03 March 2026 @ 11:06 pm
March is Women's History Month.  Here are some ways to celebrate it.  Here on Dreamwidth check out communities like [community profile] girlgay[community profile] hooked_on_heroines[community profile] shes_awesome[community profile] fem_thoughts, or [community profile] historium.


Women's History Month 
 
 
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03 March 2026 @ 10:51 pm
but damn today was something. I woke up 40 minutes before the alarm. Got 2 miles from work and realized I had forgotten my phone on the charger. Because of the multifactorial verification I can't get into my work email or the online teaching stuff.

I can't turn around as I was giving a test in the morning. The entire handicapped parking lot was full (we have asked parents of CCP kids to STOP fucking parking there to wait but no one enforces this) so I have to park up the hill.

So after the test I run home (I'm only 10 miles away) Also today was SO much warmer than yesterday I don't even care I had to run home. I changed shirts. Go back. Students were supposed to show up today but didn't (but at least I got stuff graded).

I still can't get anything done at work and more and more is getting added on us and then the dean in charge of this is gone effective today. What happened? No clue.

I get to CVS and the line is so long I eat my KFC sandwich in line and wasn't halfway thru it (but I was out of both meds so I had to get them)

I'm not bringing you any new Fannish 50 today but I'm really looking forward to being able to share some of the open calls later this week. I am lining up stories in my head. I'm thrilled to finally have things that might fit some of these open calls.

It's women's history month so I hope to highlight a woman a day, oh probably not every day but I'll try.


So while this is niche for Pittsburgh, it's our women of WWII which with the way Trump and Hesgeth are ripping out military women's history, I think it's important to share it so those fucks can't succeed. You can see it here.
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Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: Murder She Wrote
 
 
Title: fever
Fandoms: Bridgerton
Pairings: Anthony/Benedict/Kate
Rating: Teen
Warnings/Spoilers: Canon Divergence AU. Established Relationship/Triad.
Summary: In which Anthony and Kate return from India, to find Benedict with a fever.
Notes: Written for [profile] plathlover15 for [community profile] threeisnotacrowd 2026, [community profile] 100ships prompt tea, and [community profile] 100fandoms prompt rain. Also thanks to writersisland@tumblr for their "Flu/Cold Prompts" - “You’re hot.” “Thank you, love, but I don’t think right now is the time to—“ “You’re burning up. You have a fever.” “Oh.” It reminded me of Benedict's fever from Season 4 which inspired me to write all this.

fever................
 
 
Title: fever
Fandoms: Bridgerton
Pairings: Anthony/Benedict/Kate
Rating: Teen
Warnings/Spoilers: Canon Divergence AU. Established Relationship/Triad.
Summary: In which Anthony and Kate return from India, to find Benedict with a fever.
Notes: Written for [profile] plathlover15 for [community profile] threeisnotacrowd 2026, [community profile] 100ships prompt tea, and [community profile] 100fandoms prompt rain. Also thanks to writersisland@tumblr for their "Flu/Cold Prompts" - “You’re hot.” “Thank you, love, but I don’t think right now is the time to—“ “You’re burning up. You have a fever.” “Oh.” It reminded me of Benedict's fever from Season 4 which inspired me to write all this.

fever................
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 10:07 pm
Just made my monthly rec list of my recent bookmarks over on my journal! 6 Katekyou Hitman Reborn fics, 5 Honkai: Star Rail (specifically Kafstel) fics, and 1 White Collar fic
 
 
Via a post from [personal profile] goss: tragic, shocking news about [personal profile] minoanmiss AKA Rubynye on AO3.

My icon says "sad" but this is way beyond that. I am utterly shocked and crushed. [personal profile] minoanmiss and I met once at a con and I hoped to meet up again...and now never will. We communicated regularly on DW and often sent each other postal mail...and now never will again.

May her memory be a blessing...and an inspiration.
 
 
Current Mood: heartbroken
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 08:42 pm
Feeling accountably tired today - I'm not sure of the precise cause, but there's enough of them it's probably something I can point to. The weather, the loss of community members, peeking into the job market, pick something. The effect is the same of having me struggling to focus on editing, so in the end it doesn't much matter where it's coming from.

I did manage to peek into the job market and send something out. I did manage a decent workout. I did manage to cook some congee to use up some rice and stretch out some braised chicken a couple more days. Productive in ways most people would think of, but with little writing getting done, it doesn't feel quite that way to me. The solution is to try for bed and try again tomorrow.
 
 
Current Mood: sore
Current Music: Brothers on a Hotel Bed - Death Cab for Cutie
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 06:04 pm
This is today's freebie, inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] gs_silva. It also fills the "ribbon" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the series Alien Romance by [personal profile] gs_silva.

Read more... )
 
 
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03 March 2026 @ 08:11 pm
The monthly(ish) fic and art roundups. It's formatted by date posted rather then grouped into fandom specific. Anything for [community profile] fan_flashworks is always available on my creator tag at the community for up to 10 days before it's available at [community profile] alittleimprobable and the archives. Anything higher than a 12/Teen rating will have 15 or 18 coloured coded in red.

monthly(ish) fic and art roundups )
 
 
Current Music: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 08:02 pm
The monthly(ish) fic and art roundups. It's formatted by date posted rather then grouped into fandom specific. Anything for [community profile] fan_flashworks is always available on my creator tag at the community for up to 10 days before it's available at [community profile] alittleimprobable and the archives. Anything higher than a 12/Teen rating will have 15 or 18 coloured coded in red.

monthly(ish) fic and art roundups )
 
 
Current Music: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 02:11 pm
The bidding for Fandom Trumps Hate 2026 is open!  Just as a reminder I'm offereing cover art/moodboard for any fandom and a fic for Sherlock Holmes: Rathbone Movies.
 
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 12:24 pm
Today is cloudy, chilly, and wet.  It's been raining most of the morning, supposed to clear up midday, then thunderstorms today.  A beautiful day to stay indoors and write!

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and a male house finch.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 3/3/26 -- i did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 3/3/26 -- i did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.
 
 
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03 March 2026 @ 10:05 am
Photograph of two adorable Vietnamese toddlers in identical denim overalls and dinosaur sweaters, text: Siblings, at Fancake.
[community profile] fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules.

This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 12:00 pm

Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



Shows can change over time, for better or for worse. Which show with an excellent first season shouldn't have gotten a second/more seasons? Which shows had a great comeback season after a disappointing first season?
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 11:55 am
The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention. Please keep an eye on this page as I am still writing.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "World Cuisine." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

I'll be soliciting ideas for cooks, fusion chefs, immigrant cooks, eaters, farmers, foragers, food scientists, inventors, recipe writers, famous figures in food history, cooks of disadvantaged groups who should have become famous, superheroes, supervillains, failure analysts, ethicists, activists, rebels, other people active in the food world, cooking, gardening, harvesting, foraging, preserving, writing recipes, discovering things, decolonizing diets, building or using kitchen equipment, conducting experiments, observation changing experiments, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, kitchens, restaurants, food trucks or carts, campfires, barbecue sites, laboratories, makerspaces, nonhuman accommodations and adaptations, picnics, grocery stores, farmer's markets, roadside fruit stands, U-pick farms, gardens, food forests, other places where people make food, world cuisine, ethnic cuisines, cookbooks, online recipe archives, permaculture, heritage diets, climatarian diet, traditional foodways, culinary archaeology, food sovereignty, drought-resistant crops, trial and error, ethnic spice sets, weird food, fusion food, secret ingredients, supplements that turn out to be metagenic, new ideas in cuisine, alternate agriculture, lab conditions are not field conditions, ethics of food, innovation, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.

Currently eligible bingo card(s) for donors wishing to sponsor a square:

National Crafting Month Bingo Card 3-1-26

Among my more relevant series for the main theme:

An Army of One has to figure out how to feed a diverse, far-flung group of people who sometimes have special dietary needs.

The Bear Tunnels introduces modern principles to people in the past, including some aspects of food science.

A Conflagration of Dragons has the Six Races (plus the dragons) who all have different diets. This often poses challenges for the refugees.

Daughters of the Apocalypse has people trying to find and prepare enough food to survive, when city libraries are out of reach.

Fiorenza the Wisewoman uses herbs and healing foods to care for her village.

Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania. Igor enjoys cooking and has gotten at least one of the werewolves curious about cooking the human way.

Hart's Farm is a community with food used as one of the popular bonding methods.

Peculiar Obligations combines Quakers and pirates in the Caribbean, among other groups and places, leading to a wide variety of foods.

Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom need to eat. Primal soups and high-burn soups often have special dietary needs. Comfort food and healing food are also very popular here. The Rutledge thread includes Kardal and his food truck Syrian Foods, along with references to Vermont, French, and hippie cuisines. Pain's Gray, Shiv, and the Finns are all fond of cooking too.

The Wandering features old people who drift back in time, the first of whom lands in Goa, India.

Or you can ask for something new.

Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.

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Current Mood: creative
 
 
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 08:09 am
Hello on Tuesday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?
 
 
03 March 2026 @ 08:17 am
On Friday, the judge hearing our VA case issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Virginia's SB 854 against any Netchoice member (which means us!) while the lawsuit proceeds. Judge Giles's ruling is a little technical in places and covers a number of legal issues that I keep meaning to get around to explaining someday so folks can have a better grasp on the kind of things they'll see argued in cases like these, like strict scrutiny and associational standing, but the end result is still pretty clear, I think: the judge agrees Netchoice has made a strong enough showing right from the start that the law is unconstitutional to block the state from doing anything to enforce it until the full case can be heard.

This is only the beginning of that particular fight and we still have a ways to go, but it's great news for us, for all our users from Virginia, and for the internet as a whole. Three cheers for the Netchoice team and the outside litigation counsel, who are Clement & Murphy for this one! The full docket in RECAP: NetChoice v. Jason S. Miyares, 1:25-cv-02067, (E.D. Va.).
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03 March 2026 @ 06:46 am
It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
 
 
 
Unfortunately I am announcing a further delay of a week. Reveals will now occur at 5pm EDT on March 21, and creator reveals will occur on April 4.

Therefore, the following pinch hits are due at 11:59pm EST, Thursday 19 March. To claim, please reply with your AO3 name, and let me know which recipient/PH number you want. You're also welcome to claim by emailing mod.modzilla@gmail.com.

If you have a current pinch hit, I'm happy to discuss extensions. However, your deadline is not automatically extended. Please contact me if you'd like more time.

Minimum requirements: An art gift must be a completed comic at least 10 pages or 40 panels long; a fic gift must be a story at least 10,000 words long. You can also fulfil a pinch hit by giving two complete half-length works, if your recipient has opted into that for the fandom(s) you are creating in. Any work must be for a fandom your recipient has requested and one character/relationship/worldbuilding tag requested in that fandom, and must avoid their DNWs.

Pinch hits can be claimed in 5k or 20-panel increments if the recipient has opted into receiving half-length works. Please say in your claim if you're claiming a pinch hit for 5k (fic) or 20 panels (comic), and for what fandom.



Pinch hit #32 - fic - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Murder She Wrote, Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Voltron: Lion Force (1984) )

The 5k fic option is available for all fandoms.

PARTLY CLAIMED - Pinch hit #39 - fic - Stargate Atlantis, Kolja | Kolya (1996), Cesta do pravěku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955), Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies) )

This pinch hit can be fulfilled with one 5k story.

PARTLY CLAIMED - Pinch hit #62 - art, fic - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV), 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV), 伪装者 | The Disguiser (TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), 杀破狼 | Sha Po Lang - priest )

This pinch hit can be fulfilled with one story of 5,000+ words or one comic of 20+ panels.

PARTLY CLAIMED - Pinch hit #65 - fic - Columbo, Criminal Minds (US TV), Grey's Anatomy, Miss Marple - Agatha Christie, NCIS: Los Angeles, SEAL Team (TV), Sherlock (TV) The Professionals (TV 1977) )

This pinch hit can be fulfilled with one story of 5,000+ words.



See below cut for CLAIMED pinch hits!

PH #67 - art, fic [varies by request] - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Brooklyn 99 & The Labyrinth], Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)

PH #68 - fic - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021), We Were Liars - E. Lockhart, Stranger Things (TV 2016), Wednesday (TV 2022), Agatha All Along (TV), Crossover Fandom [DCEU & MCU