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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, November 24, to midnight on Tuesday, November 25. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33877 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 7

How are you doing?

I am OK.
7 (100.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
0 (0.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
4 (57.1%)

One other person.
2 (28.6%)

More than one other person.
1 (14.3%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

senmut

AO3 Link | Training Opportunity (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tasha Yar, Worf
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life
Summary:

Yar shows Worf a flaw

Yar circled to the left, and Worf watched as he adjusted himself. When she lunged, he was as ready as he could be, and still she managed to foul his leg, and get him off balance. From there it was only two quick moves and he stumbled out of the circle they had made.

"You are a formidable warrior."

"So are you, but you're not accustomed to smaller, faster opponents who know how to use their body," Yar said. "So, joining my class?"

"Yes."

She smiled, then beckoned him in for another round. He took the invitation, eager to learn.

case posting in

fandomsecrets

⌈ Secret Post #6898 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 28 secrets from Secret Submission Post #985.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

sovay

Only a day or two late, I saw a classic new moon in the old moon's arms as I walked around the neighborhood just after sunset, the reflection-white crescent and its charcoal-colored cradle like an eclipse in monochrome. The sky was its usual clear apple-blue in the east and then sank. I am not sure I have ever had this much difficulty with the early dark between the clocks falling back and the solstice. I am awake most of the days and there still doesn't seem to be any light in them.

I slept last night. I would like not to have to record it as a milestone. It feels a little unnecessarily on the nose that I was woken out of some complex dream by a phone call from a doctor's office. Most of them lately have some unsurprising insecurity in them: slow-motion cataclysm, as if it makes much difference from being awake. Last night, something about a house with tide-lines on its walls, as if it regularly flooded to the beams.

Describing the 1978 BBC As You Like It to

spatch made me realize how few of Shakespeare's comedies I have actually seen when compared with the tragedies, the late romances, the history or the problem plays. A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night would be the predictable exceptions in that I am verging on more productions of either than I can count without thinking about it, but I am three Winter's Tales to zero Comedies of Errors. I've seen Timon of Athens and not All's Well That Ends Well. One Richard II and neither of the Two Gentlemen of Verona. It begins to feel accidental that I caught The Merry Wives of Windsor in college.

I really appreciate

asakiyume sending me Hen Ogledd's "Scales Will Fall" (2025) and

ashlyme alerting me to the trans-Neptunian existence of the sednoid Ammonite.

Current Music: Hen Ogledd, "Scales Will Fall"

muccamukk

Mooooooost of the politics mentioned are Canadian, a couple U.S. links in there.

Anti-Trans Bull Shit in Alberta
Stop Smith: Danielle Smith wants to take our rights and freedoms away. Help push back..
A petition.

Momentum: Join our mass organizing call on Wednesday, November 26th to help us turn the tide and stop Danielle Smith's assault on freedom, rights and trans kids..
Organising calls for both Alberta and elsewhere.

( Putting the context behind a cut. Anti-trans violence discussed )

Other Canadian Politics Stuff I'm Mad About:
Most of these are from leftist rags, because other news sources make me tired, y'all. Just posting links. ( Cut for CanPol Fuckery )

Miscellaneous. Kinda Downer Stuff?

caelanconrad: ChatGPT Kіlled Again - Four more Dеad (Video: 42min).
Ban. It. Ban it now. What the fuck!?

Dromline: When Your Favourite Author is Dead to You.
About Neil Gaiman, who the author was a lot more attached to than I ever was. Interviews Nalo Hopkinson and Tara Prescott-Johnson!

The Tyee: The Librarians Traces the Battle of a Lifetime.
Review of a documentary about book bans in Texas.

Miscellaneous. Not Completely Horrible Stuff?
Everyday Feminism: 8 Critical Things to Remember When Booking a Trans Performer.
Both funny and containing alarming examples from Kai and Ivan's lives.

Trauma Rewired: Self Compassion and How The Science of Kindness Changes Your Brain (Audio: 50min).
I find Dr. Kristin Neff's stuff helpful, though I know millage varies.

The Comics Journal: Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: "We’d stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh".
Really fun interview!

arimamary posting in

addme

Name: Mary (they/them pronouns)

Age: Late 20s

I mostly post about: Meta, media roundups (books, series, and videogames), recs, and the occasional odd post. My journal is strictly about my fannish hobbies so it's unlikely you'll every see personal irl stuff. It's also fairly new so please bear with me as I'm still learning how this site works.

My hobbies are: Writing fics, developing OCs, psychoanalyzing fictional characters. Reading manga, playing videogames, watching series. Web development, web design, and web accessibility. I maintain my own websites.

My fandoms are: Ace Attorney, Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura, all MXTX works (Scummy main), Inazuma Eleven, and Katekyo Hitman Reborn. While I have only written fics for Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura, and Inazuma Eleven and actively talk about those series in my journal, all of the series in the list are those I would love to find people in common with.

I'm looking to meet people who: Are queer and/or neurodivergent who are screaming their journals about their fannish interests, write meta, and obsess about their blorbos (OCs or not). I'm a thousand percent more likely to become interested in something new if I see how much it means to you!

My posting schedule tends to be: Sporadic atm as I finish setting up my account.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: People who vent, complain, and write using inflammatory language without contributing to advancing on the issue they are complaining about in their journals. I'm not particularly interested in people's personal lives nor am I interested in befriending people who publicly speak about their hateful phobias and -isms, particularly on queer identities and ableism.

Before adding me, you should know: My journal is under a blanket "view with discretion" warning. While I have some NSFW and 18+ posts (appropriately tag), these are not the norm. Please exercise caution when viewing.

Current Mood: excited

susandennis

The World Cup ends on Friday. The Boston Games are on Saturday - 1 afternoon and 1 evening - leave the stadium and come back - not doubleheader. And on Sunday. Afternoon.

There is a big Red Sox contingent in Seattle so the games are always full. Plus Saturday night. Plus it's a fireworks night. All of those add up to a ticket freenzy. I still can't buy tickets from the Mariners yet and am not sure why but am losing interest fast.

I did find 3 semi decent seats for Saturday night's game on Seat Geek. And I bought 'em. I'll get the Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon games later. Worst comes to worst... we at least have one game with no easy way to get there.

Next Parking. NIGHTMARE. There are a gillion options for reserve parking. The only ones even remotely close to the stadium are from dodgy resale places and at a price that is half of what I paid for the total of 3 tickets. The Mariners fucked up the ride share situation a few years ago. The ride share lot is a VERY VERY long walk from the closest stadium exit. I noodled around a bunch of options - none good - including the light rail and buses.

I finally decided to Scarlet O'Hara that bit. Since there's nothing worth reserving, I've got months to figure it out.

susandennis

I got up and fiddled around and then realized that the sun might break through the clouds and I'd better get my ass down to the pool to swim before it does. I did. Whew.

Next stresser: baseball tickets. It all started with my nephew asking if he could come visit next June so we could go to the Mariners/Red Sox game. Then we added his father. Then it turned out to be Father's Day weekend. Then I learned it was also the weekend right after the World Cup Soccerpolooza that will take over all of Seattle and be centered next door to the baseball stadium. And, in a good year on a random Thursday, Red Sox/Mariner tickets are hard to come by and I am very picky about where I sit at a baseball game and we have 3 of them I need to get tickets for. They go on sale in 1 hour and 15 minutes OR 25 hours and 15 minutes. The stupid Mariners have early sail for 'insiders' but no info on whether or not I am an 'insider'.

The smart move would be to wait until March and buy after market seats. The prices would be inflated but the seats would be better. BUT I'm not sure I can elongate the stress like that. If I can't get decent tickets, then the whole trip is a bust. I know, I'm being ridiculous.

And speaking of ridiculous. Totally after the fact, I learned that yesterday Biggie let himself out, went down to the elbow to supervise the Christmas decorating and then, when they were done, came home on his own and let himself back in. I was sitting here watching TV and assuming he was in the closet in his bed with Julio. I would not have known a thing except Bonny and Noelle popped in after 'Did you know that Biggie was out there helping us decorate?' Bonny said when they were done, she was going to walk him home and open the door for him but then he just walked down the hall and did it himself.

I have ordered him a collar with his name and apartment number on it.

I have not been careful about shutting the door tightly because he has not shown any interest in going out lately. Guess we'll need to be a little more vigilant. Happily everyone on this hall is ok with his roaming around. But, if he roams into the elevator...

Amazon has changed its major web color to orange for Black Friday and it's really tripping me out. I keep thinking Halloween. Decisions - especially design decisions - made by committee are so often just whacked.

Jorge, from Maintenance just arrived to remove one of the monitors from the bedroom wall. It think it's related to the new thermometers they installed last week. How much do I love not owning this (or any other place)!!!

Ok, I just got an email from the Mariners that I am an insider. So 45 minutes to go.

marycatelli posting in

books

Orange by Ichigo Takano

This is available in five volumes, and also in two omnibus editions (the second included a backstory which I didn't get into), but it reads as one story.

It opens with Naho receiving a letter. It says it's from her future self, that a new boy will arrive in class and sit beside her, and she must not ask him to walk home, because he's no longer with them in the future.

Not knowing what to believe, she joins with her friends in asking

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prettygoodword

A second week of words English got from the Taíno language of the Caribbean, though in this case it's not a sure thing:

canoe (kuh-NOO) - n., a light narrow boat with both ends sharp, usually propelled by paddling.

Thanks, WikiMedia!

In North American English, a canoe is always open as shown, but TIL in UK English, the word can also be applied to a kayak, which as we saw is always covered. We got the word from Spanish canoa, which got it from an Arawakan language that is probably Taíno, but the form there was never recorded -- based on comparisons with other, still living Arawakan languages such as Lokono, Wayuu, and Island Carib, it's been reconstructed as *kanowa, and it specifically meant a dugout canoe made by digging out and shaping a log.

---L.

ruric

It feels like I'm in a flat out and uncontrolled gallop to the end of the year and that whooshing sound is all the deadlines I'm failing to meet on both work and personal fronts!

As I was away from 13-17 November (lovely break, lots of napping and oodles of good food) and frankly lost most of last week was recovery this is more of a look forward than 'what I did over the last fortnight'.

#ORJENISE100 still need to catch up with the prompts I missed!

HOME: I've maintained the cleared areas of the flat, am making very slow progress on my bedroom and am ignoring the living room until the first week of December.

HEALTH: pretty good!

LIFE ADMIN: nope.

DIGITAL DECLUTTER: email has gone up a bit as I need a couple of hours to sort out a few folders, no progress on phone images recently. In fact, I've added to them by taking lots of screenshots. GAH!

GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: just have the three living room windows boxes to do. Lots of tidying to do in the tiny back garden (which will likely have to wait to Xmas hols) and I still have lots of bags of compost to take down to the allotment and bulbs to plant. Fingers crossed for a few fine hours this weekend.

COOKING/EATING: ate like royalty at Horbling, waddled home and lived off leftovers for a few days and then was seduced by Sainsbury's 3 for £10 offer on deli items so have been eating those with large veg portions. Won't really need to think about cooking until the weekend.

READING/LISTENING: nope.

WATCHING: Started new show Pluribus which I'm undecided about and quite liking the new Robin Hood

CREATING/LEARNING: back to crochet sessions on Monday evenings and Friday afternoons. Currently making a super simple beanie hat, and crochetings Xmas trees and stars to do a small garland for the flat. Apparently we'll be doing an Xmas challenge on Friday.

CATS: all good.

VOLUNTEERING: a few minor things I need to chase up following our first post AGM committee. We let a plot holder take over our social media and she has changed the email and passwords and now forgotten them so we can't get back into our Insta account. Grrrr.

SOCIALISING: yes - went for a roast this Sunday past in Greenwich with visiting friends from the US and

ravurian. Good company, good convo and delicious food.

WORK: I'm at the point where I'm wondering if I could retire sooner rather than hanging on to 2030!

Temperatures have dropped here - when we drove to Horbling on 10 Nov it was a balmy 15 degrees and sunny and we were in t-shirts. Temps dropped last week and now nights are 0 or -1 and days are 5 to 6 degrees.

Winter is Coming. Brrrrrr.

scripsi

I haven’t written any fanfic in a long time, and I feel I need to get back into it. I know from experience it’s good for my mental wellbeing to write, and as the world continues to hassle us, I need what I can get to feel good. I had been thinking of signing up for Yuletide, but completely missed the sign-up window. But when I checked what other people wish for, I found 2 letters that gave me ideas. So I will try to get those done as treats. I’ll try to write 300 words every day. More if I get in a flow, of course, but 300 words is doable even days with little writing time.

Fanfic meme gakked from all over my f-list.

From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions.

I currently have 123 works published, in 28 fandoms.

1. Under what rating do you write most?
Teen and up audience, with 47 works.

I thought Explicit or Mature would be on top, but they are number 3 and 4. But as it is my longer fics that tends to get that rating, while my one-shots usually have a lower rating, that isn’t so surprising.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?

Doctor Who with 32 fics.
Peter Pan with 17 fics.
And Harry Potter and Versailles both come third with 8 fics each.

Peter Pan was my first big fandom in the early 2000s, and Doctor Who my second one, ten years later, so no surprise with those. I was also super into Versailles for a bit, so that’s not odd either. But I’ve never really been very big on Harry Potter. I was over 30 when I first read the series, and I never really thought they were particularly well-written, though I was hooked enough to read every new book. But 3 of my fics are written as part of a re-mix challenge, so I didn’t really choose which fandom I would match on.

3. Which character do you write about most?

Captain Hook, who is in all my Peter Pan-fics. The Delgado version of the Master comes second, and River Song third. Though if you want to argue that the Master is the same character regardless of regeneration s/he is definitely my most written one, in 30 fics in total.

4. What are the 3 top pairings you've written?

On shared first place are Wendy Darling/James Hook (Peter Pan), Sophie de Clermont/Fabien Marchal (Versailles) and The Master/River Song (Doctor Who), who all have 7 fics each. Second pairing is Beth Harmon/Vasily Borgov (The Queen’s Gambit) with 6 fics. And third place are Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell and Imhotep/Evy Carnahan O'Connell (The Mummy), and Vanessa Ives/Sir Malcolm Murray (Penny Dreadful) with 3 fics each.

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?

On shared first place I have Humor, Angst, Dark, which have 14 fics each. Second is Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence with 9 fics, and in third place is Spanking with 8. Which I feel gives a pretty good general overview over my fanfics.

nverland posting in

recipecommunity

Champagne Cupcakes with Champagne Truffle Filling
Prep Time: 1 hr 15 min Cook Time: 15 min Total Time: 1 hr 30 min, plus cooling Yield: 12-14 cupcakes

Ingredients

2 cups (480ml) champagne

Champagne Truffle Filling
8 oz white chocolate chips
1/4 cup (60ml) champagne reduction, above
1/4 cup (60ml) heavy whipping cream

Champagne Cupcakes
1 1/4 cups (163g) all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
6 tbsp (84g) unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cups (155g) sugar
1 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1/2 cup (120ml) champagne reduction, above
2 tbsp (30ml) milk

Champagne Frosting
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup shortening
4 cups (460g) powdered sugar
4 tbsp champagne reduction, above
1/8 tsp salt

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vriddy

Editing a fic in which one of the characters has an eyepatch and replacing ~~too~~ many instances of "eyes" with "eye".

Only singular orbs in this house!!

harlow_turner_chaotic_ace posting in

su_herald

RILEY: Come on, come on. Grab my hand.
GILES: Thank god you came.
RILEY: Come on!
GILES: There was no possible escape.
GILES: Oh, my shoe. Silly me, I'll just pop-
RILEY: No no no, sir! No more chick pit for you. Come on.

~~S5E1: Buffy vs. Dracula~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Experimental Group (2025 Rewrite) (Buffy/Riley, Buffy & Maggie, M) by MadeInGold
Try as I might, I couldn’t bring myself to hold you (Jenny & Faith, Jenny/Giles, T) by ohrevienssoleil
The Long Game (Jenny/Giles, G) by AnnieInWonderland

Spike x Transmasc Reader (Spike/trans masc!Reader, unrated) by vampirewithtapeworms

Blood Ending (Buffy, xover, FR18) by Manchester

[Chaptered Fiction]

The Demon and The Soul, Chapter 1 (Angel/Harry Potter, Angel/Spike, Harry Potter xover, T) by Potterhead581
Miss Edith, Chapter 19 (Multiple ships, E) by BeppiGirl
always gray, never simple, Chapter 15 (Wesley/Lilah, M) by welcometocaritas
Buffy Summers M.D., Chapter 6 (Buffy/Faith, Tara/Willow, Buffy/Willow, M) by storiwr
Chasing Sunrise, Chapter 8 (Multiple ships, T) by summers-maclay-lehane (ofstormsandwolves)
Value Study, Chapter 3 (Angel/Buffy, T) by Liana_Medea
Coffee and starlight, Chapter 5 (Byffy/Lana Lang, Smallville xover, unrated) by Aya1600
Stuck in the Middle with You, Chapter 1 (Riley/Spike, E) by Laqt15
Iron Slayer, Chapter 17 (Buffy Summers & Tony Stark, Iron Man xover, unrated) by Aya1600
Twin Stars Over Opal City, Chapter 2 (Ensemble, Justice Society of America xover, T) by red_jacobson
Segue, Chapter 11 (Cordelia/Xander, T) by Francis_Eugene
This Cheer’s Girl, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Faith, Bring It On xover, M) by QuillBard
Colours and Promises, Chapter 1 (Multiple ships, T) by Cynder2013
Xanadu, Chapter 11 (Multiple ships, E) by violettathepiratequeen

i wanna be bad, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by goodbyetoyou
Girl's Girl, Chapter 12 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by LadyInQuest
Mile Markers and Blood Moons, Chapter 36 (Buffy/Spike, R) by JamesMFan
Xanadu, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by violettathepiratequeen

Twin Stars Over Opal City, Chapter 2 (Ensemble, FR13) by Red Jacobson
Xander and Tara's Adventures In Movie Making, Chapter 6 (Xander, Charmed xover FR21) by Red Jacobson
Team Stoppable In Sunnydale, Chapter 3 (Multiple ships, Kim Possible xover, FR18) by Red Jacobson
Harry Potter Undazzled, Chapter 6 (Halfrek, multiple xovers, FR18) by MarcusRowland
Heroes, villains and Slayers (Ensemble, multiple xovers, FR18) by DoctorSkywalker

Xanadu, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by violettathepiratequeen
Corruption, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Grief Counseling

[Images, Audio & Video]

Meme: BTVS as textposts vol. 7 (Enesemble, probably SFW) by no-resolution
Gifset: BEST OF BTVS: Angel & Faith (Angel, Faith, SFW) by clarkgriffon
Icons: Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) 3x03, Faith, Hope & Trick (Faith, SFW) by buffyedit
Gifset: Tara Maclay + Smiling (Tara, SFW) by andremichaux
Gifset: If you haven't loved someone like that, I don't know how you could portray it." - Sarah Michelle Gellar (Angel/Buffy, SFW with mild shirtless Angel) by anjelia3
Gifset: Tag yourself: Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins edition (Anya, SFW) by whatisyourchildhoodtrauma
Icons: Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers in 'Buffy, the Vampire Slayer', S03E0 (1998) (Buffy, SFW) by gellaricons
Gifset: too trusting and loving, depending, and kind; (Buffy/Spike, mildly suggestive) by clarkgriffon
Artwork: you're my angel! (Angel/Cordelia) by rabbitmotifs
Artwork: willow and cordelia (Willow, Cordelia, probably SFW) by rabbitmotifs
Meme: Buffy the vampire slayer as text posts (Ensemble but mainly Spike/Buffy, probably SFW) by sillyb00ks
Artwork: Buffy Summers and Lucy Carlyle (Buffy, SFW) by tiaragloryart

[Recs & In Search Of]

Gravity by Moonzari recced by buffyxgileswritingevent
ISO: Tara x Willow roleplay by canonrpfinder
Value Study by Liana_Medea recced by iwillrememberyoumarathon
❥❥ iwry marathon 2025: week three ❥❥ recced by iwillrememberyoumarathon

[Community Announcements]

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! by theultimatevampirebracket
Requests are now open for my new works; "Christmas with...." by reginaphalangelobster
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Event Closed by buffyxgileswritingevent

[Fandom Discussions]

I lose my mind every time someone says Buffy didn’t love Spike because of the ending. by sweetpi4
There are tons of Drusilla/Buffy parallels are out there by sspoike
Warren and Andrew going to the shooting range together and being GAY. by garscrucible
so i watched 1x10 and it wrecked me by esquegoth

Just started the show and i cannot imagine how weird it would be to attend this school by DiceGoblin_Muncher
How would you bring back the Vampire actors as they are if you *had* to. (Ie. aged) by Dalakaar
just thought about something the Mayor said that has me laughing 😂😂😂😂 by Illustrious_Nose1494
I wish they would have done a storyline where a slayer had been turned into a vampire by Jamieo1111
Eliza Dusku's talent! by geminivalley
Amber Benson talks about maybe joining the Buffy Writing Staff by MattanzaMafiaFedora

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sholio

The n-OH-vember Flash Exchange revealed, and I am delighted with my gift!

A Momentary Thing (Biggles/EvS, 3100 wds)
Absolutely delightful and satisfying enemies-era forced drugging/rescue. Bittersweet and delicious.

In other news, evidently Paletteful Packs (makers of curated art supply boxes) are going out of business and having a sale. However, the two things I attempted to buy both came up as "out of stock" when I clicked to add them to the cart (though this was not otherwise indicated) and after that I gave up. So either my choices were uniquely unlucky, or a bunch of items appear to be available for purchase on the website but actually aren't.

queenlua

"Verso," Sciel says, smiling brightly, "I'm starting to think you don't want our little expedition to succeed."

---

Verso’s working toward another end. Sciel won’t let that happen.

Set during Act 3.

Sciel &/ Verso, ~7k words.

Read here on AO3.

( author's notes (contains spoilers for the fic) )

james

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chestnut_pod posting in

poetry

The Old Usher
Oliver Reynolds
2010, from Hodge

--

for Farès Moussa

I have
shouted Lights! in the foyer as the show begins

I have
opened and closed a million doors
Push and Pull stamping my palms

I have
woken with Good Evening on my lips

I have
ROH in moles over my left nipple

I have
Tchaikovsky as a heart-beat

I have
told ten thousand bladders
It’s down the slope and on the right

I have
stood at the bottom of Floral Hall stairs
with Peter Bramley at the top
tapping the metal hand-rail with his ring
to annoy me

I have
bent my head to complaints about the row in front
the big hair-do, the change-jingler, those who snore or smell

I have
turned a blind eye, a deaf ear, and a stopped nostril

I have
opened and closed a million doors
Push and Pull stamping my palms

I have
waited in the wings to present flowers
cygnets wafting past me in a crush of tutus
each back tight with the cordage of muscle

I have
sold ices with Susie Boyle

I have
passed the black-and-white monitor at Stage Door
and felt proud to see Haitink in the pit
a bottled homunculus preserved in music

I have
opened my locker on a vista of dirty shirts

I have
killed a moth for Monica Mason
It wants to settle on me!
she who once danced her death in the Rite
now frightened of millimetres of flutter

I have
Tchaikovsky as a heart-beat

I have
bassoons and strings planned for my last-act death
the weightless pas-de-chat
lifting me out of this ninth life
into the proscenium’s eternal gold

I have
perfected my farewell
a final turning-out of the pockets
as I rise and vanish into air
swirling with the confetti of ticket-stubs

I have
shouted Lights! as the show begins

I have

senmut

I am currently working on my

ladiesbingo card for my December posting goals.

Sinners (Annie & Mary)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy & Dawn about Willow)
DC Comics (Dinah Lance & Selina Kyle)
Partners in Crime (Carole & Sydney)

Now, I have been the first to put fandom tags up on AO3 a lot in the distant past. But I never thought I'd be doing it again in 2025. The last time I did was 2021, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Jeffersons now has more than my one work. So I double checked that last fandom up there, got briefly excited because "Partners in Crime" was a tag in the TV Show fandoms.

However, it is actually for Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, from the year before my one season detective American show. So yep, gotta disambiguate the name when I create it.

(I am trying to mentally fortify myself for the first TG dinner I am partly responsible for in ... a very long time, so no misc.exhausted.me this week)

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Page Summary

starwatcher in fandom_checkin - Daily Check-in
senmut - 30 in 30: ST:TNG
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #6898 ]
sovay - Open up your mouth, but the melody is broken
muccamukk - Various Links, lots of politics. Some time-sensative actions. Fun stuff at the end.
arimamary in addme - Hello Hello!
susandennis - And then it got worse
susandennis - Monday
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Weeks 46 and 47 - the whooshing sound of passing deadlines!

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Champagne Cupcakes with Champagne Truffle Filling

All about the orb

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