Tuesday, 30th September 2025

Sep. 30th, 2025 03:00 pm[personal profile] beck_liz posting in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic
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Quality Clothing by [personal profile] badly_knitted (PG | Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams)

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Hey, quick temperature check. I've been reading a lot of media I don't expect my readership to read, and now I'm a little disoriented to who knows what.

Poll #33668 Geopolitics awareness check
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 103

What country do you currently live in?

What is your age?

12-19
1 (1.0%)

20-29
5 (4.9%)

30-39
15 (14.7%)

40-49
27 (26.5%)

50-59
35 (34.3%)

60-69
13 (12.7%)

70-79
6 (5.9%)

80+
0 (0.0%)

To the best of your knowledge, if the US were to go to war tomorrow, against what country would it most likely be?

Saturday 27 September 2025

Sep. 27th, 2025 05:44 pm[personal profile] merryghoul posting in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic
merryghoul: Ninth doctor with screwdriver (Nine screwdriver)
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Compliments by [personal profile] badly_knitted [Jack, Nine, OC | PG]

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Signal boost

Sep. 27th, 2025 07:17 pm[personal profile] elisi
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UK Petition:

Do not introduce Digital ID cards

Almost at 2 million signatures... Go on, add more!!!

Challenge #1060: distract

Sep. 27th, 2025 11:29 am[personal profile] redwolf posting in [community profile] dw100
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Welcome to [community profile] dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge 1060 is distract.

The rules:
  • All stories must be 100 words long
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Two Q [writing, DW]

Sep. 26th, 2025 07:17 pm[personal profile] siderea
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1)

Is there a term for the part of a large non-fiction writing project that comes after the research – when you have a huge pile of sources and quotes and whatnot – and before the actual "writing" part, the part that involves making sure you have all the citations correct for the sources, maybe going over the sources to highlight what passages you will quote verbatim, organizing them (historically by putting things on 3x5 cards and moving them around on a surface), and generally wrangling all the materials you are going to use into shape to be used?

I think this is often just thought of as part of "research", but when I'm doing a resource-dense project, it's not at all negligible. It takes a huge amount of time, and is exceptionally hard on my body. I'd like, if nothing else, to complain about it, and not having a word for it makes that hard.

2)

I don't suppose there's some, perhaps undocumented, way to use Dreamwidth's post-via-email feature with manually set dates? So you email in a journal entry to a specific date in the past? This doesn't appear among the options for post headers in the docs.

I am working on a large geopolitics project where I am trying to construct a two-year long timeline, and it dawns on me one of the easiest ways to do that might be to set up a personal comm on DW and literally post each timeline-entry as a comm entry. But maybe not if I have to go through the web interface, because that would be kind of miserable; I work via email.
beatrice_otter: Star Trek symbol--red background (Red Shirt)
[community profile] justmarriedexchange fics have revealed, and so I can tell you that I wrote a Trip/T'Pol fic! My recip, [personal profile] lionessvalenti, had several suggestions for canon-divergent AUs, which happen to be one of my favorite types of story to write--pick a canon event, tweak it slightly, and see what happens from there. And also, I love Vulcans, and have Opinions on the way Star Trek: Enterprise handled them, and this fic gave me lots of opportunities to explore all of that. I really enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it!


Title: that I could call my very own
Author: [personal profile] beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Pairing: Trip/T'Pol
Written for: [personal profile] lionessvalenti in Just Married Exchange 2025
Word count: 14k
Summary: 

T'Pol figures out something is wrong with her mother before leaving for Vulcan. She and Trip decide how to face the problem together.

"Maybe we're coming at this from the wrong angle," Trip said. "We're worried about what's happening on Vulcan with your mother, and trying to figure out the best way to handle that. But what if you looked at this long-term? What do you want your life to be like, a decade from now? Two decades from now? Then work backwards and figure out what we should be doing now to work towards that."


AN: This is a very minor worldbuilding note, but in English, there are gendered terms for "people who dedicate themselves to a religious life"—monk for men and nun for women. That is not the case for all languages; in Greek, "monachos" is used for both men and women. I'm going to assume that Vulcan doesn't have different words for different genders, but uses the same word for both.

[personal profile] sixbeforelunch provided a lot of excellent brainstorming and beta help, as is usual for my Star Trek fics.

***

"Ensign Sato, are there any remaining communications difficulties?"

The Human shook her head. "None that I'm aware of—I've got a lot of things coming through from Starfleet and the general Earth communications network, both stuff that's been waiting while we were out of range and congratulations for our triumphant return. Why?"

T'Pol debated. On the one hand, it was possible that neither her mother nor any other family member nor any former colleague had sent her a message while Enterprise was in the Expanse. Ensign Sato was very busy and had a great many tasks to perform before she could be debriefed by Starfleet and begin her well-deserved vacation. T'Pol had no desire to add to those tasks if there was nothing wrong. And it was certainly true that being out of contact had been a welcome reprieve; T'Pol was not in favor with the Vulcan High Command, nor with her family, and it had been a relief not to have to deal with anyone's disapproval.

But she had always known that would be merely a temporary reprieve, unless she chose to abandon all claim to Vulcan entirely. )




On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Ad Astra. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.

Thursday 25th September 2025

Sep. 25th, 2025 10:32 pm[personal profile] usuallyhats posting in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic
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We did it!!

Sep. 24th, 2025 08:10 pm[personal profile] elisi
elisi: Oh SHOW. (Dead Boy Detectives)
Promethia and I finished our big Payneland fic!

rest-blessed-rest.jpeg
^the above image being an accurate representation of how we are currently feeling.

The Song of Rowland 23k, 2/2, Teen
Summary:

Most ghosts didn’t celebrate their birthdays.

But Charles Rowland wasn’t ‘most ghosts’.

Indeed, Charles’ birthday was a high point of the year, a guaranteed day of fun for himself and Edwin. The fun always helped to push down the unvoiced emotions below: the loss, the unresolved pain of his death, the feelings of failure and inadequacy. Charles saw no reason why this state of affairs shouldn’t continue forever.

But then he turned fifty.

Or:

How a medieval poem changed Charles’ afterlife forever.


If you like Dead Boy Detectives and you feel like a big fic visiting every ship cliché (and with a ton of meta under the surface, of course), please check it out! ^_^

Tuesday, 23rd September 2025

Sep. 23rd, 2025 03:00 pm[personal profile] beck_liz posting in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic
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 Dextra sternuit (General Audiences | Trix MacMillan, Sixth Doctor)
 Out of their evil (General Audiences | Ninth Doctor)
 Maidenly Innocence (General Audiences | Second Doctor/River Song)
Maybe This Time by [personal profile] astrogirl (Teen | Twelfth Doctor/Missy)
299 by [personal profile] nonelvis (All Ages | Donna Noble)
The Fame Game by [personal profile] badly_knitted (G | Tenth Doctor, OC)

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Fic: 299 (1/1, all ages)

Sep. 23rd, 2025 12:11 pm[personal profile] nonelvis posting in [community profile] dwfiction
nonelvis: (DW Donna halo)
Title: 299
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing(s): Donna Noble
Rating: All ages
Word count: 1,408
Spoilers: None
Summary: The intersection of coding and design satisfied Donna's restless brain in ways it hadn’t been satisfied since before ... well, before whatever she’d lost had left her adrift again and her mother and Gramps tight-lipped but supportive.

follow the fake cut to the fic

Challenge #1059: asylum

Sep. 21st, 2025 09:43 pm[personal profile] mad_jaks posting in [community profile] dw100
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Welcome to [community profile] dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge #1059 is asylum.

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Saturday 20 September 2025

Sep. 20th, 2025 05:47 pm[personal profile] merryghoul posting in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic
merryghoul: River sonic screwdriver comics (River sonic screwdriver comics)
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Chance Meeting by [personal profile] badly_knitted [Fourteen, Martha, Donna, Rose Noble | G]
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Thursday 18th September 2025

Sep. 18th, 2025 10:39 pm[personal profile] usuallyhats posting in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic
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Well said

Sep. 18th, 2025 06:49 am[personal profile] elisi
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Protestors Disrupt Dinner Celebrating Trump's State Visit

Activists from Fossil Free London disrupted a Republican Overseas UK dinner in Windsor celebrating Donald Trump’s state visit. The event took place at the Guildhall, just minutes from Windsor Castle where Trump is being hosted by King Charles.
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