FENRIR: Chapter 35

May. 24th, 2025 05:40 pm
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 Didn't get to post this yesterday. 

Some people are  more surprised than others by this turn of events...

... one of them for different reasons... )




But why wait?

Plant progress -- and a new fic idea

May. 24th, 2025 03:15 pm
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I have been potting up two of the towel-tomatoes and the Roma tomato into what will be their final pots, and have pretty much used up all the compost I bought in the process; I shall have to get some more. Not a lot of progress from the catch-up tomatoes, but presumably they have been developing roots under their sturdy seed-leaves.

The sweetbriar, rose campion and flax are in flower, red and yellow poppies )

Clothes line buckle snapped )

My bedroom clock stopped again this week after I wound it (which is annoying, because it was working up until then!), and turning it upside down didn't seem to help this time :-(


I have been seriously considering writing the third "Twenty Years After" fic that I was running in my head (basically as a sequel to "If I Should Die") and that I was more or less confident that I was *not* going to write, on the grounds that it had no plot and can't really be fitted into canon )

The obvious sequel to 'If I Should Die' being an AU in which he does )

What worries me more is that I'm not sure Porthos' anecdote, originally conceived in the context of a puzzled conversation about Raoul's parentage (a secret which Athos at this juncture has of necessity taken to his grave so far as his friends are concerned) actually fits very well any more into the story as I am now revolving it in my mind; it's certainly not a good ending. It was simply the point at which I broke off my 'what would they say to one another if...' speculations on reaching my own front door :-p

And unfortunately that particular idea was pretty much the whole point of attempting to write this, being the sole original piece of inspiration there :-(

SGA: Old Soldiers Die Hard by Sholio

May. 23rd, 2025 09:09 pm
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Genfic, John Sheppard & Rodney McKay, Original female character
Rating: G
Length: 8103
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Sholio on AO3, Sholio's own site City on the Ocean's Edge
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Friendship, Families of choice

Summary: The old guy in Room 30B was about the most disagreeable human being that the nurses had ever met. But he did get visitors, including a retired Air Force Colonel.

Reccer's Notes: This is told through the outsider POV of a young volunteer nurse at a retirement home, writing out what happened - for herself, but she tells it as though talking to her mother, who died some time before. Because of that, it's not at first as angsty as it might be, as she doesn't initially like or care about the cantankerous old guy in room 30B. That changes a little as the story progresses, and of course, we feel the angst even if she doesn't, knowing this is Rodney who's old, increasingly frail, and basically dying, while John, not quite as aged and infirm, watches helplessly. Despite herself, the young volunteer gets invested in Rodney, partly as she has enough spirit to stand up to him, which he likes. Also, before he gets really ill he tutors her in his abrasive way as she's had a difficult life and is studying for her high school diploma hoping to eventually go to med school - but until Rodney helps, she's not doing too well. Eventually there's a happy ending, but not before those closest to Rodney like John, Sam, and Elizabeth have grieved for him and come close to despair. Luckily, Teyla and Ronon are on the case, back in Pegasus. The ending is very satisfying, where we see what becomes of Annie, the volunteer nurse who cared for Rodney and put up with him at his worst.

Fanwork Links: Old Soldiers Die Hard

Web browser clicky game

May. 23rd, 2025 02:40 pm
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hex plant growing game - quick game, simple mechanics, simple win condition. You have to infer those from your interaction with the page; if it isn't clear leave a comment and I'll explain.

found at creator's post

I couldn't get the sudoko land to work - not sure if that is a brower or an extensions issue, but I didn't care to work it out.

If I Should Die

May. 22nd, 2025 08:46 am
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The one-shot that was inspired by a slight mis-remembering of the farewells beneath the scaffold, and by a line that is for some reason omitted from the translation I had from Project Gutenberg... I have worked grit-covered ropes in bitterly cold weather; my pen-calluses weren't of much help. Athos probably has sword-calluses, but it's canon that those didn't help much either ;-)

(Aramis does in fact embrace both Porthos and d'Artagnan immediately afterwards on his own account before going off on what he has every reason to believe may be a suicide mission, another line which was left out of the English translation, which simply reads "Aramis again presented himself at the bishop’s" in lieu of "Aramis les quitta comme il avait quitté Athos, c’est-à-dire en les embrassant; puis il se rendit chez l’évêque Juxon".)


If I Should Die

At dawn on the day of the English king’s execution, Athos takes precautions for the future and contemplates those to whom his life is bound — both by love and hate.


“Donc Athos déchirait ses belles mains si blanches et si fines à lever les pierres arrachées de leur base par Porthos...” Vingt ans après, Chapitre LXX, “Les ouvriers”

The January wind stole across the stones of Whitehall, and fluttered the sombre drapes beneath the gaunt new structure that stood there. It had been a bitterly cold night, and Athos had worked without respite, under cover of the labour going on all around them to complete the King’s scaffold— a thing horrible and unheard of, not that a King should be murdered but that the deed should be carried out with this travesty of the forms of justice. But they had given their word, he and Aramis, to Madame Henriette of England. Given their word to guard her husband the King and to bring him safely back to her, even if it should cost both their lives.

Read more... )

Fandom5K Pinch Hits due 28 June

May. 21st, 2025 10:03 pm
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Event: Fandom5K s a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum
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Due date: 28 June, with a required check-in during the week of 7-14 June

Pinch hits available:

PH 2 - Blue Lock (Manga), 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 5 - Temeraire - Naomi Novik, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

PH 7 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher

PH 8 - Path of Night (Podcast), Vampire: The Masquerade - Various Authors (Choice of Games), Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast)

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PH 13 - The Elementalists (Visual Novel), Heart of Battle - Fay Ikin, Royal Affairs - Harris-Powell-Smith

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RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

May. 21st, 2025 02:02 pm
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FENRIR: Chapter 34

May. 21st, 2025 08:02 am
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Bad things had happened...
... were still happening, actually... ) 




Oh, yes. 



Aramis no Bouken

May. 21st, 2025 01:28 am
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The 'feature length sequel' to "Sous le Signe des Mousquetaires" turns out to be extremely short (the end credits plus initial recap of preceding events occupy between them a not insignificant chunk of the nominal running time, so it's probably less than a couple of episodes' worth) and fairly undistinguished, much as one expects of a Disney straight-to-video sequel :-p Read more... )

The story proper then takes up a year and a half after the events of Belle-Île, with d'Artagnan back in Paris (and apparently more than a little hen-pecked, even though he and Constance are not actually married yet). There is a general bar fight sparked off by Jussac attempting to molest a young woman who has come rushing in for shelter (lazy plotting, but again it was footage that figured largely in the fan-vids) and then an interesting twist when d'Artagnan rushes to save her, as he assumes, from throwing herself into the Seine, and it turns out that she was instead attempting to climb down the bridge and retrieve a hidden treasure all along. But when she eludes the over-helpful d'Artagnan and manages to make it back to the bridge, she is attacked and killed by an unknown in an elaborate metal mask... Read more... )

The actual action sequences work well enough, but the set-up is truncated and confusing. Given a little more space to play with, I suspect the script could have been considerably more developed; it currently feels like something that has been abridged almost to the point where it would have been better to simplify out chunks of it altogether :-(

One gathers that this feature (perhaps unsurprisingly) was not a sufficient success to have financed any more along the same lines. Still, it would have been intriguing to see an episode focusing on Porthos in danger and/or saving the day, or exploring his backstory...

NYR update - week 20

May. 20th, 2025 12:31 pm
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I'm a little bemused that it is so far through the year already. I feel like I'm disappointing past me with how slowly things are progressing, but I'm also trying to keep in mind that the list of goals are aspirational, and motivational, in that they are a range of possible things.

craft - incremental progress on multiple projects; nothing new finished.

reading - adding a new goal: to have no more than 20 books total in my currently reading and paused lists. This is a long way from that, because I paused a lot, and I haven't looked at it. However, I've finished a few things recently, and I'm trying to do two off, one on, so that I'm allowing myself to start new books, but not as many. I've finished one book acquired this year (Finding Echoes, Foz Meadows). I'd forgotten my 'read some cookbooks' goal, so at least I've remembered that now!

house - everything that doesn't live in the library is now out; I've started using the open floor as storage for things leaving the house; I'm calling that task done, with caveats.

music with the Really Sore Shoulder, I have been doing minimal music. This is not optimal, and I'm going to have to revisit. Also, I don't think that my goals were the right ones, because I'm struggling with them. I might have to revisit this and write a better set.

learning - I've been experimenting with language learning. Nothing is sticking, but it is getting there. I was doing okay with the learn to draw from the various books, and then I put my visual diary somewhere stupid. I could use something else, but I wanted this as a record of the change. So I've been procrastinating.

physical - I may abandon the ParkRun goal. With the 'I'm about to have income' comes 'I can go back to skating lessons'; this is almost certainly going to be first thing Saturday morning. I'm ambivalent about this, because an excuse to abandon ParkRun is very tempting. The sleeping goal is slipping away from me at the moment, as my insomnia has come back, and I've seen 2am twice in the last few days. Both of those I've been in bed at least an hour at that point.

organisation moving slowly, but at least it is moving. mostly by finding things to declutter.

none of the other categories have significant progress in the last week. I suspect I'm going to have to change the day of the week I write these, if I'm going to be on campus on Tuesdays (likely. I'm enrolling full time; there is a 'it's fine to work from home' clause; I work better from an office more days than not. If I'm going to do one day at home the likely candidates are Wednesday or Friday).

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After getting distracted by "Aramis no Bouken" I plunged into the final part of the Soviet "Twenty Years After" with a certain trepidation (oh no, it's going to come to an end) and no idea what to expect, having no memory of this part of the novel at all.
(It does strike me as being slightly worrying that I have now managed to write two fanfics for it without actually having finished the story myself, but unless further big chunks of backstory appear in the remaining section it shouldn't invalidate anything in what I have already written, all of which takes place at an earlier point in the plot than this!)

It looks as if the last part of the serial is going to be all about how the protagonists back in France get themselves out of the political consequences of their actions in England. We saw d'Artagnan and Porthos get arrested at the end of the last episode, and now Aramis and Athos are wondering what became of them. Read more... )

Edit: well, that turns out to be almost *all* the remaining chapters of the book (the duel of Aramis and Athos being mixed up with a vast chunk of armies and political manoeuvring in canon). But the book does at least explain why Mazarin is apparently walking around in a greenhouse; d'Artagnan and Porthos are shut up not in a mediaeval tower as shown on screen, but in a pavilion wing in an orangery, and not for months but for a grand total, according to d'Artagnan, of eighty-three hours of frustration ;-)
(And I am also touched to find out that in the book it is Aramis who is outside the walls with horses, whereas I was beginning to fear in the film that he had simply gone to ground to save his own neck as the final survivor...)

FENRIR: Chapter 33

May. 19th, 2025 08:12 am
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The project was moving along...
... and that meant things that had to be done publicly... )
 


Well, THAT doesn't sound good at all.



Fruit

May. 19th, 2025 10:07 am
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I have had two pickings of strawberries (of a handful of berries each), with more to comeStrawberries and peas )

The feathery (and rather invasive) thing in the wildflower trough has finally opened its flower-head fully and demonstrated that it definitely isn't corn-chamomile, or anything else that I have sown previously. It has clusters of unscented white umbellifer-flowers. I shall need to root it out at the end of the year, as it is too tall and dominant for my purposes. I was only really keeping it to see what it was going to turn into. The plant at the other end of the trough has white and yellow daisy-type flowers and dagged leaves, and I have seen them growing locally in people's gardens, which is doubtless how it got into mine -- this one is also too tall for my environment, since it is reaching the washing line! Both plants are thick with blackfly, which I am tolerating there but attempting to keep clear of everything else.

The first flax is in flower. I have had a lot of trouble with it flopping this year, and ended up tying it to a supporting stick, even though I didn't feed the plants. They have grown very tall and quite possibly suffer from lack of water. The towel-tomatoes are now flowering, even though they aren't yet in their full-size pots (or really of a size to be).

I have managed to give away six marigolds, have potted-up three, and still need to deal with a couple more badly overcrowded pots!

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