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Quantum Leap Fic: Dependable

Jun. 9th, 2025 06:52 pm
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Title: Dependable
Fandom: Quantum Leap
Author: 
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Characters: Sam Beckett, Al Calavicci.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Without his best friend giving him information and keeping him on track, Sam would be lost.
Word Count: 1000
Written For: Prompt 124 – Best Friends Forever at 
[community profile] fandomweekly.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Quantum Leap, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
 


 

Ficlet: Temporary Host

Jun. 9th, 2025 06:42 pm
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Title: Temporary Host
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, OC.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 705
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto is a little upset that Jack has been keeping something major from him.
Written For: [personal profile] astrogirl
’s prompt ‘Any, any, You got the monster pregnant?!’, at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 


 

B5 Triple Drabble: Hollow

Jun. 8th, 2025 06:42 pm
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Title: Hollow
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Lyta Alexander, Kosh.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Walkabout.
Summary: There’s a hole inside Lyta where she used to sometimes carry part of Kosh.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 413: Negative Space.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 
Hollow... )

FAKE Double Drabble: Over And Done

Jun. 8th, 2025 06:25 pm
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Title: Over And Done
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, JJ.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You at 
[community profile] drabble_zone.
Setting: After Like Like Love.                                          
Summary: JJ realises he’s not in love with Dee anymore.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

Double Drabble: Click

Jun. 8th, 2025 06:14 pm
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Title: Click
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 868: Code at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The latest alien visitor is annoying Ianto.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


Click... )

FIC: Interlude (MCU)

Jun. 7th, 2025 06:39 pm
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Title: Interlude
Creator: alexcat
Universe: MCU
Pairing(s): Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 1281
Summary: The last person Steve expected to see in Berlin was Stark....
Author's Notes: From this prompt. I have no idea the source::
First time seeing each other after years ( for whatever reason, civil war, someone was in space etc..) they did not part on the best terms but neither expected to go this long without seeing the other

FAKE Triple Drabble: Tough Case

Jun. 7th, 2025 06:29 pm
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Title: Tough Case
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo stares out to sea, letting the wild weather lift his spirits.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Waves’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 


Doctor Who Drabble: Special Souvenir

Jun. 7th, 2025 06:19 pm
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Title: Special Souvenir
Author: 
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Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 929: ‘Brick’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: One of the Doctor’s souvenirs puzzles Donna.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 
 


Double Drabble: Encoded

Jun. 7th, 2025 06:07 pm
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Title: Encoded
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Owen, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 868: Code at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Owen finds an intriguing bit of paper.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

FAKE Fic: Out Of The Storm

Jun. 6th, 2025 06:18 pm
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Title: Out Of The Storm
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, OMC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: While Dee and Ryo are on a camping trip, the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Word Count: 1313
Written For: Challenge 454: Clean at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
 


 

Ficlet: Invasion Of Privacy

Jun. 6th, 2025 06:09 pm
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Title: Invasion Of Privacy
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 605
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: As far as Ianto is concerned, this is a disaster.
Written For: The prompt ‘any, any, i found your journal’, at 
[community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 
 


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Title: Kept Unspoken
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jennifer Jarreau, Will, Spencer Reid.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Set sometime before Season 14 episode Truth or Dare.
Summary: JJ has a secret that she never intends for anyone to find out.
Written For: Challenge 405: Amnesty 67 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 23: Secrets.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Criminal Minds, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 

Ficlet: Stupidity

Jun. 5th, 2025 06:01 pm
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Title: Stupidity
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 591
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack has managed to do something so monumentally stupid that Ianto despairs of him.
Written For: [personal profile] with_rainfall
’s prompt ‘Any, any, quite possibly the dumbest way to die (Dumb Ways to Die)’, at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 


 

#1 - Has fandom changed?

Jun. 5th, 2025 11:53 am
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Fandom 50

Kind of late for a first entry but here is one.

Has fandom changed or have I?

I was never in a fandom until the 2000’s. I did not know what a ‘zine was. I did not know what a con was. I never heard of fanfiction. I was a Star Wars fan from way back.

I got into the LOTR fandom right after the first movie came out. It was quite hostile, to be honest. There were wars between character writers and real person writers, between shippers of different pairings, between hetters and slashers. It was ugly. There was gatekeeping then, too.

I decided early on that I came into this not to fight but to enjoy and I did. I had my own website and ran a Yahoo group that hosted at least 100 stories a week in its heyday. I welcomed all. It wasn’t perfect but it was good.

Is today different?

I think so. I think we have a reflection of our divisive society in fandom. There are things we’re not ‘allowed’ to write now because they might upset someone. There are people who want to police Ao3 to make sure it doesn’t hurt their feelings and that it does reflect their ‘moral’ codes. An example is someone once complained because characters were eating meat and I did not warn for it.

Ao3 was born to combat gatekeeping and censorship in fandom. Other sites caved. Fanfic dot com made their site completely shite when they kicked all the adult stories out. I never bothered with them again. Livejournal was sold once then again to some Russian oligarch who decided to purge all adult anything, because there were rumblings of kiddie porn, and by that, I mean stories with underage fictional characters. Ao3 was born out of frustration over these events and others like them.

So what do you do about these things?

As of today, we do still have freedom of speech here in the US, where Ao3 is based. I say let people write what they will, as long as they are not inciting specific violence. Writers write violence, rape, child abuse out of a need for catharsis many times. Or maybe they are angry and rather than take it out on a real person, they write something violent. Let it be. We write for our own reasons and we don’t owe any explanations of those to anyone.

Oddly enough, the young seem to be the ones who want to gatekeep. Life is hard, kids. If you don’t want to read certain kinds of fiction, then DON’T CLICK ON IT. It’s that simple.

Fandom has changed but not that much. There will always be those who want more rules and to control others. That’s life. We must guard against that and keep fandom and fans free to express themselves.






*Crossposted at [community profile] fandom50challenge
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I skipped last week because, while I had done a lot of reading, I hadn't actually finished anything. I was burned out by the past few weeks at work and personal life, so I didn't write anything up. 

What I Have Read

If you were a Mythical Thing by Kangofu_CB - Re-read bc I love this author. Solid romance between gym teacher Clint and Bucky, who is also a were wolf.

He Who Drowned the World - Shelley Parker-Chan - Book Club Re-Read. THis book rewards rereading. The characters all feel so real and could be main characters in their own stories. I had completely forgotten the last third of the book. Edit after book club: It also has a fascinating set of comparisons between many different characters - Zhu has so many connections and parallels in other characters, and in her relationships with other characters, that I loved to re-read and get a better sense of them. So many pairs of brothers in this set of novels and so many of them are vicious struggles for power; Zhu's closest friend and near-brother is willing to die for her, over and over. Deeply fractured and unequal marriages between men who disdain their wives - Zhu's wife adores her and is a trusted ally. Revenge is a continuing theme and every time someone gets it, it destroys them. Zhu wants a different kind of world and she's willing to be ruthless for it, and it's clear that is the only way out of a cycle of repeated revenge and power struggles.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters  vol 1- Emil Ferris - Well written and the art is beautiful, however, the conceit is that the book is a handwritten child's notebook and so it's literally on lined paper and HARD TO READ. The POV of a young lesbian main character in 1960s Chicago and is deeply lovely -her fascination with classic movie monsters is so charming and so recognizable. Not a Hugos nominee this year, but the second volume is.

The Hunger and The Dusk vol 1. by G. Willow Wilson - A romance and adventure story - an orc healer is set to work with a team of human adventurers to face an enemy to both human and orc society, and fulfill a peace treaty between the enemy societies. I think this is mediocre, unfortunately . The art is lovely, but the writing is thin. They refer to tropes but don't actually depict them, so it feels very lazy and informed rather than characterized. Neither main romantic lead seems to have been really written, just assembled from tropes - and while I love romance novels and tropes, this isn't even using the tropes in the writing, it's just having the characters mention the tropes in their informed backstory. As a sidebar, I think the alliance between orcs and humans is supposed to be a commentary on racism in DnD settings - orcs are often treated as nonsentient and racially evil in gaming settings, while this books fleshes out orc society and culture and makes the secondary pairing into two really interesting people. If you want to pick it up, they are actually pretty interesting! However, the common enemy just.... evil hive mind nonsentient elves? Who maybe actually have a horrible king and a shared cunning plan? It kind of undercuts the exploration of orcs as sentient and worthy of attention and care if you turn around and assign the name traits to a different random fantasy species. Hugo award nominee, does not merit the award.

We Called Them Giants - Kieron Gillen - I read this immediately after The Hunger and The Dusk and contrast is striking. This book is also working hard from some tropes, but really works them and digs right in. The POV character is engaging with a terrifying and inhuman opponent, only to discover slowly that there is intelligence, compassion, and even communication. Overwhelmingly well done, great character work, the art is haunting and the pacing is excellent. It is a much tighter story with a simpler premise and delivers on it.


What I'm Reading
The Ministry of Time by Kailane Bradley – 25% ish,
Hunting Toward Heartstill by Blackkat -about 45%
The Antarctica Conspiracy Derin Edala – slightly on hold.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In – John Wiswell – 15%

What I'll Read Next
Hugo Nominees are out!
Track Changes
The Deep Dark
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2
The Tainted Cup
Alien Clay
Service Model
The Ministry of Time
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way
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”
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Title: Constant Craving
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Angel.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Early Season Two.
Summary: The thirst for human blood never goes away.
Written For: Challenge 471: Amnesty 78 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 460: Thirst.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 


FAKE Double Drabble: Feeling Small

Jun. 4th, 2025 06:23 pm
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Title: Feeling Small
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted 
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Bikky.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Bikky used to be so much smaller than Dee, but now it’s Dee who feels small.
Written Using: The tw100 prompt ‘Small’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


Double Drabble: Secret Code

Jun. 4th, 2025 06:12 pm
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Title: Secret Code
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Team.
Rating: PG-13
Written For: Challenge 868: Code at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The team think they’ve cracked Jack and Ianto’s secret code. They’re wrong.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

FAKE Double Drabble: Keeping Fit

Jun. 3rd, 2025 06:39 pm
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Title: Keeping Fit
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 452: Ripple at 
[community profile] drabble_zone.
Setting: After Like Like Love.                                          
Summary: Dee and Ryo are both into keeping fit.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


Doctor Who Drabble: Long Life

Jun. 3rd, 2025 06:25 pm
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Title: Long Life
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted 
Characters: Eleventh Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 928: ‘Record’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: The Time of the Doctor.
Summary: The Doctor’s Eleventh incarnation has lived longer than any other.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 


 

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