Tuesday, 9th December 2025

Dec. 9th, 2025 03:00 pm
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Check-In Post - Dec 9th 2025

Dec. 9th, 2025 07:03 pm
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[#282 | Catharsis] Voting Post

Dec. 8th, 2025 11:24 pm
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Here are the entries for this challenge:

List of entries )

Please Note: Because we only have 3 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (both spots) in order to be counted. Winner votes are worth 2 points, Runner Up votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

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Runner Up: 88. Another Fic Title

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Challenge 532

Dec. 8th, 2025 09:02 pm
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We’re gonna do a Real 10 Minutes today!  Set a timer on your device or phone and write till it goes off.  You can write what you want, or find inspo in something near you. 

Check-In Post - Dec 8th 2025

Dec. 8th, 2025 06:43 pm
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Book Review: Brahma's Dream

Dec. 7th, 2025 04:33 pm
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Title: Brahma's Dream
Author: Shree Ghatage
Genre: Fiction, historical fiction, family drama

Brahma's Dream by Shree Ghatage was a book I snatched out of a pile of stuff my sister was giving away last year, but she'd never gotten around to reading it herself, so she couldn't give me a preview. Brahma's Dream is set in India just before it gains self-rule, and concerns the family of Mohini, a child whose serious illness dominates her life.

This is one of those middle-of-the-road books that was neither amazingly good nor offensively bad, and therefore I struggle to come up with much to say about it. That makes it sound bad, but it isn't--I enjoyed my time with it. I thought Ghatage did a good job with exploring life on the precipice of great political change, although the history and politics of 1940s India is more backdrop to the family drama than central to the story. I liked Mohini and her family; because the nature of her illness necessitates a lot of rest and down time, Mohini is naturally a thoughtful child, as her thoughts are sometimes all she has to amuse herself. However, she never crosses the line into being precocious, which was a relief.

Neither did I feel like the book leaned too hard on Mohini's illness to elicit sentimentality from the reader. Obviously, an illness like hers is the biggest influence on her life, and on the lives of her immediate family, and there are many moments you sympathize with her because she can't just be a child the way she wants to be, but I didn't feel like Ghatage was plucking heartstrings just for the sake of it.

Reading the relationships between Mohini and her family was heartwarming, especially with her grandfather, who takes great joy in Mohini's intellect and is often there to discuss the import of various societal events with her. 

Ghatage's descriptive writing really brings to life the India of the time, with the colors, smells, sounds, and sights that are a part of Mohini's every day.

It reminded me of another book I read about a significant event in Indian history (the separation of India and Pakistan) told through the perspective of a young ill girl, Cracking India

On the whole, this was a sweet, heartfelt book. It's not heavy on plot, but if you enjoy watching the story of a family unfold and the little dramas that play out, it's enjoyable.

Check-In Post - Dec 7th 2025

Dec. 7th, 2025 06:53 pm
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Rec [fic]: Junkyard by Melime

Dec. 7th, 2025 04:27 pm
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Title: Junkyard
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] Melime
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 606 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor lands just outside 76 Totter's Lane in 1963, but fortunately he's able to leave before he meets himself. Unfortunately he's not the only one to make it into his TARDIS.
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor, Susan Foreman
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's such a sweet story.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74248856
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Theme Prompt: #282 - Catharsis
Title: Necessary distraction
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: After a difficult day, each of them has their own way of dealing with it.

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Theme Prompt: #282 - Catharsis
Title: lines in the sand, language of eye contact
Fandom:  House M.D.
Rating/Warnings: PG. Makes reference to somewhat outdated terms regarding the autism spectrum, but other than that, decently wholesome.
Word Count:  533 words
Author's Note: Another one of the times my brain has a sudden burst of motivation for something, this time regarding a curious episode of House in which there's one of the few times he manages to truly connect to a patient. Kind of a magical moment for me (an autistic doofus of a man with too many interests). Also yes this means I am kinda leaning towards a "House is actually somewhat in the spectrum someplace" headcanon, I do what I want.
Summary:  The best approximation of how Dr. House is feeling during the events of the main case of "Lines in the Sand"

--
A case quietly ends.. )






Saturday 6 December 2025

Dec. 6th, 2025 05:49 pm
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Check-In Post - Dec 6th 2025

Dec. 6th, 2025 08:14 pm
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Challenge #531

Dec. 6th, 2025 12:53 am
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Write a couple of paragraphs of your character doing something that you know how to do. Just description, and you should aim for describing it well enough that a person who doesn't know how to do it can visualize what's going on.

It doesn't have to be a complicated task. For example, it could be pulling out $4.43 worth of cash from your wallet. You could describe them opening the wallet and pulling out four dollar bills, then opening the change compartment, rooting through it, and not finding quarters, so they have to use four dimes, a nickel, and three pennies.

Check-In Post - Dec 5th 2025

Dec. 5th, 2025 07:54 pm
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Theme Prompt: #282 – Catharsis
Title: Rainsong
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: No.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Healers have their own way of dealing with the stresses and burdens of their craft.




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Title: The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp
Author: Leonie Swann (trans: Amy Bojang)
Genre: Fiction, mystery, murder mystery, crime thriller

Book # (checks notes) 13! From the "Women in Translation" rec list has been The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann, translated from German by Amy Bojang. This book concerns a house full of elderly retirees who end up investigating a series of murders in their sleepy English town.

This book was truly a delight from start to finish. I loved Swann's quirky senior cast; they were both entertaining and raised valid and very human questions about what aging with dignity means. It did a fabulous job scratching my itch for an exciting novel with no twenty-somethings to be seen. Now Agnes, the protagonist, and her friends are quite old, which impacts their lives in significant ways. However, I felt Swann did a good job of showing the limitations of an aging body--unless she's really in a hurry, Agnes will usually opt to take the stair lift down from the second floor, for instance--without sacrificing the depth and complexity of her characters, or relegating such things merely to the youth of their pasts.

The premise of this book caught my attention immediately, but after a lifetime of books with riveting premises that dismally fail to deliver, I was still wary. I'm happy to report that The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp fully delivers on its promise! Swann makes ample and engaging use of her premise.

The story itself is not especially surprising; if you're looking for a real brain-bender of a mystery or a book of shocking plot twists, this is not it. But I enjoyed it, and I thought Swann walked an enjoyable line between laying down enough clues that I could see the writing on the wall at some point, without giving the game away too quickly. There are no last-minute ass-pulls of heretofore unmentioned characters suddenly confessing to the crime here! The main red herring that gets tossed in the reader is likely to see for what it is very quickly, but for plot-relevant reasons I won't mention here, it's very believable that Agnes does not see that.

Agnes herself was a wonderful protagonist; I really enjoyed getting to go along on this adventure with her. She had a hard enough time wrangling her household of easily-distracted seniors even before the murders started! But the whole cast was endearing, if also all obnoxious in their own way after decades of settling on their own way of getting through life.

Bojang does a flawless job with the translation; she really captures various English voices both in the dialogue and in Agnes' narration. The writing flows naturally without ever coming off stilted or awkward.

I really had fun with this one, and I'm delighted to here there's apparently a sequel--Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime--which I will definitely be checking out.

Thursday 4th December 2025

Dec. 4th, 2025 11:00 pm
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Check-In Post - Dec 4th 2025

Dec. 4th, 2025 07:22 pm
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[#282 | Catharsis] Challenge Post

Dec. 4th, 2025 01:14 am
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Challenge 282:
CATHARSIS
n. purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art; a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension

Sometimes, you just need to feel things. A really good cry, a really good laugh, or a really good scream – whichever it is, it’s good for the soul. Sometimes you can get it through art, maybe a tragic play, or a comedy movie, or a romance novel; other times, you just need to confront your nemesis, or stand in the woods and scream, or laugh until you cry at something that isn’t actually funny.

How do your characters find catharsis? Do art or music work for them, or do they need something a little more concrete?

Write a story about catharsis.

BONUS GOAL: “Are you okay?”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!


Challenge ends Monday, December 8 at 9:00PM EST.
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 282 – catharsis
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[#281 | Mirage] Results Post

Dec. 4th, 2025 01:13 am
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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #281 – Mirage!

This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 3925

Congratulations to all this week's participants, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes! [personal profile] autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those.

You may now post your Challenge 281 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!

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