The Friday Five for 1 August 2025

Jul. 31st, 2025 04:23 pm
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This week's questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] angelich

1. What is something you collect? Why?

2. If you could make one ice cream flavor, what would the ingredients be and what would be the name?

3. What can't you go a day without?

4. What position do you sleep in? *back, right side, left side, stomach . . . etc.*

5. What is your typical morning routine before work/school?

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Jul. 31st, 2025 11:25 am
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Name: MerricatB
Age group: 40s
Country: USA unfortunately


Main Fandoms: Sense8
Other Fandoms: AMC Interview with the Vampire; NBC Hannibal; Good Omens; Our Flag Means Death; The Old Guard (not the sequel blergh); Killing Eve
Fannish Interests: Fanfiction
OTPs and Ships: Wolfgang/Kala/Rajan + Felix for Sense8 is my main one.

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Jul. 30th, 2025 10:18 pm
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Name: Mr. Fox

Age: 30-something


I mostly post about:
Stories from my life — my thoughts and feelings, especially during this time of war in Ukraine. I try to capture emotions honestly: memories of a peaceful past, reflections on the present, and tales from my life as a mariner and traveler.
This journal is still in its early days, after a long break from writing. Each entry is posted in both English and the original language. I also share my own photographs — from different times, chosen to reflect my current mood.

My hobbies are:
Photography (almost professional), lomography (daily photos of interesting moments), music (acoustic, alternative, instrumental covers), psychology, and classical literature. I love discovering new things — ideas, places, people.

My fandoms are:
Honestly, I’m not active in any specific fandom. But I enjoy reading and learning, especially to improve my English.

I'm looking to meet people who:
…feel connected to what I write — kindred spirits or simply those who find meaning in my words. I’m open to everyone (with one exception: I don’t welcome those who support or excuse the war). My posts are open and honest. I’d love to find new interesting people to read and connect with.

My posting schedule tends to be:
Currently daily, or a few times a week — depending on my free time.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:
No major dealbreakers — most of what matters is already said above.

Before adding me, you should know:
I’m an open person without any particular agenda. I’m Ukrainian — and perhaps that matters now, just to avoid misunderstandings.
Welcome aboard. These are my messages in a bottle.

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Journaling Prompt: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?

I’ve been a gamer for as long as I can remember. It started with Space Invaders on the Amstrad CPC 464 in the mid-80s - that clunky green-screen magic, the beep-boop intensity, the sheer novelty of it all. And I never really stopped.

Over the years, I’ve collected a fair few consoles: SNES, Gameboy, Playstation, PS2, Wii, Switch. I’ve still got them all, too. There's something oddly comforting about holding onto those pieces of plastic and circuitry, like keeping a time capsule of different versions of myself.

I’m definitely a solo-gamer. Always have been. I think it’s the introvert in me. I like slipping into a gameworld on my own terms, no pressure, no voice chat, no audience. Just me, the screen, and whatever rhythm the game wants me to fall into.

My favourites fall into a few categories:

Old school side-scrolling platforms
Tight levels, tricky jumps, that sense of flow when everything clicks. Still satisfying as hell.

Racing games
Especially Rock & Roll Racing, which lives in my memory as pure, chaotic joy. The soundtrack! The mayhem! The fact I can still hum the menu music unprompted!

Millennial dream games
AKA my happy place. Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, Stardew Valley, Palia. I will always love games where you can farm, fish, befriend villagers, decorate your house, and wander around making little To Do lists for yourself. Peak comfort.

I know gaming is a social thing for a lot of people, and that’s great, but for me, it’s always been a way to unwind, to self-soothe, to get lost in a world I don’t have to share unless I choose to. A quiet kind of joy.

Two cozy-living titles are landing in August that have me genuinely buzzing - Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar and Tiny Bookshop

Grand Bazaar is a remake of the classic Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar, rebuilt for Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and PC. It looks like it'll hit all the familiar beats of the series - the crops, the bazaar, the friendships - with some extra structure and energy, like planning your stall layout, managing inventory, ringing the announcer bell, all while engaging with townsfolk and growing relationships

Tiny Bookshop 
feels like someone peeked inside my brain and made a game out of it. You run a little travelling bookshop in a seaside town, stocking shelves, making recommendations based on people’s moods, and slowly building relationships with the locals. I played the demo earlier this year and it was fantastic. It's out next week and I can't wait!

Both games feel deeply me. They’re about building worlds, making meaningful (but low‑stress) choices, and finding comfort in routine. Can’t wait to build my bazaar stall and decorate my little bookshop by the sea.
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There’s just something deeply compelling about watching two characters navigate uneven ground - whether it’s age, experience, authority, or institutional power - and still manage to build something charged and intimate between them. Not despite the imbalance, but through it. That slow burn of restraint. The ache of wanting something they shouldn't. The negotiations of trust, timing, control, and care.

This is especially compelling when both characters are competent in their own right, but operating from different registers: mentor/student, coach/player, commander/civilian specialist, master/apprentice. The imbalance isn’t about helplessness - it’s about the impossibility of an even playing field, and the intimacy that arises anyway.

These dynamics can be messy and complicated and so emotionally satisfying when done right. They let fiction stretch into questions of loyalty, respect, control, vulnerability. What does it mean to choose closeness, when there are rules saying you shouldn’t? What does it cost, to reach for someone who could say no with a word?

Some personal favourites:

Jannik Sinner/Simone Vagnozzi – restrained affection, a coach who holds himself too tightly, and a player who sees straight through him
Jannik Sinner/Darren Cahill - built on loyalty, history, and the kind of attention that feels more like possession if you look too long
Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi – power wrapped in devotion, connection shaped by discipline, love made sharper by its impossibility
Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg – the sentinel and the grad student who never stops talking, thrown together by biology and staying for each other
Jethro Gibbs/Tony DiNozzo – command and obedience with a side of locker room banter and unspoken everything
Jack O’Neill/Daniel Jackson – sarcasm vs sincerity, orders vs ethics, saving the world one lingering look at a time

 

And yes, this is entirely about fiction. These dynamics let us explore things that might be fraught or even dangerous in real life but that, in the hands of a good writer, become vehicles for emotional tension, character growth, and that delicious blend of intimacy and restraint.

Give me the power imbalance that heightens the stakes. Give me the age difference that adds weight to every decision. Give me the mentor figure trying not to fall. Give me the younger one pushing every boundary, knowing exactly what they're doing. Give me the slow unravelling, the look that lingers too long, the moment someone steps just half an inch closer than they should. Give me the ache of wanting what they shouldn't - and wanting it well.

I want characters who should know better - and want it anyway.

I want stories where love is inconvenient. Where it’s earned. Where it burns, quietly and ferociously, just beneath the surface.

I will never be over it

Sunshine Revival Challenge #7

Jul. 25th, 2025 07:16 pm
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 One more post before vacation.

 

Challenge #7

 

The Ferris Wheel

Journaling: Life in fandom goes through ups and downs. Reminisce about the "wild ride" of your time in fandom or in other online communities.

 

The net wasn’t around when I was a teenager, but if it had, I’m sure I would have written fanfiction. Because even if I didn’t write them down, I did long and elaborate stories about The Lord of the Rings in my head. First merely adding a female companion to the fellowship, but after I read Silmarillion I made up more independent characters and adventures. I’m sorry I never did write them down, but I still have some of the synopsis for them.

 

I ventured online for the first time in early 1999. My son was a newborn, and one sleepless night I did a search for Dorothy L. Sayers and found a mailgroup that had just decided on a read.through of all her books. It was my first online community, and we had so much fun. Now, 26 years later, I´m still in contact with some of them. At some point we decided to write a round robin to create Harriet Vane’s fictitious detective novel Death 'Twixt Wind and Water, as it has a fair amount of clues to reconstruct. It was great fun, and the first time I wrote fiction in English. This mailgroup also introduced the concept of fanfiction to me, as some members also wrote Harry Potter fic. 

 

For a couple of years I read fanfiction now and then, but never considered writing it. That changed when I happened to see a promo shot of Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook in Peter Pan in 2003. Peter Pan was one of my childhood favourites, and this picture triggered me into writing. For about 2 years I wrote feverishly, and wrote some really dark fanfic. And wrote myself into dealing with some trauma from my teens. To cut a rather long process very short, writing fanfic helped me heal in a way I had not foreseen, and was instrumental in shedding a depression I had lived in for years.

 

I didn’t write much between 2005-2013, even if I did write from time to time. I divorced, and juggling work and being a single mother gave me little time and energy for it. Even when life settled down I had got out of the habit to write, but in 2013 there was a sudden death in my family. It was a terrible and traumatic experience, and it triggered me into another feverish writing spell. I had just re-watched Doctor Who, from the First Doctor and onwards, and I started writing Whofic. 

 

Once again I found writing very therapeutic, but after the first rush of writing I realised something I never consciously realised before. I love writing. It’s good for my well=being, regardless if I write a blogpost or a fic. Up until early 2022 I wrote steadily, exploring  a number of fandoms and ships. Then I had a creative freeze when the war in Ukraine happened. I couldn’t do anything creative at all for a long time, and only got back to writing on a regular basis earlier this year. It feels good to be back!

 

As of now I have 123 fics on AO3 in 26 fandoms. 94 of those one-shots. I mostly write het, with a preference for strong and competent female characters and morally ambiguous male ones. I just checked, the ratio looks like this, F/M (80 fics), Gen (33), F/F (7), M/M (5), Multi (5). All my fics are in a historical and/or fantastical fandom. As a history nerd I spend a lot of time researching history when I write.

 

My fanfics can be found here.


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 As I'm going on my 4-week vacation tomorrow I know I won’t post much during that time. So here’s July’s books for most of the month, and the rest will be included for August. My goal this month was to actually finish some of the thirteen books I have started, but not finished. This is how it went.

 

The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud. The last of the Lockwood & Co series. I found it enjoyable, and the series ended with a satisfying conclusion. The reality of Marissa Fitts was more horrifying than I thought. But I also feel the ending opened for a sequel, with various things Lucy indicated that she had done since the grand finale, and also because we never found out Skull’s identity and why he was such a powerful ghost. But as this book was published in 2017, it doesn’t seem very likely it will come.

 

Det ockulta sekelskiftet (The Occult Turn of the Century) by Per Faxneld. How occultism influenced a number of Swedish artists in the late 19/early 20th century. Super interesting, and not something I knew anything about. Which is surprising as I’ve studied art history and consider myself pretty well-read on. But I think the idea that esoterism was influential to some of our more well-known artists has been seen as something embarrassing.

 

Of course I couldn’t abstain from not starting any new books, so I also read Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch, the latest Rivers of London novel. I found it enjoyable, but not remarkable. Though I always like the inclusion of Abigail and the talking foxes.

 

Never Flinch by Stephen King. A return to Holly Gibney and her PI agency Finders Keepers. This time we have not one murderous person, but two. One that wants to kill a popular feminist, another who kills as revenge for a man who has been murdered in prison before it’s revealed he was wrongfully imprisoned. I like Holly as a character, but I kept putting this book down and then forgetting about it, so it’s safe to say it didn’t grab me.

 

And that’s it, so far for July.


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Jul. 24th, 2025 08:34 pm
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Name: Amber
Age group: 40's
Country: USA
Subscription/Access Policy: I'm fine with anyone one, just let me know before you add me. I'd prefer 18+ with same interests or a few.

Fannish Interests: Cosplay, conventions, charity work, fanfiction, drawing.
I like to post about: My health, photos I take, my daily life, fandoms, movie/show reviews, my church/God (I got back into religion not to long ago), my friends and what were up to, my fanclubs and what were up to.
About Me/Other Info: I'm a 8 open heart surgery patient and pacemaker surgery to my name along with other health issues. I'm introvert. I'm a Hufflepuff. Theme Park pass holder for Universal Hollywood and Disneyland. I collect popcorn buckets and fandom stuff. I love to cosplay and Disneybound. Also love doing Disney markets and game nights. I'm obsessed with reading/painting and doing movie/show binges. Love to attend conventions and sometimes work them. I also love being in my Star Trek clubs (2) and my Ghosbusters club. I'm a huge fan of Fall, Halloween. I hate the heat/summer.

Please no racism, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-science, fatphobia, Trump supports.

Other Fandoms: White Collar, Criminal Minds and NCIS.
OTPs and Ships: Way to many but to start: Kirk/Spock, Kirk/McCoy, Kirk/Uhura, Spock/Uhura, Number One/Pike, Picard/Q, Picard/Riker, Bashir/Garak, Janeway/Chakotay, Janeway/Paris, Paris/Torres, Chakotay/Paris, Paris/Kim, Archer/Tucker, Archer/T'Pol/Tucker, Archer/T'Pol, Archer/Shran, Trip/Reed, Ten/Donna, Ten/Rose, Amidala/Kenobi, Amidala/Skywalker, Kenobi/Skywalker, Kenobi/Sabé, Organa/Solo, Kent/Luthor, Kent/Lang, Queen/Kent, Barry/Queen, Barry/Snow, Snart/Barry, Barry/Oliver/Kara, Ramon/Lisa Snart, Eddie Thawne/Barry, Barry/Spivot, Queen/Merlyn, Harper/Thea Queen, Barry/Kara Danvers, Bonnie/Damon, Elena/Stefan, Elena/Damon, Klaus /Caroline, Elena /Elijah, Magnus/Alec, Simon/Raphael. SO many more.

Favorite Movies: Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of The Rings/Superman, Batman, Deadpool, X-Men, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Back to The Future, Fast and The Furious, Jurassic Park/World, Ghosbusters,
TV Shows: Star Trek, 9-1-1, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Shadowhunters, Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Psych, Teen Wolf, Pokémon, Doctor Who, Arrow, The Flash, Superman & Lois, Angel, Buffy, Torchwood.
Books: Harry Potter, House of Night, The Vampire Diaries, Percy Jackson, The Mortal Instruments.
Music: Country, oldies, opera (some). Luke Bryan, Jelly Roll, Alan Jackson, George Straight, Garth Brooks, LeeAnn Rhimes, Shania Twain, Backstreet Boys, NSync, Linkin Park, Pentatoix, Evanescence, Josh Groban, Ed Sherran, P!nk, Eminem.
Games:
Comics/Anime/Misc: Pokemon, Digimon and Card Captor Sakura.

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Jul. 24th, 2025 08:23 pm
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Name: Amber

Age:

40's.

I mostly post about:

My Star Trek fanclubs and Ghostbusters fanclub, photos, paintings, drawings, fanfic, shows, binges, cosplay, real life, health issues, Fall, Halloween.

My hobbies are:

My Star Trek club, photography, drawing, painting rocks/hiding them, theme parks, cosplay, disneybounding, binging shows/movies.

My fandoms are:

Way to many to list but here goes: 9-1-1, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Star Trek, Star Wars, Shadowhunters, Supernatural (not much anymore), Harry Potter, The Lord of The Rings/The Hobbit, Jurassic Park/World (except new one), Psych, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Back to The Future, Scream, IT (old one), A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Horror, Disney, Marvel, PokemonGo (Is that considered fandom? lol).

I'm looking to meet people who:

Same interests as me.

My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc

Whenever I have something to post or say.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

politics (especially if that's all you post about I will not comment on them), homophobes, transphobes, church/God haters, Trump supporters, inactive accounts, bigotry, racists.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm a open heart patient with 8 surgeries and a pacemaker surgery to my name. So my posts are often about my health problems. I'm an introvert except around my club members and even then sometimes still. I'll delete if someone never comments on something or I don't feel we connected, nothing personal.

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The emotional rollercoaster of ADHD, now featuring Jannik Sinner

I’ve loved tennis for as long as I can remember. I was a kid when Boris Becker won Wimbledon for the first time, and I still remember the shock and thrill of it. Every summer, I’d watch the big tournaments—Wimbledon, the US Open—cheering for favourites, crying over finals, holding my breath through tiebreaks. Tennis has always been there in the background of my life.

But this past year? Something changed. I didn’t just watch the tournaments. I tripped and fell face-first into the tennis rabbit hole, and my ADHD brain never looked back.

Suddenly I wasn’t just watching finals—I was streaming early-round matches from obscure courts in the middle of the night. I was memorising ranking points, tracking players through Challenger events, and refreshing draw sheets like it was my job. What had been a familiar hobby became a full-blown hyperfixation.

And honestly? It makes perfect sense. Because tennis, as a sport, is practically tailor-made for the ADHD brain.


🧠 The ADHD Brain Craves Chaos (And Tennis Delivers)

People talk about ADHD like it’s a lack of attention—but really, it’s an avalanche of attention. A constant, restless hunger for stimulation. We don’t just want something to focus on—we want everythingall at onceright now.

Tennis is perfect for that. It’s always moving. Always shifting. There’s no off-season, just a weekly churn of tournaments: new cities, new surfaces, new stories. Matches run almost 24/7, thanks to international time zones and overlapping events. And my brain absolutely eats it up.

Some days I feel like I’m conducting an entire symphony of tennis in the background of my life. I’ve got live scores on the BBC site permanently open. I’m lurking in Discord servers, scrolling Tumblr, catching up on fan analysis, watching streams on one screen while doing something completely unrelated on another. If I can’t watch, I’ll listen—commentary in my ears while I work, drive, cook. I always want to know what’s happening, who’s playing, and what it means for the rankings.

And I’ve had so many favourite players over the years. McEnroe, Becker, Agassi, Hewitt, Ferrero, Ferrer, Henman, Rusedski, Nadal... names that marked different eras of my life. Right now? It’s Jannik Sinner. I’m a little bit feral about him, if I’m honest. His calm intensity, the way he’s grown, the narrative of it all. My brain has fully latched on.

Hyperfixation means I don’t just enjoy tennis—I need it. I collect every detail, chase every stat, build an emotional attachment to players’ arcs like they’re characters in an epic novel. I cheer like a maniac. I grieve their losses like personal heartbreaks. It’s deeply immersive, and deeply ADHD.


💥 The Joy of Feeling Everything

One of the secret superpowers of ADHD is intensity. When we love something, we love it big. It’s not casual; it’s not background noise. It’s a full-body, full-brain experience. And with tennis, that intensity finds the perfect outlet.

I get emotionally attached to players like they’re old friends. I follow their arcs, their interviews, their off-court stories. I root for the underdogs, the veterans on a comeback, the teenagers making their first deep run. I feel the drama of a five-setter in my bones. I get actual adrenaline spikes during match points. Sometimes I have to pause matches to pace around the room like a sports parent at a school final.

Tennis gives me endless narratives to invest in—rivalries, redemption stories, unexpected breakthroughs. And the sport’s natural unpredictability? Chef’s kiss. My ADHD brain thrives on that kind of emotional volatility. It's dopamine with a scoreboard.


🌀 …But Also, It Can Get a Bit Much

Of course, the flip side of hyperfixation is that it’s not always healthy. ADHD doesn’t really come with a dimmer switch. When I’m in it, I’m all in. And sometimes, that means I burn out.

I’ll watch twelve/thirteen hours of matches in a day (first day of Wimbledon there were TWENTY SEVEN matches I wanted to watch), forget to eat lunch, and then feel completely wiped out with post-slam emptiness when it’s all over. I’ll refresh pages and track rankings like my mood depends on it—and sometimes, it kind of does. There are days when I realise I haven’t listened to music or read a book in weeks because all my spare time is going to livestreams, stats, and press conference clips.

And when a favourite player loses—especially if it’s early, or unexpected—it can hit harder than it should. It feels silly sometimes, getting so upset about a sport. But hyperfixation doesn’t really care what’s “rational.” It’s real. The emotions are real.

There’s also the ADHD guilt loop: the moment I step back and go, Should I be this obsessed? Should I be more balanced? Should I care less? The truth is, I don’t always want to care less. But I do try to remind myself to pause. To breathe. To let myself step away when I need to. Because I know the cycle by now: fixation, immersion, burnout, reset.


💛 Letting It Matter

I’ve learned not to fight it anymore—this way my brain grabs hold of things and refuses to let go. My ADHD doesn’t always play by the rules, but it’s not broken. It’s wired for passion. For deep dives. For connection.

Tennis gives me structure and chaos at the same time. A rhythm that’s always changing. A story that’s never finished. It gives my brain something to build with—facts, feelings, routines, predictions. It’s comfort. It’s stimulation. It’s joy.

Yes, sometimes I have to pull back. Sometimes I have to take a breath and remind myself I don’t need to follow every match or know every stat. But other times? I lean in. I let myself feel it all. The wins, the losses, the late-night streams. The Tumblr memes and score-watching tabs and yelling into the void with strangers on Discord.

Because in a world that often tells neurodivergent people to be less, to be quieter, calmer, more contained—hyperfixation can feel like resistance. Like claiming joy on our own terms.

So yes, I am currently obsessed with Jannik Sinner. Yes, I do keep live scores open while working. Yes, I cry over matches and scream over fifth sets and watch tennis like it’s the greatest drama ever written.

And honestly?

It kind of is.


The Friday Five for 25 July 2025

Jul. 24th, 2025 02:14 pm
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This week's questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] stauros

What is...

1. one place you volunteer (or would like to)? Why?

2. one book you'd like to see made into a movie? Why?

3. one creature (living, extinct, or mythical) you'd like for a pet? Why?

4. one place on Earth you'd like to visit? Why?

5. one talent or skill you'd like to develop? Why?

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Fanfic meme

Jul. 22nd, 2025 03:02 pm
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Fanfic game from [personal profile] kitarella_imagines

 

If you’ve written fics for more than one year on AO3, go to your statistics page. Click on the different years at the top to see the categories of statistics for each year.

 

1. Which year did you write the most words? Do you know why? e.g. you had more time; you were caught up in an exciting new fandom or pairing; you got a rush of ideas etc.

The year with the highest word count is 2015 with 137 352 words. But that is because when I signed up to AO3 in the very late 2014, I uploaded most of the fics I had written from 2003 onwards. Even if I had a writing spurt in 2015, I'm quite sure it wouldn’t be the year with the highest word count if I just checked the new fics. So the year where I can be absolutely sure is my most productive one, would be 2021 with 94497 words. I had watched The Queen’s Gambit over Christmas, and fell for Beth Harmon/Vasily Borgov. At the time there was a very active Discord for that pairing, which was very inspirational, and I wrote 6 fics for that fandom, one of them being the longest and most ambitious things I have ever written. I also started fanfics for The Mummy and All About Eve.

 

2. Which year did you write the least words? Why was this? e.g. lack of time, too busy, no inspiration etc.

2023 with zero words. The war in Ukraine completely killed my inspiration. So from March 2022 to March 2024 I didn’t write anything at all. I’m writing again now, but I have only worked on fics I started in 2022, I still haven’t got any ideas for new fics. The year with the least wordcount when I have actually written anything is 2024 with 2948 words.

 

3. Which years did you get most hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. popular fandoms, lots of words written.) Are there years where you have the same amount of bookmarks and subscriptions?

Again 2015 racks them up, but it’s 2021 that I can be sure of. It has the most of everything. I think it’s because, completely by accident, I managed to fall for a fandom that was hot right then, The Queen’s Gambit, and I have found that The Mummy fanfic seems to have a perpetual fandom, as those fics always are among my most popular. And to my surprise my all About Eve fanfic has got a lot more attention than I ever thought, considering the pairing is so unusual I’m the only one who has written it on AO3.

 

4. Which years did you get least hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. niche fandoms, not many fics written.) Do you have any other conclusions?

Apart from the nothing year of 2023, it's 2024, when I only updated with a chapter on a WIP. If I take a year when I participated actively, then it’s 2019, when I wrote 6 fanfics in as many fandoms. But 4 of those were one-shots, and only 2 in fandoms that are on the bigger side. Most of my fandoms are small, and usually I enjoy pairings that aren't the popular ones.


This week in Tennis Dads History

Jul. 22nd, 2025 12:04 pm
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So, you may have noticed over recent months, that I rather adore both of Jannik's coaches - Simone Vagnozzi & Darren Cahill who are generally known as the tennis dads. They (Darren especially) are very much my niche on Tennisblr (I mean, my username is [tumblr.com profile] tennisdadsaficionado which kind of gives it away

But most people... they don't know anything about them, other than 'Jannik's coaches' and things that Jannik has teased them about (like Simone's highest ranking being 161).

Me? I first saw Darren play in 1987, mixed doubles final at Wimbledon. His highest singles rank was 22 and his highest doubles rank was 10. He was a good player. Don't get me wrong, he's a fucking incredible coach, but he was a good player too. Simone's pro career lasted 16 years

So I started a little series, looking at the tournaments that have happened this week in previous years

On the ATP tour
Croatia Open, Umag
Simone- played 4 times in single, got knocked out in Q2 twice (2008 & 2012) and R32 twice (2010 & 2011)
In doubles, he played 4 times and got knocked out in R16 every time (2005, 2008, 2010 & 2011)

Darren has never played Umag

Generali Open, Austria:
Simone has never played Kitzbuhel

Darren - reached the SF in 1987 in singles
In doubles, reached the QF in 1985

Washington Open, USA:
Simone has never played Washington

Darren - reached the QF in 1988
In doubles, he reached the QF in 1990

And looking at the Challengers circuit we have one tournament:

Tampere, Finland
Simone - reached R16 in singles twice (2008, 2009)
In doubles, he reached the FINAL in 2009

Darren has never played Tampere

Also, I've just started looking the ITF/Futures circuit for Simone (which, for the record, is much fucking harder to follow!)
Valladolid, Spain
2003 - 1st round singles

San Marino
2004 - 1st round singles
2008 - 1st round singles, 1st round doubles

Poznan, Poland
2007 - 1st round singles

Orbetello, Italy
2012 - 2nd round singles, FINAL in doubles
2013 - QF singles, WON in doubles

Aarhus, Denmark
2014 - SF singles, WON in doubles

and for Darren? We have some of ye old Grand Prix as well which gives us:
Washington DC, USA
1988 - 2nd round in doubles
1989 - 1st round in singles
1990 - QF in doubles

South Orange NJ, USA
1989 - 1st round in doubles

Hilversum, Netherland
1985 - QF in singles, 1st round in doubles

Stratton Mountain, USA
1988 - SF in singles, QF in doubles

Davis Cup Qualifying
1989 - WON in singles, WON in doubles

Stuttgart, GER
1989 - 2nd round singles

Toronto, CAN
1990 - 3rd round in singles, 1st round in doubles
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No energy at all for doing the creativity prompts right now.

 

Challenge #4

 

Fun House

Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.

 

  1. Getting a message from Stepdaughter with pictures of my granddaughter.

  2. Face-timing with my nephew and niece.

  3. My cat.

  4. Taking a walk by the lake where I live.

  5. Going to the summer house.

  6. Finishing a sewing project.

  7. Trying a new recipe and really liking it, so it gets added to the dinner rotation.

  8. Thinking about it, cooking in general makes me smile.

  9. Finishing cleaning the house. I loathe the actual cleaning, but love the finished result.

  10. Listening to music I love.

 

Challenge #5

 

Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show (or any other of your choice - game, comic, anything else)! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.

 

I will do a little rerun here, and point you to this post, where I talk about two of my all time favorites, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers.

 

Challenge #6

 

Journaling prompt: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?

 

I don’t play computer games, apart from solitaire. I’ve tried, and promptly get mind-numbingly bored. I do enjoy board games on occasion, though.


Hello!

Jul. 20th, 2025 05:03 pm
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Name: Zumi
Pronouns: They/them
Age Group: 40s
Country USA
Subscription/Access Policy: Public posts in general, with some members-locked ones. Everyone is free to add, though!
What I chat about: Usually whatever random thoughts are going on, particularly any fandom thoughts I have. I want to post more often, particularly in talking about a couple creative projects I've got going on. So, pretty much anything I feel like posting...? With heavy irregularity; it's not unusual for me to go weeks without using my journal, so don't be concerned if I vanish off the face of DW for a while.
I'm looking to connect with people who: Want to chat, whether about random things or fandom things (even if non-shared fandoms). Collaborators, other creators, or people who just want to have ordinary conversations! I'm not that interested in taking part in discourse or anti culture, and I don't tend to post many negative things myself, but if you wanna chat about something and get it off your chest, that's also fair game.

Main Fandoms: Disney Ducks (particularly the wider Uncle $crooge comicsverse) is a big one, as is Fraggle Rock. Pokemon and Digimon are also huge ones cohabitating in my brain. Oh! And also Megaman, especially the EXE series. These are all pretty equally big fandoms in my book. And Red Dead Redemption 2 and RDO; looking to play RDR1 someday, but that's a little out of my reach right now.

Other Fandoms: Dimension 20, Skyrim, Dungeon Meshi, Fullmetal Alchemist, Animal Crossing, Dreamlight Valley, Undertale and Deltarune, Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts, In Stars and Time, Stardew Valley, The Sims, Sherlock Holmes, assorted other older anime, Dragonlance, DnD as a whole, assorted Disney franchises, assorted Dreamworks franchises, been really getting into CBS's Ghosts, really I've been in fandom spaces for a long time there's a LOT here, I KNOW I'm forgetting some...
What I Create for Fandom: Fanart, for the most part. The occasional fic, but mostly it's drawing.
Other Hobbies: Reading, photography, hiking, fishing, video games, painting

✨glimmers and good things ✨

Jul. 20th, 2025 07:03 pm
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The past week’s been a foggy one — low on energy, high on friction. I’ve barely touched the computer, partly because I’ve had nothing to give, and partly because every little thing felt like too much. Office politics have been quietly draining, I forgot how much fandom drama can wear you out even when you’re not trying to be involved, and I’m still figuring out how changes in my joints are shifting my spoons, my energy, my everything.

I know those are the days I need the glimmers the most — but sometimes, when everything feels heavy, even looking for them is hard.

But today I’m back at the screen. I want to keep trying. These soft, bright moments matter — especially when they’re hard to find.

✨ today’s glimmers and good things ✨

🌸 I let myself stay in soft clothes all day, and tried not to feel guilty for needing rest. It felt like the kindest thing I could do.
🎧 I listened to music that matched my mood perfectly, and it felt like being held in just the right kind of quiet.
📖 I spent the afternoon reading, letting myself drift a little in someone else’s words. It was soft, and it helped.
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So Darren posts his Wimbledon photo dump, right? Perfectly normal, very expected. There’s Jannik kissing the trophy, there’s the on-court hugs, the celebrations, the team somewhat drunk on champagne - clean, tidy, emotional but, like, manageable.

And then.
And then.


Expand...there’s more... )

darren cahill what the hell?!

  • Jannik in the ice bath, grinning like he just won “most adorable glacier,”

  • SIMONE in the background, shirtless and smug and looking absolutely incredible (I'm slowly winning people over to the Simone love and this is definitely helping!)

  • full team garden party energy with shirtless Europeans melting in the heatwave, empty beer bottles, and one (1) fully clothed Australian man in the corner like, “I’m too sun-safe for this chaos,”

  • and finally, the coup de grâce: Jannik curled up asleep on the couch like a feral little nap prince while Darren sits next to him grinning like he didn’t just send us into a spiral.


AND ANOTHER THING.

Did anyone else clock that every framed photo above Sleeping Jannik™ is of Darren himself at Wimbledon?? Like. Sir. You’re napping under your mentor’s greatest hits montage (LMAO). How am I supposed to focus. How is this not already the opening scene of a slow-burn, emotionally tender polyfic. (spoiler alert: it is!) I am hanging on by a thread.

Anyway I am once again asking Darren Cahill to stop feeding my packfic/polycule brain like this. Or don’t. Honestly, don’t. I am thriving. I am spiralling. It’s fine.

...that said, we really do need to talk about the conspicuous lack of mostly-naked Darren.
Feels targeted. Feels cruel. Feels like censorship.

This post brought to you by: emotional damage, shirtless Europeans, and Darren Cahill’s ongoing refusal to take his damn shirt off.
Shirtless Simone: ✅
Ice bath Jannik: ✅
Mostly-naked Darren: ❌ and I am formally filing a complaint.

Sup, Homefryz!!!

Jul. 20th, 2025 01:02 pm
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Name: Bizette

Age: 20



I mostly post about: My characters, my art, my life, and just whatever interests me that day.



My hobbies are: Making art, HTML, anime and manga, video games, writing, listening to music, talking with friends, cycling, reading comics, daydreaming and baking.



My fandoms are: None tbh, but I guess I'm part of the glamfur and sparkledog scenes :P



I'm looking to meet people who: Chill folk who can handle my cheesiness, fellow glamfur/sparkledog or even animecore artists who like RPing, other lesbians and gays, and mature individuals who can engage in good faith.



My posting schedule tends to be: Daily and weekly for the most part due to not having a life, lol



When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Fandom/flavour-of-the-month/fanfiction posting, constant politics talk or arguing about politics, YouTube spam, homophobes and lesbophobes, bigots of all stripes, bad grammar and spelling, inactive accounts/blank journals, Twitter/TikTok types, white saviour types, religious weirdos, gooners/porn addicts, AI "art" bros, and wannabe edgy lords/mean girls (this ain't 4Chan, blud!).



Before adding me, you should know: I'm a black woman with ADHD and Dyslexia; so please be patient with me and try not to be randomly racist lmao. I do post vents, but only when I feel it's appropriate. I'm basically always free to chat; so feel free to message me :D, I do have an edgy sense of humour, but I'm smart enough to tone it down if needed, I'm based in the UK - so I might not see your message immediately if you're in a different timezone, and please avoid labelling me a furry :/

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Jul. 19th, 2025 04:14 pm
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Name: Patch
Age: 34

I mostly post about:
Quiet living, books with margin notes, tea blends, visible mending, soft rituals, and the small things that anchor a day — light through curtains, a sentence that stays with you, a note Rae once wrote.

My hobbies are:
Reading (especially secondhand or annotated books), mending clothes by hand, brewing tea like it’s a spell, walking in the woods, archiving, journalling, and noticing the in-between moments.

My fandoms are:
Discworld (especially the witches), gentle fantasy, soft folklore, The Last Unicorn, Stardew Valley, and anything that feels like wool and wonder.

I'm looking to meet people who:
Love longform blogging, notice quiet details, have soft rituals of their own, and enjoy the kind of friendship that builds slowly and kindly over time.

My posting schedule tends to be:
Weekly-ish — sometimes more if I’m feeling thoughtful or tea-drowsy.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:
Cruelty masked as “honesty,” bigotry, mockery, or a lack of care for the softer parts of others.

Before adding me, you should know:
I’m quiet and sentimental, I tag generously, and I write as if I’m tucking things away in a drawer. Rae (she/her) appears often in my posts — she’s someone I love, even if I rarely say it aloud. If you like slow friendships and soft mornings, I’d be glad to meet you.

Miss Jade

jade rachel. 37. october 29 1978. scorpio. snake. welsh. lives in london. black hair. green eyes. tattooed. pierced. mother. daughter. sister. aunt. widow. wife. lesbian. wiccan. hippy. geek. goth. ravenclaw

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