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تئی منّت وار (5 March 2026)

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pinch hits

FFFX Post-Deadline PHs

fffx is a multifandom gift exchange where the standard minimum of a gift is a fanfic of 10,000+ words or fanart in panelled comic style of 40+ panels.

We've passed the deadline and have 5 remaining pinch hits, mostly requiring a half-length gift of 5,000+ words (fic) or 20+ panels (comic art).

Please take a look if you think you might be able to post a gift of this kind by 11:59pm EDT, Thursday 19 March.

My participants and I are very grateful for your interest!

Pinch hit #32 - fic - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Murder She Wrote, Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Voltron: Lion Force (1984)

Pinch hit #39 - fic - Stargate Atlantis, Kolja | Kolya (1996), Cesta do pravěku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955), Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)

Pinch hit #62 - art, fic - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV), 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV), 伪装者 | The Disguiser (TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), 杀破狼 | Sha Po Lang - priest )

Pinch hit #65 - fic - Columbo, Criminal Minds (US TV), Grey's Anatomy, Miss Marple - Agatha Christie, NCIS: Los Angeles, SEAL Team (TV), Sherlock (TV) The Professionals (TV 1977)

PH #67 - art, fic [varies by request] - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Brooklyn 99 & The Labyrinth], Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)

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meta

March Meta Matters

marchmetamatterschallenge is running this month. :D Here is my introductory post. So what is meta? Well, it can be a lot of things ...

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I don't really want to make a regular post now

(or ever) but I also don't want to not do it, so here we are I guess?

In order to make this a normal post, let me say that my Robert Moses counter is incrementing up again. It has now been 0 hours since the last time somebody brought up Robert Moses, but it's my fault for reading an article about walkable cities and then scrolling to the comments.

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Current Mood: cranky

D&D night

I woke up hungry at 6:00 this morning, and came out and ate my Cheerios, but didn't have coffee. Then I went back to bed and slept til 10:30. I got up and had coffee and checked to see if my Funko Pop had appeared. Spoiler alert... it hasn't.

I puttered on the computer for a few hours, checking for the Pop every hour, and finally went into the bedroom. I played solitaire for awhile, then started reading a Ngaio Marsh mystery that I had on my TBR pile.

I read that til 6:00 and then started trying to get the Teams up and running to Team the FWiB. Spoiler alert... I couldn't. We ended up using my phone.

At 8:00 I went to my D&D game. I started out having to use Discord on my phone but as the battery drained I restarted the computer and got Discord up, an surprisingly it worked quite well.

The game was fun, we battled lizard-men, bug bears, grey ooze, and an owl-bear.

I self rec'd my 9/11 story on the Starsky and Hutch Facebook group. For anyone interested, it's here on AO3:

The Only Thing I Can Be Sure Of

After the game I had dinner an fed the pets. Now it's time for bed.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The Discord mostly worked.

3. Ebay gives refunds.

4. My D&D group.

5. Good books.

6. My story got a really nice comment.

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[#291 | Safe Harbor] Challenge Post

Challenge 291:
SAFE HARBOR

It’s been a long, dangerous voyage, through storms and rough waters, past obstacles and opponents (sea monsters? Enemy ships? Dimensional portals?). But finally, a familiar sight comes into view, and you know that the worst of the journey is past. You’ve reached a safe harbor.

It doesn’t have to be a literal harbor, of course. It could be the final exit off the highway after a multi-week road trip from hell, or the first sign of familiar houses as you take a well-worn path home after too long away, or the sight of an old friend coming to greet you in a crowd of hostile strangers. The important part is that you know the worst is over; you’re safe now, or close enough.

Write a story about a safe harbor (literal or metaphorical).

BONUS GOAL: When The Gulls Call

If your submission features seagulls, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, March 9 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 291 – safe harbor
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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[Amnesty #029] Roundup

Our twenty-ninth Amnesty Week gathered 3 entries across five themes. Well done, everybody!

See under the cut for a list of fics for Amnesty #029.

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If you missed out on Amnesty this time, don’t worry! All of these prompts will be included for Amnesty Week #030 as well. (And thank you very much for your patience with the delay last week. Your mod had some unexpected schedule conflicts!)

Challenge 554

Write a couple of paragraphs where your characters are looking for something lost. It can be something really cool like a treasure or something small like keys.

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2026,
check-in post

March Meta Matters Challenge, Check-in No. 2

March Meta Matters Challenge banner by thenewbuzzwuzz

Hello everyone! It's check-in time to see how we're all getting along with our meta importing.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) Anything unexpected you've discovered as you got started?

2) If you have a lot to archive/copy over, have you figured out how you'll organize it?

Remember, this account accepts anonymous comments, so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account we still want to hear from you and have you take part.

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This has been a less easy day.

It's the 35th anniversary of my mom's death.

It still hurts, all of it.

At least, I'm not reliving the whole thing, just dealing with emotional splashback this year.

She died in hospital, during an ice storm, and I was not informed of it until after I'd come up there, so I traveled expecting to see her when she'd passed before I'd gotten the phone call.

And that ties into even nastier family crap that I'm not even going to mention except to say it happened and was absolutely shitty.

So I am sticking to the more cheerful reruns of shows to watch, plus Colbert, and the sillier novels. They don't dig me out, but they keep me from going deeper into the Marianas Trench.

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It's Been a Weird Day

marchmetamatterschallenge has begun! I'm particularly excited this year since I will finally come current with my meta archiving. I'm already finished with 2024 and should finish 2025 by tomorrow. One thing I hope is to do more writing this year.

2) The February CheckIn at

everykindofcraft has gotten a lot of responses. It's interesting to hear all the different ways that people have learned these skills.

3) In less good news, a bunch of RSS feeds seem to have stopped working. The AO3 vids feed hasn't updated in weeks (so unlikely to be AO3's recent issues), and 4 feeds from Tumblr have stopped as well, though it seems only 2 have been updating lately. It's definitely not the feed service, because at least 3 other feeds I have set up have updated within the last few days. I'm wondering if Tumblr is somehow blocking RSS feeds now?

I also feel like there are people's posts that I have missed though I am less sure about that.

3) I was waiting for a cashier and there were 3 women and 2 small girls ahead of me. The two little girls were racing around everywhere, grabbing things and then having them put back by the women. It was all taking some time, and the squealing was getting on my nerves. But then one grabbed an Easter Bunny and told her mom she wanted it.

The mom asked the cashier if it was solid or hollow, and was told it was hollow (which seemed most likely to me given its size and price!) The little girl then asked what "hollow" was, and her mom struggled to explain it, finally saying "It has a hole inside it." The little girl then said "I'll put it back and get another." We all burst out laughing as her mom then tried to explain that the bunny wasn't defective, it was just the way it was made.

4) So it looks like Paramount will fold HBO into its service. I expect that will put paid to its bundling with Disney services, though it does make it more likely we'll keep Paramount+ around post-The Late Show cancellation. At this point the U.S. looks like it's going to have 3 major streamers, a number of secondary streamers (in which I include Peacock) and a vast number of tiny streamers.

5) Never posted here that I finished the latest season of Strange New Worlds. Thought it somewhat better than earlier seasons, despite the way it started, though I find it a bit jarring to see TOS episodes essentially revised for use here. The finale seemed a cross between Rey at the end of the Skywalker saga and ST:TOS's Lazarus episode. ( Read more... )

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Current Mood: headachey
Current Music: those gODDAMN WHITE NOISE MACHINES

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state of the liz

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RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

Happy Wednesday! It's already March, time sure go by fast. What are you reading now?

[ SECRET POST #6998 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6998 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 15 secrets from Secret Submission Post #999.
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.

Wednesday, March 4 - Outer Space

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PSA

Now that the word's gone out round these parts about our dear friend MM, I have access-locked the entry per request of her significant other.

Please consider access-locking your entries for now, to honour her wishes.

Hugs to all of you. <333

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Mélodies from France and Canada

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/03/04/midday-melodies-canada-meets-france/

Current Mood: exhausted

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March Anime PTW 2

Used my anime TBR boardgame.

I finished 4/5 for my last challenge, dropped one. Had a mostly great time!

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Dr Stone
Skill: Beat the trap time once!

Roll #1:

A 2, prompt: costume on cover. Me pondering what exactly counts as a costume. I guessss I'll watch another ep. of Magic Kaito.

Roll #2:

A 9, prompt: watch a donghua! More Legend of Exorcism.

Roll #3:

A 4, prompt: fire on the cover - Cardfight!! Vanguard!

Roll #4:

A 7, prompt: flowers on the cover - Akagami no Shirayuki-hime.

Roll #5:

An 11 and the generate from PTW tile... Okay finally done moving/deleting things, #75 is Chou Kaguya-hime!. I heard bad things about the manga adaptation so the anime is what I'm watching. And I just realized this is a movie! Rare for me to watch and enjoy anime movies outside of Ghibli.

Roll #6:

A 7 and the end, reward, well I can't resist more Bikkurimen.

Changelog: Turned on 'avoid repetitions' for the prompts so that two in a row doesn't happen.

The skill wasn't needed what a waste.

Most looking forward to: Bikkurimen
Least looking forward to: Magic Kaito

~Anime PTW List~

[Comedy/Phantom Thief] Magic Kaito
[Fantasy/Comedy] Legend of Exorcism
[Card Game] Cardfight!! Vanguard
[Drama/Romance] Akagami no Shirayuki-hime
[Sci-Fi/Music] Chou Kaguya-hime!
[Superhero/Card Game] Bikkurimen

Current Music: PJ Harvey, "Memphis"

In Memphis, on Valentine's Day

Diameter of mental blast crater not diminished. Outside is absurdly springlike following the double-tap of winter that required me to shovel my mother's car out twice, once for the unexpected four inches of snow and then for the glacial swamp the succeeding sleet turned the driveway into. In the process I seem to have inherited the Bat, the stupidest motorcycle jacket I have met in my life. It doesn't have sleeves so much as it has patagia. It is covered with snaps that open into flaps and none of them into pockets. The total design suggests that it may be so heavily constructed because otherwise in a sufficiently stiff gust of wind its owner could achieve accidental unpowered flight. It looks like an opera cape with ambitions of fetish night. My mother insisted on it because I had run out to shovel the first time in my flannel shirtsleeves and the second time my corduroy coat was obviously not adequate to the slush-fall, but it was a present to my father from my grandparents about forty years ago and it looks functionally mint because he has spent most of that time avoiding ever wearing it. In its defense, it is extremely warm and also I look like a tire. There will be no photographs.