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Feb. 8th, 2026 02:33 pm
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Earth still had seasons during its longest deep freeze

A planet locked in ice can still experience seasons, climate swings, and solar rhythms, according to new research. For decades, scientists pictured Snowball Earth as a long pause in climate history, with movement and change frozen in place.
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Title: First Love
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD) pre-retirement/Sussex era
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Prompt: journey
Summary: Holmes reflecting on his violin on the journey from London to Sussex.

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Feb. 8th, 2026 09:26 pm
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terriermon w a poncho

Birdfeeding

Feb. 8th, 2026 02:23 pm
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Today is sunny and chilly.  Large patches of ground are visible, but there are still large patches of snow too.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.












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A graphic over colorful art in shades of blue and orange. Text reads: February 13 - 15 2026 The Westin Boston Seaport District Boston Massachusetts. Boskone 63. New England Science Fiction Association. Boskone offers passionate fans, numerous professionals, and a great location.

It’s that time again: Boskone 63 will be taking place next weekend, February 13th to 15th, in Boston Massachusetts at the Westin Boston Seaport Distict!! This will be my third year running joining Boskone in the dealer’s room, and I couldn’t be more excited, especially because the artist guest-of-honor is Charles Urbach, whose work I’ve loved since I was hanging out annual in the Gencon art show starting 20+ years ago. Greg Cox, Stefan Rudnicki, and many other awesome folks will also be there – and I hope you’ll be there as well!

Join us at Boskone 63!


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[personal profile] potentiality_26 posting in [community profile] 100ships
Title: Red and Cold
Rating: Teen 
Type: Fic
Size: 200 words
Prompt: Arctic
Fandom: Frankenstein (2025)
Ship: Frankenstein's Creature/Elizabeth Harlander 
Warnings: Major character undeath. 
Notes: Also written for the Half A Moon prompt: The Innocent
Summary: More than a ghost.

Read it on AO3

4/100 (Table here)

Tags needed:
f: frankenstein 
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The children are playing Roblox* together, and there are many joyous shouts of "I've found a tunnel, go in the yellow one! I'll check the door!" from the next room. Clearly having a lovely time.

*Safe, from my understanding, so long as they talk to nobody and spend no money.
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[ If you're interested in being a Tuesday-Thursday guest host, you can sign up here. Thanks! ❤ ]
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Hey, sorry for the delay! 6^^;; Today is a Lonely Prompts day. ✎ If this is your first time at [community profile] comment_fic on a Sunday, you can either request previous prompts to be filled or share your recent fills for prompts. (Or do both, of course!) ✎

How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

Whichever you decide to do, prompt or fill (or both), please remember:
1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from a particular fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts in as many fandoms as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether it is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to wherever the prompt is in the community archive (whether filling or requesting), and, if you're filling the prompt, please post the fill as a reply to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom you've written it for (or if it's original!).
8. If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
7. If you've filled any lonely prompts in the past week, this is the place to share them!
9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this option here.

How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

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


A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.

Creator Reveals!

Feb. 8th, 2026 07:26 pm
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Hi everyone!

The 2025 Holly Poly collection is no longer anonymous! Did you like what you got and want to check out everything your gift creator ever made? Now's the time!

Thank you for participating! Be on the lookout for our Feedback post in the future.

The archive is not being closed, so please feel free to post any additional treats that you may wish to create (this also applies to anyone who needs to post a treat for eligibility reasons.)

Remember to kudos/comment on your gift before April 2nd 2026 to thank your gifter! (Per our rules, this is a requirement to participate next year)

As always, if you have any questions or issues, please e-mail us at holly.poly.exchange@gmail.com.


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Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25541
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Check-In Post - Feb 8th 2026

Feb. 8th, 2026 07:34 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: What is your favourite thing to make?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



Monopoly 2026 - Weekly Score 4

Feb. 8th, 2026 08:26 pm
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[personal profile] prisca posting in [community profile] fandom_empire
Posting for week 4 is closed now. Thank you to everyone participating this week.

Regular Challenge
We have had a total of 18 participants this week.

Maximum points:
[personal profile] peppermint_shamrock reached a maximum of 9 points.

Catching up:
[personal profile] endlesstwanted caught up with one week by using three tokens.

Team Challenge
Team Alpha
3 participants
22 team points in total

Team Omega
4 participants
line finished: red
3 participants earned some individual points for 'red' fills
21 team points in total


To check out all scores, have a look at the Google Highscore Sheet. If you find an error or have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

The playlist for week four will be online soon!

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Feb. 8th, 2026 07:40 pm
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[3] The Diplomat
[6] Heated Rivalry
[5] KPop Demon Hunters



Here at [community profile] iwillnotdance

Culinary

Feb. 8th, 2026 06:26 pm
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Last week's bread held out very well and there was even enough crust left to cut up and fry with onion and garlic to make frittata for Friday night supper.

Saturday breakfast rolls: basic buttermilk, 3:1 strong white/buckwheat flour (I was actually going to do rye, but it was rather long past its best before).

Today's lunch: this was actually a change of plan, because for last night's evening meal we had Waitrose Slow-Cooked Gammon Shank which turned out to be Rather A Lot, so quite a bit left over, which I therefore recycled into a sort-of cassoulet-type-thing with Belazu Judion Butter Beans, garlic, thyme, and panko crumbs; served with tenderstem broccoli tips, trimmed fine green beans and chopped Romano peppers white-braised, but with lazy chopped ginger rather than star anise for a change, and chestnut mushrooms sauteed somewhat after the recipe in Dharamjit Singh's Indian Cookery, with onion salt, ground black pepper, basil, a dash of cayenne, and lime juice.

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Title: Heal What Has Been Hurt
Fandom: Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons (crossover fandom)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings/Spoilers: mentions of death, trauma, and kidnapping
Summary: Sometimes, nothing can make it stop hurting. But having three friends who are just as messed up as you can help. [Modern AU with them all as high school classmates, hurt/comfort and friendship-focused. Oneshot.]

AO3 link here, DW link here.

Please add tags for: rise of the brave tangled dragons, brave, rise of the guardians, how to train your dragon

Thank you!

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