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Title: Not Everyone Gets a Second Chance
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Gen
Summary: John is hoping that Lisa will take him back
Characters: John Bacchus, George Gently
Word Count: 661

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I just came across this 15-minute documentary about 4 Disney background artists' unique approach to painting the same subject matter. I found their process fascinating, and inspiring to watch! :)

Watch on YouTube

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I originally wrote this primer for

tv_talk, and a friend said I should also post it here! I apologise to anyone who's seeing this multiple times.

If anyone's in the mood for something silly and fun, I'd like to recommend The Goes Wrong Show, which I discovered recently and absolutely fell in love with.

What is The Goes Wrong Show?

If you've heard of The Play That Goes Wrong, this comedy series is from the same theatre company, Mischief Theatre. Every thirty-minute episode is a new short play, performed by the determined but deeply unfortunate Cornley Drama Society. Every play goes as wrong as humanly possible.

In addition to being very funny, the plays are startlingly impressive technical achievements. These are genuine stage plays being filmed in front of a live audience, and making things 'go wrong' convincingly requires incredible pinpoint timing. So much hard work goes into messing everything up; it must be so much trickier than performing a play that goes right!

If you like Taskmaster, you might also enjoy this; they have a similar sense of people desperately struggling on with their mission while everything falls apart around them.

( Character overview below the cut. )

How much of The Goes Wrong Show is there?

Just twelve episodes of thirty minutes each. The Goes Wrong Show was dropped by the BBC after the second series, but the episodes are largely self-contained and satisfying in themselves, so there's no sense of an overarching story cut short.

If you watch and enjoy the show, there are two one-hour television specials you might also want to seek out: Peter Pan Goes Wrong, and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, both of which predate the show itself.

Where can I watch The Goes Wrong Show?

There's a good chance you'll be able to watch it at no cost! If you're in the UK, it's on BBC iPlayer (or DVD, if you don't have a television licence).

If you're outside the UK, I believe The Goes Wrong Show is officially available for free on the Lionsgate YouTube channel; this YouTube playlist should have all twelve episodes. I've heard from a couple of people based in the US that it's also on Amazon Prime there.

If I only ever watch one episode of this show, which would you recommend?

I love the whole show, and I think the first-listed episode ('The Spirit of Christmas') is a solid starting point. If you only ever watch one, though, the episode '90 Degrees' is a genuinely insane, extraordinary feat of performance. If you're wondering, they're not using CGI; they actually did that.

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1) the fever of our daughter was gone this morning. I hope it stays away today so she can have a good day with her granddad ^^

2) soup for lunch

3) hubby's father is staying for dinner

sholio

Some more from Three Sentence Ficathon!

11. Murderbot (TV or books), Murderbot & PresAux (Ratthi, Pin-Lee, Gurathin)
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/6433.html?thread=13270817#cmt13270817
any, any, accidental voyeurism

( About 150 wds )

12. MASH, Klinger & BJ
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/6433.html?thread=13204001#cmt13204001
any, any, the potatoes of defiance

( Four sentences )

13. Gattaca, Vincent & Jerome
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/6433.html?thread=14207009#cmt14207009
Any, any, min/maxing your baby

I haven't watched this movie in absolutely ages, and I've never written anything for it before, but it was what the prompt immediately made me think of.

( 600 words under the cut )

14. There is also a fairly long Londo/G'Kar one (spoilers, of course) that will probably be posted on AO3 when I get around to it.

bluapapilio

Used my anime TBR boardgame.

I finished 7/7 for my last challenge and had a good time! I am sick so I dunno how this game will go. 😪

Avatar:

Kamonohashi Ron
Skill: Move an extra tile once (trap tile if roll Odd)

Roll #1:

A 5, prompt: classic anime. Slayers would work here I suppose.

Roll #2:

A 4, prompt: supernatural element. I'll go ahead and do more Babanba Banban Vampire because what was that cliffhanger.

Roll #3:

A 10, oldest on list. If I'm just looking at my CW list, that would be Digimon Adventure, specifically 02. It's a little confusing because of the weird tracking on my part, plus my last entries in 2010 stopped at the end area of the first series. *shrug* I'll just start watching where I last tracked for 02 and wish for the best. I actually think I remember that I stopped around where Kaiser's digimon helped the 'digidestined' to try and help Ken change?

Roll #4:

A 3, prompt: isekai. I had to pick from my PTW list and I agonized and removed a couple 'why is this even here' things before realizing that I could finally just watch the next season of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!!

Roll #5:

A 6, prompt: entertainment industry. How about more Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Revolutions, I vaguely remember what happened last..

Roll #6:

A 4, and I'm taking a chance and using my skill to land me on the generate from PTW tile. A #40 which isss Bikkuriman! I'll write more on what I know of it when I watch it.

Roll #7:

...Are you kidding me. A 10 which is RIGHT BEFORE the finish. Prompt: historical. Legend of Exorcism. The next roll was a 6 but I will not be choosing a reward since there were so many anime this time. I'm going back to blowing my nose and being miserable now.

Most looking forward to: My Next Life as a Villainess?
Least looking forward to: Slayers

~Anime PTW List~

[Fantasy/Adventure] Slayers
[Vampire/Comedy] Babanba Banban Vampire
[Adventure/Fantasy] Digimon Adventure 02 ✔️
[Isekai/Reverse Harem] My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X ✔️
[Idols/Music] Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Revolutions
[Comedy/Fantasy] Bikkuriman
[Fantasy/Comedy] Legend of Exorcism

Current Mood: sick

sonofgodzilla

On Saturday, I went into a print shop to buy a card and ended up with a handful of bookmarks and a lot of questions about a this picture by artist Tsuchiya Kōitsu, initially printed in 1934 and simply entitled Nezu Shrine. I am uneducated, friends, I don't really understand art or art history, and I recognise enough that anywhere that sells "prints" of "famous pictures" is mostly for people searching for souvenirs of time spent away from home or reminders of places they once knew, but I keep thinking about this picture: why is the lady standing alone in the snow? Who is it that is ahead of her? Are they together? Do they know each other? Are they lovers who cannot be seen together or are they simply strangers that arrived at the same time in the dark amidst the virgin snow? The lady is looking ahead but it almost seems to me that such forward focus comes only after a time of looking back, she seems like she has just turned her gaze to the path again, that she is reluctant to go ahead but she knows she must. I imagine it is New Year, maybe, that this is a hatsumode, if you like, that this lady has reached some crossroads, that she has made some resolution.

I'm reading a lot into this. It's 5:33am on a Monday morning. In my sleep, I kept waking and thinking of the snow at Nezu shrine.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: somewhere
Current Music: Cranes - Move Along

cornerofmadness

Out of fear of jinxing anything I shall say nothing until I know this storm is fully over. But one of the things I did today was to try and entertain a bored feline. I turned on my tesla coil...only to remember this wasn't the tesla coil Halloween decoration but it does have swirling mist. Rocket could care less. And I had a flipping fish toy that you have to plug in to charge.

I was standing in TJ Maxx excited to find this. the lady next to me was too. We both scampered off, happy dreams of excited kitties dancing in our heads. I charged it today. I got my video recorder ready. I even swept the carpet so it'll look better. I pour out a line of catnip on the fish and get it to flipping. Rocket stares up at me, wtf food dispenser? why did you give me this? But...it's cute. Play with it! He side eyed me into non existence. I even say on the recording, I'm having more fun with this than you. He does the line of nip off the fish's flank and leaves me there with my stuffed fish.

What does this have to do with writing? I've been thinking about pets in literature. I'm reading one right now Sugar and Vice with a dog (that maybe too many chapters are about). I'll be honest I don't usually give my characters pets. I tend to forget about them. In fact, I think Angel Dust and Fat Nuggets (his pet hell pig) is the most I've ever written a character with a pet and half the time I still forget about Nuggsy.

How do you feel about pets in literature? Of course it's popular. But how do you handle the pet in question in a way that whatever it is compliments the story instead of distracting from it or leave us wondering where it went? I'm not including police dogs/search and rescue in this because they are easy to make integral to the story. Ditto stories where the animals are telling it? Do you write them? Are you like me and sort of dodging it? Curious minds want to know.

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Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Hudson & Rex

bluapapilio

For my anime PTW challenge

Watched ep. 5-6 of Fairy Ranmaru, I'll have caught up to the rewatch with ep. 7 and then it's new content for me!

Watched ep. 1-3 of Akatsuki no Yona and am enjoying it.

Watched ep. 13 of Slayers, I'll probably take it an episode at time while I'm still not enjoying the current plot;;

Watched S1E6-7 of Haikyuu!!. 💖

(Re)watched ep.1-2 of HIGH CARD.

Watched ep. 8-9 of Babanba Banban Vampire!

Watched ep. 5-7 of Revenger.

Current Mood: sick

bluapapilio

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Current Mood: sick

sholio

Amperslash authors are revealed! I wrote two things, one assignment and one PH.

And Other Hidden Places (Murderbot, 7200 wds, mature-rated, creator chose not to use warnings)

So in true Amperslash fashion, this one was insanely difficult to tag. It's Gurathin/OC and sort of Murderbot/Gurathin, but also, Murderbot is definitely asexual and sex-repulsed in this, possibly aromantic but possibly also not. Basically Gurathin seeks out rough sex to self-harm; Murderbot finds out about it and tries to figure out what's going on. I had a ton of fun writing it, and I figured the recipient (whose tastes I know pretty well) would love it, but I would never have written this one for someone cold; it definitely skirts the edge of a number of areas that can be either super iddy or hard DNWs depending on personal taste.

And then there was a pinch hit I picked up:

Midnight Road to Indianapolis (Stranger Things, 2K, gennish Eddie/Chrissy)

I like this pairing in general concept and have read a little of it, but I've never tried my hand at writing it, so I decided to jump on the pinch hit, and really had fun with the period ambiance in this one! (Husband reminded me when I was idly musing about the whole deal with cars having cigarette lighters that old cars also used to have ashtrays, which was definitely a thing in the cars of my youth, but I had completely forgotten about! So that makes an appearance in this fic as well.)

petra

Lint rollers (200 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Satchmo (White Collar)
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, Psychic Wolves
Summary:

Peter and Satchmo make an arrest -- and a friend.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Let's misbehave

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Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #13 )

And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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So, I made a DW a few years ago, but fell off posting on it pretty quickly. I’ve made this new account in hopes of being more active!

Name: Eclipse

Age: 31

I mostly post about: So far, I’ve mostly been posting my writing as well as fandom meta. I post a mix of fanfic and original writing. But I anticipate also making posts about the books I read and the movies I watch. We’ll have to see how things evolve!

My hobbies and interests are: Drawing, writing, houseplants, reptile care, and dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.

My fandoms are: I’m in the horror fandom at large. However, my two main niches are the Alien franchise and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (minus the shitty remake lol). I’m also in the following fandoms: Ghost the band, Beetlejuice, Phantom of the Opera, and the monster romance community.

Other fandoms I enjoy but that I’m not posting about a lot at the moment are: the Stargate franchise, Batman villains, and Once Upon a Time.

I'm looking to meet people who: Basically, I’m just looking for nice, chill people who share some of my interests!

My posting schedule tends to be: I only recently made this blog, so I don’t know what exactly my schedule will look like, but I anticipate it being fairly sporadic.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: People who are oddly aggressive and rude, conservatives/MAGA types, people who are anti-LGBT, people who are strongly pro-GenAI, and people who generally participate in fandom purity culture.

Before adding me, you should know: I am in my “cringe but free” era, and as a result, have been writing more OC/self-insert x Canon Character fic — specifically OC x horror villain stuff. If that’s not your thing, this probably isn’t the right blog for you. ^^’

Also, while I generally do not care what people ship, I am very uncomfortable with lolisho, so if you like that kind of thing, we won't mesh well.

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Title: Eight Lives Left
Fandom: Person of Interest
Characters: Sameen Shaw
Rating: PG
Length: 163 words
Summary: Shaw's got another life ahead of her.

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All current pinch hits are due by 11:00 AM UTC on 1 February 2026.

This year, we will do a pinch hitter treats sign-up post, so that anyone creating a pinch hit fanwork who is not signed up for the main exchange is able to potentially get a treat made for them - you can check this post for more info.

Before you start your assignment, please make sure to familiarise yourself with the exchanges rules, including fanwork minimums.

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cosmolinguist

I had a dream about Gary last night so I miss him extra today.

But D and I saw many cute and happy dogs when we were out helping a family member, and we got home just in time to do our usual Teddy walk.

I miss my dog, but there are so many good dogs.

In the dream, I was showing someone who was frightened of dogs how carefully and delicately he'd take a treat from my hand (which is exactly how he'd do it in real life too). And the dream-person was happy about seeing this and it made her relax. It was really nice.

luzula

Do you want to read about our vegetable gardening plans for the year? : D Perhaps it can take your mind off less fun things for a while (of which there are unfortunately many in the world)...

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