melagan: Coffee cup with Atlantis in the rising steam (Default)
melagan ([personal profile] melagan) wrote2025-09-03 11:07 am

A jaunt to town

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. :)
smilebackwards: jinx from arcane (jinx)
smilebackwards ([personal profile] smilebackwards) wrote2025-08-27 10:59 pm
Entry tags:

nothing could be that perverse without premeditation

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr. Humanity virtually annihilates itself via nuclear weapons and then goes through thousands of rebuilding years. This sounds really dark, and it is really dark, but also the abbots of the Order of Saint Leibowitz are very funny. I see why a lot of people have profound feeling about this novel.

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. I saw a couple of recommendations for this series on tumblr and it is indeed extremely fun! Aliens mine the Earth and send millions of people--including Carl and his cat Princess Donut--into what is essentially a Twitch live-streamed video game where they have to survive to escape. I'm not much of a video game person but it's still an accessible read.

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman. Continued adventures of Carl and Princess Donut! These books are 400 to 900 page bricks yet I am burning through them. Next!