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OMG, you guys! Guess what has made it to my *coff* DL source?!! I mean, the subject line obviously gives it away, but I'm so excited! I get to see what all the fuss is about now. And read the posts on my f-list. And the fic recs, omg!!!! *flails*

spikedluv

I’ve been wanting to share some photos, but I had some issues with Imgur, and then with my e-mail, but all of that seems to have been resolved!

Saturday, Jan 3

Where in the world is Midnight?!! I feel like he’s giving me the evil eye for bothering him. *g*

~*~

( 8 more back here )

spikedluv

I hit Price Chopper and the Bakery while I was downtown, and the Vet’s on the way home (for Ti’s special dog food).

I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher, went for a walk with the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. We had grilled hamburgers and Gus’s potatoes for supper. (Thanks to the 'warmer' weather, I was willing to use the grill!)

I typed in ~1,400 words on the

smallfandomfest fic I just finished handwriting! I read some fanfic and more in Amelia Peabody. I watched an ep of House Hunters International and a couple eps of Secrets of the Zoo.

My healthy eating win today was having yogurt as my evening snack instead of any kind of chocolate candy. If I can keep up switching out at least that one snack time (though I have been trying to eat healthy for all snacks), I will consider it a win. I don’t need the high calories in a handful of Hershey kisses, for example, just before bed. Also, I tried the Chobani yogurt because Price Chopper has a very poor selection of my preferred yogurt (Dannon light and fit). I was leery because I remembered trying it once before and not liking it, but I liked it just fine. I had the cherry last night and I have a raspberry waiting in the fridge. (There's more calories in the Chobani, but I do love raspberry, so . . .)

Temps started out at 27.9(F) and reached 48.0 (at 11am when I left to go visit mom; it was already going down when I got home, but there’s the possibility that it got a few degrees warmer than that after I left). It rained in the afternoon.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing well when I visited. She seemed to have a bit more energy than yesterday, and admitted that she was very tired yesterday. My aunt and uncle were there visiting when I arrived.

She’s already getting annoyed with all the hospice visits. The nurse coming every week, the social worker (whose first visit was today) coming every week, the minister (who visited yesterday after I left) coming who knows how often . . .

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Theme Prompt: #286 – Working Together
Title: Safety In Numbers
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Having rescued Willaway from Apollonius’ clutches and reached the next zone, the travellers make camp for the night.

( Safety In Numbers... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Title: Newsworthy
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 663 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 502 - Sand
Summary: Ianto is beginning to regret having a slow morning with time to read the paper.

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https://xkcd.com/3192/

We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?

https://xkcd.com/3192/

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Title: the sand in the gears
Fandom: US Politics
Challenge: Sand
Note: Haiku; references recent violent events

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Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Challenge #1 * Challenge #2 * Challenge #3 * Challenge #4 *

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #5 )

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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spikedluv

I did not go downtown today, so this was really a no-shopping day!

I visited mom, did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, went for a couple walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I put a roast in the crock pot for supper. (Not my usual chuck roast; I decided to try something different.)

I went with the Ginger Peach tea again this morning. ( for reasons that you might not want to read )

I wrote more! ~1,200 words and I’ve managed to finish the first draft of the fic at ~5,600 words! Now to type it in. o_O I read more in Amelia Peabody and watched the first Jack Reacher movie. (I’ve seen it, or most of it in parts, before, but having read the first three books, I wanted to re-watch it to see what I thought about it in comparison. I can see Tom Cruise as a pilot, I can even see him as a spy, but I cannot see him as Jack Reacher. And not just because of his height. Jack Reacher is hugely muscled. He was shot in the chest and didn’t die because his pectoral muscle was so thick it acted like kevlar. I cannot see Tom Cruise as this character.)

Temps started out at 36.0(F) and reached 43.5. It was not supposed to get this warm, but it has so I won’t complain. We even had some sun!

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay when I saw her. I was able to help her get last year’s bills out of the filing cabinet so she could start filing this year’s bills and I did up the few dishes in the sink. We talked more about the hospice visit and she told me that hospice would be completely covered and that the rep (I should probably start calling her the nurse?) will start visiting mom once a week just to check-up on her and take vitals, etc.

Mom often talks about a woman she knows who lived 3-years past when her family called hospice, so she’s not giving up. I know she wants to see Ireland graduate, and if she could just hang on that long I think she’d be happy.

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Posting for the 2025 round of WIP Big Bang and WIP Reverse Bang is now closed. The masterlist will go up at some point in January.

WIP Mini Bang rules will go up later today.

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Posted by Wil

https://wilwheaton.net/2026/01/i-am-doing-my-best-to-be-a-helper/

https://wilwheaton.net/?p=9878

Mister Rogers says that when terrible things happen, to look for the helpers.

*This is so important to me, I have the tattoo.*

Terrible things are happening. I’m upset. And I’m angry. And I’m so sad.

While I am looking for the helpers, I am also doing my best to be a helper.

I have to be honest: when a domestic terrorist organization, created and unleashed on us by our own government, are terrorizing, tear-gassing, kidnapping, and murdering with impunity, the way I help feels pretty pointless.

It feels woefully inadequate to me, but I entertain, I tell stories, I help you recover your hit points. It’s what I know how to do, and it’s what I do best. And I keep reminding myself that if I can make something that helps someone else create the space I have when I read a book or listen to an album, or whatever I’m doing to rest, then I have to do that. I can’t not do that. This is my purpose. I entertain, especially when it feels like entertaining is less important than something other people need entertainment to get a break from doing.

I want to be crystal clear: I am not comparing myself to anyone, or suggesting that what I do is equivalent, but we all do what we can, right? I’m doing my best, I think.

What I do right now, and what I hope to do until I retire, is tell you stories that help you create a bit of safe space to just … be … for a minute, a place where you can recover some hit points, while you listen. Today, I went to the studio, and told you a story that you will hear next week. I was so grateful to have a break of my own. I loved doing this story. It was so satisfying to focus on how I chose the narrator’s emotional point of view, to find my own narrative pace, to notice something in the narrative that I hadn’t, before. To feel that indescribable thing performers only feel in our bodies when we perform.

It was a privilege and a blessing, all made possible by authors who said yes, a team of people who believe in me, and so many people I will never meet, who trust me with their time and attention, week after week.

I am so grateful. I will continue to do my best.

As I was about to click publish, I noticed that there are 1000 new subscribers to my posts. Welcome. If you’d like to get my posts in your email, here’s the thing:

https://wilwheaton.net/2026/01/i-am-doing-my-best-to-be-a-helper/

https://wilwheaton.net/?p=9878

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The 2026 WIP Mini Bang details will go up at some point tomorrow (January 9th) and posting for that event will be extended to March 1st due to the information going out over a week late.

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Title: Looking Forward To Most
Rating: R
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Donny gets poisoned.
Word Count: 2,873

( Looking Forward To Most )

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Title: Life’s a Beach
Fandoms: Friends, Lucifer, Revenge
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Chandler, Monica, Joey (Friends); Emily/Amanda, Nolan (Revenge); Lucifer, Chloe (Lucifer)
Rating: PG
Content: 9 icons with beach scenes from 3 TV shows.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #502 - Sand

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( SHOW: 9 Icons )

spikedluv

I had a chiropractic appointment this morning. This would have been a no-shopping day, but I forgot one item crucial to tonight’s supper, so I stopped at Price Chopper and naturally bought a few other things. I also hit the post office (to mail a returned Christmas card because I screwed up the address *head desk*).

I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. Supper was shake ‘n bake pork chops, which you cannot have without shake ‘n bake. Who knew? o_O

I tried the Raspberry tea this morning, since I was home long enough to drink a cup. It reminds me of the Pomegranate tea. I read more in Amelia Peabody and watched some HGTV (Fixer to Fabulous and House Hunters International) and Secrets of the Zoo.

I’m separating this out because it’s so exciting: I added ~1,700 words to my

smallfandomfest fic!! It was a ~really good writing day. Few and far between these days.

Temps started out at 34.5(F). It was still raining and all the schools in the county were delayed 2 hours, so it’s a good thing I had already planned to leave later. The roads weren’t too bad when I finally did head out. Temps reached 36.7, which is barely two degrees warmer than it was this morning. This is one of the reasons winter sucks.

Mom Update:

Mom sounded good on the phone. She’d just had a call from my brother and Sister A was visiting, so that was nice. She said the hospice visit was filling out a lot of paperwork and a brief overview. Thank goodness the hospice rep did all the paperwork. This woman (hospice rep) does our area and she worked with a woman we knew who recently passed away, and her daughter told Sister S that she was very good, so that’s good to know.

I later found out that Sister S also visited, so mom heard from or had visits from all of her kids today.

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Title: Sand
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of sand, sand dunes, sandy beaches

( Sand )

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Challenge 286:
WORKING TOGETHER

Some things can’t be done alone. Maybe it’s a project that needs multiple pairs of hands to make it work, maybe it’s a long-term quest to save the world that’s going to require a lot of people and a lot of skillsets, or maybe it’s as simple as a cat that needs at least two people to corral her into a carrier to go to the vet; whatever it is, it’s going to need some people to work together.

How are your characters at working together? Does it come naturally to them, or do they struggle? What are they working together for?

Write a story about working together.

BONUS GOAL: “You’re not alone.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, January 12 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 286 – working together
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Torchwood: Fanfic: Newsworthy

A Handful of Communities!

WIP Big Bang International Fanworks Day Mini Bang 2026 - Schedule & FAQ

Planetary Alignment

US Politics: poetry: the sand in the gears

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #5

Small Fandoms Bang: A Small Fandoms Big Bang

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The 2025 Round Of WIP Big Bang & WIP Reverse Bang Is Officially Closed!

i am doing my best to be a helper

WIP Big Bang/WIP Reverse Bang 2025 - Posting Officially Closes At 11:59 PM PST

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