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187: Rhetorical - Leech - Daylight
Apr. 1st, 2026 09:40 pmelidelio posting in vocab_drabblesTitle: Daylight
Fandom: Læce | Leech (Web Series)
Author:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
timegoesby
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 200
Characters/Pairings: Oliver & Theo
Notes: Also written fortinyfandomflash and vampiremedia
Summary: Theo asks Oliver if he has any regrets... does he?
Fandom: Læce | Leech (Web Series)
Author:
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 200
Characters/Pairings: Oliver & Theo
Notes: Also written for
tinyfandomflash and vampiremediaSummary: Theo asks Oliver if he has any regrets... does he?
( Daylight )
Who to believe
Apr. 1st, 2026 11:11 pmcornerofmadnessSo I called Boston Scientific about my strips and the lady stops me and says 'let me guess they told you to remove it if it says 'poor skin contact.' Yes. 'Unless it's falling off leave it on. It's fine. It's transmitting.' 'It woke me up at night with this.' 'put it on do not disturb and get your rest, honey.'
I want to believe her. She admitted it's not in their booklet either. They're sending more since I do have only one left for a month.
I skipped yoga. I wanted to get some stuff done at home. Too many days a week I'm getting home barely in time to do dinner and shower before I have like 3 hours before bed and I'm exhausted. Glad I did because my sugar crashed out.
And minor miracle happened in holy week. I called the clinic and said I'm sorry I forgot I don't work friday and do you have anything in Jackson (closer to where I live) instead of Gallipolis (closer to where I work). And they DID!!! Yay. So I can go to Jackson do that AND do some of the Easter festival fun stuff I wanted to do.
Books!!!! It's time for the March wrap up. You know the drill, if anything strikes your fancy let's talk. And OMG the new bookstore is doing a book trade in 2 weeks (after I gave away a bunch of books at work, but that's fine too. I'm glad my friends wanted them).
What I Just Finished Reading:
Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more This was a sweet cozy fantasy/romantasy
Zombie Day Care - don't bother
What I am Currently Reading:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - I really wanted to read this BUT so far within 50ish pages there's been forced marriage, domestic violence, martial rape, attempted sexual assault (by brother in law), racism, animal abuse. And it's bleak AF. Not sure I'll finish this book club book.
Edinburgh Twilight - historic mystery, chonkier than I like mysteries to be but I'm enjoying it
The Tale of the Hidden Village - some cozy fantasy/mystery indie I got a couple years back already.
What I Plan to Read Next: The Death Card (an arc I just got in the mail)
March's reads. It was a great month for reading.
The Final Problem historical mystery
I Want to be a Wall, Vol. 1 LGBT contemporary manga
Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones. LGBT hockey graphic novel
At Death's Dough cozy mystery
Prodigal Tiger Malaysian folklore fantasy YA
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream SF short story
The Yellow Wall-Paper horror short
With Friends Like These Thriller
The Snow Child fairytale retelling
Zombie Day Care horror
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore cozy fantasy/romantasy
I want to believe her. She admitted it's not in their booklet either. They're sending more since I do have only one left for a month.
I skipped yoga. I wanted to get some stuff done at home. Too many days a week I'm getting home barely in time to do dinner and shower before I have like 3 hours before bed and I'm exhausted. Glad I did because my sugar crashed out.
And minor miracle happened in holy week. I called the clinic and said I'm sorry I forgot I don't work friday and do you have anything in Jackson (closer to where I live) instead of Gallipolis (closer to where I work). And they DID!!! Yay. So I can go to Jackson do that AND do some of the Easter festival fun stuff I wanted to do.
Books!!!! It's time for the March wrap up. You know the drill, if anything strikes your fancy let's talk. And OMG the new bookstore is doing a book trade in 2 weeks (after I gave away a bunch of books at work, but that's fine too. I'm glad my friends wanted them).
What I Just Finished Reading:
Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more This was a sweet cozy fantasy/romantasy
Zombie Day Care - don't bother
What I am Currently Reading:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - I really wanted to read this BUT so far within 50ish pages there's been forced marriage, domestic violence, martial rape, attempted sexual assault (by brother in law), racism, animal abuse. And it's bleak AF. Not sure I'll finish this book club book.
Edinburgh Twilight - historic mystery, chonkier than I like mysteries to be but I'm enjoying it
The Tale of the Hidden Village - some cozy fantasy/mystery indie I got a couple years back already.
What I Plan to Read Next: The Death Card (an arc I just got in the mail)
March's reads. It was a great month for reading.
The Final Problem historical mystery
I Want to be a Wall, Vol. 1 LGBT contemporary manga
Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones. LGBT hockey graphic novel
At Death's Dough cozy mystery
Prodigal Tiger Malaysian folklore fantasy YA
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream SF short story
The Yellow Wall-Paper horror short
With Friends Like These Thriller
The Snow Child fairytale retelling
Zombie Day Care horror
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore cozy fantasy/romantasy
(no subject)
Apr. 1st, 2026 05:08 pmdark_phoenix54 posting in booknookI've actually got books to report for Wednesday! The reading part of my brain has finally kicked back in!
The Republic of Love, by Carol Shields
Took me almost a week to read this. Not because it's difficult reading- it's actually well written- but I just couldn't care about any of the characters! It's all about various people's love lives, mainly focusing on a couple who have previously had fairly disastrous affairs/marriages.
Dead As a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
One of the Sookie Stackhouse series; not sure where in the series this one sits, since I haven't read any of the others. It held my interest, and was a fast read- two days. A very complicated tale with about a million characters that gave me some problem trying to remember who they all were, and whether they were vampires or were people or just humans. And I did have a bit of a problem with the way every single hetero male wanted her sexually- kind of reminded me of the Anita Blake books but NOT to the extreme those are taken. (note: I have no problem with sex in books. It's the fact that there is this one woman who every single man MUST have. Give it a rest.) Anyway, if the library has the rest of this series I'll read it at some point.
And, maybe a quarter through:
A Spy for the Redeemer: An Owen Archer Mystery, by Candace Robb
Set in 1370, Owen is coming back from Wales (where he was born) from a pilgrimage to some sacred sites, but gets side tracked by a murder mystery he's obliged to investigate. Meanwhile, his wife, an apothecary, is being accused of murder herself...
So far, so good. Good detail as to how things are done back then. Strong main characters- so far, I really like the Lucie a little better than Owen, but I suspect he'll get more interesting as the story evolves.
The Republic of Love, by Carol Shields
Took me almost a week to read this. Not because it's difficult reading- it's actually well written- but I just couldn't care about any of the characters! It's all about various people's love lives, mainly focusing on a couple who have previously had fairly disastrous affairs/marriages.
Dead As a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
One of the Sookie Stackhouse series; not sure where in the series this one sits, since I haven't read any of the others. It held my interest, and was a fast read- two days. A very complicated tale with about a million characters that gave me some problem trying to remember who they all were, and whether they were vampires or were people or just humans. And I did have a bit of a problem with the way every single hetero male wanted her sexually- kind of reminded me of the Anita Blake books but NOT to the extreme those are taken. (note: I have no problem with sex in books. It's the fact that there is this one woman who every single man MUST have. Give it a rest.) Anyway, if the library has the rest of this series I'll read it at some point.
And, maybe a quarter through:
A Spy for the Redeemer: An Owen Archer Mystery, by Candace Robb
Set in 1370, Owen is coming back from Wales (where he was born) from a pilgrimage to some sacred sites, but gets side tracked by a murder mystery he's obliged to investigate. Meanwhile, his wife, an apothecary, is being accused of murder herself...
So far, so good. Good detail as to how things are done back then. Strong main characters- so far, I really like the Lucie a little better than Owen, but I suspect he'll get more interesting as the story evolves.
Artemis II launch
Apr. 1st, 2026 08:16 pmmelagan To the Moon
I'm old enough to remember the Apollo missions. It makes me happy to see a revival to the moon missions and the excitement it brings to a new generation.
I'm old enough to remember the Apollo missions. It makes me happy to see a revival to the moon missions and the excitement it brings to a new generation.
(no subject)
Apr. 1st, 2026 03:10 pmlycomingstI started a rewatch of my dvds, slowly, ever so slowly. I finished Angel, Arrested Development. I'm afraid the magic of Black Adder has faded for me and I will be passing that on, somewhere. Next up is Season 4 of Blue Murder, a Brit police show, a dvd I acquired I don't remember how.
Because it's Poetry month.
Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 –1950
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
Because it's Music Monday. I particularly like the back-up dancers. Maybe because they are in ordinary clothes. Idk.
Jon Batiste - FREEDOM
Because it's Poetry month.
Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 –1950
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
Because it's Music Monday. I particularly like the back-up dancers. Maybe because they are in ordinary clothes. Idk.
Jon Batiste - FREEDOM
April 2026: 10 out of 20
Apr. 1st, 2026 11:37 pmprisca posting in sweetandshort10 out of 20
Under the cut, you will find a list of 20 prompts for April. Your mission is to grab at least 10 of them and create a little something for it. Keep in mind, even if it is not the meaning of the challenge, no one will punish you when you only grab one or two prompts. Every work is welcome.
To complete the challenge, you can create up to ten single works or combine one or more prompts in one work.
Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height. Please stay to the maximum, even if you use more than one prompt in your work.
All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original works and real-person works.
When posting directly tosweetandshort, please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work elsewhere, but please leave a header and a link here to keep the community running.
When posting your works, please use any appropriate tag. When a tag is missing, use 'tag needed'.
This challenge runs until April 30, midnight in your timezone.
( April Prompt List )
Reminder:
Amnesty 1/26 (still running until April 5)
Under the cut, you will find a list of 20 prompts for April. Your mission is to grab at least 10 of them and create a little something for it. Keep in mind, even if it is not the meaning of the challenge, no one will punish you when you only grab one or two prompts. Every work is welcome.
To complete the challenge, you can create up to ten single works or combine one or more prompts in one work.
Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height. Please stay to the maximum, even if you use more than one prompt in your work.
All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original works and real-person works.
When posting directly to
sweetandshort, please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work elsewhere, but please leave a header and a link here to keep the community running.When posting your works, please use any appropriate tag. When a tag is missing, use 'tag needed'.
This challenge runs until April 30, midnight in your timezone.
( April Prompt List )
Reminder:
Amnesty 1/26 (still running until April 5)
April: Fake Dating
Apr. 1st, 2026 08:32 pmtrope_mod posting in trope_of_the_monthThe theme for April is Fake Dating. Circumstances cause characters to pretend to be a couple when they're not, but will real feelings develop?
Posting guidelines are here, and if you have any recs or prompts you'd like to share, you can leave them in the comments using the templates below:
For recs:
For prompts:
This theme will last until 30th April.
Posting guidelines are here, and if you have any recs or prompts you'd like to share, you can leave them in the comments using the templates below:
For recs:
For prompts:
This theme will last until 30th April.
Rimworld Community!
Apr. 1st, 2026 12:34 pmtally posting in fandom_on_dw
rimworld is a new community for anything Rimworld! Any and all types of Rimworld posts are welcome—meta and discussion, colony sharing, recommendations for fic, art, and mods, etc.!Membership is open and tags are set up and ready to go. And yesterday, I made a post on expectations and wishes for the next expansion!
Here also is a direct link to the community rules.
Come and join for +5 mood. ♥
Unconventional Courtship 2026: Sign Ups!
Apr. 1st, 2026 08:48 pmaflaminghalo posting in unconventionalcourtshipCome join our thirteenth round and over a decade of proud trope subversion.
'Unconventional Courtship' is a panfandom fic fest where you write and post a 1000+ word fic based on a M&B/Harlequin plot. Fics will be posted to this community, staggered through June 2026.
This year's mod is
aflaminghalo. Thank you to liadt for all your hardwork modding this fest.Sign Ups - April 1st - June 10th 2026
Posting - 1st June - June 30th 2026
Amnesty Week - July 1st - July 7th 2026
How to play:
It's as simple as:
1. Sign up! Sign ups close on June 10 and all you need to do is comment on this post with the day you want to post your fic. You can tell us which summary/pairing you're going with, but you don't have to. You don't need a Dreamwidth to play - just comment with OpenID, although you will need to ask us to post your fic on the com. If you are on DW, please follow the community.
2. Choose a M&B/Harlequin summary (or two etc) - we have hundreds of suggestions here, but there are literally thousands. Our prompt generator may also help (thank you
john_amend_all) You can do more than one fic, if you want. You can also combine prompts, if you like. 3. Replace the names (and pronouns if necessary) with the names (and pronouns) of the pairing of your choice. Any any all fandoms and pairings are welcome in this fest.
You can also replace place names and jobs as long as you keep to the spirit of the prompt. So, if you want to write Kirk/Spock, but you don't want to write a modern day AU, you could replace 'the Sahara desert' with 'a desert planet' and Kirk wouldn't need to be the boss at a law firm, he could be the boss... in the sense that he's the captain.
4. Complete a fic based on your altered summary. You can take the prompt seriously or use it as an improbable basis for lols.
4.5. Pimp the fest far and wide. I'm hardly going to do this at all, so it's up to you - the players! I've re-uploaded the make-your-own banners and of course you can use ready made ones found over here and here.
Please do pimp where ever you think would be appropriate.
5. Post to this community on your assigned day. If you unable to post on your day there is a amnesty week for those that sign up from July 1 - 7.
You can also post to our AO3 collection if you want!
You can read examples of Unconventional Courtship fic by looking through the collection, or by going through masterposts in the comm.
6.
Any questions? Leave a comment or PM me.
( Rules )
( Days for posting )
If you have questions, feel free to ask! And/or consult the FAQs.
Spring Drabble 01/30: BTS, The Pink Peach Tree
Apr. 1st, 2026 08:46 pmkat_lair***
Title: The Pink Peach Tree
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
Pairing: Jeon Jungkook/Kim Namjoon | RM
Tags: Drabble, Museums, Art History
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: "I thought it would be... brighter."
Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one forcelli's prompt of 'Namkook Namjooning, at an art museum while on tour'. Title after the painting in question.
( The Pink Peach Tree )
***
Title: The Pink Peach Tree
Author:
kat_lair Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
Pairing: Jeon Jungkook/Kim Namjoon | RM
Tags: Drabble, Museums, Art History
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: "I thought it would be... brighter."
Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for
celli's prompt of 'Namkook Namjooning, at an art museum while on tour'. Title after the painting in question.( The Pink Peach Tree )
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Check-In Post - April 1st 2026
Apr. 1st, 2026 07:53 pmbadly_knitted posting in get_knittedHello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.
Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?
There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.
This Week's Question: Where do you do most of your crafting?
If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.
I now declare this Check-In OPEN!
BtVS: Weighed Down [Challenge 495: Letting Go]
Apr. 1st, 2026 07:37 pmbadly_knitted posting in drabble_zoneTitle: Weighed Down
Fandom: BtVS
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 495: Letting Go.
Setting: After The Body.
Summary: This is the worst loss Buffy has ever faced in her young life.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
Weighed Down
links: Serious, Sublime, Silly
Apr. 1st, 2026 01:17 pmjesse_the_kSerious
I can’t summarize my complicated feelings about Metafilter. One reason I continue reading is what I learn from discussions like
Big Mean Trans Thread
This is a thread for trans people to vent and be righteously uncharitable about transphobic bullshit on Metafilter and otherwise.
“Metatalk” is where members vent about the site itself; this discussion responds to a couple of (now-banned) jerks who dropped turds in the weekly LGBTQIA+ News Post fro 27 March.
The Meta posters taught me that the terms AFAB and AMAB have been appropriated by anti-trans bigots to emphasize that “real” gender is what the doctors put on the birth certificate. I won’t be using those terms any more. I have no need to know someone’s bodily configuration; if it’s relevant, they’ll tell me.
Sublime
HTXStudio invents Rube Goldberg-level technology, then produces succinct, hilarious, open-captioned (but not described) vertical videos about how and why they did it. Towards the goal of limiting doomscrolling in general and phone use in bed, they made a bed for smartphones:
( stream it here )
Silly
April Fool’s delight at AO3 — be sure to check the upper left corner!
Spotlight on Omegas
Omegas are the glue that holds us all together, providing the essential social lubricant needed for our society to function—and yet they are often maligned and treated as lesser-than. This April, we are changing part of our logo to highlight omegas as part of our commitment to the inclusion and wellbeing of our omega volunteers and users.https://web.archive.org/web/20260401173413/https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/34621
sociopetal
Apr. 1st, 2026 09:53 amprettygoodwordsociopetal (soh-shee-oh-PEE-tl) - adj., (of living spaces) designed to foster social interaction and connection.
Such as park playgrounds and your standard dining room table. Contrast with sociofugal, designed to minimize social interaction and foster privacy, such as library carrels and, somewhat paradoxically, grandstand seating (which focus audience members on the stage/field, not each other). Coined (both of them) in 1957 by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond from socio-, society (from Latin socius, partner/companion/ally) + -petal, traveling towards (from Latin petere, to seek/aim). (Meanwhile, -fugal means to traveling away from, from Latin fugere, to flee, the root of fugue.)
(A safe and happy Pesach to all who celebrate, especially us firstborn.)
---L.
Such as park playgrounds and your standard dining room table. Contrast with sociofugal, designed to minimize social interaction and foster privacy, such as library carrels and, somewhat paradoxically, grandstand seating (which focus audience members on the stage/field, not each other). Coined (both of them) in 1957 by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond from socio-, society (from Latin socius, partner/companion/ally) + -petal, traveling towards (from Latin petere, to seek/aim). (Meanwhile, -fugal means to traveling away from, from Latin fugere, to flee, the root of fugue.)
(A safe and happy Pesach to all who celebrate, especially us firstborn.)
---L.