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himejoshiheart ([personal profile] himejoshiheart) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-09 08:34 pm

Crowd: Sealomimi: Art: crowd of sheep

Fandom: Sealomimi
Rating: general
Content notes: sheep
Artist notes: nobody said the crowd has to be sapient, right?
Summary: Mary laying in a herd of sheep.

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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt2025-08-09 08:47 pm

(no subject)

My mother desperately wants grandchildren. I’m nearing 30 and have never wanted children; my partner feels the same way. We would both rather focus on our careers, and there are also some hereditary health conditions in our family — nothing life-threatening, but enough that we would rather not pass them on.

Despite knowing all this, my mother pressures us constantly. Every time I explain my position, she becomes distraught and insists I just don’t understand the joy a child would bring. She’s in poor physical and mental health, and these conversations quickly spiral into intense emotional distress. Any attempts at therapy have been flatly dismissed.

Now she’s saying that she’ll cut me out of her will if I don’t have a child. There’s not much money involved, but I worry that, if it comes to that, she might also cut off contact altogether. My sibling has already severed ties with my mother over her mental-health struggles. I want to keep my mother in my life, but I can’t stand the thought of this one issue dominating whatever time we have left together.

I’ve started to consider telling her I can’t have children because of fertility issues. That would be a lie, and I feel uneasy using something so many people genuinely struggle with as an excuse. Still, her fixation on grandchildren is seriously damaging our relationship. Should I lie to my mother to try to save our relationship, or keep telling the truth and watch things fall apart? — Name Withheld


Read more... )
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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-09 05:32 pm

City of Streamers: fanfic: whirling

Title: whirling
Fandom: City of Streamers (mods: you can use the Cdrama tag)
Pairing: Feng Shizhen/Rong Jiashang
Challenge: Crowd
Length: 100 words

Summary: glimpses through the crowd

Read more... )
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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2025-08-09 07:02 pm

he got a great charge on it

Arrgh, book 7 is not the last book! And the next one doesn't come out until next year! Arrgh!

*
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-08-09 09:57 am

MCU meme

Stole this from [personal profile] muccamukk.

Bold = Watched Entirety
Italic = Watched Part
* Watched more than once.
† Watched in the first few weeks of release (at least initially, for TV shows).

Big annotated list of movies/shows )

Some nostalgic nattering about that )

Code if you want to do it yourself:
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smallhobbit ([personal profile] smallhobbit) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-09 03:49 pm

Crowd: Miss Marple: Fanfic: Miss Marple Goes To The Sales

Title: Miss Marple Goes To The Sales
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 459 words
Summary: Miss Marple doesn't care for crowds, but sometimes they have to be endured

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VeroNyxK84 ([personal profile] veronyxk84) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-09 10:06 am

Crowd: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Push and Pull

Title: Push and Pull
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: R
Warnings: Implied sexual situation (nothing is described on absolutely any level), dub-con (for the controversy of the OG balcony scene at the Bronze)
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S6, during ep. 6x13 “Dead Things”
Summary: Buffy’s strongly conflicted about her situationship with Spike.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #487 Crowd
Also for: #161 Pull + #191 Balcony by [community profile] anythingdrabble [Amnesty Week]


READ: Push and Pull/Double drabble )
 
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-08-08 08:00 pm
Entry tags:

Just Murderbot things

Check out this person's adorable manga-style art illustrating scenes from the first three Murderbot books. I love their art style!

I was thinking about how the adaptation for the next season might go.

More about that )
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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote2025-08-09 01:20 pm
Entry tags:

Canada has come back to haunt me

Last night, Andrew and I and our tv-watching-with friend started The Sympathizer, a drama set just after the Vietnam war, about a Vietnamese double agent. It's structurally really interesting, and it has RDJ in multiple kind-of-gross roles, lol. Darkly funny, but deals with some really serious subjects.

Created by Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, who are also showrunners. Yes, that Don McKellar.

It also, features Sandra Oh. I did not expect either of their names in the credits! :D
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rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote2025-08-08 02:15 pm

Super Boba Cafe # 1, by Nidhi Chanani



A middle-grade graphic novel about a boba shop with a secret.

Aria comes to stay with her grandmother in San Francisco for the summer to escape a bad social situation. Her grandmother owns a boba shop that doesn't seem too popular, and Aria throws herself into making it more so - most successfully when Grandma's cat Bao has eight kittens, and Aria advertises it as a kitten cafe. But why is Grandma so adamant about never letting Aria set foot in the kitchen, and kicking out the customers at 6:00 on the dot? Why do the prairie dogs in the backyard seem so smart?

This graphic novel has absolutely adorable illustrations. The story isn't as strong. The first half is mostly a realistic, gentle, cozy slice of life. The second half is a fantasy adventure with light horror aspects. Even though the latter is throughly foreshadowed in the former, it still feels kind of like two books jammed together.

My larger issue was with tone and content that also felt jammed together. The book is somewhat didactic - which is fine, especially in a middle-grade book - but I feel like if the book is teaching lessons, it should teach them consistently and appropriately. The lessons in this book were a bit off or inconsistent, creating an uncanny valley feeling.

Spoilers! Read more... )

Fantastic art, kind of odd story.
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tentaclemod ([personal profile] tentaclemod) wrote in [community profile] pinchhits2025-08-08 10:14 pm
Entry tags:

Rare Male Slash Exchange Pinch Hits Due August 16th

Event: Rare Male Slash Exchange on Ao3
Event link: On DW
Pinch hit link: https://raremaleslashex.dreamwidth.org/2025/08/08/
Due date: August 16th, 20:00 UTC Deadline Countdown

PH 5 - [Fanfic + Fanart, Podfic] 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, Crossover Fandom, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)

PH 6 - [Fanfic + Fanart] NoPixel (Web Series), 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 吸血鬼すぐ死ぬ | Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu | The Vampire Dies in No Time (Anime), Runescape (Video Games)

PH 8 - [All Fanfic] Bandom, Cool Runnings, due South, Good Omens, Zootopia, Real Genius

PH 9 - [All Fanfic] Dishonored (Video Games), BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games), Revenge (1990)

PH 11 - [All Fanfic] X-Men: The Animated Series (Cartoon 1992), World of Warcraft, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV 2000), Hellboy (Comics)

PH 14 - [Fanfic + Fanart] Bleach (Anime & Manga), Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, フェルマーの料理 | Fermat no Ryouri (TV)

PH 16 - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Elden Ring (Video Game), 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings, The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Glory (TV 2022), 苍兰诀 | Love Between Fairy and Devil (TV), 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 오픈 더 도어 - 임짜달 | Open The Door - Imjjadal, 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)

PH 17 - Crossover Fandom, Naruto (Anime & Manga), 新世界狂歡|NU: carnival (Video Game)

PH 18 - Biggles Series - W. E. Johns, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Labyrinth (1986), Sime~Gen - Jacqueline Lichtenberg & Jean Lorrah, Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Song), Original Work

PH 19 - Red One (2024), Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013), Spacelords (Video Game), Original Work )

Please claim at the link or via tentaclemod@gmail.com!
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libitina ([personal profile] libitina) wrote2025-08-08 03:40 pm

Things to do this weekend

Shows to watch
Friday night - War of Faith
Saturday 11am - The Heart Killers
Saturday 2pm - My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho
Sunday 1pm - Apothecary Diaries
Sunday 2pm - Moon Embracing the Sun Jack & Joker

Things to do
Have tea with Egyptian friend to exchange stuff (Sunday night?)
buy some groceries and work snacks from Aldi
get cash / deposit a check
pick up my laundry
buy gas (for the car)
Ask neighbor if he will help clear the plants out of my alley and backyard (in exchange for cash)
gardening! (there still are some plants not in proper pots)
Keep sewing my red SCA dress
package up the dried herbs so you can harvest more herbs to dry
package up craft swap things to mail to people!

Things to cook/eat
Clear room to put pickled things in the refrigerator
eat pickles?
start another jar of cucumber pickles
Do I want to try making cabbage kimchi?
marinate tofu for dinners (try making spicy tofu with the chinese soybean paste in the sauce)
eat butternut squash!
make paste to take to work for some book repairs!
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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote2025-08-08 07:45 pm

Foundation 3.05

In which Gaal unleashes her inner Hari, and lots of revelations happen in all plotlines.

Spoilers need to get the plan back on track by any means necessary )
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radiantfracture ([personal profile] radiantfracture) wrote2025-08-07 08:36 pm

More from Okanagan Backroads Volume One

Old Fairview: White Lake Observatory

Mile 12.1 (4.4) – Half a mile further along, the access to White Lake Observatory turns right. (White Lake itself is the alkali pond opposite the Twin Lakes turnoff.)

Because of their electrical systems, which interfere with the operation of the radio-telescope, cars are not allowed on the road to the radio telescope. The big dish itself towers above the other installations, listening eternally to signals from outer space. The maze of poles and overhead wiring back towards Oliver are another form of radio-telescope, which pick up very long radio waves. The observatory is well worth walking the three-tenths mile; what's happening is completely incomprehensible to the layman, but fascinating nonetheless.

(1975/77)

* * * * * *

This observatory still exists, under the rather grander name of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory. It is, so the government website tells me, "an internationally renowned facility for radio astronomy and leading-edge instrumentation." Until just now, I had no idea that it existed.

DRAO is still, naturally, a radio-quiet site, which must be more difficult these days than in 1975.

Dave Stewart, author of Okanagan Backroads, is quite right about its fascination. I am absolutely a lay person, and yet statements like this are weirdly thrilling: "The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is Canada's largest radio telescope. ... CHIME has no moving parts, but the Earth's rotation allows the telescope to map all of Canada's visible sky every day. CHIME was designed to survey atomic hydrogen from the largest volume of the Universe to date." No real idea why that would be important to do (feel free to explain!), but I'm glad it's happening here.

They have a Perseids viewing party next week!

§rf§

Source: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/research-development/nrc-facilities/dominion-radio-astrophysical-observatory-research-facility
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grundyscribbling ([personal profile] grundyscribbling) wrote2025-08-07 10:00 pm

Day 7 - Dinner and a Show

Title: Dinner and a Show
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: LotR/Silmarillion
Disclaimer: All belongs to Whedon & Tolkien. No money is being made here, it's all in good fun.
Summary: Anariel's getting used to these big family dinners.
Word Count:  825
Note:

Dinner And A Show )
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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2025-08-08 06:41 am

The Crossing of Ships through fannish time and space... (dear author letter)

It's been a while since I've done one of these, so my apologies if it's not quite as adequate as I'd like.

Likes

Dislikes

here, there, and everywhere )

If none of my ideas work for you, dear author, please just write the duo we matched upon and it will be fine.
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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2025-08-08 06:12 am

ficathons

17th August - Just Married

My requestor has left me no prompts, which is sometimes worse than 'prompts I can't write'.

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19th September - Ships Crossing

If I can get the sign up in before they close. My nominations have yet to be accepted. (In fairness, I only did them half an hour ago.)

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I didn't sign up for the sedoretu exchange this year, I was deep in the weeds of life at the time and simply couldn't get the energy to sign up, let alone write a story.