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Babylon 5 fic: Movie Nights

Dec. 11th, 2025 01:46 am
sholio: (B5-station)
[personal profile] sholio
I finished something I started a while back!

Movie Nights (2735 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lennier (Babylon 5), Vir Cotto, John Sheridan, Stephen Franklin, G'Kar (Babylon 5), Londo Mollari, Delenn (Babylon 5)
Additional Tags: Television Watching, Cultural Differences, Alien Cultural Differences, Friendship, cross-cultural friendship
Summary: Just a bunch of aliens getting hooked on each other's trashy serial media. Season one to season five, but minimal spoilers, I guess as much as this show can be.

Storm Bram

Dec. 11th, 2025 10:09 am
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They are talking of winds reaching 80mph in some areas of Scotland. Here nothing so bad, no trees fell or roof tiles flew but everything seemed mighty pushed. I went out into the garden last night, when the worst of it was over. Never have I heard the wind sound as close to Boromir's words, “Let those call it the wind who will; there are fell voices on the air.' Often to me it sings or growls or roars but last night it was spectral, so many of the lost or neverpeople calling. It chilled the blood. I tried not to think the storm aptly named and thoroughly failed.

We brought in our Xmas outdoor ornaments and wreath, the latter knocking frantically against the door. Now I am trying to fix the bit that was broken. Our three garden swans were stowed in the garage, and alas, Mama Swan now has a snapped cable; she can't light up and I don't know how to fix that either. I think she may just be knackered. Papa Swan and cygnet seem jolly enough but we have a friend joining us for whom this might be a bit on the nose. Or I am being oversensitive. Maybe I should just buy more swans.

It's nearly 10.30, and I'm ready for a mince pie. I have not completed one single thing I set out to do this morning.

(no subject)

Dec. 11th, 2025 09:36 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] crookedeye!

Advent calendar 11

Dec. 11th, 2025 07:43 am
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ARTHUR (singing): ♪ Get dressed you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay! ♪

DOUGLAS: Yes, perhaps save the full rendition for tomorrow morning.

ARTHUR: Thank you, Douglas! Best present ever! Oh – and actually that’s great, because I got an extra present for everyone. The other thing you left off my list, Skip.

MARTIN: Hmm?

ARTHUR: This!

MARTIN: Mulled wine!
(Arthur pours out glasses of the mulled wine.)

MARTIN: How lovely!

DOUGLAS (murderously): You ... took my Petrus ’05 ... and you ... mulled it?

ARTHUR: Well, not properly. I don’t have the stuff. But, you know, I whacked in some fruit juice and some sugar and the rest of the orange Tic Tacs, and then I just blitzed it in the microwave! It’ll be close enough!

DOUGLAS (murderously): You ...

MARTIN (interrupting): Of course it will be close enough! And it’s the thought that counts, isn’t it, Douglas?

DOUGLAS (murderously): Absolutely. Thank you, Arthur.

ARTHUR: Oh, you’re welcome! Merry Christmas!
(They clink glasses, drink, and then all choke and cough.)

CAROLYN: ... That’s actually rather good!

Just One Thing (11 December 2025)

Dec. 11th, 2025 08:20 am
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Nominations are closed!

Dec. 10th, 2025 10:15 pm
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Nominations are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted them! :)

I'm still going through them so please don't worry if your's hasn't been approved just yet. Any questions/clarifications will be made on an upcoming post within the next two days.

The tagset is here. Please let me know if you notice any errors/duplicates/etc.

If you have any questions/comments, you can leave them here (anon is on, screening isn't) or reach out via email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com.

Sign-ups will open on December 13th.

(Repost) Atmospheric River

Dec. 10th, 2025 09:10 pm
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As we are once again fording the atmospheric river, here's the villanelle (!!) I wrote about the one in 2022:

(Climate Change Villanelle)
After an image by K.

Consider the atmospheric river
as a dragon, slithering through peri-
apocalyptic skies. The end is never

reached of all this rain. Its teeth of silver
gnaw the bones of men who refused boldly
to consider the atmospheric river

as a dragon, not just as the weather,
winning us the wages of false bravery:
apocalyptic skies. The end is never-

ending. Consider the dragon, glitter-
ing, greedy, cruel and wise; now carefully
consider the atmospheric river

as an alternative to the wither-
ing coils of smoke, wildfires' choking, hazy
apocalyptic skies. The end is never

quite what you expect or would prefer.
Drink if you wish, smoke up, get high, daily
consider the atmospheric river,
apocalyptic skies. The end is nigh.

Aurendor D&D: Summary for 12/10 Game

Dec. 11th, 2025 12:10 am
settiai: (Siân -- settiai)
[personal profile] settiai
In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Milk Run

Dec. 10th, 2025 10:48 pm
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Milk Run by Nathan Lowell

Adventures in space!

Read more... )

Milk Run

Dec. 10th, 2025 10:48 pm
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Milk Run by Nathan Lowell

Adventures in space!

Read more... )

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

Dec. 11th, 2025 11:35 am
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This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*