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Show: SG-1, Eureka (TV)

Rec Category: Crossover
Characters: Paul Davis, Jack Carter
Pairings: Gen
Categories: Gen, Crossover
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] jedibuttercup
Author's Website: Jedi Buttercup's Ao3
Link: Conversational Minefields

Why This Must Be Read: A fun, short crossover. The town of Eureka, for those unfamiliar, is a town of scientific geniuses ostestably gathered together to invent things the military can use. Jack Carter is the sheriff, a normal man in an abnormal place. And OF COURSE Paul Davis would be the Pentagon liason. It's just the sort of job he would have with his stargate program experience.

snippet of fic )

Lovely, by Martha (T)

Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:06 pm
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Show: SG-1, The Sentinel (TV 1996)

Rec Category: Crossover
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Blair Sandburg, Jim Ellison, Sam Carter, Teal'c
Pairings: Daniel Jackson & Jack O'Neill Friendship, Jim Ellison & Blair Sandburg Friendship, SG-1 Team & Daniel Jackson
Categories: Gen, Crossover, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Episode: The Light
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] saffronhouse
Author's Website: Martha's Ao3
Link: Lovely

Why This Must Be Read: "Lovely" is one of my favorite pieces of eldritch horror period and single-handedly got me to watch The Sentinel. It's rich and interesting and strange. An absolutely fantastic tale of strangers being forced (and/or choosing) to work together, friendship/love, road trips, the geometry of existence, and... income tax evasion. A quick note that this fic is gen, but the sequel is slash.

snippet of fic )
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Show: SG-1, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Rec Category: Crossover
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Buffy Summers, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Sam Carter
Pairings: Buffy Summers & SG-1 Team
Categories: Gen, Crossover, Episode: s08e04 Zero Hour
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] jedibuttercup
Author's Website: Jedi Buttercup's Ao3
Link: you can hardly blame him for wanting to send backup

Why This Must Be Read: Grin. This is a fun crossover. Buffy has had some prophetic ideas of where she's needed, leading into the melding of her fantasy genre with SG-1's scifi without betraying either. If you enjoyed Buffy in her pink halter top in the Initiative, this is the fic for you. She is also so similar in some ways to Jack and just as physically strong as Teal'c. This series delights me.

snippet of fic )

the Pride and Prejudice pilgrimage

Oct. 2nd, 2025 07:37 pm
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[personal profile] tielan
So, the tour I went on in the UK was a Pride-and-Prejudice pilgrimage, where we were going to study the text, in-depth. It was operated by the people who do the podcast 'Harry Potter and the Sacred Text', a company called 'Common Ground' which does pilgrimages based around literary texts (and may have been influenced or created by the podcast creators), and was hosted by Sarah Stewart-Holland of the Pantsuit Politics podcast, who was my initial point of interest in the pilgrimage.

In the course of the pilgrimage, we would wander the fields of Derbyshire, visit Chatsworth House (which substituted as Pemberley in the 2005 Pride And Prejudice movie), walk past a number of influences in the English literature of the era, and explore the characters while ruminating on the text.

Over the week, we climbed hills and hiked fields, climbed over stiles, and skirted rivers.

UK 2025


It was...pretty good.

In essence, it's doing what fandom often does - picking apart the characters and their motivations, their thoughts, and internalities, and reading into the canon. Sometimes more than the canon allows for.

We were headquartered at the Rutland Arms in Bakewell, a small town in Derbyshire, about 50 minutes from the town of Chesterfield. Ever heard of 'Bakewell tarts'? Welp, this is apparently the town.

The Rutland Arms is an old hotel, which is divided into two parts with a road running between. I suspect one was the stables and the other was the main house/hostel - and they've done both up with rooms in which to stay. I was in the 'old stables' part, sharing a room with another woman, and we got along pretty well.

They've done a great job of keeping it in a certain style, and it's warm. So warm. I can sit around in my sleeping stuff in the evening, instead of having to rug up. That's something I'm going to sincerely resent next winter.

--

Day 1 was meeting and greeting, a brief explanation of how the next few days was going to work, and then a brief class before we had a little free time and dinner.

Day 2: Chatsworth House & Darcy

Day 2 was a 4 mile walk up hill and over dale to Chatsworth House (the externals were used for Pemberley in the 2005 movie version of P&P). The participants were warned about fitness and about walking capability, and given advice on what to pack, and pretty much everyone was ready and able for it. One person struggled a little bit - she was older, and I don't think she'd really considered how much strain the walks would put on her body, but she got through the entire week.

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Chatsworth House is pretty impressive, no matter what you think of the 2005 P&P movie. That said, thinking about the degree of wealth that allowed people to build (rebuild, renovate, decorate, develop) places like this boggles the brain.

Everything gleams with artistry and skill, whether the portraits, art, or sculpture through the house, or the design of the rooms or gardens.

Notable things: a portrait of Elizabeth Spencer, portrayed as Diana emerging from the clouds. Leaves from an Australian tree to furnish an artwork by a Sydney artist. The Cascade and Fountain, both of which are gravity fed from a natural reservoir in the hills above the estate.

UK 2025

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And then there was THE ROCKERY. I don't have words for how amazing this was, so have a couple of pictures:

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Our study topic the first day was Darcy. Who he was and who he became. The weight of what had happened the summer previous to the story, and the underlying reasons (but not excuses) for his behaviour and sense of pride. Going to the location used as Pemberley for the 2005 movie gave us insight into the kind of family the Darcys might have been, and into how Elizabeth might have felt marrying into such a family.


Day 3: the Long Walk

I started the day with a full breakfast. The hotel offered a hot breakfast as part of our package and rather to my susrprise, given how much I'd eaten the previous day, I was hungry enough to eat it all.

Since it was still before we were due to leave for the day's walk, I headed up to see the church on the hill: All Saints Bakewell. The next day, I discovered there were old Celtic cross stones discovered in the foundations, suggesting its been a place of worship since before the middle ages.

UK 2025


Some of the headstones, though... Multiple children dying before they reached 5, and even those that did teach adolescence of adulthood could be cut off in the prime of life so easily. There was also a set of what looked like coffins, with Human-shaped carvings out of them and a hole in the bottom. Somewhat macabrely, I realised they were probably morgue boxes, made to keep corpses cold, with the hole in the bottom to drain the fluids...

--

Our class contemplation today was on Lizzie Bennett, on the kind of heroine she was, on the choice she made to refuse Mr Collins, and how it came before they learned that Bingley had quit Netherfield (for until that point, it was half-expected that Jane would have married him). With a pilgrimage theme of "status" and a consideration of the precarity of a woman's situation in past eras, there were a lot of thoughts being aired, and we continued to discuss them as we hiked across the countryside with a fantastic local guide, Chris.

There were some lovely oddities along the way: a rubber chicken and a toy t-rex eyeballing us along a laneway, a call to deliver a household of excess appleage, and pears growing over a garden wall. A heifer cow grazed on a hill rather as a goat does, before we walked in silent contemplation by the river swelling past us, while the ducks use it like a roller coaster!

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The hike was long and they warned up - 5-6 miles over the course of the day - and up hill and down dale! But also in the realm of so much beauty and wilderness (and also sheep shit and cow shit), an ancient Roman settlement, and several weirs and cascades.

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It ended up being closer to 8 miles! WHEW.


And after dinner, there was the P&P 2005 rewatch, which I skipped and regretted skipping as per an earlier post.

--

Day 4 and 5 of Derbyshire

Our character studies were Mrs Bennett, and Charlotte Lucas, with a little bit of time spent on the sisters. It was an interesting conversation, not least for the variety of opinions given about their motives, their extrapolated history, and the choices they had vs the choices they made.

--

Stannage Edge is a ridge of rock in the Peak District, and is best visually known from the 2005 P&P movie with Keira Knightly standing atop it while the wind swirls her dress around her. I'm sure people have dome the hike in delicate regency-style dresses, but all I had was my emerald green raincoat and Daniel.

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Oh, and clinging to the rock at the top of a hike is a small family joke, c/o B1 who did something like this when she ascended a massive hill in Wales.

There was an old church where Little John was claimed to be buried, which was still locally used. It had a full setup for kids down one side of the church, including toys and books to keep them entertained during the service. So I went to look at the music on the organ to work out what kind of stuff they sang. It was a hymn that I knew, and I checked the tune by humming it.

Several people (mostly from my tour group) gave me slightly shocked looks. And I pointed out (in a normal volume voice) that this is an actively used church because of the 'nursery' space which would be very noisy during the course of a standard church service in which there were families.

UK 2025


It was kind of funny, but also a bit sad. They might have just dismissed it as 'that irreverent Aussie', which is also fair. But my faith isn't in a distant, serious God, but a God who made cats and octopus to slide through ridiculously small spaces, stuck gold and steel and carborundum in rocks, and electricity in frogs' legs (okay, that's where they started to realise it could be harnessed), and created the wide and starry universe, but incarnated to the limitations of a human being.

That's not the norm of religious upbringing, I know. But damn, it's a fun one.

Finally, as we left the church area, I noticed some gentlemen maintaining a local cricket pitch... I suspect this passed the Americans by entirely.

The final dinner was quite good. For once, they set the tables up with nametags, picking people to go into groups rather than letting everyone choose for themselves. There were topical questions, and I think they'd done a careful job of making sure there were introverts and extroverts mixed together so there was no one person stuck trying to manage all the conversation at a table.


Overall, the pilgrimage was enjoyable.

And there's another one organised by the same group (and featuring Sarah Stewart Holland) happening on Emma next year. Which I can't afford, because it's in May which is only 9 months away, and I don't even know if I'll be working then. I surely can't afford as long a holiday as I did this time either. Which is a bummer, because I like Emma rather more than I do Pride and Prejudice and I suspect the profile of the people who go is going to be distinctly different from the P&P group...

But the UK! In May! Again! GRARGH.

October Reccers

Oct. 1st, 2025 09:20 pm
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Many thanks to [personal profile] cassiope25 , [personal profile] goddess47 , and [personal profile] mific for reccing 9 fics for the month of September! We appreciate it very much.

Now for October, we have:

[personal profile] cassiope25 - Rodney McKay
[personal profile] goddess47 - Jack O'Neill
[personal profile] mific - Action/Adventure
[personal profile] nuh_s - Crossover

Reccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.

If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.

portugal

Oct. 1st, 2025 04:46 pm
tielan: four lemming toys at the grand canyon (travel)
[personal profile] tielan
I am really enjoying Porto, except for the feeling of having to DO ALL THE THINGS.

But I think I shall go and catch the train across the river this evening to the gardens on the hill and maybe watch the sunset from there (if I don't get crushed by the madding crowds).

I am thinking about an all-day tour tomorrow, to a national park with some waterfalls and suchlike. I was out on an all-day tour of the Douro vallue yesterday, though. And did a walking tour this morning...

eta: tour is booked out, so it will be a quieter day tomorrow. The alternative that I tried to book fell through (he said he had an accident and won't be doing tours until next week, but I suspect that it's as simple as "there's only one person who's booked for this tour and so it's not worth it").

Probably just as well.
mific: Sepia pic john sheppard and rodney mckay leaning heads together, serious (McShep - intense)
[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] stargateficrec
Shows: SGA
Rec Category: AU - no Stargate
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: M/M
Words: 3619
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: Mas_Pebbles_Sharp on AO3
Link: Dancin in the Dark on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is an interesting and touching fic in which John didn't have the opportunities and luck he had in canon so his life's pretty bleak until he meets Rodney. Rodney's in a similar state - they're both poor, struggling to make ends meet and working low-paid jobs. But they do meet, and they have each other, and it's enough.

from the author's note )

New archive just dropped

Sep. 30th, 2025 03:07 pm
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[personal profile] beatrice_otter
Back in the day, there were a lot of different fanfic archives. And then AO3 came along, and everyone moved there. And there's a lot to be said for having a central multifandom archive! I love AO3! But there's also something to be said for communities having their own space.

The OTW has always said they their code is open source and they want people to use it to make their own archives, but it is ... not very user-friendly, shall we say. But now there are several people who have gotten their own instance of the OTW-A code up and running for their own archives.

And now there is another! There is now a femslash-focused archive called Sunset! It was just created and is still very tiny, but if you are into femslash, either writing it or reading it, you might find it interesting. It is run by Agnes the Alien.

Sunset is a website established in 2025 dedicated to hosting femslash (F/F) fanworks. It holds pro-freedom of fiction, queer and trans inclusive, anti-racist and generally compassionate ideals. We're here to have fun and love women. Sunset is run by one person, Agnes the Alien, who dreamed this up in zher bedroom. Please be nice to zher!

 ...

THIS IS AN 18+ ARCHIVE.

I'd also like to shout out Squidgeworld, Superlove, Ad Astra, and Comic Fanfiction Authors Archive.



Woman Warrior by Tazmy (G)

Sep. 30th, 2025 02:55 am
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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex
Pairings: Rodney & Teyla
Categories: gen, hurt/comfort, friendship
Warnings: no warnings apply (but mention of misscariage – not Teyla)
Words: 8,396
Author's Journal: [profile] tazmy
Author's Website: Tazmy on AO3
Link: Woman Warrior

Author’s summary: Rodney and Teyla are injured and captured off-world. Rodney discovers Teyla is pregnant.

Why This Must Be Read: This fic by Tazmy—highly revised and expanded from the 2007 original—holds a special place in my heart and gets under my skin even more with every reread.
Switching between Rodney’s and Teyla’s perspectives, it portrays their friendship in an incredibly emotional and sensitive way. After being imprisoned together, Teyla and Rodney desperately try to protect one another, especially after Rodney discovers Teyla’s pregnancy.
Rodney respects Teyla in so many ways—her strength, grace, integrity, kindness, and patience. And Teyla values Rodney just as profoundly, seeing past his dismissive behavior to the person behind it—intelligent, insecure, vulnerable, reliable, and brave.
The story delivers hurt, angst, and insecurities (heed the tags!), but also offers a lighthearted, joyful, and caring ending. I can’t recommend it enough!

snippet of fic )
cassiope25: Close-up from Rodney looking sad and depressed in front of the stairs in the gateroom (Rodney sad)
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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Kate Heightmeyer
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, hurt/comfort, ptsd, mutism, recovery, friendship
Warnings: no warnings apply
Words: 5,832
Author's Journal: [personal profile] logicgunn
Author's Website: Logicgunn on AO3
Link: A Theft, And The Retention Of Courage

Author’s summary: The rescue, when it finally comes, is indescribably loud and violent.

Why This Must Be Read: This amazingly written, intense story is part of Logicgunn's “Darker Reads” series. The fic draws you in from the first word to the last and focuses on Rodney's slow healing process after being rescued from a severe traumatic ordeal. Exploring hurt and angst, Rodney’s strong feelings for John, and his deep bond with Ronon, it envelops you in the affection, compassion, and love shared between all of them. Everything is handled with such care, sensitivity, and insight—it’s definitely in for many reads and rereads.

snippet of fic )

October Reccers Volunteer Post

Sep. 28th, 2025 09:23 pm
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Hey guys! I'm the comm's Memories volunteer, stepping in for Fig for a bit while she's offline. And, yes, October is here! Cool, crisp nights for cozy reads in the North, and warm, sultry nights for breezy reads in the South, so let's help our readers out.

Comment with the username you'll be using to rec and the category you want. Choose a category from the list below or select a more rare category that has been used in the past. If you want to rec a category that is not on the list below or in Memories, that's fine, too: you may volunteer for a category that isn't listed.

By signing up, you are committing yourself to reccing at least two (preferably four) stories in that category during the month of October. September reccers who wish to sign up again should rec their minimum two for this month before doing so. You don't have to check the Memories before choosing which stories to rec. If you have a good fic to rec, go for it! Do remember, though, that story links must be freely accessible, without requiring any sort of login to view. The FAQ and rec template, with detailed instructions, can be found here. Reccers may add self-recs once they have done their minimum two for their category of the month, and see more details at the FAQ entry.

You must be a member of 
[community profile] stargateficrec in order to post. So if you're a new reccer, be sure to join the community.

ExpandCommon but not exclusive categories )

I've been rereading a lot of old favorites lately. It'd be great to find some new ones. So first come, first served for claiming categories. Thank you!

anr: (twd: daryl: without you)
[personal profile] anr
Look Up From the Pavement (1941 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fear the Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alicia Clark/Nick Clark
Characters: Alicia Clark, Nick Clark
Additional Tags: Incest, Fantasizing, Sex, 5 Times, Pre-Series, Season 1, season 4, Missing Scenes, Drug Use, Masturbation, Pining
Summary: He's starting to sweat again, his gut tightening and his pulse kicking into high gear, his dick hardening like he's not in withdrawal and tangled around his sister, her body warm everywhere it's touching him.

(aka, Five times Nick fantasizes about Alicia while high.)



mific: (McShep his fault)
[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] stargateficrec
Shows: SGA
Rec Category: AU - no Stargate
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, other SGA regulars
Categories: M/M
Words: 9104
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: [personal profile] apple_pi
Author's Website: apple_pi on AO3
Link: NHMR Productions Inc. on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is one of my feel-good comfort reads. John's a charismatic TV presenter and Rodney's an irascible, perfectionist building contractor who HGTV build a home renovation fix-it show around. It's like Holmes on Homes but with Rodney badmouthing the shoddy work and half-assed prior contractors and driving his highly competent crew to do amazing makeovers. Teyla is the 2IC with people skills who smooths over his bulldozer approach, and Elizabeth's the executive producer who manages them all. Inevitably, John and Rodney become close and their relationship is beautifully drawn and absolutely in character. Teyla gets pregnant and has Torren during a season finale, leading to spectacular ratings, and finally the media find out that John and Rodney are together and they have to deal with that. It's all really well written, warm and engaging, and I want to watch this show SO BAD! Seriously, I'd watch the hell out of it, but reading the fic comes a close second. The story's fairly well known, but hey, maybe it's time for a re-read!

snippet of fic )

UK - London

Sep. 27th, 2025 08:57 am
tielan: (SGA - teyla)
[personal profile] tielan
I arrived in London on Friday evening, a little after the time the host and I had agreed upon thanks to a late flight departure. It was still earlier than it would have been if I'd caught the multi-stage flight that was on my itinerary.

london )

Thanks so much, [personal profile] rmc28 for coming out and meeting me on not just one, but two days! It was so great to catch up, talk, see a bit more of the UK, go steam-training, and watch women's football!

And then I went to see Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre - the old-fashioned style theatre that Shakespeare's plays would have been shown in (ever seen 'Shakespeare In Love'? That kind of theatre). Six or seven years ago, there was a Popup Globe that came to Australia, and I saw shows in Sydney and in Melbourne, dragging various friends along, and it was just the best fun. Highly recommended.

On the way home, went and picked up some wagamama munchies - not for dinner, but for lunch the next day while I was on the train. An EastAsian-fusion restaurant, wagamama went out of business in Australia a decade ago and more, but apparently is still doing pretty well here. Not entirely surprising, I guess. We have so much food from Asia - East, South-East, South, not to mention all the other types of food from non-white countries we have in abundance - that something that's 'Asian lite' is not going to get much traffic here.

I got back to the room, and chatted a bit with the host. A nice longer chat, we touched on a bunch of topics, and I was a little disappointed that I hadn't had the opportunity to talk to him earlier.

But the place was excellently positioned, near an underground station with three lines passing through it. My only complaint was that it was a little close to a couple of pubs that were very noisy on a Friday night, although they quietened significantly after 11pm.

And the next day, I caught a train up to Chesterfield to meet the tour group for the Pride and Prejudice pilgrimage...

Fic: that I could call my very own

Sep. 26th, 2025 12:16 pm
beatrice_otter: Star Trek symbol--red background (Red Shirt)
[personal profile] beatrice_otter
[community profile] justmarriedexchange fics have revealed, and so I can tell you that I wrote a Trip/T'Pol fic! My recip, [personal profile] lionessvalenti, had several suggestions for canon-divergent AUs, which happen to be one of my favorite types of story to write--pick a canon event, tweak it slightly, and see what happens from there. And also, I love Vulcans, and have Opinions on the way Star Trek: Enterprise handled them, and this fic gave me lots of opportunities to explore all of that. I really enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it!


Title: that I could call my very own
Author: [personal profile] beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Pairing: Trip/T'Pol
Written for: [personal profile] lionessvalenti in Just Married Exchange 2025
Word count: 14k
Summary: 

T'Pol figures out something is wrong with her mother before leaving for Vulcan. She and Trip decide how to face the problem together.

"Maybe we're coming at this from the wrong angle," Trip said. "We're worried about what's happening on Vulcan with your mother, and trying to figure out the best way to handle that. But what if you looked at this long-term? What do you want your life to be like, a decade from now? Two decades from now? Then work backwards and figure out what we should be doing now to work towards that."


AN: This is a very minor worldbuilding note, but in English, there are gendered terms for "people who dedicate themselves to a religious life"—monk for men and nun for women. That is not the case for all languages; in Greek, "monachos" is used for both men and women. I'm going to assume that Vulcan doesn't have different words for different genders, but uses the same word for both.

[personal profile] sixbeforelunch provided a lot of excellent brainstorming and beta help, as is usual for my Star Trek fics.

***

"Ensign Sato, are there any remaining communications difficulties?"

The Human shook her head. "None that I'm aware of—I've got a lot of things coming through from Starfleet and the general Earth communications network, both stuff that's been waiting while we were out of range and congratulations for our triumphant return. Why?"

T'Pol debated. On the one hand, it was possible that neither her mother nor any other family member nor any former colleague had sent her a message while Enterprise was in the Expanse. Ensign Sato was very busy and had a great many tasks to perform before she could be debriefed by Starfleet and begin her well-deserved vacation. T'Pol had no desire to add to those tasks if there was nothing wrong. And it was certainly true that being out of contact had been a welcome reprieve; T'Pol was not in favor with the Vulcan High Command, nor with her family, and it had been a relief not to have to deal with anyone's disapproval.

But she had always known that would be merely a temporary reprieve, unless she chose to abandon all claim to Vulcan entirely. )




On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Ad Astra. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.

ugh

Sep. 25th, 2025 06:02 am
tielan: Valkyrie blowing out on-fire drink (MCU - Valkyrie)
[personal profile] tielan
That feeling when there was something on, you know you could have/should have gone, but you didn't, and now you have regret.

It was a social night for the tour I'm on, but I was super-tired from the walk today (well, everyone was) so I stayed in. But I think nearly everyone else went, so I missed out on 2 hours of socialising. Then again, I'm (once again) oddball out on this tour.

Which, I know the "once again" should mean I'm used to this, but also, it's slightly harder on this one.

Walked about 7 miles yesterday, up hill and down dale, through cowpasture and sheep pasture. Definitely walking off the meals I've been eating the last couple of days.

italy: brief

Sep. 23rd, 2025 09:55 pm
tielan: Avengers team (AVG - team)
[personal profile] tielan
Italy and the cities there )

Right now, my roomie is using a fan, and I suspect plans to use it all night. On the plus side, at least I don't have to deal with the full-bore air-conditioning. They don't have that here in the UK in most places.
mific: (McShep Silhouette)
[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] stargateficrec
Shows: SGA
Rec Category: AU - no Stargate
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Jeannie, Kaleb, Madison.
Categories: M/M
Words: ~8200
Warnings: no AO3-type warnings apply
Author on DW: [personal profile] wojelah
Author's Website: wojelah on AO3, Wojelah on LJ
Link: Bar Harbor's Best on LJ (and backup on Wayback). There's also a podfic read by rhea314.
Why This Must Be Read: This is an enjoyable no-Stargate AU in which John is a lobster boat and whale-watching charter skipper. Rodney is a brewer and winemaker from a local vineyard family who'd left Bar Harbor in Maine for a few years after an argument with his family, but who's now returned to renovate the local pub. The usual suspects are translated into local characters - Ronon a chef, and Teyla an environmentalist, for example. There's romance, adventure at sea, and of course a happy ending - it's a lot of fun!

snippet of fic )
anr: (twd: carol/daryl: i miss you)
[personal profile] anr
I'd Marry You With Paper Rings (1530 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daryl Dixon/Carol Peletier
Characters: Daryl Dixon, Carol Peletier
Additional Tags: Kissing, Sex, Marriage, Wedding Rings, Dreams, Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort, 5 Times
Summary: "It's always been you," she whispers against his mouth. "Always. Ever since the farm."

(aka, Five times Carol dreams of marrying Daryl.)



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Someone wrote a 7000 word crossover fic about Atlantis that had not a single mention of Teyla.

Why am I surprised?

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A Few Words From The Wise

Speak to him, for there is none born wise.
-The Maxims of Ptahotep

In mourning or rejoicing, be not far from me.
- an Ancient Egyptian Love Song

But your embraces
alone give life to my heart
may Amun give me what I have found
for all eternity.
-Love Songs of the New Kingdom, Song #2

To Know the Dark

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
-Wendell Berry

Up in the morning's no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a' the hills are covered wi' snaw,
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
-Robert Burns

Visit to the Hermit Ts'ui

Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
-Ch'ien Ch'i

Mistress of high achievement, O lady Truth,
do not let my understanding stumble
across some jagged falsehood.
-Pindar

Every Gaudy colour
Is a bit of truth.
-Nathalia Crane

I counted two-and-twenty stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.
-Samuel Coleridge