25 Things in 2025 - Thing #17
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smallhobbitBook Leger holiday for 2026
Daughter and I had been trying to decide on which Battlefields Tour we would do next year. There was one destination we were looking at, but neither tour quite fitted the bill properly, so I suggested instead of making that one work, she might like to look at something different. Normally she's been really clear on what she's selected, so the fact that we weren't certain had made me wonder.
Anyway, yesterday she messaged me, and we had a chat, with the result that this morning I booked our tour for next April. For anyone who knows their classic WWII films, this fits perfectly, as we're off to Germany, scene of The Dambusters, Colditz and the Great Escape. It should be very interesting, not because we're relishing triumphant films, but in looking at the history and what made people behave as they did, something which doesn't change. Among other places, we shall be visiting Dresden, Berlin and Hannover, which will be really interesting.
Daughter and I had been trying to decide on which Battlefields Tour we would do next year. There was one destination we were looking at, but neither tour quite fitted the bill properly, so I suggested instead of making that one work, she might like to look at something different. Normally she's been really clear on what she's selected, so the fact that we weren't certain had made me wonder.
Anyway, yesterday she messaged me, and we had a chat, with the result that this morning I booked our tour for next April. For anyone who knows their classic WWII films, this fits perfectly, as we're off to Germany, scene of The Dambusters, Colditz and the Great Escape. It should be very interesting, not because we're relishing triumphant films, but in looking at the history and what made people behave as they did, something which doesn't change. Among other places, we shall be visiting Dresden, Berlin and Hannover, which will be really interesting.
Hyouka (Kotenbu): Fanfic: the liveliest fruit
Jun. 16th, 2025 06:49 ambluedreaming posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fan_flashworksFandom: Hyouka (Kotenbu)
Rating: G
Length: 300 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from A FEW PROPOSITIONS WITH BIRDS AND TREES THAT
THE POET CONCLUDES WITH A REFERENCE TO THE HEART by Ruy Belo, translated by Richard Zenith.
Summary: In which Oreki’s low-energy lifestyle is once again thwarted by Chitanda’s curiosity.
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Rating: G
Length: 300 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from A FEW PROPOSITIONS WITH BIRDS AND TREES THAT
THE POET CONCLUDES WITH A REFERENCE TO THE HEART by Ruy Belo, translated by Richard Zenith.
Summary: In which Oreki’s low-energy lifestyle is once again thwarted by Chitanda’s curiosity.
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Challenge 87: Song Titles: Madonna
Jun. 16th, 2025 11:49 ambadly_knitted posting in ficlet_zoneThis month's challenge is:
Click on the challenge, pick any episode title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!
Reminder of Rules
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Have fun!
Just one thing: 16 June 2025
Jun. 15th, 2025 04:45 pmjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt'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!
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!
Stargate SG-1: Time Off [Challenge 454: Liberty]
Jun. 15th, 2025 07:31 pmbadly_knitted posting in drabble_zoneTitle: Time Off
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 454: Liberty.
Setting: Late Season 3.
Summary: SG-1 have been given two days off, and Daniel doesn’t know what to do with himself.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.
Time Off
Stargate SG-1 Double Drabble: Time Off
Jun. 15th, 2025 07:24 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Time Off
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 454: Liberty at
drabble_zone.Setting: Late Season 3.
Summary: SG-1 have been given two days off, and Daniel doesn’t know what to do with himself.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.
( Time Off... )
FAKE Double Drabble: Specs Appeal
Jun. 15th, 2025 07:07 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Specs Appeal
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Dee needs reading glasses.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Spectacles’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
( Specs Appeal... )
Star Trek Voyager: fic: meddling
Jun. 15th, 2025 06:51 pmlilly_c posting in fan_flashworksTitle: meddling
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: G
Length: 119 words
Content notes: no leola root was harmed in writing this slightly over-drabble length fic😜
Author notes: A little off-screen shenanigans sometime around State Of Flux in season one.
Summary:
( Meddling )
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: G
Length: 119 words
Content notes: no leola root was harmed in writing this slightly over-drabble length fic😜
Author notes: A little off-screen shenanigans sometime around State Of Flux in season one.
Summary:
( Meddling )
Double Drabble: Irresponsible Parents
Jun. 15th, 2025 06:50 pmbadly_knittedTitle: Irresponsible Parents
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 869: Left at
torchwood100.Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack is worried about the twins on their first day of school.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
Knock Out Honey Bees
Jun. 15th, 2025 11:57 amblackcatofmisery posting in common_natureMy mom's garden has a vigorous knock out rosebush just beside it, and various bees adore it. Although I'm severely allergic to bites and stings, I will still follow honey and bumble bees; they're too busy to care about me.
Fun fact about me: I cannot smell typical roses. Knockouts are the only roses I can smell.
( Photos beneath the cut. )
Fun fact about me: I cannot smell typical roses. Knockouts are the only roses I can smell.
( Photos beneath the cut. )
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30 Days Wild - Week Two
Jun. 15th, 2025 04:05 pmsmallhobbitWeek Two was supposed to be about moving around and enjoying the wildlife, although for various reasons I didn't do that much.
( Week Two )
say hello to Indiana
Jun. 14th, 2025 08:28 pmlizardjay posting in common_natureAt the end of last month I visited Indiana for a week, and in that time went on FOUR hikes. There are too many pictures to put here so I'm posting a link to my ~150 picture album: My sister and I are both very into taking pictures so the hikes were very slow :D but I think it really helps in remembering that there's something interesting to see in pretty much every square inch of the outdoors. There is always a bug, or a fungal disease on a leaf, or a shiny drop of water.
The Album
We visited, in order:
The pictures feature:
For the most part the locations are broken up by a couple non-nature photos, except for Southwestway Park (which begins at the photo of the yellow spider in the web). Once you get to the art museum pictures there's no more nature, unless you count the clouds outside the plane window.
The Album
We visited, in order:
- Ritchie Woods Nature Preserve
- Summit Lake State Park
- Shades State Park/Pine Hills Nature Preserve
- Southwestway Park
The pictures feature:
- many, many insects
- a stately gentleman frog, who very kindly let me get within an inch of him
- snails
- two snakes
- cool looking plants/fungi
- general landscapes
For the most part the locations are broken up by a couple non-nature photos, except for Southwestway Park (which begins at the photo of the yellow spider in the web). Once you get to the art museum pictures there's no more nature, unless you count the clouds outside the plane window.
Lonely Prompts Sunday, Week 24 [DW Edition]
Jun. 15th, 2025 11:37 pm↑↑↑ Available dates:
[June 23-27: Lonely Prompts Week]
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Happy Sunday, everyone! :D Welcome to our weekly Lonely Prompts adoption day. If this is your first time at
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We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^
Whichever you decide to do, prompt or fill (or both), please remember:
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9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2024 collection. See further notes on this option here.
How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."
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