Challenge #495
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tenminutesadayFor today's challenge, describe a group activity from the level of the group, not the individuals in the group. As an example, you could describe an army setting out on a march across the country, and you might say that from the battlements of the fort, it looks like a long line of ants. But you wouldn't talk about individual soldiers in the army and what they're doing.
Some ideas: a play in a team sports game, traffic on a highway, a bus of tourists visiting a scenic lookout, children going out for recess.
Some ideas: a play in a team sports game, traffic on a highway, a bus of tourists visiting a scenic lookout, children going out for recess.
#156 - Panache
Jul. 27th, 2025 10:55 pmmxcatmoon posting in vocab_drabblesThis week's word is
pə-ˈnash -ˈnäsh
Noun
1: an ornamental tuft (as of feathers), especially on a helmet
"The palace guard had a panache on his helmet."
2: Flamboyant confidence in style and action: verve
"He entertained Palm Springs society with great panache."
Panache
pə-ˈnash -ˈnäsh
Noun
1: an ornamental tuft (as of feathers), especially on a helmet
"The palace guard had a panache on his helmet."
2: Flamboyant confidence in style and action: verve
"He entertained Palm Springs society with great panache."
richard harmon; final destination bloodlines (+496)
Jul. 27th, 2025 08:32 pmtheskyisnew posting in capseroo
A post
Jul. 27th, 2025 01:31 pmthisbluespiritThings continue much as before. I wanted to make a post, but I haven't quite the brain for reviews or the like, so here are two random quick things:
1. Back when we were all making top 100 lists,osprey_archer did a picture books one, and there was a discussion in the comments about US vs UK picture books, so I did a UK one, with the best/most popular/influential picture book illustrators I could think of (up to 2010 when I stopped being a children's librarian and, indeed, anything much), but it took ages to try and make sure I wasn't missing people and put all the covers on, and then I kept forgetting I'd made it.
It's here for those who like clicking on books in a list.
(I apologise for the lack of 2010s and 2020s; but I have not kept up at all! Also I included picture books only for the most part, with a few honourable exceptions, so this means there are very few early reader type books & no comics, but there are picture books for older readers. It needs to be an unorthodox size and shelved in the kinder boxes! Also, I focused on illustrators not authors. Plus a tiny handful were just personal favourites, but it is my list. ;-p)
2. I was talking about Outrageous, the U&Drama/Britbox TV series about the Mitfords last time. It continued to be excellent and it finally occurred to me that I could link the trailer, which would be helpful:
1. Back when we were all making top 100 lists,
osprey_archer did a picture books one, and there was a discussion in the comments about US vs UK picture books, so I did a UK one, with the best/most popular/influential picture book illustrators I could think of (up to 2010 when I stopped being a children's librarian and, indeed, anything much), but it took ages to try and make sure I wasn't missing people and put all the covers on, and then I kept forgetting I'd made it.It's here for those who like clicking on books in a list.
(I apologise for the lack of 2010s and 2020s; but I have not kept up at all! Also I included picture books only for the most part, with a few honourable exceptions, so this means there are very few early reader type books & no comics, but there are picture books for older readers. It needs to be an unorthodox size and shelved in the kinder boxes! Also, I focused on illustrators not authors. Plus a tiny handful were just personal favourites, but it is my list. ;-p)
2. I was talking about Outrageous, the U&Drama/Britbox TV series about the Mitfords last time. It continued to be excellent and it finally occurred to me that I could link the trailer, which would be helpful:
#142 Absquatulate - Good Omens - "Perfection"
Jul. 27th, 2025 12:42 ammxcatmoon posting in vocab_drabblesTitle: Perfection
Fandom: Good Omens
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: G
Characters/Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Words: 189
Summary: Just fluff with a dash of mush
( Perfection )
Fandom: Good Omens
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: G
Characters/Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Words: 189
Summary: Just fluff with a dash of mush
( Perfection )
[#268] JUST REWARD (TORCHWOOD)
Jul. 27th, 2025 01:04 pmm_findlow posting in fandomweeklyTheme Prompt: #268 - Sleeping in
Title: Just reward
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: M
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack and Ianto’s post-weevil reward is more drawn out than usual.
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Title: Just reward
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: M
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack and Ianto’s post-weevil reward is more drawn out than usual.
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Saturday 26 July 2025
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Challenge 494
Jul. 25th, 2025 09:21 pmromanajo123 posting in tenminutesaday( Wow, are we really here? 😳 )
Well… that number is the same forward as backwards. So, for today’s challenge, let’s think about your characters and the concept of looking back or going back to the past.
It could be a trip in the TARDIS, or someone catching up with an old friend.
Well… that number is the same forward as backwards. So, for today’s challenge, let’s think about your characters and the concept of looking back or going back to the past.
It could be a trip in the TARDIS, or someone catching up with an old friend.
[#268] Change Of Plans (The Fantastic Journey)
Jul. 25th, 2025 12:25 pmbadly_knitted posting in fandomweeklyTheme Prompt: #268 – Sleeping In
Title: Change Of Plans
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: The situation is settled and the travellers plan to continue their journey first thing in the morning, but there’s an unexpected delay. Sequel to last week’s entry, just because I loved the idea of Sil-El playing guard cat.
( Change Of Plans... )
Getting Into The Zone
Jul. 24th, 2025 09:26 pmesteefee posting in fan_writersPosting here per china_shop's suggestion, as we were discussing in this thread:
I feel like when I'm writing, there are two zones. The first is more plodding and difficult, where I'm using prompts of where I want to go in the story (such as an outline) and [I'm] sort of blind emotionally, if that makes sense, and it's very slow going. The writing really suffers as a result. The second is the true zone, where I've really percolated the story/universe in advance, and I'm so deep in the backstories, 'verse, and intent of the overarching plots that the writing kind of just rolls out of me, and individual threads I'm not even consciously aware of pop out and intertwine in a really kinetic way. That is the gold standard for me, but so much harder to achieve. I really wish I knew how to create that zone more readily, but it appears to be an almost accidental thing that occurs when I'm really into a story idea.
mific went on to say (paraphrasing, don't want to steal her words) that sometimes it's the story idea that gets her there, and sometimes it's the headspace she's in that makes the words really flow.
What gets you into the right headspace for a good zone? One where the words come easily and you feel you're doing the kind of writing where synergy really happens?
china_shop's suggestion, as we were discussing in this thread:I feel like when I'm writing, there are two zones. The first is more plodding and difficult, where I'm using prompts of where I want to go in the story (such as an outline) and [I'm] sort of blind emotionally, if that makes sense, and it's very slow going. The writing really suffers as a result. The second is the true zone, where I've really percolated the story/universe in advance, and I'm so deep in the backstories, 'verse, and intent of the overarching plots that the writing kind of just rolls out of me, and individual threads I'm not even consciously aware of pop out and intertwine in a really kinetic way. That is the gold standard for me, but so much harder to achieve. I really wish I knew how to create that zone more readily, but it appears to be an almost accidental thing that occurs when I'm really into a story idea.
mific went on to say (paraphrasing, don't want to steal her words) that sometimes it's the story idea that gets her there, and sometimes it's the headspace she's in that makes the words really flow. What gets you into the right headspace for a good zone? One where the words come easily and you feel you're doing the kind of writing where synergy really happens?
Thursday 24th July 2025
Jul. 24th, 2025 09:40 pmusuallyhats posting in doctor_who_sonicDo you have a Doctor Who community or a journal that we are not currently linking to? Leave a note in the comments and we'll add you to the watchlist (doctor_watch).
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Jul. 24th, 2025 11:27 amtheskyisnew posting in capseroo
This is the future Haymitch Abernathy! He was cast as young Haymitch for the new movie so I felt like I had to check him out, and he looked so good in this. I think he'll do a great job.
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Challenge #493
Jul. 24th, 2025 08:13 amshivver posting in tenminutesadayWord challenge today, a word with several unrelated meanings:
sharp
Is that the edge of a knife? Or a tone of voice? Maybe it's how a person dresses, or a musical term, or a pungent odor, or even a description of flavor (cheese, anyone?). Or something else entirely?
sharp
Is that the edge of a knife? Or a tone of voice? Maybe it's how a person dresses, or a musical term, or a pungent odor, or even a description of flavor (cheese, anyone?). Or something else entirely?
[#268 | Sleeping In] Challenge Post
Jul. 23rd, 2025 10:37 pmfanweeklymod posting in fandomweekly| Challenge 268: SLEEPING IN |
It’s been a long week, and you are not getting up. The world’s been saved once. It can wait until 10 AM to get saved a second time. Sure, there’s work to do, but it’ll still be there in another fifteen minutes. Maybe you promised your friends you’d meet them for lunch, but you still have plenty of time if you hit snooze just one more time… Maybe there’s a reason your protagonist is so reluctant to get out of bed today – a particularly comfy bed, particularly good company, or a really late night. Or maybe they just feel like getting a little more sleep! Write a story about sleeping in. If your submission features cats (of any age), it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting! |
| Challenge ends Monday, July 28 at 9:00PM EST. • Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile • Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 268 – sleeping in • If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here |
[#267 | Poison] Results Post
Jul. 23rd, 2025 10:37 pmfanweeklymod posting in fandomweeklyHere are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #267 – Poison!
( This week's finalists are... )
Total Challenge Words Written: 3147
Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next weekend.
You may now post your Challenge 267 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!
( This week's finalists are... )
Total Challenge Words Written: 3147
Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!
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Fill- Challenge 492 (DW)
Jul. 23rd, 2025 07:26 pmromanajo123 posting in tenminutesaday I've been in a mood for some fluff and weirdness lately, and if you know me, this was inevitable. :)
Donna really didn't have this on her bingo card....
----
Donna waited for the splat into the little bowl as she carried the food over to the anti-grav high chair.
"Right, mashed bananas." She held out the tiny blue spoon. "Let's try this again. OPen up!"
This earned a flurry of giggles and baby babble from the brown-hair toddler in the high chair., to which Donna took the opportunity and placed the spoon into his mouth.
"Finally" she said to herself. "Glad the TARDIS is self-cleaning, I don't even want to think about how long it'd take to get the pureed pears off the walls. So, how is it?" she asked, picking up another spoonful. " Want more?"
In response, she got more babbling, only this time sounding like " 'nanas good!"
Donna almost laughed. "It's still you in there, isn't it?"
As she continued the feed him, the events of this morning flashed in her head: the accident in the Vortex, the TARDIS console sparing like fireworks, and the Doctor ending up a small, wiggly, baby (well, if Donna had to guess, he'd be around a year and a half) with a snotty nose and tiny trainers. Who she now was forced to care for until he either grew back up she figured something out.
---
After lunch came playtime, which the TARDIS generated an army of plushies and baby blocks , while Donna kept a watchful eye on him.
"Oh, no!" She guided the baby Doctor away from the discarded sonic screwdriver. "We don't chew on that."
---
An hour later, Donna had settled in a rocking chair with a book, just glad to have some quiet... when a piercing wail rang out. Silently, she prayed he hadn't crawled off down one of the many corridors. Or worse.
"There you are!" she exclaimed, carrying the Doctor back to the pile of blocks. "What's wrong--- oh!"
Donna wrinkled her nose. It was worse.
Donna really didn't have this on her bingo card....
----
Donna waited for the splat into the little bowl as she carried the food over to the anti-grav high chair.
"Right, mashed bananas." She held out the tiny blue spoon. "Let's try this again. OPen up!"
This earned a flurry of giggles and baby babble from the brown-hair toddler in the high chair., to which Donna took the opportunity and placed the spoon into his mouth.
"Finally" she said to herself. "Glad the TARDIS is self-cleaning, I don't even want to think about how long it'd take to get the pureed pears off the walls. So, how is it?" she asked, picking up another spoonful. " Want more?"
In response, she got more babbling, only this time sounding like " 'nanas good!"
Donna almost laughed. "It's still you in there, isn't it?"
As she continued the feed him, the events of this morning flashed in her head: the accident in the Vortex, the TARDIS console sparing like fireworks, and the Doctor ending up a small, wiggly, baby (well, if Donna had to guess, he'd be around a year and a half) with a snotty nose and tiny trainers. Who she now was forced to care for until he either grew back up she figured something out.
---
After lunch came playtime, which the TARDIS generated an army of plushies and baby blocks , while Donna kept a watchful eye on him.
"Oh, no!" She guided the baby Doctor away from the discarded sonic screwdriver. "We don't chew on that."
---
An hour later, Donna had settled in a rocking chair with a book, just glad to have some quiet... when a piercing wail rang out. Silently, she prayed he hadn't crawled off down one of the many corridors. Or worse.
"There you are!" she exclaimed, carrying the Doctor back to the pile of blocks. "What's wrong--- oh!"
Donna wrinkled her nose. It was worse.
Catch Up
Jul. 23rd, 2025 10:02 amscifirenegadeMeme stolen from senmut
Last song I listened to: Erasure's A Little Respect is the last one I remember hearing on the radio.
Favourite color: it's blue today
Currently watching: Finished Cinema Europe. Recommended (warning for Leni Riefenshtal or whatever her name is).
Last movie: Sex in Chains (1928). The Busters I watched were shorties.
Currently reading: Continental Strangers by by Gerd Gemünden
Coffee or tea: today it's coffee. Tomorrow, who knows...
Sweet/savoury/spicy: I'll take whatever
Relationship status: forever single
Looking forward to: finishing my bitch thesis (affectionate; I just learnt that what we call dissertation is a thesis in English. Oops)
Current obsessions:
Send help, I hate it here.
Last Googled: gwpda org (apparently a website that has a lot of WW1 documents. Didn't have what I was looking for though...)
Last thing you ate and really enjoyed: Chicken.
Currently working on: too many things. And brain don't work well.
In other news, a whole page of Torstens (feat. radio!Torsten and cat!Torsten. Even if it's lonely, and in the past, hellish, to be into Mr. Tall Man, it was fun drawing his tuxedo-clad Lucifer.)
Fun video finds (all links to YouTube): a PBS broadcast of some excerpts from Anders als die Andern, introduced by Vito Russo! Unclear when it was aired, sometime in the 80s probably. And while looking for decent-ish version of Opium (I wanted to look at those beautiful, beautiful shots of baby!Connie again, and I only have them on the computer), found this multi-film fanvid for silent films! Feels like old YouTube in the best way possible. So many eras and genres here. Warning for Un Chien Andalou and some bastardised colourisation work.
( The shots in question )
Oh,prettygoodword's most recent word is apotropaic! One of my favourite words.
senmutLast song I listened to: Erasure's A Little Respect is the last one I remember hearing on the radio.
Favourite color: it's blue today
Currently watching: Finished Cinema Europe. Recommended (warning for Leni Riefenshtal or whatever her name is).
Last movie: Sex in Chains (1928). The Busters I watched were shorties.
Currently reading: Continental Strangers by by Gerd Gemünden
Coffee or tea: today it's coffee. Tomorrow, who knows...
Sweet/savoury/spicy: I'll take whatever
Relationship status: forever single
Looking forward to: finishing my bitch thesis (affectionate; I just learnt that what we call dissertation is a thesis in English. Oops)
Current obsessions:
Send help, I hate it here.
Last Googled: gwpda org (apparently a website that has a lot of WW1 documents. Didn't have what I was looking for though...)
Last thing you ate and really enjoyed: Chicken.
Currently working on: too many things. And brain don't work well.
In other news, a whole page of Torstens (feat. radio!Torsten and cat!Torsten. Even if it's lonely, and in the past, hellish, to be into Mr. Tall Man, it was fun drawing his tuxedo-clad Lucifer.)
Fun video finds (all links to YouTube): a PBS broadcast of some excerpts from Anders als die Andern, introduced by Vito Russo! Unclear when it was aired, sometime in the 80s probably. And while looking for decent-ish version of Opium (I wanted to look at those beautiful, beautiful shots of baby!Connie again, and I only have them on the computer), found this multi-film fanvid for silent films! Feels like old YouTube in the best way possible. So many eras and genres here. Warning for Un Chien Andalou and some bastardised colourisation work.
( The shots in question )
Oh,
prettygoodword's most recent word is apotropaic! One of my favourite words.
Tuesday, 22nd July 2025
Jul. 22nd, 2025 03:21 pmbeck_liz posting in doctor_who_sonicEditor's Note: If your item was not linked, it's because the header lacked the information that we like to give our readers. Please at least give the title, rating, and pairing or characters, and please include the header in the storypost itself, not just in the linking post. For an example of what a "good" fanfic header is, see the user info. Spoiler warnings are also greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Burning Question bybadly_knitted (G | Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble)
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Complete
Burning Question by
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