I have eaten ridiculous amounts of food and drunk copious volumes of wine.

And I am very very tired, and in Naples, on the verge of doing it all again for another 5 days...

Okay, naptime. Then a quick tour of the city this evening, then sleeeeep as late as possible before schlepping it to the meeting point for the tour of the next five days...

Cripes. I just realised its only 11:30. I thought it was an hour later...

crantz

I keep looking at my old art and comics and being caught up in memories and enjoyment and I keep not working on the actual art I have to do now.

That said, I've learned why my old comics have more dynamic posing than my recent ones - I found a scan of an unfinished one from my youth and I used to construct and pose bodies completely differently, so I'm going to return to that.

I turned 40 this past 5th and it was a nice birthday with good food and company. No complaints!

On my birthday weekend I went to Winnipeg to watch my mom participate in boat races and she did very well, almost placing on the podium! I was very proud. I spent most of it sitting in my chair with its canopy and refusing to move under any circumstance or eat or drink anything so I wouldn't have to use the terrifying port-a-potties.

Saw many delightful dogs too.

Next week I'll be back in the pottery studio - got a lot of plans for that! Including gonna make little tiles OH MY GOD I finally remembered what I kept forgetting to buy! A square cookie cutter! Thanks, everyone!

I'll do a movie round up soon. It's gonna be friggin' huge.

dannye_chase

This week in 1977, Jay Anson published The Amityville Horror, and a launched a whole new generation of haunted house stories.

But before the movies, before the book, before the revelation that it was all a hoax, the house at 112 Ocean Ave, Amityville, Long Island, New York, was the scene of a real horror: the murder of six people.

Ronald DeFeo, Jr., 23, killed his parents, two brothers, and two sisters with a rifle on Nov 13, 1974. If you’re familiar with the Amityville Horror story, you know of claims DeFeo was hearing voices that told him to kill his family. This part is surprisingly real— at least, according to his defense. The jury was unmoved, however, and DeFeo was convicted of mass murder. He died in prison in 2021. It is also true that motive remains elusive: DeFeo might have been after life insurance, and there was tension between him and his father. But nothing was ever said about evil spirits before the murders.

Of course, living in a house where six people were murdered by someone they loved has got to be a little freaky. But one family claimed there was a lot more horror going on. George and Kathy Lutz and their three children lived 28 days in the house at 112 Ocean Ave, starting in Dec, 1975. Interviews and a 1977 book by Jay Anson told the story of a terrified family who barely escaped with their lives. However, later fact-checkers found, well, no facts at all.

So we’re left with an odd contradiction: a false tale that got a lot of publicity for being “true,” but which remains, at its heart, a really good ghost story (which is why it led to many more books and movies). And here on Weird Wednesday, writing good ghost stories is our aim, so let’s see how horrifying the tale really gets!

Check out my Weird Wednesday blog post for the whole story and some horrific writing prompts, such as:

This House is Unclean

Enter the psychics! In the Amityville case, celebrity demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (yup, the ones from the Conjuring cinematic universe) were the heavy hitters. Their investigation produced the famous ghost boy photo, said to be the spirit of John DeFeo, who was nine when he died in the house. Psychics are a big part of many ghost stories, because they’re a good way of getting information on what seems to the protagonists like a lot of confusing occurrences. (Another common way to get info is to have a character do some historical research.)

A prescient prompt:

Here’s one of my favorite bits: the walking dead zone. If some people are magnets for psychic activity, there must also be people on the other end of the spectrum, who inhibit paranormal phenomena. Imagine setting up all your equipment in a haunted house, ready to capture evidence of ghosts, and this guy walks in, and suddenly everything goes dead. No temperature changes, EVP answers, knocking on the walls, ghostly hair-pulling, or chairs sliding across the floor. There’s just nothing. This is the kind of guy who has the ghost hunters yelling at him to get out of a haunted house, instead of the ghosts.

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crantz

Hello! I'm Rosencrantz on ao3 and thank you for reading this letter!

All requests are trick and treat fics!

DNW: Non/dubcon, Underage (-18/-18 sexual, -18/+18 anything)
Likes: Casefic, adventure, romance, horror, fluff.

Fandoms:

World of Warcraft

Hellboy (comics)

Murder She Wrote

The Files of Young Kindaichi (2022)

( prompts below! )

beatrice_otter

I use the same name everywhere so I am

beatrice_otter on AO3. Treats are awesome.

I would rather get a story you were happy with than "well, she said she liked x, so I guess I have to do x even though I don't like x and/or am not inspired that way." This letter is long with lots of suggestions and preferences if you find it helpful, but feel free to ignore it if it is not helpful. I'm fairly easy to please; I've been doing ficathons for over a decade and am usually very happy with my gifts.

The most important thing for me in a fic is that the characters are well-written and recognizably themselves. Even when I don't like a character, I don't go in for character-bashing. If nothing else, if the rest of this letter is too much or my kinks don't fit yours, just concentrate on writing a story with everyone in character and good spelling and grammar and I will almost certainly love what you come up with.

I have an embarrassment squick, which makes humor kind of hit-or-miss sometimes. The kind of humor where someone does something embarrassing and the audience is laughing at them makes me uncomfortable. On the other hand, the kind of humor where the audience is laughing with the characters I really enjoy.

General Likes and Dislikes

other things to keep in mind:

I like stuff that takes side characters and puts them center-stage, especially when the characters and/or actors are marginalized. I enjoy seeing them come to life.
I don't like it when marginalized characters get relegated to the sidekick/supporting/helper role so that it can be All About The White Dude.
I like it when female characters are more than just the Strong Female Character(tm) or The Nurturer.
I like fluff
I like angst with a happy ending
I like stories that make me think about things in a new way.
I like to know that culture matters to people, and to see how different cultures interact and where the clashes are.
I like unreliable narrators.
I like acknowledgment that different people can have different points of view without either of them being wrong.
I like stories that engage with problematic aspects of the source, and which deal with privilege in one way or another instead of sweeping it under the rug.
Worldbuilding is my jam, I am pretty much always up for explorations of why the world is the way it is. I love hearing about the economics, the politics, the religion, the clothing, the history, the folklore, all of that kind of stuff. And I want to know why it matters--how is all this cultural background stuff affecting the characters, the plot, everything. You don't have to do deep worldbuilding, but I'll enjoy it if you do.
I don't like it when plots hinge on characters being selectively stupid, or selectively unable to communicate. Like, if they are stupid or a himbo or whatever in general, or have problems communicating in general, that's fine! Or if they canonically have a blind spot in that area, again, it's fine. But if it's just "the only way I can think of for this plot to work is if the character spontaneously and temporarily loses half their intelligence and competence," then I'm going to spend the rest of the fic wondering why the character didn't just ____?
I like AUs, but not complete setting AUs (i.e. no highschool or college or coffee shop AUs, and especially not mundane AUs--nothing where you keep characters but drop most of the worldbuilding). I like fork-in-the-road type AUs, where one thing is different and the changes all result from that one thing, and you explore what might have been if such-and-such happened.
I like the concept of sedoretu marriages.
I like historical AUs, but only when the author actually knows the history period in question and does thoughtful worldbuilding to meld actual culture of the time with the canon.
Crackfic is really hit and miss for me, sometimes I love it and sometimes I can't stand it. Basically, if it's the characters we know and love in a ludicrous situation, that's great. If they're OOC or parodied in order to make something funny ... it's not funny to me.

I like plotty, gen stories, and plotty stories in general. I don't care for explicit sex, particularly when it's just thrown in for teh porn. I'm asexual; a lot of the time I don't even bother to read the sex scenes. Romance is awesome (as long as both are in character and the romantic plot doesn't hinge on one or both of them being an idiot). I love it when friendship is held up as important and not secondary to romantic relationships and blood ties.

Please no incest or darkfic. I define "darkfic" as stuff where there's a lot of suffering and no hope even at the end and all the characters are terrible. Angst with a happy ending is fine, I enjoy it, but there's gotta be a payoff. Even an ambiguous ending is fine! But there has to be some note of grace or redemption or hope somewhere, it can't just be "people are awful and the world sucks, the end." I define incest as siblings and/or parents, cousins don't count.

I love outsider perspectives and academic takes on things. In-universe meta (newspaper articles, academic monographs--especially with the sort of snarky feuding common in actual real-world academia, social media feeds in current day or future worlds) is awesome.

Also, I'm picky about European historical clothing details. You don't have to talk about it at all! In fact, if you don't know much about historical clothing, I would prefer if you didn't mention it at all. My pet peeve is corsets: no, they weren't a restrictive tool of the patriarchy, no, they didn't interfere with most women's daily lives, no, most women weren't wearing them so tight they couldn't breathe.

I like religion but I'm picky about it. Basically, Christianity is deeply weird compared to most other religions, and a lot of people whose only experience with religion is living in a culturally-Christian nation assume that what they know about Christianity is some sort of universal principle of What Religion Is Like, and that's just not the case. For example, in Christianity what you believe is more important than what you do. This is not to say we Christians don't teach and practice Christian ethics or have rituals we are very attached to, but rather that if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, it doesn't matter what rituals you participate in or what ethical things you do, you are not a Christian (although you may be a "cultural Christian"). Every Christian group has at least a minimal core theology that members must affirm, but participation in ritual is far less rigidly a requirement. Most other religions rank what you do (both ethically and ritually) as more important than what you believe, and it is often quite possible to be a member in good standing if you participate in the practices and rituals even if you believe none of the teachings. Anyway, point is, if you are doing worldbuilding for a fantasy or SF or otherwise non-Christian religion ... unless it is explicitly a Christian-analogue, it should be different from Christianity. Question your assumptions and see where that leads you, and I will be fascinated and thrilled.

( Fandom for Robots )

( Peter Wimsey )

( Rivers of London )

( DS9 )

( TOS )

( TNG )

( Oh, My General )

( Thrawn Trilogy )

( Goblin Emperor )

tielan

Okay, so the bit where I'm falling down on the holiday is sleep.

Air-con is too much. Bed is too soft. Pillows are too hard. Not warm enough.

AAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH

Last night, I woke up at 3:30am and...didn't really manage to get back to sleep until around 6am. And even that was only for about half an hour.

I'm travelling okay, though. COVID has cleared up, although I sometimes feel a bit stupid lately, trying to work out what I'm saying and how to say it, and thinking "I'm sure I used to know how to phrase this".

Anyway, it's nearly 11pm where I am.

Time for sleeeeeeeep.

dannye_chase

Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: The Gytrash: World’s Scariest Cow

Welcome on this Weird Wednesday! Today we’re walking down a lonely country road, looking for a cow whose appearance foretells death. Which is about as weird as anything we do around here.

So say you’re a ways down that country road. It’s late, and the sun’s going down. Your home’s not too far away, but you’re surrounded by trees, so it’s hard to see too far ahead. Then a little distance off, you spy a cow. Of course, cows are common enough in the country. It probably just wandered away from its field. So you decide to be a good neighbor and return it. But the closer you get to the cow, the more something feels…off. As if the cow is friendly, but maybe you don’t want it to be.

Then the cow heads off the road, wandering into the trees, and you have a decision to make: do you follow it, or not?

So what the heck is a Gytrash? Well, that depends on its whims, presumably. It’s alternatively called a Guytrash or Guytresh, where “trash” comes from “thurse,” meaning “goblin” in Middle English. So it’s some sort of spirit or creature that dwells in Northern England and appears as various large domestic mammals: a horse, mule, cow, or dog. But the point is, it’s not a horse, mule, cow or dog. It’s a supernatural shapeshifter. Sometimes that’s kind of obvious, because the animal will be black with glowing red eyes, something it has in common with hell hounds.

So what’s it doing there on that lonely road? Again, that depends. In a grouchy mood, a Gytrash can spell doom, guiding travelers away from the road and out into the wilderness, not unlike other malevolent spirits. In fact, for whatever reason, the cow form specifically is said to be a death omen. (Why the cow? I don’t know, but people do very much like to explain inexplicable deaths. Perhaps somebody a long time ago croaked after seeing a weird cow, and a legend was born.)

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some writing prompts, such as:

What if you suspect somebody else followed the Gytrash? The wilderness is an awful place to try to find a missing person. Dense brush or rocky ground can hide a body mere feet away, and animals will scavenge and scatter human remains. But what if your character suspected the supernatural was at fault in this disappearance? If so, it might be possible to counteract it. Perhaps they could contact a magical practitioner to lay a counterspell, or a priest to exorcise evil spirits. Maybe they could even locate a Gytrash-addled victim by scrying or dowsing.

DannyeChase.com ~ AO3 ~ Linktree ~ Weird Wednesday writing prompts blog ~ Resources for Writers

desertvixen

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dannye_chase

New book review on my blog!

The Handyma’am and the Werewolves by JD Cadmon (Sapphic paranormal romance)

“If anyone knows how important family is, it’s a werewolf.”

We’ve all had lonely times, where we’ve got little more to rely on than our own sense of self and drive to keep moving forward. That’s where Laura finds herself at the beginning of The Handyma’am. Fresh out of an abusive relationship, toolbox in hand, she’s ready for the next stage of her life. That’s when she meets a whole bunch of people whose life stages run strictly by the month.

Check out The Handyma’am if you’re looking for a sapphic romance with bisexual rep, a first gay kiss in a literal closet, a deep platonic relationship with a werewolf who wears nail polish (on her claws), and above all, a fierce (literally) found family. Because as Laura discovers, it doesn’t really matter if you don’t believe in werewolves when they sure as hell believe in you.

See all my book reviews

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tielan

I made it to Georgia.

Left HK in the middle of a Typhoon 8 (IDK what it was, but they started cancelling Monday flights, so it sounded pretty serious). Reached Istanbul on time as per schedule.

Istanbul was redoing their airport last time I came through here in 2022. It is the headquarters of Turkish Airlines which services a large chunk of Eastern Europe and Western Asia (and Africa, and all the major world centres).

It's freaking HUGE. And shiny. And new. But there are not enough seats, signposts, or information about what to do and where to go and what needs to be done. And nobody could tell me if I was too late to make my flight, so I didn't really have time to look at everything, although I really wanted to...

Sometimes I have to remind myself that almost everything I can get in a major airport, I can find back home in Sydney, home-made and better quality.

Made the flight to Georgia, got off, met the driver who took me to the place where the tour group was today.

( after 36 hours in Georgia )

hiddencait

... Not me FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER realizing I can go look at my old sign ups from previous years to figure out what I may or may not want to nominate for Yuletide. It really is one of my top exchanges ever - or at least the one I've been in the most consistently since, oh, 2013 it looks like? No wonder it felt weird not signing up last year LOLSOB.

But seriously, looking back over my old sign ups was such a trip. Moods ranging from "ohhhh I need to reread/rewatch that!" to "remember when Black Sails qualified but now it's got 6k fics lmao" to "there's no way that still qualifies... it only has 500 fics total? ... I guess I've just read them all. Oops"

Also, looking at numbers, I apparently never wanted to nominate a fandom that technically has a web comic, light novel, and now cartoon before. How did y'all ever figure out if those were eligible or not when they don't get consistently tagged together?? All this to say, sadly Solo Leveling probably is NOT eligible. I think? Ish? If one of you darlings would like to sort out the math for me to prove me wrong, I would love you forever LOL. If not, oh well, I'll get my Baek Yoon-ho requests in via other exchanges.

In any case, I believe I'm nominating the below fandoms this year. Probably. Possibly? We'll see if I change my mind at the last minute once noms actually open on the 15th. I'm so SO glad they are allowing 5 fandom nominations this year!

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime):

Sei Takanashi
Albert Hawke

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest:

Lizzie Borden
Emma Borden
Nance O’Neill

An Inquiry into Love and Death - Simone St. James:

Jillian Leigh
Toby Leigh
Drew Merriken

Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014):

Asbjorn
Inghean

The Others - Anne Bishop

Meg Corbyn
Simon Wolfgard

I am crossing my fingers someone else nominates Rolling in the Deep - Seanan McGuire, but it's been in the tag set multiple years in a row so hopefully I'm safe using my noms for ones that are less often in there. *crosses fingers and toes* What all is everyone else thinking of nominating?

doranwen

updated 2025-09-12

This is the post of all the Profiler fics in my database, organized by time (in canon) (and then sorted by length). (For Profiler recs organized by major ship and then author, go here.)

At last, I finally have the Profiler fics added to my database! These are not, of course, the only Profiler fics out there, but I excluded anything too poorly written or that was for a ship I cannot get into no matter what. So you won't see Believer or Skew fic in here (though perhaps some of the Jack/Frances fics you might consider Skewed); any instances of those ships listed are one-sided pining or stalking, respectively. And while I'm a SABER at heart, these fics are not entirely SABER (and a decent number are gen), so there should be something for everyone.

I have included my own fics in this post. I have marked some as favorites (because I do re-read them from time to time!), and others I have not. None of them are marked as exceptionally well-written because I couldn't objectively evaluate my own work that way, even when I particularly like the way I wrote something.

About a third of the fics in the database for this fandom were not found on either AO3 or ff.n due to the age of the fandom. The bulk of those were on LJ, but others were on sites accessible only via the Wayback Machine. I created epubs for any fic that was not on either AO3 or ff.n and can provide those if desired. Note that during the creation process, I cleaned up formatting issues and occasionally corrected punctuation or spelling, so that I could tolerate reading it in the future.

In the process of going through LJ and other sites, I frequently ran across the same fics posted under different names on different sites. Whenever possible, I linked the identities in a single author name, with each individual name separated by a /.

Many of the fics on LJ or other sites did not have summaries included, so there are a large number without summaries. If you are concerned about content, feel free to request a version of this post with all the themes included, so you'll at least have the equivalent of freeform tags to go off of. Otherwise, consider giving them a try; some of those are very well-written and all are enjoyable to at least some extent.

If you know of a well-written fic for one of the ships below (particularly SABER, gen, John/any-woman-but-Sam, or George/Grace), lurking in the murky backwaters of the old 'net (or on the dusty corners of a personal hard drive), please let me know! I went through all the major sites that I'm aware of but some fics weren't archived, and if they were on a personal site not linked up to the others, I might not find it.

A chunk of the "dead" fics are marked as WIPs not because the fics originally were, but because the WBM frequently saved only the first chapter (sometimes two), and the authors cannot be contacted now. I have taken the perspective that part of a fic is better than no fic, and added the ones I liked to my database. If you run across one of them and know how to reach the author or have a full copy of the fic, please let me now!

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

( Ships )

Serious Profiler fans may be aware that the season 2 episodes were aired out of order. This recs post uses the numbers for the more logical original intended order:
2x01 Ambition in the Blood
2x02 Power Corrupts
2x03 Primal Scream
2x04 It Cuts Both Ways
2x05 Second Best

The names of the final two episodes of S4 are also confused somewhat but this follows the numerical sequence order, regardless of which name the episode has.

Below are the recs:

( 1x01 )

( 1x02 )

( 1x05 )

( 1x10 )

( 1x11 )

( 1x13 )

( 1x14 )

( 1x17 )

( 1x19 )

( 2x01 )

( 2x03 )

( 2x04 )

( 2x05 )

( 2x06 )

( 2x08 )

( 2x10 )

( 2x11 )

( 2x12 )

( 2x13 )

( 2x14 )

( 2x15 )

( 2x17 )

( 2x18 )

( 3x02 )

( 3x04 )

( 3x08 )

( 3x11 )

( 3x14 )

( 3x18 )

( 4x01 )

( 4x02 )

( 4x11 )

( 4x12 )

( 4x14 )

( 4x16 )

( 4x19 )

( future )

( indeterminate )

( multi )

( post-series )

( pre-series )

( S1 )

( S2 )

( S3 )

( S4 )

If any of the non-dead links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

goddess47

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doranwen

updated 2025-09-12

This is the post of all the Profiler fics in my database, organized by major ships (and then by author). (For Profiler recs organized by time in canon and wordcount instead, go here.)

At last, I finally have the Profiler fics added to my database! These are not, of course, the only Profiler fics out there, but I excluded anything too poorly written or that was for a ship I cannot get into no matter what. So you won't see Believer or Skew fic in here (though perhaps some of the Jack/Frances fics you might consider Skewed); any instances of those ships listed are one-sided pining or stalking, respectively. And while I'm a SABER at heart, these fics are not entirely SABER (and a decent number are gen), so there should be something for everyone.

I have included my own fics in this post. I have marked some as favorites (because I do re-read them from time to time!), and others I have not. None of them are marked as exceptionally well-written because I couldn't objectively evaluate my own work that way, even when I particularly like the way I wrote something.

About a third of the fics in the database for this fandom were not found on either AO3 or ff.n due to the age of the fandom. The bulk of those were on LJ, but others were on sites accessible only via the Wayback Machine (WBM). I created epubs for any fic that was not on either AO3 or ff.n and can provide those if desired. Note that during the creation process, I cleaned up formatting issues and occasionally corrected punctuation or spelling, so that I could tolerate reading it in the future.

In the process of going through LJ and other sites, I frequently ran across the same fics posted under different names on different sites. Whenever possible, I linked the identities in a single author name, with each individual name separated by a /.

Many of the fics on LJ or other sites did not have summaries included, so there are a large number without summaries. If you are concerned about content, feel free to request a version of this post with all the themes included, so you'll at least have the equivalent of freeform tags to go off of. Otherwise, consider giving them a try; some of those are very well-written and all are enjoyable to at least some extent.

If you know of a well-written fic for one of the ships below (particularly SABER, gen, John/any-woman-but-Sam, or George/Grace), lurking in the murky backwaters of the old 'net (or on the dusty corners of a personal hard drive), please let me know! I went through all the major sites that I'm aware of but some fics weren't archived, and if they were on a personal site not linked up to the others, I might not find it.

A chunk of the "dead" fics are marked as WIPs not because the fics originally were, but because the WBM frequently saved only the first chapter (sometimes two), and the authors cannot be contacted now. I have taken the perspective that part of a fic is better than no fic, and added the ones I liked to my database. If you run across one of them and know how to reach the author or have a full copy of the fic, please let me now!

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

( Ships )

Below are the recs:

( Bailey Malone & Chloe Waters, Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone & Frances Malone )

( Bailey Malone & Grace Alvarez, George Fraley & Grace Alvarez )

( Bailey Malone & Grace Alvarez, Morgan Ballard/Grace Alvarez )

( Bailey Malone & John Grant )

( Bailey Malone & John Grant, John Grant & Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone & Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone & Samantha Waters, Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Chloe Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Ellen Behar, Bailey Malone/OFC, Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Ellen Behar, Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Nick Cooper/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Janet Malone, Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Janet Malone, Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Nick Cooper/Samantha Waters, Tom Waters/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters, John Grant/Angel Brown )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters, Tom Waters/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, John Grant & Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Nick Cooper/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Nick Cooper/Samantha Waters, Tom Waters/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, OFC/OFC )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Paul Sterling/Samantha Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Samantha Waters & Chloe Waters )

( Bailey Malone/Samantha Waters, Walter Anderson & Samantha Waters )

( Frances Malone/OMC, John Grant/Frances Malone )

( George Fraley & Grace Alvarez )

( George Fraley & Grace Alvarez, George Fraley & John Grant )

( George Fraley & Grace Alvarez, George Fraley/Rich Warren, Morgan Ballard/Grace Alvarez )

( George Fraley & John Grant )

( George Fraley & John Grant, George Fraley/Rich Warren )

( George Fraley/Grace Alvarez )

( George Fraley/Grace Alvarez, Morgan Ballard/Grace Alvarez )

( George Fraley/Rich Warren, Morgan Ballard & Rich Warren, Morgan Ballard/Grace Alvarez )

( George Fraley/Rich Warren, Morgan Ballard/Grace Alvarez )

( Grace Alvarez/OMC )

( Jack of All Trades/Frances Malone )

( Jack of All Trades/Janet Malone )

( Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters )

( Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters, Jack of All Trades/Sharon Lesher )

( Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters, Morgan Ballard/Grace Alvarez )

( Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters, Nick Cooper/Samantha Waters )

( Jack of All Trades/Samantha Waters, Samantha Waters & Chloe Waters )

( Jack of All Trades/Sharon Lesher )

( John Grant & Chloe Waters, Nick Cooper/Samantha Waters )

( John Grant & Grace Alvarez )

( John Grant & Grace Alvarez, John Grant/Kate Wilton )

( John Grant & Nathan Brubaker )

( John Grant & Patrick O'Doyle, John Grant & Samantha Waters )

( John Grant & Patrick O'Doyle, OMC/OFC )

( John Grant & Rachel Burke )

( John Grant & Samantha Waters )

( John Grant & Samantha Waters, John Grant/OFC )

( John Grant/Angel Brown )

( John Grant/Frances Malone )

( John Grant/Frances Malone, John Grant/Kate Wilton )

( John Grant/Frances Malone, John Grant/Rachel Burke )

( John Grant/Michelle Brubaker )

( John Grant/Rachel Burke )

( John Grant/Samantha Waters )

( Morgan Ballard/Grace Alvarez )

( Nathan Brubaker/Michelle Brubaker )

( Nick Cooper/Samantha Waters )

( Samantha Waters & Chloe Waters )

( Samantha Waters/Angel Brown )

( Samantha Waters/Reader's Choice (male character) )

( Tom Waters/Samantha Waters )

( No major ships )

If any of the non-dead links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

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I feel like I was better at this when I was younger.

Got a big dent in my self-assurance right now, and struggling: tired and a little anxious after this setback.

*sigh*

Next flight up in 18 hours...

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Something with a bit more humour, because this always makes me laugh:

Watch on YouTube

I first saw this on social media, but most recently I saw

conuly post it.

The funniest part is the very deliberate way the announcer says "Chicken Jockey" almost like she can't quite believe what she's reading. (Or, it might just be the Minnesota inflection. I can't tell!)

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Amusing point: We are five days into September and I have already written over half of what I wrote in August. August was absolutely a MISERABLE month for writing.

tielan

I spent most of the day in the room, listning to an irregular rumble that never quite seemed to stop...

..around 5:30pm, I realised that it was the elevators.

I called down to the front desk and they promptly moved me...to a room at the back corner which smelled like it had previously housed a smoker. You're not allowed to smoke in the rooms, sure. But someone who smokes like a chimney had inhabited that room not too long ago, and I could smell it.

I called down to the front desk, they sent up housekeeping, who sprayed perfume through the room. Not helping! And then they moved me yet again - about four rooms along and there's no smell and no elevator rumble...

What a drama. And I'd slept pretty well last night. It was just during the day that I was listening to that rumble and thought at first it must be construction work, only to realise after hours that, no, it's probably the elevators.

Bad design, as my dad the architect would say.

At any rate, I'm moved again.

NOW can the drama be over? Please? Pretty please?

I'm feeling better still - more energy, but the slightly congested nose and throat again. I stopped taking the phenylephrine after last night. And looking through the drugs the doc gave me, there's an anti-histamine, and an anti-inflammatory, and when I tried taking the metformin (another anti-inflammatory) last night...let's just say it got unpretty.

Tonight and tomorrow is to make sure I'm back to (near-)fighting fit. I should have been in Georgia, by now, meeting the rest of the tour...

*sigh* Okay, no dwelling. Just resting.

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tielan - Georgia - the brief brief version
crantz - Trapped in nostalgia
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crantz - Trick or Treat
beatrice_otter - Dear FFFX Author
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desertvixen - FFFX 2025
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hiddencait - Yuletide Nominations Ahoy!
doranwen - Profiler recs - by time & length
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sweetsorcery - FIC "Samavaya" Biggles/Moorven, Algy/Ginger (Biggles Series) M 6/?
tielan - biting off more than I can chew
sweetsorcery - FIC: "You're On My Mind" John Tracy/Scott Tracy, Thunderbirds (TV 1965) T
goddess47 - Heading to Bed (Stargate Atlantis; John Sheppard, Rodney McKay) - PG
tielan - Chicken Jockey from Minnesota!
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The Amityville Horror: Infamous American Haunted House

This week in 1977, Jay Anson published The Amityville Horror, and a launched a whole new generation of haunted house stories.

Check out my Weird Wednesday blog post for the whole story and some horrific writing prompts, such as:

Trick or Treat

Dear FFFX Author

sleeeeeep

The Gytrash: World's Scariest Cow

Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: The Gytrash: World’s Scariest Cow

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Book review: The Handyma'am and the Werewolves

The Handyma’am and the Werewolves by JD Cadmon (Sapphic paranormal romance)

“If anyone knows how important family is, it’s a werewolf.”

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Yuletide Nominations Ahoy!

Profiler recs - by time & length

Have you published books? Are you a real person?

Profiler recs - by ship & author

FIC "Samavaya" Biggles/Moorven, Algy/Ginger (Biggles Series) M 6/?

biting off more than I can chew

FIC: "You're On My Mind" John Tracy/Scott Tracy, Thunderbirds (TV 1965) T

Heading to Bed (Stargate Atlantis; John Sheppard, Rodney McKay) - PG

Chicken Jockey from Minnesota!

not quite

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