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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-10-02 04:58 pm
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ASK: the spook is in the subtitles

Every October I try to watch a series of scary/eerie movies. Last year, the theme was the first film in horror franchises from the 80's and 70's. This year, the theme is going to be foreign films.

So please, if you know of any, recommend scary, spooky, or autumnal films that are not in English.
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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-10-02 04:01 pm

Poet's Corner: The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe

October's theme is SPOOKY poems.

The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe

At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet mountain top,
Steals drowsily and musically
Into the universal valley.

Read more... )
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-10-02 06:55 pm

Doctor Who Ficlet: Buying Time

 


Title: Buying Time
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 518
Spoilers: Parting of the Ways.
Summary: Jack is determined to buy the Doctor enough time to defeat the Daleks.
Written For: 
[personal profile] hipsquare’s prompt ‘any, any, buying you time,’ at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 



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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-10-02 06:39 pm

Ficlet: The Winner

 


Title: The Winner
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, OCs.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 641
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Thanks to Jack, the aliens are not having much success in the invasion business.
Written For: 
[personal profile] raisedbymoogles’ prompt ‘any, any, I get knocked down! But I get up again! You're not ever gonna keep me down!’, at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 


 
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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-10-01 11:11 pm
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Happy October!

Wish everyone a wonderful October!

I did not do a monthly planner spread this month. I didn't feel the urge. This is a spread in my collage book. I used up 95% of my Halloween themed materials in my cards so this is some of the last bits.

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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-10-01 06:35 pm

BtVS Double Drabble: Feeling Rough

 


Title: Feeling Rough
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 469: Rough at 
[community profile] drabble_zone.
Spoilers/Setting: Killed By Death.
Summary: Buffy feels awful, but she’s on patrol anyway.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-10-01 06:04 pm

FAKE Triple Drabble: Burning Issue

 


Title: Burning Issue
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, JJ.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Overhearing Dee and Ryo’s conversation, JJ manages to get the wrong end of the stick.
Written For: Challenge 490: Issue at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 


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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-10-01 05:55 pm

Double Drabble: Unwanted Memories

 


Title: Unwanted Memories
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 885: Search at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Fragments.
Summary: Some memories never go away.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-10-01 05:51 pm
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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-09-30 04:22 pm

The State of the Ficcery: September 2025

Word Count for September: 18491

Writing: I did manage to do the 10 out of 20 challenge at [community profile] sweetandshort this month.

OCTOBER: woo! The High Holy Season of Ficcing is upon us! So many things: Kinktober, Whumptober (such good prompts there), and Spook Me. We're gonna be busy.

Reading: 5 books. Autobiography of Miles Davis, an Agatha Christie, a Tracker (Jeffery Deaver), an Agatha Christie, and an Anthony Berkley audiobook which was new to me which I found on YT. Anthoy Berkley hated women and life but he knew how to plot a mystery and he was Clever so I enjoyed it. He can really do the 'this scene/set of clues could mean 4 different things if you look at it/them from different angles' which always sends tingles up my spine.

OCTOBER: I have to do the review for the 22nd on [community profile] booknook.

Crafting: So I hunkered down and did all of my Halloween cards and a special craft project. So 13 cards in total. And 5 spreads in addition to that.

Fitness: 16 days of Yoga with Adriene. I ordered a new pair of running shoes for the 5k in November but they haven't come in yet. I tried pickleball and Pickleball Paul complimented me on my form. Maybe he's being kind and encouraging but I've NEVER been complimented on anything athletic in my entire life so that's kind of amazing. But I am the exact same weight I was at the beginning of September. Sadness.

Personal: Dealing with uncertainty at work. Getting used to the new car. School going into full swing.

On y va to October!
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-09-30 06:06 pm

FAKE Triple Drabble: Getting Cosy

 


Title: Getting Cosy
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: There’s nothing better than an oversized sweater on a chilly evening.
Written For: Weekend Challenge Prompt: Autumn at 
[community profile] 1_million_words.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 



 
 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-09-30 05:54 pm

Doctor Who Drabble: Quality Clothing

 


Title: Quality Clothing
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 962: ‘Tweed’ at 
[community profile] dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Some people have no appreciation for classic attire.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
 
 


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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-09-30 05:11 pm

Double Drabble: Search And Rescue

 


Title: Search And Rescue
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 885: Search at 
[community profile] torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack and Ianto take on a rescue mission.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
 


 
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wolffyluna ([personal profile] wolffyluna) wrote2025-09-30 04:51 pm

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I should mention this before I forget: I was in the US for a bit! But now I am back in Australia.

The US contains many friends. And also sea lions. But different sea lions.

(Apologies for the incoherence, but I am experiencing the Westward Jet Lag)

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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-09-29 05:25 pm

BtVS Ficlet: His Beautiful Bride

 


Title: His Beautiful Bride
Fandom: BtVS
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Angel, Buffy.
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Pretty much everything.
Summary: He’d never dared to hope, this had always seemed an impossible dream, and yet here Angel was, standing at the altar…
Word Count: 978
Written For: 
[personal profile] falfa_m
’s prompt ‘any, any, bride’, at [community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BTVS, or the characters.
 


 
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-09-29 05:17 pm

Ficlet: Minor Malfunction

 


Title: Minor Malfunction

Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 742
Spoilers: Post-Children of Earth, set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
Summary: Being out in space is proving a little unnerving for Ianto, thanks to what Jack calls a minor malfunction in one of the ship’s systems.
Written For: The prompt ‘Any, any, malfunction,’ at 
[community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 
 


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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-09-29 07:10 am
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote2025-09-28 05:22 pm

B5 Triple Drabble: Thankless Task

 


Title: Thankless Task
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Zathras.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: War Without End.
Summary: Zathras does as he is told.
Written For: Challenge 465: Amnesty 77 at [community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 452: Bounce.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.