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...The authors are taking a road trip across the US with a retired fellow named Mr. Adams and his wife Becky, who's actually the driver:
~~~

Мы пили помидорный сок и кофе в толстых кружках, ели «гэм энд эгг» (яичницу с куском ветчины) в безлюдном и сонном в этот час маленьком кафе на Мейн-стрит и усаживались в машину. Мистер Адамс только и ждал этого момента. Он поворачивался к нам и начинал говорить. И говорил почти без перерыва весь день. Он, вероятно, согласился с нами ехать главным образом потому, что почувствовал в нас хороших слушателей и собеседников.

We would drink tomato juice from thick mugs, eat "ham and egg" in the empty and sleepy at this early hour small cafe on Main Street and get in the car. Mr. Adams has been waiting for his very moment. He would turn towards us and start talking. And he would keep talking, almost without stopping, the entire day long. Probably, he decided to ride with us mainly because he felt us to be good listeners and interlocutors. 

Но вот что самое замечательное – его никак нельзя было назвать болтуном. Все, что он говорил, всегда было интересно и умно. За два месяца пути он ни разу не повторился. Он обладал точными знаниями почти во всех областях жизни. Инженер по специальности, он недавно ушел на покой и жил на маленький капитал, дававший скромные средства к жизни и независимость, которой он очень дорожил и без которой, очевидно, не мог бы просуществовать ни минуты.

But this is the most remarkable thing--one could not say he was a blabbermouth. Everything he said was interesting and intelligent. For the two months of our trip, he never repeated himself once. He possessed exact knowledge in almost all areas of life. An engineer by profession, he had recently retired and was living on the small capital, which yielded him a modest income and independence. This independence was very dear to him and he evidently couldn't have existed for even a minute without it. 

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Community Rec: Fanmix Monthly

Apr. 28th, 2026 12:35 pm
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Today, I'm sharing info about a new community that sounds like fun. [community profile] fanmix_monthly. I love doing fanmixes. I do them for characters, ships, even specific stories I'm working on, so I can listen while I write to set the mood.

They are doing a mini mix meme for the celebration. Description: comment with a fandom, ship, character, theme, etc. prompt and others will reply with a song(s) that remind them of that. 

I've always made mine in a media player on my computer (and I had a couple on the now-defunct 8-Tracks site), but I do have one Sonny/Rico playlist here. I should re-create the ones I had on 8-Tracks, too. They were Torchwood, Jack/Ianto.


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Today is his birthday, Amazon and the Apple bookstores are selling the Discworld ebooks for $1.99. I don't know if this offer is only good in the USA.

enter the -- heroine

Apr. 28th, 2026 12:23 am
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[personal profile] marycatelli
So to speak.

She's an important secondary character, and the actual heroine knows she's crucial. That perhaps explains why I have so much trouble introducing her, and revising that introduction.


sigh
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[personal profile] starspray
Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Sons of Feanor, Elrond, Feanor, Daeron, various others
Warnings: n/a
Summary: After years in Lórien, Maglor and Maedhros are ready to return to their family and to make something new with their lives--but to move forward, all of Fëanor's sons must decide how, or if, they can ever reconcile with their father.
Note: This fic is a direct sequel to High in the Clean Blue Air.

AO3 / SWG

Prologue / Previous Chapter

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
- “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

- -

 

 

marycatelli: (Golden Hair)
[personal profile] marycatelli
The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 7 by Grrr and Irinbi

The tale continues. Mid-cliffhanger, so spoiler warning for the earlier volumes

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I don't think I'm going to be doing anything particular myself for 3weeks4dreamwidth, so I decided I would try to participate in others' events, especially in non-fic, low pressure ways, like joining discussions or doing meta. And post about it here at my journal.



I've been subscribed to [community profile] polyamships for a while now, but haven't interacted till now. They are going to be doing a post every other day, and started it off with a great question: 27 April: How did you discover poly ships? What makes you write/read/draw them?
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[personal profile] muccamukk is posting tarot cards at her journal and says: Everyone is welcome to reply in comments in any way they like: meta, fic, art, discussion of the card or deck, random side comments, et cetera. Comments on previous days' posts also welcome. I know I sometimes flounder with fic prompts and more discussion can help inspire ideas, so I shared some of my thoughts about the first card, The Five of Coins.

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And check out [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth , because there are a lot of great events announced. I'm quite excited! (even though I may not have time/inspiration to participate in much, it all looks like a lot of fun). Weekly Challenge: 

Weekly Challenge: Go to your profile and look at your interests. Are there any listed you feel don't represent you anymore? Are there new ones maybe you'd like to add?

This is a great thing to do, because if you're looking to find other fans with similar interests, that's a good way to do it. I know I always check them out, and tbh I'm disappointed when they don't have any listed. Mine are up-to-date, but this was a good reminder to me to do another search, because interests can change/get added.

Don't have a Dreamsheep icon and want one?   Lots of cool ones here!   [community profile] dreamsheep 






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I'm still here. The antiseizure medicine crosstaper has been wreaking havoc on my energy levels, so I haven't been able to do as much as anything as I would like, which including posting and reading here, but the dream I had last night was so strange I wanted to be sure to tell you all about it:

I dreamed I had enlisted in the Japanese Navy. I was going to be serving on a submarine. I was going to be. . . *drumroll please*. . . a cake decorator!

Unfortunately, I woke up before I got to see how myself in action, but I'd like to take a moment to thank my recruiting officer, Bonnie, for believing in me and convincing me to sign up.

Also, oddly, in my dream the Japanese Navy didn't have boot camp or anything like it. You signed the forms with your recruiting officer, you walked down the hall to a place that looked like a cafeteria, where you were handed a paper bag containing your uniforms and sundries, and then you walked through a door and down a ramp onto the ship. Apparently everything after that was on-the-job training.

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Oh my god I'm posting the epilogue of A Hundred Miles Through the Desert tonight! It's coming in at just over 375k words which is wild and also serves me right for deciding I needed to do a weird POV-alternating pattern with eight POV characters. This fic and High in the Clean Blue Air have turned out to be some of the best fiction I've ever written and certainly my top two favorite fics--writing them has been really fun and really rewarding and also really cathartic in a lot of ways, and I can't believe it's almost over. Or at least, the major arc of the series plot--Maglor's story is ending, and I finished the prologue a little while ago and am very happy with it (aside from a few tweaks I need to make sometime later this evening). There's also From that Rubble that I've been working on which is just Desert all over again but from Feanor's perspective, including what he's doing off-screen, and featuring more Findis, Lalwen, and Fingolfin. 

There's also probably going to be other spin-off fics in this 'verse because I'm really not ready to let it all go. But it's moving down the priorities list, which is both nice and weird and sad all at once. 

Uhh what else. The asparagus is coming up! But we got hit with a very cold snap that included a freeze warning, so that killed some of the flowers that were blooming and also took out some of the asparagus stalks, but that's fine, there's a bunch more coming up. My peonies are also budding, which is very nice. And we had a red-headed woodpecker hang around the backyard on Friday! They're not usually found around here and I spotted him entirely by chance, so that was neat. Dad tried to get some good photos with his nice camera but there always seemed to be branches and things in the way. 

I made a marble cake the other day that turned out very nice. I'm next going to try this zebra cake which is basically the same thing but in an actual cake pan and with a stripy pattern to it rather than just dropping the batter in random blobs. 

Am still in a reading slump. If I could just. Finish a book? That would be great. I keep picking them up and even if I'm enjoying them I end up putting them down halfway through and just not picking them up again, and it's very annoying. I think in large part it's because most of my brain has been occupied with Desert, so maybe now that that's done I'll be able to focus on other things. 

Sound Meme

Apr. 27th, 2026 09:06 am
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[personal profile] mxcatmoon
As I mentioned in another post, I was doing a deep dive of old DW posts. I came across this meme, that was a [community profile] thefridayfive  entry two years ago. I decided to share it because I think it's interesting and different.
 

1. What kinds of non-music sounds do you like falling asleep to?

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MV fic: Time and Tide (angst-heavy)

Apr. 26th, 2026 03:14 pm
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[personal profile] mxcatmoon
Title: Time and Tide
Fandom: Miami Vice
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1571
Characters: Sonny, Rico (implied S/R)
Summary: Two ex-partners meet by chance in an airport. The water under the bridge is running swiftly, and the rapids threaten to drown them as the past won’t let them go. The road not chosen is the hardest one for Sonny to face.
Warnings: as posted to AO3: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst with No Happy Ending, Future Fic, Denial of Feelings, Depression, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Self-Hatred, Tissue Warning. And Major Character Death.
Notes: There were some hints in the show that Sonny might have been considering leaving the police force to try to make his marriage to Caitlin work. This is that what-if. It's not a happy fic. Look, I'm normally a happy-ending junkie, but sometimes I just gotta get things out. Heed the tissue warning (as well as the others). This one *hurts*.
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Time and Tide )

vignettes

Apr. 26th, 2026 11:24 am
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This week's prompt is:
innocent 😇

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

The King of love my Shepherd is

Apr. 26th, 2026 11:22 am
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[personal profile] marycatelli
The King of love my Shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never,
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For friends of [profile] obeliamedusa

Apr. 26th, 2026 10:59 am
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[personal profile] shirebound
I'm sad to report that [profile] obeliamedusa's husband has posted the news that Hannah passed away recently, and very suddenly. They had only married a year or two ago. Hannah and I met through the "Lord of the Rings" fanfiction community back in 2003, and never lost touch. Small groups of us would travel around the country to visit one another, and Hannah's home with its extraordinary sculpture she named "Tiny Bag End" was a must-see destination. She was so intelligent, friendly, and welcoming, and I'll never forget her.

Matt's post:

https://obeliamedusa.livejournal.com/433594.html (friends locked)

back and forth

Apr. 25th, 2026 11:43 pm
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[personal profile] marycatelli
Revising -- backwards. Not boldly forth.

The new ideas are for things that have to go before the point that I reached.

At some point I have to consider whether I'm stalling to avoid that scene.

sigh

Alchemist of the Wilds

Apr. 25th, 2026 10:03 pm
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[personal profile] marycatelli
Alchemist of the Wilds: An Ex-Assassin's Guide to Cozy Romantic Brews by A. T. Valentine

A slightly misleading subtitle -- but only slightly.  The first volume

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Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Finwe, Original Characters
Warnings: (past) Character Death
Summary: In the dark woods near the Waters of Awakening, Finwë's brothers are taken. In Valinor, when the Trees wither, Finwë is slain. In the Fourth Age, things take place long thought impossible.
Note: 
This fic takes place in my meanwhile the world goes on 'verse, but can be read standalone. The last chapter will contain spoilers for the end of A Hundred Miles Through the Desert.

First Chapter

Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
- “Will there really be a morning?” by Emily Dickinson

 

 

Livejournal problems

Apr. 25th, 2026 02:58 pm
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[personal profile] shirebound
I've barely been able to access LJ for two days. Hopefully whatever's going on (maybe just on my end) sorts itself out soon.

Timing is Funny

Apr. 25th, 2026 11:39 am
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[personal profile] mxcatmoon
I was just doing a deep dive search and found a post of mine from three years ago where I was enthusiastically raving about how great Tubi is. I even mentioned Miami Vice being one of the many shows there I wanted to rewatch.

Three years ago.

LOL. Obviously, life got in the way, and I totally forgot Tubi existed and that I wanted to watch Miami Vice. I guess everything happens in its own time for a reason. Would have been nice though, if I had. There were some MV fans active back then who aren't really around now.

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