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badly_knitted posting in fan_flashworks Dec. 24th, 2025 10:41 am)Title: On The Outside
Fandom: Babylon 5
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badly_knittedCharacters: Garibaldi, Zack Allen
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Moments of Transition.
Summary: These days, Garibaldi can only rely on himself.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 30: Solitary.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.
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notalwaysright_feed Dec. 24th, 2025 10:00 am)Here in the UK we often have people knocking door-to-door requesting that you sign up to regular donations for whichever animal or children’s charity it might be. They can usually be easily identified as they roam in packs, have matching colour jerseys, and ID badges on lanyards. They are colloquially known as “Chuggers” (ie “Charity […]
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notalwaysright_feed Dec. 24th, 2025 10:00 am)Read This Guy Really Needs To Touch Glass
Employee: "Sir, this bird is too small and fragile for the wrapping machine. It needs more precise care for gift wrapping, which I am happy to do—"
Customer: "—Do I need to ask one of the guys here to teach you how to operate machinery?"
1) helping my mum with the preparations while talking and listening to good music. And when I get back home, a nice hot shower
2) going to celebrate Christmas Eve with my parents and my sister and her hubby and their kids. Very much looking forward to it, I love spending time together and yum food
3) already looking forward to seeing the reaction of some people when they open their presents. I'm having fun presents for everyone ^^
2) going to celebrate Christmas Eve with my parents and my sister and her hubby and their kids. Very much looking forward to it, I love spending time together and yum food
3) already looking forward to seeing the reaction of some people when they open their presents. I'm having fun presents for everyone ^^
In which Buffy Summers already knew that the hardest thing in this world is how to live in it, Carol.
( Spoilers have to choose between the girl and the world )
( Spoilers have to choose between the girl and the world )
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(notalwaysright_feed Dec. 24th, 2025 09:00 am)
notalwaysright_feed Dec. 24th, 2025 09:00 am)There is a high-end resort that I often service. When a customer of theirs has a problem, they report it to housekeeping. The report goes through 4 or 5 people before it gets to me. After service, I submit a report that is *supposed* to go back through all those people. A lot of times, […]
A reminder from your humble amanuensis that a little seasonal treat, The Cathcart Apocrypha Volume 6, Times Changing Belowstairs, or, Circumstances Alter, is now downloadable from the website.
Merry wassails, and be careful when playing snapdragon!
Merry wassails, and be careful when playing snapdragon!
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notalwaysright_feed Dec. 24th, 2025 08:00 am)Read Time To Waylay This Christmas Day Cliché
Caller: "What hours are you open today and tomorrow?"
Me: "We close at 6 PM today and we're closed tomorrow."
Caller: "What! That's so early! And closed tomorrow! Did you say closed!?"
I was too tired to have the focus for Dark Souls-ing in the last few days, so binge-played 1000xResist and now I feel like I'm been punched in the head.
Basically a walking simulator/visual novel, so don't go expecting complex gameplay, but HOLY FUCK.
For all of you looking for fiction with fucked-up complicated women who are somewhere on a spectrum from "morally grey" to "evil but sympathetic" (with the odd dip into "idealistic but destructive") having fucked-up dynamics with other fucked-up complicated women: 1000xResist has SO MANY of them. It has almost no characters who don't fit that archetype, in fact.
(I considered whether it passes the reverse-Bechdel test -- i.e. two male characters have a conversation that's not about a woman -- and I think it may juuust scrape past in a 5-second exchange in one of the flashbacks, but barely. There are very very few men in this story, for plot-related reasons.)
I found out afterwards that the development team were a devised theatre group who decided to start making a game when everything was shut down during the pandemic, and somehow this fully checks out (complimentary).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/ (you can even pick it up in a bundle with Slay The Princess for bonus visual novel headfuck)
Do note the content notes from the devs: Photosensitivity Warning: Flashing Lights, Cursing and Crude Language, Generational Trauma, Acts of Violence and Terrorism, Disease Outbreak, Mention of Suicide, Mention of Animal Cruelty/Pet Death, Blood, Body Horror, Emotional Abuse, Bullying, Dead Bodies, Vomit, Drowning, Fire, Gore, Needles, Racism and General Mature Content.
(I would also add a specific note for torture, and for fucked-up mother-daughter and sister-sister relationships, that being one of the core elements of the game, along with the aforementioned generational trauma.)
Basically a walking simulator/visual novel, so don't go expecting complex gameplay, but HOLY FUCK.
For all of you looking for fiction with fucked-up complicated women who are somewhere on a spectrum from "morally grey" to "evil but sympathetic" (with the odd dip into "idealistic but destructive") having fucked-up dynamics with other fucked-up complicated women: 1000xResist has SO MANY of them. It has almost no characters who don't fit that archetype, in fact.
(I considered whether it passes the reverse-Bechdel test -- i.e. two male characters have a conversation that's not about a woman -- and I think it may juuust scrape past in a 5-second exchange in one of the flashbacks, but barely. There are very very few men in this story, for plot-related reasons.)
I found out afterwards that the development team were a devised theatre group who decided to start making a game when everything was shut down during the pandemic, and somehow this fully checks out (complimentary).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/ (you can even pick it up in a bundle with Slay The Princess for bonus visual novel headfuck)
Do note the content notes from the devs: Photosensitivity Warning: Flashing Lights, Cursing and Crude Language, Generational Trauma, Acts of Violence and Terrorism, Disease Outbreak, Mention of Suicide, Mention of Animal Cruelty/Pet Death, Blood, Body Horror, Emotional Abuse, Bullying, Dead Bodies, Vomit, Drowning, Fire, Gore, Needles, Racism and General Mature Content.
(I would also add a specific note for torture, and for fucked-up mother-daughter and sister-sister relationships, that being one of the core elements of the game, along with the aforementioned generational trauma.)
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Almost to the end! So the thing with the Arthurian legend is that you can write almost anything, but it still ends badly. This story stops before that happens, but it’s still hovering in the background, casting its shadow. Still, I very much enjoyed writing it (hey, sometimes you’re a PhD student working on Arthurian literature and just happen to draw ‘Arthurian legend’ in Yuletide).
I don’t have a lot of OT3s – my affection for codependent couples doesn’t really lend itself to polyamory – but this one has always been formative. I think I read T. H. White in high school and thought, Aha! So that’s what’s going on! and ended up years later doing queer stuff with medieval knights for an actual job. Anyway it’s not a long read – I want to keep it short because I’m sure the holiday season is really getting busy by now – but I hope you enjoy it.
The Art of Courtly Love (Arthur/Lancelot/Guinevere, Arthurian Legend)
Rated M
‘It was Christmas night, so the king and queen held a feast. The hall was trimmed with holly and mistletoe above the doors, and a poet from the North had sung of heroes and lovers. Arthur sat in the centre of the high table with Guinevere and Lancelot on his left and his right. The stewards had brought in the second subtlety, the Blessed Virgin standing atop a map of the world with a gilded model of Camelot in her cupped hands.’
Song: Personent Hodie (Mediæval Bæbes version). Attested in a 16th-century Finnish hymbook, it seems to come from a 14th-century song and who knows prior to that. Not the oldest medieval Christmas hymn I have, but one that catches the feeling of the fic better than some others.
Rec: So Pleasing a Thing by Raja815.(Star Trek TOS, Kirk/Spock)
Rated T
This follows Kirk and Spock after they've sorted themselves out post-Gol and post-V'ger and got married, but both being devoted to their careers as well as each other, they have some rough patches. What I love is how the author shows the difficulties they're facing, without being melodramatic--just the very real tensions of two overworked people who are devoted to their vocations as well as to each other; there are cultural differences and errors of ignorance, but the depth of their love is never actually in question.
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I don’t have a lot of OT3s – my affection for codependent couples doesn’t really lend itself to polyamory – but this one has always been formative. I think I read T. H. White in high school and thought, Aha! So that’s what’s going on! and ended up years later doing queer stuff with medieval knights for an actual job. Anyway it’s not a long read – I want to keep it short because I’m sure the holiday season is really getting busy by now – but I hope you enjoy it.
The Art of Courtly Love (Arthur/Lancelot/Guinevere, Arthurian Legend)
Rated M
‘It was Christmas night, so the king and queen held a feast. The hall was trimmed with holly and mistletoe above the doors, and a poet from the North had sung of heroes and lovers. Arthur sat in the centre of the high table with Guinevere and Lancelot on his left and his right. The stewards had brought in the second subtlety, the Blessed Virgin standing atop a map of the world with a gilded model of Camelot in her cupped hands.’
Song: Personent Hodie (Mediæval Bæbes version). Attested in a 16th-century Finnish hymbook, it seems to come from a 14th-century song and who knows prior to that. Not the oldest medieval Christmas hymn I have, but one that catches the feeling of the fic better than some others.
Rec: So Pleasing a Thing by Raja815.(Star Trek TOS, Kirk/Spock)
Rated T
This follows Kirk and Spock after they've sorted themselves out post-Gol and post-V'ger and got married, but both being devoted to their careers as well as each other, they have some rough patches. What I love is how the author shows the difficulties they're facing, without being melodramatic--just the very real tensions of two overworked people who are devoted to their vocations as well as to each other; there are cultural differences and errors of ignorance, but the depth of their love is never actually in question.
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Bought carton egg whites to make the pav with. Didn't realise they'd overbeat so easily.
Ugh.
So I've made two pavs and neither one got to stiff peaks. Second time I actually looked up what went wrong and went "ARGH".
Do I try making a third?
Honestly, the last few years, my pav attempts have been somewhat substandard. They collapse and fall - I don't think I can get the gas oven cool enough for long enough to keep them from collapsing. It only goes down to about 120C before the dial cuts out and if possible you're supposed to leave it at around 80C for an hour.
Not an option in my oven.
I have a guest coming, too - invited a woman off a FB group "host a sister" who was bouncing around Christmas Day.
ETA: I ended up whipping up a third batch, and it's now in the oven. We'll try to bake the shell hard (high temp), then fluff the inside (long low temp).
Please please please please let this one work!
Ugh.
So I've made two pavs and neither one got to stiff peaks. Second time I actually looked up what went wrong and went "ARGH".
Do I try making a third?
Honestly, the last few years, my pav attempts have been somewhat substandard. They collapse and fall - I don't think I can get the gas oven cool enough for long enough to keep them from collapsing. It only goes down to about 120C before the dial cuts out and if possible you're supposed to leave it at around 80C for an hour.
Not an option in my oven.
I have a guest coming, too - invited a woman off a FB group "host a sister" who was bouncing around Christmas Day.
ETA: I ended up whipping up a third batch, and it's now in the oven. We'll try to bake the shell hard (high temp), then fluff the inside (long low temp).
Please please please please let this one work!
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notalwaysright_feed Dec. 24th, 2025 05:30 am)Read Mister Plow Is Canadian?!
I trudged over there with my shovel, and I had just started the first row when a random guy in a snowplow turned in and cleared the whole driveway in two minutes, easy.
1. I got my hair cut this morning. My original appointment was for yesterday, but a meeting got scheduled that conflicted with it. Thankfully there was still enough time to change the appointment, but the only slot left was at 11:45am today, and I really prefer to get it done earlier in the morning so I can get on with my day. But it worked out okay. I didn't have anything time sensitive at work until two meetings later in the afternoon, which is good because the person ahead of me went over by half an hour. Not sure if the guy was late to his appointment or if his just took longer than anticipated. I could definitely see it being the latter because he had a long grey beard that he was getting died in a rainbow (this is a queer salon so the site of an older bald guy with a rainbow beard was not at all out of the ordinary, but it was a very cool choice on his part).
2. The rain started today but so far did not significantly interfere with my day. Rained lightly on the way to the salon, but had stopped by the time I got there (very good because I had to park around the block) and was still dry when I left and also when I arrived at work. Very light sprinkling when I left work, but not bad. And it was still dry when I got home, so we were able to take our evening walk. Tomorrow is supposed to be the worst of it, so I've decided not to go in to work tomorrow. I have nothing that really needs me to be there and the only reason I was planning to go in to begin with is because I also need to pick up my Christmas cake at the nearby bakery. So I do still have to drive down there, but I was able to move the pickup time to early in the morning and I'll just pop down and get it and hopefully not get too wet and then relax the rest of the day indoors.
3. We got an extension on the work project until mid February and I think we can meet that deadline. The company who is customizing the software for us said that is the hard deadline really for real this time to keep the go live date of spring 2027, and upper management really does not want to move that date, so fingers crossed. Based on where we are now, though, it does seem very doable.
4. Only a kitty would be comfy half hanging off the sofa lol.
2. The rain started today but so far did not significantly interfere with my day. Rained lightly on the way to the salon, but had stopped by the time I got there (very good because I had to park around the block) and was still dry when I left and also when I arrived at work. Very light sprinkling when I left work, but not bad. And it was still dry when I got home, so we were able to take our evening walk. Tomorrow is supposed to be the worst of it, so I've decided not to go in to work tomorrow. I have nothing that really needs me to be there and the only reason I was planning to go in to begin with is because I also need to pick up my Christmas cake at the nearby bakery. So I do still have to drive down there, but I was able to move the pickup time to early in the morning and I'll just pop down and get it and hopefully not get too wet and then relax the rest of the day indoors.
3. We got an extension on the work project until mid February and I think we can meet that deadline. The company who is customizing the software for us said that is the hard deadline really for real this time to keep the go live date of spring 2027, and upper management really does not want to move that date, so fingers crossed. Based on where we are now, though, it does seem very doable.
4. Only a kitty would be comfy half hanging off the sofa lol.
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notalwaysright_feed Dec. 24th, 2025 04:00 am)Read If You Don’t Have Anything Nice To Say Then Scoot Over
Other Customer: "God, these millennials are just so lazy and disrespectful. Can't even bother to walk around and are taking carts away from those who need it."
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