Aladdin: Sorcerer

  • Oct. 22nd, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Aladdin and Jasmine talk about a possible threat to Agrabah.

FF.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14595337/1/

Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/95181691

Dear Yuletide Letter 2026

  • Oct. 18th, 2026 at 2:23 PM
thisbluespirit: (writing)
Thank you for writing for me! The short version of this letter is: I love these fandoms and characters, I love all kinds of different things at different times, so I'm sure to enjoy whatever you come up with.

Any prompts are intended purely for inspiration, not to restrict your choices, so take what's useful and leave what isn't.

( Fandoms: Enigma (2001), Time Police - Jodi Taylor, The Winslow Boy (1999) & Wish Me Luck (TV) )

Church notes - 18th October 2026

  • Oct. 18th, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Romans 8:8 - 17

The Gospels are the good news
Isaiah 52

The power and wisdom of Christ
Not ashamed of the Gospel
Salvation - The work of the Gospel from the beginning to end.
Sanctification - It is done.
Justification - a life long process
Glorification - The eternal state; free from the presence of sin.

…

  • Oct. 16th, 2026 at 6:56 PM
merryghoul: road (Default)
I use a wireless connection. For some reason the connection is saying I’m from Mississippi. Thing is I can’t tell you anything about Mississippi I don’t know through osmosis since I’ve literally never been there. So for a few days I have to use a (cheap, not great) VPN until my IP address changes (unless I can change my IP without a VPN). Will at least try to get the Who Newsletter out tomorrow but I may be delayed because of stupid internet stuff.

Spider Quinn 24 Something Unnatural Part 3

  • Oct. 16th, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Each of them quickly found their seats.

Daria and Quinn’s seats were to the right of the first base, with Trent and Jamie’s to the left of third.

“We have a good view at least,” Daria said to Quinn over her phone.

“Therefore, one or more of us should see where the ghost would appear from.”

“I sure that we’ll see something.”

“The teams are coming out now, call you later.”

Daria put the phone away and focused on the field around the pitcher’s mound.


The game started well enough, but the ghost appeared nearly fifteen minutes after the initial pitch.

“Returning after last night, the ghost is interrupting the game.”


Quinn was in a position such that she noticed something right before the ghost appeared.

But she wasn’t the only one.


Immediately, the game was halted and the announcer soon started directing people to leave the stadium slowly.

“The ghost is still there,” Daria said as she grabbed her phone. But instead of Quinn or the guys, she called... “Sandi!”

“I saw it on the TV. I’m coming now.”

“Thanks.”

“I can be there in six minutes.”

“You don’t need to take a car,” Daria said with slight annoyance in her tone.

“Using Mother’s,” Sandi responded.

“With her permission?”

“Of course.”


Quinn quickly moved through the stands. The ghost was still on the field, throwing the balls. She took out a polaroid camera and quickly took a couple of photos. “But you’re staying at that spot? Why? Enjoying the panic in the crowds? Or is it something else.”

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quick sign of life

  • Oct. 15th, 2026 at 3:28 PM
trobadora: (Zhao Yunlan - screaming)
*weeps*

My health has been terrible latey, I was mostly out of commission for weeks and I haven't been online much. This week things were finally getting back to somewhere like normal, I was starting to catch up on one or two things at least ... and then I promptly caught a cold.

WHO ALLOWED BODIES. *screams* (internally, because my throat already hurts enough)

Anyway! Yuletide is underway, I had my letter already ready so at least sign-ups were quick and easy. There are 14 fandoms in the tagset I could easily offer, and a few more on a stretch (!!), but I haven't decided which ones to actually pick. I should keep an eye on sign-ups to see what gets requested ...

Also, the FIAB deadline is coming closer. If I'm not feeling better by the weekend, I'm requesting an extension. *sighs*

I hope everyone else is doing well!

Aladdin: Sorcerer

  • Oct. 15th, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Sorcerer
Jasmine found Aladdin sitting on one of the Palace’s many balconies. “Aladdin?” she asked.

“I was thinking,” Aladdin responded as he looked out over Agrabah.

“You’re concerned about something.”

“To do with Jafar.”

Jasmine could tell he was concerned. “But we defeated him.”

“We did. But it’s something to do with his second wish.”

“What do you mean?”

“He wished to be a powerful sorcerer,” Aladdin answered. “But it’s not just that. Do you remember the wish?”

“He wished to be among the most powerful sorcerers there are?”

“Close.”

“It wasn’t exactly what he asked?” Jasmine asked.

“No. I was arriving in the throne room as he made his wish. His exact words were; ‘Genie! I wish to be the most powerful sorcerer there is!’ Genie had told me that the words matter.”

“What are you getting at?”

“That one of the first things Genie told me was that I needed to be precise in how I worded my wishes if I was to get what I wanted out of them,” Aladdin answered.

“Jafar didn’t want to be second best,” Jasmine said in thought.

“And Genie was acting under duress.”

“So, you’re saying that there are other powerful sorcerers out there.”

Aladdin nodded. “At least one who is only slightly less powerful than Jafar turned out to be.”

“So, that’s what you’re concerned about?”

“Yes.”

Jasmine took that in. “And he is out there somewhere.”

“And he might have heard about what happened here by now.”

“We dealt with Jafar.”

“Barely,” Aladdin responded. “And that because I had figured him out.”


Jasmine thought about that. “So, if any of these powerful sorcerers sets their sights on Agrabah…”

“We’d likely be sitting ducks.”

“So, what can we do about it?”

“Not much,” Aladdin admitted. “Except plan.”

“And that is something we can do. And we have the advantage that you figured it out now.”

“But we’ll still have to improvise when the sorcerer does make himself known.”

Jasmine looked out over the city, not sure what to say to that.


Elsewhere, a sorcerer was indeed watching Agrabah through arcane means. He had heard about what had happened with Jafar and saw an opportunity with the city. ‘I, Mozenrath, will make a move soon!’

Reading, Listening, Watching

  • Oct. 14th, 2026 at 7:21 PM
purplecat: Picture of a Satellite dish under a starry sky. (General:Space)
Reading. City of Last Chances because I like Adrian Tchaikovsky's podcast with Emma Newman, but am not keen on bugs. This seemed like a bug-minimal novel of his, though I fear it may prove too grim-dark for my tastes.

Listening Trouble with Hubble - the lastest in the 13 minutes to the Moon series of podcasts about space exploration. I do not know what the trouble with Hubble was - please don't spoil me.

Watching We have exhausted Inspector Morse and so now only have Midsomer Murders as gentle crime drama fare to sustain us. Are thinking of checking out Lewis

Fic: Heartstopper (Young Dracula)

  • Oct. 13th, 2026 at 8:45 PM
thisbluespirit: (Dracula)
Written for Whumptober Day 10 (Heartstopping), [community profile] 100fandoms & [community profile] 100ships and presumably because I just like trying my hardest to write things nobody else will want to read. I was planning to edit and post yesterday, but we had a power cut instead. But Whumptober don't need you to do things on the right day, anyway, so being even later doesn't matter.

Heartstopper (1114 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Young Dracula (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Count Dracula/Alex McCauley (Young Dracula)
Characters: Count Dracula (Young Dracula TV), Alex McCauley
Additional Tags: Character Death, (but of natural causes after a long and good life), Not a Fix-It, Post-Canon, the count still being the count (yd) here and there of course, Vampires, Death, restored memories, Community: 100ships, Community: 100fandoms, Whumptober 2026, nobody asked for this, Hospitals, References to Episode: s05e12-13 The Darkest Hour (Young Dracula), and to Episode: s04e13 Kiss of Death (Young Dracula), Mentioned Ingrid Dracula, Future Fic, Old Age, Death from Old Age
Summary: The Count pays one final call to an old friend.


tl;dr I should not be allowed to watch 20 yr old CBBC shows.

Dear Yuletide writer

  • Oct. 13th, 2026 at 4:57 PM
trobadora: (Discworld: Hogfather)
Dear Yulewriter,

thank you so much for writing a story for me!

I've requested and received all of these fandoms before - some for many, many years, and often with the same prompts, because when I really enjoy something, I immediately want fifty more takes on the same thing. *g* So if you like a prompt I've received before, don't worry about repeating things! Two of these fandoms are related to my current main fandom (Guardian) through the main actors, so I might mention them more on DW, but please don't think that means I want my other requests any less! Regardless of what we matched on, rest assured that you really can't go wrong here. Just the existence of new fic for any of these fandoms and characters will make me incredibly happy.

Everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go!

[This letter is complete. My AO3 account is [archiveofourown.org profile] Trobadora, and it's set to welcome treats.]

General Preferences

( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )

Fandoms and characters

Jump directly to:( 绅探 | Detective L (TV): Luo Fei & Huo Wensi )

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( Nantucket trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )

( Ring of Swords - Eleanor Arnason: Ettin Gwarha & Sanders Nicholas )

( Starfire series - Various Authors: Zhaarnak'diaano | Zhaarnak'telmasa & Raymond Prescott )

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Ahem. Lengthy as always. But I hope you'll find something inspiring in here, and most of all, that you'll have fun writing! :)

Pot still has view

  • Oct. 12th, 2026 at 8:05 PM
purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (Default)

A small pot on a window sill with a large window behind it showing branches of some conifer and a view of hill beyond.

Honestly waking up to that view is definitely one of the nicest things about the not-Mansion.

Church notes - 11th October 2026

  • Oct. 11th, 2026 at 4:03 PM
11th
Matthew 7:21 - 28

vs 28
The people saw that Jesus was teaching from authority.

Jesus as the Prophet
John 6:14, 15
Deuteronomy 18:14 - 20

A prophet like Moses
Regiving the Law as Moses originally gave the Law
Wanting to change one's attitudes

Like Moses
Declaring the New Covenant

On fanfic writing

  • Oct. 10th, 2026 at 11:31 AM
scripsi: (Default)
One thing I would like to get back to is writing fanfic. I know it’s good for my emotional state to write, but I also know that it’s always hard for me to get back in the saddle after not writing for a while. So I've decided to try to write 15 minutes every day. More, if I want to, of course.

I took a gander at the Yuletide nominations and there were several fandoms I can see myself writing for. I was too late to nominate anything myself, and I think I won’t sign up. At the moment it feels too overwhelming to have to produce a fic, and I don’t want to drop out. But I have written gifts before without signing up, and that has worked out well for me.

I also looked at my WIPs at AO3. I have five. I was a bit shocked that I haven't published anything since February 2025, as I was sure the last time I posted was last February… Anyway, three of them I have every intention to finish. They are completely mapped out, and two of them are actually almost finished, so it’s more editing and polishing than actually writing that needs to be done. But then I have to WIPs that, even if they haven’t been on AO3 for that long, actually started 20 years ago. One is a Sleepy Hollow-fic I still really like, and which also has quite a lot written that just needs editing. But I also think I would need to go back and re-edit the earlier chapters first, as I think I have evolved as a writer since I began it. We’ll see.

And then there is a HP-fic. I have never been a huge fan of the books, even if I enjoyed them, but somehow I have managed to write eight fanfics. Though half of them have been for fanfic exchanges. I can’t stomach JKR anymore, and I won’t ever write anymore HP-fic, and I’ve been debating with myself if I should remove them, but half of them are gifts, and it feels mean to delete those. So for now they will stay, but I won’t ever finish that WIP. Perhaps I should make a note in the description to say it’s abandoned.

My joy over a new Mummy movie sparked an idea for a sequel to Ghosts, which I finished ten years ago. But considering how little I have written in the last few years I don’t think I will post it until all the chapters are written. I don’t want another WIP hanging over me. Especially as one of my current WIPs is a Mummy-fic.

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Spider Quinn 24 Something Unnatural Part 2

  • Oct. 9th, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Jane was waiting for them at the table, with a sketchbook open. “I have sketched things out according to the descriptions,” she said as she turned to a stylized drawing of the stadium from above.

Daria looked closer. Jane’s style didn’t obscure the details. She noticed that Jane had put the ghost very close to where she and Sandi had seen the scorch marks before sunrise. “So, you managed to pinpoint the location from the descriptions?”

“Yes. I had to re-read it a few times, but I did.”

“So, he like, somehow got onto the field without being seen,” Sandi said.

“And therefore may need to investigate the stadium’s infrastructure,” Daria said. “But that would hardly be online or at the library.”

“The Council would have the data,” Jane said.

“But they would hardly be willing to give it out to a teenage investigator or reporter, even the one who exposed the fake interview,” Daria responded.

Jane shrugged. “Or maybe you could ask the fourth vigilante.”

Daria shrugged while resisting the temptation to glance at Sandi. “I’m sure she’s already looking into it.”

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