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lilliane ([personal profile] lilliane) wrote in [community profile] holiday_wishes2025-12-07 01:21 pm

Holiday Wishes 2025!

Hi! I'm Lilliane, a 60 yo person who has chronic illnesses & is disabled, neurodivergent and newly diagnosed with brain cancer (biopsy being performed on 12/9/2025) who is not only looking for some assistance this holiday season but is also looking to help others in this community!

It is my 4th year participating and while it's been a tough year, it's been nothing compared to the last two weeks. Being diagnosed with a brain tumor (Glioblastoma), having a stroke and a seizure is no joke, boys and girls. Not even close.

Some of the things that I would love to give & receive this year are:

1) Correspondence via email or snail mail! Contact me via my Inbox here and I will give you an email address or my snail mail address, whichever is to your liking. It could be exchanging holiday cards, postcards, or even letters/emails throughout the year. I, of course, will be reaching out to those of you who wish for the same.

2) Groceries and prescriptions are more and more difficult to come by, as I think they are for a lot of folks, particularly this year and going into 2026. I would be grateful for any denomination of Walmart, Kroger, or VISA gift cards. Physical ones are fine, please ask for an address (obviously) but probably the quickest and simplest way are probably e-cards.

3) Be of service to your local animal shelter, library, memory home, art program, unhoused shelter, aging agency or city council in your community. It is so important to give back in your community if you are able to! There are so many different ways to be of service, not just monetarily. Even one hour of helping a senior at the library every week learn to use the computer, or bring a neighbor some groceries each week, read to a blind person or a child who is not yet able to read, help the local shelter get dogs out of their cages for a day outside…so many different ways to assist! You can even write letters or send cards to people in nursing homes! Get your kids or spouse involved and have fun with it!

4) I have an Amazon wish list: Lilliane's Wish List
I have all sorts of things on here, and trust me, they do NOT have to come from Amazon. If you wish to send them from somewhere else, like walmart.com or even yourself, just ask for my address. My roommate says my list is boring and made me add fun stuff. Not sure how I feel about that. :-)

5) Be kind to each other. It’s free, and I think we can ALL use a bit of kindness each and every day. However, remember to not confuse kindness and niceness, there is a distinct difference!

Thank you for taking the time to read wishes and help each other out! You are all fantastic!
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-12-07 05:00 pm

B5 Triple Drabble: Understanding

 


Title: Understanding
Fandom: B5
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Vir, Lennier.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: The Fall of Night.
Summary: Everything feels out of control, but Vir and Lennier can at least commiserate with each other.
Written For: 
[personal profile] luvbarryfefe’s prompt ‘any, any, same time next week’, at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own B5, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 


 
badly_knitted: (Dee & Ryo black & white)
badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-12-07 04:46 pm

FAKE Double Drabble: All For Nothing





Title: All For Nothing
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: JJ, Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 479: To The End at 
[community profile] drabble_zone.
Setting: Vol 2, Act 5.
Summary: JJ proves that he would follow Dee anywhere.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] torchwood1002025-12-07 04:42 pm

Perfect Manners [894: Thanks]

 
Title: Perfect Manners
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Owen, Gwen, Team.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 894: Thanks.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: For once, everyone on the team is being polite.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-12-07 04:37 pm

Double Drabble: Perfect Manners

 


Title: Perfect Manners
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Owen, Gwen, Team.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 894: Thanks, at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: For once, everyone on the team is being polite.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
conuly: (Default)
conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-12-10 06:54 am

Dear fanfic writer:

I can see you're not a cook. You can't exactly dice thyme. The leaves are pretty tiny. If they're fresh, you just strip them from the stem. I suppose you can then chop them more finely, but dicing? You'd have more luck trying to dice time.

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a million times a trillion more ([personal profile] dolorosa_12) wrote2025-12-07 02:05 pm

Absence, sweet absence

This weekend ended up being a lot less eventful than originally planned, due to the combination of the week-long slow build-up to a cold finally descending with a vengeance upon me, and the relentlessly rainy weather (it's currently pouring). Other than a quick trip out to the market for food truck lunch and mulled wine yesterday, therefore, I've mainly been ensconced in the house, watching a film (The Killer, the absolute definition of style over substance in which a contract killer in Paris baulks at killing an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of a hired hit job, and things spiral from there), reading, editing Yuletide fic, and watching biathlon.

This week's reading )

I have another talking meme prompt for today, this one from [personal profile] vriddy: an anecdote involving an animal or pet.

This is a very Australian story )

I do also have a bunch of stored up links, but I think I might leave that for a later post. I hope everyone's been having nice weekends!
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antisoppist ([personal profile] antisoppist) wrote2025-12-07 12:38 pm
Entry tags:

Advent calendar 7

Earlier, as Christmas Eve had turned into Christmas Day, she had listened at the window to the faraway church bell from the village ringing midnight. It was a still night and not cold, the wind in the direction to send the sound of the bell here; it would be a warm start to Christmas after the storms, and the lack of frost and cold left the landscape wintry without dignity; the bell's resonance was more pedestrian than it'd have been on the kind of crisp cold winter night tonight ideally ought to have been. Dead. Dead. Dead, the bell went. Or maybe: Head. Head. Head. The village church had only one bell so couldn't play a tune. It sounded, she thought, like someone at the back of memory hitting at stone with an axe, which is an act that'll do nothing but ruin a good blade.
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tinny ([personal profile] tinny) wrote in [community profile] your_favourites2025-12-07 12:41 pm
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Challenge #228 - Martial Arts Movie


Header 228 Martial Arts Movie


I went back to my "unused themes" list, and here we go with a theme we've not had before! wuxia/xianxia/martial arts movies! The Chinese categories are called wuxia/xianxia, where magical fighters and cultivators fight for dominance. The Western equivalent is martial arts - and if that's absolutely not your thing, I'm also going to allow anything where the main characters use their hands and feet and swords to fight more than they do guns. Looking at it that way, some of the MCU movies count in that category, so does Star Wars, and the wikipedia list also has wrestling as a martial art. I trust your judgement there as to what qualifies. I'm not very versed in superhero movies.

Here's a list from imdb: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000099643/
And the category from wikipedia: Category:Martial arts films - Wikipedia




The Three Musketeers by [personal profile] sallymn | Star Wars by [livejournal.com profile] dbzxenaman2 | Police Story 3 SuperCop by [personal profile] tinny | Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon by [personal profile] wickedgame


* You may icon 2 different movies in this challenge (in case you cannot decide which one is your absolute favorite)
* If you use a franchise, you can count them as one movie.
* You may enter up to 4 icons (ICON+URL).
* Please submit your icons as new posts to this community. Every member has posting access.
* Please no animations or x-rated icons. Everything else is allowed.
* Icons must fit DW standards (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
* Tag your entries with challenge number and your username, or I can do it for you.
* Please put a description in your entry which movie(s) you picked.

* DEADLINE: Sunday, December 21 2025 (12pm Central European Time). [countdown]
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tinny ([personal profile] tinny) wrote in [community profile] your_favourites2025-12-07 12:38 pm
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Challenge #227 Voting

your_favourites voting header


* Vote for the best 3 icons in order of preference (f.e. 80, 66, 57). Voting is weighted, meaning first place gets 3 points, second place 2 points, third place 1 point.
* Don't vote for yourself or ask anyone to vote for you.
* Voting ends in two weeks, at the end of the next challenge.

Voting Challenge #227 - Musician )

Please vote in comments, comments are screened.
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tinny ([personal profile] tinny) wrote in [community profile] your_favourites2025-12-07 12:34 pm
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Challenge #226 Winners

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Thank you so much for all your votes! Congratulations to all winners! What a beautiful set of primary colors! \o/
If you would like to get a winner banner, please comment.


FIRST SECOND THIRD MOD'S CHOICE

[personal profile] tinny

[personal profile] picnicnic

[personal profile] mulhollands

[personal profile] innitmarvelous_og



votes )
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-12-06 10:43 pm

Rec-Cember Day 4-6: 3 Babylon 5 recs [2 fic, 1 fanart] + a commenting success story

I figured that I'd group these together as they're by the same author. I wanted to talk about this anyway, because this is one of the more gratifying experiences I've had with leaving comments on older fic. Basically, I commented on a long WIP that hadn't been updated in several years, and the author not only wrote the rest of it but ALSO, to my delighted amazement, posted another long fic in the same universe, and started posting some new fanart too. It was wonderful. ♥ Never be afraid to comment even years later; sometimes you not only make someone's day but get lovely fanworks in return.

3 Londo/G'Kar Babylon 5 recs (by the same creator) cut for spoilers )
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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote2025-12-07 06:39 pm

Challenge 894 - Just reward

Title: Just reward
Character: Jack, Owen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 894 - Thanks at [community profile] torchwood100
Summary: All Torchwood needs is thanks for a job well done. A double drabble.

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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote2025-12-07 06:37 pm

Challenge 894 - Back to normal

Title: Back to normal
Character: Torchwood team
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 100 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 894 - Thanks at [community profile] torchwood100
Summary: Ianto's coffee has been sorely missed.

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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote2025-12-07 06:36 pm

Challenge 894 - Ingrates

Title: Ingrates
Character: Owen, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 894 - Thanks at [community profile] torchwood100
Summary: Cleaning up now counts as suspicious activity. A double drabble.

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