Saturday 23/05/2026
May. 23rd, 2026 11:21 am2) The occasional sounds of jazz from a nearby festival are pleasant
3) Lazy day, having done all the necessary shores yesterday
Inspector George Gently: Fanfiction: The Hardest Task
May. 23rd, 2026 09:39 amAuthor:
Rating: Teen and up
Summary/Warnings: George is about to do one of the hardest things he has ever done. Death fic.
Word Count: 260
( The Hardest Task )
UK people: new trans rights mass lobby 24th June
May. 23rd, 2026 08:27 amAs explained at: https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/lobbying-parliament/
A mass lobby is when a large number of people contact their MPs and members of the Lords in advance and arrange to meet with them at Parliament all on the same day.
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance are one of the groups who've been absolutely kicking ass in the last year.
They also now have a crowdfunder if anyone wants to donate:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/donation-form/fund-the-work-of-the-trans-solidarity-alliance
Guy Panic: JLA CLASSIFIED #4
May. 23rd, 2026 01:59 am
JLA Classified was mostly “extra” stories featuring the best-known incarnations of the League, but for issues #4-9, it picked right up where Formerly Known as the Justice League left off. These stories were probably planned to be Formerly Known #7-12, but instead, they became a six-issue collection of adventures (with later trade paperback) titled “I Can’t Believe It’s Not the Justice League.” ( ‘‘Formerly Known as ‘Formerly Known as the Justice League’’’ must not have tested well. )
Milk & Serial
May. 22nd, 2026 10:41 pmFic Challenge (Prompt Style)
May. 23rd, 2026 12:34 amdetails here with the pool of prompts.
I've played off and on since 2010, it looks like. Here's what I've done over the years.
2010: Trials of Conscience
2011: To Not Be Alone
2015: Family from the Ashes
2016: Encounter in the Hills
2017: Flicker of a Memory
2018: A Night's Work
2021: Difficult Lesson
2021: Crisis Response
2021: What He Is
2022: Any Regrets?
2024: To Say Goodbye
stories nobody has told
May. 23rd, 2026 12:21 amThey never think about the side effects in disaster movies, do they? For this, they tripled the width of the Potomac at a place where it is a few hundred feet wide, that's all. All that hot metal hitting the water would really annoy the rockfish and the Maryland terrapins. The rockfish might forget but the terrapins will remember.
Let's think of the volume of river water displaced by those enormous ships hitting the river. Where they have them hitting, the waves will wash up over the patios and parking lots into the Watergate, into the Kennedy Center (or what's left of it these days), and into Lower Georgetown's underground parking garages, where it will float a lot of cars. We went through something like this before, back in the 90s, when there was so much rain that it washed cars into the river from above-ground parking lots and floated everything in the underground garages. I'm not sure how the insurance adjusters would account for this flood on their paperwork -- "act of superheroes"?
I'm assuming that the resizing of the river also moved Roosevelt Island half a mile or more downstream, so that it would be there when Bucky pulls Steve out onto the shore (in the only place in that area that has a shore with grass at that angle compared to the water). Upstream, the south side of the river is a rock wall with mansions on top of it for several miles heading upstream -- there used to be several Kennedy places up there -- and on the other side there's a narrow area and then the Washington and Old Dominion Canal, which is a recreation area.
I'm also going to ignore the other fallout, when bits of the Shield building and more pieces of airships drop onto the buildings and streets of Rosslyn, VA, one of the most expensive areas of real estate in the country. Or maybe they'd be drifting a little further apart -- how far apart were those three ships,anyway? That would put one of them over the Mall and another over either Arlington Cemetery or Washington National Airport (I refuse to call it Reagan Airport; he didn't deserve one.)
Anyway, I don't think there's a lot of fanfic that deals with the aftereffects of the actions of superheroes. Just a thought or two for anyone who may need a bit of inspiration...
I aten't dead
May. 23rd, 2026 11:26 amI'm running on fumes, I think. There are a lot of Things needing doing. Why I thought signing up for an academic presentation (thankfully, I picked the 20 minute rather than the full hour option) at a con I'm on the committee for was a good idea, ... eh. I mean, it is a good idea from a lot of standpoints, but the 'how much energy I have for anything' is not one of them
I have a friend arriving Monday to stay for ... three days? four days? I have not done the yak shaving tasks that will allow the spare room to be set up; I have a memory that there was a reason to delay setting up the bed, but I do not remember what it was. I also have not sewn the funny shaped fitted sheet I had been planning, and probably won't at this point.
And there are two things complicating my day. My bank has changed its system again, and I'm on the ~fourth card in a year (they cancelled their credit cards; moved us to debit Mastercard. Now they have cancelled that service, and shifted to Visa. In there was the expiry of another card) -- that went live today and I have no idea whether anything I want to do money wise will work. Which goes poorly with the issue that the mob who provide my email services as well as web hosting for SwanCon are suffering a DDoS attack, and so several to do items are in limbo waiting for that to clear up. *sigh*
why not? meme
May. 22nd, 2026 10:38 pmComment with the name of a woman character (in any show, movie, book, comic, etc that you think I'm familiar with) and I'll tell you one thing I love about her. In return, you can do the same in your journal (if you like!).
some fandoms for you to choose from
video games
* Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII (including Remake, Rebirth, Crisis Core, Advent Children), VIII, IX, X, a bit of X-2, XI, XII, XIII, XIII-2, XIV, XV, XVI
* Kingdom Hearts - whole series except for mobile games and that rhythm game they put out
TV series & Movies
* Star Trek: TNG, DS9, VOY... though it's been forever since I've seen them.
* Star Wars: episodes I through IX, and Rogue One, but I've only seen Rogue One once and)
* Battlestar Galatica, the rebooted series
* Doctor Who (2005 onwards to Peter Capaldi's reign, then I bounced off of it)
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Angel
* FarScape (though it's been a long time)
* Highlander: the Series
Books & Comics
* Artemis Fowl
* Lord of the Rings
* Madeleine L'Engle's books, especially A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, but also the Arm of the Starfish and A Ring of Endless Light
* Fray (comic series, based on Buffy)
* Fullmetal Alchemist
* Read or Die, both mangas and both the anime ROD:The TV and the OAV
* Fruits Basket
Do NOT ask about Harry Potter, I am no longer a fan and want nothing to do with the series.
There's probably more fandoms I'm forgetting, but those are the main ones.
Please drive in the center of the lane
May. 22nd, 2026 10:48 pmLuckily it was mostly uneventful (lots of accidents none near me) and the Jetta gets surprisingly good gas mileage.
have some recs for fannish 50
Undeserved Mercy Torchwood
Through The Ring Stargate Atlantis
Live! Starsky & Hutch
Musical The Owl House
Soulmate The Owl House
Protocol Torchwood
All Roads Lead To Haven Hazbin Hotel
Childhood The Owl House
Opposite Hazbin Hotel
Gambler's Fallacy Hornblower - C. S. Forester Hornblower
Unwritten 镇魂 | Guardian
Recuperation 9-1-1
Handyman Teen Wolf
Flyer Derby The Owl House
Picnic The Owl House
Play Time Teen Wolf
captivated captive Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates
Horror (Movie) The Owl House
Seasons The Owl House
Cozy Evening Stargate Atlantis
Before The End Torchwood
Human Realm The Owl House
Fairytale The Owl House
The Salvage Yard The Trixie Belden Mysteries - Julie Campbell Tatham & Kathryn KennyThe Three Investigators | Die drei
Bedridden Teen Wolf
Normal-ish Hazbin Hotel
Learning to Compromise Teen Wolf
it's been a great few weeks in Oasis land <3
May. 22nd, 2026 08:09 pmBonus: Anais thinks her uncle is funny. ;__;
+ Speaking of the kids, here's how the comeback is going from their perspective:
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+ The reunion tour documentary has an official release date! And it's going to have JOINT INTERVIEWS, YOU GUYS. Liam and Noel in the same room, answering questions. Can you even fucking imagine. They haven't done one of those since 2005. Noel is going to laugh at all Liam's jokes and Liam is going to be SO SMUG about it. I'm going to see this IN A THEATER and I am going to dieeeeee.
+ Of course twitter asked Liam about this, and his response was:
People asking me what the documentary's like it's a ROMANTIC COMEDY with a bit of ROCK N ROLL
He later said that the romance would be between "us and the fans," but we know the truth. :')
+ And finally, have this old clip I found of Liam at a gig singing I waited for a thousand years for you to come / and take me from behind.
Daily Happiness
May. 22nd, 2026 07:55 pm2. The weather is back to high 60s/low 70s after those couple days of heat we had earlier this week. I just checked the forecast and it looks like it'll stay that way for the next week or so at least.
3. I just happened to look at the calendar for next month and saw that my birthday is on a Friday, so I put in for that day and the Monday to give myself a four day weekend.
4. Where could Ollie be!?
