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imhilien ([personal profile] imhilien) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-08-10 05:31 pm
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[#270] JUST A MASK I WEAR (JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS)

Theme Prompt: #270 - Pride
Title: Just a mask I wear
Fandom: Jem and the Holograms
Ratings / Warnings: PG
Bonus: No
Word Count: 134
Summary: It was easy for Jem to feel pride when she strode out across the stage.

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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-08-10 03:13 pm
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[#270] CROSSROADS (GAME OF THRONES / A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE)

Theme Prompt: #270 - Pride
Title: Crossroads
Fandom: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Davos is beginning to see the weight one decision may have on the fate of them all.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, August 9

BUFFY: Kathy's evil. I'm an evil fighter. It's simple... I'm gonna have to kill her.
WILLOW: You have to kill her? Don't you think you could just switch rooms, or something?
BUFFY: Well I would, but it's not just me in danger from Kathy. Look.
WILLOW: Toenails?
BUFFY: Evil toenails. I took them off the floor last night when she was in the bathroom. She thought I was asleep.
WILLOW: Good thinking, 'cause in the middle of the night those toenails could have attacked you and left little half-moon marks all over your body.
BUFFY: Don't be ridiculous. The point is I measured them before I fell asleep and again this morning, and they grew. After they were cut! That's a demon thing, she has to be eliminated.

~~BtVS 4x02 “Living Conditions”~~



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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-08-09 02:21 pm
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Sanders' young ladies' reader

Sanders' young ladies' reader : embracing a comprehensive course of instruction in the principles of rhetorical reading : with a choice collection of exercises in reading, both in prose and poetry, for the use of the higher female seminaries, as also, the higher classes in female schools generally by Charles W. Sanders

A selection of prose and poetry intended for elocution classes. Interesting, nowadays, chiefly for the selections choosing. With an eye to variety, the preface assures us, because they are intended for the young.

This one is, unlike the fourth and fifth readers, aimed specifically at girls. Which means a couple on the education of women and the necessity of its being for their whole lives, and not the flurry of society to win their husbands, and more female characters in the stories. It has a couple of selections that overlap with those readers.

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tinny ([personal profile] tinny) wrote in [community profile] iconthat2025-08-09 08:30 pm
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Samifer ([personal profile] javert) wrote in [community profile] iconthat2025-08-09 01:22 pm
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Challenge 196: Orange



Tales of Graces (Cheria Barnes)
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Next color: Yellow
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juliet316 ([personal profile] juliet316) wrote in [community profile] iconthat2025-08-09 05:13 am
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Challenge 196: Red

Hi, it's been awhile...



Don Craig and Marlena Evans from Days of Our Lives

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Next color - Orange.
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rocky41_7 ([personal profile] rocky41_7) wrote in [community profile] books2025-08-08 06:33 pm
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Recent Reading: Annihilation

Today I wrapped up Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, a horror/sci-fi novel with fantastical (?) elements about a biologist exploring a very unsettling landscape.
 
There are no names given in this book—the narrator and protagonist is simply "the Biologist," and she refers to her other three teammates by their job titles as well. Locations outside of the place they're exploring—Area X—are not given either, but the world is implied to be much the same as our own, with Area X a troubling and relatively recent anomaly. A private company hires the Biologist and her colleagues to venture into this strange place and take notes. They are the 12th such expedition.
 I appreciate that much of the horror in Annihilation isn't in-your-face: it's the slow build of things that are just off. This quiet and subtle approach means that when something extreme happens, it feels extreme. The Biologist and her colleagues know that Area X is dangerous before they venture in, but even so, they are unprepared for how and to what degree. VanderMeer's portrayal of how trust frays among relative strangers under these conditions felt realistic.

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double_dutchess ([personal profile] double_dutchess) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-08-09 12:38 am
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, August 7th and Friday, August 8th

Willow: Buffy. Don’t let jerky Parker chase you away.
Buffy: He didn’t. I just don’t want to deal with this right now. I’m taking a holiday from dealing, happily vacationing in the land of not coping.

~~Fear Itself~~

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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-08-08 07:19 pm
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[#270] In Two Minds (Doctor Who)


Theme Prompt: #270 – Pride
Title: In Two Minds
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: The Doctor thinks he’s always right, but when there are two of them, each with their own ideas on the right course of action, it can lead to arguments.




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wickedgame ([personal profile] wickedgame) wrote in [community profile] iconthat2025-08-08 02:04 pm
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Challenge 196: Cyan


Dead Boy Detectives 

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Next Color: BLUE
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the_paradigm ([personal profile] the_paradigm) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-08-07 10:29 am
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[#270] Mo Ghile Mear (FFXII)

Theme Prompt: 270 - Pride
Title: Mo Ghile Mear (My Gallant Hero)
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating/Warnings: T/PG-13 (Language, Character Death, Mourning and Loss)
Bonus: No
Word Count: 735
Summary: Basch stands vigil with his Princess, and mourns the loss of his Prince. Set in-game during the Prelude.

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burnhername ([personal profile] burnhername) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-08-07 04:06 am
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, August 6th

XANDER'S DAD MR. HARRIS: (to Buffy) Hey, what do you say we slip in the back room (he points) and I show you my--
BUFFY: You finish that sentence and I guarantee you won't have *anything* to show.
Mr. Harris gives a blank stare to Buffy. She yanks his arm, pulling him away.

~~Hell's Bells~~



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[#270 | Pride] Challenge Post

Challenge 270:
PRIDE
...goes before a fall?

Pride isn’t always a bad thing, of course. Confidence in yourself, satisfaction in a job well-done, open self-acceptance – all of those might fall under the category of being proud, and those are generally good things! But taken too far, pride can make things difficult; too much pride might stop you from accepting help, be off-putting to friends or family, or even turn into dangerous overconfidence.

Are your characters proud, justifiably or otherwise?

Write a story about pride.

BONUS GOAL: “What are you worried about? It’s me.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!
Challenge ends Monday, August 11 at 9:00PM EST.
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 270 – pride
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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rocky41_7 ([personal profile] rocky41_7) wrote in [community profile] books2025-08-06 05:06 pm
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Recent Reading: The Dispossessed

"There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, the idea of a boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing more important than that wall."

I knew this book was going to hit hard from the opening paragraph above, and it did not disappoint. I've enjoyed Ursula Le Guin's work before--The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite books—and I absolutely see why The Dispossessed is considered one of her crowning pieces. The setting for this book is a planet and its moon—Urras, the planet, is a lush world not dissimilar from Earth, which is home to several capitalist countries and at least one socialist country; and Anarres, the moon, which is a dusty, resource-scanty place home to a society of anarchists who fled from Urras just under two hundred years ago. The core of the novel concerns Shevek, a theoretical physicist from Anarres who chooses to relocate to Urras.
 
Le Guin captures truly great sci-fi because this work is so imbued with curiosity. Le Guin is asking questions at the heart of any great sci-fi work: What defines humanity? What can we achieve, and how is it done, and what does that mean for society? What is society? What does it mean to be alone? What does it mean to be part of a whole? To me, sci-fi can't be truly sci-fi without a measure of philosophy, and The Dispossessed has this in droves. 
 
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the_paradigm ([personal profile] the_paradigm) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-08-06 11:02 am
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[#269] Nails (Final Fantasy XII)

Theme Prompt: 269 - Self Indulgence
Title: Nails
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating/Warnings: G/None.
Bonus: No
Word Count: 147
Summary: Penelo helps Fran with a relaxing little ritual.

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Barb C ([personal profile] rahirah) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-08-05 07:46 pm
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, August 5

Willow: By the way, are we hoping to find a body, or no body?
Xander: Call me an optimist, but I'm hoping to find a fortune in gold doubloons.
Giles: Um, body would mean flesh-eating demon, no body would point towards the, uh, army of zombies thing. Take your pick, really. Right, then, uh... Go on.
Xander: You're closer.
Buffy: Pathetic much? Move over.

~~Buffy Episode #14: "Some Assembly Required"~~


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