July 4 Flood Relief

Jul. 7th, 2025 11:42 am
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Kerr County Flood Relief Fund

The Kerr County Flood Relief Fund supports relief and rebuilding efforts after the flood of July 4, 2025. Your generosity helps our neighbors recover.

The Community Foundation - a 501(c)(3) public charity serving the Texas Hill Country - will direct funds to vetted organizations providing rescue, relief, and recovery efforts as well as flood assistance. The Fund will support the communities of Hunt, Ingram, Kerrville, Center Point, and Comfort. All donations are tax-deductible, and you will receive a receipt for your gift.

https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201


And Kerrville Pets Alive! is taking donations for rescue and fostering lost pets.

https://kerrvillepetsalive.com/?link_id=3&can_id=588b5a597b5d30fd7e36b213e5ba6987&source=email-freedom-is-fought-for-not-given&email_referrer=email_2803907&email_subject=how-you-can-help-texas-flood-victims&&

Accepting Me by Tazmy (T)

Jul. 7th, 2025 01:08 pm
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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Madison Miller, Jeannie Miller
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: slash, emotional hurt, family, nonbinary character, on Earth
Warnings: No warnings apply
Word count: 3,962
Author's Journal: [personal profile] sgatazmy
Author's Website: Tazmy on AO3
Link: Accepting Me

Author’s summary:After receiving an email from 12-year-old Madison, Rodney rushes back to Earth with John in tow.

Why This Must Be Read:
This new fic by the wonderful Tazmy revolves around Rodney and his niece Madison, and it's wonderful on so many levels. It's a companion piece to Festering Wounds, Hurting Souls, Loving Hearts, which I recced here, but can easily be read as a standalone.

There’s so much empathy, understanding, and unconditional love woven into the story, making everything feel deeply palpable and giving it real emotional weight. At its heart, it’s about how every living being deserves to be seen, heard, and treated as they wish to be—simply accepted for who they are.
You get to experience all of this through some endearing McShep vibes, with all the best Rodney-ness and John’s loving insights. The glimpses into their own, partially hurtful life experiences are emotionally perfect and add so much depth.

It’s a beautifully written fic where every word lands, leaving you with a warm feeling in your heart.

snippet of fic )

Oh, I like this word!

Jul. 8th, 2025 07:54 am
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Eirenicon: A proposal to resolve disputes and reconcile differences in order to advance peace, strengthen or establish unity, or foster solidarity.

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Small successes and mixed-up veggies

Jul. 6th, 2025 01:33 pm
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I'm very much in winter mode here as although some days are sunny, it's cold, and a lot of days are very wet. So not going outside much and not doing gardening, which I don't feel great about. I seem a bit beset by inertia in terms of things physical, possibly a mid-winter slump, but I'm doing indoors things just fine - well, the things I like doing, anyway. Not cleaning or organising! I do tidy up once a week before Fionna comes to vacuum, and occasionally the dishes get washed, but that's about it.

I've started another longer podfic - this one for the due South Big Bang. Am also continuing to add lots of new podfics to the Audiofic Archive (we got inundated by >600 short ones from a recent Voiceteam challenge). And I finished a personal project with the Audiofic Archive of adding streaming links to all the SGA podfics there so they can be enjoyed easily with no need to download zip files. That's 138 pages of SGA podfics! - and increasing each week, as we make more. Next fandom to complete is due South.

In the process I stumbled on Lim's old Fanvid page on Wayback, and the vid downloads still worked. Lim made avant garde vids with lots of altered graphics. Some are on AO3 but a lot of the SGA ones aren't. The Wayback page is here (with additional info and credits), and I downloaded the SGA ones and converted them to mp4 format here. CW for flashing, fast cuts, loud music in some of them. One, Mission Report, (lyrics) is a multimedia podvid where Lim created the lyrics, music, and vid, and sang it for the SGA flashfic comm.

In "first world problem" news, a grocery mix-up. My online delivery packer needs help with alliums! Ordered a bunch of spring (green) onions:
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And got a giant leek. Size matters! (in terms of making salads, anyway)

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Finally, I saw this amazing poem on tumblr, apparently written by nine-for-a-kiss as a teenager. It's very Dark-is-Rising-ish.

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I tried to pick something that would be intriguing - but I've got this song from the 1980s that has been blaring in my head all day.  So instead of having something more intimate, more thoughtful, you're going to get prompts from a song that I listened to in high school.

But when you think about it, "whisper" and/or "scream" can be really, really interesting as prompts.  It can be Rodney's whisper of "I love you" that floats in the air as John falls asleep that finally gives him a good night's rest, or maybe Ronon thinks about his previpus life with Amelia and how the whisper of her memory brings him comfort.  Or it could be the scream of anguish from Parrish when Lorne is captured.  Maybe Ronon offers himself up as sacrifice to the Wraith, and the scream Melena yells is so startling that that they're able to escape.

Think about it.  Your favorite character(s), one of these prompts - as Martha says, "It's a good thing."

And, GO!
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Wow, it's already time to start shutting down this prompt and come up with a new one. And just when things were getting good - who runs this comm, anyway?

We got some really good work out of these prompts!

[personal profile] brumeier  gave us The Hundred Year Heatwave
[personal profile] melagan  gave us Observations
[personal profile] mific  gave us Theory/Practice and Practice Theory

If you're working on filling the prompt(s) century and/or theory, you've got until Sunday evening to get it posted. Or drop me a note - I can be quite reasonable. Not cheap, but reasonable.

New prompt is coming...after I get back from groceries.
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Though, upon reflection, it's surprising that this hasn't happened before in 30+ years of menstruation )

I'd say that was the worst thing to happen this weekend, but then I glanced at the news, and how do things keep getting worse? I thought we might at least get a reprieve over the holiday weekend, Congress would all go on vacation and not pass any terrible bills in the interim, but I guess not.

I'm not linking to it, not today. I know how to take a break, even if they don't. Take this article on amenorrhea instead.

Hurt/Comfort Exchange

Jul. 4th, 2025 11:31 pm
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[community profile] hurtcomfortex released today! I happened to be driving a backcountry highway with no cell service at the time (coming home from Mom Things), but it was lovely to find my gifts waiting for me when I got back.

Hold a Candle To (MASH, 3400 wds, gen) delivered some lovely Charles drug withdrawal h/c with teamy affection, and A Way Out (Biggles, 4400 wds, gen) let me roll around in excellent Biggles & von Stalhein enemies-era reluctant cooperation and sympathy. Truly a lovely haul!

Observations

Jul. 5th, 2025 01:26 am
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Posted by melagan

by

Five things Chuck notices about Sheppard and McKay.

Words: 534, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fic: Observations

Jul. 4th, 2025 09:29 pm
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[personal profile] melagan posting in [community profile] sga_saturday
Observations (534 words) by melagan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Chuck (Stargate), Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Canon Universe, five things
Summary:

Five things Chuck notices about Sheppard and McKay.

Accepting Me

Jul. 4th, 2025 02:25 pm
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Posted by Tazmy

by

After receiving an email from 12-year-old Madison, Rodney rushes back to Earth with John in tow.

Words: 3926, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Samantha Carter, Jonas, Cameron Mitchell, team, original character
Categories: gen, episode related, team, angst, Jack and Daniel friendship, friendship, character study
Warnings: Jack warning for some profanity
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: [archiveofourown.org profile] moonlitesonata
Link: a fish called Mac

Why This Must Be Read: I almost tagged this as "original character" just because of the fish. :) (There are original characters here, too.)

This delightful, insightful story takes a few seconds from Fire and Water and uses that brief snapshot of Daniel's aquarium to create an entire series arc that begins with the acquisition of a fish called Mac at the beginning of S1 and ends after Ark of Truth with, well...

There's friendship and wry humor and thoughtful observation and heart-wrenching grief, and it's both outsider POV and Daniel POV all in one. A very satisfying and intriguing read!

snippet of fic )

Murderbot 1x09

Jul. 3rd, 2025 09:09 pm
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This show is such a freakin' delight.

Spoilers )
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Moonpie's foot looks better, we didn't end up having to take her for an x-ray at all.

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Self Rec
Characters: Samantha Carter, Original Character, Hathor, Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill
Pairings: Samantha Carter & Original Character friendship,
Categories: Gen, Angst, Whump, Episode-related, Episode: s03e01 Into the Fire (Stargate SG-1), Alternat Universe: Canon Divergence
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] nuh_s
Author's Website: My Ao3
Link: Hathor's New Jaffa

Why This Must Be Read: Written for Whumpex 2025, this one was really fun to play around with the concept, what if Carter was turned into a Jaffa by Hathor? I got to explore a few of my Jaffa cultural headcanons and, of course, whump Carter.

snippet of fic )

Mirror Image, by cmdonovann (G)

Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:36 pm
nuh_s: Sam Carter with pink cat ears (carter)
[personal profile] nuh_s posting in [community profile] stargateficrec
Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Characters: Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, There But For The Grace Of God!Samantha Carter, George Hammond, Catherine Langford
Pairings: Samantha Carter & Daniel Jackson friendship, Samantha Carter & Samantha Carter friendship
Categories: Gen, Episode Related, There But For The Grace Of God, Alternate Universe: Canon Divergence
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] cmdonovann
Author's Website: cmdonovann's Ao3
Link: Mirror Image

Why This Must Be Read: This is such a fun fic written for the Kill Your Double Exchange featuring Carter and TBFTGOG!Carter. What if Carter had followed Daniel through the quantum mirror? The treatment of Carter as a familiar face vs Daniel as an unfamiliar face in canon is interesting.

snippet of fic )

Bleeding

Jul. 4th, 2025 05:02 pm
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Ugh

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On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.

Warsaw, 1944


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Happy Birthday, sgatazmy!

Jul. 2nd, 2025 09:56 pm
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... You know, just slightly!!! :D :D

Hope you had a wonderful (and explosion free) birthday!

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