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AO3 Alphabet Meme

As seen by ... many people around these parts! I've enjoyed reading people's responses for this. I tried to use a different fandom for each letter.

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fanwork title? One fanwork per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total works count.

A: Agents of structural oppression (Life of Brian, Loretta/Reg)
B: Best Laid Plans (D&D: Honor Among Thieves, Edgin/Xenk)
C: Chatterboxing (Discworld & Derry Girls crossover, Death & Colm McCool)
D: does enchantment pour (out of every door) (Theater Camp, Troy/Glenn)
E: Emergency Protocols (Spy, Nancy/Susan)
F: Fall Fair Folly (Stranger Things, Steve/Eddie)
G: Got Rhythm (Supernatural, Sam/Dean)
H: Highly inconvenient (OW, Lady Knight/Maiden Princess)
I: Irresistible (Macdonald Hall, Bruno/Boots) *
J:
K: Key Change (We Are Lady Parts, Amina/Saira)
L: Logistics of a Three-Person Make-out Session (Leverage, Hardison/Parker/Eliot)
M: Morning After (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam/Bucky)
N: The Nautical Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Les Aventures Extraordinaire d'Adèle Blanc-Sec, gen)
O: Oblige Me (The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, Robin/Hart)
P: Painted Lady (Roswell New Mexico, Rosa/Isobel)
Q:
R: Raptors of the Lost Pumpkin Spice (Psych, Gus/Shawn)
S: Slice of (Heist) Life (Cat's Eyes (2024), gen)
T: Ten Simple Rules for Dragon-Sitting Tad Cooper (Galavant, Sidney/Galavant/Isabella)
U: Unwrapped (Ted Lasso, Roy/Keeley/Jamie)
V: Virtually Yours (Supernatural RPF, Jared/Jensen)
W: well-supplied (due South, Fraser/Kowalski)
X:
Y: you take your aim (England Series, Fen/Pat)
Z:

* Bonus: a duplicate title (oops!): Irresistible (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Jack/Phryne)

22/26! I have 152 works on AO3. Mildly surprised that I don't have anything for J, and I had to go back to 2009 to get G.

Current Mood: the rain in spain
Current Music: I sort of hate to ask it, but what's a rhyme for basket?

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adventures in writing

All Aspiring Poets: Learn This One Neat Trick

Ever wondered how I churn out so much rhyming poetry?

Meet my beloved RhymeZone.com, extensive rhyming dictionary.

Also endorsed by Florence Welch and Seth Meyers, quite recently, in a charming interview.

Current Mood: omgwtf
Current Music: The mother of a classmate said she hated Bella Abzug

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politics: usa

US Politics: SNAP - Justice Jackson does something that looks conservative - explainer linked

Waking up to the news that the SCOTUS had issued a stay, pausing the lower court's requirement that SNAP be fully funded, really made my rage spike first thing in the morning. Then I learned that it was Justice Jackson (D) acting unilaterally, and I was confused as all fuck.

This Substack has an attempt at an explanation that makes it make sense: Justice Jackson issued the stay for right now on partial funding to pressure everyone -- lower courts & SCOTUS -- to come to a final decision on full funding faster.

I am so pissed off that millions of people can't buy food because of this stupid political keep-away game, but at least there is a method to the apparent madness of Liberal Justice Stays SNAP Payment Order. Mind you, it's goddamn complicated, so the chances of anyone in the media explaining it clearly in a soundbite aren't great.

As the courts battle it out, people in the US are going hungry, and food banks and food pantries are stressed to the breaking point. If you make a donation of at least 25 USD to a food bank or food pantry, you can prompt me to write for you. Please flood my inbox with requests!

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Haven't been around because my mom was in hospice care, and eventually died on March 19th. I'll keep not being around for an undetermined time, until I can make blogging make sense again. The only exception will be the annual holiday love meme, during which I am going to maintain the alphabetical list of participants, as is tradition. I hope to see you there.

I wish you strength and kindness and moments of rest. Given all the... *gestures at world* circumstances, I wish you were like an unkillable angry weed, like a deep-rooted reliable tree, or like a tiny ember holding out stubbornly for the hearth.

Being online is still too overwhelming, but physical letters (no parcels!) can be sent to:
Honigfrosch
Postfach 30 01 82 (attention, the spaces between the numbers are mandatory)
51411 Bergisch Gladbach
Germany
(If you need additional information, send me a DM, no problem.)

You can write about anything that's on your mind, be it good or bad or silly. We're all frogs in the same pond, and I'd like to hear from you (and write a letter back, naturally - I have a lot of pretty envelopes I'd like to use).

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life,
tech hassles

First world fuckery

Oh god I had to get a new iPhone as my old one was a stegosaurus and apps were starting to give me the finger. But now I have to set the new one up and I hates it, I hates it!

So far it won't even talk to my old dino-phone, or to my iPad which is barely more advanced, and it won't download everything from iCloud as my wifi is apparently using an old, insecure system, wpa2. So I have to upgrade that first and then will my iPad wifi and laptop wifi still work?? *grinds teeth*.

But in 20 minutes we go into a planned power cut so the local lines company can fix some urgent thingy, the second such in 3 days, which means I can postpone all this shit to another day.

Writing this to the sound of fireworks going off as Wednesday was Guy Fawkes night and with it now the weekend, lots of people saved their fireworks and we've had them exploding the last three days. You can set them off here anytime, but you can only buy them in the lead-up to Guy Fawkes once a year, in NZ law.

So I'm sitting here stumped by futuristic tech while being serenaded by a five centuries old celebration of averted English domestic terrorism.

Time for a nice cup of tea.

Current Mood: archival
Current Music: They should have checked the ashes of the women they burned alive

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AO3 Meme

Thanks to

jenab and

senmut!

As of today, with 1325 works:

1. What rating do you write most fics under?

General Audiences - 623; Teen and Up - 274 is the second, which is not even close.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
DCU (292)
Star Wars (187)
Cabin Pressure (64) (almost all limericks from Sept 2025)
Honorable Mention: Slings & Arrows (63), which is at least not all five-line poetry

3. What is your top character you write about?
Obi-Wan Kenobi (137)
Bruce Wayne comes in second at 131 but I never did a Kinktober in DCU fandom, and I've done two in Star Wars mostly-Prequels fandom.

4. What are the 3 top pairings?
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (85)
Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne (43)
Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker (22)
Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (21)
Gene Hunt/Sam Tyler (20) (included for variety)

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabble (474)
Limericks (202)
Poetry (85)
You don't get a non-format one till Identity Porn (22), Psychic Wolves (19), and Oral Sex (18).

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Yet Another Limerick - Star Wars isekai

The rumor that I posted this one just to be able to tag it is False; the things I will do for Jack and Té are numerous.

In which Obi-Wan is a tortoiseshell cat (27 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Whomever It May Concern
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Limericks, Isekai and Transmigration, Animal Transformation, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Pussy, Obi-Wan Kenobi has a pussy, Cat Obi-Wan Kenobi
Summary:

Obi-Wan gets isekai'ed into a kitty cat and gets laid.

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Fandom Gift Basket roundup

I created 9 (nine!) gifts for

fandomgiftbasket this year! Eight fic and one logic puzzle. It was so great to feel a blossoming of creative energy with this fest, and I had a blast.

Also, two of the fics I wrote were the first for their fandoms on AO3. \o/

Bridgerton TV
Cat's Eyes (TV 2024)
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones (logic puzzle)
Much Ado About Nothing
Original femslash (Lady Knight/Maiden Princess)
The Polar Bears' Midnight Feast - Harry Horse
Roswell New Mexico
Strangers Things (2 fics)

( Behind the cut )

Current Mood: blessed in my friends
Current Music: Up, up, up, it's our moment

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Food Bank Thank-Yous, an earworm, and reading

Thank you to

sanguinity and

ride_4ever for donating to your local food banks/pantries! This post has details on how to get me to write for you next by donating.

Party foul (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slings & Arrows
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Darren Nichols/Geoffrey Tennant
Characters: Darren Nichols, Geoffrey Tennant
Additional Tags: Drabble, Shakespearean Comedy
Summary:

Darren and Geoffrey celebrate Halloween during university.

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Still I think I've been overpaid (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Elizabeth Burke, Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Additional Tags: Drabble, First Time
Series: Part 2 of Can't be bought or sold
Summary:

El, Peter, and Neal get naked.

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In persistent music news, Golden from KPop Demon Hunters is chasing me around the city to a degree that I haven't experienced with a song since I spent a lot of time in doctor's office waiting rooms during the peak of Let It Go-a-rama. I heard it in two different places today. I'm not sure which is going to prove to be more persistent outside my head; I still don't know what all the words to Golden mean, and it's not because I don't know how to find out.

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I have been listening to The Expanse via audiobook.

( Spoilers for Tiamat's Wrath's first couple of chapters )
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Goodbye and good riddance to Dick Cheney and Andrew Cuomo's NYC mayoral bid!

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Fandom Gift Basket!

The perfect thing for a cozy Sunday morning:

fandomgiftbasket opened!

My basket was packed full of fun, colourful icons, which is doing so much to make my heart happy. ♥

I made multiple gifts for this round -- I'll post about them soon.

I always love this event, and I'm always happy to see it running! :D

Current Mood: this is halloween
Current Music: Ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties

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Happy last day of Kinktober 2025!

This post indexes my Kinktober limericks, all on the theme of Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker feat. Padmé et al.

It is my ambition for November not to post an average of two poems a day, and thereby hopefully retain the few stragglers who are still subscribed to me on AO3 after the last two months of constant limericks. 对不起不对不起 (Sorry, not sorry.)

If, on the other hand, I have to write drabbles and limericks for people who request them as food bank donation thank-yous, I will spam the crap out of the AO3 and all my subscribers can just deal.

Yesterday, for example, I posted 4 drabbles for people who informed me that they had donated at least 25 USD worth of food or money to food pantries and/or banks in their area. If you like my writing and you can spare a quarter-Benjamin, support the food-insecure people near you and request something from me.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Got no diamonds, got no pearl, still I think I'm a lucky girl

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Bloody Jack, due South, The Locked Tomb, & White Collar drabbles for Food Bank Donations

I wrote the drabbles linked in this post for people who donated at least 25 USD in cash or in-kind to food banks. Hopefully the US federal government will not be allowed to stiff food stamp recipients, but if they try, many people will need support. My Wayfinder has good resource coverage near me, and may have useful information near you, too.

At her majesty's pleasure (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bloody Jack Adventures - L. A. Meyer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Underage Sex
Relationships: Ching Shih | Zheng Yi Sao/Jacky Faber, Jacky Faber/Jaimy Fletcher
Characters: Ching Shih | Zheng Yi Sao, Jacky Faber
Additional Tags: Drabble, Yearning
Summary:

Jacky wants to go home, but not just yet.

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When you lose control, it touches my soul (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser & Ray
Characters: Benton Fraser
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Murderbot Diaries Fusion
Series: Part 9 of SecUnit Fraser
Summary:

Fraser and Ray reminisce.

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Soup's on (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: Drabble, Awkward Conversations
Summary:

Gideon attempts to look after Harrow.

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I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Elizabeth Burke (White Collar), Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Additional Tags: Drabble, Seasonal Affective Disorder
Summary:

El, Neal, and Peter reflect on autumn.

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Drawtober challenge days 21 - 31

And the final Drawtober prompts for

drawesome - again combining more than one in each artwork. These ones turned out to have cosmological or geographical themes. All were made in Procreate - click on each for the full-sized pic. The individual posts, some with more detailed notes, are here.

Celestial Rhythms - prompts: "rhythm" & "celestial". Based on various animations of the spiralling motion
of our solar system planets as they charge along at over 200 kms per second. I snuck Pluto in there as well.

Forgotten Treasure - prompts: "undersea", "forgotten things", and "map"

The Big Bang - prompts: "noise" & "fire". Made with several different Procreate brushes

Dancing on the Bridge of Stars - prompts: "bridge of stars", "bell", "mask", & "balls".
The planets include Pluto and Ceres, because.

Current Mood: those damn yankees
Current Music: And how can one measure the infinite pleasure in dreaming of the electric chair?

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Recommendation: Smile, and Smile, and Be a Lying Punk (MCU)

Do you ever miss Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom circa 2014?

So do I.

Let Dira's latest (just posted) take you back, by way of a much more recent development:

Smile, and Smile, and Be a Lying Punk (980 words) by Dira Sudis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: The Frozen Smile of a Man Who Does Not Want a Baseball Jersey From His Favorite Team's Most Hated Rival, Post-Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Summary:

"They'd heard I liked baseball and, I don't know, somehow forgot that Brooklyn has never rooted for the Yankees and will never root for the Yankees, no matter if the Dodgers leave us to play on the Moon. But I didn't want to make a scene."