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Fandom 50 #20

For 1996, a little roots rock from a band named for some 19th century colonial sloganeering.

Crossing a Canyon by 54-40

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catness

Title: The Unaccounted Variable
Fandom: The Locked Tomb
Characters/Pairings: Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Gideon Nav, an original character
Rating: G
Word Count: 400
Summary: Harrow and Gideon meet a Lyctor who is sent to Canaan House to oversee the competition.
Notes: Yippee! my writing course assignment literally asked for FANFICTION! Specifically, a scene between 2 canon characters and one original character. We aim to please XD It's my first attempt ever at a Locked Tomb fanfic. Pity that the word count limit didn't let me explore what happens next... yet.

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usuallyhats

In another burst of Shetland-related creativity, I... wrote a fic? For the first time in a decade?? I've never written boyslash before??? What is happening. Anyway here it is:

sail your sea, meet your storm (2380 words) by usuallyhats
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez
Characters: Jimmy Perez, Duncan Hunter
Summary:

"I don't know," Duncan half shouts over the din, "I just want to be out there," and he's gone before Jimmy can say anything more. Without really considering what he's doing, Jimmy follows him out, closing the door behind him in an attempt to keep the storm outside where it belongs.

catness

Killing 3 birds with one stone. (Not really, no birds were harmed :) A writing assignment for Coursera, a game development assignment for Coursera, and a submission to Creative Court on DW.

Author/Team: Catness/Winter
Title: Escape Directive
Fandom: n/a (it's a background story for my own video game, the playthrough video is included)
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Rating: G
Word Count: 833
Summary: A corporate cleanup android enters a sealed disaster zone to erase the evidence, but finds something that changes her purpose forever.

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Member/Team: Catness/Winter
Number and Type of Works: 1 video
Warnings/Spoilers: It's a full playthrough of my game (which only has 1 level so far), so technically, it's all spoilers...

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5th
Ephesians 2:1 - 13
Where to from here?
What now?

vs 1
This is the way it was.
vs 2, 3
The picture of life in sin.
vs 4
Mercy and life in Jesus
vs 5 - 9
How good that is.

vs 11 - 13
Repeat, reiteration

Knowing, Sowing, Growing
They all interact. They don't stand on their own.

vs 1 - 3
Everything pales into insignificance compared to Jesus' death and resurrection.

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“No,” the Enigma answered. “It’s Sam Griffin.”

“Why would Sam Griffin be here?” Tania asked as she looked out the window.

“He probably followed us here,” Dafoanairi said, “as we were going along the ground.””

“I can think of one reason,” Tania said.

‘That she’s guessing that either of us is Sandi,’ Dafoanairi thought. ‘It was going to happen sooner or later.’

“That’s probably not it,” the Enigma responded, although her voice wavered a bit.

“We’ll let’s see what he’s up to,” Tania said.

Sam saw Sandi and Daria as their vigilante alter egos come down from the roof with Tania. “You’re recruiting Tania?” he asked.

“No,” Dafoanairi answered. “She’s an ally.”

“I don’t want to be a vigilante,” Tania said. “I just investigate with them sometimes.”

“Sounds like you’re into it,” Sam said.

“I’m not into it. If I was, I would have been wearing a disguise on the roof as well,” Tania said.

“She isn’t a seventh vigilante,” the Enigma said.

“Oh yeah, the Violet Force is the sixth,” Sam murmured, barely remembering to use his mother’s moniker.

“Why are you here?” Dafoanairi asked.

“I wanted to ask something,” Sam answered.

“What about?” Dafoanairi asked.

“What’s going on. The middle school has the favorite animal fad too,” Sam replied.

“Is that all?” the Enigma responded in an irritated tone.

“My sister didn’t help much,” Sam said.

‘I didn’t,’ the Enigma thought. ‘I was still being selfish. I’m still ‘Linda’s mini me’ in that respect.’

“I’m sure she’ll make it up somehow,” Dafoanairi said with a quick glance in the Enigma’s direction.

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Having lost my entire mind about the TV show, in May I went to Shetland with some of my favourite people, it was absolutely magical.

Sheltand pictures!

Yellow sandy beach leading to a stone house

Small stone house on the edge of the water, with a replica Viking boat in the background

Bain's beach and the Lodberries, where the lead character for seasons 1-7, Jimmy, lives. Sometimes his daughter's biological dad, Duncan, lives there too, and I think they should kiss, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Tombolo beach surrounded by blue seas

St Ninian's beach! We rented a tiny sauna here and alternated between roasting in it and running shrieking into the sea (temperature approx 8C). (

walkthegale got some video of the one time I managed full immersion and my yelps are very audible.)

Stone broch (ancient circular tower) on the coast in the twilight

Stone broch (ancient circular tower) on the coast in the twilight

The broch on Mousa - for a month or so either side of the longest day, they run evening tours out to Mousa to see the storm petrels coming into land, it was magical.

Three puffins on a headland

Puffins at Sumburgh Head!

Beautiful sandy beach from above, on a sunny day

Meal Beach - I went into the sea here too, in my wetsuit, but it was a bit too rough for me to feel comfortable actually swimming; I'm a reasonable swimmer but not a confident one and I don't like getting my face wet.

Dramatic cliffs and rocks

The cliffs at Eshaness! It was SO windy, we were all slightly worried we were going to get blown off the edge.

Dramatic sunset over the sea

Sunset over the Orkneys from the ferry on the way home

Also we saw some S11 filming! Once on purpose (they publish the relevant road closures on the local news website so we knew where to be and when), and once just in the wild, it was amazing and we have now been waved at by several members of the cast and crew.

And then I came home and made a Shetland lace shawl, because everything is now Shetland forever (or until I get really into something else). It was very fiddly, but a lot of fun, and I have a second one on the needles already.

Shawl pictures

Airy lace shawl in a light blue fabric hanging on a white chest of drawers

Detail shot of a lace shawl in a light blue yarn

Pattern is Fladda by Elizabeth Williamson, yarn is Fyberspates Gleem Lace in (appropriately) Shoreline.

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Fandom 50 #19

The mid-'90s Celtic music craze is more of a temporal quirk than a geographic one. I know the US had its own moment, with this also only being one part of a larger "world music" trend that I'm assuming had a lot to do with how CDs were changing the game, and I have younger Canadian friends who don't even remember that this was ever a thing. But the fact that a large area of Canada has heavily Scottish- and Irish-influenced regional identities where Celtic music already dominated meant that a substantial portion of mainstream Canadian hits and the general CBC soundtrack ended up falling into this category in the '90s, making household names of artists like Great Big Sea, The Rankin Family, Loreena McKennitt, Spirit of the West, Natalie MacMaster, Leahy, The Barra MacNeils, Lennie Gallant, Bruce Guthro, The Irish Descendants, and whoever else was going to be on Rita and Friends that week.

And of course there was Ashley MacIsaac, whose rendition of "Sleepy Maggie" with Mary Jane Lamond on vocals lurked just shy of the top 100 south of the border but was a top 20 hit for the better part of a year at home, resulting in a lot of decidedly non-Gaelic-speaking Canadian schoolchildren memorizing the lyrics phonetically and swapping urban legends about what secret and scandalous things they might mean.

Sleepy Maggie by Ashley MacIsaac

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January '26: http://fardell30.deadjournal.com/341353.html

February '26: http://fardell30.deadjournal.com/343620.html

March '26: https://fardell24b.tumblr.com/post/812404985781420032/church-notes-march-2026

April '26: https://fardell24b.tumblr.com/post/814937268519354368/church-notes-april-2026

May '26: https://fardell24b.tumblr.com/post/818114249509470208/church-notes-may-2026

June '26: https://fardell24b.tumblr.com/post/820650110151262208/church-notes-in-june-2026

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( Church notes - June 2026 )

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28th
Romans 12:6 - 9
Encouragement
The act of giving someone support, confidence or hope. It involves using words or actions to inspire resilience, motivation, action and make someone feel capable of overcoming a challenge. The word contains "courage"(from Latin cor, meaning heart). To encourage literally means to "put heart in someone".

God wants to encourage you.

2 Thessalonians 2:16, 17

God wants you to encourage others.

Now is the time for action.

There are people today who need encouragement.

1 Thessalonians 4:17, 18
Paul encouraged them due to their uncertainty about Jesus' return after some of them had died.

Hebrews 10:25
Encouragement needs commitment.
Encouragement needs direction

2 Thessalonians 2:16, 17
God wants us to take good actions.

2 Timothy 4:2
Correct, rebuke or encourage.

1 Thessalonians 5:14
Warn, encourage or help

Romans 12:8
Devote yourselves to giving encouragement.

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Brittany was doing her homework, going over a problem she and Daria had talked about at the tutoring session, when she heard an email notification on her laptop.

“Oh, Andrea sent something,” she murmured before reading it.

She then forwarded it to Quinn, adding I think we need to talk about this tonight.

Quinn soon responded. Can you be at the Bridge in half an hour, given what Jodie told you today?

Brittany twirled a pigtail as she thought about it. She could pull it off. I’ll be there.

SpiderGirl slipped out of the house via one of the rear attic windows a few minutes later. She decided that she could patrol for a short time before meeting Ninja Talon at the Bridge.

She averted a few muggings before arriving at the Bridge to find that Brittany wasn’t there yet. ‘She’ll be here soon,’ she thought as she unmasked.

She didn’t have to wait long. Brittany arrived and unmasked a few minutes later. “Hey, Quinn,” Brittany said in her usual playful tone.

“Hey, Brit,” Quinn responded with her usual exuberance.

Brittany took out a map of Lawndale. “Landon Engineering is larger than I thought, but I found the location of the warehouse.”

Quinn looked at the map, which also showed the locations of other Landon Engineering properties. “I suppose that’s one reason why Osborn wants to take it over.”

“I agree. But we need to be cautious, given the agents.”

“I wouldn’t put it past Osborn to have agents present around there, but they wouldn’t be there all the time.”

“That’s true, but they may be there tonight,” Brittany argued.

“Then we’ll approach along the ground. They won’t expect that.”

“The streets or the alleys?”

“The alleys,” Quinn decided. “Less open.”

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