rosied

I did a load of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I finished one book and started another. I talked with mom on the telephone and visited her, as well as sent messages to her.

I forgot to mention that Pip’s buddy dropped off more BBQ chicken quarters yesterday, lol! At least I didn’t have to worry about what he was going to have for supper.

ETA: I forgot to mention the sad news that the four killdeer eggs are missing completely. No sign that they hatched. Pip caught sight of a red fox eating the sunflower seed he puts out, so we think that's what got them. I can't believe that just a day or two after I decide to tell you all about them, they're toast. *sniffle*

Temps started out at 57.9(F) and reached 69.2. (Pip said it had gotten higher, but that’s the high I saw when I got home.) It was mostly hazy all day.

Mom Update:

I called mom in the morning (now that she’s in SCU she has a phone). ( cutting for those who don’t want to read )

bluedreaming posting in

fan_flashworks

Fandom: Hyouka (Kotenbu)
Rating: G
Length: 300 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from A FEW PROPOSITIONS WITH BIRDS AND TREES THAT
THE POET CONCLUDES WITH A REFERENCE TO THE HEART by Ruy Belo, translated by Richard Zenith.
Summary: In which Oreki’s low-energy lifestyle is once again thwarted by Chitanda’s curiosity.

( Read more... )

badly_knitted posting in

ficlet_zone

This month's challenge is:

Song Titles: Madonna

Click on the challenge, pick any episode title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!

Reminder of Rules

Entries can be any length you like. You can post as many entries to each challenge as you're inspired to write.
If posting direct to the community, please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Category, Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your fic, though you can if you like. Please include the song or episode title you use in your header.
Suggestions for future challenges are welcome on the Questions & Suggestions post.
There is no deadline for entries.

Have fun!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

modrat posting in

smutwars

We're grateful to our pinch hitters; exchanges couldn't run without them! If you're a pinch hitter who did not sign up for Smut Wars 2025, please drop your requests in the comments below. The tagset with available relationships can be found here.

We have a suggested format on how to drop your request(s):

AO3 username:
Fandom:
Mediums (Fanart, Fanfic, Fanmix, Fanvid, Podfic):
Ships:
Do Not Wants:
Optional Details:
Letter Link (when applicable):

Please stick to a single comment, but feel free to add up to 10 requests. Comments are screened and anon is on: do not reveal who you are pinch hitting for!

Treats can be done by anyone with an AO3 account (even users who did not sign up to Smut Wars 2025) and do not have to meet the minimum length requirements for assignments. They must otherwise follow the same rules as assignments, e.g. respecting your giftee’s DNWs and posting a complete work rated M or E for sexual content meeting one of their requests. We're going on a treat system; you do not need to claim or send us an email to treat a pinch hitter; you can simply submit your gift to our collection!

modrat posting in

smutwars

Check your inbox: assignments were sent out. Your assignment is due August 24, 2025 and must comply with the rules.

We have one initial pinch hit: to claim, send an email to smutwars@proton.me with the PH number and your AO3 username or comment on this post with your AO3 username (comments are screened). Deadline is August 24.

PH1 - CLAIMED

~~Request 1 by ancslove~~

Mediums: Fanfic

Relationships:

~~Boba Fett/Fennec Shand/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Boba Fett/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker/Paz Vizsla~~
~~Din Djarin/Boba Fett/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Luke Skywalker/Paz Vizsla~~

~~All prompts and ideas are just starting points and spitballing, so if you have something different in mind, go with your heart!~~

~~Mandalorian/Luke Request!~~

General Likes: Missing scenes, character bonding, character study, action and adventure; Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, Established Relationship and working together to navigate canon (and canon-typical) events; angst, conflict with or without resolution; characters with savior complexes and the weight of the world on their shoulders finally finding/accepting support, comfort, and love; happy endings or sad/dark endings; sexy times; noncon and dubcon and the aftermath thereof.

Smut Likes: Lots of physicality - touching, stroking hair, manhandling, being held down; kissing; blowjobs, face-fucking, and comeplay; banter during sex; cuddling and tenderness, forehead kisses; cheek stroking, gentle face touches and holding each other by the chin; scar touching and kissing; Bottom Luke

Dark Likes: Lots of kissing, spitting in victim's mouth; manhandling, being thrown around, held down; deepthroat/throatfucking, facefucking; bukkake, comeplay; gangbangs; passed around; degrading name-calling; forced prostitution; Bad Ending or Happy/Hopeful Ending - either one!

Mandalorian Likes: Vader Reveal and Luke being reassured and comforted instead of rejected; characters having complicated histories and feelings regarding Vader. Canon Divergences where Good Guys Lose; Canon Divergences where Good Guys Win and Stay Together. Omegaverse (especially where Luke is an Omega) and D/s Universe. Mand'alor Din Djarin. Also here, I love the twin themes of Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order and Din rebuilding Mandalore, with Paz and/or Boba's support. Or Luke, Din, and Boba all helping each other to adapt their Creeds and beliefs to their new reality. Lonely, touch-starved Luke melting at any praise or affection.

Din/Luke - Working together to raise Grogu or retake Mandalore leads to more? One ends up rescuing the other, maybe after Grogu senses the other one is in trouble? Both of these not-very-sexually-experienced people navigating a new relationship while being massively touch-starved without knowing it? Din rescuing Luke from a very bad rapey time, and then awkwardly and tenderly comforting him? A darker take, where Din keeps Luke as a Consort/Hostage/Sex Slave? Or the New Republic gives Luke the Last Jedi to the new Mand'alor as a prize or peace offering? (And then maybe love can slowly bloom?)

Luke/Boba - more straightforward enemies to lovers, whether Luke wants it or not! Luke feels guilty for not considering Boba a real person during the fight against Jabba, and gives his body as restitution? They bond or fight over their associations with Darth Vader? How does Boba react to the Vader reveal? Casual sex turns into something more? Boba captures Luke and decides Luke will make for a nice plaything? Boba has something Luke needs, and demands sex as his payment? Luke gets hurt or captured and somehow Boba ends up caring for his one-time enemy, and feelings develop?

Luke/Boba/Fennec - Fennec reminds me quite a bit of Mara, and I love Mara/Luke and so I'm interested in seeing Fennec/Luke! I'd love to see Luke seeking refuge on Tatooine (maybe to escape the remnants of the Empire, maybe to escape the New Republic), and being given sanctuary by Boba and Fennec. And then feelings or simply attraction grows from there. Boba and Fennec as an established couple, or discovering feelings all around!

Luke/Paz - I know they haven't met, but what if they did!?! Fighting leads to friendship and/or sex, or fighting is foreplay that leads to sex. Working together to help Din be Mand’alor? Or a darker take, where Paz claims Luke as his (either because he's the strongest fighter Paz has seen, or as restitution for Jedi crimes against Mandalore, or to spoil Luke for Din?) and doesn't much care if Luke agrees or not. Love the size difference here, and Paz being big and solid enough to manhandle Luke, but Luke being able to give it right back with the Force. Paz spooning or cradling Luke tenderly (or not so tenderly, if you go a darker route!).

Din/Luke/Boba; Din/Luke/Paz - just please sandwich Luke between two Mandalorians so they can all have fun times! Din and Boba or Din and Paz as established couple, courting Luke together? Din taking it upon himself to get Luke and Boba to mend their differences and move forward from their pasts, and orchestrating all three of them falling into bed together? Luke taking it upon himself to mend fences between Din and Paz, and then all three falling into bed together? Darker Din and Boba or Din and Paz as an established Power Couple, taking Luke as their prize? Enemies to Allies to Friends to More?

~~Request 2 by ancslove~~

Mediums: Fanfic

Relationships:

~~Wedge Antilles/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Mara Jade/Talon Karrde/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Talon Karrde/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Luke Skywalker/Kam Solusar~~

~~All prompts and ideas are just starting points and spitballing, so if you have something different in mind, go with your heart!~~

~~Legends Request!~~

General Likes: Missing scenes, character bonding, character study, action and adventure, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, Established Relationship and working together to navigate canon (and canon-typical) events; angst, conflict with or without resolution; characters with savior complexes and the weight of the world on their shoulders finally finding/accepting support, comfort, and love; happy endings or sad/dark endings; sexy times; noncon and dubcon and the aftermath thereof.

Star Wars Likes: Slice-of-life during the Rebellion; filling-in-the-blanks of what Luke/Wedge/Leia/Han are up to in any given time; Vader Reveal and Luke and/or Leia being reassured and comforted instead of rejected; Canon Divergences where Good Guys Lose; Canon Divergences where Good Guys Win and Stay Together; Omegaverse (especially where Luke is an Omega). I love fics that incorporate Luke as a Rogue, not just a Jedi! Either during the Rebellion or post-Endor. I much much prefer Wedge's Legends backstory with Booster and Mirax Terrik, than his Current Canon past as a defected Imperial pilot. I prefer bottom Luke in sex scenes.

Luke/Wedge - I'd love anything set during or post the OT. Friends to lovers after the Battle of Yavin or while on Hoth? Forming Rogue Squadron the first time? Or Wedge's reformation? Catching up after Endor? It would be great to see Wedge supporting Luke after the Vader revelation, or them both leaning on each other during the war.

Luke/Kam - I'm just really intrigued by their relationship. They have a deep respect for each other. Kam has the knowledge of the Old Jedi Order that Luke craves, and he relies on Kam quite a bit. Kam trying to help and/or comfort Luke during or after the Exar Kun fight, or them working together to build the Jedi Academy.

Luke/Talon Karrde - Anything with Luke trying to get Karrde to join the NR, or interacting with him during or after Myrkr. Karrde interested in Luke because Mara reacts so viscerally to him, and getting drawn closer and closer. On Myrkr, what if Karrde has to end up protecting Luke from his people or Mara or Imperials landing early, and ends up slowly falling for him?

Luke/Mara - Growing closer and working together, or Mara trying to deal with her programmed hatred while Luke is very unconcerned about her death threat, or Luke bonding with Mara after she rescues him from C'Baoth. Or delving more into Mara finding out that Luke is Vader's son, maybe she ends up comforting or reassuring him, or telling him more about Vader.

~~Request 3 by ancslove~~

Mediums: Fanfic

Relationships:

~~Luke Skywalker/Quinlan Vos~~
~~Cal Kestis/Luke Skywalker~~
~~Luke Skywalker/Mace Windu~~
~~Ezra Bridger/Luke Skywalker~~

~~All prompts and ideas are just starting points and spitballing, so if you have something different in mind, go with your heart!~~

~~Jedi Meeting Jedi!~~

Cal/Luke; Ezra/Luke - I just want them to learn about each other and meet and work with each other and maybe fall in love and/or maybe have sex! And maybe also help form a New Jedi Order (that doesn't get destroyed, please). Shenanigans, slice of Jedi life, slice of Rebel life, deep curiosity about each other that finally gets sated. Luke learning from Cal that maybe he doesn't have to fear the darkness inside him, Cal and/or Ezra learning the truth of Darth Vader's end? AU where they meet during the Rebellion and help each other heal as they work to take down the Sith?

Luke/Quinlan - I'm really intrigued by the idea of Quinlan surviving the Purge and then discovering Luke's existence as he comes to terms with the new state of the galaxy. And I think Luke and Quinlan's respective Jedi philosophies can work together and teach each other nicely! (I hold more to the Legends idea that Luke doesn't ban all emotional or familial attachment.) I don't have many concrete ideas here, and I'm eager for anything!

Luke/Mace Windu - either Time Travel, or Mace Survives, or Force Ghost shenanigans? I'd just love to see them together! Mace guiding Luke, sparring, maybe Mace being able to come to terms with Anakin (or his feelings about Anakin) through interacting with and caring for Anakin's son? Post-Endor Luke travels back to PT time and gets to experience the Jedi Order whole and alive, and get comfort and support? Mace travels forward in time, and is horrified at what's happened to the galaxy and to his Order, and he and Luke find and support and love each other? Feel free to throw in Obi-Wan or Yoda or anyone else.

sovay

I wish to express my strenuous distaste for this week starting off with the curtain rod falling onto my head as I stepped into the shower with such force that

spatch heard the noise of stainless steel onto skull from the bedroom. It hurt appallingly. It still doesn't feel so hot. I called after-hours care and was duly presented with a checklist of symptoms of concussion and brain bleed to watch out for, an activity not exactly compatible with attempting to plunge myself into unconsciousness for the few short hours before I need to be functional for already scheduled calls and appointments. I would like to know who I need to sacrifice to get a break. I always liked haruspicy. I know it's your own liver that counts.

Current Music: Laufey, "Silver Lining"

glory_jean posting in

unconventionalcourtship

Title: The Angel Trap
Author: Glory_Jean
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing/Characters: Dean Winchester/Castiel
Rating: PG
Length: 1694
Summary: Not long after Cas returns from the empty, Dean and Cas get drawn into an undercover case by their favorite wayward young hunters. But they quickly realize it’s not what they expect. Meanwhile even though Dean knows he isn’t relationship material he’s having trouble keeping his feelings to himself. Cas and this case are not helping matters. Not to mention this pack of annoying kids. Claire and Alex have a plan. Patience and Kaia are along for the ride. Jack is just having a good time.

Notes: Season 13 if most of that *waves hands* Apocalypse World stuff didn’t happen. Don’t worry about it. It’s total crack.

Link: https://glory-jean.dreamwidth.org/226620.html

firebatvillain posting in

bitesizedfandomsex

Creators have been revealed! Thank you to all the participants and pinch hitters.

Collection Link

This was our second year running this exchange, and we really appreciated all the work everyone, new and returning, put in!

For future iteratons, to help us grow this exchange, we'd love to hear your feedback below (anon is enabled). Feedback of any kind is welcome, but we are particularly interested in hearing about one topic:

Art Medium. This was our first year allowing art as a medium. For those who made use of this option as a recipient or creator, any feedback would be appreciated.

Thank you for any feedback you choose to give, and thanks again for a great Bite-Sized Fandoms Exchange 2025.

See you next year!

Bite-Sized Mod Team

conuly posting in

agonyaunt

DEAR ABBY: My 40-year-old daughter is on weight-loss injections and a no-sugar diet. I offered to bake her a sugar-free cheesecake, and she agreed, but she asked me to make a "tester" cake three days before. I explained that the cake has a lengthy preparation process, involving a very slow bake in a water bath and 12 hours chill time. I suggested she wait, but she insisted, so I made it early. She cut a slice of it and exclaimed how great it tasted.

Three days later, I baked and decorated a carrot cake to use as her "official" birthday cake, since the sugar-free cake had been cut and wouldn't look nice in photos. (Carrot is her children's favorite.) I hosted everyone at an expensive restaurant, gave her French perfume and a weekend getaway.

When we returned from the dinner, my daughter angrily said, "Get in here so we can cut this stupid cake, which I can't eat!" I was shocked and confused. She said I shouldn't have made a cake of a flavor she dislikes, but I pointed out that she had the sugar-free cake, too. Apparently, she had expected me to bake a second sugar-free cheesecake. I chewed her out for being ungrateful. Was I wrong? -- UNAPPRECIATED IN CALIFORNIA

( Read more... )

conuly posting in

agonyaunt

Dear Annie: I'm 63 years old, and I live alone in a quiet little house with my dog, Rosie. I like to sit on the porch in the evenings and watch the sun go down, but lately the silence feels heavier than it used to.

My daughter, who is in her 30s, moved to Texas with her husband about a year ago -- and since then, she hasn't spoken to me. Not a text, not a call, not even a holiday card. I send messages, reach out on birthdays, even mailed her a little photo of Rosie wearing a birthday hat.

I know there's something from her childhood that she's struggling with. Something painful that she believes I didn't protect her from. And the truth is, maybe I didn't. Her father died 26 years ago, and we were both trying to survive the grief in our own ways. I was overwhelmed and didn't always see what was right in front of me. I've tried to say I'm sorry, in words and gestures, but she's built a wall I haven't been able to get through.

Some days, I want to get in the car and drive the 800 miles just to knock on her door and see her face. Other days, I wonder if I should just give up and let her have the distance she clearly wants.

How does a mother keep loving her child from afar when the door has been shut so firmly? Is there anything I can do to open it again -- or do I have to learn to live with the silence? -- Grieving But Still Reaching Out

( Read more... )

Profile

rosied

May 2023

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

Reading

The Day in Spikedluv (Sunday, June 15)

Hyouka (Kotenbu): Fanfic: the liveliest fruit

Challenge 87: Song Titles: Madonna

Pinch Hitter Requests

Assignments Out + 1 Initial Pinch Hit

When you go to hell, I'll go there with you, too

The Angel Trap (Supernatural Fic)

Creators Revealed!

I know what I think, but I honestly don't know what anybody else will think

(no subject)

Profile

May 2023

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags