tielan: a vivid quilt in a rainbow of colours (quilting)
[personal profile] tielan
On Saturday, I had a Frocktails event in town, and was trying to work out what I could wear. I briefly contemplated this dress which I made back in 2018 and wore for a 'Frocks and Croqs' event (croquet).

Finish along Q4 2018


However, seven years have passed since those days and I no longer fit into the dress:
Lacing a dress


and herein lies a tale )

I think I'm going to have to do this with other dresses that I don't fit into any more. At least one, if I still have it (I have a feeling I might have given it away).
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: Action/Adventure
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Even Lorne
Categories: M/M
Words: 7860
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: [personal profile] mrshamill
Author's Website: MrsHamill on AO3
Link: Personal Hero (locked to AO3), and here on DW. Plus, there's an excellent podfic by [personal profile] librarychick_94 which is here, or here.
Why This Must Be Read: This is a bit gruelling, but it all works out in the end. It features a badass Rodney saving John on a mission-gone-wrong, pushing himself beyond what he'd thought possible to carry John, wounded, back to the stargate. The rest of the story is about rescuing Ronon and Teyla, and the aftermath of the mission when John regains consciousness and gradually pieces together how Rodney feels about him. Action, then feelings and romance, and it's an enjoyable read.

snippet of the fic under here )

beatrice_otter: Captain America (Captain America)
[personal profile] beatrice_otter
I was re-reading some old MCU fic, and in the fic Steve says that Bucky was named for President Buchanan. Which Doylistically he was, but ... there's no reason he has to be from an in-universe perspective.

"James" was an incredibly common first name. The Social Security Administration publishes lists of how popular various names have been over the years; in the 1910s, when James and Steve were born, "James" was the third most popular name for boys. 275,000 baby boys were named "James" in that decade, which, given the size of the population, means that there were a lot of James' everywhere. Very common name.

Ah, but what of Buchanan, you say! Surely there could be no reason to give someone the middle name "Buchanan" if it's not naming him after someone famous! ... and no, actually. While people sometimes were named after famous people or political leaders (just like today), there's actually a more common reason to do it. It was a fairly common thing in the 19th Century for people to have a "last" name as a middle name, often their mother's maiden name, and people still do that today sometimes. Steve's middle name is "Grant", for example; "Grant" was a relatively common surname but (at the time) extremely uncommon as a first name. Steve was almost certainly given the middle name "Grant" to honor someone whose last name was Grant; it was probably his mother's maiden name. Buchanan is a relatively common Scottish name; it's not one of the top ten or anything, but the Buchanan clan is one of respectable size and power. In the same way, there is a very good chance that James was given the middle name "Buchanan" to honor someone whose last name was "Buchanan," quite probably his mother. And for a first name they gave him the third most common name for boys, and maybe didn't realize that there was a President by that name. Especially if they were immigrants, or weren't very well educated. (A lot of people in that generation had only a grade school education, or maybe a middle school education; only 10% of all 14-17 year olds attended high school in the US in 1900; there were still states where even elementary school wasn't required until 1918!) James Buchanan is not one of the Presidents that people talk about much outside history classes, and even then, a lot of history classes don't go into a lot of detail on him besides "last President before the Civil War." Yes, he was a bad President and one of the reasons the US Civil War became inevitable, but there were a lot of factors that were a lot more important.

I think "we liked the name James, and we wanted to honor his mother's family by giving him their last name as a middle name" is a far more likely scenario than consciously deciding to name their kid after President James Buchanan.

On a completely different note, if you want to write an AU where Bucky escaped Hydra early and made a new life for himself ... there's a late-20th-Century composer named James Barnes. He wrote concert band music. Here are some of his pieces: Symphonic Overture, Symphony No. 2, Third Symphony ("The Tragic")Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Nicolo PaganiniAlvamar Overture.

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

Dear Yuletide Author

Oct. 19th, 2025 08:32 pm
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[personal profile] beatrice_otter
I use the same name everywhere so I am [personal profile] 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 a long time 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.


Yuletide Challenges
I am opening this up to the following challenges: Wrapping Paper, Chromatic Yuletide, Transtide, Queering the Tide, Two For One, Three Turtledoves, and Yulebuilding. With Two For One and Yulebuilding, feel free to expand beyond what I've suggested here. I am always up for worldbuilding, and for crossovers with fandoms I've written or requested before.

Fandom for Robots )

Peter Wimsey )

Rivers of London )

Moana )

Bruce Springsteen RPF )

Caprica )

Sense8 )

Oh My General )
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anr: (ff: river: make me a stone)
[personal profile] anr
Travelling Through the Sky (1704 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Firefly (TV 2002)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jayne Cobb/River Tam
Characters: Jayne Cobb, River Tam
Additional Tags: Post-Serenity (2005), Enemies to Lovers, courting, Pining
Summary: She moves like no one else he's ever seen fight before, as sleek and graceful as she is deadly, and he allows himself to think beautiful for the shortest ever second in the 'verse before banishing that thought back to whatever special hell it came from.

From Porto to home, with pics of Bath

Oct. 19th, 2025 07:17 am
tielan: lorne (Angel - Lorne)
[personal profile] tielan
All right. I haven't been very good about posting here while I was away - not enough time, brainspace, or even a mouse with which to copy-paste the photos in.

From Derbyshire to Bath was just a train trip, and the canal boat where I was staying was fairly close to the station and the town. It was easy enough to find...I just walked right past it!

Bath, bed, and beyond!
The bedroom of the canal boat where I stayed in Bath.

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I didn't take any other photos of the place. It was a very individual space, and the host made no effort to vanish the way so many other hosts seemed to do. I don't know if it's a memo that's gone out where the people who live in the house are instructed to vanish as much as possible so they don't have to interact with the guests, or the guests don't have to see them or what, but I found that most hosts on my travels tended to vanish into their rooms.

David of the canal boat did not. He and his partner were very friendly and chatty, checking in if we wanted cups of tea or a drink or breakfast. He made me breakfast on the morning I left (because I had to leave before sunrise to catch a morning train into London to catch the flight to Porto) and was exceedingly kind and polite.

After staying in the canal boat, I have realised that I may be a little bit claustrophobic. The place was lovely, but I felt crowded in all the time with the low roof and everything. I could deal with it, but it got vaguely on my nerves.

This is another canal boat, but not the one that I stayed in. Mine was wider - this one pictured is a narrow boat, but the guy who owned the boat I was on had the boat specially made so he could fit a grand piano in it!

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Bath is on a river and all through the UK there are locks that allow for boats to move up and down different water levels. On the Saturday after the P&P pilgrimage, I went for a walk up the canal and past the locks. And spotted several different kinds of 'wildlife':

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Bath has plenty of Georgian-Regency architecture (of course), with a heavy emphasis on classical style and design.

A building near the original springs that gave the town its name, and Bath Abbey (also near the original springs).
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Ginormous thing, isn't it?

I did a session at the spa on Saturday morning and it was SOOOO GOOOOOOOOD. I tried to book a massage but there weren't any times or sessions available. But the sessions were pretty much the use of any of the pools, steam rooms, saunas, and suchlike in the building for a two-hour period.

Frankly, I'm surprised I wasn't more pruney by the end of it. All the water was heated - apparently it comes out of the springs at around 46C and they just let it cool to a more comfortable temperature. Also, chlorinate and generally clean, because the colour of the water that comes from the spring is a distinct greenish colour and it might be a little disconcerting. (Not to mention people will accidentally get some of it in their mouths and it's not exactly tasty.)

I think the spa day helped significantly in easing the twitches that my butt and hip were giving me after the long walks of the P&P pilgrimage. So good.

Then there's the actual springs from which the city gets its name. The Romans built an entire complex around the springs, including a temple for the goddess Minerval Sulis (Sulis was the local deity, who got merged with Minerva, the Roman version of Athena).

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Of course the Georgians did it up...in the Greek/Roman classical style. Which is pretty much what we're seeing today.

Fish and chips in Bath:
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Stourhead Gardens on Sunday (with my cousin and his wife). Some guy who was an architect to the rich and famous of the day bought this place up and basically got it fully landscaped, then built all kinds of grottoes with statues and springs, and a couple of temple structures in the Greek classical style because: why not?

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If you recognise the temple structure, it was used in the 2005 P&P movie for the 'unwelcome first proposal' that Darcy makes to Elizabeth. You know, the classic scene in the rain and the wet...

My cousin didn't know this when he suggested Stourhead, but was tickled when he learned about it. It was so commonly asked that the National Trust member who was at that site had an ipad with the scene stored on it!

And a set of windows that made me think 'Hobbiton'. I really do need to make it to NZ one of these years.

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Bath to London Gatwick, and off I was flying to Porto.

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Porto was the section of the trip i was most uncertain about. The friend I'd been planning to visit wasn't in town and I'd never been before, so had no idea of what to expect.

Frankly, I needn't have worried.

A port with port
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More than enough buildings and history and city tours to keep me occupied, and that was without the port or wine options. I did take a visit to the Douro Valley and it was amazing.

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Daniel also had fun and was greatly admired:
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Big walking tour with a historian on Wednesday, up and down and through and through the stairs and spaces of the city:
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And a 'lego' John the Baptist. Not appreciated by the locals.
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Sunset over the river from the Jardim do Morro. And I got dinner, too. It was a surprisingly excellent dinner given the location was a big tourist point. Usually the touristing is good and the food is crappy. The food here was good.

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Lots of murals and brightly-coloured walls. Also tiling decorations, just casually there. Which, of course, Porto is known for - their regional train station (different to the urban one) has entire murals that were glazed into the tiles when the place was first built a couple of hundred years ago. I do not have photos of this.
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And finally in Porto at one of the restaurants I was at: a slice of fandom on a condensed milk mousse!

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There was a small bit of drama getting from Porto to the Netherlands. Due to Reasons, my flight was 90 minutes delayed. I only had 70 minutes to make my connecting flight at Frankfurt. That said, I was booked on the same airline for the connecting flight and they (luckily) had a later flight that day, but instead of arriving in Amsterdam Schiphol at 6pm, I wouldn't make it there until 10:30pm. And then I had to get to my lodgings!

I communicated with the host I was staying with, and they were very good about my late arrival. And fortunately Dutch public transport is very safe and very efficient. Within an hour of landing, I was at my lodgings, and my host was letting me in.

But a trip that was supposed to take about 6 hours from start to finish ended up taking more than double that. Oof.

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The point of the Netherlands was to see family and friends. So Saturday was with my stepbrother A, his wife A, her cousin V, and my nephew L. L is about 3, and adorably funny. He was a bit shy to begin with, but got the hang of me by the end of the day (my willingness to make dinosaur noises helped immensely). And by Sunday night we were making silly faces for photos. (If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!)

Netherlands, family, and friends
On Saturday we did a Van Gogh experience in Utrecht and walked around the city.

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Then walked around Utrecht, which I'd seen before on at least one tour, but really wanted more time to explore.

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Sunday I spent with just the stepbrother and nephlet walking around Rotterdam. Nephlet and the SIL and cousin V were heading off to Paris on the Monday, and I had plans to spend Monday with a friend who I've known for over twenty years, since the old Stargate SG1 days.

Behold! Our lemmings, Daniel and Heimdall!

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Tuesday, we went out and down to Zeeland, the bit of the Netherlands best known for the building of dykes, and for agricultural produce.

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Veere is a town that was thriving in the 16th Century-ish, before a sandbar developed at the main entrance to their port and rendered them unable to take the big shipping boats. It was so huge because this was the major port for the Scottish in the Netherlands. Which remains in such small details as carvings of sheep and thistles in the housing, and a Scottish flag hanging outside one of the older buildings.

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The old Town Hall. Note the empty niches in the building front? I'm always curious about those and what statues used to stand there. Patron saints? Local magnates? Sheep?

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Wednesday I had lunch with my stepbrother and we talked about the family and his plans for the future.


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The flight to Toronto was uneventful. 7 hours, quite a long time, but pretty ordinary.

I wrestled my bag onto the airport train and then onto the Toronto metro. And then onto a street tram. I love public transport.

The place I was staying seemed like a good neighbourhood - a high school nearby with an athletics field, a the trams run in to the city one block away, and there were plenty of restaurants and quite a few painted murals around the street.

colourful and interesting
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The host had a friendly cat that looks like my Maladicta:
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She also seemed like a bit of a fannish type - once upon a Harry Potter, if you know what I mean, as well as the Sarah J Maas series and other series I've heard mentioned in the romantasy line of things. But I didn't really get to ask many questions, she kept mostly to herself.

In Toronto, I was hoping to go and see Niagara Falls, but didn't realise it was an entire day trip. And then I didn't like the timing of any of the ones that were offered. So instead I spent the day in the city, just exploring with a walking tour and wandering around.

Sculptures in the city:
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The CN tower in reflection, with Daniel and Li'l Pig.
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And apparently someone...likes dwarves? As building decorations?
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IDK. Can you explain it? I haven't looked it up, but I sure am curious!


I arranged to meet up with [personal profile] jenab on Saturday morning for brunch and we sat and talked for at least two, maybe three hours? It was lovely to meet and eat and talk with a fannish friend before I headed off to the station.

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Caught the train to Ottawa. Very comfy, if a bit expensive because I only booked the week before. Do it way earlier and you save something like $100! Anyway, I really have to do more travelling by train in Canada... Maybe next year? *weak smile*

Staying with [personal profile] alphaflyer, and got to celebrate a Canadian Thanksgiving on Sunday night. My very first Thanksgiving. (We don't do it in Australia, it's just Christmas for our family/feast get-togethers, although my family also does Chinese New Year in late January/early February.) It was delightful! The turkey, the pies, the food prep. Very familiar processes, but very different fillings, if you understand what I mean!

Look, I love a good feast with friends. The actual food doesn't matter, so long as there's much of it and people are comforted and satisfied by it. It could be a salad feast (with tasty salads, mind you, not the bland awful shit) and I'd still be good with it.

Outside (and inside) OttawaAnyway. Have a pic of Daniel and Li'l among the decorative gourds.

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Pie. I got the crust recipe too. Must try it sometime!
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Tilly the cat
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And the Ottawa countryside was spectacular that weekend!
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Mind you, some things are inexplicable to the Australian mind. An open BBQ fireplace in the middle of the woods? Do you WANT the country to go up in flames?

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But there were also beaver swamps and slow-running rivers:
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And me, taking photos in the woods while [personal profile] alphaflyer's husband went rock fossicking in an old mining gully and [personal profile] alphaflyer rested up in the car.

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On Tuesday, my flight out wasn't until 6pm-ish, so I didn't have to be at the airport until 4pm. So in the morning we went to the National Art Gallery in Ottawa!

Overhead sails:
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Indigenous modern art:
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And an entire rebuilt chapel tucked away in one corner of the wing!
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A quick diversion to see the rock sculptures of John Ceprano in the Ottawa River - he's been doing them for 35 years!

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And then it was hugs and time to say goodbye.


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The travel time from Ottawa to Sydney was 24 hours. Not counting airport time either side. From Vancouver to Sydney took 16 hours alone.

It's a long trip. Longer than from San Fran (14 hours) but unfortunately not doable this time around due to authoritarian regimes etc. So Vancouver it was.

Those 24 hours also didn't count the redirection from Sydney to Brisbane because Sydney was fogged in and we were running out of fuel. So we had a six-hour detour; landed at Brisbane, refuelled, and came back without leaving the plane. Well, except for the person who had a medical situation: they had to call ambos (EMTs) on to check them out before escorting them off.

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I arrived in Sydney 6 hours after planned. I'd sent the parents home, so I had to wrestle my luggage (all just-under-23kg, plus the backpack - at least 10kg, plus the satchel handbag - at least 3kg) on to Sydney trains and get to a home station before asking mum to pick me up.

But home! Home sweet home!

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What a trip! I enjoyed every place I went (not so much the flights there maybe), but by the end of week 6, I was really ready to come home.

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I did several loads of washing over Thursday and Friday. Ran errands right, left, and centre. B1 went into surgery for her hand and came out fine, just grumpy that she can't do half the stuff she's used to doing (and she has a bad habit of not asking for help).

I slept badly on Thursday night. Woke at 1am and doomscrolled until daylight.

Went to sleep around 10:30pm on Friday night, woke 5am on Saturday morning.

And then decided I was going to remake the back of a dress so it would lace up and I could fit into it for a party that was at midday...

Inundation (by LtLJ) (Teen)

Oct. 18th, 2025 12:39 am
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[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] stargateficrec
Shows: SGA
Rec Category: Action/Adventure
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Radek Zelenka
Categories: Gen
Words: 3176
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: ltlj on AO3
Link: Inundation on DW, Inundation on AO3 (locked to AO3)
Why This Must Be Read: in this "mission gone wrong" the team, plus a Marine, Radek, and some archaeologists, end up stranded on top of a partly-submerged old city, the Gate (and the jumper) now underwater after a mudslide and flood. It was written for an SGA flashfic challenge "Strange New Worlds and Alien Geography", and while at first the worst they seem to be facing is dampness and discomfort, the world proves to have wildlife that makes things interesting. This is lots of fun, with amusing grumpy banter, John in peril, and a great alien encounter.

snippet of the fic under here )

we are now at the dizzy stage

Oct. 16th, 2025 05:02 pm
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[personal profile] tielan
I woke up ~6am Tuesday in Ottawa.

It is now 5pm Thursday in Sydney and I have not yet had a good night's sleep. A few hours here and there but otherwise...

I can't math right now, but the world is seriously floaty.

But it is kind of nice to be home again.

Then again: my garden has gone seriously out of whack. :(

Dear Yuletide Santa

Oct. 15th, 2025 10:05 pm
anr: (.misc: dear santa)
[personal profile] anr
Thank you for writing a story about my favourite two characters!

Likes:
Canon divergence... fix-it AU... character survives canonical death... dealing with the effects of canon trauma... what if x happens to character B instead of character A... survivors of trauma fall into codependency... missing scenes and/or post-ep's... enemies/friends/co-workers to lovers... battle couple... slow burn... character A caring for a wounded character B... touching the other person's scar/s... holding hands... sharing a bed/sleeping space... snuggling for warmth... first kiss... thank god you're alive/we're alive! kissing/sex... frottage... sex pollen makes them do it... dub-con no-no-yes... bang or die... slap-slap-kiss... time travel fixes everything... time loops... road trip... stranded alone together... it's the apocalypse... natural disasters... forced to work together... showing up on the other person's doorstep because 'I didn't know where else to go'... calling the other person to ask 'can you please come get me?'... forced marriage, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, or fake relationship... infidelity/affairs because even though they're already taken they just can't resist the other person any longer... only calling each other by rank/surname until x happens then using their real/first name... yelling 'I love you' unexpectedly in an argument... mirror!verse AU... soulmarks AU... alpha!male/omega!female... 5 or 5+1 times...

Do Not Want:
Modern/mundane AUs, historical AUs, supernatural AUs, etc. Unhappy endings. Hurt/no comfort. Sick/illness fic. Character deaths. Unrequited or one-sided love between my OTP. Other characters matchmaking my OTP together. Established relationship for my OTP and/or relationships other than the ones requested. Embarrassing situations, pratfalls, overly comedic characterisations. First/second POVs or reader inserts. Song fic. Character bashing. BDSM, non-con, sub/dom, anal, rimming, spanking, choking, fisting. Rape, abuse, gore, child harm/abuse/death. Menstruation, bestiality, mpreg, genderbends. Characters intentionally ripping/tearing/cutting off clothing during sex scenes. Characters naming their children after dead family/friends.

Also:
- Treats adored! ❤️
- Optional details are optional.

Push, Nick/Cassie )

Stranger Things RPF, Grace/Joseph )

World War Z, Gerry/Segen )

Logan Lucky, Joe/Mellie )

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May-December, by velvetwar (PG)

Oct. 14th, 2025 01:12 pm
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[personal profile] goddess47 posting in [community profile] stargateficrec
Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: Jack/Daniel
Categories: slash, first time,
Warnings: boys kissing (like that's a surprise!)
Word Count: 3500
Author on DW: none found
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: May-December


Author's Summary:

Daniel brings Jack with him to a cultural theater event at his old university attended by some of his former colleagues. When one of Daniel’s professors assumes that he and Jack are an item, Jack plays into it to amuse himself and to get under Daniel’s skin. Which he does, in more ways than one.

Why This Must Be Read:

A fun fic where Jack goes to the theater with Daniel. Poor Daniel is confused and slightly embarrassed by Jack's actions... until the discussion after, where they both admit they've kissed other boys in the past.

It's sweet and them.



snippet of fic )

north, south, east, or west...

Oct. 13th, 2025 10:28 am
tielan: four lemming toys at the grand canyon (travel)
[personal profile] tielan
I love travelling.

But boy do I want to go home at the end of it. I have hit my limit of 'awayness' and now am very much looking forward to the point where I roll my luggage in the door, greet my cats, and fall on my bed like a great falling thing.

(And then get covered with cats like a rug.)

home stuff )

--

Anyway, Toronto was great (both the walking tour I ended up undertaking and meeting with [personal profile] jenab) and Ottawa is also great. Thanksgiving dinner yesterday night with [personal profile] alphaflyer and her husband after a bit of driving around to see the autumn colour in the afternoon. We'll be doing more driving around today, further out, perhaps.

Not sure if there's anything planned for tomorrow, but the flight home is pretty much a full day, plus the time to wait at the airport. And I'm not really going to sleep either side of the trip.

OOF.

Next time I do this, I'm taking Canada more slowly. At least two weeks to mosey my way from the east to the west, and then the flight home...
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: Action/Adventure
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Sam Carter
Categories: M/M
Words: 5940
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: [personal profile] bluespirit
Author's Website: bluespirit on AO3
Link: Coffee cups and empty spaces on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: On an off-world mission, John encounters a device that vanishes him, leaving his team desperately trying to get him back. Meanwhile, Sheriff John Sheppard rides his horse PJ as he keeps the town of Elk Gap safe from evildoers. The POV alternates between Rodney, frantically trying to figure out and fix the device, and John, keeping the peace in what seems to be the 1880s. Is it a VE, or time travel? - read this engaging story and find out! There's also a brief sequel, with a pic of Sheriff Sheppard - the pic's gone from AO3 these days, but you can see it here.

snippet of the fic under here )

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may Amun give me what I have found
for all eternity.
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To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
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and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
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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

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I envy you, drunk with flowers,
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