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30 in 30: DCUA (TimmVerse)
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senmutAO3 Link | Measurements (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Justice League & Justice League Unlimited [Cartoons]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: J'onn J'onzz | Martian Manhunter, Clark Kent | Superman
Additional Tags: Drabble, Episode Tag
Summary:
"Ma wants the measurements this year," Clark said as he sipped a cup of hot cocoa and peered over at J'onn.
The Martian chuckled. "I still have the previous sweater, and wear it on occasion," J'onn pointed out.
"She wants to make one that fits you, in the form you are most likely to wear one," Clark rebutted. "Please?"
"Do you have a measuring tape handy?" J'onn asked with good humor, setting his empty glass down. His form shifted to that of a nondescript average guy in a fedora and trench coat when Clark produced it, so they could measure.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Justice League & Justice League Unlimited [Cartoons]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: J'onn J'onzz | Martian Manhunter, Clark Kent | Superman
Additional Tags: Drabble, Episode Tag
Summary:
Ma wants to make a better one
"Ma wants the measurements this year," Clark said as he sipped a cup of hot cocoa and peered over at J'onn.
The Martian chuckled. "I still have the previous sweater, and wear it on occasion," J'onn pointed out.
"She wants to make one that fits you, in the form you are most likely to wear one," Clark rebutted. "Please?"
"Do you have a measuring tape handy?" J'onn asked with good humor, setting his empty glass down. His form shifted to that of a nondescript average guy in a fedora and trench coat when Clark produced it, so they could measure.
30 in 30: DCU Comics
Nov. 11th, 2025 05:57 pmsenmutAO3 Link | First Aid (300 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Titans (Franchise)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Slade Wilson, Dick Grayson
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:
Dick didn't say a word of protest when he opened his door to see Slade there, not once the man moved the heavy jacket and showed blood seeping out of a hasty bandage. Maybe he should have; the man had to have other safe houses nearby.
He was going to land on the side of 'Slade thought it was bad enough to ask for help' and leave it at that.
"Any tail?"
"Partner's dealing with it; she'll go her own way after."
Ahh, the elusive — "You have her in the States?" Dick asked, startled even as he helped peel the clothes off.
Hell, that looked like shrapnel from an explosive.
"Kind of unavoidable this time," but Slade didn't elucidate beyond that about her. "I promise nothing I was doing would get me back on the wanted list here. Someone had a vendetta, and my healing's been slowed by whatever toxin was on the slivers."
"Cheshire?"
Slade's eye hardened, his jaw set. "There's a reason my partner is handling the cleanup."
Who in the hell was this woman? Had to be meta, to keep up with Slade, but no one had pieced together a solid profile on her.
"And you let her?" Dick asked, before huffing out an amused air. "Now I have heard everything."
"She's got people I prefer not to be known by, and leave it at that, Kid?"
"Alright." Dick shut up about it, and just saw to cleaning everything out, so that Slade could heal. He'd file a note with Vic later, for their unofficial file on the partner. Right now, he just wanted his… complicated to stop bleeding and probably get some rest.
"Not bad," Slade said, once everything was dealt with. "Appreciate the help, Kid."
"I'd say any time, but I bet I was closest."
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Titans (Franchise)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Slade Wilson, Dick Grayson
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, +Modern Age (1986-Present), Post-Crisis, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:
Dick's surprised he showed up bleeding but he'll help
First Aid
Dick didn't say a word of protest when he opened his door to see Slade there, not once the man moved the heavy jacket and showed blood seeping out of a hasty bandage. Maybe he should have; the man had to have other safe houses nearby.
He was going to land on the side of 'Slade thought it was bad enough to ask for help' and leave it at that.
"Any tail?"
"Partner's dealing with it; she'll go her own way after."
Ahh, the elusive — "You have her in the States?" Dick asked, startled even as he helped peel the clothes off.
Hell, that looked like shrapnel from an explosive.
"Kind of unavoidable this time," but Slade didn't elucidate beyond that about her. "I promise nothing I was doing would get me back on the wanted list here. Someone had a vendetta, and my healing's been slowed by whatever toxin was on the slivers."
"Cheshire?"
Slade's eye hardened, his jaw set. "There's a reason my partner is handling the cleanup."
Who in the hell was this woman? Had to be meta, to keep up with Slade, but no one had pieced together a solid profile on her.
"And you let her?" Dick asked, before huffing out an amused air. "Now I have heard everything."
"She's got people I prefer not to be known by, and leave it at that, Kid?"
"Alright." Dick shut up about it, and just saw to cleaning everything out, so that Slade could heal. He'd file a note with Vic later, for their unofficial file on the partner. Right now, he just wanted his… complicated to stop bleeding and probably get some rest.
"Not bad," Slade said, once everything was dealt with. "Appreciate the help, Kid."
"I'd say any time, but I bet I was closest."
It's a birthday!
Nov. 11th, 2025 05:57 amshireboundHappy Birthday, just_ann_now! I hope it's a wonderful day. When is your cataract surgery?
(I just discovered that I haven't been seeing your posts on my friends page. I think I fixed it!)
just_ann_now! I hope it's a wonderful day. When is your cataract surgery?(I just discovered that I haven't been seeing your posts on my friends page. I think I fixed it!)
30 in 30: Labyrinth
Nov. 10th, 2025 05:36 pmsenmutAO3 Link | Seductive Distraction (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Labyrinth
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jareth [Labyrinth]
Additional Tags: Drabble, Stealth Crossover
Summary:
A grimace touched the Goblin King's lips, before fully settling into a scowl.
"I thought I told you, babies and toddlers only!" he snapped at his closest goblin lieutenant.
"But you said he was pretty and you wanted —" the words were cut off abruptly as Jareth used his riding crop to smack the chair the goblin was on.
"How to head him off before he seduces every denizen of my realm," Jareth mused, watching the handsome man in his uniform handily winning directions from everyone he met.
"Maybe you can seduce him?"
Jareth glowered at the speaker.
"Maybe I shall."
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Labyrinth
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jareth [Labyrinth]
Additional Tags: Drabble, Stealth Crossover
Summary:
Jareth has an interloper in his realm
Seductive Distaction
A grimace touched the Goblin King's lips, before fully settling into a scowl.
"I thought I told you, babies and toddlers only!" he snapped at his closest goblin lieutenant.
"But you said he was pretty and you wanted —" the words were cut off abruptly as Jareth used his riding crop to smack the chair the goblin was on.
"How to head him off before he seduces every denizen of my realm," Jareth mused, watching the handsome man in his uniform handily winning directions from everyone he met.
"Maybe you can seduce him?"
Jareth glowered at the speaker.
"Maybe I shall."
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Jack HarknessAnnulus
Nov. 11th, 2025 05:45 amredwolfIt had taken Jareth weeks to uncover the reason that inebriated, young men kept turning up in the Labyrinth when they hadn’t been wished away.
Their drunkenness was both a blessing and a curse. In the state they had been found, they were all happy to hold conversations with inanimate objects, so being returned Above barely dented their alcoholic stupor. Alas, it made questioning them an impossibility if you were hoping for useful information.
Sarah sat in the bower beside Jareth. “You have to admit it was genius.” She sipped her tea to hide her amusement.
“Yes, yes, very clever.” Jareth waved a hand in annoyed dismissal.
The goblins had managed to create a game that seemed to be a cross between a scavenger hunt and a game of chutes and ladders. Sarah had been horrified that Jareth called it snakes and ladders and was relieved the goblins hadn’t taken that name literally or their wayward visitors may have had more of an adventure than a drunken debate with a goblin where wildly different concepts of fouls were in question.
The ladders tended to be actual ladders that let a participant find an item or skip ahead. It was the snake or chute part where they had gotten creative by using fairy circles as portals to penalise a player.
“I don’t understand why they had portals leading Above.”
Jareth pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. “I don’t think they do either.”
The problematic chute was supposed to take a player Above, with a second fairy circle in clear sight that would return them to a more distant locale in the Labyrinth to add time to their journey. This was not a problem if you were playing Underground, but it was a different matter if you stumbled in from Above.
“In their defence, it was hidden.” The fairy circle really wasn’t easy to find. Unfortunately, the goblins had failed to anticipate that placing their portal in a park near a popular pub would prove troublesome. Or that more than one person who had been kicked out at closing may have taken a detour through the park, before stumbling off the path to redistribute the evening’s intake of lager in the shrubbery. Heavily intoxicated humans were typically not aware of their surroundings enough that they would notice a fairy circle, and for that matter, they didn’t seem to realise their accidentally stepping through a portal would make hailing a ride home more difficult than usual.
“Fortunately, they were all still in possession of identity documents that allowed me to transport them home.”
Jareth had removed the Above chute from the game and any grumbles were silenced when he threatened to return it, but link it to the bog.
Sarah found it a little sad that there were several young men who had had the greatest adventure of their lives and, not only didn’t realise it while it was happening, but would never remember the time they stumbled into another world.
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labyfic — drabble #235: bottle
Part of the Balance!verse
Their drunkenness was both a blessing and a curse. In the state they had been found, they were all happy to hold conversations with inanimate objects, so being returned Above barely dented their alcoholic stupor. Alas, it made questioning them an impossibility if you were hoping for useful information.
Sarah sat in the bower beside Jareth. “You have to admit it was genius.” She sipped her tea to hide her amusement.
“Yes, yes, very clever.” Jareth waved a hand in annoyed dismissal.
The goblins had managed to create a game that seemed to be a cross between a scavenger hunt and a game of chutes and ladders. Sarah had been horrified that Jareth called it snakes and ladders and was relieved the goblins hadn’t taken that name literally or their wayward visitors may have had more of an adventure than a drunken debate with a goblin where wildly different concepts of fouls were in question.
The ladders tended to be actual ladders that let a participant find an item or skip ahead. It was the snake or chute part where they had gotten creative by using fairy circles as portals to penalise a player.
“I don’t understand why they had portals leading Above.”
Jareth pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. “I don’t think they do either.”
The problematic chute was supposed to take a player Above, with a second fairy circle in clear sight that would return them to a more distant locale in the Labyrinth to add time to their journey. This was not a problem if you were playing Underground, but it was a different matter if you stumbled in from Above.
“In their defence, it was hidden.” The fairy circle really wasn’t easy to find. Unfortunately, the goblins had failed to anticipate that placing their portal in a park near a popular pub would prove troublesome. Or that more than one person who had been kicked out at closing may have taken a detour through the park, before stumbling off the path to redistribute the evening’s intake of lager in the shrubbery. Heavily intoxicated humans were typically not aware of their surroundings enough that they would notice a fairy circle, and for that matter, they didn’t seem to realise their accidentally stepping through a portal would make hailing a ride home more difficult than usual.
“Fortunately, they were all still in possession of identity documents that allowed me to transport them home.”
Jareth had removed the Above chute from the game and any grumbles were silenced when he threatened to return it, but link it to the bog.
Sarah found it a little sad that there were several young men who had had the greatest adventure of their lives and, not only didn’t realise it while it was happening, but would never remember the time they stumbled into another world.
labyfic — drabble #235: bottlePart of the Balance!verse
Unofficial Fandom 50: Inferno recs [1b/50]
Nov. 10th, 2025 05:40 pmthisbluespiritA little bonus for Inferno - some (good!) Inferno-related fanworks:
Fire (182 words) by UnpublishedWriter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Summary: The emotional toll of 'Inferno.' One-shot.
Concerning Multiverse Theory (1665 words) by StuntMuppet
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor/Section Leader Shaw
Characters: Third Doctor, Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw
Additional Tags: Het, Episode Tag, Math, sex but not porn
Summary: He indulges, for a moment, in abstraction. Third Doctor/Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw (from Inferno), and the equations of possibility.
What the Thunder Said (4390 words) by eponymous_rose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Third Doctor, Elizabeth Shaw, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, John Benton
Additional Tags: 1000-5000 Words, Alternate Universe, Canon Compliant, POV Third Person, Canon - TV, Angst, Drama, Humor, Episode Related, Episode Tag, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Apocalypse, Character Study
Summary: A doomed world, only slightly more lost than our own; through the eye of the Inferno and into the realm of memory. Time's end.
Namesake (3023 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Liz Ten, Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw
Additional Tags: Community: dw_straybunnies
Summary: A Royal audience for Section Leader Shaw.
Inferno (ART) (0 words) by OxideBlack
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Brigade Leader Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Third Doctor (Doctor Who), Petra Williams (Inferno Earth), Greg Sutton
Additional Tags: Mirror!Brigadier, Digital Art, Doctor Who Art
Fire (182 words) by UnpublishedWriter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Summary: The emotional toll of 'Inferno.' One-shot.
Concerning Multiverse Theory (1665 words) by StuntMuppet
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor/Section Leader Shaw
Characters: Third Doctor, Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw
Additional Tags: Het, Episode Tag, Math, sex but not porn
Summary: He indulges, for a moment, in abstraction. Third Doctor/Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw (from Inferno), and the equations of possibility.
What the Thunder Said (4390 words) by eponymous_rose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Third Doctor, Elizabeth Shaw, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, John Benton
Additional Tags: 1000-5000 Words, Alternate Universe, Canon Compliant, POV Third Person, Canon - TV, Angst, Drama, Humor, Episode Related, Episode Tag, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Apocalypse, Character Study
Summary: A doomed world, only slightly more lost than our own; through the eye of the Inferno and into the realm of memory. Time's end.
Namesake (3023 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Liz Ten, Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw
Additional Tags: Community: dw_straybunnies
Summary: A Royal audience for Section Leader Shaw.
Inferno (ART) (0 words) by OxideBlack
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Brigade Leader Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Third Doctor (Doctor Who), Petra Williams (Inferno Earth), Greg Sutton
Additional Tags: Mirror!Brigadier, Digital Art, Doctor Who Art
New Community for Video Games Fans
Nov. 9th, 2025 07:20 pmmaevedarcy posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
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videogamefanfiction is a space dedicated to fanfiction based on video games. Membership is open and all members can post.Unofficial Fandom 50: Inferno [1/50]
Nov. 9th, 2025 08:58 pmthisbluespiritI've been thinking for a while of doing Fandom 50 or Fannish 50 and just doing posts on what some fandoms/parts of fandom I like are and why I like them, but then I felt too flaky to sign up. So this is me doing but not doing it. It gives me something to aim for, but not to worry if I don't make it - or if I want to continue. Also I don't have to decide which of those two is best to sign up for - it's very confusing!
I was thinking about doing something like this for ages, because I love manifestos, but there are so few of us left in these parts, it would be ridiculous to expect to get people into things, so they'd just be annoying. But it's always useful to explain exactly what things are again, and it means I can hopefully spend a bit more time chatting about things I love.
(Anything above any cut text should be safe from any major spoilers; if I feel the need to get spoilery in my love, that will always go under a cut).
Obviously, I had to start with Doctor Who, but since that would be a very big post as a whole, I shall probably mainly pick some serials/episodes in between other fandoms. This might be more useful anyway, because while DW, even in the older eras does have some continuity and context and development, it is nevertheless, even in modern eras, still the nearest thing to an anthology show the BBC have left, so if anyone gets curious, there's no reason not to just watch most individual installments.
So I thought I'd remind myself how much I love Doctor Who by talking about one of my absolute favourites, which is from my "least favourite"* Classic Who era - the Third Doctor's run, because DW is awesome generally.
Inferno (BBC 1970)
gifset (by timelordinaustralia)
What is it?
The seven-part** final serial of the Third Doctor's first season, written by Don Houghton & directed by Douglas Camfield (& producer Barry Letts for eps 5-7, as Camfield suffered a minor heart attack during recording) & guest starring Olaf Pooley, Derek Newark, Sheila Dunn & Christopher Benjamin. The show had lately been reinvented in a swither by the BBC between that and cancelling it, and so returned that season in colour, with a new Doctor (Jon Pertwee), now exiled to Earth and stripped of the ability to pilot the TARDIS,working for the military outfit, UNIT, aka the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) and his handful of men, along with brilliant Cambridge scientist Dr. Liz Shaw (Caroline John).
Inferno finds UNIT safeguarding Professor Stahlman's project to drill through to the Earth's core in search of a new energy source he believes he will find there (Stahlman's Gas). The Doctor, meanwhile, is using Stahlman's reactor to power his experiments to get the TARDIS working again. But the project's computer is predicting catastrophe if the core is penetrated, Stahlman is refusing to listen, people are turning into monsters, and the Doctor's test TARDIS trip takes him sideways, leaving him trapped in a fascist parallel earth where Stahlman's project is hours ahead of the one in our world - and things are turning apocalyptic fast...
Why do I love it?
7 episodes is a hard length to pull off (see the rest of the season, even though I love it all), but Inferno does it beautifully - it gives the story sufficient time to allow us to understand and care about what's going in the 'real' world and the parallel Earth, the characters and their parallel world counterparts, and give the fates of both the weight needed, while tension is maintained by the constant hum of the drill - the mounting, unheeded sound of the world ending. The Doctor, the Brig and Liz are a really strong trio and this is not only another great story for them, but lets us see alternate versions of the latter two. Among the guest characters, Greg and Petra (particularly the parallel universe versions) are favourites.
It has that very UK 70s TV thing that always gets me so hard of being simultaneously one of the most bleak and optimistic DW serials ( Vaguely spoilery details ) ♥
On paper it's got a whole lot of would what become very typical Third Doctor era ingredients (unwise 70s scientific projects! green slime! HAVOC!***), but in practice, it truly is something special, and I love it.
ETA: An Inferno-related fannish recs-list.
* It's comparative. Like, yes, but also. It's DW. I love it anyway.
** Seven parts here = 7 x25 mins (although minus the intros/outros and 5 episode recaps and often with shorter runtimes - most given DW serials are about the same length as a regular/shortish film, the six-parters as a long film. It's just that some of them also feel like wading through porridge).
***HAVOC = stunt outfit run by Derek Ware. I think they were HAVOC officially by this point, but at any rate, they were definitely present and correct, pulling off the then record for highest UK TV stunt fall during the course of it, and in another case, getting accidentally actually run over by Pertwee in the course of duty). Also, of course, not that I am saying there is anything wrong with lots of green slime, dodgy scientific projects causing trouble and HAVOC. Obv all top notch ingredients!
I was thinking about doing something like this for ages, because I love manifestos, but there are so few of us left in these parts, it would be ridiculous to expect to get people into things, so they'd just be annoying. But it's always useful to explain exactly what things are again, and it means I can hopefully spend a bit more time chatting about things I love.
(Anything above any cut text should be safe from any major spoilers; if I feel the need to get spoilery in my love, that will always go under a cut).
Obviously, I had to start with Doctor Who, but since that would be a very big post as a whole, I shall probably mainly pick some serials/episodes in between other fandoms. This might be more useful anyway, because while DW, even in the older eras does have some continuity and context and development, it is nevertheless, even in modern eras, still the nearest thing to an anthology show the BBC have left, so if anyone gets curious, there's no reason not to just watch most individual installments.
So I thought I'd remind myself how much I love Doctor Who by talking about one of my absolute favourites, which is from my "least favourite"* Classic Who era - the Third Doctor's run, because DW is awesome generally.
Inferno (BBC 1970)
gifset (by timelordinaustralia)
What is it?
The seven-part** final serial of the Third Doctor's first season, written by Don Houghton & directed by Douglas Camfield (& producer Barry Letts for eps 5-7, as Camfield suffered a minor heart attack during recording) & guest starring Olaf Pooley, Derek Newark, Sheila Dunn & Christopher Benjamin. The show had lately been reinvented in a swither by the BBC between that and cancelling it, and so returned that season in colour, with a new Doctor (Jon Pertwee), now exiled to Earth and stripped of the ability to pilot the TARDIS,working for the military outfit, UNIT, aka the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) and his handful of men, along with brilliant Cambridge scientist Dr. Liz Shaw (Caroline John).
Inferno finds UNIT safeguarding Professor Stahlman's project to drill through to the Earth's core in search of a new energy source he believes he will find there (Stahlman's Gas). The Doctor, meanwhile, is using Stahlman's reactor to power his experiments to get the TARDIS working again. But the project's computer is predicting catastrophe if the core is penetrated, Stahlman is refusing to listen, people are turning into monsters, and the Doctor's test TARDIS trip takes him sideways, leaving him trapped in a fascist parallel earth where Stahlman's project is hours ahead of the one in our world - and things are turning apocalyptic fast...
Why do I love it?
7 episodes is a hard length to pull off (see the rest of the season, even though I love it all), but Inferno does it beautifully - it gives the story sufficient time to allow us to understand and care about what's going in the 'real' world and the parallel Earth, the characters and their parallel world counterparts, and give the fates of both the weight needed, while tension is maintained by the constant hum of the drill - the mounting, unheeded sound of the world ending. The Doctor, the Brig and Liz are a really strong trio and this is not only another great story for them, but lets us see alternate versions of the latter two. Among the guest characters, Greg and Petra (particularly the parallel universe versions) are favourites.
It has that very UK 70s TV thing that always gets me so hard of being simultaneously one of the most bleak and optimistic DW serials ( Vaguely spoilery details ) ♥
On paper it's got a whole lot of would what become very typical Third Doctor era ingredients (unwise 70s scientific projects! green slime! HAVOC!***), but in practice, it truly is something special, and I love it.
ETA: An Inferno-related fannish recs-list.
* It's comparative. Like, yes, but also. It's DW. I love it anyway.
** Seven parts here = 7 x25 mins (although minus the intros/outros and 5 episode recaps and often with shorter runtimes - most given DW serials are about the same length as a regular/shortish film, the six-parters as a long film. It's just that some of them also feel like wading through porridge).
***HAVOC = stunt outfit run by Derek Ware. I think they were HAVOC officially by this point, but at any rate, they were definitely present and correct, pulling off the then record for highest UK TV stunt fall during the course of it, and in another case, getting accidentally actually run over by Pertwee in the course of duty). Also, of course, not that I am saying there is anything wrong with lots of green slime, dodgy scientific projects causing trouble and HAVOC. Obv all top notch ingredients!
Nov 9 not quite misc.exhausted.me
Nov. 9th, 2025 01:57 pmsenmutDecided I am not going back over the hell that was dental this past week. More happening this week. And next year.
No, I wanted to share the "food crime" I made today:
So the other day I saw a post, ostensibly about food crimes:
Butter Chicken Poutine
Folks, that sounded tasty, and I askedilyena_sylph if I could. She said yes.
The sauce was store bought as typical for me, I added browned hamburger, and I made home fries from scratch.
Tasty meal was had. Very filling. Our son was over, so I had the joy of feeding him in addition to us. And tonight will be Mozzarella Ravioli with Garlic Marinara with mother-in-law. Food is love, people.
No, I wanted to share the "food crime" I made today:
So the other day I saw a post, ostensibly about food crimes:
Butter Chicken Poutine
Folks, that sounded tasty, and I asked
ilyena_sylph if I could. She said yes.The sauce was store bought as typical for me, I added browned hamburger, and I made home fries from scratch.
Tasty meal was had. Very filling. Our son was over, so I had the joy of feeding him in addition to us. And tonight will be Mozzarella Ravioli with Garlic Marinara with mother-in-law. Food is love, people.
30 in 30: Highlander
Nov. 9th, 2025 10:58 amsenmutAO3 Link | Artist at Work (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Highlander The Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tessa Noel [Highlander]
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:
Tessa inspected the illustration, then glanced at the pieces. Her keen eyes noted where each piece would intersect with one another, mentally measuring just where the notches needed to be cut.
Moving from sketches to full drawing, and then to modeling three-dimensional figures in clay, to now being able to machine the final sculpture as she envisioned it had been satisfying. More, she would know that her art would bring joy to the local children's hospital. The sun room would be awash in a kaleidescope of colors after the glass was inset in the frame.
That in mind, she began.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Highlander The Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tessa Noel [Highlander]
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:
Tessa is preparing a charity piece
Tessa inspected the illustration, then glanced at the pieces. Her keen eyes noted where each piece would intersect with one another, mentally measuring just where the notches needed to be cut.
Moving from sketches to full drawing, and then to modeling three-dimensional figures in clay, to now being able to machine the final sculpture as she envisioned it had been satisfying. More, she would know that her art would bring joy to the local children's hospital. The sun room would be awash in a kaleidescope of colors after the glass was inset in the frame.
That in mind, she began.
Photos: Charleston Food Forest
Nov. 8th, 2025 10:53 pmysabetwordsmith posting in gardeningToday we visited the Charleston Food Forest, Coles County Community Garden, and Lake Charleston. These are the food forest pictures. What started out as a beautiful fall day, sunny and cool, clouded over by the time we got out of the house. So the lighting isn't great, but at least the pictures look okay. (Continue with the community garden and the lake.)
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Round 156 Poll
Nov. 8th, 2025 05:52 pmxandromedovna posting in fic_rushNew month, new poll!
Poll #33816 Round 156 Dates
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When should we have Round 156?
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14-16 Nov
4 (36.4%)
21-23 Nov
6 (54.5%)
28-30 Nov
6 (54.5%)
5-7 Dec
2 (18.2%)
12-14 Dec
3 (27.3%)
19-21 Dec
4 (36.4%)
26-28 Dec
4 (36.4%)
wake me in 2026
4 (36.4%)
tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
5 (45.5%)
BOX!
5 (45.5%)
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler by Debby Applegate
Nov. 8th, 2025 05:32 pmarchersangelthe rest of the title; Icon of the Jazz Age
from amazon;
an interesting book about someone i don't think i ever heard of before.
if you know anything about the 1920s in the united states, specificity new york city, there are a lot of people with familiar names that pop up; dorthy parker and the algonquin round table, mayor jimmy j. walker, lucky luciano, dutch schultz, al smith (former governor of new york) who ran for president several times. tammany hall & their boys, FDR before he became governor of NY & then later president, even al capone shows up.
from amazon;
Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld—and had a good time doing it.
As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.
an interesting book about someone i don't think i ever heard of before.
if you know anything about the 1920s in the united states, specificity new york city, there are a lot of people with familiar names that pop up; dorthy parker and the algonquin round table, mayor jimmy j. walker, lucky luciano, dutch schultz, al smith (former governor of new york) who ran for president several times. tammany hall & their boys, FDR before he became governor of NY & then later president, even al capone shows up.
30 in 30: Doctor Who
Nov. 8th, 2025 02:47 pmsenmutAO3 Link | In the Flesh (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Donna Noble, Jack Harkness
Additional Tags: Drabble, First Meetings
Summary:
"Jack Harkness?"
The man flashed a brilliant smile at the lovely lady asking if that was his name. "In the flesh."
"At least you have clothes on this time," the woman sighed. "Donna Noble. We have a friend, a bit of a madman with a blue box, in common."
"Ahh, I see. And… clothes?" Jack asked, the smile only shading toward a bit more professional.
"Bored one night, asked to see the kind of people that had been idiotic enough to get in the box." She then smiled warmly. "You were the only one in the buff."
"Hope you enjoyed."
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Donna Noble, Jack Harkness
Additional Tags: Drabble, First Meetings
Summary:
Donna and Jack Meet
"Jack Harkness?"
The man flashed a brilliant smile at the lovely lady asking if that was his name. "In the flesh."
"At least you have clothes on this time," the woman sighed. "Donna Noble. We have a friend, a bit of a madman with a blue box, in common."
"Ahh, I see. And… clothes?" Jack asked, the smile only shading toward a bit more professional.
"Bored one night, asked to see the kind of people that had been idiotic enough to get in the box." She then smiled warmly. "You were the only one in the buff."
"Hope you enjoyed."