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BtVS Ficlet: Lonely For You

Jul. 14th, 2025 06:07 pm
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Title: Lonely For You
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Willow, Xander, Oz.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Lover’s Walk and the first half of season three.
Summary: Willow had thought that pining over Xander was as painful as it got. She was wrong.
Word Count: 538
Written For: scytale’s prompt ‘any, any, intense pining,’ at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
 
 


Lonely For You... )

Ficlet: Decorative

Jul. 14th, 2025 05:56 pm
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Title: Decorative
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Owen, Jack, Ianto, Tosh, Gwen.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 810
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: It’s difficult to retain any dignity when you work for Torchwood.
Written For: The prompt ‘any, any, underwear/pajamas covered in little..?’, at 
[community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 



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Title: To Save Earth
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack O’Neill, SG-1.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Within The Serpent’s Grasp Part 1.
Summary: This is not where SG-1 expected to find themselves, but they still have a job to do.
Written For: Challenge 471: Amnesty 78 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 412: Bridge.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 
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Title: Take Your Partners
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 458: Waltz at 
[community profile] drabble_zone.
Setting: After the manga.                                               
Summary: Dee and Ryo start ballroom dancing classes.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Double Drabble: Date Disaster

Jul. 13th, 2025 06:04 pm
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Title: Date Disaster
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Owen, Team.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 873: Salvage at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack and Ianto’s dates seldom go to plan.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.




FAKE Double Drabble: Pink Shirts

Jul. 12th, 2025 06:10 pm
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Title: Pink Shirts
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dee has a lot of pink shirts…
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 476: Pink.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Doctor Who Drabble: Prevention

Jul. 12th, 2025 06:01 pm
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Title: Prevention
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 939: ‘Insular’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Doctor intends to prevent a disastrous situation.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 

Double Drabble: Dirty Job

Jul. 12th, 2025 05:51 pm
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Title: Dirty Job
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Owen.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 873: Salvage at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Owen and Ianto go on a Rift retrieval.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

FAKE Fic: Classy Classic

Jul. 11th, 2025 06:03 pm
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Title: Classy Classic
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, Bikky.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Word Count: 2086
Summary: Dee and Ryo have completed the restoration of the classic car they’ve been working on, so now they’re going to show her off.
Written For: Weekend Challenge: Red, White & Blue at 
[community profile] 1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
 
 


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Title: Taking Care Of Business – Part 3
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Alice, Steven, Ianto, Gwen, Agent Johnson.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3556
Spoilers: Children of Earth Fix-it.
Summary: Jack and Ianto join forces and decide what to do next.
Written For: Weekend Challenge ‘Oh The Places You'll Go 2,’ at 
[community profile] 1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.


FAKE Ficlet: Anywhere With You

Jul. 10th, 2025 06:55 pm
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Title: Anywhere With You
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 773
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Ryo has been offered a position on a new task force, but there’s a serious downside.
Written For: [personal profile] sarajayechan
’s prompt ‘any, any pairing, anywhere I would have followed you’ at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
 
 


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Title: Taking Care Of Business – Part 2
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Dekker, Agent Johnson, Alice, Steven, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2573
Spoilers: Children of Earth Fix-it.
Summary: Jack struggles to find a way to stop the 456.
Written For: Weekend Challenge ‘Oh The Places You'll Go 2,’ at 
[community profile] 1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 

Taking Care Of Business – Part 2... )

some books wot I read

Jul. 9th, 2025 10:31 pm
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- A Matter of Oaths, Helen S Wright

This was great! I was sucked in almost immediately to this. I really loved the technology of the web and how everything revolved in it and how it, in a way, tied into the climax as well. I would have liked to see even more of that in the mystery components of Rafe's past, which was a bit inelegant in its unfolding. I think the main character was a little lost on me personally, I cared WAY more about Rallya and Joshim than I did about Rafe, who was a bit woobie for my tastes. But I really like the 80s/90s scifi feel where not everything in the narrative is explained to you. I think this could've stood for a little more explanation here and there, sometimes things in the plot felt like non sequiturs, but it was just such a pleasant read in comparison to more modern stuff where I feel like the tendency is to overexplain and overexposition-dump. Not here!! Would highly recommend, and I'm really sad it seems like Wright never wrote anything else (at least, nothing published (maybe nothing so far?)).


- Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny

This existed. I don't think I dislike Zelazny's prose per se, but I don't really dig his characters (and their - largely - lack of characterisation - like I almost cared about Yama and Taraka. Almost.), or the low-key sexism and/or transphobia, or the fantasy gods narrative style (I just don't care about reading about gods), or the orientalism/appropriation. This book kind of feels like a mish mash and at some times it feels like it's lampshading itself to do so but I just don't think it pulls it off. Maybe it was among the first to do the whole, 'they were not gods but they acted like they were' thing which Stargate was super big on, but I don't feel like that's enough. I also don't think it was obvious enough what was actually going on sometimes and while I normally don't mind that (I don't like to be super hand-held as a reader) it gets to the point that you can't actually identify the raygun ... as a raygun. It's like it's Schrodinger's sci-fi at this point. It works better as a fantasy, but I think it's dissatisfying as one, too. And it also felt like a series of chapters he'd strung together at the 11th hour to try and make a novel out of. With that in mind you can kind of read the chapters in isolation, and if you do that, then the most entertaining chapters were 3 and 4. By the time I finished chapter 4 I was thinking, wow, finally it's getting good! Nope. Slog to get the rest of the way through. Don't recommend. The wikipedia article about it is actually a more interesting and coherent read. Sorry if there are Zelazny superfans out there reading this, but this wasn't for me. It could just be Zelazny; I don't remember disliking Eye of Cat this much 🤔️ ... but I haven't read that in awhile and I might be forgetting all the things I hated about it, too.

Wednesday Reading Meme July 9 2025

Jul. 9th, 2025 01:34 pm
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What I’ve Read
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro -
By god, what a book, what a monster of a book! Like many, I picked this up because the lure of a good book club is a siren song – the podcast 99% Invisible decided to do a year long project on this book, one extra episode a month to discuss the book and have a conversation with someone about it. (They got great people, too, including the author!)

I fell behind schedule of the podcast but kept listening and reading on my own, and eventually, to finish this book, I ended up owning it in paperback, ebook, and three audiobooks of 1/3rd of the book each. 1200 pages makes a lot of audiobook!

This book is huge story look at one man’s life in public administration of the parks and roads and buildings of New York City. At every stage, the power of an unscrupulous, brilliant, and determined mind is at play in every project he sets his hand to, and the resulting works show his massive ego and talent and all his bigotries. Robert Moses was a fascinating and complicated man, and his legacy is fascinating and complicated. It’s also a key lesson in how difficult it is to get out of power someone who is entrenched and well supported. It also shows someone who’s unethical in small things will be unethical in big ones.

Key thoughts: If you get started on a project, public figures are more embarrassed by half finished project that wastes moderate amounts of money than by one that goes wildly over budget but gets completed. Public goodwill can be purchased by getting the papers on your side, but only for so long. You can’t just be right, you have to be smart.

As a reading experience, Caro is a skilled guide thru a tangled mess of history, legislation, and construction projects. It really can just be picked up and read chapter by chapter – he’ll give you the context you need to understand. Caro’s got a great sense for a revealing anecdote and occasionally a real admiration for the people he writes about as skilled political actors.

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
– a very decent murder mystery in a fantasy world with some good characters and fun world building. Both the main characters and the world have mysteries built into them, and I found the whole thing very engaging. I don’t want to say more lest I spoil things.

Star Trek Lower Decks Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio – A graphic novel in the Choose Your Own Adventures style that is also a very fun Star Trek legacy piece. I don’t know Lower Decks at all but this was a fun introduction. Clearly made by people who love and appreciate Star Trek’s weirdnesses and with a eye on what makes someone heroic. I will say, it was a kind of confusing read – the Choose Your Own Adventure elements sometimes interact with the text, so you have to go thru several branches before getting enough information to figure out how to pick the right branch. It’s an iterative experience, but well written and charming enough to Trekkie that I did not get tired of it.

What I’m Reading
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo – A reasonably interesting premise but I feel like the story is being weighed down a bit. I am about 25% in and we still haven’t gotten the main character to the Big Meeting.

Someone You Can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell – A weird and gooey book with a monster main character.

What I’ll Read Next


The Deep Dark
Track Changes
Alien Clay
Service Model
Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed
Navigational Entanglements
The Butcher of the Forest
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
The Brides of High Hill
The Tusks of Extinction
“Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics”
“Signs of Life”
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars”
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”
“Loneliness Universe”
“The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”
“Lake of Souls”

BtVS Triple Drabble: Bad Influences

Jul. 9th, 2025 06:11 pm
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Title: Bad Influences
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Joyce, Buffy.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Everything up to School Hard.
Summary: Joyce is worried that Buffy has fallen in with the wrong kind of kids.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 448: Influences.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 

FAKE Double Drabble: Pride At Work

Jul. 9th, 2025 06:02 pm
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Title: Pride At Work
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Chief Smith.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: It’s Pride month, and the detectives of the two-seven are flying their colors.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 451: Rainbow.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
 


 

Double Drabble: Sole Survivor

Jul. 9th, 2025 05:52 pm
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Title: Sole Survivor
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 873: Salvage at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Set after Children of Earth, but Ianto is still alive.
Summary: Jack and Ianto go down to the wrecked Hub to see if anything can be salvaged.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

FAKE Triple Drabble: Tired And Sad

Jul. 8th, 2025 07:28 pm
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Tired: Tired And Sad
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: JJ, Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: JJ is finally realising he’s lost.
Written Using: The tw100 prompt ‘Bitter’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 


Doctor Who Drabble: Taken

Jul. 8th, 2025 07:18 pm
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Title: Taken
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Martha.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 938: ‘Retrieve’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: There are some very nefarious people in the universe.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 
 


Taken... )

Double Drabble: Grim Task

Jul. 8th, 2025 07:10 pm
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Title: Grim Task
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 873: Salvage at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Happy Wanderer and her owners take on a far from happy job.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
 


 

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