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Title: We made a deal
Created by: digthewriter
Fandom/Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: G
A/N: Created for enchanted_jae JMDC - JUNE 2025 "DEAL"

( We made a deal )

Jasper's surgery is in six hours.

I am a mess of anxiety.

We won't know until about 3 weeks or so if this time they got all of it. Last time they didn't know it was cancerous and the cancer was all the way into the margins.

I hope they can get the cancer out. I hope he'll forgive us for putting him through another surgery.

I hope he won't stop cuddling me or purring on my shoulder while nesting onto my boobs for a nap. Crossposted on IJ/LJ/DW.

Quote:

"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."

"The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious"

~ Uta Hagen



Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Wisconsin :

Footville - Named after Ezra Foot, Wisconsin state politician and founder of Footville. (There is a weird image in my head of everyone walking everywhere.)

Bluff Siding - Named from rocky bluffs near the town site. (The name screams land/rock slides to me. Pictures look pretty, but ptetty doesn't mean safe.)

Quote:

"I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky."

"If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier"

~ Gene Wilder



Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

West Virginia :

Odd - This town got its name when residents decided on something “unusual”—and settled on “Odd”. (Well, that's unique.)

Jumping Branch - Simply named because the residents had to walk across a log to get to town. (Personally, I feel Limb Walking would be more accurate.)

Quote:

"Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing."

"Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do."

~ Maurice Sendak


Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Washington :

Pend Oreille - Pronounced PAWN-do-RAY, named after the Pend d'Oreilles tribe, who in turn were ostensibly named for large shell earrings that members wore. (I tried looking up their earrings or jewelry and found nothing. Which is a shame, because I used to work with seed beads and liquid silver.)

Humptulips - Was the name of a band of the Chehalis tribe who lived in the area. (Yup, I usually keep quiet on Indigenous names, but my perverted mind came up with some scenarios! Just saying...)

I am so anxious today. My chest hurts. My tongue is numb.

I have a valid reason for my anxiety. Jasper's surgery is soon. This Thursday. I am so afraid. I regret Miso's surgery last year. Even though it was the best chance we had of him living to see six years of age. Unfortunately he was one of ten percent of cats who don't survive multiple urinary tract blockage followed by PU surgery.

This is a different thing but in some ways it's the same. Money is tight. The cat is ill and it all comes down to this treatment.

I also feel bad they have to open the healed area to reopen it. But even if they'd found it earlier we would have had to wait because cats should not go under more than once in a month.

Especially a senior boy with kidney disease.

I want to believe they will successfully remove all the melanoma cells. That they will be successful.

That a few weeks from now I'll be blogging about something random maybe my thoughts on anime or books or literally anything with Jazzy beside me like he is right now. Nori and Boo next to him. My three cat boys having a sleep while their sister plots world domination for endless supplies of ice cream and macaroni noodles.

But I'm scared. Is it my anxiety disorder? Maybe yes? Maybe no. Crossposted on IJ/LJ/DW.

I'm finally caught up on comments!

Let's see:

Jasper has surgery on Thursday to hopefully remove the rest of the melanoma which hopefully isn't spreading elsewhere. The lab gave it a 20 percent chance of moving elsewhere. But then again the biopsy was an abundance of caution from the optometrist vet and only had a 15 percent or so chance of being cancerous.

Poor Jasper and I.

He's been in good spirits. His weight is back up but we'd like it if he'd gain a pound. He's a thin mint. He's been curling up and cuddling more since we had to evacuate in October because of hurricane Milton and that trend has continued. No hard feelings from the first surgery and that will hopefully continue with this second one.

I'm preparing for his surgery by trying to change my sleeping schedule so someone is with Jasper at all times. Ian doesn't have off work this time so it'll be a little trickier but thankfully he works from home.

Thinking about making a play pen type thing for him because he's unsteady and frail without meds but becomes extra unsteady on meds.

I got my birthday presents in the mail, and have happily enjoyed the manga for nichijou,
and looking forward to reading the two history books.

Spent some time playing dreamlight valley. Love the Cheshire cat!

I really need some new media my muse is pretty much dead.

Saw the gif of Billie Piper becoming the Doctor it's shame Doctor Who sucks and makes no sense otherwise I would be incoherent with delight. Love me some Billie Piper and in the hands of someone wanting to tell a good story you could do interesting things with that.

I think I'd pick a point and have the Timeless Child be a trap by the Master because that whole thing started the convoluted nonsense that is currently canon. Plus the Master being endlessly tortured as a child in order to have regenerations stolen from him would have made more sense. Given some depth to his crazy. A reason for him to destroy everything.

But supposedly it's cancelled.

Afraid to look at my friends page. Tumblr has been full of people lately that are cool with parroting terrorists phrases being cool with people being killed for being Jewish. I have blocked so soooo many people. Crossposted on IJ/LJ/DW.

Quote:

"Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way."

"Beginning today, make the decision to love and accept yourself just the way you are. Say your name followed by the words "I love you" and make this your daily mantra, repeating it often, especially during times of stress. Let it be your first thought upon arising and the last you think before falling asleep at night. This simple act of self-courtship can profoundly change your world. Try it for yourself and see. Make a personal decision to be in love with the most beautiful, exciting, worthy person ever - you."

~ Wayne Dyer


Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Virginia :

Dumfries - Named after Dumfriesshiire, Scotland — birthplace of its founder, John Graham. (Exactly what you would expect from one of the original colonies.)

Boogertown - Many theories on the name, I have favor the Old Timers Mountain Men telling stories about Boogers and Boogermen. (Ghost or hobgoblin; the devil.)

Quote:

"When you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you."

"Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been."

~ Joan Rivers


Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Vermont :

Bread Loaf - Situated near Bread Loaf Mountain (where it's assumed that it gets its name from.) It hosts Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Bread Loaf Inn. (I feel squishy and doughy right now.)

Mosquitoville - It is a small village surrounded by swampland. Yes, the name is true. They do try to keep the mosquito population down. (I feel itchy and a need to put up mosquito netting.)

Mods are Not Machines.

It's been years since I last modded a fest.

Today, I got passive-aggressively blamed for something completely out of my control, and I was reminded why I stopped modding in the first place. One person can ruin the entire experience.

Please remember…
+ You’re volunteering your time, coordinating moving pieces, and doing your best—and then someone decides to frame their own frustration as a moral failing on your part.

+ Weaponizing fairness in a situation that’s just imperfect because, you know, humans are involved.

+ Protect your energy. You’re running this show, and you’re doing it with care. One person’s passive-aggressive guilt trip doesn’t get to overshadow that.

I've cross-posted my April Shousetsu Bang*Bang story to AO3:

Biddable (5875 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s), woodwind virtuoso/amateur harpsichordist
Additional Tags: Musicians, Classical Music, Dorm Sex, Asian-American Character, Even shy harpsichordists get horny as all get out
Series: Part 5 of Being Extra to Nail All the Things
Summary:

Lucienne wasn't planning to attend the early music festival auction. But then Iggie Wei yelled out her name from the "Instant Gratification" table.

I'll round up my impulse Discord drabbles from the past couple of years at some point, but I did whip up (cough) a short danmei crack (cough) sequence at the start of spring:

Four Burials and a Beginning (505 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Yu Ziyuan, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Jin Zixuan, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Wen Ning | Wen Qionglin, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Zidian, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Jin Ling | Jin Rulan/Lan Jingyi
Characters: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin
Additional Tags: Sex Pollen, Parent/Child Incest, Suicide, (not of main characters), Fisting, Drabble Sequence, Animate Object, Crack, Half-Baked Dove, (more like 4/5 roasted), Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin-centric, Podfic Available
Summary:

Four times Jiang Cheng had sex under duress, and then the start of something different.

... and then, a day later, this shows up in my in-box:

Four Burials and a Beginning [Podfic] (13 words) by jennisaisquoi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Yu Ziyuan, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Jin Zixuan, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Wen Ning | Wen Qionglin, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Zidian, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin/Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Jin Ling | Jin Rulan/Lan Jingyi
Characters: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin
Additional Tags: Sex Pollen, Parent/Child Incest, Suicide, (not of main characters), Fisting, Drabble Sequence, Animate Object, Crack, Half-Baked Dove, (more like 4/5 roasted), Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin-centric, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, cold-ish read
Summary:

Four times Jiang Cheng had sex under duress, and then the start of something different.

As other commenters have noted, what's especially fun (and, for me, gratifying) about this podfic is the LMAO clearly coming through in jenni's take.

The irrepressible jennisaisquoi also honored me as the giftee for her 5-minute recording of westiec's "An Unlikely Partnership":

an unlikely partnership | End Racism in the OTW [Podfic] (13 words) by jennisaisquoi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian & Yu Ziyuan
Characters: Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Yu Ziyuan
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ghosts, Ghost Yu Ziyuan, Canonical Character Death, Body Horror, Wei Wuxian's Revenge Road Trip, Yu Ziyuan Riding Shotgun, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian is Not Okay, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3
Summary:

After the Burial Mounds, Wei Wuxian calls on the dead to help him take his revenge. Someone he doesn't expect answers.

Podfic of an unlikely partnership | End Racism in the OTW by westiec.

vinia recorded one of my all-time favorite Proper English-inspired fics, written by milliners, as a gift to me!

how much the heart can hold [podfic] (16 words) by vinia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: England Series - K. J. Charles
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bill Merton/Jimmy Yoxall
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download, Bill is so bossy, And Jimmy loves him for it, Hashtag Bill Merton Forever
Summary:

Bill and Jimmy work out what comes next.

And, also in England World (specifically post-Will Darling Adventures), MDZS mainstay kisahawklin found the Yuletide 2021 drabble I'd written for celli and recorded it, with a terrific cover by Rifle:

[Podfic] Foresight (15 words) by kisahawklin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Will Darling Adventures - K.J. Charles, England Series - K. J. Charles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Will Darling/Kim Secretan
Characters: Daniel da Silva
Additional Tags: yumadrin, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Post-Canon, Make the Yuletide Gay, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download
Series: Part 7 of Voiceteam 2025 Drabbles
Summary:

"Unfortunately, I have a very good idea of how he’d react if I offered to take him to a tailor." - Kim Secretan, in "How Goes the World?"

DS anticipates a opportunity.

This entry was originally posted at https://bronze-ribbons.dreamwidth.org/444158.html. I see comments at DW, IJ, and LJ (when notifications are working, anyway), but not on feeds.

Quote:

"I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back."

"When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us."

~ Prince


Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Utah :

American Fork - Settlers changed the name from Lake City to American Fork in 1860, after the American Fork River that ran through the town. (That's it, they'd had. Put a fork in it, it's done.)

Hurricane - which is pronounced "Her-a-kun" by local residents. Received its name after a whirlwind blew the top off a buggy in which Erastus Snow was riding. Snow exclaimed, "Well, that was a Hurricane. We'll name this 'Hurricane Hill'." (Well now, I think that a hurricane has a better chance of hitting the Dallas, TX area than land locked Utah.)

So we went to the vet on Wednesday to discuss Jasper's whole health with our primary vet. We trust him a lot because he's been our vet for 13 plus years now.

Our vet said that with Jasper's kidney disease (early stage 1) he wouldn't recommend going to an oncologist for treatments as both radiation and chemo may put to much strain on our boys kidneys.

He sent an email to our optometrist who did Jasper's surgery about the risks of going in again to try and remove the additional melanoma cells. And got back to us that day recommending the surgery to hopefully be able to remove the additional melanoma.

Apparently diffuse iris melanoma doesn't grow back often and it's risk of moving elsewhere is also low.

So next Thursday, Jasper goes back in for surgery.

Hopefully they can save him.

I want to have hope. I'm never ready to say goodbye to my cats. And I want Jasper to live as long as he can. To beat kidney disease and Cancer for as long as possible.

At the vet's office I also got to meet a five week old kitten, that our vet rescued! Omg she was the tiniest little thing.

Jasper than bit me in jealousy! I have my hands full with Jasper, Boo, Bitsy and Nori though! Crossposted on IJ/LJ/DW.

Title: Good Trouble
Author: digthewriter
Other pairings/threesome: NA
Rating: NC-17 / E
Word count: 1120 + Digital Art.
Content/Warning(s): Explicit. Use of drugs in form of a potion. As the prompt had requested.
Prompt: Harry's grown addicted to a highly illegal potion. Severus brews it for him, believing it is better Harry gets it from him than from anyone else. for SNARRY A THON 2025 }| snape_potter
Summary: Harry is addicted to a potion that only Severus can brew. Harry's addicted to a man that only Severus can be.

(AO3 LINK.)

Quote:

"Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment."


"I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting."

~ Betty White


Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Texas :

Gun Barrel City - Was formed in the 1960s and got its name from the old road leading into it, Gun Barrel Lane. Named because it was as straight as a gun barrel. (It's a smallish town and is loads of fun when the lake is full. I have been there when the weather had been so dry, you could walk across the lake and not get wet. Hoo doggy, did it stink, because of the dead fish. No fishing allowed that year. Late 1990's... I wasn't around in the 60's.)

Rainbow - The name is NOT in honor of the LGBT community. In the late 1890's a sudden thunderstorm happened during a town meeting to discuss the name. As suddenly as it had appeared, it stopped and left with a breath taking rainbow. They named the city after the beauty they had been graced with. (Texas is large and I was spoiled with an abundance of places to choose from. From the friendship state. Howdy.)

Title: Steady pressure and easy strength.
Created by: digthewriter
Fandom/Pairing: DRACO/RON
Rating: PG-13/R
WC: 1700
Summary: Even though Draco was self-sustaining enough to enjoy his birthday in solitary, he did end up treasuring the way the evening unfolded — a little messy and somehow exactly what he needed.
A/N: Written for Happy_Birthday_Draco_2025.

( Steady pressure and easy strength. )

Title: Fog of lost moments
Created by: digthewriter
Fandom/Pairing: TEDDY LUPIN/JAMES SIRIUS POTTER
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: Sad ending.
Summary: Teddy and James tried, but what was once a breath of fresh air has become a stifling mist of suffocation.
A/N: Fest: TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest 2025: Shades of Desire (A Fest That Blurs the Line Between Love and Obsession) | Prompt: Deep Purple — Artie Shaw & Helen Forrest


( art - fog of lost moments )

Quote:

"I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2."

"Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another."

~ O. Henry


Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

Tennessee :

Yum Yum - When asked what they should name the town, storekeeper John J. Garnett suggested Yum Yum after a popular sweet. Stating that there wouldn't be another name like it. (Not going to lie, my mind went automatically to Chinese food, not a sweet!)

Fudgearound - I couldn't find out much about it other than it's located in Coffee County along with Pocahontas. (Well, I guess I fudged around and found... Nothing.)

Quote:

"Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy."

"The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned."

~ Giacomo Casanova


Facts: (Unique Town/City Names)

South Dakota :

Blunt - Named after a railroad official John E. Blunt. (Nope, it wasn't because of a rolled doobie or being frank and straight to the point. Just a man officiating the road of rails.)

Akaska - No, it isn't Alaska misspelled. It is a word from the Sioux meaning 'Uncertain'. (I wonder if they were uncertain about the white man.)

Made an appointment to discuss Jasper's future with our vet. So tomorrow I'll know if he gets treatment or if the cancer is such that it'll be time to give my old man cat hospice cat.

Ob July 7th it'll be a year since my five year old cat passed away too.

I'm hoping that it's treatable but the fact that the eye removal didn't contain all of the mass that did turn out cancerous.

I'm not expecting good news. Crossposted on IJ/LJ/DW.