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[personal profile] senmut
AO3 Link | Pick Ups (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Transformers: Shattered Glass
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ratchet [Transformers], Ironhide [Transformers]
Additional Tags: Drug Abuse, Drabble
Summary:

Ironhide walks in on Ratchet



Pick Ups

"Pretty sure the sharp side goes in other mechs," Ironhide drawled after walking in, unannounced, to Ratchet's bay.

The other mech flicked his optics up once, but didn't move much past that as he finished injecting the stim.

"You want me available for your fight, I get to use the syringes how I want," Ratchet growled at him.

"Your own cocktail?"

"Don't trust 'Jack's," Ratchet agreed.

"Unicron smash us all from that!" Ironhide agreed. "I let him juice my frontliners, but won't touch it." He sidled closer. "Got more? Chromia was enthusiastic."

Ratchet chuckled, found another, and handed it over.

anneapocalypse: Julie Farkas (fnv julie)
[personal profile] anneapocalypse

I started following Nova Black on YouTube a while back, but she hadn't uploaded in some time, so I was really happy to see her post again recently (explaining that she'd gone quite a few months without a working phone). She mostly posts about her life as a houseless traveler, but she wants to record more of her music to upload as she's able, and I hope she does! So go give her some views if you enjoy the song. ❤️

October Book Log

1 November 2025 23:33
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[personal profile] astrogirl
Thus endeth October, a month bookended (no pun intended) by two works with "Natural History" in the subtitle and some stuff about Charles Darwin and evolution between the covers, even if they're otherwise very different. Should I pretend I did that deliberately?

66. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson )

67. Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente )

68. How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith )

69. The World at Night by Babak Tafreshi )

70. Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen by Terrance Dicks )

71. The Cipher by Kathe Koja )

72. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould )
senmut: Screen shot of Mikaela dirty in the end of '07 TF, Warrior Goddess in blue above and below (Transformers: Mikaela)
[personal profile] senmut
AO3 Link | New Opportunities (232 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bumblebee [2018], Bayverse Transformers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Charlie Watson [Bumblebee], Mikaela Banes [Transformers 2007]
Additional Tags: First Meetings
Summary:

Charlie may run her own company, but she still believes in running her own errands.

She gets to meet someone else who is a gear-head like she is.



New Opportunities

Charlie pushed over the counter at Harry's and looked at the man on the floor. "Nap time, really?"

"Hadn't had a customer all day," the man said, pushing his hat back and slowly sitting up. "Thought you had a job."

She laughed, shaking her head. "I'm the boss and the owner, and yet. When I need parts, I come to you, my old friend."

He brought himself up, and started to say something… but the door opened and this time he heard the jingle. Both of them looked over to see and hot body with grease and overalls trying to hide the fact.

"Mikki, haven't seen you in forever!" Harry called.

"Yeah, been out of town, but got my dad's garage back and running."

"Harry, you been holding out on me? You know I like investing in gearheads like me," Charlie said to that before walking over. "Charlie Watson."

Mikki's eyes went huge. "THE Charlie Watson, dive champ and motor innovator?"

"So usually it's one or the other, so kudos to you."

"Mikaela Banes," Mikki offered. "Harry gets away with Mikki, but Mik is what most of my friends use these days."

"Well, I hope to earn that right, Mikaela," Charlie said, offering a business card. "I've got to get a few things, but give me a call?"

"I'm here for parts, and have a car on lifts, but yeah, I will."

ten years and done

31 October 2025 11:20
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[personal profile] taichara
The JP server for Final Fantasy Brave Exvius shut down last night; GL server was last year.

Time to pack up all my blorbos and my unfinished world theories and stuff them in a pocket to poke at when I'm less Something[tm].
anneapocalypse: Max Caulfield looking out the window. (lis max a glimpse of what could be)
[personal profile] anneapocalypse

Surprise! A music review!

I’ve been making a gradual push away from streaming and toward building a physical media and mp3 music collection again, and in the process both rediscovering some old favorites and exploring newer ones more deeply.

I first discovered Freya Ridings on YouTube... )

"fandom". fucking lol.

29 October 2025 09:48
taichara: (pissing off strangers)
[personal profile] taichara
Every time I feel even the slightest frisson of "I should at least post more and those posts should be more ~fandom", (ao3/dw/tumblr-centric) (transformative) fandom reminds me why no, actually, "fandom" can fuck itself, lol.

The last two months or so have been especially remindering!

What with

- the Relationshipping/Mod Cabal discord server horseshit (that poor recip) and the circling of the wagons to protect all those fuckhole exchange mods

- the sniveling cowardly and greedy fuck rampaging across [community profile] fandomgiftbasket (because they want their gifts nownownow)

- the other sniveling cowardly fuck (who clearly thinks too much of themselves and of fandom) who decided to scurry away to FFA to sniff instead of actually engaging with opinions (ahahaa did you think one of us wouldn't see you)

just off the top of my head --

Yeeahhhh I'm good. I'm going to keep on just randomly posting to show I'm not dead and periodically adding stuff to [community profile] loneknight, and fuck ~*Fandom*~. Always knew it was a cesspool; seeing more and more accelerating evidence of that these days.

(that said, props to the folks who also decided the sniveling fuck having a tantrum on [community profile] fandomgiftbasket can fuck themselves, and all tossed in to fill baskets. you folks are good folks yo.)

Lol. Fukkin lol.
taichara: (Gray -- field)
[personal profile] taichara
Title: Practice
Fandom: Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe
Characters: Gray, (Mirsa, Albert)
Warnings: CNTW
Summary: Gray has himself a bit of a snoop, and a bit more of a think. And that's not all.
Comments: This was written for a SaGa zine that's looking more and more like it will never see the light of day, so here it is.


Vanguard in autumn was brisk, and cool, and filled with the sounds of migrating birds and whirling leaves )
taichara: (White Knight Noel)
[personal profile] taichara
Title: Snowfall
Fandom: Final Fantasy Exvius Universe
Character: White Knight Noel
Warnings: CNTW
Summary: The White Knight becomes legend.
Comments: For [personal profile] spook_me 2025, "invaders".


A stunning sight: sheer cliffs gleaming with silvery ice sheets )

Alphabetical Fic Meme

25 October 2025 17:09
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I can never resist a fic-related meme, so of course I had to do this one I've seen going around lately:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

For each letter, I've just picked the one that comes first alphabetically. I will note that this leaves a couple of my stories out of consideration entirely because they start with non-letter characters. But never mind those, let's se what the alphabet gives us.

A - After the World (Good Omens (TV)/Disco Elysium, Aziraphale, Crowley, Harry du Bois (sort of))
B - Back from Outer Space (Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher/Ford Pines)
C - Captive Audience (The Good Place, Vicky, Janet)
D - The Dad Joke (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Frisk)
E - Earthly Pleasures (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
F - Fail Until You're Good Enough at It That It Starts to Look Like Hope (Disco Elysium, Harry du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi)
G - Galactic Peace Never Solved Anything (Farscape, John Crichton)
H - Hair Today, Gun Tomorrow (Blake's 7, Jenna Stannis, Jarriere, Jarvik)
I - I Could Give All to Time Except (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale)
J - Just a Few Bonecalls (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Papyrus)
K - Keep One Place, Just for Us (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, Crowley)
L - The Last Stop on the Tour (Doctor Who/Once Upon a Time, Clara Oswald, Emma Swan)
M - Maybe This Time (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/Missy)
N - The Natural Attraction of Opposites (physics anthropomorfic, electron/positron)
O - The Observer Effect (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Gabriel, Beelzebub)
P - The Pale, the Sea, and the Shore (Disco Elysium/Our Flag Means Death, Lena, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach)
Q - A Question of Interior Design (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
R - A Re-Examination of the Origins of the Doctor Myth (Doctor Who, OCs)
S - Save the Date (Doctor Who, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, multiple Doctors)
T - That Thing They Say About the Road to Hell (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, hints of Aziraphale/Crowley)
U - Uncommanded and Unforbidden (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
V - Vaster Than Empires (Doctor Who/Farscape, Zotoh Zhaan/Jabe)
W - Waning (The A Capella Version) (Farscape, Stark)
X -
Y - You (Gravity Falls, Stan Pines, Ford Pines)
Z - The Zombie Master, or PGP of the Living Dead (Blake's 7, Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Vila Restal, Del Tarrant, Dayna Mellanby, Soolin)

That's 25 letters represented out of 363 fics. You'd think by now I'd have written something starting with X, but no.

And, man, that's an interesting list of fics. I suppose it does actually represent my fic-writing range pretty well? Certainly there's a good mix of fandoms (with that period where I spewed forth insane numbers of Good Omens fics accurately represented). And quite a time span, too, with a couple of things I wrote just this year, and a few I wrote decades ago in what feels like an entirely different world, when I was an entirely different person and fandom was, you guessed it, entirely different. Or at least very different, anyway.

Database maintenance

25 October 2025 08:42
mark: A photo of Mark kneeling on top of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines. It was a long hike. (Default)
[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

Dear Yuletide Writer 2025

23 October 2025 21:15
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[personal profile] karanguni

Dear Yuletide writer,

Thank you for writing for me! I'm a generally omnivorous reader and excited to read anything that you come up with – everything in this letter is optional. Have fun!

AO3: karanguni
tl;dr: I happily opt into gen, porn, unusual media types, and crossovers with fandoms I have read/written/requested before; ignore or take as many parts of this wall of text as you want! My AO3 account has gifts enabled for treats.

Initial D, Kamusari Series, Heike Monogatari, The Bedlam Stacks, The Culture )

AWS outage

20 October 2025 10:11
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[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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