. What is she an expert in? How was her time at school? How do those around her react to her sharing her knowledge?
Just go wherever the Muse takes you. If this prompt doesn't speak to you, feel free to share something that does. You can post in a separate entry or as a comment to this post.
Want to get a jump start on tomorrow's theme? Check out the prompt list in the pinned post at the top of the page. Please don't post until that day.
Here are some ideas to get you started: Also know as The Sage, she has studied and seems to have a wealth of knowledge at her disposal. She enjoys teaching others and gives good advice. What is she an expert in? How was her time at school? How do those around her react to her sharing her knowledge?
Just go wherever the Muse takes you. If this prompt doesn't speak to you, feel free to share something that does. You can post in a separate entry or as a comment to this post.
Want to get a jump start on tomorrow's theme? Check out the prompt list in the pinned post at the top of the page. Please don't post until that day.
Sunday Check-in
Feb. 9th, 2026 04:48 ammxcatmoonWorking on an unexpected Miami Vice fic that hit me today, and I'm almost finished with the rough draft. I watched a really angsty episode, and decided, yeah, I need to make it worse. 😉 Now when I started writing it, I had no idea how it would end. There were three possible outcomes, one happy, one unhappy, and one a mix of both. That's the fun of writing for me, the being surprised at the endings. Turns out it's the unhappy one, but it has to be that way, for several reasons. I have some points to make about the characters and their relationship, and the time they lived in as well. Things that have been bouncing around in my head for awhile.
I wrote a slashy episode post about it on Tumblr, as well. Because, wow, these two throw me for a loop sometimes I can't believe what I'm seeing. I don't even think it's subtext anymore, not when it's so difficult to think of a non-slashy reason for some of these behaviors...
Oh, and I also made my first 'short'. I recently discovered a secret (shh!), that some of the mass-produced box sets that are put out by companies that aren't the studios... don't have copy guard. So, you can extract them to a hard drive. So, if I ever get the patience and experience, I could actually make songvids... I've always wanted to! But I have zero patience.
So, I haven't been writing any more Three Sentence Fics. I did a couple earlier in the week but haven't posted them anywhere else yet, haven't had a chance.
I wrote a slashy episode post about it on Tumblr, as well. Because, wow, these two throw me for a loop sometimes I can't believe what I'm seeing. I don't even think it's subtext anymore, not when it's so difficult to think of a non-slashy reason for some of these behaviors...
Oh, and I also made my first 'short'. I recently discovered a secret (shh!), that some of the mass-produced box sets that are put out by companies that aren't the studios... don't have copy guard. So, you can extract them to a hard drive. So, if I ever get the patience and experience, I could actually make songvids... I've always wanted to! But I have zero patience.
So, I haven't been writing any more Three Sentence Fics. I did a couple earlier in the week but haven't posted them anywhere else yet, haven't had a chance.
1,000,072 words
Feb. 9th, 2026 08:39 amvriddyAnd I passed the 1M words written (not all of them edited!!) (yet!) this morning. It was so strange to add my daily couple of paragraphs to the Leopard/Tree fic knowing this was coming lol. Wow. Glad I had my little crisis about it last year so I can just nod at it today while I step above it (crisis: ✅). I think when I started writing again in 2020 and firmly settled on the "one million bad words before you can get to the good ones" mindset, I expected I'd feel at least competent when I reached the milestone. Alas. Maybe because of the crappy first half of last year, I feel like I lost 2/3 of what I knew and still have to relearn so much about my own process and how to (hopefully) write well -- I've done it once or twice before, surely I can again ;) Anyway, that's done! \o/ Next milestone, one million edited words??? Though I guess I'm not really measuring that in any way that's easy to track, haha. It'll work out ;D This is cool. Maybe I should bake a word count celebratory cake like I used to during the lockdowns. Though I'll have to write the digits on top very small with so many of them now XD (Edit: OR MAKE A BIGGER CAKE I GUESS!!!!)
I miss sitting down with the concept for a novel and having a long first draft to lose myself into ahead of me, but mentally I can't do that while I have two other on-going novels, especially with the Soul Thief still a first draft itself. I think maybe when the structural edits are completed, that may free up the mental slot for "Big First Draft." I started the prep work on that, spending some time thinking about why I wrote it and what I want to leave readers with before actually starting the edits, this time. Like, who is the actual audience, also.
( Rambles on who to share one's writing with... )
Anyway, reaching a big milestone you've been working toward for years is kind of incredible actually. I'm awed. I'm happy. If nothing else, I've proven to myself that I can stick with it. I've learnt a ton. I've made connections with people, both on the reader side and on the writer side. Met all of you here! And I'm so excited to learn even more in the coming 5-to-10 years, which is the time period I'd given myself for that original milestone, haha. ONWARD!! :D
I miss sitting down with the concept for a novel and having a long first draft to lose myself into ahead of me, but mentally I can't do that while I have two other on-going novels, especially with the Soul Thief still a first draft itself. I think maybe when the structural edits are completed, that may free up the mental slot for "Big First Draft." I started the prep work on that, spending some time thinking about why I wrote it and what I want to leave readers with before actually starting the edits, this time. Like, who is the actual audience, also.
( Rambles on who to share one's writing with... )
Anyway, reaching a big milestone you've been working toward for years is kind of incredible actually. I'm awed. I'm happy. If nothing else, I've proven to myself that I can stick with it. I've learnt a ton. I've made connections with people, both on the reader side and on the writer side. Met all of you here! And I'm so excited to learn even more in the coming 5-to-10 years, which is the time period I'd given myself for that original milestone, haha. ONWARD!! :D
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, February 8
Feb. 8th, 2026 09:36 pmharlow_turner_chaotic_ace posting in su_herald
GLORY: Did anybody order an apocalypse?
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
- The Mortician (Spike/Buffy, T) by Tempestt
- mirror, mirror (Faith/Willow, Faith/Buffy, M) by softestbutch
- The Devil’s Carnival (Angelus/Drusilla, M) by Moonzari
- Tales Of The Slayer: A Jest Of Idle Sprites (Original characters, T) by Eliza_hazeleyes
- So Strong So Delicate (Spike/OFC, G) by hpg
- The Mortician (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by tempestt
- The Mortician (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by tempestt
[Chaptered Fiction]
- Buffy's Pack, Chapter 20 (multiple ships, E) by red_jacobson
- The Honorable Judge, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Faith, M) by storiwr
- Diary of a Sunnydale High Student, Chapter 3 (Original character, unrated) by SortaMadDog
- Transitory, Chapter 10 (Spike/Buffy, T) by GhostsInLove
- time cast a spell on you (but you won't forget me), Chapter six (Buffy/Riley/Sam Finn, M) by MadeInGold
- ,Love, Loyalty and the Monsters we Choose, Chapter 4 (Angel/Spike/Harry Potter, Harry Potter xover, M) by Potterhead581
- ⛥THE CHRONICLES OF THE SLAYER⛥, Chapter 1 (Original characters, unrated) by TheDarkSorceress666
- Fractured Roads: The End Game, Chapter 2 (Multiple platonic ships, G) by StaarksHeart
- Willow & Buffy, Chapter 4 (Ensemble, M) by Alicerabbit001
- Fresh nights ahead, Chapter 18 (Multiple ships, E) by Red Cowling and they (Redtheseer)
- Season 5, guest starring Angel, Chapter 8 (Angel/Buffy, T) by eg20
- Past and Future Tense, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Giles, M) by Sdhuskerfan
- Control, Chapter 5 (Spike/Buffy, G) by Mariya_Munro
- Stake Me Out to the Ballgame, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Faith, Willow/Tara, M) by storiwr
- The Red Slayer:, Chapter 125 (Multiple Ships, E) by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer)
- Through The Fire, Together, Chapter 16 (Buffy/Dean Winchester, SPN xover, unrated) by DeathRaeBeam
- Band Candy Baby, Chapter 55 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Tikiriaaa
- (Buffy/Spike, AO) by Sorilkad
- In the Dark, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by NotYourGrave
- Pick Me Up, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Dusty
- Once They Were Friends, Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Grief Counseling
- the Eyes, Chapter 28 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Dusty
[Images, Audio & Video]
- Playlist: Buffy Gang-gang playlist (Ensemble, some songs may have explicit lyrics) by drevnian-smol
- Gifset: BEST OF BTVS: Tara & Willow — Season Four (Willow/Tara, SFW) by clarkgriffon
- Gifset: DAWN SUMMERS in 5.11 TRIANGLE (Dawn, SFW) by 5bi5
- Fanvid: [Willow Fanvid] (Willow, SFW) by homesickarchive
- Moodboard: moodboard: spike x drusilla (Spike/Drusilla, SFW) by kyrt4t
- Gifset: ANYA JENKINS in "BARGAINING PART 1" () by buffygifs
- Moodboard: Warren/Andrew gritty moodboard (Warren/Andrew, suggestive + bruises) by christonerd
- Moodboard: [Moodboards] Spike x Illyria x Wesley (Spike/Illyria/Wesely, T) by MadeInGold
- Artwork: Dearest gentle reader... (Spike/Buffy, not rated) by maginkverse
[Fandom Discussions]
- [meta on bigender!Anya] by camellcat
- just finished watching "Forever" by sitcom-muppet
- Quiz I made with 18 different results on which Buffyverse character you are by Bobert858668
- Hell's Bells has the same fun-till-punches-you-in-the-feels vibe as Tabula Rasa by LuVEmFuzzies
- Did Spike really want to get his soul back? by Existing-Worry-97
- Buffy and Spike final scene interpretation by WhenTheStarsLine
- My problem with this scene by jogaforacont
- Cordelia’s fashion on Buffy has me obsessed by kimsooyoung77
40 Days of Drabbles > 2026
Feb. 8th, 2026 07:45 pmflareonfury40daysofdrabbles - so I created this community a few months ago in honor of the old request challenge thing I used to do (of various degrees of success). I am tempted to use the community in the style of adventdrabbles, 'cause it seems wasteful not do more with it. So I'll probably post "prompts" daily there for the period of Lent.Lent is starting February 18th, and again I'm not really religious (despite my family wishes), but I figured I could try this challenge again and see if I could exercise my writing abilities a bit more. I'm gonna try and get everything written & posted by Easter, or by end of April at the latest. *fingerscrossed*
You do not have to be a "friend" to request a pairing, but if you are unsure of a fandom/pairing I like - my list is located here (while not complete exactly, it's mostly is) or feel free to check out the tag list on
harpiewriting for ships I've already wrote for. I also technically have a list of Crossover pairings but that hasn't really been edited since 2012 so yeah... Also some of these fandoms are old and I have not recently watched them (or at times finished them). Request as much as you want since there are so many slots open.... I'll try to pick the ones I know for sure I can/will write & add them to the table. Prompts aren't required. (Or preferably use a prompt from one of my tables I need to write for! :P ) Drabbles will at least be 100 words, maybe more depending on the plot bunnies.
I rarely write dark fics, smut, or super angsty stuff, so if you prefer that, I might not be able to do it? If you have any Do Not Wants, let me know otherwise it'll be whatever my brain can think up.
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