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conulyWhich I can sum up for you as "They went on one date a decade and a half ago and have been obsessed with each other ever since. Also, something terrible happened to Boston and everybody therein."
(It got sent to the moon. I'm just going to assume everybody died almost before they had time to realize.)
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(It got sent to the moon. I'm just going to assume everybody died almost before they had time to realize.)
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FANFIC: comparisons are odious (DC comics / New Teen Titans)
Jun. 4th, 2026 08:36 pmqueenslayerbeeAnother Three Sentence Ficathon 2024 drabble!
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Title: comparisons are odious.
Fandom: DC comics (New Teen Titans).
Character/Pairing: Dick Grayson & Joseph Wilson.
Rating/Warnings: T, none.
Summary: For the prompt: "DC Comics, Joey Wilson, like father like son."
Word count: 100.
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Where Slade was all hard edges, Joey is the softest tissue –if the father’s eyes were cold as steel, the son’s are the warm gentle waters of a summer’s escapade to the lake; the quite menace of one finds no echo in the soothing reserve of the other.
Yet Dick keeps looking for the common threat to unite them, each instance a conscious choice against a natural instinct that tells him he can trust Joey; that he can trust him with himself, and most importantly, that he can trust him with the team.
Dick’s instincts have failed the team before.
FANFIC: took ill on a thursday (DC comics / Batman)
Jun. 2nd, 2026 02:48 pmqueenslayerbeeHere I start with 2024's fics! Beginning with the ones I wrote for the Three Sentence Ficathon.
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Title: took ill on thursday.
Fandom: DC comics (Batman, War Games/Under the Hood).
Character/Pairing: Gotham City & Jason Todd (& Stephanie Brown).
Rating/Warnings: T, referenced character death.
Summary: For the prompt: "dc comics, any, never could get the hang of thursdays".
Word count: 100.
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“Took ill on Thursday,” is how Solomon Grundy’s nursery rhyme goes.
An imposing figure stops in front of a store’s window, sleek red helmet reflecting the lights of the television screens on display; it’s another program retelling Black Mask’s ascension in the city’s underbelly on the never-ending news circle, Stephanie Brown’s publicized death at his hands nothing more than a mere footnote on the story of yet one more sadist with a gimmick.
Jason returns to Gotham on a Thursday, but he is under no delusion: he knows his city to have been sick for far, far longer than that.
Birdfeeding
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Let's Get Literate! Platform Decay by Martha Wells
Jun. 1st, 2026 07:42 pmrenay posting in ladybusinessIt's hard to write about an advanced reader copy of one of the most coveted science fiction releases of the quarter. I tried, multiple times, to collect some thoughts about Platform Decay, the latest release in The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I failed, every time, because my love for this series is immense, but also hard to quantify. Finding the words to describe sincere emotions? Ugh. Therefore, Platform Decay is already out, and you can read it now via your library or favorite indie bookstore!
Platform Decay is the eighth entry in The Murderbot Diaries, following our hero as it stages a high stakes rescue on Corporate Ringworld. It's working apart from its usual allies, it must infiltrate and escape the station with several squishy humans, and oh right, a former enemy asks for its help, complicating the extraction. Nothing can go wrong!
(Things immediately go wrong.)
To make matters worse, it's also dealing with an emotional health module. What's more stressful than a hostage situation in corporate territory? Mobile therapy. Murderbot must protect its humans (no pressure), avoid corporate forces that would love to slurp its kidnapped humans into corporate slavery (assholes), and navigate across a hostile station where one mistake could cost it everything (business as usual!). ( Read more... )
Platform Decay is the eighth entry in The Murderbot Diaries, following our hero as it stages a high stakes rescue on Corporate Ringworld. It's working apart from its usual allies, it must infiltrate and escape the station with several squishy humans, and oh right, a former enemy asks for its help, complicating the extraction. Nothing can go wrong!
(Things immediately go wrong.)
To make matters worse, it's also dealing with an emotional health module. What's more stressful than a hostage situation in corporate territory? Mobile therapy. Murderbot must protect its humans (no pressure), avoid corporate forces that would love to slurp its kidnapped humans into corporate slavery (assholes), and navigate across a hostile station where one mistake could cost it everything (business as usual!). ( Read more... )
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jun. 1st, 2026 07:02 pmconulyWe were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
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We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
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Above a gulf of hamstrung promises
Jun. 1st, 2026 10:08 amnewredshoesLast night, I made a terrible mistake and added up all my nonnegotiable expenses and friends, the vibes are rancid and I am several hundred dollars in the hole each month even before I get to feeding myself. Do we still use Patreon as a way to supplement a full-time income?? (I like Substack as a platform very much but the fights about it exhaust me. The other options are ugly and want me to pay for the privilege; right now, no.)
This would not be as much as an issue if I hadn't been hit all at once with a $1,600 tax bill in April, then an $800 special assessment and then an $1,800 bill from dislocating my elbow, which I had thought was totally covered by my insurance but I guess not! I'm on payment plans for two of those, but that's through the end of the summer and that just... ugh.
I can't ask my family for help because my dad will just start talking about how I'll get money when he dies and I can't handle that. I can't keep drawing on my savings because that shit's got to actually grow. I can't cut down much in my budget because that $30 in TV subscriptions and Grubhub membership is load-bearing for my mental health. I have all these vacation days I have to use or lose and I can't actually afford to do anything!!!
So anyway, yeah, I really miss doing Excited Mark-style essays with research, but I'm thinking of serializing a novel I started drafting a while ago. It would combine my need for money with my quest for a Creative Thing to Do, but damn, monetizing your free time and hobbies absolutely sucks.
This would not be as much as an issue if I hadn't been hit all at once with a $1,600 tax bill in April, then an $800 special assessment and then an $1,800 bill from dislocating my elbow, which I had thought was totally covered by my insurance but I guess not! I'm on payment plans for two of those, but that's through the end of the summer and that just... ugh.
I can't ask my family for help because my dad will just start talking about how I'll get money when he dies and I can't handle that. I can't keep drawing on my savings because that shit's got to actually grow. I can't cut down much in my budget because that $30 in TV subscriptions and Grubhub membership is load-bearing for my mental health. I have all these vacation days I have to use or lose and I can't actually afford to do anything!!!
So anyway, yeah, I really miss doing Excited Mark-style essays with research, but I'm thinking of serializing a novel I started drafting a while ago. It would combine my need for money with my quest for a Creative Thing to Do, but damn, monetizing your free time and hobbies absolutely sucks.
The Crochet Pile - May 2026
Jun. 1st, 2026 07:29 amkaliraI definitely did not winnow down the pile this month. Oopsies?
Finished this month: 2
Finished from The Pile: 2
Added to The Pile: 6
So I did finish two things from the Pile, but I didn't finish any of the new things I started.
Three of them are things intended to solve a problem/fill a needed niche for myself.
( finished from the Pile )
Moving on to things started this month. . .
( niche-filling things for myself )
( new projects not for myself )
Hopefully I'll be able to finish a few of the new things (and/or old ones!) this upcoming month; also, perhaps, specifically the . . . now-two items I'm looking at for my own personal problem-solving? The water tray mat is kind of important (if not an emergency; there's not been any real problem thus far) and I'd like to more easily be able to use (and add to/refine out) the magpie deck.
So here's the state of The Pile currently:
Active WIPs: 23
(Subset that are market batches: 12)
Hibernating: 3
Total projects (complete, WIPs, everything): 155
Finished this month: 2
Finished from The Pile: 2
Added to The Pile: 6
So I did finish two things from the Pile, but I didn't finish any of the new things I started.
Three of them are things intended to solve a problem/fill a needed niche for myself.
( finished from the Pile )
Moving on to things started this month. . .
( niche-filling things for myself )
( new projects not for myself )
Hopefully I'll be able to finish a few of the new things (and/or old ones!) this upcoming month; also, perhaps, specifically the . . . now-two items I'm looking at for my own personal problem-solving? The water tray mat is kind of important (if not an emergency; there's not been any real problem thus far) and I'd like to more easily be able to use (and add to/refine out) the magpie deck.
So here's the state of The Pile currently:
Active WIPs: 23
(Subset that are market batches: 12)
Hibernating: 3
Total projects (complete, WIPs, everything): 155
