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Photograph of steel spoons and spices in a dramatic setting with added text that gives it the look of a gourmet magazine cover: September 2025. Food & Cooking, at Fancake. Steel teaspoons are arranged in an elogated oval to suggest a fish, with the bowls acting as scales and some of the handles left visible to create the fins and tail, giving the creature a spiky appearance. The concave bowls are dusted with a powdery orange spice for color and one spoon at the front of the fish is filled with a coarse black spice to create an eye. The fish is on a black surface with a rough texture and around it are three skinny green peppers, a mound of salt, a mound of orange spice, and a dipping bowl filled with a clear amber liquid.
It's farm to table—and every stop in between—at [community profile] fancake this month! Bring on over your recs for fanworks featuring hunting, farming, ranching, fishing, foraging, grocery shopping, farmer's markets, kitchens, restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, food carts, bars, wineries, breweries, waiters, bartenders, baristas, and, of course, cooking and eating.

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!

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A jaunt to town

Sep. 3rd, 2025 11:07 am
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Yay, I finally accomplished a task I've put off for a year. A trip to drop off a few items at the local Goodwill. The hold up has been carrying stuff down three flights of stairs. As it turned out, it wasn't as bad as I'd expected it to be. A very nice young man unloaded everything for me when I got there (one of the perks to dropping stuff off at Goodwill).

Now I have closet space!

Other accomplishment of note. I finally managed to write a story for [community profile] whatif_au bi-monthly prompt. It's always a goal, just one I have a hard time making. It just happened to fit the prompt for [community profile] sga_saturday too which was a bonus.



Heaven and Hell (2294 words) by melagan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Heaven & Hell, Angel/Demon Relationship, Pre-Slash, Friendship, Fluff
Summary:

Rodney is a demon stuck in Hell. The last thing he expects is to see an angel slouching in the doorway.



Now if I could just figure out what to write for [community profile] trope_of_the_month's coffee shop prompt.

The only coffee shop AU I've ever written is:
Moon Base Four

*sigh* Hardly your typical Coffee Shop AU. I don't know if I can or want to do 'typical'. It doesn't seem to be my style. :)

10 random facts about me meme

Sep. 3rd, 2025 02:39 pm
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Snaffled from various friends. Some of the following eccentric behaviour is only possible as I live alone. :)


1) I briefly got my hair done peroxide blond in my twenties. Proof. But mostly I dyed it auburn using henna. Chemists (pharmacies) in NZ used to stock packages of powdered henna back then - it was the seventies!

2) By chance, I have a lot of Nepali restaurants nearby - 3 or 4 within takeaway range. I love the chicken momos best (steamed Tibetan dumplings served with a romesco-chilli sauce). Yum.

3) I have a side table by my main armchair that's like a restaurant table set-up. It has a titanium spork (my main cutlery item), tissues, a kids' jewellery organiser full of tea bags, a long-stemmed sundae spoon, a small serrated kitchen knife, a cruet set with balsamic vinegar and garlic-infused olive oil, a pink-salt shaker, and jars/bottles of mango chutney, peanut butter, maple syrup, store-bought lemon juice, promite, and apricot compote. It cuts down on traipsing to and fro to the kitchen for stuff.

4) Since moving into my flat 2-3 years ago, I sussed out the ceramic cooktop but haven't been able to figure out the main oven controls. The landlord couldn't either. Haven't been able to intuit the electronic controls or find info online, so I use a toaster-oven instead, which works fine.

5) I have mild sleep apnoea that doesn't bother me as long as I sleep on my side. That's what my tricky right hip and left knee prefer, anyway.

6) I got fed up with bed-making, stuffing duvet covers, and getting tangled in layers of bedding many years ago. I just use one thinnish faux fur blanket (leopardskin pattern of course) with a faux-flannel backing. It's lightweight but surprisingly warm and I only need to add one extra light blanket a few times in mid-winter. So my bedding is a flannel sheet on the mattress and then the blanket. It's like being a Neolithic person using just a fur spread for bedding, but with more microfibres. I make the bed once a week before Fionna comes to clean my flat, and my elderly washing machine can just manage the blanket as a single load.

7) I haven't worn any shoes except crocs for over 20 years. Auckland's warm enough for that to be comfortable, and all "normal" shoes pinch my feet. I go barefoot inside, only rarely resorting to slippers on especially cold nights.

8) I've lived with one or more cats all my life until several years ago. I miss having a cat friend, but when someone recently offered me a nice adult boy they were trying to find a home for, I had to say no. There's a busy road only a stone's throw away and the neighbours drive up and down the driveway a few feet from my front door every day, so it wouldn't be safe. The flat's not set up for an indoors cat - the back door to the garage has no screen and it'd be way too hot in summer to keep it closed. But mainly, I no longer feel able to cope with the regular round of vet visits, emergencies etc. that come with caring for a cat. I'll make do with feeding the sparrows, and my duck visitors.

9) My first boyfriend when I was 17 was Dave, from a smallish town in Illinois. He was in my English class - an exchange student at my high school. We taught each other to play chess (badly) and sometimes actually did play it before Mum got home from work, but "playing chess" was mostly a euphemism for making out.

10) In my twenties to thirties I had a series of Morris Minor cars as they were cheap and I liked their quirkiness. Kiwis are good at repairing cars with NZ being harder to import to and local DIY culture, so you could get fixed-up Morris Minors fairly easily. I drove my last one from Christchurch up to Auckland when I returned from working overseas. I'd painted it with red, maroon, and gold swirls in the seventies, then in Auckland I sanded it off and repainted it bright yellow, with the chrome all done in black. Here's a cartoon I did of it back in the day.

yellow morris minor from front, black trim, woman driving it.

Suddenly, in Smallville...

Sep. 1st, 2025 09:12 am
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My Smallville fics have been doing modest numbers over at AO3 for weeks now, due to, I can only assume, the new Superman movie. I've never had my old fics gain such sudden and sustained popularity because of a new installment to canon; in fact, this didn't happen with the previous Superman movies. Not that I was paying attention, but didn't Zach Snyder release like three of them? Or the same one three times? IDK you hear things.

Anyway, it's delightful that people are finding and enjoying my Smallville fics even if I have no idea how they're doing it. It's not like they're going to end up at the top of any filter sorted by engagement....or date.
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There’s a line that’s been bouncing around my head ever since I picked up String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis. Wallace writes with this breathless, analytical intensity about watching players - their movements, their psychology, their impossible skill rendered into language so sharp it almost cuts. And what struck me is: this feels so much like reading fandom meta.

Not just match reports, not just journalism, but long-form meta. You know the kind: 3,000 words on how one player adjusts their stance under pressure, or how their rivalry with another player has this Shakespearean weight to it. The kind of thing that slides between gifsets and headcanons and actual technical breakdowns because all of it feels necessary to capture what you love.

And the thing is - this isn’t new.

In ancient Rome, fans used to carve their favourite charioteer’s name on their gravestone. They literally wanted to be remembered through their fandom. They bought vials of gladiator sweat (no, really) to keep like holy relics. They painted graffiti in stadiums, catalogued stats in painstaking detail, and shouted themselves hoarse for their team colours. The only difference between then and now is the medium: from stone walls to Tumblr dashboards, from sweat vials to match-worn shirts.

What Wallace is doing in String Theory isn’t so different either. His essays are part analysis, part poetry, part love letter to the sport - the same impulses that drive people to write sprawling livejournal posts about Aragorn’s arc in Lord of the Rings or to make 50-slide PowerPoints about why their ship dynamic works. He’s putting language around awe. Around obsession. Around the feeling of watching someone do something unbelievably human and larger-than-human at the same time.

So when I read him going deep on Federer or Michael Joyce, I don’t just see a writer explaining tennis. I see fandom-as-practice. I see continuity: from Roman sweat vials to Wallace’s reverent adjectives to that one gifset you keep reblogging because it perfectly captures the way your fave moves like liquid light across the court.

Sports fandom has always been fandom. And String Theory is just another text in the endless library of people trying to make sense of love and skill and spectacle with whatever tools we have to hand. Sometimes it’s chisels. Sometimes it’s gifs. Sometimes it’s a writer with a dictionary in one hand and an obsession burning in the other.

Fannish Fifty #33: Poor Stargate!

Aug. 31st, 2025 10:55 am
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I spent the weekend at a performing arts camp where most of the people were in their 30s (to the best of my limited ability to estimate) and it made me realize how much Stargate hasn’t continued as a franchise known to the public like Star Trek and Star Wars.

The camp literature said to wear clothes that we didn’t mind getting dirty, so I brought 3 Stargate Atlantis shirts, figuring they were 22-24 years old, I'd look fannish but I wouldn't cry if something happened.

My first 'huh' was being introduced to one of the camp directors who looked around 35 and he asked who was on my shirt. "Stargate," I replied, which received only blankness. "It’s a show, like Star Trek," was an explanation that didn't help much. He was likely a kid in elementary school when Stargate SG-1 was on, so could have seen it but clearly didn’t. IIRC, it had started on HBO and moved to syndication so might not have had the widest audience.

Then Sunday morning having breakfast with two women, also I think in the 30s, and one woman was suddenly, "Bob! Bob is on your shirt!" And yes, it was a season 5 shirt, and she knew Robert Picardo from other shows, and sorta vaguely thought he’d been president on Stargate, right? So I explained his role, and then since we were looking at my shirt, pointed out Jewel Staite, who the other woman loved from some kids show that she’d been on. These were fannish people, we’d already talked about conventions, but there was very little recognition of Stargate.

I realize now I should have pointed out that Aquaman was also on my shirt, to see if they knew Jason Momoa had worked with Bob and Jewel. Possibly not. They may only know him as Aquaman.

Thinking more, I realize all the random times I’ve been in stores where there is a variety of designs, card stores or socks or whatever, there often are Star Trek or Star Wars options. Not Stargate!

Poor Stargate! A couple of years ago, there had been reports of a reboot coming from TPTB of the original movie. I was a bit ambivalent about it, as the plan seemed to wipe out SG-1 and Atlantis, which would be heart breaking. Now I hope it does happen, whatever brings the franchise back to life! I wrote a lot of McShep, I’d love to see new interest in the shows. Or at least awareness!

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