Snowflake Challenge
Dec. 29th, 2025 05:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithHappy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons.
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snowflake_challenge, please feel free to promote this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners for that. The community page also has icons. ( Read more... )
Review: Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, at Locus
Dec. 29th, 2025 05:57 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
wrongquestions_feedOne of the unexpected curiosities of growing older is watching the train of "rediscovered" books come back around for a second try. In my teens, I read a book called I Who Have Never Known Men, by a Belgian-Jewish author named Jacqueline Harpman. A gender-based dystopia about a young girl who grows up in an underground bunker with a group of women, it was a dark, elliptical novel (one that many
Choices Challenge: Babylon 5: The Only Way
Dec. 29th, 2025 01:45 pmbadly_knitted posting in fan_flashworksTitle: The Only Way
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Garibaldi, Sheridan.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 250
Spoilers/Setting: The Exercise of Vital Powers.
Summary: For Sheridan’s sake, Garibaldi will have to betray his former captain.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 100: Choices.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
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Icon Drop September and October
Dec. 29th, 2025 02:35 pmtinnyOMG I was so sure I had already posted this - I assembled it in November. /o\ All the icons I made for challenge communities in September and October:
( 63 icons - about half of Wu-Lei-related things )
Concrit welcome! Comments adored! Credit appreciated! Take and use as many icons as you like. If you want to know whose textures and brushes I use, take a look at my resource post.
Previous icon posts:
( 63 icons - about half of Wu-Lei-related things )
Concrit welcome! Comments adored! Credit appreciated! Take and use as many icons as you like. If you want to know whose textures and brushes I use, take a look at my resource post.
Circle Challenge: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Together
Dec. 29th, 2025 08:13 amdarkjediqueen posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Together
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt Rocker
Summary: Together they could do it.
Word Count: 2,037
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt Rocker
Summary: Together they could do it.
Word Count: 2,037
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Ice Challenge: Winnie-the-Pooh: Fanfic: Winnie-the-Pooh's Icy Day
Dec. 29th, 2025 12:55 pmsmallhobbit posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Winnie-the-Pooh's Icy Day
Fandom: Winnie-the-Pooh
Rating: G
Length: 338 words
Summary: Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet are out for a walk on an icy day
Also for The Wildlife Trusts 12 Days Wild Challenge to write a winter themed story
Fandom: Winnie-the-Pooh
Rating: G
Length: 338 words
Summary: Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet are out for a walk on an icy day
Also for The Wildlife Trusts 12 Days Wild Challenge to write a winter themed story
Best Of is back!
Dec. 29th, 2025 10:55 amtinnybestof_icons is back! \o/ I'd be very happy if you helped me choose icons to remake!
ICON REMAKE - JOIN IN! | MY THREAD
Online Housekeeping
Dec. 29th, 2025 02:14 amysabetwordsmithThis checklist of online housekeeping originally came from sunshine_challenge (which is now sunshine_revival). (See the 2023 version.) I am updating it for the snowflake_challenge in January 2026.
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sunshine_challenge (which is now sunshine_revival). (See the 2023 version.) I am updating it for the snowflake_challenge in January 2026.( Read more... )
bluerosekatie posting in smallfandomfestTitle: Music Box Hearts
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Rockman | Mega Man Classic (video games)
Pairing/Characters: Blues | Proto Man / Kalinka Cossack
Rating/Category: Gen, F/M
Prompt: Rockman | Mega Man Classic (games), Proto Man/Kalinka, Fantasy AU - Forbidden Romance
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: Kalinka receives a midnight visitor -- but the princess and her rogue knight may still have a long road ahead of them.
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.
Read it on Ao3 here!
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Rockman | Mega Man Classic (video games)
Pairing/Characters: Blues | Proto Man / Kalinka Cossack
Rating/Category: Gen, F/M
Prompt: Rockman | Mega Man Classic (games), Proto Man/Kalinka, Fantasy AU - Forbidden Romance
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: Kalinka receives a midnight visitor -- but the princess and her rogue knight may still have a long road ahead of them.
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.
Read it on Ao3 here!
Birdfeeding
Dec. 29th, 2025 01:00 amysabetwordsmith posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_community_promobirdfeeding is a community started on January 1, 2023. It's all about birdfeeding, birdwatching, and other topics relating to birds. It also touches on nature in general, and observations that may effect bird activity such as local weather. Both text and image posts are welcome. Now is a great time to join as hungry birds are easy to attract with a feeder.Community resources include posts about birding events, nurseries that sell seeds or plants attractive to birds, bird identification apps, the benefits of birdwatching, and other useful materials. Check out the anchor posts from Three Weeks for Dreamwidth.
Recent posts:
Photos: House Yard
Christmas Bird Count
Birds
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Dec. 28th, 2025 11:10 pmyuuago+ Wood Buffalo Pride is crowdfunding for gender-affirming gear (binders etc) for those in the community who can't afford it. I know everyone's rather tapped out at this time of year, but if anyone's able to contribute, I'm sure it'd be appreciated. The drive ends on January 04, 11:59 PM.
+ Had a writing session withkanadka today. Felt good to work on something! The fic I have in progress is kind of dumb, but I'm really enjoying it. Definitely a 'just for me' kind of thing. (Well, and also for the one person who consistently posts work for this rarepair, apparently. One of those situations where it isn't for them specifically but I kind of have them in mind while working on it.)
+ Gotta' admit it. I'm coming down with a cold. All week I've felt oogy, for lack of a better word, but with the amount of sneezing and nose-blowing I've been doing today, I have to admit defeat. This is driving me mad because why do I have to get sick while on vacation, argh. Well, looks like I'm not going to judo tomorrow. :V And like, I'd planned to spend most of the day tomorrow relaxing and watching movies anyway, but this is... not what I had in mind.
+ Had a writing session with
kanadka today. Felt good to work on something! The fic I have in progress is kind of dumb, but I'm really enjoying it. Definitely a 'just for me' kind of thing. (Well, and also for the one person who consistently posts work for this rarepair, apparently. One of those situations where it isn't for them specifically but I kind of have them in mind while working on it.)+ Gotta' admit it. I'm coming down with a cold. All week I've felt oogy, for lack of a better word, but with the amount of sneezing and nose-blowing I've been doing today, I have to admit defeat. This is driving me mad because why do I have to get sick while on vacation, argh. Well, looks like I'm not going to judo tomorrow. :V And like, I'd planned to spend most of the day tomorrow relaxing and watching movies anyway, but this is... not what I had in mind.