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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).

https://xkcd.com/3273/

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Thoughts on as to when our next FWF Event should take place. Feel free to share with any of your friends/flist who you think would be interesting in participating. Please answer the poll by July 26!

Poll #34838 Fall Firewhiskeyfic

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

View Respondents

When should we have our next Firewhiskeyfic event?

View Answers

August 21 or 22
6 (85.7%)

September 25 or 26
3 (42.9%)

October 16 or 17
5 (71.4%)

November 20 or 21
4 (57.1%)

Another date I'll share in the comments
0 (0.0%)

How likely are you to participate in a round this fall?

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100%
1 (14.3%)

quite likely
2 (28.6%)

probably
2 (28.6%)

not sure
2 (28.6%)

unlikely
0 (0.0%)

I'll leave a comment explaining
0 (0.0%)

Do you like the current format of Firewhiskeyfic?

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Yes
4 (57.1%)

Mostly
3 (42.9%)

Somewhat
0 (0.0%)

A little
0 (0.0%)

Not really
0 (0.0%)

I'll explain in a comment
0 (0.0%)

Ticky?

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Always
4 (57.1%)

Tick tock ticky
2 (28.6%)

Ticky ticky taffy
6 (85.7%)

Just say no ticky
1 (14.3%)

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Hello on Friday! Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?

- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or research
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?

- I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
- I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
- I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
- I'm going to take a break from writing

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Theme Prompt: #307 – A Good Day
Title: Better Days
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Every so often, there’s a day when it feels like everything is going their way.

( Better Days... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Title: Another Stolen Life
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Starsky and Hutch are at the scene of another homicide
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Challenge: Praise
Word Count: 425

( Another Stolen Life )

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Too soon? Whatever, the brainworms said it's time for another poll!

Poll #34836 Round 162 Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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When should we have Round 162?

View Answers

24-26 Jul
2 (20.0%)

31 Jul - 2 Aug
5 (50.0%)

7-9 Aug
4 (40.0%)

14-16 Aug
2 (20.0%)

21-23 Aug
5 (50.0%)

later in August
1 (10.0%)

later in later
1 (10.0%)

🐊🐊🐊
5 (50.0%)

look out ticky box!
6 (60.0%)

that's how they GET YA
4 (40.0%)

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These questions were written by

pebbleinalake.

1. Books or movies?

2. Indoors or outdoors?

3. Morning person or night owl?

4. Online messaging or physical letters?

5. Dragons or unicorns?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

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Title: In Praise of the Staff
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 331 words
Summary: My praise following my arm operation on Sunday

( Praise )

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Hello on Thursday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

- Excellent!
- Terrible
- Somewhere in between
- Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

- None
- 30 minutes or less
- 30-60 minutes
- 60-90 minutes
- More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?

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Hello, everyone. I’m

simplyn2deep and your host for the week. Today's theme is Meet Ugly.

We all know the classic meet-cute, that charming, romantic first meeting that starts a relationship. But today we're flipping the script! A meet ugly is a first encounter that's awkward, embarrassing, chaotic, disastrous, or just plain unfortunate. Maybe someone spills coffee, gets arrested, insults their future soulmate, crashes into them with a shopping cart, or mistakes them for someone else.

📌 Just a few rules:
✏️ No more than five prompts in a row.
🎭 No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
📝 Use the character's full name and fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
⚠️ No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option.
📚 If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut option.

Prompts should be formatted as follows:
[Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
🌺 Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, Steve crashes Danny's car during a chase before they've even properly introduced themselves.
🚓 9-1-1, Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Buck mistakes Eddie for someone stealing equipment from the firehouse and tackles him before realizing Eddie is the new firefighter.
🚀 The Mandalorian, Din Djarin & Grogu, Grogu steals a stranger's lunch with the Force, leaving Din to apologize while chasing after him.

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts 📚✨. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? 🤔 You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members 💙; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like 🔖 might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule ⏰, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays 🌿, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays 📅. Saturdays are a Free for All day 🎉. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications! 👀

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! 📣 comment_fic

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Challenge 307:
A GOOD DAY

Some days, things just go right.

The sun is shining, and the temperature’s nice, maybe with a light breeze. If you have to travel, the trip is easy – all green lights if you’re driving, a pleasant walk or ride if you’re not. Everyone you have to talk to is cooperative; even if the day started out rough, it’s getting better by the minute. This time, everything’s going to be okay.

How do your characters feel about having a good day? Are they suspicious, thinking it might be too good to be true? Do they just enjoy it? How often do they have good days?

Write a story about a good day.

BONUS GOAL: Everything’s Coming Up Roses

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

Challenge ends Monday, July 20 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 307 – a good day
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #306 – Heartbreak!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2600

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next week.

You may now post your Challenge 306 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!