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Ever wondered how I churn out so much rhyming poetry?

Meet my beloved RhymeZone.com, extensive rhyming dictionary.

Also endorsed by Florence Welch and Seth Meyers, quite recently, in a charming interview.

Waking up to the news that the SCOTUS had issued a stay, pausing the lower court's requirement that SNAP be fully funded, really made my rage spike first thing in the morning. Then I learned that it was Justice Jackson (D) acting unilaterally, and I was confused as all fuck.

This Substack has an attempt at an explanation that makes it make sense: Justice Jackson issued the stay for right now on partial funding to pressure everyone -- lower courts & SCOTUS -- to come to a final decision on full funding faster.

I am so pissed off that millions of people can't buy food because of this stupid political keep-away game, but at least there is a method to the apparent madness of Liberal Justice Stays SNAP Payment Order. Mind you, it's goddamn complicated, so the chances of anyone in the media explaining it clearly in a soundbite aren't great.

As the courts battle it out, people in the US are going hungry, and food banks and food pantries are stressed to the breaking point. If you make a donation of at least 25 USD to a food bank or food pantry, you can prompt me to write for you. Please flood my inbox with requests!

Thanks to jenab and senmut!

As of today, with 1325 works:

1. What rating do you write most fics under?

General Audiences - 623; Teen and Up - 274 is the second, which is not even close.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
DCU (292)
Star Wars (187)
Cabin Pressure (64) (almost all limericks from Sept 2025)
Honorable Mention: Slings & Arrows (63), which is at least not all five-line poetry

3. What is your top character you write about?
Obi-Wan Kenobi (137)
Bruce Wayne comes in second at 131 but I never did a Kinktober in DCU fandom, and I've done two in Star Wars mostly-Prequels fandom.

4. What are the 3 top pairings?
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (85)
Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne (43)
Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker (22)
Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (21)
Gene Hunt/Sam Tyler (20) (included for variety)

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabble (474)
Limericks (202)
Poetry (85)
You don't get a non-format one till Identity Porn (22), Psychic Wolves (19), and Oral Sex (18).

The rumor that I posted this one just to be able to tag it is False; the things I will do for Jack and Té are numerous.

In which Obi-Wan is a tortoiseshell cat (27 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Whomever It May Concern
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Limericks, Isekai and Transmigration, Animal Transformation, Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Pussy, Obi-Wan Kenobi has a pussy, Cat Obi-Wan Kenobi
Summary:

Obi-Wan gets isekai'ed into a kitty cat and gets laid.

Mid-December 2023, I was chatting with petra and got an idea for the next novel I could write.

Tonight I sent them the last part of the shitty first draft of said novel, where I simply told myself the story.

Whether it'll be this fast to get through the editing remains to be seen; mostly, I'm tickled that I can pinpoint the date and time, and the exact conversation that helped kick it off.

Having now made soufflés, I can't see what the big deal and the fuss is all about with them. They're difficult the way risotto and yeast-based breads are difficult: it's all in the technical details. Once you've mastered those, you're fine. I was fine even whipping the egg whites with only one whisk on the electric mixer because I couldn't find the other one, even when I had to leave them for a few minutes while I got the simmering water ready, even when the oven somehow turned off and I had to leave them sitting in the water bath an extra half-hour while it heated back up. They didn't puff up as much the picture promised, and they were astonishingly fragrant. Cakes on top and custards in the middle as they're supposed to be.

It's not something I'll make all that often - I made them today as recipe testing for one of my clients - and it's something I'm not going to be scared of, if I'm ever called on to do so.

Thank you to sanguinity and ride_4ever for donating to your local food banks/pantries! This post has details on how to get me to write for you next by donating.

Party foul (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slings & Arrows
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Darren Nichols/Geoffrey Tennant
Characters: Darren Nichols, Geoffrey Tennant
Additional Tags: Drabble, Shakespearean Comedy
Summary:

Darren and Geoffrey celebrate Halloween during university.

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Still I think I've been overpaid (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Elizabeth Burke, Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Additional Tags: Drabble, First Time
Series: Part 2 of Can't be bought or sold
Summary:

El, Peter, and Neal get naked.

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In persistent music news, Golden from KPop Demon Hunters is chasing me around the city to a degree that I haven't experienced with a song since I spent a lot of time in doctor's office waiting rooms during the peak of Let It Go-a-rama. I heard it in two different places today. I'm not sure which is going to prove to be more persistent outside my head; I still don't know what all the words to Golden mean, and it's not because I don't know how to find out.

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I have been listening to The Expanse via audiobook.

( Spoilers for Tiamat's Wrath's first couple of chapters )
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Goodbye and good riddance to Dick Cheney and Andrew Cuomo's NYC mayoral bid!

Genuine cheering and plate-banging outside my apartment right now is proper celebration on the mayoral race. I'm still a little disappointed I couldn't work the polls today, because it'd have been wonderful to be in the room, but this will do for now.

Other good things of the day really pale in comparison to someone who wants there to be poor people in New York City, because a healthy metropolis is one where people of all stripes thrive. Bring it.

I'm only a little disappointed I'm not working the polls tomorrow. Only a little, because as much as I'd wanted to get out and participate, I know calling off was the right thing to do. I'm coming off a nasty cold - four negative rapid tests since last Wednesday night, including one this afternoon, seem reasonably trustworthy - and while I'm mostly recovered, working the polls for the full duration tomorrow wouldn't do me any good. It's hard enough when I'm completely healthy.

What I'm finding amusing about this is one of my clients reached out and because I'm not working the polls and the physical demands will be significantly less with far fewer hours, I'll be working with her tomorrow afternoon, which means I've basically gone from the public to the private sector.

I called the library beforehand to ask when they took donations for the book sale, and how much I could provide. I followed directions on time, but not so much on volume - they got what they got, which was mostly what I'd bought from them over the past couple years. Nearly all of it was DVDs, CDs, and Blurays where I kept telling myself I didn't want the object, I wanted what was stored on the object. It was lovely to get this movie or that album, and now that I had what I wanted on my computer, I didn't need the object anymore. It was nice to grab all four seasons of Black Sails and the whole series of Fringe, and I don't have the space around my apartment to keep those with what I've already got on the shelves. Especially when I haven't yet gotten around to watching the shows. Soon, in due time. But keeping the objects of the box sets around won't help.

All that, and it's nice to get a few square feet of floor space back. Enough to notice, which is enough to make me want to keep going. Do another book cull, drag those clothes to the donation bin. Say "goodbye and thank you" to the stuff that isn't giving me anything but nostalgia. And maybe see about which extant box sets on my shelves are objects I want for the particular value they have as objects. Is it "the value of the object qualia object"? I'm sure there's a term for it.

It's been rather a while since I went to the theatre with anything like the frequency I used to pre-lockdown, and it feels a little like I've been trying to catch up over the last month!

( Eddie Izzard's Hamlet )

( The Importance of Being Earnest )

( Hamilton )

( Born With Teeth )

( The Producers )

One Big Beautiful BS -
that the sludge of the past could ever be forever burned without consequence

Whose bones are they breaking today
drilling out the marrow of our good earth
emptying out communities to collapse in upon themselves?

perhaps they expect neighbors will be eating neighbors the very next day
all these hoarders so eager to end good governance by the people, for the people

( boys in masks waving guns )

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Last edited: 01Nov25


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Tonight was my and my dad's last Friday night rooftop cider of the season. There's still going to be Friday night ciders - splitting a bottle, catching up, having a good time chatting - and with the nights coming earlier, it's going to happen in the apartment instead of the roof. I don't mind too much, not with how dark it was when we got there or how much darker it was when we went back down. It was honestly quite nice to look around and realize this was the last one. Nothing too special about it, no world-class cider or magnificent thoughts, just a good bottle and a nice time.

Let me amend that: nothing too special about what we did, something quite special about the night in a low-key mundane way, paying attention to the ordinary moments. It was a lovely sunset, fast-moving gray-on-slate tufts and spots of clouds, and by the time we went in, it was dark enough the moon was the brightest thing in the sky. So we stopped to look at it for a while. Just past half-full, the clouds were moving eastward. Almost there, almost there, the wind and the angle taking them just below the moon, enough to light up but not what we were hoping for, waiting more, waiting, a large piece comes by and not quite and maybe this next one - and in front of the moon it went, bright as a star, and we kept oohing and ahhing until it'd passed and the moon was shining by itself again.

As ways to end a season, it's a pretty good one.

This post indexes my Kinktober limericks, all on the theme of Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker feat. Padmé et al.

It is my ambition for November not to post an average of two poems a day, and thereby hopefully retain the few stragglers who are still subscribed to me on AO3 after the last two months of constant limericks. 对不起不对不起 (Sorry, not sorry.)

If, on the other hand, I have to write drabbles and limericks for people who request them as food bank donation thank-yous, I will spam the crap out of the AO3 and all my subscribers can just deal.

Yesterday, for example, I posted 4 drabbles for people who informed me that they had donated at least 25 USD worth of food or money to food pantries and/or banks in their area. If you like my writing and you can spare a quarter-Benjamin, support the food-insecure people near you and request something from me.

I wrote the drabbles linked in this post for people who donated at least 25 USD in cash or in-kind to food banks. Hopefully the US federal government will not be allowed to stiff food stamp recipients, but if they try, many people will need support. My Wayfinder has good resource coverage near me, and may have useful information near you, too.

At her majesty's pleasure (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bloody Jack Adventures - L. A. Meyer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Underage Sex
Relationships: Ching Shih | Zheng Yi Sao/Jacky Faber, Jacky Faber/Jaimy Fletcher
Characters: Ching Shih | Zheng Yi Sao, Jacky Faber
Additional Tags: Drabble, Yearning
Summary:

Jacky wants to go home, but not just yet.

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When you lose control, it touches my soul (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser & Ray
Characters: Benton Fraser
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Murderbot Diaries Fusion
Series: Part 9 of SecUnit Fraser
Summary:

Fraser and Ray reminisce.

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Soup's on (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: Drabble, Awkward Conversations
Summary:

Gideon attempts to look after Harrow.

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I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Elizabeth Burke (White Collar), Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Additional Tags: Drabble, Seasonal Affective Disorder
Summary:

El, Neal, and Peter reflect on autumn.

Do you ever miss Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom circa 2014?

So do I.

Let Dira's latest (just posted) take you back, by way of a much more recent development:

Smile, and Smile, and Be a Lying Punk (980 words) by Dira Sudis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: The Frozen Smile of a Man Who Does Not Want a Baseball Jersey From His Favorite Team's Most Hated Rival, Post-Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Summary:

"They'd heard I liked baseball and, I don't know, somehow forgot that Brooklyn has never rooted for the Yankees and will never root for the Yankees, no matter if the Dodgers leave us to play on the Moon. But I didn't want to make a scene."