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Jan. 6th, 2026 09:14 pm
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So, we had a winter break!

We had our family Christmas on Christmas Eve, going to D's church's Christmas Eve service, making and opening presents, etc. We got to the airport at 5am Christmas day to go visit my family and were promptly informed (we had gotten no communication from Southwest beforehand) that the airport had flooded and all flights were grounded. Not totally unexpected, as there had been a lot of rain, but kind of annoying. After some back and forth during which we went home and fell back into bed, then were informed that our flight was leaving after all two hours earlier than they'd said and we were about to miss it, then rebooked for later (which at least allowed me to leave Yuletide gift comments), then finally got out that afternoon, then were able to catch an earlier connection than we were booked for. Yay! Keeping track of local news after that, I learned that the airport flooded again an hour after our rebooked flight left (and I think it didn't open back up again until the next day), so we got out just in time. It's been flooding off and on since then, when it rains again. I think no more rain for a while.

Anyway. Had lots of family time! An incomplete list: )
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mostly a curse of like where i have a list of to-do things for either cleaning up (uploading my final bear blog posts here), funsies (site work), game stuff (minecraft forever world) ... and none of them seem appealing

either cause my brain is fixated on something i cant do (waiting to get my color tcg cards from events which yknow. i have to wait for), or wants to do nothing!!! and it sucks!!!!!! either that or i go downstairs and eat food at like. midnight

Iconquest - Post 4

Jan. 7th, 2026 12:05 am
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These icons I made for Round #34 The Iconquest 2 over @ [community profile] retro_icontest.


My battle icons!!

Crop Battle
cropbattle1center cropbattle2far cropbattle3close cropbattle4odd
Center (Spencer Brown) // Far (Dawson Kox) // Close (Dalton Kincaid) // Odd (Josh Allen

Fallout Battle
fallout1boldcolor fallout2closecrop fallout3negativespace
bold coloring // close crop // negative space
fallout4mono fallout5dramaticlighting fallout6texture
monotone // dramatic lighting // texture
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 No, it's not Sunday, but I haven't done any of these in a while, and that's the title of my post series, so.

I've written two stories this year so far, which is a good start even though they're both short. I've got to get cracking on my prompt fill for
Small Fandom Fest, too. Yikes! And I've got my main series to work on, and a continuation of a fic that was originally only going to be a short one-shot, but popular demand inspired me to expand it...

This show, this show. I can't believe the stuff it has me doing! I'm almost ashamed to admit. Stuff I swore I would never do. Like sign up with TikTok. Forgive me. I still hate it. I only want to see Miami Vice related vids, and the short length of a lot of them is ridiculous. I found a new-to-me artist though, who posted one of his songs to an MV video. But serious, I really hate it. Very annoying site.

I post a lot of episode reactions on Tumblr now, instead of just lurking like I used to do. I've been taking notes and making screencaps as I watch the episodes. I'm considering making some gifs, now that I have the means to do it... Heck, if I had the patience I could make music videos. I made a Sonny/Rico playlist (well, several of them on my classic Media Player, but one online for sharing). I've started making memes, and oh yeah, I've also started using screenshots/photos to make Titles for my fanfic. Sheesh!

I was just lurking on r/Miami Vice on Reddit and thinking about how this show truly had something for everyone. Men, women, people of all genders and sexual orientations, slash fans, action fans, cishet men who loved the cars/boats/guns/bikini-clad women, there was POC diversity, social commentary that's still relevant today, gorgeous men... And we're all still here thirty years later, happy as pigs in shit. 😀😁🤣


Daily Happiness

Jan. 6th, 2026 07:48 pm
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1. Apparently today is Three Kings Day as someone brought in a king cake to work, but it was actually a really good king cake! I've only had King Cake once before and found both the style of cake and frosting to be not my jam, but this is a Mexican style king cake, which is not actually cake, but rather just very sweet bread, and instead of royal icing on top, it has bits of like quince paste or something. It is still ring shaped and has a plastic baby Jesus in it, though. It was from the in-store bakery of a Mexican supermarket chain and there's one not that far from work so if I remember about it next year I might actually consider buying a whole one myself.

2. Cutie guy.

svpromptstables

Jan. 6th, 2026 10:07 pm
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[community profile] svpromptstables is an Arrowverse (*coughs* check out it's multiverse *winks*) & Smallville Prompt table challenge, with prompt tables options ranging from 7-100 prompts. Low stakes, no limit on how much you can "claim" (and anyone can "claim" the same things), only a minimum of 100 words and no deadlines.

Tables | FAQ | Claim & Claim List

svpromptstables

Jan. 6th, 2026 10:03 pm
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[community profile] svpromptstables is an Arrowverse (*coughs* check out it's multiverse *winks*) & Smallville Prompt table challenge, with prompt tables options ranging from 7-100 prompts. Low stakes, no limit on how much you can "claim" (and anyone can "claim" the same things), only a minimum of 100 words and no deadlines.

Tables | FAQ | Claim & Claim List

⏾ 018

Jan. 6th, 2026 09:13 pm
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I've been meaning to edit my sticky intro post and finally got around to doing that. I figured during the Snowflake Challenge would be a good time to do a bit of housekeeping with there likely being an influx of people visiting my blog. It's mostly the same info in a different format, but I also added my Storygraph link there. Not sure if anyone here uses it that much, but that's the place to go if you're interested in stalking the BL I read lol. I haven't been reading much else lately. 

I haven't picked up any games these past few days (other than Genshin) in favor of writing or trying to do adulting tasks. I've been feeling a weird mix of anxious and lethargic over the past week. I'm probably a bit depressed since I don't have much reason to be outside on my days off. My brain prefers to be busy, I think. Things will change when spring semester starts, which I'm also nervous about. My last community college class is at an unfamiliar campus, so I need to take a trip down to it sometime before my class starts to find where the classrooms even are. I'd rather not make myself panic trying to find the right room on day one. 

Also, I get my tattoo tomorrow so I'm mentally preparing myself to be in pain for a couple hours straight. It will be smaller than my previous ones so I'm hoping I don't get tattoo flu this time. Getting the tattoo will probably feel cathartic though. Body mods always give me a mental health boost because they're a special interest of mine.
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I shall miss the stars.

Not that I shall stop looking
as they pattern their wild will each night
across an inchoate sky, but I must see them with a different awe.
If I trace their flames’ ascending and descending –
relationships and correspondences –
then I deny what they have just revealed.
The sum of their oppositions, juxtapositions, led me to the end of all sums:
a long journey, cold, dark and uncertain,
toward the ultimate equation.
How can I understand? If I turn back from this,
compelled to seek all answers in the stars,
then this – Who – they have led me to
is not the One they said: they will have lied.

No stars are liars!
My life on their truth!
If they had lied about this
I could never trust their power again.

But I believe they showed the truth,
truth breathing,
truth Whom I have touched with my own hands,
worshipped with my gifts.
If I have bowed, made
obeisance to this final arithmetic,
I cannot ask the future from the stars without betraying
the One whom they have led me to.

It will be hard not ask, just once again,
see by mathematical forecast where he will grow,
where go, what kingdom conquer, what crown wear.
But would it not be going beyond truth
(the obscene reduction ad absurdum)
to lose my faith in truth once, and once for all
revealed in the full dayspring of the sun?

I cannot go back to night.
O Truth, O small and unexpected thing,
You have taken so much from me.
How can I bear wisdom’s pain?
But I have been shown: and I have seen.

— Madeleine L’Engle

snowflake day 2: pets

Jan. 6th, 2026 09:28 pm
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Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

I originally wasn't going to do this one because it got me thinking about Phoebe and I was sad, but then I decided I wanted to talk a little about Phoebe and let myself be sad.

CN: Pet death )
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Checking Up and Checking In
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1280
[Monday, May 11, 2020, just after dawn]


:: Vic’s mental state alarms both Ed and Aidan. Aidan checks the younger man over, and Ed takes steps to assess Vic’s emotional state. Part of the Edison’s Mirror universe. ::




Aidan set about making tea, first by setting water to heat on the stove, then by sorting through the herbs that he had collected, most of which were still drying in bundles. He worked steadily, though he wobbled on his feet twice.

Ed got Vic settled on the sofa that he preferred, and draped a thick comforter around the teen. “Are you okay? Does your head hurt? Your ears? Your eyes?” Despite the rapid questions, Ed paused between them, waiting for answers.
Read more... )

Snowflake 2026 #3

Jan. 6th, 2026 06:45 pm
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Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

I haven't had a particularly outstanding experience in any one fandom, so my appreciation goes out to fandom spaces in general.

My sappy love letter to fandom. )
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📝 Оригинальный текст записи
Сегодня хочу поделиться историей. Она произошла сегодня, но началась ещё летом 2022 года.

Вопреки внешним обстоятельствам я всё‑таки решился пройти обследование в военном госпитале. Успел буквально минута в минуту. В очереди я заметил знакомого человека в военной форме — девушку, служившую в части, с которой я начинал свой путь в армии.

Сначала я её не узнал: лицо было залито слезами, взгляд — пустой и уставший.

Немного предыстории.

Когда я только призвался, я попал в очень молодой коллектив. Многие были вчерашними студентами, кто‑то совсем юный. Тогда царила полная неразбериха: никто особо не смотрел ни на биографии, ни на навыки — нужно было просто закрыть вакантные места. Честно говоря, спустя четыре года ситуация изменилась не так уж сильно.

Коллектив был большим: молодые офицеры, простые матросы. По возрасту я был старше почти всех, кроме командира — он был примерно моего возраста. Многие приехали из других городов и сёл, и мне искренне хотелось помогать новым коллегам: с жильём, с бытом, с самыми простыми вещами. Один из них даже какое‑то время жил у меня.

Когда я освоился в работе и начал заступать на боевые дежурства, для меня стало важным знать свой состав и формировать рабочие смены. Мы все учились на ходу, но главным был результат и безопасность. Люди разные — к каждому нужен был подход. Не через приказы, а через понимание.

Среди моих подчинённых была и та самая девушка. Всё, что я знал о ней поначалу: она выходила из Мариуполя в составе группы, путь был тяжёлым. Поэтому я относился к ней и к тем ребятам особенно мягко. Но довольно быстро стало заметно: её состояние значительно тяжелее, чем у остальных. Я узнал, что её муж находится в плену.

В то время у меня было много знакомых волонтёров, достаточно влиятельных. Многие вопросы решались звонком. Видя её подавленность, я решил помочь — хотя бы узнать что‑то о нём. Мне удалось подтвердить, что он жив и официально числится в списках пленных. Я искренне подумал, что это хорошая новость.

Но она отреагировала почти безразлично.

Позже, изучив её дело глубже, я узнал, что она уже в третий раз была замужем. Все её браки — с военными — закончились драмой, и нередко с насилием, причём инициатором была она. Мне было её жаль. Я пытался поддерживать её, сглаживать углы — в том числе потому, что она должна была выполнять боевые задачи, а заменить её было некем.

В разговорах она признавалась, что не знает, чего хочет от жизни. Единственное, что понимала точно — она не хочет быть в армии. Возможно, возвращение в деревню было бы для неё спасением, но уволиться она не могла.

При этом, зная, что её муж в плену, я видел её беспорядочную личную жизнь. Это не моё дело — но мне было больно за того парня, который там, и ничего об этом не знает. Стало очевидно: для неё это не имело значения.

Многие относились к ней агрессивно, не понимая, насколько у неё нестабильное состояние. Я, по крайней мере, не допускал, чтобы у неё было оружие на моих сменах. От неё часто звучали слова о том, что жизнь для неё ничего не значит. Эти слова задели меня особенно — в войне они звучат опасно и глупо одновременно.

Я недолго служил в той части и позже перешёл туда, где мог применить свои морские гражданские навыки. До последнего я пытался поддерживать всех, но её — особенно.

Через год мне сообщили, что она попала в аварию: вместе с очередным случайным мужчиной на скорости около 170 км/ч они влетели в столб. Это уже было не в моей зоне ответственности — у неё был свой командир. Но её прежние слова о бессмысленности жизни снова всплыли у меня в голове.

И вот — спустя четыре года — я снова увидел её в госпитале. В форме. Я подошёл и спросил, как она. Чёткого ответа не получил. Она узнала меня первой, но избегала взгляда. Рядом были молодые ребята, сопровождавшие её к врачу — меня они узнали сразу.

Десяти минут общения хватило, чтобы понять: стало только хуже. Ей нужна была помощь психолога ещё тогда, а сейчас — скорее психотерапевта. Я сказал ей несколько слов поддержки — и меня вызвали на приём.

Когда я вышел, её уже не было.

Я знаю номер её командира, мог бы позвонить и настоять на помощи. Но меня об этом не просили. И, честно говоря, её состояние говорит ещё и о другом — она сама ничего не хочет менять. Это её право.

Находясь в госпитале и видя десятки, сотни искалеченных людей, такое отношение к жизни кажется мне циничным и эгоистичным.

Когда‑то я попытался помочь. Но если человек не просит, а лишь манипулирует ради внимания — любая помощь будет обесценена.
гда-то я уже пытался. Не формально, не для галочки — по-настоящему.
Я слушал, искал возможности, звонил, узнавал, брал на себя больше, чем должен был.
Но с годами я понял простую и неприятную вещь:
если человек не просит о помощи, а лишь требует внимания — любая помощь будет обесценена.

Иногда мы путаем сострадание с обязанностью спасать.
Но спасение без запроса превращается в насилие — над собой и над другим.
Человек имеет право не хотеть меняться.
Имеет право не ценить жизнь.
Даже если это больно видеть.

Я больше не беру на себя то, что мне не принадлежит.
Не потому что стал черствым, а потому что научился уважать границы — и свои, и чужие.
Иногда самый честный выбор — остановиться.

Note translated in assistance with AI.
Today I want to share a story. It happened today, but it began back in the summer of 2022.

Despite everything happening around me, I finally decided to go through medical examinations at a military hospital. I arrived exactly on time. While waiting in line, I noticed a familiar face in uniform — a woman who once served in the unit where my military service began.

At first, I didn’t recognize her. Her face was filled with tears, her eyes empty and exhausted.

A bit of background.

When I was first drafted, I ended up in a very young unit. Many had just graduated from university, some were barely adults. Back then, there was chaos — no one really paid attention to biographies or skills; vacant positions simply had to be filled. To be honest, four years later, not much has changed.

The unit was large: young officers, ordinary sailors. I was older than almost everyone, except for the commander, who was about my age. Many came from other towns and villages, and I genuinely wanted to help my new colleagues — with housing, daily life, basic things. One of them even lived at my place for a while.

Once I settled into my role and began standing combat duty, it became important for me to truly know my people and build working shifts. We were all learning, but results and safety mattered most. Everyone was different — each person required understanding, not orders.

That woman was among my personnel. At first, all I knew was that she had escaped Mariupol as part of a group. The journey had been hard, so I treated her and the others gently. But it soon became clear that her condition was much worse than the rest. I learned that her husband was in captivity.

At the time, I knew many volunteers with influence. Some issues could be solved with a phone call. Seeing her state, I decided to help — at least to find out something about him. I managed to confirm that he was alive and officially listed as a prisoner. I truly believed this was good news.

She reacted with indifference.

Later, after learning more about her case, I discovered this was her third marriage. All her husbands were military men, and none of the marriages survived. There was a lot of drama and even violence — often initiated by her. I felt sorry for her. I tried to support her, to smooth things out — partly because she still had to perform her duties, and there was no one to replace her.

In conversations, she admitted she didn’t know what she wanted from life. The only thing she knew for sure was that she didn’t want to be in the army. Returning to her village might have saved her, but leaving wasn’t an option.

At the same time, knowing her husband was in captivity, I saw how chaotic her personal life was. It wasn’t my business — but I felt pain for the man who was imprisoned and unaware of it all. It became clear that it didn’t matter to her.

Many treated her aggressively, unable to see how unstable she was. At the very least, I made sure she never had a weapon during my shifts. She often said her life meant nothing. Those words affected me deeply — during war, they are both foolish and dangerous.

I didn’t serve long in that unit and later moved to a position closer to the sea, where I could use my civilian skills. Until the very end, I tried to support everyone — her especially.

A year later, I was told she had been in a car accident. Together with another random man, they crashed into a pole at around 170 km/h. It was no longer my responsibility — she had her own commander. But her words about life being meaningless stayed with me.

Four years later, I saw her again in the hospital. In uniform. I asked how she was. There was no clear answer. She recognized me first but avoided my gaze. Young soldiers accompanying her seemed to recognize me immediately.

Ten minutes were enough to understand: things had only gotten worse. She needed a psychologist back then; now, probably a psychotherapist. I said a few words of support — and was called in by the doctor.

When I came out, she was gone.

I know her commander’s number. I could have asked him to intervene. But no one asked me. And honestly, her condition also shows something else — she doesn’t want to change anything. That is her right.

Standing in a hospital among dozens, hundreds of broken people, such an attitude toward life feels cynical and selfish.

I tried to help once. But when a person doesn’t ask for help and only manipulates for attention, any help will inevitably be devalued.
Being in a military hospital, among dozens and hundreds of broken bodies,
I felt especially sharply how cynical the phrase
“I don’t care whether I live or not” can sound.

In a place where people cling to every breath,
indifference to life stops being just a personal tragedy —
it becomes painful noise.

I am not a judge.
But I know one thing for certain:
help imposed on someone who is not ready to accept it does not heal — it only creates an illusion of care.
Once, I already tried.
And if a person does not want to move toward life,
no external voice can take that step for them.

Sometimes responsibility is not intervention —
but knowing when to step back.