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anr ([personal profile] anr) wrote2026-04-08 01:43 pm

FIC: All the Roads Led Me to You (Stranger Things)

All the Roads Led Me to You (3630 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chrissy Cunningham/Eddie Munson
Characters: Chrissy Cunningham, Eddie Munson
Additional Tags: Touching, Touch-Starved, Touch-Averse, Holding Hands, Post-Series, Fix-It, Chrissy Cunningham Lives, Eddie Munson Lives, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: Chicago is too big for this.

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beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote2026-04-07 02:35 pm
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Dear Fandom 5k Author

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.

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Enterprise )

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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2026-04-07 11:34 am
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positive family

The brother came for dinner with his wife and his eldest daughter (they left the 20 month old with the Phillipino nurse) and we had a great evening of dinner and talking and catching up and dealing with an enthusiastic 5 year old.

And I have learned that I do not know how to deal with small willful children. I've dealt with small children at church and in social things before, but generally their parents are pretty clear on the boundaries. Not that G and his wife S weren't, just that I think Miss 5 worked out that I was a pushover pretty early and basically decided I was the most fun to push boundaries with.

Oy.

But it was a good night. I did the food prep and it went down well. G and S enjoyed themselves, and Miss 5 also liked having aunties who were happy to play and engage with her.

But man that girl has a lot of energy.

Anyway, they came around 5:30pm, we had dinner around 6:15, and they left around 9-9:30pm. It was such a good night!
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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2026-04-05 11:41 am
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welp all the medical stuff

I was supposed to get a blood test on Monday. I fasted and everything. And then the doc couldn't find my veins. This is not an unusual problem, although he's been pretty good at it before. It's just sometimes nobody can find a good vein in me. And it's not usually this bad.

So I came away with a paper for a pathology appointment where the people seem to manage it very well and swiftly (they're also younger; I like this doc, but he's pushing 70 if not 75). I made the appointments for a couple of weeks time because it's fasting, and because my veins in both arms had not been forthcoming so no point in trying again and collapsing them further.

Tuesday was the solar battery guys (which is going quite great guns, tbh), and while I was clearing stuff away for them, I felt a sting in my heel.

Ugh. Pointy wood splinter, in under the skin. I pulled it out, tossed it away, and thought nothing of it. I didn't put any antiseptic on it, or try to clean the thing out. I just didn't think of it at the time since the splinter came out cleanly.

Except, obviously, the splinter wasn't clean.

Five hours later, my ankle hurt right in the spot where the splinter had been - over the achilles tendon, making walking difficult. I skipped hockey training, went to bed early.

Woke on Wednesday, still swollen, and the swollen area was slightly larger. I was a bit worried, but hoped it would pass. By midday, I was feeling tingles in various extremities. Not a good sign. We had a set of antibiotics from...some time previous. So I started taking those - keflex, is the type.

I booked an appointment with the doctor the next day. Went to bed. Woke up feeling a little better, but still with the swollen heel and the tingly. The doc looked at it, declared it infected, and put me on a course of penicillin, which I've been taking the last four days with varying regularity. The tingling has pretty much stopped (phew) and I'm supposed to check in with him on Tuesday.

So that was my near-brush with infection this week.

Lesson: when stuck by a bit of anything in the garden, clean it off!

--

Today, the half-brother and his family are coming over for dinner. Hopefully the little girls will be okay, because the twins are eager to meet them. I've met them both before, although the younger one was only just over a year old and she wasn't great with strangers, but we hardly see them at all and we're not really a presence in their lives except distantly.

I'm doing dinner - roast goat loin and roast pork. Along with roast vegies.

Anyway, hopefully it all goes well.
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Fig Newton ([personal profile] fignewton) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2026-04-01 04:11 pm
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April reccers

Many thanks to [personal profile] cassiope25, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] mific, and [personal profile] sgatazmy for all their March recs! We had 11 recs this past month.

Our April reccers are:

[personal profile] cassiope25: John/Rodney
[personal profile] goddess47: Jack O'Neill
[personal profile] mific: Rodney McKay
[personal profile] sgatazmy: Ronon Dex

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. (It'll take a while, as Pesach starts tonight, but I'll definitely add you happily when I do see your comment...)
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sgatazmy ([personal profile] sgatazmy) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2026-03-31 09:53 pm

Dating Dominoes by WonkyElk (T)

Title: Dating Dominoes

Rec Category: Humor

Warnings: None

Characters: Teyla Emmagan, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard

Relationships: Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Laura Cadman/Ronon Dex

Categories: Slash, het, humor

Word Count: 3765

Author's Journal: [personal profile] wonkyelk

Author's Website on AO3

Link: Dating Dominoes


Author Summary: Teyla didn’t often lose her head. As a leader of her people, and an Ambassador for Atlantis, it was required of her to be calm, diplomatic and rational.

But, well. Everyone has their moments.

Why this must be read: It's a fun short story. WonkyElk always write in a whimsical, fun style. I especially like her Teyla in this and how she makes an impulsive decision to pretend she is dating Rodney to appease an Aunt-like character. I love how Rodney just decides to go along with it, with actually no context. John's jealous. It's a fun feelings admission story with a lot of chaos and silliness.


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sgatazmy ([personal profile] sgatazmy) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2026-03-31 09:24 pm

Cold As Ice by NotTasha (T)

Show: SGA


Rec Category: Humor

Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan

Pairing: None (gen)

Categories: gen, humor, whump

Warnings: None (although it is in its nature political if that bothers you)

Words: 20,256

Author's Journal: [personal profile] nottasha 

Author's Website on AO3

Link: Cold as Ice

Author's Summary: The SGA team explore an icy planet, looking for a secret underground lab. It’s icy cold place and things go badly from the start. The team gets separated - McKay and Sheppard fall into a cave, while Ronon and Teyla need to deal with some troublesome characters.

Why this must be read: This story is strange and zany. It starts out as a whump fic with the challenge "F Ice" and it does make a caricature of the security force.  NotTasha writes in the format of write 15 minutes at a time and to not worry where the story goes. So by the end, the story goes off the rails in the best ways. There is a singing mechanical duck creature that infuriates McKay with its singing. It was so much fun to just get to laugh and laugh with this story that started out so whumptastic. 




Snippet of Fic )
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emcapi ([personal profile] emcapi) wrote in [community profile] dreamwidthlayouts2026-03-31 03:05 pm

Modern Narrow Light/Dark for Tabula Rasa


CSS code, instructions, larger previews, permissions, etc. on Github.

Title: Modern Narrow Light & Modern Narrow Dark
Credit to: [personal profile] emcapi / [community profile] emcapi_styles (journals have live previews of dark/light, respectively!)
Base style: Plain for Tabula Rasa
Type: CSS
Best resolution: Any, mobile responsive
Tested in: Firefox, Firefox for Android
Features:
  • Minimalist, modern design
  • Full mobile support
  • Navbar styling
  • Highly customizable; supports all modules and standard column layouts, including custom sidebar widths (within reason)
  • Optional header nav links support
  • Narrow, fixed-width center column on desktop and default sans-serif font for improved readability
  • Entry/comment page support, with visual comment thread indicators
  • Support for other pages including archive, reading page, tags page, and "more options" comment reply
  • Custom comment/entry/user interaction icon buttons with colors on hover
  • Designated color code section in CSS for easy editing
  • ...and more!
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cassiope25 ([personal profile] cassiope25) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2026-03-31 10:03 pm

Peaceful Night by Elayna (T)

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, getting together
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 1,622
Author's Journal: [personal profile] elayna
Author's Website: Elayna on AO3
Link Fic: Peaceful Night

Author's summary: On a peaceful mission during a holiday, truths are exchanged.

Why This Must Be Read: It's a sweet, adorable fic by Elayna, written for FTH 2022, about Rodney and John finally getting together—a well-planned date, with Rodney making endearing preparations for a warm and cozy time under the stars. If you're looking for a heartwarming story that will leave you feeling soft and happy, this is exactly what you need.


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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2026-03-31 10:34 am
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battery day

I suspect my site is one of great frustration for these guys.

There is no space near our switchboard, so they have to make a stand-alone space for the battery and inverter to go. They have to dig down to make a base. There are tree roots like crazy.

It's not a nice site for installation - the house was not designed like modern houses: the land cleared of trees, the slab poured all over and everywhere. This house was built on enclosed brick footings - a base wall on clay that has lasted surprisingly long.

I'm probably also not the kind of homeowner they want to work for, someone who'll let them do their job instead of asking all kinds of questions and stuff.

Okay, and I'm stressed too rn.
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goddess47 ([personal profile] goddess47) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2026-03-30 04:14 pm

The Bones in the Sarcophagus, by sg_wonderland (G)

Show: SG-1, Bones

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson (implied)
Categories: crossover, mystery
Warnings: none
Word Count: 4080
Author on DW: [personal profile] sg_wonderland
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: The Bones in the Sarcophagus


Author's Summary:

A sabbatical from SG-1 lands Daniel in the middle of a murder mystery.

Why This Must Be Read:

This is more fun if you know "Bones" but the author gives you enough to work with in her notes.

Brennan helps Daniel with a mysterious sarcophagus, and, of course, the usual Daniel Jackson chaos happens. So Jack has to come in and make sure his archeologist is okay. The mystery is kind of cute, in the end, and Daniel and Brennan bond over their hockey-loving boyfriends.

Just a fun read!



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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2026-03-30 02:07 pm

forward planning is for WUSSES

Apparently the battery guy wants to come in TOMORROW.

*sigh*

Luckily, I prepped the planned battery site on the weekend. One less thing to think about. Although I guess that's forward planning on my part.
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mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2026-03-30 02:17 pm

A Matter of Death and Life (by Rheanna) (Gen)

Shows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Jennifer Keller, Marshall Sumner, Aiden Ford, Carson Beckett, Clone Carson Beckett, Elizabeth Weir
Categories: M/M
Words: 24,853
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: [personal profile] rheanna
Author's Website: rheanna on AO3
Link: A Matter of Death and Life on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: John does something heroic again when Atlantis is in San Francisco harbour after season five. It should kill him, but, inexplicably, it doesn't. Afterwards, there's something increasingly wrong with his brain. This plays out medically and through hallucinations (or are they?) in which John encounters a series of dead friends (and a commanding officer), and is also kind of on trial, having to make a case as to whether he should be allowed to live or not. Along the way, John and Rodney also find each other. A tour de force - gripping, profound, and with wonderful characterisations of John and Rodney, in particular. Don't miss it.

snippet of the fic under here )

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cassiope25 ([personal profile] cassiope25) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2026-03-28 12:05 am

A Good Enough Timeline by Tazmy (T)

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, emotional hurt/comfort
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 9,562
Author's Journal: [personal profile] sgatazmy
Author's Website: Tazmy on AO3
Link Fic: A Good Enough Timeline
Link Podfic: mp3

Author's summary: Years after Elizabeth stepped through the gate to her demise, Atlantis is a thriving city in a hopeful future. Rodney, however, still struggles with Elizabeth’s loss and his role in her death. He’s determined to go back and save her.
But at what point does he stop trying to change the timeline and accept the one he’s in? Can John convince him before it's too late?

Why This Must Be Read: The emotional aftermath of losing Elizabeth, and Rodney's stubborn, even desperate attempt to set things right—risking everything, struggling with John over desire and reality, their relationship on the line—almost broke my heart.
It’s written with so much love for Rodney and John, with such thoughtfulness and insight—it offers you a new perspective and makes you really reflect on the deeper nature of life and fate, of right and wrong.
This isn't about a lighthearted fix-it or an easy way out, but a beautiful ode to conviction and dedication, hopes and boundaries, denial and acceptance, friendship and love.
Don't miss out on it!

There's also a wonderful podfic of this fic, beautifully read by Tazmy herself. I add the link here too.

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