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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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fancake

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Alexei Rosanov, Yuna Hollander, David Hollander, Hayden Pike, Jackie Pike, Rose Landry
Rating: Teen
Length: 7394
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: Evilharlowe on AO3
Themes: Siblings, Action/Adventure, Competence, Established relationship + plot, canon LGBTQ+ characters

Summary: Four months after their wedding, Shane Hollander and Hayden Pike are kidnapped by disillusioned fans who see Shane's coming out and departure from the Voyageurs as the ultimate betrayal. With the police off-limits and a ten million dollar ransom on the clock, Ilya makes the last phone call he ever expected to make — to the estranged brother in Moscow he hasn't spoken to in three years. What follows is a night of unlikely alliances, hockey sticks used as weapons, and the discovery that family isn't defined by blood but by who shows up when everything falls apart.

Reccer's Notes: This is a rare Heated Rivalry story in which Alexei Rozanov isn't a complete shit. He's fairly one-dimensionally a baddie in both the books and the show, but here, while the author doesn't pretend he's a nice guy, the fic leans into him being a police officer and gives him both competence, and underlying family loyalty to Ilya when the chips are down. Another plus is that Shane is far from being a helpless victim. Gripping, and an excellent read.

Fanwork Links: Taken

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fancake

Fandom: Shadowhunters
Pairings/Characters: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Isabelle Lightwood
Rating: Mature
Length: 31,296 words
Creator Links:

Marchling
Theme: Siblings

Summary: Years ago, when Alec, Izzy and Jace were just starting going on missions, Alec pushed Jace out of the way of a rare and lethal demon. The demon's power rested in ice and its venom almost froze its victims to death. Alec survived but was warned that he would never truly be cured. The venom would rise up in his blood again and again.

With Valentine making moves against everyone Alec loves, Jace trapped in the Institute and his relationship with Magnus still so new, it's the worst time for the venom to strike him down again... but that's exactly what's happening.

Reccer's Notes: This showcases a lovely supportive relationship between Alec, Jace, and Izzy. Whenever I'm in the mood for hurt/comfort, this is one of the fics I always come back to.

Fanwork Links: Weakness and Strength on AO3

celli

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Current Music: Body to Body - BTS

annavere

Seen via

teratornis and it seemed like a fun post to make. ( Read more... )

Current Music: oh no, Down to the River to Pray is in my head. Time for a shuffle mix!

julian

Ny (that is,

minoanmiss) is having a virtual gathering/memorial on April 12, 1 pm EST, GMT-4. It's going til 3:30. Drop in, drop out, drop back in again, it's fine.

For various good and sufficient reasons, we'd like a headcount, so if anyone's thinking they'll be able to attend, plz sign up here, via SignUpGenius, which has ads aplenty but is at least useful.

I say "we" because I'm the one who volunteered the Zoom account. (I have a client who can't use Doxy for Telehealth because their internet won't support it, so I shrugged and bought paid Zoom for them, awhile back.) If we go above the 300-person limit, I'll buy their expanded audience for the month.

Other announcements are still going to the Google Announce List. If you want on, just tell the nice shiny boxes how you knew Ny. Also, Vicka has a memorial page. Which has an awesome picture up top.

(I would imagine that people will spread the Zoom link without the SignUpGenius request attached. That's inevitable and not unreasonable and not something that's possible to police. Mostly we want to know how many people will want to speak.)

watersword

The thrift shop in my neighborhood is closing/moving to an as-yet-unfound new location, and today was the pay-what-you-wish final day; I now have a backgammon set and a few more mason jars (including a wide-mouth one, which are surprisingly hard to find) and one of those read-in-the-bath things. I resisted all the pretty glassware, please clap. (I love beautiful glassware and I inherited all of my grandmother's flea market finds; she had great taste and I have no more room for glassware, especially fancy glassware I don't, strictly speaking, need.)

I read 84, Charing Cross Road and loved it, and then figured out it was a memoir, not an incredibly well-written novella, and I may never recover.

The goddamn squirrels have uprooted many if not all of my crocuses and I extremely upset about it. It is not quite warm enough to go to the garden and cut back everything that died over the winter, but I yearn for the day. I lost my temper yesterday and ripped the window film off and threw open the windows, and god does it feel great to have fresh air in here, even if the fresh air is also cold.

senmut

A Master Post of the Torn Veils series is available on

sylph_and_asp.

Reminder that the comm is members-locked, and the fics on SquidgeWorld Archive are site-locked. I grant membership readily, and I have invites for SqWA.

musesfool

Blurgh I think I am coming down with something - my throat is incredibly scratchy and every third breath I need to cough loudly and horribly. It kept me from sleeping very well last night so tonight i think it's going to be Nyquil or bust. Bah.

I keep intending to share these links and forgetting, but at least I can do it while it's still Mika March:

= Mika Zibanejad and the lasting moments of a 1,000-game NHL journey
= A Forgettable Night, A Memorable Career: Mika Zibanejad’s Top Moments

since he's my favorite player now that Kreider is gone. Well, him and Shesterkin. Even though I gave up on this season fairly early (not earlier than JT Miller though!).

*

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

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poetry

I still think about you

Wonder if you finally quit,

Do you still speak to your mom?

I remember when you went to Japan

How you swore you’d never forgive him.

I can’t remember to take my meds but

I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat.

It’s a strange intimacy,

all of us unspooling across decades of internet space

Like balls of yarn

leaving a trail behind us of everywhere

and everyone we’ve ever been

I hope you got your houseboat.

I hope you got everything.

Current Mood: nostalgic

kaberett

Reading. Preeeeetty much just progressing further through the She's A Beast archives, and continuing to develop opinions. I... think that's it? I think that's it; it has been A Busy Week.

Writing. Words Go Up: over 9.5k. Two more subsections titled. I continue to chew things over.

Listening. More Hidden Almanac. Technically up to May 2015, but I'm going to be going back over most of 2015 on account of Tragically, Some Dozing. (It is Car Noise, you see, and we have been. Travelling.)

Eating. A lot of food made for me by a variety of other people, notably including dosa + thali by Chai Station Chester, hot chocolate from [Knoops] in Chester, bread/cake/cookies/waffles by the Jaunty Goat and petits fours by Biscotti di Debora. Petits fours AMAZING; further thoughts possibly to follow.

Exploring. Southport Botanic Gardens, which struck me as much more of a park and rather less of a botanical garden than I'd quite expected based on the name, though perhaps this is because the fernery was closed by the time we got to it; very much enjoyed THE AVIARY.

Minimal exploration of Chester Zoo, once again culminating in staying in the bat cave until kicking out time.

Little bit of poking around Salisbury, feat. excellent tulips, excellent irises, FREE BLUE AGAPANTHUS that someone had divided, excellent bee doorknocker.

And then finally we made it HOME.

Making & mending. Progressed A's second glove some more! Stalled when I got to starting increases for the thumb gusset on account of my additional stitch markers were in the roof box and ... no.

Growing. Kept the lemongrass alive through The Travels. Acquired, as mentioned, a chunk of agapanthus. Unshockingly, the aubergine I sowed immediately before leaving has not sprouted, but hey, I'll turn the propagator back on. Nothing else seems to have died while I was away, hurrah.

Observing. MOON. The Dog. Creatures, including A having an excellent time Experiencing Bats (and also Flamingoes With Wings, A Rhinoceros, some grey-crowned cranes, and Monkeys).

andrewducker

Sophia has spent the last several weeks being very excited that she will, at some point in the near future, get to have her own bed in her own room.

This evening she suddenly realised that she would no longer be in her current bed and had a massive meltdown.

So we're currently reassuring her that she won't be rushed into anything. Fingers crossed for a better mood tomorrow.

umadoshi

Media intake for the last week or so boils down to "a couple chapters of various non-fiction [nothing new] and Thursday's The Pitt." We'll probably try to get an episode or two of Frieren in tonight, before Dayjob swallows me whole for another week.

My main goal for this weekend has been accomplished: today

scruloose and I decanted some spices from bags into jars (including the cinnamons and chai spice baking blend replenished from Silk Road* since the last time we batch-prepped for banana bread) and then did a round of bagging up dry ingredients for nine quadruple batches of my breakfast banana bread while actually baking a tenth batch. It's only the second time we've done it, and having the dry ingredients bagged and ready makes such a difference, but the prospect was more exhausting than it had any right to be. (Actually doing it was fine. This time we [reversing how we did it last time] went with me reading off the amounts for each ingredient and rotating the bags while

scruloose did the actual measuring and dumping ingredients in.)

*Last time we didn't have nearly enough of any one spice for ten quadruple batches, so some go the chair spice blend and some got the Vietnamese Saigon cinnamon and some got the Indonesian Korintje cinnamon. We also have some of their third type, the Sri Lankan true cinnamon, but the description on the jar says its flavor is pretty delicate, so it didn't seem likely to really shine in the banana bread.

(My erratic spices fascination has resulted in us currently having four kinds, actually, but little idea of what to make that will actually showcase the different types so I can really tell the difference. ^^; [The fourth is the Royal Cinnamon from Burlap and Barrel in the US.])

Current Mood: exhausted

jesse_the_k

The musician explains:

In 2018, I recorded and filmed a cover of "Yellow" by Coldplay under my former name, Lots Holloway. In 2026, I returned to the exact same place to film it again, this time as Dylan Holloway (Dylan And The Moon). What you're watching is both versions, woven together.

Lyrics at the band’s page: https://www.coldplay.com/song/yellow/

Watch on YouTube or ( stream it here )

scottishgenes_feed

Posted by Chris Paton

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/easter-certificate-ordering-disruption.html

From ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk):

Please note: Certificate Priority Ordering will be unavailable from 1 p.m. on Thursday 2nd April 2026 with all Certificate Ordering unavailable from 4 p.m. on Thursday 2nd April 2026.

All Certificate Ordering will re-commence from 9 a.m. Tuesday 7th April 2026.

Chris

Order Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland in the UK at https://bit.ly/4jJWSEh. Also available -Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. To purchase in the USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page.

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seasonsofdrabbles

Nominations are now open for the Spring 2026 round of Seasons of Drabbles! Nominations will remain open until signups close on Sunday, April 12 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown).

Important Reminders

All character nominations should be disambiguated, for example: Steve Rogers (Captain America (Movies)). Not doing this slows the approval process significantly, so please disambiguate! Characters may be nominated in any/every fandom in which they appear.

We will not approve broad writer's-choice character nominations (e.g., "Creator's Choice of Demon" or "Any Star Trek Captain"). This is because it requires the mods to have fandom-specific knowledge when checking that gifts are for a requested character during approvals. Instead, please nominate specific characters.

For example, we would not approve "Creator's Choice of Jedi" under Star Wars because it'd require the mods to know/find out which individual characters in a gift are Jedi or not. Instead, we'd ask you to nominate specific Jedi characters. The only fandoms where such broad nominations are permitted are the "Creator's Choice" fandoms (e.g., "Female Character"), since by their nature, character nominations cannot be specific.

General Guidelines

You may nominate up to 10 fandoms with up to 10 characters each.

Both umbrella fandoms and sub-fandoms are allowed. For instance, you may nominate under Marvel Cinematic Universe or Star Wars - All Media Types. You may also nominate under sub-fandoms such as Thor (Movies) or Star Wars Original Trilogy.

Please remember that if you request Any for an umbrella fandom, you will be requesting any character who appears in any of the fandoms below the umbrella - NOT just characters in the tagset. So if you plan to request Any, you may want to request under a specific sub-fandom rather than the umbrella.

RPF is allowed. Nominated RPF characters must be famous in their own right, and must be 18+ for modern RPF.

Crossovers are allowed. Crossover fandoms should be nominated as Fandom A/Fandom B. Character nominations for crossovers should be nominated as Character's Name (Fandom A/Fandom B). For example, if nominating Luke Skywalker for a Narnia/Star Wars crossover, the fandom would be nominated as Chronicles of Narnia/Star Wars, while the character would be nominated as Luke Skywalker (Narnia/Star Wars).

Recursive fandoms are allowed. The required format is Recursive: Fic/Series title - Creator. Recursive fandoms may be nominated under two circumstances: 1. the creator has posted a blanket permission statement, 2. you are the creator. In either case, please contact us when nominating so that we have the pertinent permissions. Characters nominated under recursive fandoms should be disambiguated with the title of the recursive fandom.

Since we will be re-using the tagset all year, recursive fandoms will be removed on an as-needed basis between rounds (only if a blanket permission statement comes down, or the creator asks for it to be removed).

Original Works are allowed. When nominating characters, please disambiguate with (Original Work). If an original character's gender is important to you, please specify it in your nomination. An example nomination: Original Nonbinary Character (Original Work)

Original characters may also be nominated in existing fandoms. When nominating an original character within an existing fandom, please disambiguate with the name of the fandom. If an original character's gender is important to you, please specify it in your nomination. An example nomination: Original Anbu Character (Naruto)

Objects/concepts/etc. may be nominated in the character slot for any canon in which they appear. For Original Works, you can make some up if you would like. Some example nominations: Cursed Hat (What We Do in the Shadows (TV)), Magic Mirror (Original Work)

andrewducker

Triptych (IKEA)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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whenisitdue

Here are items with dates between Sunday, March 29th and Saturday, April 4th, as well as items added recently that started this past week. Remember, you can comment here on new items that need to be added to the list.

Items starting since the last update & this coming week

Open Date	Close Date	Community	Type of Challenge	Prompt/Information	Link
03/29/2026	04/04/2026	thecherryontopweek2026 (AO3)	Fanworks	Scum Villain: The Cherry On Top Week Celebration	click here for details
04/01/2026	04/30/2026	vampiremedia (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Write and share Vampire-based drabbles all of April.	click here for details

Items ending this coming week

Open Date	Close Date	Community	Type of Challenge	Prompt/Information	Link
03/12/2026	03/30/2026	characters20in20 (DW)	Icons	Multifandom: Round 21 for this icon-making community runs until 3/30	click here for details
03/01/2026	03/31/2026	allbingo (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: AllBingo's National crafting month.	click here for details
12/02/2025	03/31/2026	comment_bingo (DW)	Comments	Signup period for Comment Bingo Round 8	click here for details
03/03/2026	03/31/2026	dove_drabbles (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Prompt 149: One small step can lead to something big."	click here for details
03/01/2026	03/31/2026	fancake (DW)	Recs	Multifandom: Round 184: Siblings	click here for details
03/07/2026	03/31/2026	SunsetFemslashRefresh_2026 (Femslash.Club)	Fanworks	MultiFandom: Prompt filling for Femslash (F/F, NB/F, NB/NB) Refresh Prompt Fest 2026 through the end of the month.	click here for details
12/01/2025	03/31/2026	genprompt_bingo (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Gen Prompt Bingo Round 29	click here for details
09/03/2025	03/31/2026	ladiesbingo (DW)	Fanworks	Signup & posting period for Ladies Bingo (Round 13)	click here for details
03/01/2026	03/31/2026	marchmetamatterschallenge (DW)	Meta	Multifamdom: March is the time for backing up Meta entries to backup sites.	click here for details
03/08/2026	03/31/2026	no_true_pair (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Signup period for No True Pair 2026 Four-Character Mini-Challenge is until prompts released on 3/16, but if you ignore the prompts, you have until 3/31 to sign up.	click here for details
03/20/2026	04/01/2026	fan_flashworks (DW)	Fanworks	Multifamdom: Challenge 510: River	click here for details
01/01/2026	04/01/2026	moodthemeinayear (DW)	Fanworks	Medium Mood Theme Track 1 period	click here for details
02/19/2026	04/01/2026	moodthemeinayear (DW)	Fanworks	Minimal Mood Theme Track 2 period	click here for details
03/28/2026	04/03/2026	sid_guardian (DW)	Fanworks	镇魂 \| Guardian: Request period for the 镇魂 \| Guardian Reverse Exchange 2026	click here for details
03/07/2026	04/04/2026	sga_saturday (DW)	Fanworks	Stargate Atlantis: Weeks #536-539: "Reading" and/or "History"	click here for details
03/29/2026	04/04/2026	thecherryontopweek2026 (AO3)	Fanworks	Scum Villain: The Cherry On Top Week Celebration	click here for details

NOTE: Here are a few challenge communities that (can) have challenges that (usually) aren't part of the list:

Harry Potter fandom challenges can be found at PotterFests

The Vocab Drabbles Community does weekly challenges

The AU Challenge Community offers multiple AU challenges with no deadlines

The Froday Flash Fiction Challenge has weekly & other challenges

The Fic Promptly Community has daily prompts

The MCU100 Community offers weekly drabble challenges for the MCU fandom

The XMEN100 Community offers weekly drabble challenges for the X-Men fandom

The 10TrueLoves Community offers multifandom character prompts

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pinchhits

Event: Blood Drive
Event links: rules, collection
Pinch hit link: prompts spreadsheet (look at the Pinch hits tab)
Due date: 11/04/2026 23:55 UTC
Minimum: 300 words for fic, no minimum for art

Blood Drive is an event to encourage blood donations and other similar acts. Gifts must fit a prompt. To claim a prompt, use the claiming form.

Pinch hit 1
Prompt 8: fic - Black Butler | Kuroshitsuji
Prompt 70: fic - Terrifier (Movies - Leone)
Prompt 81: fic - Supernatural (TV 2005)
Prompt 87: art - Terrifier (Movies - Leone)
Prompt 88: art - Black Butler | Kuroshitsuji

Pinch hit 4
Prompt 33: fic - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
Prompt 80: art - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
Prompt 83: fic - Severance (TV)
Prompt 84: fic - World of Warcraft
Prompt 85: fic - Death Note (Anime & Manga)