What I'm Doing Wednesday

Oct. 8th, 2025 03:53 pm
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books
Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles #6) by Dorothy Dunnett. 1975. cw: war, murder, offscreen sexual assault, subsequent PTSD. The exciting conclusion to the series. No lie, this one was rollicking, despite an overuse of untranslated French.

still reading: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Book one. So charming.

still reading: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed. 2023. Graphic novel. Shubeik lubeik translates to "Your wish is my command" in Arabic. This version of Egypt is modern except it has wishes that come true, and are regulated (and black market). Great concept. I'm only 20% through, but it's a good book so far.


yarning
finished a yellow bunny and the above calico Cat Stitch scarf. The scarf sold this morning (without even me listing it first) & another person wants to get a custom one made! Yay! I worked on a grey and black kickbunny at yarn group Sunday and had a nice time. I'm nearly finished with it, though now I have a commission to recreate a cat's favorite turkey leg toy with wool and catnip. And scarf customer reminded me that xmas is coming and it's time to to work on stocking the shop! I ordered more catnip & hopefully won't run out of silvervine yet. All in all, a productive week!

healthcrap
The drooping eyelid is making me crazy -- double vision, blurry vision, the eyelid being in the way of seeing. more healthcrap )

#resist
October 18: No Kings Day 2!

I hope all of y'all are doing well and can see with your regular number of eyes. :g:
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Thank you kindly to my "interplanetary" friend [personal profile] james who in September sent me a postcard that says Visit Beautiful Southern Enceladus: More Than 100 Breathtaking Geysers! The Home of "Cold Faithful"!

(For those of you who might think this is a place in California because it sounds like "Escondido" and "Encino" and other similar California location names..uhm...no...Enceladus is a moon of the planet Saturn.)

Rec: Salieri's "Real Life" series

Oct. 6th, 2025 03:16 am
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I did a lengthy rec for MSSalieri's amazing series over at Fancake.

It's here.

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Not dead yet, just lagging behind a bit! Here's new dS art from September:

 
ARTIST: capispaghetti
 
Angstyyy (F/K)


ARTIST: gjdraws
 
Somatic Override (Fraser/RayV, Fraser/Victoria)
 
 
ARTIST: HomeWasGood
 
Painting of Victoria

 
ARTIST: mific

Ray Vecchio 
 
 
ARTIST: petridishh416
 
Cover art for an AU story (Fraser, RayV, Dief)
 
Wolves after you tell them… (Dief)
 
Crossover/mashup of Fraser & RayK with Sam & Max (video game characters)
 
 
ARTIST: syrupmap
 
On the inside I’m a poet (F/K collage)
 
 
ARTIST: systematic-and-somehow-tragic
 
The Riv!
 
 
Bonus C6D content:

Shippy "Caught" fanart of Allan Hawco and Paul Gross by gjdraws 
 
 
 
 
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Hey all!

A Discord-fan named Mal has come up with a due South/C6D fanwork challenge (though they extend it to every fandom, if someone prefers!). They have a bunch of song titles from a Canadian punk band, and you're invited to create fanworks for it!

It's an open-ended challenge--just let them know you've created something and give them a link to AO3 or wherever you've housed your work, and they'll link it on their page.

SNFU Fanwork Challenge

Have fun fanworking!

ETA 10/5: Mal has an email address we can use, at stargore@disroot.org. Let them know if you've got a fanwork for them!

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Oct. 1st, 2025 03:58 pm
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books (Dunnett, Aaronovitch et al, Mohamed) )


VAMPIRE SALE!
I've put all my Interview With The Vampire Art Dolls on sale for 20% off for the entire month of October! (I have a post on Tumblr that it would be great if you could reblog! Thanks!)

yarning
I've been crocheting a lot, making and selling more kickbunnies. (Enough that I may even get my Etsy star seller badge back!) I went to yarn group Sunday and had a nice time. I just finished a purple bunny & an under the door toy. Next is a yellow bunny, though I'm running out of boxes and am waiting on Prime Day to order more, oops. OH! AND! Niece LOVED her globe & moon! I'm so relieved. I still don't know what to make her for xmas, but I'm going to do a reversible octopus for her 2yo brother with a happy face on one side and a frowny face on the other. He's learning the basics of FEELINGS & this may help? I hope so. Might do a reversible rose doll for Niece (one side is a doll from waist up with a big skirt. Flip the skirt over her head and it's a rose. Though I wonder if she already has one. Hrm.

healthcrap
I had botox for migraines Friday & the skin clinic Monday. Boo: I've got a badly drooping right eyelid from the botox this time & it's so bad I'm having trouble focusing. Yay: Topical horse dewormer is incredibly effective for rosacea, I'm glad to say. I thought I'd never get rid of the spots on my face, but this works. (Note, it does NOT work for Covid.) Speaking of, I got my Covid & flu jabs today. Fasting labs tmrw, gah, but they have to be done. cut for discussion of weight loss )

#resist
October 18: No Kings Day 2

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333
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This is a reminder that the Firewhiskey Fic Challenge -- back from hiatus -- will be taking place on Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 5. For the rules and the prompts, see the Firewhiskey Fic comm on DW.

New due South game (quiz)

Sep. 29th, 2025 06:11 pm
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Regina Keim and Joanne Currie posted a new due South quiz on the Due South Duet Facebook F/K community. 

You can find the latest due South quiz here at duesouth.de! (It's quiz #25-09 in the series of quizzes and games, if you're keeping track.)

Due South fic Rec

Sep. 30th, 2025 01:03 am
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Another Fraser/Ray/Ray rec on fancake over here!

Couple of missing podfics

Sep. 29th, 2025 10:39 am
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Checking to see if anyone has a copy of either of these podfics - both are missing from the Audiofic Archive but for some reason they weren't in the "missing files" spreadheet.

Growing Pains - written & read by catwalksalone
Black Ice - by sprat, read by zabira

TIA if you can help!

Frederick the Literate

Sep. 26th, 2025 08:19 pm
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I picked Frederick up from the framers today.

Fic I wrote for Ray Vecchio Day 2025

Sep. 25th, 2025 10:19 pm
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Title: Bend It Like Benton

Author: [personal profile] ride_4ever

Fandoms: due South x FlashForward crossover

Categories: Gen, M/M

Archive warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio (formerly Stella Kowalski) mentioned, Benton Fraser mentioned, Ray Kowalski implied

Relationships: Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski implied

Rating: Teen and Up

Length: 300 words (triple drabble)

Summary: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time nearly everyone in the world lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds during which time most saw a vision – a “flash forward” – of their lives six months into the future: April 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM PDT. Some people, however, merely lost consciousness without experiencing a vision…people who were then presumed to be fated to die by April 29, 2010.

AN: Written for both Ray Vecchio Day and for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW.

Fic on AO3.
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Title: Bend It Like Benton

Author: [personal profile] ride_4ever

Fandoms: due South x FlashForward crossover

Categories: Gen, M/M

Archive warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio (formerly Stella Kowalski) mentioned, Benton Fraser mentioned, Ray Kowalski implied

Relationships: Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski implied

Rating: Teen and Up

Length: 300 words (triple drabble)

Summary: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time nearly everyone in the world lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds during which time most saw a vision – a “flash forward” – of their lives six months into the future: April 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM PDT. Some people, however, merely lost consciousness without experiencing a vision…people who were then presumed to be fated to die by April 29, 2010.

AN: Written for both Ray Vecchio Day and for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW.

Fic on AO3.