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Fest Name: Tomione Trope Bingo 2026
Links: Tumblr | Discord | AO3 | Rules & Prompts
Type of Challenge: Bingo challenge
Description: A Tom/Hermione bingo challenge for fics. Fics are due on June 13.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: Minimum 2,500 words; no maximum
Timeline:
Fest opens: April 11
Fics due: June 13
Public Poll: June 20
Public Poll Closes: June 27
Final Judging: Between June 28 and July 3

dinogrrl

Now it's time for some Transformers POV in the DotE AU setting.

hint hint nudge nudge there's another fic, in my LWA/movieverse collection (which DotE takes several cues from), that talks a lot about how another character doesn't second-guess his decisions often hmmmm I wonder if there's any connection to the guy in this story

Also that guy failed his entry to Earth as a protoform, and this guy arrives on Earth in an equally stupid and dangerous way and promptly fails multiple situational awareness checks in a row. HMMMM

( Part 2 )

( bonus video that's thematically relevant )

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bakerstreet

MOST ATTRACTIVE FEATURE

✱ Comment with your character. Feel free to include a link to a picture of them at their best/most flattering/cutest/beautiful/handsome/most appealing/etc.
✱ Other characters are ~~forced to~~ ~~gently compelled~~ to admit the one part of yours they find the most attractive. Hair? Eyes? Muscles? That height? That mole? That ass...umption that they're a great person?
✱ Your character now has to flip all the scripts and fess up to others.
✱ Rinse. Repeat. Regret.
✱ Of course, if they're boring, some people might be drawn to a personality trait over a physical one.
✱ But that cute smile, tho. Lemme swoon.

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ysabetwordsmith

Tropical trees favor cooperation over competition

Step into a tropical forest, and something feels different right away. The air feels rich, the ground feels alive, and every plant seems part of a bigger system.

This sense of connection is not just your imagination. Science now shows that trees in these forests actively support one another, creating a strong and balanced ecosystem.

Current Mood: busy

soemand

My wife’s 1990s Rockhopper finally showed its age once she began commuting. The Exage shifters and derailleurs were beyond tired—more museum piece than drivetrain. An Amazon order of fresh components is now inbound, vetted by an LLM for her intense 5 km commute. Soon, the old bike gets a new life.

snickfic

(I guess I'm letting out all my bottled-up words today...)

A collection of essays on feminist topics. I've been meaning to read some Solnit ever since everyone was reading her book Hope in the Dark during the first Trump administration. I randomly was in need of an ebook to read, and this was the book of Solnit's available through my library, so here we are.

On one hand, I did not find this a challenging read. Most of what Solnit had to say, I've encountered in some form or another before, and most of these essays are surface-level examinations of their topics. OTOH, there's something to be said for having thoughts laid out in a coherent essay format when one has previously only encountered them via social media, haphazardly and in fragments. And even though the collection had a strong feminism 101 feeling for me, I did highlight a bunch of quotes, which I am putting below under a cut, mostly for my own use. So, clearly I got some value out of the book!

IMO, by far the strongest essay is the one where she gets into specifics, and that's the final essay, "Giantess," about a 1950s film called Giant starring Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. I feel like I might vaguely have heard of this movie, and although it doesn't sound like my usual jam genre-wise, the politics sound progressive even today, so I'm tempted just from a point of historical interest.

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merricatb posting in

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Theme Prompt: #296 - Locked Door
Title: These Keys Were Made For Losing
Fandom: Sense8
Rating/Warnings: Teen for mild sexual language
Bonus: No
Word Count: 742
Summary: Nomi comes to Grace's rescue when she loses her keys

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kaberett

Reading. Still, uh, not quite exclusively She's A Beast archives. ("Not quite" because I am reading some of the things the links letters link to...)

Writing. Over 11k words. Progress is very very slow but it IS progress. (I'd feel worse about She's A Beast eating my entire brain apart from the fact that a whole bunch of it is extremely relevant, and yet more of it is sparking decidedly useful contemplation...)

Cooking. NEW OVEN NEW OVEN NEW OVEN today used for Kaiserschmarrn (worked just fine) and a new cake recipe from Blackberry Cottage (used settings suggested in oven manual and... it took over twice as long as it ought've to cook). Cannot yet report on what I think of it because have not yet eaten any. Elsewise: ... lots of the smitten kitchen braised chickpea thing?

Eating. Of particular note: blood oranges!!! and Decadent Spanish Raspberries, acquired on our way out of the Big Supermarket post-vaccination.

Making & mending. ... ADAM NOW HAS TWO GLOVES. I just (...) need to Weave In The Damn Ends. (Does anyone have a favourite weaving-in-ends guide? Because twenty-five years into this hobby I still pretty much hate every end I have ever woven in as Lumpy and Unsightly.)

Growing. Aubergines hatching! Whole buncha weeding including sorting out the raspberry thicket! When last I made it to the allotment the cherry tree had two bundles of blossom out, and was clearly on the point of Bursting Forth en masse...

Observing. SO MANY baby waterfowl, and, also, A Goldfinch. A friend's tiny cherry tree In Flower! Holly getting Extremely enthusiastic about flowering also.

goss posting in

drawesome

We recently lost a very dear member of our community here at

drawesome.

minoanmiss loved creating and connecting with people. She was a really special person, and her thoughtful packages, art postcards and stickers brought so much joy to those in her orbit.

We say goodbye to our friend

minoanmiss, and will always remember her fondly.

Remembering Minoanmiss

You're welcome to share your own pictures and remarks about

minoanmiss in the comments of this memorial post.

Here are some of her artworks that she sent me over the years, including from our annual community card exchange: ( Photos )

Written by

mekare:

"Minoanmiss was an active participant right from the start of our drawesome community back in 2017. In her own words: "This community has been absolutely WONDERFUL for me, and I can't say enough how much I enjoy participating here."

She let everyone feel welcome, commenting, drawing for almost every challenge (sometimes multiple pieces) and suggesting many creative challenge ideas herself (a lot of which were later used to spark everyone's creativity).

Her first artistic contribution was Poison Ivy for the second challenge, and she continued to delight us with more characters from comics universes, mermaids, figures from mythology and of course Minoan ladies (sometimes in space).

We are going to miss her dearly."

♥

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highadrenalineexchange

Hello hello!

All of our pinch hits have been claimed, but as the pinch hitters will require a bit more time to work on the assignments, the collection opening has been pushed to Sunday April 19th, at 10:00pm ET.

We still have five open assignments that need to come in before that due at various points throughout the week, with the latest deadline being Saturday, April 18th, at 10:00pm ET, so I expect to have updates for us on the status of the collection opening before or at that time.

Now would be a good time to finish up final polishing for any works already submitted, check in on our short treats collection, and take a break from our keyboards and perhaps try to detox HAP from their caffeine binge.

Good luck to all pinch hitters still working on assignments and good luck for everyone putting the finishing touches on works! We're almost there!

luzula

Today Egon was taken by a goshawk, which ate at his body for a while before we discovered it had happened. I hope he died quickly. We will mourn you, Egon: you will never again cuddle with Eva, nor mate with a flirty female. I have tears in my eyes as I write this.

E and I took what was left of his body and salvaged his heart, liver, kidneys, one half of his breast, and one leg for us to eat. Although afterwards we discovered this page and realized there was more we could have used. I also examined what I realized must be the gizzard, which was quite interesting--I totally see now how they can swallow whole oat and barley grains and have them be crushed by the gravel in that strong hollow piece of muscle. It's strange to look at the other ducks now and know what they look like inside.

I made a three-course meal tonight, containing four things I have never cooked before, marked by numbers:
Starter: Duck heart, liver, and kidneys (1), fried with soy sauce, sesame oil, Sichuan pepper, garlic, rice wine, and a little bean paste. Thank you, Egon, it was delicious.
Main course: Hamburgers with acorn patties (2) and homemade French fries (3), with carrot slaw, homemade mayonnaise, grated homemade cheese, and chili sauce. The acorns had been leached for a long time and made quite a good base for minced "meat".
Dessert: Crème brûlée (4) flavored with rum, seared with E's new gas burner. It is really for killing weeds that have just sprouted, but why not take advantage?

huxleyenne

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pushkin666

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: on my Chandler/Joey chair
Current Music: the voices in my head :D

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Title: Robo-Man
Fandom: Marvel's Midnight Suns
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of Marvel's Midnight Suns Tony Stark. made these for a friend who's obstacle to role-playing as this character was a lack of icons... and since i've been playing the game recently, i snagged screenshots to make icons from. (i also have a mod on the game to improve Tony's facial hair bc i can't abide the mustache-only look)

these were made for

robo_man's journal, so if they give the okay, these are free to snag, otherwise, all theirs. XD

( Robo-Man )

settiai

Pride's Solace, a Dragon Age exchange focusing on Solas, when live a little while ago. I ended up getting not one but two lovely gifts from it!

First up is a fleeting moment, focusing on Lucanis & Solas & Spite post-Tearstone Island in DA:V.

Then there's Garden of Statues, focusing on Solas & Tarquin with Tarquin meeting Solas sometime pre-DA:V. There's also a lovely bit with Ashur towards the end.

Current Mood: cheerful

somedayseattle

THIS is why I love baseball. Go M's!

Watch on YouTube

cosmolinguist

I can see a little, so I do care a lot about light and contrast and things, so I'm not in the exact situation that a Blind online acquaintance describes here, but so much of this resonates with me. Especially as we're under increasing pressure to have cameras-on internal meetings at work.

"I am an unwilling cameraman, shooting an obscure documentary about my own face" resonated so hard with me!

My own parents are the even worse about this, though. As per entries passim, I talk to them every week. The only comment I've heard them make about my visual appearance is excessively unkind to say the least if not overtly transphobic, so it's not as if I'm motivated to share my face with them. Yet recently when my webcam was broken for a couple of weeks, my mom could barely carry on a conversation because of how distracted she was by this.

And her language is so telling. It's not "We can't see you" it's "We don't have you." It makes me feel so trapped -- pinned, like a bug in a collection.

It's the same as Robert describes his friend: ""Oh, You're gone! Where did you go?" I don't go anywhere! My mom says "Are you there???" even while I'm already talking. Like he says, " I didn’t go anywhere. I am right here. I did not teleport. I am still in the same spot I was just a few seconds ago."

My new webcam is a nightmare. It doesn't even show my whole head on the screen if I have the monitor as close to me as I otherwise went it. It has way too high a resolution: I've never seen all my facial features this sharply, and I'm very distressed to start now!

Being able to see a little means I am aware of how I look, and you know how people hate the sound of their own voice on recordings because that's not how it sounds to them? I feel like that about seeing myself on video calls. (I actually mostly love the way my voice sounds on recordings, heh.)

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and warm with howling wind.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches plus a brown-headed cowbird.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 4/12/26 -- I did some work around the patio.

EDIT 4/12/26 -- I emptied the bag of raised bed soil into the hollow by the garden shed.

I picked up the big branch in the south lot.

A third tuft of violet leaves is blooming yellow. That's three now, although this one is smaller. I'm so happy that my yellow violets are spreading. :D 3q3q3q!!!

EDIT 4/12/26 -- I picked up more big branches in the orchard and moved them to the firepit.

I've seen a fox squirrel at the hopper feeder. I heard a bluejay screaming above the south lot but didn't see it.

EDIT 4/12/26 -- I picked up more big branches in the savanna and moved them to the firepit.

EDIT 4/12/26 -- I picked up more big branches in the savanna and moved them to the firepit.

I saw two bluejays high in the trees above the house yard, bobbing up and down, screeching at each other. \o/

It's trying to spit rain.

.

Current Mood: busy

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Tomione Trope Bingo 2026: April 11 - June 13

The Peacock and the Owl

Attract what you want

Crossover Galore Challenge

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The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

[#296] These Keys Were Made For Losing (Sense8)

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Admin Post: Remembering Minoanmiss

Final Delay; all pinch hits picked up

Farm update - RIP Egon

Meme Ganked from Lynn

Fic: Fall Out Boy - restraint under pressure, Pete/Patrick

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