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Title: Change of Plans
Fandom: Viola come il mare
Author:

veronyxk84
Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post-series.
Summary: A gentle kiss, a forgotten movie. Viola and Francesco choose each other over everything else.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #514 - Gentle
Also for: #119 - A Better Idea by

drabble_zone

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( READ: Change of Plans )

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sovay

And today my physical health went through the floor and my mood with it, but I hadn't known that boglands were permeating pop culture to the point of salt marsh gastronomy, biofictional art, and peat-distressed fashion. What a great time it would be for a proper home release of Michael Almereyda's The Eternal (1998). Have some further Rabbitology.

Current Music: Rabbitology, "Magnanimity (Bigger Man)"

highlander_ii posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: soap bubbles
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of bubbles floating in the air

( soap bubbles )

m_findlow posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Handle with care
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: M
Length: 1,838 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 514 - Gentle
Summary: Jack has been on the receiving end of alien technology that has made him more fragile than usual.

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kaberett

Today I discovered, at approximately 6 p.m., that The Gym is only open until 5 p.m. on Saturdays. We had had a fairly lazy day at home and I had been putting off My Own Gym until after I had talked A through their (second!) Liftoff Phase One workout; I spent the approach going "... this car park is suspiciously empty, I don't think it can possibly be just that the school isn't on today..." and, yep, closed already.

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the_shoshanna

Today was the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Jersey from Nazi occupation, and we joined the crowd in Liberation Square to watch the festivities!

Well, mostly to listen to them. Well, mostly to stand in the sun with no view except of other parts of the crowd and mostly poor audio of the music and speeches and songs and prayers. But we did have an excellent view of a small group of young soldiers (cadets? Some were literal children) reenacting the troops' entrance into the Pomme D'Or hotel facing the main square, where they took down the Nazi flag that had been flying above its portico (that bit was not included in the reenactment) and raised the Union Jack for the first time in five years. We admired many mysterious local dignitaries, political and religious, who gathered on and around the dais we were near, in front of the hotel, and watched the parade of Scouts, veterans, military and ambulance units, and other groups who marched past to close out the commemoration. Overall we didn't really experience much of the ceremony, and I was sorry not to have been able to hear the first verse of "Beautiful Jersey" being sung in Jèrriais (the lyrics were in the program, and I could hear well enough to recognize and follow the English verses, but my ear couldn't pick out and follow the Jèrriais against all the background crowd noise and with the poor amplification from the main square that we were just outside of). Even so, parts of the morning were quite moving, just knowing what it all meant.

Also I saw a lot of locals recognizing and calling out to one another in the shifting crowd and parading dignitaries. It's not a huge community here!

After the ceremonies ended there was music and food trucks and so forth in the next square over, but I was a bit done with crowds at that point. So we wandered a few blocks away to get Geoff an ice cream (it was hot and sunny! I had brought a scarf because I'm always afraid of being cold and the forecast had said it might rain, and I'd ended up draping it over my head to shade the back of my neck; I was worried about sunburn!). Then we went to check out the Jersey Museum, just off that second square.

We wandered through rooms recreating the domestic life and furniture of a (real, historical) Victorian family whose home the building had been, and who had gone broke and done a midnight flit to France, but what was more interesting to me was the exhibit that had been tagged on to it in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, tracing the connections that family, and other Jersey people, and the culture in general both here and in England, had with the Atlantic slave trade. I am now too tired and sun-fried to really write it up -- I think Geoff is saying a lot more, he's next to me also typing -- but I thought it was very well done.

We looked through some other galleries as well, especially a good display on the Neanderthals who lived here off and on for, like, a hundred thousand years, up to as recently as forty thousand years ago.

trepkos, we also saw your friend's piece on the people persecuted as witches! But by that time I was really staggering, so we stopped in the cafe in the museum's courtyard and I had a half-pint of that yummy Stinky Bay IPA and also several handfuls of trail mix, the first things I'd eaten or drunk in seven hours. Then we went back to our guesthouse, rested for a while, and had another excellent meal at the same cafe we'd been to before; they're getting to know us there! But our host, who recommended it to us, has also recommended a Kenyan restaurant (run by her daughter and son-in-law) and, when we asked about seafood, a Portuguese place, so I expect we'll branch out eventually.

But now, collapsing into bed.

lightreads

City of Others

3/5. Urban fantasy about a middle manager in a government agency in Singapore intended to keep the supernatural elements of society quiet.

Okay. Kind of Rivers of London but with a queer protagonist and far less voicey. Though it turns out the voiciness goes a long way to selling all the infodumping you need to do in a fantasy like this.

A good time, with a particularly interesting set of magical ideas. But I suspect someone made him cut, like, 25% of his manuscript or something, because there’s a lot of jerky pacing and weird gaps where I’m like ‘wait, we just met this person and now she’s a core part of the team and we all care about her? Did I miss something?’ Also, it’s all trying just that bit too hard to tie into a neat thematic bow (grief and letting go). Very debut, is what I mean. Naturally it is going to be a series; I might keep going, I might not.

princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: annoyed

conuly

What are we now but voices
who promise each other
a life neither one can deliver
not for lack of wanting
but wanting can’t make it so.
We hang from a vine
at the cliff’s edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.

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Seen on the SIR

This poem references the well-known zen koan.

princessofgeeks

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common_nature

I’m assuming he’s been a formative influence for a lot of people in this community.

conuly

My shampoo is no longer being produced and I need more shampoo.

It needs to be perfume light, and ideally I should be able to get shampoo, conditioner, and body wash that don't clash with each other. I generally find that products marketed as natural are more likely to have scents that aren't overwhelming and don't make my eyes itch, give me a sore throat, or trigger a headache - but there's no guarantee there.

And, of course, it needs to get my hair clean, ideally without drying it out.

Help?

oursin

Though I suspect it's more just 'did not bother to do any research'.

Two pieces in today's Guardian Saturday.

The one about blokes being (IMHO) totally scammed over testosterone doesn't appear to be online yet, but I, who have done my time in the noisome pits of sex-related quackery, was going: this is the latest round of what used to be rejuvenation operations of various kinds (HAI! WB Yeats!), the Blakoe energiser, electrical belts, devices to prevent the leakage of the precious manly fluids, pills to restore Lost Manhood, and I wouldn't be surprised if radium tonics had featured at some point.

The placebo reaction is a powerful thing.

And then we get The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps.

Well, maybe in these parlous times it does help getting an agent and one's foot in the door at a publisher? But it is hardly a new phenomenon that there is More Than One Writer In The Family.

Will concede that perhaps I am thinking of those literary families of an earlier era which were perhaps more into churning out more or less hackwork as a cottage industry (e.g. the Allinghams).

Then I bethought me that Angela Thirkell's son Colin MacInnes was also a writer, albeit, as one may see from that Wikipedia entry, a very different article from Mama, wot. (I seem to recall from the bios of her that I read that they were estranged and he was a hostile witness.)

There's also a bit of a reverse pattern in the Drabble family, whereby John Drabble took to novel-writing after his daughters. (Famous Sibling Literary Feuds....)

celli

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james_davis_nicoll

Six works new to me. Three are SF, two fantasy and Fiyah is a mix. At least two of the novels are series. Interesting that SF is such a large fraction. Is SF making a comeback?

Books Received, May 2 — May 8

Poll #34579 Books Received, May 2 — May 8

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

View Respondents

Which of these look interesting?

View Answers

If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop (April 2026)
22 (56.4%)

The Republic of Memory by Mahmud el Sayed (May 2026)
20 (51.3%)

Mortal Things by Marie Lu (October 2026)
4 (10.3%)

Maker of Gods by Maria Z. Medina (October 2026)
0 (0.0%)

Forged in FIYAH: Celebrating Ten Years of Black Speculative Fiction edited by Davaun Sanders (September 2026)
15 (38.5%)

This Crimson Ruin by Rebecca Thorne (December 2026)
4 (10.3%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.6%)

Cats!
31 (79.5%)

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3weeks4dreamwidth

Weekly Challenge: You have three weeks to make a post to a Dreamwidth community where you don't regularly participate and to leave a comment on someone else's community post.

• the pledge • tag requests •
• weekly challenge 1 . 2 • friending meme • event icons • journal memes • paid account gifting •
• community love •

Current Music: Blondshell - Sober Together

oursin

Happy birthday,

maevele and

rosinarowantree!

goodbyebird

( Very belated SW icons recs/praise for May 4th, but hey, SO MANY PRETTIES. You should take a look, trust. )

And the Icon Pass It On will run throughout the weekend, come join in! icons for all your space faves :D

Current Music: Tori Amos - Sweet Dreams

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awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

calimac

B. wanted to hear the Winchester Orchestra in Vaughan Williams's cantata Dona nobis pacem, but only if I could drive her. I judged this more appealing than the SF Symphony, so we went. "We are a nation at war," wrote conductor James Beauton in the program notes, "which is why this evening's performance feels especially relevant." It was a fine performance, solid orchestra, strong and well-directed chorus, and soprano Amy Spencer's calls of the fading "Dona nobis pacem" were under tight control and exquisitely done.

But we should have left at intermission, because the second half was a "symphonic suite" (actually full of the chorus going "ahhh") of music from the series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which I've never seen nor heard of. Composer Sunna Wehrmeijer created the music digitally, so it had to be painstakingly scored so that an orchestra could play it. Was it worth the trouble? No! A lot of overloud off-the-shelf movie music, full of whooshing sounds and clanking effects. B. put in her earplugs and read from her tablet to pass the time. As for me, my watch said the piece was 40 minutes long, but it didn't seem so long, so I suspect that B. was right in saying that I did nod off for parts. Which she found amazing due to the Awful Dynne.

Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Change of Plans

My old body that you buried with the mud and the timber

no fandom : icons : soap bubbles

Torchwood: Fanfic: Handle with care

[movement] dumbbells are SUCH HARD WORK good GRIEF

Liberation Day!

City of Others by Jared Poon

Murderbot, ILY

Tigers by Eliza Griswold

Heated Rivalry rec

Yesterday (8 May 2026), Sir David Attenborough turned 100.

Sigh

Are their minds wiped every night?

new Heated Rivalry ficlet with associated podfic

Books Received, May 2 — May 8

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Star Wars Icon Praise

Just One Thing (09 May 2026)

the ecstasy and the agony

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