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FanFic100: Big Damn Table

Someone's been feeling nostalgic! I managed to track down the code for FanFic100's Big Damn Table. There's no place to officially claim a pairing, but...I still want to do this. Claim is, of course, Kiryu/Majima from the RGG series. 💕

001.	Beginnings.	002.	Middles.	003.	Ends.	004.	Insides.	005.	Outsides.
006.	Hours.	007.	Days.	008.	Weeks.	009.	Months.	010.	Years.
011.	Red.	012.	Orange.	013.	Yellow.	014.	Green.	015.	Blue.
016.	Purple.	017.	Brown.	018.	Black.	019.	White.	020.	Colourless.
021.	Friends.	022.	Enemies.	023.	Lovers.	024.	Family.	025.	Strangers.
026.	Teammates.	027.	Parents.	028.	Children.	029.	Birth.	030.	Death.
031.	Sunrise.	032.	Sunset.	033.	Too Much.	034.	Not Enough.	035.	Sixth Sense.
036.	Smell.	037.	Sound.	038.	Touch.	039.	Taste.	040.	Sight.
041.	Shapes.	042.	Triangle.	043.	Square.	044.	Circle.	045.	Moon.
046.	Star.	047.	Heart.	048.	Diamond.	049.	Club.	050.	Spade.
051.	Water.	052.	Fire.	053.	Earth.	054.	Air.	055.	Spirit.
056.	Breakfast.	057.	Lunch.	058.	Dinner.	059.	Food.	060.	Drink.
061.	Winter.	062.	Spring.	063.	Summer.	064.	Fall.	065.	Passing.
066.	Rain.	067.	Snow.	068.	Lightening.	069.	Thunder.	070.	Storm.
071.	Broken.	072.	Fixed.	073.	Light.	074.	Dark.	075.	Shade.
076.	Who?	077.	What?	078.	Where?	079.	When?	080.	Why?
081.	How?	082.	If.	083.	And.	084.	He.	085.	She.
086.	Choices.	087.	Life.	088.	School.	089.	Work.	090.	Home.
091.	Birthday.	092.	Christmas.	093.	Thanksgiving.	094.	Independence.	095.	New Year.
096.	Writer‘s Choice.	097.	Writer‘s Choice.	098.	Writer‘s Choice.	099.	Writer‘s Choice.	100.	Writer‘s Choice.

Progress: 00/100

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100ships table

I've been meaning to post this table from

100ships, and why not now? 💕 I have plenty of RGG ships and ideas to fill it all out. Romantic, platonic, enemies, OT3s, etc all count. I'm going to take my sweet time with this one.

#01 – Adamant	#02 – Snow	#03 – Lion	#04 – Spark	#05 – Amber
#06 – Lust	#07 – Bronze	#08 – Mint	#09 – Arctic	#10 – Black
#11 – Moonlight	#12 – Sunlight	#13 – Blue	#14 – Navy	#15 – Tea
#16 – Neon	#17 – Twilight	#18 – Blush	#19 – Wine	#20 – Nude
#21 – Rhythm	#22 – Brown	#23 – Linen	#24 – Ember	#25 – Thistle
#26 – Cherry	#27 – Orange	#28 – Vanilla	#29 – Bone	#30 – Harlequin
#31 – Cadet	#32 – Chocolate	#33 – Peach	#34 – Lead	#35 – Cream
#36 – Sand	#37 – White	#38 – Crimson	#39 – Pink	#40 – Ocean
#41 – Dove	#42 – Platinum	#43 – Yellow	#44 – Earth	#45 – Midnight
#46 – Pearl	#47 – Frostbite	#48 – Pumpkin	#49 – Electric	#50 – Purple
#51 – Coral	#52 – Salt	#53 – Crow	#54 – Rainbow	#55 – Cloud
#56 – Flame	#57 – Red	#58 – Ash	#59 – Rose	#60 – Slate
#61 – Green	#62 – Ruby	#63 – Olive	#64 – Lipstick	#65 – Spice
#66 – Grey	#67 – Denim	#68 – Rust	#69 – Flirt	#70 – Sunset
#71 – Sable	#72 – Desert	#73 – Jade	#74 – Sage	#75 – Buff
#76 – Jet	#77 – Plum	#78 – Leather	#79 – Liberty	#80 – Metal
#81 – Sepia	#82 – Lavender	#83 – Scarlet	#84 – Crystal	#85 – Chestnut
#86 – Shadow	#87 – Lemon	#88 – Mystic	#89 – Silver	#90 – Coffee
#91 – Seafoam	#92 – Lime	#93 – Punch	#94 – Pickle	#95 – Champagne
#96 – Copper	#97 – Bittersweet	#98 – Honey	#99 – Candy	#100 – Gold

Progress: 000/100

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Thirty Four

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Sons of Feanor, Elrond, Feanor, Daeron, various others
Warnings: n/a
Summary: After years in Lórien, Maglor and Maedhros are ready to return to their family and to make something new with their lives--but to move forward, all of Fëanor's sons must decide how, or if, they can ever reconcile with their father.
Note: This fic is a direct sequel to High in the Clean Blue Air.

Prologue / Previous Chapter

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Current Mood: exhausted

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dreamwidth: community thursdays

Community Thursday

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted & commented on bnha_fans.

Commented on little_details.

Commented on endings.

Commented on goals_on_dw.

Signal boosts:

moodthemeinayear is chugging along, and now has free points to offer for folks who complete part of a mood theme for Dreamwidth :D Even more motivation to learn!! Haha. See this post for more information.
Via dray, a new comm focusing on original characters is starting over at ocrealm, if you have characters you'd like to chat about!
Via shipperslist, there's a new comm to enthuse about any kind of audio-based narrative entertainment, see voiceinmyear!

It's a birthday!

Happy Birthday,

lordhellebore! I hope it's been lovely.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Caves - The National Parks

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The Fire of Life - Chapter Three

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Maedhros, Gandalf, Elrond, various others
Warnings: n/a
Summary: Maedhros is sent back to Middle-earth, in the company of the Maia Olórin.

First Chapter / Previous Chapter

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Brr, it's cold out.

You'd think we'd get snow, but no. Tomorrow's forecast thus far calls for a "wintery mix". The only wintery mix I want is cocoa and marshmallows, not whatever the hell happens to fall from the sky like soggy doom confetti.

19F, jesus. At least it'll be warmer tomorrow. Warm enough to get a fucking wintery mix instead of snow, which is what we really want.

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Finished a relisten to Wolf 359

So much awful stuff happens to the protagonists in the last third of the show that I often don't make it all the way through. It's worth it, though - my favorite character suddenly gets enough growth to become my favorite character, and the villain dies in a very satisfying way, allowing me to say ( Read more... )

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Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye

The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.

The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

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10trueloves tables

Found a neat community called

10trueloves. I miss the days of doing prompt table challenges, so I decided to claim a few. Also: Happy 20th Anniversary, RGG!

Rules: Claim character(s), every fic has to be a relationship fic with a new character (OT3s, etc allowed). Romantic, platonic, familial, gen, and enemy/anonymity all count.

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Today In Memory

RIP John Lennon.

"Watching The Wheels"
https://youtu.be/lgC-fvyD3_8?si=JdBeBiYtgmLJYBSU

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Ordinary - Alex Warren

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Thirty Three

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The sun is coming up, streaming through the windows and pointing out that I really should do some housework. Sigh. Today is a "horse" day, so I was moving horses, cleaning pens and filling water well before the sun made an appearance. Driving down to Winter Quarters we looked out over the Ukiah valley, full of fluffy white fog, which of course isn't as fluffy or nice once you are in it. All the horses were full of themselves, including Firefly.
I rode Firefly both days this weekend. She was, as usual, very good.
There was a nice group of riders on Sunday who apparently had fun and want to return. We will see if the weather cooperates in January and February!
It has been sunny and dry for a couple of weeks now, I wouldn't mind a bit of rain. Indeed, it looks like we might get some in another week. I hope so. The chart says we are still a tiny bit ahead of seasonal normal, but when we start into this dry weather pattern it sometimes takes over for the rest of the winter. That would be bad as we have only had 20% of our normal rain for the year. On the other hand we have a foot of nice green grass in some places on the Ranch. Some years that would be 1 inch, not 1 foot.

Dear fanfic writer:

I can see you're not a cook. You can't exactly dice thyme. The leaves are pretty tiny. If they're fresh, you just strip them from the stem. I suppose you can then chop them more finely, but dicing? You'd have more luck trying to dice time.

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Reminder to self: Anchor! Visualise!

Dear self, I know you forget every time, so here's reminder #134792. I think there are a few of these reminders as posts on this journal already, too.

1. Your first drafts are pretty bare, and that's okay! Don't sweat it. Conversations and actions in a void, just roll with it. Blank room syndrome, let's go.
2. Of course it seems flat when you reread. The solution isn't to add unnecessary action or vague plot, at least not as a first port of call.
3. Start with ANCHORING the scene! Visualise it! Where are the characters? What are they wearing and doing while speaking or doing the stuff that needs getting done? Can you add any sensory descriptions beyond visual descriptions? What scents surround them? What time is it?
4. As you are rediscovering today for the 358935893th time, this already helps a lot with making scenes more vivid and flow better.

For the cursed witch, during early revisions I literally wrote "ANCHOR!" at the start of every chapter I was annotating so I'd actually remember to do that when making the changes afterwards.

But I forgot again, and was being all sad at the flat fic first draft I pulled out this morning. Now I have ANCHORED and VISUALISED the first scene, and I'm a bit less sad :D And also, having fun. Whee! \o/

Obstacle Practice

We had a good time at practice today. Only 5 riders, but three of them were new. I got Firefly out and walked her through several obstacles. Then got on and did more obstacles. I also asked her to stand quietly a lot, not something she is always good about. Fortunately several of the horses around us were providing a good role model and she did great.
Tomorrow we have eight riders, I think. Had 10 signed up, but two canceled. One I had expected to cancel, the other is slightly surprising, but this morning was really foggy and they have to haul over a twisty road. Tomorrow is supposed to be clear, but I'm not betting on it.

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The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II.

And that's not the most alarming thing about it.

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Come Away - Rose Betts

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A Hundred Miles Through the Desert - Chapter Thirty Two

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Today's coworker is in college in the hopes of increasing her earnings

Which, good for her, but she's not going to make the big bucks in social work, which is what she's getting her BS in. Well, best of luck to her anyway. (She does have her eyes wide open, because everybody has told her that. Unsurprising.)

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Obstacle Weekend Approaches

Sat and Sun are December's Obstacle Practice Days here at the Ranch. As usual I have 8 obstacles planned. Sunday's event already has its limit of 10 riders signed up. Saturday has 5. I have no idea why Sunday is more popular, but that has been true on several recent events. In any case, I'm really happy to have this many riders signed up in the middle of winter. It is true that the weather has been spectacular for the last week and should be perfect on Sat: Sunny with a high of 65F. The hills are green and lovely.
Got some shelves half installed. They are good metal industrial style shelving that were being thrown out of the Opera House back when I was working there. I brought them up from Henry St last week.
Scored an excellent buy of some used but very good fence panels. Priced about $150 per panel. New they would be 250+. It was one of those deals that I tuck a little money away for. Thank goodness Ray was willing to pick them up for me, the seller wanted them gone ASAP.