Miss Marple: Fanfic: Picking Blackberries
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fan_flashworksTitle: Picking Blackberries
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 336 words
Summary: As usual Miss Marple has a suitable example to illustrate her point
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 336 words
Summary: As usual Miss Marple has a suitable example to illustrate her point
( It's like this )
longtime DW person, seeking new folx! :)
Jun. 14th, 2025 06:36 amrafiwinters posting in addmeName:Rafi. If you come across this post or my profile and you think "hmm, looks familiar," that's possibly because I changed my DW name several months ago. It used to be "Emerald Em."
Age:58
I mostly post about:My daily life, my writing, my disabilities, autism, mental illness, being queer, my wife, fanfic, my gender journey, chronic illness (feh!), the political reality I and my people live in
My hobbies are:writing, crocheting, studying Wicca
My fandoms are:The West Wing, Man from UNCLE, Criminal Minds, some others
I'm looking to meet people who:share similar interests,
My posting schedule tends to be:three or four times a week, sometimes more often
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: TL;DR = don't be a bigoted jackass. Longer version: no queerphobia of any kind, no Trumpers. Be open-minded. Accept my lived experience in my queer self and my disabled body and mind. I welcome respectful questions if you have them, though.
Before adding me, you should know:I don't always have the spoons* to comment on all the new posts that pop up on my reading page when I log in. But I do do my earnest best to read the posts. So I generally know what's going on with my DW friends. Also, the mini-bio in my profile is currently (as of June 14 2025) pretty short--I'm working on updating and lengthening it--so it might not tell you much. If you have questions, please ask!
I am AFAB nonbinary, and again, happy to answer respectful/curious questions. But no phobias. If you don't like it, lump it and move along.
* if you don't know what this means, Google for The Spoon Theory
Age:58
I mostly post about:My daily life, my writing, my disabilities, autism, mental illness, being queer, my wife, fanfic, my gender journey, chronic illness (feh!), the political reality I and my people live in
My hobbies are:writing, crocheting, studying Wicca
My fandoms are:The West Wing, Man from UNCLE, Criminal Minds, some others
I'm looking to meet people who:share similar interests,
My posting schedule tends to be:three or four times a week, sometimes more often
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: TL;DR = don't be a bigoted jackass. Longer version: no queerphobia of any kind, no Trumpers. Be open-minded. Accept my lived experience in my queer self and my disabled body and mind. I welcome respectful questions if you have them, though.
Before adding me, you should know:I don't always have the spoons* to comment on all the new posts that pop up on my reading page when I log in. But I do do my earnest best to read the posts. So I generally know what's going on with my DW friends. Also, the mini-bio in my profile is currently (as of June 14 2025) pretty short--I'm working on updating and lengthening it--so it might not tell you much. If you have questions, please ask!
I am AFAB nonbinary, and again, happy to answer respectful/curious questions. But no phobias. If you don't like it, lump it and move along.
* if you don't know what this means, Google for The Spoon Theory
Naruto: Fest no Jutsu 2025
Jun. 13th, 2025 09:18 pmgerard_way_is_sexah posting in fandomcalendarDescription: Do you have a Naruto fanfiction you'd love to read, but just can't seem to find? A familiar trope, ship, or character you can't get enough of? A piece of fanart you want to see come to life? Are you a fan creator who wants fresh inspiration and a fun, low-stakes challenge? The r/NarutoFanfiction Discord server is hosting a fest/prompt meme for Naruto fanworks - and we would love for you to join! Naruto fans of all ages (13+) are welcome to cheerlead, submit ideas for fanworks they'd like to see, and create fanworks for others. Fic minimums for filling a prompt are 500 words and art minimums are a finished piece.
Prompting Period: Now-June 20
Works due & revealed: September 10
Creators revealed: September 17
An AO3 account is required for participation, and joining the r/NarutoFanfiction Discord server is highly recommended. By joining the server, you can participate in conversations about the event, make suggestions for this and future server events, and contact the moderators directly. For full event rules and for more information on how a fest/prompt meme works, please check the AO3 collection profile. If you don't wish to join the server, but still wish to participate and ask questions about the event, you may e-mail gerardwayissexah@gmail.com as well.
Links:
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Discord Server Join Link (never expires)
Prompting Period: Now-June 20
Works due & revealed: September 10
Creators revealed: September 17
An AO3 account is required for participation, and joining the r/NarutoFanfiction Discord server is highly recommended. By joining the server, you can participate in conversations about the event, make suggestions for this and future server events, and contact the moderators directly. For full event rules and for more information on how a fest/prompt meme works, please check the AO3 collection profile. If you don't wish to join the server, but still wish to participate and ask questions about the event, you may e-mail gerardwayissexah@gmail.com as well.
Links:
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Discord Server Join Link (never expires)
Naruto: NejiTen Month 2025
Jun. 13th, 2025 08:50 pmgerard_way_is_sexah posting in fandomcalendarDescription: NejiTen Month is a monthlong event for fans of the romantic pairing between Neji Hyuga/Hyuga Neji and Tenten. Fanart, fanfiction, moodboards, podfics, edits, and other kinds of fanworks are welcome! Prompts posted to Tumblr are just for inspiration - feel free to disregard, complete out of order, or combine however you please. There are no minimums for either the amount of effort put into a work, or the number of works you post for the event. It's all welcome!
Schedule: Post works to Tumblr and/or Archive of Our Own (AO3) July 1-July 31st.
Posting: Tag works on Tumblr with #nejitenmonth2025 in the first five tags so the mod can reblog everything. Please tag on AO3 with NejiTen Month 2025 or something similar. The AO3 collection is also an option.
Links:
Tumblr Blog
Full Event Rules
AO3 Collection
Schedule: Post works to Tumblr and/or Archive of Our Own (AO3) July 1-July 31st.
Posting: Tag works on Tumblr with #nejitenmonth2025 in the first five tags so the mod can reblog everything. Please tag on AO3 with NejiTen Month 2025 or something similar. The AO3 collection is also an option.
Links:
Tumblr Blog
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AO3 Collection
Check In: Day 13!
Jun. 13th, 2025 04:07 pmglitteringstars posting in writethisfanficHappy Friday!! Time for another check in! How was everyone's writing today?
-Awesome!
-Moving along!
-Life has taken priority!
-I rested!
Today's discussion:
Do you have any favorite planning methods? (Bullet points, writing it all vaguely out, the three act/six act structure, etc.)
-Awesome!
-Moving along!
-Life has taken priority!
-I rested!
Today's discussion:
Do you have any favorite planning methods? (Bullet points, writing it all vaguely out, the three act/six act structure, etc.)
Prompt 2513: Dessert
Jun. 13th, 2025 10:51 pmimmortalje posting in dailyiconsToday's prompt is: dessert
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French tv rec: Tout Va Bien ("Everything Is Fine")
Jun. 13th, 2025 07:34 pmtinny
Tout Va Bien - English title: Everything Is Fine
It's a French 8-episode drama about a family whose child has leukemia - basically it's a study on how people deal with grief.
This show is amazingly well-written. I read a few interviews and it turns out that screen-writer and producer Camille de Castelnau's niece had leukemia, and that explains the incredible realism both concerning hospital routine and emotions.
It stars Virginie Efira, Sara Girardeau, and Nicole Garcia. (And Mehdi Nebbou.)
What I personally loved about it is how calmly everything flows. The situation itself is so horrible, there's no need for added dramatics. The hospital routine, the facts, the medical details, it all speaks for itself. You can clearly see the cracks appearing in all the characters, but there's barely any shouting, there are barely any tears except for characters crying quietly when they're alone, there are no major fights. Everyone is high-strung and weighed down to their breaking point, but it's never exploited for shock value.
Is this a rec? Yes! Although there's one major thing I did not like.
Does it have a happy ending:
ending spoilers
I'm double-spoiler-cutting this. Unfortunately, yes. The show sets up this extremely painful and realistic family drama about a child dying, and then the child does not die at the end. This annoyed me very very much, because they completely robbed us of that well-earned katharsis of how life could have continued after Rose's death. Fuck Disney. Ymmv.
Where can I watch it? It's on hulu and Disney+.
non-spoilery character screencaps
Rose in the hospital, getting her blood transplant
Marion and Stephane - Rose's parents, struggling to cope
Claire, Marion's sister and Rose's aunt, with her boyfriend Antonio
Antonio's ex-wife with their daughter Lou, about whom she's fighting a custody battle
Vincent - Rose's uncle (the youngesst of the three children) and steward for an airline
Vincent hates hospitals, but can't turn down the requests for his help
Anne, Rose's grandmother and famous author, always working, and her husband Pascal
Louis, Marion's secret affair - yes that is Mehdi Nebbou and I watched the whole thing for him
the hospital psychologist, one of my favorite characters, she gives the best advice
my comments (also non-spoilery)
* What makes this series so brilliant is that each character deals with the situation in their own way, and I found it realistic that even within one family, the approaches of every person would be different.
* Rose herself, despite being a young girl, is shown in a way that I could empathize with. She's not the unfortunate carrier that causes all the problems but is herself unaffected. She's afraid but cautiously optimistic, sometimes dead tired, sometimes annoying, sometimes happy. All very normal, I thought.
* The mother, Marion, strikes up an anonymous (mostly sexual) relationship with a man she meets in the parking lot of the hospital, just to get away from everything for a little while.
* The uncle, Vincent, has a phobia of hospitals and the whole situation gives him panic attacks. His life as a steward for an airline - complete with "a girl in every port" - slowly falls apart. He's probably the most cruelly affected by the story. <3
* The younger sister, Leonie, is acting up because her parents are focused mostly on her dying sister - and because she's losing her sister, of course.
* The father, Stephane, is probably the single underdeveloped character in the show. He only gets a few scenes with his wife and daughter, and one scene at work, and that's it. The women are by far better developd (and I can't say I minded).
* The grandmother, Anne, is a famous author of self-help books and tries to push her "helpful" attitude on everyone around her, including Rose.
* The aunt, Claire, tries to deal with the tragedy by taking on as many tasks as she can, to help in any way she can, neglecting everyone else in favor of Rose (and her sister Marion).
* Plus, a lot of the characters are grieving about more than one thing:
** Anne is confronted with the fact that her editor and long-time lover has been sexually abusing other clients of his and his image and company are imploding.
** Claire is dealing with the custody battle for her boyfriend Antonio's daughter, and struggling with her inability to connect with that girl, Lou. Lou herself also acts out sometimes due to the conflict between her divorced parents.
** The ex-wife of Antonio is mourning her failed relationship and tries to sabotage his new happiness in every way she can.
** The grandfather, Pascal, is mourning his own relationship (his wife cheating on him with her editor for years) and getting older and not being needed by anyone.
* All of this is marvellously interwoven and sometimes it's like watching a train-wreck in slow motion. Nobody knows how the cancer will progress/react, and everyone is caught in their own bubble, unable to escape.
* A minor nitpick is that some of the supporting characters are a little 'too supportive'. Louis, Marion's secret lover, doesn't seem to have his own goals and seemingly just exists to support Marion. Antonio, Claire's boyfriend, has an endless amount of patience for both Claire and his ex-wife. Alice, one of Vincent's girlfriends, becomes part of the family and gives him far more love than their casual relationship warrants.
* I personally loved the hospital psychologist - a family therapist who gets to say a lot of the best lines.
* In general, there are quite a few amazing lines of dialogue. Like when the grandmother says (about herself) "it's so hard to watch your daughter suffer and not being able to help" - like, no shit, Anne, you selfish ass! Or when Louis says "the palliative care unit is no place for clowns" and Marion answers, "it's no place for children." Or the editor, explaining to Anne why he never assaulted her, "because I never needed to." Or when Marion says to her husband that "without her hair, she looks even more like you." There are so many good lines of dialogue in this, those are just the ones that I remember off the top of my head.
* Last but not least, I would never have watched this if Mehdi Nebbou wasn't in it. He has a much bigger role than I'd expected - probably the biggest non-family-member role in the show - and it was very very much worth watching it for him. But I ended up loving the show for its amazing writing, and I can absolutely rec it on its own merits, Mehdi or no.
"Is there anything you'd like to tell us about yourself?"
Jun. 18th, 2025 12:52 amconulyNo, but I'd like to tell you that you urgently need a proofreader. Are you aware that you just made me answer the same question about my desired salary three different ways? Once was plenty enough! Also, why are you asking what currency I want it in, and since you are asking, why is one time US dollar at the top of the drop down and the other two times it's alphabetical under "United States"? Did you even look at this before posting, and once again afterwards?
(These people really urgently need help with this, but unless this is a Secret Test I guess telling them wouldn't help me much.)
Alternative answer to the question: "Yes, I'd like to tell you that I really need money, please give me some, with or without hiring me first."
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(These people really urgently need help with this, but unless this is a Secret Test I guess telling them wouldn't help me much.)
Alternative answer to the question: "Yes, I'd like to tell you that I really need money, please give me some, with or without hiring me first."
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Inspector George Gently: Fanfic: Gently Safe and Sound
Jun. 13th, 2025 03:10 pmlucy_roman posting in fan_flashworksTitle:Gently Safe and Sound
Author:lucy_roman
Rating:NC-17
Warnings:Period typical homophobia
Summary:George and John have gone to a police conference and have to share a bedroom
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
Wordcount:1,800
( Gently Safe and Sound )
Author:lucy_roman
Rating:NC-17
Warnings:Period typical homophobia
Summary:George and John have gone to a police conference and have to share a bedroom
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
Wordcount:1,800
( Gently Safe and Sound )
"I think the protagonist had hay fever or maybe yellow fever, I'm not sure which"
Jun. 16th, 2025 04:30 pmconulyWell, that kinda covers the gamut of illness there, so maybe figure it out?
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Jun. 12th, 2025 11:45 pmdani_meows
Jasper is currently resting comfortably with me checking on him frequently to make sure he doesn't scratch his eye area or need anything. In exchange he doesn't have to wear the cone.
So far he's being a real trooper about it just like last time. I really do think cats understand English and he understood my explanations of what was happening.
The opthalmologist took out everything they could and hopefully the biopsy will show the cancer not all the way through the removed tissue.
Ian gets paid in ten minutes so we don't have to worry about not having enough money for groceries/expenses after that.
The above picture is of Jasper at our vet the day we went to understand his diagnosis.
Besides Jasper I've mostly been reading fanfiction and making sure the other three cats aren't jealous of the attention Jasper's getting.
The headache I've had for days is getting better. And I'm glad the cancer cells are hopefully out of my cat.
Three weeks or so we should know for sure.
Which will put us in July. Hopefully after the anniversary of the cat who's death still feels fresh rather than almost a year ago.
Anyway Jasper is asleep and safe for now. I'm going to go back to reading fanfiction mostly about Harry Potter being raised by his godfather. Sometimes with manipulative Dumbledore... They are my weakness.
Time for a new post...
Jun. 13th, 2025 12:28 amthunderschoen posting in addmeName: Simone
Age: Late 30s
I mostly post about: What I'm reading (probably some kind of cosmic or folk horror, or something adjacent to that), what video games I've played lately (mostly indie/puzzle/adventure/detective), bits and pieces about my life. Occasionally more personal things if I feel they might be interesting or useful in some way, otherwise I keep it private.
My hobbies are: Drawing, watercolour painting, reading, playing video games, vintage fashion, listening to music (classical, opera, symphonic metal, soundtracks, dark cabaret, electroswing, old jazz, some more modern stuff...), singing and playing the autoharp (I also used to play piano but kinda stopped...still have a keyboard but haven't dug it out in months...), occasionally cross-stitch and embroidery, puzzles, going for walks, learning about pretty much anything but especially animals, mythology, history, and science. When I was a kid, my special interests were Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, butterflies, cloud formations, the planet Jupiter, and English folk superstitions, and I feel like I've just carried on from there. During the pandemic I got fixated on learning how to identify birds by their songs. You probably get the idea by now.
My fandoms are: I don't tend to write about fandom stuff but the only fandom I've ever been active in is Pokemon. I still write fanfiction occasionally but it's not something I write about in my journal. Other games I love include Portal and the Rusty Lake games but there's lots. In terms of watching things, I enjoy the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Game of Thrones / House of the Dragon, Black Mirror and Stranger Things. I'm getting back into Welcome to Night Vale (podcast) but I'm like 5 years behind...
I'm looking to meet people who: Share some of my interests? Similar age preferred but not essential. If you read and/or play similar stuff to me I would love to trade recommendations.
My posting schedule tends to be: Once or twice a week right now but during busy times I might drop off for a bit.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: If your journal is very fandom-focused, I probably won't have much to say in comments. I'd also prefer to avoid lots of posts about religion and/or politics, regardless of "flavour". I don't really care what your political views are (I mean, unless you're a white supremacist or a neo-Nazi...I'm a mixed race Jewish woman so that could be awkward...) but I'd rather not be reading racist, antisemitic, misogynistic, homophobic, etc. content. Or anything that's overly mean-spirited about anyone.
Before adding me, you should know: I live in the UK, in case you wanted to know that. And I'm autistic, not that it comes up very often in my journal posts. Also, as a sort of "reverse" to the above question - I also don't post about my political views (or anything controversial, really) in my journal.
Prompt 2512: Quote
Jun. 12th, 2025 10:33 pmimmortalje posting in dailyiconsToday's prompt is: quote
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