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([personal profile] melagan Mar. 20th, 2026 06:56 am)
1. What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account (or both)?

I was reading a lot of fanfic and following the writers on LJ. At one point I decided that if I wanted to leave a Thank You comment, I should join. I did. Eventually, I moved over to DW

2. How many DW or LJ communities do you subscribe to?

78. Most of them are inactive, but I can't quite bring myself to leave.


3. Do you have a favorite community or one you check out often to see what's new?

[community profile] sga_saturday It's one of the few active communities associated with Stargate Atlantis and has a monthly prompt. I do check in on my reading circle (it will always be my flist to me) on a daily basis so if a community has posted (like [community profile] thefridayfive) I'll see it.

4. How did you pick your user name?
As I recall, I'd had a long run of the user name you have chosen has already been used. I decided to take my first and last name and scramble the letters. And that is why my user name is what it is.

5. If you could change your user name, would you?

Maybe in the early days, but not now. I'm the same name too many places at this point.

From the community:

The following bonus questions are brought to you by the fact that I (anais_pf) have been unable to access any page of LiveJournal for more than a week (and therefore cannot post to The Friday Five there):

6. If you have a LiveJournal, are you currently able to access it?

Yes. (to my surprise)

7. Do you have any information about why one would be unable to access LiveJournal?

I had heard that they were planning to remove access to members outside of Russia. If that is about to be the case (and they'd probably hit communities first) maybe a vpn would help?
I'm in the middle of a slow burn, angst with a happy ending, explicit Scott/Kip fic. I'm 13K+ words in and about halfway through. It's basically S1E03 (and their parts in S1E05 and S1E06) but entirely from Scott's fucked up perspective.

why fic the series canon from Scott's POV? well, because he's my tragic, angsty hero, that's why, among other major reasons, here, including that you don't get Scott's depths in the Game Changer novel )
There just wasn't the depth or exploration of character and backstory in the novel, that seeing the series and the excellent acting had led me to expect and hope for.

So I decided to write it myself.

I tried the Scott/Kip Discord, briefly, to ask if anyone was interested in beta-ing. But I don't know anyone on it and I don't think anyone saw my request in the midst of the ongoing conversations flying by between people who clearly all knew each other.

So I thought I'd ask here.

If anyone would be interested in beta-ing, I can be reached at verushka70(at)Gmail(dot)com.

*Yes I know Demian doesn't explicitly posit a homoerotic relationship and that Herman Hesse was not gay and the different characters were largely projections of the main characters and psychoanalysis and Freud informed it all - I know. But his male characters and their relationships read as gay/slashy to me. And if Reddit and Tumblr are anything to go by, I am hardly the only one who thought that.
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([staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance Mar. 14th, 2026 01:04 pm)

Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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([personal profile] melagan Mar. 14th, 2026 09:06 am)


I like a good apple pie myself. I'm in favor of a nice chunk of cheddar cheese on the side.

What are your favorite pies? (plural because no one should have to pick just one)

Back when Blind Spot premiered (sheesh, 10 years ago?? iz old), I had seen all the previews and thought it looked like a potentially cool show. Then I watched the first episode. I turned it off and switched to something else after the first 20-30 minutes. I simply could not suspend disbelief for the premise of the show.

It was like a bad rip-off of La Femme Nikita (the first one) but with amnesia and cardboard characters. The shaky camera work, pseudo 'cinema verite', was annoying as fuck, and the high overhead drone shots were already overdone back then. I have no beef with the actors; they're all decent and doing their best with what they've been given, which isn't much. Marianne Jean-Baptiste's role is especially thankless.

Why am I writing this? This is Francois Arnaud's fault, really: reasons not to watch this show even if you have Netflix and love Francois Arnaud )

I sincerely hope the other actors went on to bigger and better things, but I'm not sure this on their resume helped them do that. The only good things I can say about Blind Spot are the EDM that often shows up in the soundtrack is pretty good sometimes, and some of the actors have good chemistry. Neither of those is enough to redeem the show. The budget for it was clearly insane, which is sad - because so many better series could've used budgets like this, and used them way better than this dreck.

In short, do not watch Blind Spot. I mean, unless it's a drinking game or a "how bad could it be" dare.

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([personal profile] flamingsword posting in [community profile] thisfinecrew Mar. 11th, 2026 08:30 pm)
Because Biden told HHS that they couldn't stick kids with people who would make them more likely to be bullied into self harming, and Trump hates everything that Biden stands for including protecting kids from people like him, Trump is trying to stick LGBTQ kids with unsupportive "traditionally Christian" families. He's getting his stooge, RFK Jr., to propose scrapping protections for LGBTQ+ kids in foster care.

The Trumpist regime is trying to sneak another shortened comment period by us too quickly for people to protest. If you want to register a comment about how much these people hate children, etc, here is where to do so. And if you want to read the whole weasel-worded decision, you can do so here.
Friendly reminder that posting for the WIP Big Bang International Fanworks Day Mini Bang 2026 ends in five days (and about 2 1/2 hours). Non-targeted advertising for the 2026 rounds of WIP Big Bang and WIP Reverse Bangs will then start on the 17th, and the updated FAQ and schedule for that will be posted here on Dreamwidth as well as on Tumblr and the Discord channel.
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([personal profile] melagan Mar. 10th, 2026 01:36 pm)
I've recced this series before, but I think it's appropriate to rec it again for International Women's Day.

Hell's Library Trilogy

I borrowed this series from my local library and liked it so much that I bought the series. I think it's time for a reread. :)
A friend let me know about a new Bureau of Prisons guideline for treatment of inmates with gender dysphoria, which you can read in its entirety here. The short form is that they're denying trans inmates gender-affirming care despite medical consensus, and substituting conversion therapy, which has been proven to be harmful and does not in any way "cure" gender dysphoria.

My friend's letter, posted with permission )
Fandom: NCS (New Captain Scarlet)
Characters/Pairings:
Captain Black|Conrad Lefkon, mentions of Scarlet|Paul and hints of Destiny|Simone. Conrad&Paul, past relationship: Destiny/Conrad.
Rating & Warnings:
T (PG/PG-13)
Estimated Fic Length:
Currently around 700 words long; will possibly get longer (hopefully not over 5,000 words long)
Notes: 
I wanted to experiment with using the word it as the character would describe itself as such; trying to separate itself from the identity of a former friend of the protagonist despite having his body and face. The fic is written to be almost like a soliloquy, but it's mainly written in third-person for that word usage.

It would help to have some knowledge of the show and characters I'm writing about, but it's not a requirement to know it like the back of your hand (inside and out; that kind of thing).

I need a second set of eyes for grammar, and seeing if the prose is getting too flowery/repetitious/formal. I feel like I also tend to tell too much rather than showing, and I worry sometimes that the "voice" doesn't sound in character. Also, I feel like something is missing to complete this fic (but what though?).

Either way, I hope I'm not asking for too much, and any help is greatly appreciated! :D
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([personal profile] melagan Mar. 8th, 2026 12:53 pm)
Cuddled in a blanket with coffee


I can usually shake off the Spring time change without any trouble, but today all I want to do is nappppp.

My second option is drinking a LOT of coffee. Thank god, I'm an expert at it.
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([personal profile] devinwolfi posting in [community profile] beagoldfish Mar. 8th, 2026 12:12 pm)

We've officially wrapped Be a Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang Round 2! Thank you to everyone who joined us in commenting, exploring, and sharing. We amassed 185 works from 38 creators! Wow!

If you missed us, not to worry! We will be hosting Round 3 later this year in July 2026.

In the meantime, you can check out all of the amazing works from the previous round(s) in any of these places:

If you have suggestions for weekly prompts in future rounds, such as concepts, challenges, tropes, or mediums, you can submit as many as you desire via our Prompt Submission Form.

Feel free to reach out to us by leaving a comment on this entry or by email at bagfishbang@gmail.com if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. We'd love to hear from you!

Until next time!


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([personal profile] sathari posting in [community profile] thisfinecrew Mar. 7th, 2026 07:14 pm)
On March 9, there's a global women's general strike--- more information on the range of activities can be found here. (I tagged for a lot of different types of actions, accordingly, but there may be more ways to participate that I didn't see.)
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([personal profile] melagan Mar. 7th, 2026 11:34 am)
I've been busy over at [community profile] romancingmcshep and getting a last-minute story finished and posted for it.

You can check out this year's entries Here

I've also been working on my [profile] 5soulmate prompts. I finished the ones for touching your soulmate feels good and touching your soulmate lets them feel what you're feeling.

In both cases, I thought I was working on you can only touch your soulmate and by the time I was finished, realized they fit the other prompts better. Oh well. Progress at least.

The [community profile] fandomtrumpshate auction caught my attention this year, too.

And just a few minutes ago, [community profile] sga_saturday posted the prompts for this month. History and/or Reading.


I'm waiting to see the story where Rodney is reading Atlantis slash fanfic aloud to John. Oh, I know there are stories out there like that, but whose to say we can't have more?

(and if anyone has the links to those stories, please share.)

I almost forgot to add Shore Leave! A big thanks to [personal profile] sgatazmy for posting about it on her journal. I've made plans to go with [personal profile] goddess47 as my partner in crime. I am so EXCITED!
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