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We made it to the weekend (almost)!

Poll #34515

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

Have you had a chance to write today?

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Yes!
2 (50.0%)

No!
2 (50.0%)

Not yet!
0 (0.0%)

Not happening
0 (0.0%)

Do you have writing plans for the weekend?

lilly_c posting in

It's time to sign up for the May WIP challenge! Some people join the challenge mid month, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways. For those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.

Sign-ups will be open until the end of May.

Level of challenge:

Fandom(s) involved:

What you're looking for from the challenge:

What you could offer other participants yourself:

How people should contact you:

Time zone:

Copypaste below:

The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.

If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.

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At the moment I'm unavailable during week 1 and week 2 due to travel and booked events.

Week 1: 3rd to 9th
Week 2: 10th to 16th
Week 3: 17th to 23rd
Week 4: 24th to 30th
Week 5: 31st to 6th

omens posting in

How's the work progressing??

Poll #34512

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

What are you working on today?

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Writing
2 (40.0%)

Editing
1 (20.0%)

Researching
0 (0.0%)

Something else
1 (20.0%)

Nothing today
1 (20.0%)

A busy day here: no focus pre-appointments, probably no energy after! A lot of wistful wip thoughts, though :D

simplyn2deep posting in

Hello, everyone 👋 I’m

simplyn2deep, and I’m back to host another week! 💫

Today’s theme is TV Show and Movie Quotes 📺🎥, and you can interpret it in any way that inspires you. Let a memorable line from a film or television series guide your storytelling—whether it’s a moment of tension 😬, humor 😂, love 💕, or revelation 💡. Use the quote as a starting point to build a scene 🎭, expand on a relationship 💞, or reimagine the context in your own way.

Just a few rules: 📌
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full name and fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet 📝.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing 🚫 or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers ⚠️, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling… 🚀

* Teen Wolf, Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale, “I’m not a hero. I’m a high-functioning sociopath.” — Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes 🕵️‍♂️
* Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, “You don’t turn your back on family, even when they do.” — Fast & Furious, Dominic Toretto 🚗💨
* any, any+any, “I can do this all day.” — Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve Rogers 🛡️

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts 📚✨. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? 🤔 You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members 💙; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like 🔖 might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule ⏰, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays 🌿, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays 📅. Saturdays are a Free for All day 🎉. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications! 👀

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! 📣 comment_fic

tag=tv-movie quotes 🎬

omens posting in

we have reached mid-week!

Poll #34509

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

What are you working on today?

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Writing
4 (66.7%)

Editing
2 (33.3%)

Researching
1 (16.7%)

Something else
0 (0.0%)

Nothing today
0 (0.0%)

mark posting in

dw_maintenance

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

omens posting in

Hello, how's it going today?

Poll #34507

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

Have you had a chance to write today?

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Yes!
2 (50.0%)

No!
0 (0.0%)

Not yet!
0 (0.0%)

Not happening..
2 (50.0%)

Racing to finish my library book before it's due so I haven't started yet :P

la_samtyr

Found this and just had to share. Enjoy?

https://youtube.com/shorts/cWmVISziJzc?si=mg3Pudh6bcnrF0DF

Current Mood: amused

simplyn2deep posting in

Hello, everyone 👋 I’m

simplyn2deep, and I’m back to host another week! 💫

Today’s theme is Lyrics 🎧, and you can interpret it in any way that inspires you. Let the words of a song guide your storytelling—whether it’s a single line that captures a feeling 💭, a verse that tells a story 📖, or a lyric that lingers in your mind 🫶. Use music as your starting point and build a scene, moment, or relationship around it 🎼💞.

Just a few rules: 📌
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full name and fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet. 📝
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing 🚫 or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers ⚠️, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling… 🚀

* Teen Wolf, Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale, “Take me to church / I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies.” — “Take Me to Church” by Hozier 🎤
* Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, “I could make you happy, make your dreams come true / Nothing that I wouldn’t do.” — “Make You Feel My Love” by Adele 💕
* any, any/any, “All along there was some invisible string tying you to me.” — “Invisible String” by Taylor Swift 🧵

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts 📚✨. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? 🤔 You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members 💙; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like 🔖 might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule ⏰, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays 🌿, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays 📅. Saturdays are a Free for All day 🎉. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications! 👀

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! 📣 comment_fic

tag=lyrics 🎶

omens posting in

Poll #34504

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

How are your projects going today?

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Pretty good
1 (20.0%)

Great!
0 (0.0%)

Haven't started yet
0 (0.0%)

Not happening
4 (80.0%)

Do you have a word count goal in your head when you sit down to write?

creepy_shetan posting in

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↑↑↑ Available dates:
April 21 & 23
April 28 & 30
May 5 & 7

Hi and welcome to this week's Lonely Prompts Sunday! (6^^;; And sorry for the delay!) If this is your first time at

comment_fic on a Sunday, you can either request previous prompts to be filled or share your recent fills for prompts. (Or do both, of course!) ✎

How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

Whichever you decide to do, prompt or fill (or both), please remember:
1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from a particular fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts in as many fandoms as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether it is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to wherever the prompt is in the community archive (whether filling or requesting), and, if you're filling the prompt, please post the fill as a reply to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom you've written it for (or if it's original!).
8. If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
7. If you've filled any lonely prompts in the past week, this is the place to share them!
9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this option here.

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."

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! comment_fic

A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.

omens posting in

Hello & welcome to week 3 of April!

Poll #34497 Writing!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

Have you written today?

View Answers

Yes!
2 (40.0%)

No!
0 (0.0%)

Not yet!
3 (60.0%)

How was your weekend for writing? Do you have goals for the week?

It's been a while since I've hosted, I hope I don't mess anything up :D

creepy_shetan posting in

[ If you're interested in being a Tuesday-Thursday guest host, you can sign up here. Thanks! ❤ ]
↑↑↑ Available dates:
April 21 & 23
April 28 & 30
May 5 & 7

Happy Saturday, y'all, and happy Free for All day! ^.^ There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. Btw, if you perhaps missed a prompt theme that you liked, or you've had any ideas that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, then today's your chance to prompt 'em. Be free, and have fun! ✎

Just a few rules:
1. No more than five prompts in a row.
2. No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
3. Use the character's full name and the fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
4. No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
5. If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
6. If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Are today's prompts not catching your eye? No worries, because we have plenty of older prompts that just might do the trick! You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! comment_fic

A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.

linaewen posting in

Hello on Friday! Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?

- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or research
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?

- I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
- I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
- I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
- I'm going to take a break from writing

yuuago

Here is a list of some stuff I've been reading lately:

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi. True crime about the search for a serial killer who operated in Florence, Italy in the '70s and '80s. This case - or rather, the investigation - is absolutely batshit. And glancing at more recent developments, it managed to get even more batshit after this book was published.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. About a pair of con artists in Dickensian England who set out to swindle some rich people. I'm not very far into it, but so far I'm really enjoying the story. I've already seen the Korean film adaptation, The Handmaiden, and really enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes.

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow. I'm only about 1/3 into this, but it's really interesting so far. It discusses a lot of stuff about the internet (and other things) that I've noticed and seen discussions about but never had laid out in such an approachable way. Like, the business practices always went over my head; why the hell would a company deliberately make their product worse, and how could making their product worse make the company more money? It still seems crazy to me, but at least I'm kind of grasping it now. The writer's style is very flippant, and that's kind of grating at times, but it's not a deal breaker.

Going to read next: Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti, the f/f romance novel about two rival authors of gothic fiction. It's on one of the goodreads challenge lists, so I figured I might as well tackle it next.

templefugate posting in

Hi, everyone! I'm templefugate, and I'm back with one last set of alphabetical prompts.

As a reminder, we are using a new posting schedule. Sundays are for Lonely Prompts and sharing the fills that you completed during the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new themes and prompts, and Saturdays will remain a Free for All.

Today's theme is the letter "d". All prompts should center around a word or words starting with "d".

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ DC, any villain, deviant
+ DC, Wally West, daredevil
+ Any, any, drifting along

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic

tag=theletterd

linaewen posting in

Hello on Thursday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

- Excellent!
- Terrible
- Somewhere in between
- Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

- None
- 30 minutes or less
- 30-60 minutes
- 60-90 minutes
- More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?

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