I had a run-off-my-feet day, but I love the newly revealed cover for
Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death Fiction, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and shortly forthcoming from Psychopomp, in whose liminal mosaic is reprinted my queer, maritime, ice-dreaming story "
Twice Every Day Returning." I am looking forward to that table of contents for myself. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of
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isis: British Airways' "
May We Haveth One's Attention" (2024) may be the most charming safety video I have seen since the legendary "
Dumb Ways to Die" (2012). My only excuse for missing it last year is that I can't remember sleeping that month.
2. Courtesy of
moon_custafer:
James Cagney, Chester Morris, and Edward G. Robinson on a Ferris wheel in 1934. The dark glasses donned by Mr. Morris are doing him no favors whatsoever except that he's making enthusiastic eye contact in the sun-flooded overhead shot.
3. Courtesy of
fleurdelis41: "
The thread about the Loyal Edinburgh Spearmen; a force of very doubtful military significance." The caricature of "
Mr Dundas" with his beaver hat and spectacles reminds me irresistibly of an Edward Gorey character. The overenthusiastic lighting of the beacons actually made me laugh out loud.
4. I discovered the inimitably named
Blackbeard's Tea Party some years ago with the furious drumbeat of their "
Ford o' Kabul River" and then almost immediately lost track of them again, but as they seem to have come out since with the whaling EP
Leviathan! (2018) and the nightmare siren song of "
Mother Carey," we're still good. Since they closed their first album with "
Chicken on a Raft," I am delighted that their recorded repertoire now also includes "
Roll and Go."
5. I meant last week to link the Divine Comedy's "
Invisible Thread" (2025), especially since it was my father who found it after I had sent him another song from the same album.
Her memory for a blessing,
Darleane Hoffman who studied transuranic elements and still got to die at ninety-eight. She was not unstable.
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Free for All Saturday, Week 43 [DW Edition]
Oct. 25th, 2025 08:20 am↑↑↑ Available dates:
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Hello and welcome to this week's Free for All! :D Hope you've got your preferred warm, soothing cup of caffeine and/or sugar ready to go! (Btw, I'm sorry I was absent all week, and I'm thankful we have regulars who can lend a hand around here when needed, in this old tree house/blanket fort/pillow fort/cardboard castle of a comm. ✨❤ Y'all rock.) There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. If you've had any ideas this week that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, 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 2025 collection.
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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.