1♥ There is an early nor'easter outside! What a fascinating weather event. The leaves have only just started changing color, and a system that typically arrives as a winter storm is blanketing the region. No snow, for which we are all grateful, just a lot of wind and rain.
It reminds me of my first marathon, also an out-of-season storm, although that nor'easter was late rather than early. Like today it was warm enough, but five hours in the rain is chilling no matter the temperature. I had gloves and it still got to the point where a volunteer had to peel a banana for me because my fingers were too cold to manage it. (They offered to get me more food and a blanket, but I said I was fine to keep going, so they sent me off with the promise of hot soup at the next support station. There was indeed hot soup, and it was amazing. Those volunteers were all heroes.)
2♥ I have not been tremendously productive on the creative front this week, and for this I entirely blame the large quantity of very high-quality Xverse fanfic filling the universe. Thank you authors for your energy and the love you share with us. Every time I return to this fandom I find so many new and welcoming worlds.
I did not finish my first story for
no_true_pair, but I am now two stories into a new character list. So combined that's like, two point five stories out of 28. Which is great! Two stories that didn't exist before! I'm gonna go write another one, maybe, because I will never stop having opinions about telepaths.
(Occasionally someone is right about extrasensory perception and I am very impressed, but I can't recommend this particular story because it starts with the author being spectacularly wrong about Nazis. I've become largely inured to English-speaking fans being wrong about Chinese-speaking fandoms, and I figure that's at least a little bit due to the language barrier making the cultural divide harder to cross. But I didn't think anyone could be wrong about Nazis. Don't kids watch The Sound of Music anymore?)
I'm also going to take more lego pictures, probably, even though I'm counting my
no_true_pair time toward
communal_creators, and as such I'm mostly caught up. But I started building a Chinese restaurant and I think it would be cute to have the Mo Dao Zu Shi minifigs watching it go up. (I have Xverse minifigs, but I just realized that they're more cerebral than spiritual. I'm not sure how that's relevant.)
3♥ I thought there were going to be, idk, seven things on this list, and now I'm all, "There should definitely be more than two, right?" So miscellaneous time notes for future me looking back through my journal*~
+The remaining pine tree in the rock garden out back was cut down this week.
+Told Dad about my name change; he was unexpectedly supportive.
+Finally got last year's new car inspected.
+Just got fooled by AI country music.
*I reread all 151 entries tagged "xverse" in my journal this week and they were by and large hilarious, including this gem from 2015:
no you can't play chess like that
HOW MANY PAWNS DO YOU HAVETen years too early for Duolingo to have taught anyone on set what to do with the board, I guess. We learned chess growing up because they played it on Star Trek.
...Oh dear. I just went looking for a couple of the Star Trek/Xverse crossovers, and clearly I won't be writing any time soon.
Lonely Prompts Sunday, Week 39 [DW Edition]
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Hey there! Today is a Lonely Prompts day! ^_^ If this is your first time at
How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^
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9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this option here.
How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."
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