The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, June 23)
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spikedluvI did a load of laundry, paid some bills online, placed an order online, did the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, and scooped kitty litter. I also hit a different Price Chopper than usual (closer to Mom’s) when her friend visited her to give me a couple hours to run errands in the afternoon.
I read fanfic and re-watched the current ep of Murderbot.
Temps started out at 79.9(F) (and already humid) and reached 99.1. It was SOOO hot.
Mom Update:
Mom slept most of the morning. ( more back here )
I read fanfic and re-watched the current ep of Murderbot.
Temps started out at 79.9(F) (and already humid) and reached 99.1. It was SOOO hot.
Mom Update:
Mom slept most of the morning. ( more back here )
Teaching Challenge: Stargate SG-1: Fanfic: Necessary Skill
Jun. 24th, 2025 09:17 ambadly_knitted posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fan_flashworksTitle: Necessary Skill
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 457
Setting: Sometime during Children of the Gods.
Summary: Jack decides Daniel needs something to occupy him instead of drinking coffee and prowling around the base.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 47: Teaching.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
Challenge: Double. "Harry Potter." Fanart: Double Date.
Jun. 23rd, 2025 10:49 pmdigthewriter posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Double Date
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Length: ART/DIGITAL ART / MIXED MEDIA
Summary: Charlie and Ginny go on a double date with Neville and Luna. Things are going well.
( Double Date )
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Length: ART/DIGITAL ART / MIXED MEDIA
Summary: Charlie and Ginny go on a double date with Neville and Luna. Things are going well.
( Double Date )
Neuromancer; Sprawl Trilogy (William Gibson): Shears, by LizzyChrome.
Jun. 23rd, 2025 12:44 amfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Neuromancer | Sprawl Trilogy - William Gibson
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Sally Shears | Molly Millions & Yanaka Kumiko
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 1,225
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply (but a character’s dark backstory is hinted at.)
Creator Tags: Cyberpunk, razor girl, Friendship, Mentors, Mentor & Protégé, Yakuza, Missing Scene, Female Friendship, Backstory, Fanon
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Theme: Female Relationships, Backstory, Book Fandoms, Female Friendship, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Older Characters, Worldbuilding
Summary: How do Molly's claws and lenses actually work? Kumiko pries. (Missing scene from "Mona Lisa Overdrive.")
Author’s Notes: If you havne't read MLO yet, I won't spoil anything. I'll just set the scene, without giving anyway any important story elements: Molly is now middle-aged, goes by "Sally Shears," and is working as a body guard for a Japanese girl named Kumiko.
I do not own "Mona Lisa Overdrive."
This oldie was written probably over ten years ago. I originally posted it to Fanfiction.net, then took it down, feeling it was pointless. But in light of the new "Neuromancer" show coming out, I want to preserve this little ficlet, to see how my fanon explanation for how Molly's claws work compares to what (if anything) the show gives us regarding that explanation. After a quick re-read, I decided that no edit was needed. What you see here is what I originally posted ten or eleven years ago.
Reccer's Notes: This vignette expands upon an exchange in Mona Lisa Overdrive between aging cyborg mercenary Sally Shears (AKA Molly Millions, Cat Mother, Steppin’ Razor, Rose Kolodny, and Misty Steele—this lady’s got more names than a Wuxia hero) and her charge Yanaka Kumiko; Sally confides measured bits of her backstory to the crushstruck Kumiko, including stripping to bare a torso-long scar (from a near-fatal cagefighting injury, kept “to remind her of being stupid.”)
It’s a precious moment of trust, an elusive commodity in both women’s lives; LizzyChrome elaborates upon this to let Sally hold forth on how her prosthetics work—a question that Gibson chose to bury under Rule of Cool, and that’s challenged two generations’ worth of illustrators and cosplayers.
With the upcoming Neuromancer series on Apple+TV, Molly finally leaves the roster of visually iconic SFF characters not yet defined in the popular imagination by a screen adaptation (1). The Molly in my head admittedly didn’t resemble Briana Middleton, but I look forward to seeing her interpretation of the role (as well as how faithful to the spirit of the book the script gets to be, now that Hollywood has gotten their hands on
(A) a Beloved Property™,
(B) whose cyberpunk dystopia is feeling uncomfortably real in a number of respects—thanks in no small part to megacorporations like Apple.)
(1) Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination and Elric of Melniboné also come to mind.
Fanwork Links: Shears, byLizzyChrome.
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Sally Shears | Molly Millions & Yanaka Kumiko
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 1,225
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply (but a character’s dark backstory is hinted at.)
Creator Tags: Cyberpunk, razor girl, Friendship, Mentors, Mentor & Protégé, Yakuza, Missing Scene, Female Friendship, Backstory, Fanon
Creator Links: (AO3)
lizzychrome; (DeviantArt) lizzychrome; (Facebook) lizzy_chromeTheme: Female Relationships, Backstory, Book Fandoms, Female Friendship, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Older Characters, Worldbuilding
Summary: How do Molly's claws and lenses actually work? Kumiko pries. (Missing scene from "Mona Lisa Overdrive.")
Author’s Notes: If you havne't read MLO yet, I won't spoil anything. I'll just set the scene, without giving anyway any important story elements: Molly is now middle-aged, goes by "Sally Shears," and is working as a body guard for a Japanese girl named Kumiko.
I do not own "Mona Lisa Overdrive."
This oldie was written probably over ten years ago. I originally posted it to Fanfiction.net, then took it down, feeling it was pointless. But in light of the new "Neuromancer" show coming out, I want to preserve this little ficlet, to see how my fanon explanation for how Molly's claws work compares to what (if anything) the show gives us regarding that explanation. After a quick re-read, I decided that no edit was needed. What you see here is what I originally posted ten or eleven years ago.
Reccer's Notes: This vignette expands upon an exchange in Mona Lisa Overdrive between aging cyborg mercenary Sally Shears (AKA Molly Millions, Cat Mother, Steppin’ Razor, Rose Kolodny, and Misty Steele—this lady’s got more names than a Wuxia hero) and her charge Yanaka Kumiko; Sally confides measured bits of her backstory to the crushstruck Kumiko, including stripping to bare a torso-long scar (from a near-fatal cagefighting injury, kept “to remind her of being stupid.”)
It’s a precious moment of trust, an elusive commodity in both women’s lives; LizzyChrome elaborates upon this to let Sally hold forth on how her prosthetics work—a question that Gibson chose to bury under Rule of Cool, and that’s challenged two generations’ worth of illustrators and cosplayers.
With the upcoming Neuromancer series on Apple+TV, Molly finally leaves the roster of visually iconic SFF characters not yet defined in the popular imagination by a screen adaptation (1). The Molly in my head admittedly didn’t resemble Briana Middleton, but I look forward to seeing her interpretation of the role (as well as how faithful to the spirit of the book the script gets to be, now that Hollywood has gotten their hands on
(A) a Beloved Property™,
(B) whose cyberpunk dystopia is feeling uncomfortably real in a number of respects—thanks in no small part to megacorporations like Apple.)
(1) Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination and Elric of Melniboné also come to mind.
Fanwork Links: Shears, by
Challenge - Trapped: due South: Fanfiction: Closeted
Jun. 23rd, 2025 02:02 pmlucy_roman posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Closeted
Author:lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Ray is stuck in a closet
Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser
Word Count: 910
( Closeted )
Author:
lucy_romanRating: Teen and up
Summary: Ray is stuck in a closet
Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser
Word Count: 910
( Closeted )
The Day in Spikedluv (Sunday, June 22)
Jun. 23rd, 2025 07:08 amspikedluvI did a load of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, emptied the dishwasher, scooped kitty litter, and stopped at Stewart’s on the way home for milk. I dropped off a book at the library, started the next Amelia Peabody book, and finally got to see the current Murderbot. My brother and his GF were visiting mom when I arrived, so I got to see them.
Temps started out at 67.8(F) and reached high 80s. (Again, I wasn’t home to check.) Thunderstorms rolled in around 4am, which woke everyone up, and dropped quite a bit of rain between then and 8am. It didn’t rain again, and remained overcast, but it was hot and humid.
Mom Update:
Mom continues to do well. ( more back here )
Temps started out at 67.8(F) and reached high 80s. (Again, I wasn’t home to check.) Thunderstorms rolled in around 4am, which woke everyone up, and dropped quite a bit of rain between then and 8am. It didn’t rain again, and remained overcast, but it was hot and humid.
Mom Update:
Mom continues to do well. ( more back here )
Nap Challenge: FAKE: Fanfic: Different Strokes
Jun. 23rd, 2025 10:36 ambadly_knitted posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Different Strokes
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Everyone has their own way of keeping energised for work.
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 480: Nap.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
SGA: Five Women Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagan by tielan
Jun. 23rd, 2025 09:21 pmmific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: (attraction only) Teyla Emmagan/Sora, Teyla Emmagan/Elizabeth Weir, Laura Cadman/Teyla Emmagan, Teyla Emmagan/Kate Heightmeyer, Sam Carter/Teyla Emmagan
Rating: G
Length: 2928
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: tielan on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Female characters, Friendship, Ambiguous relationships
Summary: Desire is a fine line. Five women in Pegasus walk it with care.
Reccer's Notes: This is a well-written exploration of how five women on the Atlantis expedition or elsewhere in Pegasus feel about Teyla. As a twist on the title, they all do or did want Teyla, even if they can't pursue that attraction for a number of reasons. It's also unclear if Teyla reciprocates any of their feelings. Excellent character pieces that ring true.
Fanwork Links: Five Women Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagan
Characters/Pairings: (attraction only) Teyla Emmagan/Sora, Teyla Emmagan/Elizabeth Weir, Laura Cadman/Teyla Emmagan, Teyla Emmagan/Kate Heightmeyer, Sam Carter/Teyla Emmagan
Rating: G
Length: 2928
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: tielan on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Female characters, Friendship, Ambiguous relationships
Summary: Desire is a fine line. Five women in Pegasus walk it with care.
Reccer's Notes: This is a well-written exploration of how five women on the Atlantis expedition or elsewhere in Pegasus feel about Teyla. As a twist on the title, they all do or did want Teyla, even if they can't pursue that attraction for a number of reasons. It's also unclear if Teyla reciprocates any of their feelings. Excellent character pieces that ring true.
Fanwork Links: Five Women Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagan
Yarn/Charity Challenges: Miss Marple: Fanfic: An Act of Charity
Jun. 22nd, 2025 03:54 pmsmallhobbit posting in fan_flashworksTitle: An Act of Charity
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 622 words
Summary: What began as a simple act of charity has useful consequences
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 622 words
Summary: What began as a simple act of charity has useful consequences
( Dermot Craddock )
Amnesty | Original Fiction: Inappropriate Use of Rune-Carved Cuffs
Jun. 22nd, 2025 10:15 amanalogbasilisk posting in fan_flashworksPrompt: 256. Restraints
Word count: 513
Rating: E
Summary: there's one kind of situation in which Mack enjoys being restrained.
Warning for explicit sexual content.
( Read more... )
Word count: 513
Rating: E
Summary: there's one kind of situation in which Mack enjoys being restrained.
Warning for explicit sexual content.
( Read more... )
Resolutions challenge: star trek voyager: wallpaper: burned with desire
Jun. 22nd, 2025 02:14 pmlilly_c posting in fan_flashworksTitle: burned with desire
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating:
Content notes:
Artist notes: flower background with hearts and bubbles is from HD wallpaper, concrete wall with rope, pegs and paper on it from freepix (both are public domain/stock resources), caps used from Resolutions are my own, font used is architectype and the text is from Burned With Desire by Armin Van Buuren.
Summary: love, lust and heartache
( burned with desire )
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating:
Content notes:
Artist notes: flower background with hearts and bubbles is from HD wallpaper, concrete wall with rope, pegs and paper on it from freepix (both are public domain/stock resources), caps used from Resolutions are my own, font used is architectype and the text is from Burned With Desire by Armin Van Buuren.
Summary: love, lust and heartache
( burned with desire )
enemies challenge: star trek voyager: wallpaper: prayin’ on my downfall
Jun. 22nd, 2025 02:12 pmlilly_c posting in fan_flashworksTitle: prayin’ on my downfall
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating:
Content notes: none really but an RL friend said it was creepy ;)
Artist notes: Borg Cube interior saved from memory alpha, the other caps used are my own from Scorpion and Dark Frontier. The text is from Told Ya by Chlöe featuring Missy Elliot and the font used is boum boum.
Summary: The Borg’s greatest enemy.
( prayin’ on my downfall )
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating:
Content notes: none really but an RL friend said it was creepy ;)
Artist notes: Borg Cube interior saved from memory alpha, the other caps used are my own from Scorpion and Dark Frontier. The text is from Told Ya by Chlöe featuring Missy Elliot and the font used is boum boum.
Summary: The Borg’s greatest enemy.
( prayin’ on my downfall )
Animal Challenge: FAKE: Fanfic: Animal
Jun. 22nd, 2025 01:06 pmbadly_knitted posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Animal
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo and Dee have a difference of opinion.
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 474: Animal.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
( Animal... )
The Day in Spikedluv (Saturday, June 21)
Jun. 22nd, 2025 07:24 amspikedluvI hit the Bakery while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. (I got in two additional walks later for a total of 1 mile!) I hit the library to pick up more books, did two loads of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I finished the book I started yesterday and spent most of the day with mom.
Temps started out at 61.3(F) and reached 87 (according to Pip, since I didn’t get home until after the temps hit the high). It was hot, but I luckily spent most of the day inside an air conditioned house.
Mom Update:
She is doing well. ( more back here )
Temps started out at 61.3(F) and reached 87 (according to Pip, since I didn’t get home until after the temps hit the high). It was hot, but I luckily spent most of the day inside an air conditioned house.
Mom Update:
She is doing well. ( more back here )
Pink Challenge: FAKE: Fanfic: Pink Shirts
Jun. 21st, 2025 07:37 pmbadly_knitted posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Pink Shirts
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dee has a lot of pink shirts…
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 483: Amnesty 80, using Challenge 476: Pink.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
( Pink Shirts... )
The Day in Spikedluv (Friday, June 20)
Jun. 21st, 2025 07:28 amspikedluvI got a lot done before I left to go visit mom. I did a load of laundry, baked chicken for the dogs, boiled eggs for egg salad, put a chuck roast in the crock pot for supper, did the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. For fun stuff I started a new book.
Temps started out at 59.4(F) (and windy) and reached 74 (that I saw at 6pm, though Pip said it got to 78). The day started off windy and cool, but the sun came out so it was really nice, if still windy.
Mom Update:
Mom is home! ( more back here )
Temps started out at 59.4(F) (and windy) and reached 74 (that I saw at 6pm, though Pip said it got to 78). The day started off windy and cool, but the sun came out so it was really nice, if still windy.
Mom Update:
Mom is home! ( more back here )
Background Challenge: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: No Longer In The Background
Jun. 21st, 2025 06:52 amdarkjediqueen posting in fan_flashworksTitle: No Longer In The Background
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship
Summary: Donny was no longer in the background of her life.
Word Count: 2,126
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship
Summary: Donny was no longer in the background of her life.
Word Count: 2,126
Je Ne Regrette Rien Challenge: Madagascar 3: wallpaper: no regrets
Jun. 21st, 2025 05:13 amlilly_c posting in fan_flashworksTitle: no regrets
Fandom: Madagascar 3
Rating:
Content notes: Inspired by the scene where Chantal Dubois is singing the Edith Piaf song.
Artist notes: Empty stage is from a public domain image search, lightly modified in editing. Caps from Madagascar are my own and edited using HDR and sepia tones. Font used is Kunstler MT.
Summary:
( no regrets )
Fandom: Madagascar 3
Rating:
Content notes: Inspired by the scene where Chantal Dubois is singing the Edith Piaf song.
Artist notes: Empty stage is from a public domain image search, lightly modified in editing. Caps from Madagascar are my own and edited using HDR and sepia tones. Font used is Kunstler MT.
Summary:
( no regrets )