Writing Banners
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smallhobbitAlthough I write a monthly writing post, I rarely manage to include any banners I have earned at the time. Last month I earned three, and, since it seems a shame not to credit the creators, here they are:
Firstly,melagan ran a Dust Off Your Plot Bunny challenge. This was the perfect opportunity to write a follow up to Hilary Term 1920 and to take another look at life after WWI: Summer at Bag End Both are Hobbit (Jackson movies) AUs
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allbingo ran the Winterfest in July challenge. For the last few years I've been writing another instalment in my Spooks AU Love in All Seasons series and this year's A Slightly Different Christmas was the next. Delightful banner by kiramaru7
And lastly there waswhatif_au Bingo All nine squares are in the series WhatIf AU 2025 bingo Banner made by brumeier who runs the community and helps provide me with ideas.
Firstly,
melagan ran a Dust Off Your Plot Bunny challenge. This was the perfect opportunity to write a follow up to Hilary Term 1920 and to take another look at life after WWI: Summer at Bag End Both are Hobbit (Jackson movies) AUsThen
allbingo ran the Winterfest in July challenge. For the last few years I've been writing another instalment in my Spooks AU Love in All Seasons series and this year's A Slightly Different Christmas was the next. Delightful banner by kiramaru7 And lastly there was
whatif_au Bingo All nine squares are in the series WhatIf AU 2025 bingo Banner made by brumeier who runs the community and helps provide me with ideas.Five Ways Ronon Dex Kisses a Team Member (by minnow) (M)
Aug. 5th, 2025 09:13 pmmific posting in stargateficrecShows: SGA
Rec Category: Ronon Dex
Characters: Ronon Dex/Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex & Aiden Ford, Ronon Dex & Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex/John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan/Rodney McKay
Categories: F/M, Multi, Gen
Words: 5500
Warnings: Secondary character death (offscreen) in the 2nd story. Aphrodisiac dosing offworld thus a dubcon OT4 in the 3rd story and postscript.
Author on DW:minnow
Author's Website:minnow
Link: Five Ways Ronon Dex Kisses a Team Member on DW
Why This Must Be Read: A series of stories in the 5-things structure, some with attraction, some entirely gen or friendship-based, and an AMTDI OT4 near-orgy. They're all wonderfully written, and as a bonus postscript,minnow gives us an M-rated section she cut from the OT4 part, which is very nice indeed. There's some worldbuilding about Sateda and Ronon's earlier life, but not a lot as the sections aren't that long. An excellent read.
( snippet of fic )
Rec Category: Ronon Dex
Characters: Ronon Dex/Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex & Aiden Ford, Ronon Dex & Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex/John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan/Rodney McKay
Categories: F/M, Multi, Gen
Words: 5500
Warnings: Secondary character death (offscreen) in the 2nd story. Aphrodisiac dosing offworld thus a dubcon OT4 in the 3rd story and postscript.
Author on DW:
minnowAuthor's Website:
minnowLink: Five Ways Ronon Dex Kisses a Team Member on DW
Why This Must Be Read: A series of stories in the 5-things structure, some with attraction, some entirely gen or friendship-based, and an AMTDI OT4 near-orgy. They're all wonderfully written, and as a bonus postscript,
minnow gives us an M-rated section she cut from the OT4 part, which is very nice indeed. There's some worldbuilding about Sateda and Ronon's earlier life, but not a lot as the sections aren't that long. An excellent read.( snippet of fic )
Courses - July/August 2025
Aug. 4th, 2025 04:36 pmsmallhobbitFutureLearn
Imagining York (University of York)
Taking various time periods in York's history and looking at them from a sociological viewpoint. The details of the time were interesting, but while I accept that people's behaviour was affected by society etc, I think some of the suggestions were reading back more modern ideas. And using a wealthy woman in a particular social stratum as an example really isn't representative of the majority of the population.
Italian for Beginners - Part 5 (Open University)
Some things are making more sense and I'm working things out reasonably well, even though it's all very basic, so I'm pleased with my progress.
Myths of the Mongol Empire (Nat Tsing Hua University)
This was a very interesting introduction to the Mongol Empire and in particular its beginnings with Chinggis Khan. Although I had taken a previous course looking at the past nomads of the Mongolian steppes, I knew very little about the Mongol Empire. Well worth doing.
OpenLearn
Women Transforming Classical Music
Primarily aimed at musicians, it was worth taking to consider the wealth of musical contribution, mostly unacknowledged by women composers and seeing some of the problems in performing them for an audience.
Exploring Data: Graphs & Numerical Summaries
I was interested in this from the viewpoint of maybe sharing data to do with the charity I volunteer with. Although it really only touched on this, being more on interpreting graphs and also scientific use of data it was good for exercising my brain.
Imagining York (University of York)
Taking various time periods in York's history and looking at them from a sociological viewpoint. The details of the time were interesting, but while I accept that people's behaviour was affected by society etc, I think some of the suggestions were reading back more modern ideas. And using a wealthy woman in a particular social stratum as an example really isn't representative of the majority of the population.
Italian for Beginners - Part 5 (Open University)
Some things are making more sense and I'm working things out reasonably well, even though it's all very basic, so I'm pleased with my progress.
Myths of the Mongol Empire (Nat Tsing Hua University)
This was a very interesting introduction to the Mongol Empire and in particular its beginnings with Chinggis Khan. Although I had taken a previous course looking at the past nomads of the Mongolian steppes, I knew very little about the Mongol Empire. Well worth doing.
OpenLearn
Women Transforming Classical Music
Primarily aimed at musicians, it was worth taking to consider the wealth of musical contribution, mostly unacknowledged by women composers and seeing some of the problems in performing them for an audience.
Exploring Data: Graphs & Numerical Summaries
I was interested in this from the viewpoint of maybe sharing data to do with the charity I volunteer with. Although it really only touched on this, being more on interpreting graphs and also scientific use of data it was good for exercising my brain.
August reccers
Aug. 4th, 2025 01:26 pmfignewton posting in stargateficrecSorry for the delay, people.
Many thanks tocassiope25, goddess47, mific, nuh_s, and smilebackwards for all their July recs! We had 16 recs this past month, including my own.
Our reccers for August are:
cassiope25: Rodney McKay
goddess47: Jack O'Neill
mific: Ronon Dex
nuh_s: Minor characters
Reccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.
If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.
Many thanks to
cassiope25, goddess47, mific, nuh_s, and smilebackwards for all their July recs! We had 16 recs this past month, including my own.Our reccers for August are:
cassiope25: Rodney McKaygoddess47: Jack O'Neillmific: Ronon Dexnuh_s: Minor charactersReccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.
If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.