[#306 | Heartbreak] Challenge Post
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fandomweekly| Challenge 306: HEARTBREAK |
n. crushing grief, anguish, or distress Sometimes, things don’t work out. The romance doesn’t last, or their plans for the future fall apart. The hero doesn’t get there in time, no matter how hard they try. Sometimes, all the magic or science in the world can’t stop something bad from happening. Not all heartbreaks are permanent! Sometimes it’s still possible to fix things. But often, there’s no way out except to just live through it. Write a story about heartbreak. If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting! |
| Challenge ends Monday, July 13 at 9:00PM EST. • Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile • Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 306 – heartbreak • If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here |
Community Thursdays
Thursday, July 9th, 2026 12:01 amysabetwordsmithThis year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...
* Comment on Just One Thing (8 July 2026) inawesomeers.
* Commented on Check-In Post - July 8th 2026 inget_knitted.
* Commented on "Speak Up Saturday" intv_talk.
* Posted "Agriculture" infirst_nations_freaks.
* Comment on Just One Thing (8 July 2026) in
awesomeers.* Commented on Check-In Post - July 8th 2026 in
get_knitted.* Commented on "Speak Up Saturday" in
tv_talk.* Posted "Agriculture" in
first_nations_freaks.
[#305 | Fireworks] Results Post
Thursday, July 9th, 2026 01:32 amfanweeklymod in fandomweeklyHere are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #305 – Fireworks!
( This week's finalists are... )
Total Challenge Words Written: 2200
Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next week.
You may now post your Challenge 305 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!
( This week's finalists are... )
Total Challenge Words Written: 2200
Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!
autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next week.You may now post your Challenge 305 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!
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Thursday, July 9th, 2026 12:24 amsouthernmedicineWhy does time get away from me so quickly? How?
It's already been a week since my last update, and not by design.
Let's see. The 4th of July was fun, despite it being a holiday I high-key despise. We had two friends over and we made delicious homemade meatball subs. We watched two movies: Uncle Sam, which is one of those movies that is deliberately awful for the sake of entertainment, and another called The Bay which was actually pretty good, unironically.
It's been storming a lot, and I love that. Unfortunately it's also been a Biblical plague out there, because of mayflies. I knew about mayflies. I did not know they would blanket everything by the millions to the point where I literally could not get outside and once I figured out how, the only way to take the dog to pee was to load her into my car, exit the garage, and drive up the street to a place where there was no light to let her go.
The other day, while walking the dog, we found a baby bird on the ground. Above in the tree, the parent birds were very upset. We decided to go back home, get some supplies and a step ladder, and come back to try and help. We fashioned a makeshift nest out of a small box and some old shoelaces and tied it up in the tree, full of leaves, then placed the baby inside of it. It seemed to calm the parents, and we were glad that the nestling wouldn't just sit there in the grass helpless and vulnerable.
I just finished the final season of The Bear.
fandomgiftbasket is in full swing again! I'm excited to take a gander at the spreadsheet and see what I can do.
It's already been a week since my last update, and not by design.
Let's see. The 4th of July was fun, despite it being a holiday I high-key despise. We had two friends over and we made delicious homemade meatball subs. We watched two movies: Uncle Sam, which is one of those movies that is deliberately awful for the sake of entertainment, and another called The Bay which was actually pretty good, unironically.
It's been storming a lot, and I love that. Unfortunately it's also been a Biblical plague out there, because of mayflies. I knew about mayflies. I did not know they would blanket everything by the millions to the point where I literally could not get outside and once I figured out how, the only way to take the dog to pee was to load her into my car, exit the garage, and drive up the street to a place where there was no light to let her go.
The other day, while walking the dog, we found a baby bird on the ground. Above in the tree, the parent birds were very upset. We decided to go back home, get some supplies and a step ladder, and come back to try and help. We fashioned a makeshift nest out of a small box and some old shoelaces and tied it up in the tree, full of leaves, then placed the baby inside of it. It seemed to calm the parents, and we were glad that the nestling wouldn't just sit there in the grass helpless and vulnerable.
I just finished the final season of The Bear.
fandomgiftbasket is in full swing again! I'm excited to take a gander at the spreadsheet and see what I can do.
Acceptable Apps
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 10:27 pmarmainaI, as much as many people, am tired of the amount of things that force itself into app-hood, but there are a couple things I've installed on my phone as apps that I'm glad I did, namely, the Wikipedia app and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary App.
So much of small searches are either just checking spelling, a thesaurus check, or fact-checking on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia app's been great because it saves tabs of all my searches if I want it to, and the Dictionary app is great because it gets right to what I need it for, word checking that I have too often done with a search engine and have decided they don't need my clicks.
Just nice utilities to have around.
So much of small searches are either just checking spelling, a thesaurus check, or fact-checking on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia app's been great because it saves tabs of all my searches if I want it to, and the Dictionary app is great because it gets right to what I need it for, word checking that I have too often done with a search engine and have decided they don't need my clicks.
Just nice utilities to have around.
Anime Summer 2026 Assess 1 of 2
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 10:25 pmlovelyangel A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even, Episode 1 |
At the beginning of every anime season, I try to sample most new shows to determine what I’ll be following during the season. The goal is no more than 16 series. A lot of average / so-so shows end up in the Time Permitting queue. My actual commitments are short.
The summer anime season is especially difficult to kickstart because I’m generally unavailable the second week of July. I’ll be offline, and anime will be on hold. I’ve started to sample shows, but already there is a huge backlog that is clamoring for my attention. Well, it will have to wait until later this month. For now, I’ll post the incomplete compilation of assessments. There are placeholders for shows waiting for my review.
( This Season’s Anime Below The Cut )
We tried another way we never came back from
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 11:45 pmsovayFollowing the successful conclusion of one of spatch's appointments for a change, we returned to Belle Isle Seafood and this time it was a beautiful gold-tilting evening and we could seat ourselves at one of the weather-polished open-air tables and a server came by with her pad of guest checks and for what we estimate to have been the first time in six and a quarter years we ate at a restaurant together. I got a plate of smelts piled just as high and sweetly sanded and ate them down to the fried tips of their tails and the delicate bones. Rob assures me that his baked haddock was as flakily rich as it looked under its crumbs and juiced lemon. We had duly observed the warning sign about the seagulls, but mostly we saw sparrows leaning like acrobats through the diamonds of the chain-link and a common tern that made an air-slicing swoop into the water after a small silver struggle of fish. I twisted corners of napkins into earplugs because of the planes roaring out of the peach-haze over Logan. The serpentine water was full of the shivered reflections of boats and the piers built green shadows under their Plimsoll lines. When we came home by way of Revere Beach where the glass-backed combers were still curling in high, the sun doubled itself fierily in the salt marsh off North Shore Road. Even more so now, the sea feels like a lifeline. Everything feels like choking and it is so important to have reasons to breathe.
spatch's appointments for a change, we returned to Belle Isle Seafood and this time it was a beautiful gold-tilting evening and we could seat ourselves at one of the weather-polished open-air tables and a server came by with her pad of guest checks and for what we estimate to have been the first time in six and a quarter years we ate at a restaurant together. I got a plate of smelts piled just as high and sweetly sanded and ate them down to the fried tips of their tails and the delicate bones. Rob assures me that his baked haddock was as flakily rich as it looked under its crumbs and juiced lemon. We had duly observed the warning sign about the seagulls, but mostly we saw sparrows leaning like acrobats through the diamonds of the chain-link and a common tern that made an air-slicing swoop into the water after a small silver struggle of fish. I twisted corners of napkins into earplugs because of the planes roaring out of the peach-haze over Logan. The serpentine water was full of the shivered reflections of boats and the piers built green shadows under their Plimsoll lines. When we came home by way of Revere Beach where the glass-backed combers were still curling in high, the sun doubled itself fierily in the salt marsh off North Shore Road. Even more so now, the sea feels like a lifeline. Everything feels like choking and it is so important to have reasons to breathe.
Movie post
Thursday, July 9th, 2026 01:48 pmlucymonsterTwo new horror films have just opened up in local theatres, and I am debating whether to go and see them. (Saccharine will either be just what I want right now or will set my own body image issues spiraling; Evil Dead Burn is almost certainly too gory for me, but I'm fighting a reckless urge to ~test myself.) In the meantime, here's what I've been watching at home on a smaller screen:
Conclave (2024): The Pope dies; the Cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new one; much political intrigue occurs, and much anguishing of consciences. Ralph Fiennes carried this whole film as the convenor of the conclave, while Carlos Diehz supplied the pontifical eye candy as a badass (by ageing Catholic dude standards) newcomer who had been secretly appointed to the perilous archbishopric of Kabul after a career spent ministering in war and disaster zones. Very fun and tense and aesthetic. I do not have much else to say.
Black Death (2010): This entertainingly heavy-handed medieval action/horror stars Sean Bean as a Catholic warrior on a mission to catch a necromancer accused of using black magic to shield a whole village from the ravages of plague, and Eddie Redmayne as a novice from a nearby local monastery who volunteers to guide him to the village. It starts out as a gritty, filthy, dark historical adventure that takes the adventurers' faith very seriously, before eventually dissolving into an unintentional horror-comedy of Evil Pagans(TM) railing against the Church and trying to torture and trying to force the Christians to renounce God under threat of death and torture, while the Christians are all Vaderesque NOOOOOOOOOO, I'll never renounce God!!!!! Carice van Houten (the Evil Pagan(TM) queen) is so attractive it should be illegal. The twist end was...quite satisfying, actually! I can't take any of it too seriously but it was a very enjoyable watch.
Thesis (1996): Spanish horror/thriller about film student Ángela who, while exploring cinematic depictions of extreme violence for her thesis, stumbles across the existence of a snuff production ring operating in her university. Ángela is in deep denial about her fascination with death and gore and seems confused as to her own moral position; her impulse is to bury her head in the sand and forget all about the horrible criminal discovery. Her classmate Chema, an unabashed horror fan and collector of assorted video nasties, feels obliged to investigate. It is all very meta, and at times seems to be deliberately taunting the audience - many a time the camera will pan slowly towards a sight we are told is unspeakably grisly, only to dart away at the last possible second.
And some DNFs: I watched about half an hour of The Rite because I was in the mood for more films in the vein of The Exorcist, but it ended up being so much in the vein of The Exorcist (right down to the sad brown-haired young priest who boxes to work out and is the middle of a crisis of faith) that I was mostly bored by the time a heavily pregnant woman wandered on-screen and I realised I had recklessly forgotten to check if the movie had child death in it, so I paused and checked and...yeah, that's a nope. I started watching Send Help with high hopes, but the first few minutes were devoted to that guy from Teen Wolf being the most infuriatingly horrible business bro and my blood pressure couldn't take it. That is NOT the kind of stressed out I want to be while watching a horror movie! The Invisible Man was also the wrong kind of stressful, in a different way: Imagine you're dating Tony Stark, and he's a complete abusive psycho! (No thank you, I will not be imagining that.) Finally I watched a bit of The Cabin in the Woods, but the Whedonesque vibes just weren't what I was in the mood for - I may come back to this one at a later date, though, since it's such a classic.
Conclave (2024): The Pope dies; the Cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new one; much political intrigue occurs, and much anguishing of consciences. Ralph Fiennes carried this whole film as the convenor of the conclave, while Carlos Diehz supplied the pontifical eye candy as a badass (by ageing Catholic dude standards) newcomer who had been secretly appointed to the perilous archbishopric of Kabul after a career spent ministering in war and disaster zones. Very fun and tense and aesthetic. I do not have much else to say.
Black Death (2010): This entertainingly heavy-handed medieval action/horror stars Sean Bean as a Catholic warrior on a mission to catch a necromancer accused of using black magic to shield a whole village from the ravages of plague, and Eddie Redmayne as a novice from a nearby local monastery who volunteers to guide him to the village. It starts out as a gritty, filthy, dark historical adventure that takes the adventurers' faith very seriously, before eventually dissolving into an unintentional horror-comedy of Evil Pagans(TM) railing against the Church and trying to torture and trying to force the Christians to renounce God under threat of death and torture, while the Christians are all Vaderesque NOOOOOOOOOO, I'll never renounce God!!!!! Carice van Houten (the Evil Pagan(TM) queen) is so attractive it should be illegal. The twist end was...quite satisfying, actually! I can't take any of it too seriously but it was a very enjoyable watch.
Thesis (1996): Spanish horror/thriller about film student Ángela who, while exploring cinematic depictions of extreme violence for her thesis, stumbles across the existence of a snuff production ring operating in her university. Ángela is in deep denial about her fascination with death and gore and seems confused as to her own moral position; her impulse is to bury her head in the sand and forget all about the horrible criminal discovery. Her classmate Chema, an unabashed horror fan and collector of assorted video nasties, feels obliged to investigate. It is all very meta, and at times seems to be deliberately taunting the audience - many a time the camera will pan slowly towards a sight we are told is unspeakably grisly, only to dart away at the last possible second.
And some DNFs: I watched about half an hour of The Rite because I was in the mood for more films in the vein of The Exorcist, but it ended up being so much in the vein of The Exorcist (right down to the sad brown-haired young priest who boxes to work out and is the middle of a crisis of faith) that I was mostly bored by the time a heavily pregnant woman wandered on-screen and I realised I had recklessly forgotten to check if the movie had child death in it, so I paused and checked and...yeah, that's a nope. I started watching Send Help with high hopes, but the first few minutes were devoted to that guy from Teen Wolf being the most infuriatingly horrible business bro and my blood pressure couldn't take it. That is NOT the kind of stressed out I want to be while watching a horror movie! The Invisible Man was also the wrong kind of stressful, in a different way: Imagine you're dating Tony Stark, and he's a complete abusive psycho! (No thank you, I will not be imagining that.) Finally I watched a bit of The Cabin in the Woods, but the Whedonesque vibes just weren't what I was in the mood for - I may come back to this one at a later date, though, since it's such a classic.
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Thursday, July 9th, 2026 02:03 pmthawreckaI love how much the character 酒 looks like, wow, look at this bottle of stuff, like it's putting spirit fingers around a bottle of booze
Friend, Food, and Books
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 09:00 pmlovelyangel |
Today I had lunch in Portland with my friend Jim. I don’t go into Portland often, so I merged the lunch date with some errands. On a sunny day with a high around 79°F, outdoor walking was a perfect activity.
( A Fine Day )
movies: Leviticus, Rose of Nevada
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 08:44 pmsnickficLeviticus (2026). Two queer teen boys in a homophobic Australian backwater are stalked by a demon that appears to each one as the other, driving them apart.
This stars Joe Bird, the little brother in Talk to Me. He was great then and he's great here, and his and co-star Stacy Clausen's chemistry is fantastic. This movie only works because they're so good together as two fumbling kids who don't really understand themselves or each other, who can't trust each other because the other guy might be a demon, but who, it turns out, can't trust anyone else in their lives either. Betrayal is the big theme here: by trusted adults, religion, the person you're into, and yourself.
The conversion therapy metaphor is very obvious, which isn't necessarily bad, but I did feel that the movie wasn't sure what to do with it once it had introduced it. Like yes, now you (or the appearance of you) are dangerous to each other, so now what? I wanted it to give me more. The movie feels like it plateaus in the last act, neither deepening the themes nor escalating the tension but just hitting a lot of the same beats until things finally resolve.
However, the actual character work is good, IMO. Both kids are complicated and make realistically bad choices, but they also both keep trying with one another. There's a really great scene where love interest Ryan uses the word dickhead about five times, and it's honestly really sweet in context. The cinematography was also good; I really felt the kind of down-and-out exhaustion of the industrial small town.
Overall, even though it didn't fire on all cylinders for me, it's definitely a worthwhile watch if teen boys in love in a horror setting sound like your jam.
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Rose of Nevada (2026). Directed by Mark Jenkin, who also made Enys Men, this is about two guys in an impoverished Cornish fishing town who take a job aboard a lost and resurfaced fishing boat, which takes them back in time. The guy who's been sleeping rough suddenly finds he has a wife and kid; the guy who took the job to support his family no longer has one, because they're back in the present day.
This movie is largely an Experience (tm) rather than a story as such. It seems like there is some actual plot/lore underpinning, but Jenkin is not that interested in explaining what it is. We spend a LOT of time on a fishing boat. The captain might be fae, or the boat might stuck in a time loop, or... who can say.
Mostly what Jenkin is interested in is making a movie that feels old, full of fuzziness and tactile impressions of things. I'm told the camera can only store about twelve seconds of footage at a time, so everything is a quick cut, and for whatever reason he didn't mic any of it, so all the sound happened in post and all the spoken dialogue was dubbed in, like an old giallo film or something.
I got out of this and was like well that was an experience I guess, but with time I feel like I might want to watch it again. Maybe I can make sense of more things this time.
This stars Joe Bird, the little brother in Talk to Me. He was great then and he's great here, and his and co-star Stacy Clausen's chemistry is fantastic. This movie only works because they're so good together as two fumbling kids who don't really understand themselves or each other, who can't trust each other because the other guy might be a demon, but who, it turns out, can't trust anyone else in their lives either. Betrayal is the big theme here: by trusted adults, religion, the person you're into, and yourself.
The conversion therapy metaphor is very obvious, which isn't necessarily bad, but I did feel that the movie wasn't sure what to do with it once it had introduced it. Like yes, now you (or the appearance of you) are dangerous to each other, so now what? I wanted it to give me more. The movie feels like it plateaus in the last act, neither deepening the themes nor escalating the tension but just hitting a lot of the same beats until things finally resolve.
However, the actual character work is good, IMO. Both kids are complicated and make realistically bad choices, but they also both keep trying with one another. There's a really great scene where love interest Ryan uses the word dickhead about five times, and it's honestly really sweet in context. The cinematography was also good; I really felt the kind of down-and-out exhaustion of the industrial small town.
Overall, even though it didn't fire on all cylinders for me, it's definitely a worthwhile watch if teen boys in love in a horror setting sound like your jam.
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Rose of Nevada (2026). Directed by Mark Jenkin, who also made Enys Men, this is about two guys in an impoverished Cornish fishing town who take a job aboard a lost and resurfaced fishing boat, which takes them back in time. The guy who's been sleeping rough suddenly finds he has a wife and kid; the guy who took the job to support his family no longer has one, because they're back in the present day.
This movie is largely an Experience (tm) rather than a story as such. It seems like there is some actual plot/lore underpinning, but Jenkin is not that interested in explaining what it is. We spend a LOT of time on a fishing boat. The captain might be fae, or the boat might stuck in a time loop, or... who can say.
Mostly what Jenkin is interested in is making a movie that feels old, full of fuzziness and tactile impressions of things. I'm told the camera can only store about twelve seconds of footage at a time, so everything is a quick cut, and for whatever reason he didn't mic any of it, so all the sound happened in post and all the spoken dialogue was dubbed in, like an old giallo film or something.
I got out of this and was like well that was an experience I guess, but with time I feel like I might want to watch it again. Maybe I can make sense of more things this time.
Daily Happiness
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 08:14 pmtorachan1. They got the AC fixed at work! The guy was already working on it when I got there and he seemed to get it fixed pretty quickly. Everyone else in the office was very excited about it not being so hot, too.
2. I finished up the second of the Star Wars movie poster puzzles.
These really are fun little puzzles, though I will be glad to move on to something a bit more challenging once these are done.
3. Carla arrived safe and sound in Wisconsin this afternoon. Unfortunately the AC was not working well on the train, which is not what you want for an almost two day journey during the height of summer, but at least it wasn't fully off, just spotty in the rooms while still being nice and cool in the hallway. And now she's in the hot, muggy midwest, but at least her aunt and uncle's house has AC.
4. There is a new yuzu green tea from my favorite bottled green tea brand (Itoen's Oi Ocha series) and it's on sale at work through today. I only noticed it today at lunch when I bought a bottle for myself, so I bought a case (12 bottles) before I went home, so I could have them to bring for lunch. When I just buy a drink here or there I don't always use my employee discount as I always use the self-checkout and don't always have my badge with me to scan, but if I make a larger purchase I always make sure to, so I got the employee discount (which is only 10% but better than nothing) plus the sale price.
5. Jasper loves hanging out on this box in my closet lately. If I can't find him, this is always the first place I look!
2. I finished up the second of the Star Wars movie poster puzzles.
These really are fun little puzzles, though I will be glad to move on to something a bit more challenging once these are done.
3. Carla arrived safe and sound in Wisconsin this afternoon. Unfortunately the AC was not working well on the train, which is not what you want for an almost two day journey during the height of summer, but at least it wasn't fully off, just spotty in the rooms while still being nice and cool in the hallway. And now she's in the hot, muggy midwest, but at least her aunt and uncle's house has AC.
4. There is a new yuzu green tea from my favorite bottled green tea brand (Itoen's Oi Ocha series) and it's on sale at work through today. I only noticed it today at lunch when I bought a bottle for myself, so I bought a case (12 bottles) before I went home, so I could have them to bring for lunch. When I just buy a drink here or there I don't always use my employee discount as I always use the self-checkout and don't always have my badge with me to scan, but if I make a larger purchase I always make sure to, so I got the employee discount (which is only 10% but better than nothing) plus the sale price.
5. Jasper loves hanging out on this box in my closet lately. If I can't find him, this is always the first place I look!
Did stuff today
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 10:22 pmsilver_chipmunkDespite sleeping til about 12:30. Got up then, had breakfast and coffee, and called mashfanficchick to ascertain that we weren't doing anything today.
Having ascertained that, I went and got a load of laundry together. I filled the laundry bag, and moved it to the hall, then took a break.
I cleaned the cat pan, and I got the black suitcase out from behind my couch that I intend to use to transport the boxes of ashes of Mom, Dad, and Oldest Brother upstate to finally inter them. The suitcase that was supposed to be empty was very heavy.
Surprise! It was filled with the Kid's clothing that she must have left in it the last time, many years ago, she used that suitcase. I took everything out and put it in a Target bag.
Then I texted the Kid and asked her what she wanted me to do about it. Then I went to take a shower and wash my hair.
She texted me back and we arranged that. Then I took my shower, washed my hair, and got dressed.
I decided that while I was getting this clothing to the Kid, I should her antique hatbox that I've had here for years and years to her too, so I decided to get that out from under the small table beside the couch.
Easier said than done, I had to clear everything off the table, and move the table so I could get it. But I did. Then I replaced the table and all the knick knacks I had on it.
Then I took the laundry down to the laundromat and dropped it off. I came back, and texted RK about him taking care of Oreo and Christie while I was gone. He's our go-to person for that cause he's a vet tech, and really cares.
Thenmashfanficchick called and we talked about stuff, the upshot of everything is I'm brnging the bag of clothes and the hatbox over to zer place and we will take it to the storage unit to leave for the Kid when we're both back from upstate.
I took out the bag of dirty kitty litter, and walked around the block. I had originally planned on stopping at J's Confection for a milkshake but I didn't because it was too close to time to Team the FWiB.
Then I Teamed the FWiB. My D&D is cancelled for tonight because the DM is busy so we were able to talk for an hour and a half.
I had dinner after that, and went to the bedroom where I played solitaire til it was pet feeding time.
I fed the pets and started here. Busy day!
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. RK.
3. Clean laundry.
4. Almost time to go upstate.
5. The Kid replied.
6.mashfanficchick
mashfanficchick to ascertain that we weren't doing anything today.Having ascertained that, I went and got a load of laundry together. I filled the laundry bag, and moved it to the hall, then took a break.
I cleaned the cat pan, and I got the black suitcase out from behind my couch that I intend to use to transport the boxes of ashes of Mom, Dad, and Oldest Brother upstate to finally inter them. The suitcase that was supposed to be empty was very heavy.
Surprise! It was filled with the Kid's clothing that she must have left in it the last time, many years ago, she used that suitcase. I took everything out and put it in a Target bag.
Then I texted the Kid and asked her what she wanted me to do about it. Then I went to take a shower and wash my hair.
She texted me back and we arranged that. Then I took my shower, washed my hair, and got dressed.
I decided that while I was getting this clothing to the Kid, I should her antique hatbox that I've had here for years and years to her too, so I decided to get that out from under the small table beside the couch.
Easier said than done, I had to clear everything off the table, and move the table so I could get it. But I did. Then I replaced the table and all the knick knacks I had on it.
Then I took the laundry down to the laundromat and dropped it off. I came back, and texted RK about him taking care of Oreo and Christie while I was gone. He's our go-to person for that cause he's a vet tech, and really cares.
Then
mashfanficchick called and we talked about stuff, the upshot of everything is I'm brnging the bag of clothes and the hatbox over to zer place and we will take it to the storage unit to leave for the Kid when we're both back from upstate.I took out the bag of dirty kitty litter, and walked around the block. I had originally planned on stopping at J's Confection for a milkshake but I didn't because it was too close to time to Team the FWiB.
Then I Teamed the FWiB. My D&D is cancelled for tonight because the DM is busy so we were able to talk for an hour and a half.
I had dinner after that, and went to the bedroom where I played solitaire til it was pet feeding time.
I fed the pets and started here. Busy day!
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. RK.
3. Clean laundry.
4. Almost time to go upstate.
5. The Kid replied.
6.
mashfanficchick
word game: foolish
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 10:22 pmmuseaway in ficwipThis week's word is...
foolish
How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.
Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off and please stop back later!)
foolish
How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.
Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off and please stop back later!)
