FKFicFest '25 halfway point
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fkficfest 2025. Six stories are available to read; six remain to be revealed. You may have noticed that the cadence is (very roughly) short-short-long this year.
I've posted promos tofandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw. I'm posting a promo with the new reveals to forkni-l every third day.
Please feel free to promote the event in any appropriate forum! Or of course on your own journal.
fkficfest 2025. Six stories are available to read; six remain to be revealed. You may have noticed that the cadence is (very roughly) short-short-long this year.I've posted promos to
fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw. I'm posting a promo with the new reveals to forkni-l every third day.Please feel free to promote the event in any appropriate forum! Or of course on your own journal.
[ANSWERS] Questionnaire: 72 Multifandom questions to ask a fangirl | Part 3
May. 31st, 2025 10:29 am
it's getting bad people
May. 28th, 2025 09:28 pmesteefeeHostess Donettes claim to be "America's #1 Mini-donut" but I don't remember there being a nationwide referendum. Just another example of the rampant corruption going on right before our very eyes.
Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 17: Postal Mail from Fen
May. 27th, 2025 05:17 pmride_4everApril-May mail from fen!
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written byelayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.
From "across the pond"smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".
minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.
My "MFU cousin"vysila sent me a box full of zines.
And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent tolauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written by
elayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.From "across the pond"
smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.My "MFU cousin"
vysila sent me a box full of zines.And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent to
lauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.Distraction
May. 27th, 2025 10:41 ammelagan
I might have ideas aplenty, but when it comes to sitting down and putting the work into it....
This post is an excellent example. I could have pulled up my current WiP but oh-no instead I hunted down a picture of distracted prairie dogs for this post.
*headdesk*
It's a very fine line between distraction and procrastination.
3 Weeks - 21
May. 27th, 2025 03:28 amesteefee
You guyssssss I felt a profound sense of satisfaction for completing the Three Weeks challenge and very much enjoyed my long weekend after an exasperating work week only to discover I had one post left! Oh noes!
Fortunately,
runpunkrun and mific gave me something to post about! They did an awesome mcshep collab while I was away and what a treat! So awesome to have terrific art and podfic and story as one. Like the fandom days of old *sobs in old-timey* It was a marvelous distraction from my usual hobby of staring in blank horror at the news. Speaking of which...
I beg everyone to please contact your senators about the Big PoS Bill! For too many reasons, but also because I just found out it includes sneaky provisions that completely undermine the judiciary, including *retroactively* making previous rulings and court orders unenforceable! Such as, oh, orders to return US Citizens and illegally deported immigrants from overseas gulags. The administration is angry at the lower courts for ruling against them, so they are trying to use Congress to render the judiciary impotent. See Section 70302 of One Big Beautiful Bill Act 119th Congress (2025-2026). Not to mention, of course, the bill raises taxes on the poorest, adds trillions to the deficit, drops the tax on gun silencers (what?), chops SNAP, medicare, and medicaid, and lines the pockets of the already wealthy with more and more tax cuts. I want to puke.
If you live the US, please CONTACT YOUR SENATORS and tell them you are so very against this Big Ugly Bill for more reasons than can be counted. Tell them to kill it or they will smell your vengeance come midterms.
Thanks, my friends.