seasons_of_fandom | BONUS CHALLENGE - BOOK TITLE POETRY
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seasons_of_fandom bonus challenge "Book Title Poetry"
Specifics:
» For this challenge we are arranging book titles into poems. You can use any kinds of books (fiction, non-fiction) as long as what you create resembles poetry and becomes a story.
» A poem must have at least five lines!
» To get full points, you can make six 5-line poems, one 30-line poem or anything in between.
» The shortest poem with only five lines can’t have more than two one-word book titles.
My "Poems":
One
Would you rather,
a dish best served hot,
a game of hearts and heists,
love, hate & clickbait,
the hating game
Two
Love & other disasters,
bull moon rising,
a discovery of witches,
such sharp teeth,
a touch of ruin
Three
Best laid plans,
the hat trick,
faking with benefits,
the fiancée farce,
So That Happened
Four
When You Least Expect It
Said No One Ever
Plot Twist,
For Butter or worse,
Sit, Stay, Love
Five
Royal Valentine,
fortune favors the duke,
while the duke was sleeping,
her royal highness,
the heart principle
Six
A Thousand Heartbeats,
no one is alone,
sink or swim,
practice makes perfect,
Two Rogues Make a Right
seasons_of_fandom bonus challenge "Book Title Poetry"Specifics:
» For this challenge we are arranging book titles into poems. You can use any kinds of books (fiction, non-fiction) as long as what you create resembles poetry and becomes a story.
» A poem must have at least five lines!
» To get full points, you can make six 5-line poems, one 30-line poem or anything in between.
» The shortest poem with only five lines can’t have more than two one-word book titles.
My "Poems":
One
Would you rather,
a dish best served hot,
a game of hearts and heists,
love, hate & clickbait,
the hating game
Two
Love & other disasters,
bull moon rising,
a discovery of witches,
such sharp teeth,
a touch of ruin
Three
Best laid plans,
the hat trick,
faking with benefits,
the fiancée farce,
So That Happened
Four
When You Least Expect It
Said No One Ever
Plot Twist,
For Butter or worse,
Sit, Stay, Love
Five
Royal Valentine,
fortune favors the duke,
while the duke was sleeping,
her royal highness,
the heart principle
Six
A Thousand Heartbeats,
no one is alone,
sink or swim,
practice makes perfect,
Two Rogues Make a Right
All Ships Week 2025
Sep. 28th, 2025 11:50 amflareonfurySo discovered that there is All Ships Week (October 20-26), and I'm not sure if I'm going to participate in it or not yet because who knows what my work schedule will be but I'm very tempted to do so. If I do participate, I think I'm going to use some small fandom pairings since I'm tempted to try the smallfandombang, but I don't think I have it in me to write an actual 10k+ word fic.
Pairings I've been thinking of doing is Sabrina/Harvey (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Tyler/Wednesday (Wednesday), Nick/Adalind (Grimm), Nathan/Annalise/Gabriel (TBSTDH), Michael/Liz (Roswell), Hayley/Wheezer (SkyMed), Larson/Heller (Doc -new ship/show alert!-), and Dani/Lito/Hernando (Sense8). Probably a few others I can't think of right now...
This year's prompts are:
Activity Bingo (do these any day)
smallfandombang, but I don't think I have it in me to write an actual 10k+ word fic.Pairings I've been thinking of doing is Sabrina/Harvey (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Tyler/Wednesday (Wednesday), Nick/Adalind (Grimm), Nathan/Annalise/Gabriel (TBSTDH), Michael/Liz (Roswell), Hayley/Wheezer (SkyMed), Larson/Heller (Doc -new ship/show alert!-), and Dani/Lito/Hernando (Sense8). Probably a few others I can't think of right now...
This year's prompts are:
Monday - October 20
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Tuesday - October 21
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Wednesday - October 22
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Thursday - October 23
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Friday - October 24
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Saturday - October 25
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Sunday - October 26
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Activity Bingo (do these any day)
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Fic Exchanges Past and Present
Sep. 27th, 2025 02:40 pmnevannaAs my gift for the seasonsofdrabbles exchange, TheMistyDarkPrincess wrote Conflicting Affections, a series of ficlets that focused on Elias and Jon (with bonus Martin) from The Magnus Archives. I have yet to get tired of reading about Elias being possessive of his Archivist.
fandomgiftbasket is open through October 11. Check out the master list of requests and see if you're inspired to create a fannish gift for somebody!
seasonsofdrabbles exchange, TheMistyDarkPrincess wrote Conflicting Affections, a series of ficlets that focused on Elias and Jon (with bonus Martin) from The Magnus Archives. I have yet to get tired of reading about Elias being possessive of his Archivist.fandomgiftbasket is open through October 11. Check out the master list of requests and see if you're inspired to create a fannish gift for somebody!Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 30: fic I wrote for Ray Vecchio Day 2025
Sep. 25th, 2025 09:09 pmride_4everTitle: Bend It Like Benton
Author:ride_4ever
Fandoms: due South x FlashForward crossover
Categories: Gen, M/M
Archive warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio (formerly Stella Kowalski) mentioned, Benton Fraser mentioned, Ray Kowalski implied
Relationships: Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski implied
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 300 words (triple drabble)
Summary: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time nearly everyone in the world lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds during which time most saw a vision – a “flash forward” – of their lives six months into the future: April 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM PDT. Some people, however, merely lost consciousness without experiencing a vision…people who were then presumed to be fated to die by April 29, 2010.
AN: Written for both Ray Vecchio Day and for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW.
Fic on AO3.
Author:
ride_4everFandoms: due South x FlashForward crossover
Categories: Gen, M/M
Archive warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio (formerly Stella Kowalski) mentioned, Benton Fraser mentioned, Ray Kowalski implied
Relationships: Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski implied
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 300 words (triple drabble)
Summary: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time nearly everyone in the world lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds during which time most saw a vision – a “flash forward” – of their lives six months into the future: April 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM PDT. Some people, however, merely lost consciousness without experiencing a vision…people who were then presumed to be fated to die by April 29, 2010.
AN: Written for both Ray Vecchio Day and for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW.
Fic on AO3.
Yuletide Nominations
Sep. 25th, 2025 06:23 pmthisbluespiritI'm sorry, I still haven't really tried catching up properly, and next my parents will be here for a week, although that may actually not stop me posting some things.
Anyway, it's nearlyyuletide again! I'm not at all sure whether I shall be able to do it or not, but it's looking more likely than I thought, so I have had to consider the important issue of nominations.
Other people have nominated Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully and The Winslow Boy, so my 5 (five!!) are looking like this:
* Enigma (Movie 2001)
1. Hester Wallace
2. Tom Jericho
3. Mr Wigram
* Indigo Saga - Louise Cooper
1. Indigo
2. Grimya
3. Nemesis
4. Fenran
* Mimic (1997)
1. Susan Tyler
2. Peter Mann
3. Chuy Gavoila
* Time Police Series - Jodi Taylor
1. Jane Lockland
2. Luke Parrish
3. Celia North
4. Matthew Ellis
* Wish Me Luck (TV)
1. Matty Firman
2. Colin Beale
3. Liz Grainger
4. Faith Ashley
I was VERY tempted to put down The Schoolmistress (BBC Radio 1991) but I decided that I shouldn't make my Jeremy Northam problem quite as bad as all that. Maybe next time! (Also because I'm not sure what I would request beyond "more shenanigans," really). I might swap out Mimic, though, idk. (I think it would be a great one for the Hurt/Comfort exchange or maybe Chocolate Box because I want a v specific thing (not an unreasonable specific thing), but OTOH I do not seem to be managing more than Yuletide, if even that, at the moment. Hmmm.
I don't know what I'll actually request if I do sign up, as there look like being a fair few other shiny things in the tagset already, just from the nomination coordination post. \o/
Anyway, it's nearly
yuletide again! I'm not at all sure whether I shall be able to do it or not, but it's looking more likely than I thought, so I have had to consider the important issue of nominations.Other people have nominated Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully and The Winslow Boy, so my 5 (five!!) are looking like this:
* Enigma (Movie 2001)
1. Hester Wallace
2. Tom Jericho
3. Mr Wigram
* Indigo Saga - Louise Cooper
1. Indigo
2. Grimya
3. Nemesis
4. Fenran
* Mimic (1997)
1. Susan Tyler
2. Peter Mann
3. Chuy Gavoila
* Time Police Series - Jodi Taylor
1. Jane Lockland
2. Luke Parrish
3. Celia North
4. Matthew Ellis
* Wish Me Luck (TV)
1. Matty Firman
2. Colin Beale
3. Liz Grainger
4. Faith Ashley
I was VERY tempted to put down The Schoolmistress (BBC Radio 1991) but I decided that I shouldn't make my Jeremy Northam problem quite as bad as all that. Maybe next time! (Also because I'm not sure what I would request beyond "more shenanigans," really). I might swap out Mimic, though, idk. (I think it would be a great one for the Hurt/Comfort exchange or maybe Chocolate Box because I want a v specific thing (not an unreasonable specific thing), but OTOH I do not seem to be managing more than Yuletide, if even that, at the moment. Hmmm.
I don't know what I'll actually request if I do sign up, as there look like being a fair few other shiny things in the tagset already, just from the nomination coordination post. \o/
First Line Friday
Sep. 26th, 2025 09:21 amsnowynight
It was on a Monday, April second—I was cruising in the vicinity of Betelgeuse—when a meteor no larger than a lima bean pierced the hull, shattered the drive regulator and part of the rudder, as a result of which the rocket lost all maneuverability.
From the Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
[Lord of the Mysteries] The Myrtle and the rose (5722 words)
Sep. 24th, 2025 08:29 amshameraTitle: The myrtle and the rose
Fandom: Lord of the Mysteries
Character/Pairing(s): Klein Moretti & Leonard Mitchell
Rating: PG
Warning: spoilers to the epilogue
Summary: Five times Klein encountered Leonard's poetry (and one time it reached him).
( “You know,” Rosanne said thoughtfully, “Leonard is sometimes so eloquent and poetic in speech. If he just wrote down some of what he says, I think he’d actually be a decent poet.” )
Fandom: Lord of the Mysteries
Character/Pairing(s): Klein Moretti & Leonard Mitchell
Rating: PG
Warning: spoilers to the epilogue
Summary: Five times Klein encountered Leonard's poetry (and one time it reached him).
( “You know,” Rosanne said thoughtfully, “Leonard is sometimes so eloquent and poetic in speech. If he just wrote down some of what he says, I think he’d actually be a decent poet.” )
Tuesday Top Five: Fall Bucket List
Sep. 23rd, 2025 06:06 pmnevannaAlthough I’m always a little bit sad to see summer ending, I adore fall just as much! Here are some of my goals for the season.
1. Bake an apple pie! (I like pumpkin fine as an ingredient, but apples are my Autumnal Produce of Choice.)
2. Take a walk or have a picnic in a park while the leaves change!
3. Mend at least one of my sweaters!
4. Curate my wardrobe for Spooky Season, including a pair of wrist gauntlets that I hope to make out of a Halloween-themed fabric swatch! (I’m pretty sure that my former supervisor in the Children’s Room had a different Halloween-themed outfit for every day of October, which is a level of commitment to which I can only aspire, especially since I don’t like to spend too much money on clothing items that I only wear once a year. But if I get creative, perhaps I can manage two or three per week!)
5. Reread some of my favorite campus novels and spooky books, including The Secret History, Tam Lin, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and Mexican Gothic. (I also have a separate and rapidly growing horror TBR list, which might be the subject of a future post.)
What do you love about fall?
1. Bake an apple pie! (I like pumpkin fine as an ingredient, but apples are my Autumnal Produce of Choice.)
2. Take a walk or have a picnic in a park while the leaves change!
3. Mend at least one of my sweaters!
4. Curate my wardrobe for Spooky Season, including a pair of wrist gauntlets that I hope to make out of a Halloween-themed fabric swatch! (I’m pretty sure that my former supervisor in the Children’s Room had a different Halloween-themed outfit for every day of October, which is a level of commitment to which I can only aspire, especially since I don’t like to spend too much money on clothing items that I only wear once a year. But if I get creative, perhaps I can manage two or three per week!)
5. Reread some of my favorite campus novels and spooky books, including The Secret History, Tam Lin, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and Mexican Gothic. (I also have a separate and rapidly growing horror TBR list, which might be the subject of a future post.)
What do you love about fall?
Starfall Stories 49
Sep. 23rd, 2025 09:32 pmthisbluespiritA rainbowfic piece I finally posted a couple of weeks ago:
Name: On the Interpretation of Dreams
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #17 (Honesty)
Supplies and Styles: Nubs
Word Count: 1891
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Osmer Nivyrn.
Summary: Proof that Viyony also takes Leion's advice from time to time.
On the Interpretation of Dreams
rainbowfic piece I finally posted a couple of weeks ago:Name: On the Interpretation of Dreams
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #17 (Honesty)
Supplies and Styles: Nubs
Word Count: 1891
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Osmer Nivyrn.
Summary: Proof that Viyony also takes Leion's advice from time to time.
On the Interpretation of Dreams
Meme > Top 100 Books
Sep. 22nd, 2025 10:06 pmflareonfuryMeme came from like LJ 2008 era by revivingophelia so I don't know if this list is accurate anymore but whatever.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
( Read more... )
Did I read most of the above for school? Yes, yes I did... except for Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code & Jane Austen stuff, that was for pleasure. But technically I've read more than 6, but just barely - yay me?
revivingophelia so I don't know if this list is accurate anymore but whatever.The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
( Read more... )
Did I read most of the above for school? Yes, yes I did... except for Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code & Jane Austen stuff, that was for pleasure. But technically I've read more than 6, but just barely - yay me?
Signal boost: Femslash fandoms in flux
Sep. 22nd, 2025 05:38 pmscintilla10letzan posted about recent "high velocity f/f fandoms":I want to shine an occasional spotlight on fandoms that are in flux. There are two kinds of fandoms here:
- Fandoms that are growing rapidly, which are typically not in the top 20 now, and may never get there, but might be interesting for F/F readers to check out and encourage.
- Fandoms that are losing ground on the top 20, and seem to be "post-peak." They may well peak again in the future, but it's a good moment to look back at the impressive amount of F/F which has been written so far.
There were some real surprises (to me) in both the list of femslash fandoms that are growing over the last 3 months, and those "losing ground."
letzan is also soliciting femslash recs for all of the fandoms listed in the post!Take a peek for yourself.