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Title: Pretty Lights Are Everywhere
Author: [personal profile] enchanted_jae
Character(s): Harry/Draco, other HP characters, ocs
Rating: PG
Warning(s): None
Word count: 1570
Summary: Ice skating, Christmas lights, confessions
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of JK Rowling, et al. This fic/drabble was written for fun, not for profit.
Written for:
Jae's Advent Drabbles No. 23
[community profile] dracoharry100 Christmas Challenge 2025 No. 23 - Ice Skating
[community profile] adventdrabbles Prompt No. 23 - Victorian Christmas
[community profile] slythindor100 Traditional Prompt No. 23 - Cherry cake

Pretty Lights Are Everywhere

Prompt 24, 2025

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 06:53 pm
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Prompt 24 is from [personal profile] digthewriter! đŸ§‘đŸŸâ€đŸŽ„

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Remember, we take prompts throughout the month of December, so feel free to stop by our 2025 prompt idea post.

Dec 23, Harry Potter, Severus/Harry, Scandalous

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 07:44 pm
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Title: Scandalous
Author: [personal profile] torino10154
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Severus/Harry
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: Unbeta'd. Written for [community profile] adventdrabbles Prompt 23: Victorian Christmas.

DW or AO3

CHECK IN: DAY 23

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 10:08 pm
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I shall be working tomorrow (Christmas Eve) and need to leave the house at about 8.30am on Christmas Day, so I don't have a lot of time for preparation... but there's always time to squeeze in a little writing with a notebook balanced on top of the saucepan while preparing sprouts and packet noodles for supper, as I have just demonstrated :-P
(Admittedly it was about a sentence and a half, but I do intend to finish that sentence tonight, honest guv...)

Does genius burn for you today, Jos and Joes?
[personal profile] gilda_elise
The End of the World as We Know it


An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!

Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel—generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilization, and its stunning array of characters.

Now for the first time, Stephen King has fully authorized a return to the harrowing world of The Stand through this original short story anthology as presented by award-winning authors and editors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Bringing together some of today’s greatest and most visionary writers, The End of the World As We Know It features unforgettable, all-new stories set during and after (and some perhaps long after) the events of The Stand—brilliant, terrifying, and painfully human tales that will resonate with readers everywhere as an essential companion to the classic, bestselling novel.



I’d already read reviews of this book, a lot of them not very good, when I finally got around to reading it myself. Turns out I have to agree with those who found the book to be something of a disappointment. While there are good stories, they don’t balance out those that aren’t.

I think my biggest disappointment was how so many of them had little to do with the original story, other than the Captain Tripps pandemic. And even that felt like an afterthought. Even worse, so many of them are without hope. They end has come. Period.

There are a few stories that I liked. I think my favorite was The Mosque at the End of the World and Make Your Own Way. I felt I really got to the characters and came to care what happened to them. I can almost add Lenora to that list except that it took an unexpected turn.

I’m not a great fan of short stories, so that might have had something to do with the low rating. I much would have preferred a handful of novellas. Or maybe I’ll just reread The Stand. Sounds good.


Goodreads 70.1


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Black, gray, orange, or red cover
1. The Fireman by Joe Hill
2. The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand by Christopher Golden

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LONELY PROMPTS WEEK::23 DECEMBER § DAY 2

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 12:27 pm
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December 22-26 is Lonely Prompts Week and it will be a challenge week! Each day will have a different theme for you to base the prompts you fill on.

In the past, we used to have a "winner" who completed the most fills every day, and at the end of the week, we'd announce an overall winner. But this time around, we're doing things differently! There are no winners or “losers”, just prompts that have been filled. At the end of the week, we'll be sharing a round-up post of all the lonely prompts that have been filled.

Tuesday's Theme: Same List, New Choice

More Information: Fill prompts from one specific day of the week. Pick only prompts that come from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or so on.

If you leave a request, please make sure it follows the theme for the day and that each request is a new comment.

You are more than welcome to fill any and all lonely prompts, but only the prompts filled for the current theme will be counted for the daily totals. I will however include a list of those who filled other prompts when I do the round-up at the end of the week.

Please number your fills when leaving more than one in a comment. This helps me when I'm ready to count them up.


To find those elusive Lonely Prompts, you can go into the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.

To get things going, a few rules that I ask you all to follow.

1. You can only request five prompts to be filled. Please create a new comment for each prompt request.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from the same fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether this is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to whatever the prompt is in the community logs (whether filling or requesting it be filled), and, if you're filling the prompt, please complete the fill as a response to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom (or, if original, say so!) you're using for the response.
7. If you filled any lonely prompts earlier this week, this is the place to share them!
8. Finally, we now have a community at AO3. If you have an AO3 account, please post your fills there. More information on how to do this is located at this link.

How to link:

[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)

or:

http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

HAPPY REQUESTING/WRITING/FILLING!

Tuesday, 23rd December 2025

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 03:19 pm
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Editor's Note: If your item was not linked, it's because the header lacked the information that we like to give our readers. Please at least give the title, rating, and pairing or characters, and please include the header in the storypost itself, not just in the linking post. For an example of what a "good" fanfic header is, see the user info. Spoiler warnings are also greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Blogtor Who: Review of The War Between the Land and the Sea: The End of the War

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Overprotective by [personal profile] badly_knitted (G | Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble)

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Happy holidays, Banbury and Merfilly!

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 12:41 pm
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Heads up that we will take a break from posting on the 25th, to allow everyone a little time to catch up.

Properly Executed by Anonymous for Banbury
Category: Gen
Characters: Connor MacLeod, Duncan MacLeod
Relationships: Connor MacLeod & Duncan MacLeod
Summary: Of ancient blessings, glimpses of the future and learning to say ‘I love you’.

Kastagir's Hotel Américain by Anonymous for Merfilly
Category: F/F
Characters: Amanda Darieux, Rebecca Horne, Rachel Ellenstein, Sunda Kastagir
Relationships: Amanda Darieux/Rebecca Horne
Summary: Rebecca visits Kastagir at his fancy new hotel. Then Amanda shows up. Antics ensue.

Last minute writing

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 01:02 pm
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[personal profile] alchemicink
Reveals for the tokuhols exchange are on Dec 25, but I'm having so much fun writing treats, I hope I can add a few more before then. I'm really excited about it. I even woke up in the middle of the night last night with a solution to a plot problem in one of my WIPs 😂 My brain is in full "must write toku" mode right now!

(Everyone else seems to be having fun too because there are so many works in the collection so far 👀)

It is nice to have a fun sandbox to play in for a while

Snowball Fight! - Harry Potter (PG)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 12:47 pm
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Title: Snowball Fight!
Author: [personal profile] goddess47
Character(s): Harry Potter, Teddy Lupin
Pairing(s): Harry/Severus
Rating: PG
Length: 100


Summary:

Oh, It was on!


Notes:

For [community profile] adventdrabbles prompt Day 20 - Santa, is it too late to be good?



Snowball Fight! on AO3

 

DEC 23: A proper holiday. (f: harry potter)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 12:37 pm
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Title: A proper holiday
Author: [personal profile] digthewriter
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Viktor Krum/Ron Weasley
Rating: PG
Prompt: Victorian Christmas

A proper holiday )

A Minor Inconvenience - Harry Potter (PG)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 12:26 pm
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Title: A Minor Inconvenience
Author: [personal profile] goddess47
Character(s): Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Pairing(s): Harry/Severus
Rating: PG
Length: 100


Summary:

Wizards would barely notice!


Notes:

For [community profile] adventdrabbles prompt Day 19 - snowy village

For [community profile] sweetandshort December 2025 prompt - snowed in


In the Eye of the Beholder on AO3

 

In the Eye of the Beholder - Harry Potter (PG)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 12:15 pm
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Title: In the Eye of the Beholder
Author: [personal profile] goddess47
Character(s): Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Pairing(s): Harry/Severus
Rating: PG
Length: 100


Summary:

Harry thought it would be sexy!


Notes:

For [community profile] adventdrabbles prompt Day 18 - sexy red Christmas underwear




In the Eye of the Beholder on AO3

 

Discord weirdness | Holiday dairy foods

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 12:46 pm
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[personal profile] umadoshi
A few months (?) ago, Discord updated on my computer and promptly stopped working. [It would technically launch, but the program window was just a blank rectangle.) Subsequent updates (which happen pretty much every time I relaunch my browser) installed cheerfully enough and made no difference. I grumpily chalked it up to not having updated my OS in ages (I'm very resistant, but usually enough things eventually get creaky or stop working that I give in and get [personal profile] scruloose to update the system), and since Discord was still working on my phone, I figured that was that for the foreseeable future.

Then a couple of days ago, I let Discord install its newest update...and suddenly everything worked again. o_o I certainly wasn't going to complain, but it surprised me enough that I mentioned it to Kas on the weekend, and having just dealt with some Discord shenaniganry himself, he had an answer: Discord has decided it doesn't play nicely with some VPN locations, and I had happened to change my location setting to one it liked.

I mostly lurk on Discord, but there are a couple where I make tentative attempts at being social, and my dislike of typing more than a sentence or two at a time on my phone meant I was even quieter than usual for a while there, so this is a good development. But also, WTF, Discord.

Did I forget to mention the new-to-me Christmas ice cream here? It looks like I did.

A local ice creamery (Dee Dee's) does Advent calendars, which I had largely forgotten about until I saw mention of it on Bluesky, at which point I was safe from ordering one (too late!), but it got me to look at their seasonal flavors. Next thing I knew, I was asking [personal profile] scruloose to stop at a local-groceries shop that carries their ice creams, because I had to know what the chicken bones* flavor was like.more about that, plus a cheese stash )

photo: happy holidays!

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 09:28 am
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[personal profile] tozka
A Christmas wreath with a plastic skeleton wearing a Santa hat in the middle. The skeleton is waving.

📍Phoenix, Arizona - December 2025 / All Photos / Pixelfed



Update: There's two more photos in the comments of more skeleton Christmas decorations-- from different houses, btw!

Purimgifts 2026: Banner Countdown

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 11:26 am
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Hi everybody! Today marks ten days until signups start, and this year, we're going to count down to signups with flashback banners. Every day from now until one day before signups, we'll post one of our past banners. This one is from 2016!

See you all at signups!

SIGNUPS & NOMINATIONS 2-9 Jan (anywhere in the world)
DEADLINE 23 Feb (anywhere in the world)
REVEALS 2-4 March

Find us on Dreamwidth, Livejournal, tumblr, and the Archive of Our Own.

TV Tuesday: Changing Eras

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 10:02 am
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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



Are there things you miss about TV technologies gone by? What about things you definitely don’t?

Alternately, how meaningful is the term "TV" these days given the changes in both method and content?

Catching it.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 01:54 am
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[personal profile] alisx

Spin spin spin spin the puppy!

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