fredbassett

I've just finished the first season of 'For All Mankind'. Enjoyed it, but I'm puzzled by the season finale.

How did Ed manage to get upto the Apollo module and down to the moon again? And then up again!

Surely there's no way salvaged fuel could power two lunar take-offs, let alone give the course correction for the Apollo module as well?

and the way lunar landers worked was for the base part to be left on the moon, in any case.

watervole

Went to see the diabetes nurse today to sort out medication.

I forget how it came up, but apparently iron deficiency can lead to blood sugar readings that look exactly the same as diabetes...

So, now booked in for an iron test, just in case it isn't diabetes at all.

Also, skinny people can sometimes get Type 2 diabetes, so I'm not even sure which kind of diabetes I have... But the treatment is the same either way in the early stages, so what the heck.

melagan

I've recced this series before, but I think it's appropriate to rec it again for International Women's Day.

Hell's Library Trilogy

I borrowed this series from my local library and liked it so much that I bought the series. I think it's time for a reread. :)

melagan

I can usually shake off the Spring time change without any trouble, but today all I want to do is nappppp.

My second option is drinking a LOT of coffee. Thank god, I'm an expert at it.

watervole

Absolutely bloody fabulous!

I have the audiobook and have listened to it many times.

I love the science, I love the characters, I love the problems that the characters have to face and the way these are tackled.

I'm not in the least surprised they're making a movie, and I'm going to see it as soon as it opens.

The plot is ingenious and unlike any other I've encountered. Earth's sun is losing energy - which means everyone on Earth will die as the world gets colder and colder. There is a limited time span in which to try and find out what is causing the problem and what, if anything can be done about it.

Everything goes in a single 'Hail Mary' project - the only thing that might, possibly might, find a solution.

If you haven't already read it, buy it. (Unless you read and hated 'The Martian', but I don't know anyone who did...)

watervole

This book just didn't work for me. I only got part way through before abandoning it.

It's a clever idea, that characters involved on opposing side of a long-running time war start a correspondence, but I found I had little interest in the characters, and little idea of why the time war was being fought.

The descriptive text is very good, but that's not enough to hook me on a book.

watervole

Heroes is well written, as you'd expect from Stephen Fry, and has some gentle touches of humour.

The problem is that after a while the Greek myths all start to feel the same. You don't want to read them all in a short period of time. They're not exactly in depth stories.

This is a book that I think I will dip into now and then, but having got part way through, I've no urge to finish it all in a few sittings.

3/5

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watervole

It's so nice to read a book involving narrowboats by someone who actually knows what they are writing about!

I remember once reading a romance involving a narrowboat and spending more time mentally nitpicking than getting involved in the romance...

Beecroft knows how a weed hatch works and what you use it for, and likewise for the rest of the waterways equipment.

Does it also work as a novel? Yes, it's a gentle story, made up of different people whom Emily meets and re-meets along the inland waterways. I particularly enjoyed the group of student with their floating party, who keep needing Emily's help due to their general ineptness with narrowboats.

Emily has her own, health-related problems, but there are also other boaters happy to assist her when her pain flares up too badly.

People help her, and she solves problems for them.

There is also romance, but romance with a very Beecroft twist - which happens to work for me :)

watervole

'Guards Guards' is Pratchett on top form (much though I love his books, some are much better than others...).

It's the first book about Sam Vimes and the Night Watch, and we get to know and love the characters who will make many appearances in later books.

It's got a plot that makes sense, and has some good twists in it.

It's funny, but it also has characters who feel like real people. Sam Vimes the drunk captain of the Watch has pretty much given up on everything, finds there are some things that even he won't give up on.

The various mystical brotherhoods that meet in Ankh Morepork are hilarious.

My favourite character is Lady Sybil Ramkin, breeder of swamp dragons. The kind of person whose family goes back so far that she is perfectly comfortable spending all her days dressed in old clothes and mucking out dragon pens, and feels no need to attend balls and the like.

This is the story where the Librarian (an orangutan, for those who don't already know) gets enlisted into the Guard, and we discover the mysteries of L-space...

melagan

I've been busy over at

romancingmcshep and getting a last-minute story finished and posted for it.

You can check out this year's entries Here

I've also been working on my

5soulmate prompts. I finished the ones for touching your soulmate feels good and touching your soulmate lets them feel what you're feeling.

In both cases, I thought I was working on you can only touch your soulmate and by the time I was finished, realized they fit the other prompts better. Oh well. Progress at least.

The

fandomtrumpshate auction caught my attention this year, too.

And just a few minutes ago,

sga_saturday posted the prompts for this month. History and/or Reading.

I'm waiting to see the story where Rodney is reading Atlantis slash fanfic aloud to John. Oh, I know there are stories out there like that, but whose to say we can't have more?

(and if anyone has the links to those stories, please share.)

I almost forgot to add Shore Leave! A big thanks to

sgatazmy for posting about it on her journal. I've made plans to go with

goddess47 as my partner in crime. I am so EXCITED!

fredbassett posting in

tolkien100

The latest prompt is Fire and Ice

Interpret how you wish:)

Crossposted to LiveJournal

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potentiality_26

Written in February: 14,832 words. All fanfiction, though I did make some informal notes for a TTRPG idea.

Posted: 4 short fics. Red and Cold (Creaturebeth, 200 words), Sweetest Child (Brudick, 1,622 words), Safe at Home (Astraelle, 200 words), and Spark (Vijinx and Vanco, 1,958 words).

Worked on a lot of WIPs, for Arcane, Astrid, Batman, Frankenstein, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Phantom of the Opera, Sense and Sensibility, Shetland, Smallville, Star Wars, and Yellowjackets.

As always, I love answering questions about what I'm working on!

melagan

FTH

Tuesday, March 3rd, 8am ET: auction bidding opens

Saturday, March 7th, 8pm ET: auction bidding closes

More info can be found at

fandomtrumpshate

Because this is the first time I've signed up for the FTH auction, I've kept it in my wheelhouse.

SGA John/Rodney (try not to be shocked)

And now I can post my auction link

hhimring posting in

tolkien100

Author: Himring
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, History of Middle-earth
Rating: Teens
Warnings: multiple canonical character death
Characters: Andvir
Disclaimer: The death of Turin's outlaws on Amon Rudh is by Tolkien; so is the character of Andvir, Androg's son, but as far as I know Tolkien never completely wrote him into the narrative. This is just one way of imagining the scene.
A/N: This drabble shows Andvir sharing his experiences, later, probably in dialogue with Dirhavel (author of the Narn).

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melagan

This was Adulting day. I feel both accomplished and slightly annoyed.

I used to eat adulting with a spoon, but since I've retired I try to keep it away with a big stick.

On a completely different topic, I am looking forward to seeing the movie Project Hail Mary. I must have read the book three times since it came out, and the trailers look awesome.

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For All Mankind season 1

Diabetes and iron deficiency....

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Daylight Saving Time

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

This is How you Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar

Mythos /Heroes by Stephen Fry

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The Boat of Small Mysteries - Robyn Beecroft

Guards Guards, by Terry Pratchett

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Challenge, Fire and Ice

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Writing Roundup: February 2026

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Challenge: Blood on the Rocks - Blood on Stone, by Himring

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