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FIC: Out of the Closet (2/2)

Out of the Closet (3867 words) by Luthien
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, David Hollander/Yuna Hollander
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, David Hollander, Yuna Hollander
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Episode Tag, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, David Hollander takes charge, Marriage Proposal
Summary:

Of the two of them, Yuna is the worrier. Everyone who knows them, knows that. David is the quiet presence in the background, ready with calming words, or a convenient shoulder, always the one providing sustenance —and, if the situation proves sufficiently dire, cracking open a bottle of wine. Or vodka.

That's the face they show the world, anyway.

The truth is a little more complicated. Yuna worries out in the open, wearing her concerns on her sleeve the way lovers—though apparently that word has fallen out of fashion when David wasn't looking—wear hearts. But David is a closet worrier.

David's perspective on the end of season 1, and beyond. He winds up making a suggestion that maybe only he can make.

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low-effort

LEP 22.3.

I cannot with these fucking Youtube thinkpieces of "does the internet rot your brain" and "is your lack of local friendships making you a less functional person" and "are impersonal relationships the downfall of society"

I'm glad none of you have been as profoundly lonely as I have, I guess, but I'm pretty sure my online friendships were healthier than your IRL ones before the pandemic, and I was not privileged enough to just sit inside while the world ground to a halt around me.

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Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak

One determined man struggles to save humanity from the mutant scheme to avert doomsday.

Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak

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comm promo

call of duty 🪦🕊️ kinkmeme

a kinkmeme for the call of duty franchise at large with a specific focus on dead dove content.

there's a sister community on pillowfort as well; i'll be doing my best to mirror prompts between the two

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would love to see you there 🙂‍↕️

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Sunday reading

Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/03/22/sunday-reading-39/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=73456

"There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/03/22/sunday-reading-39/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=73456

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tv:deadloch

spoil deadloch s2 for me

In one (1)!! specific way — I suspect I already know the answer to this, because unlike most of fandom I did actually watch the season 1 that the Kates gave me and not the season 1 in my head, but new season new possibilities however extremely slight for disappointment!

Anyway, does s2 end with Cath and Dulcie still together y/n.

('Kimara can't you spoil that for yourself' not without seeing both shitty opinions on Cath and also spoilers for other things, so I don't wanna.)

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just one thing

Just one thing: 22 March 2026

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

weekend

Weekend was crazy busy, and I ended up with a spoons crash on Sunday midafternoon. Ended up skipping church.

It was a really good weekend, though.

Mind you, it's now quarter to ten and I'm not yet in bed.

Going now.

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Heavy Mist

A light mist is when we can't see the hills on the far side of town. A heavy mist is when we can't see the town.

This morning there's a heavy mist. But perhaps the sun will burn it away.....

Last weekend we were very busy, gallumphing all over the Midlands. This weekend we are busy enough. On Friday we drove up to Basingstoke to see an exhibition of women's art that my sister had curated at the Willis. Yesterday we were househunting in Eastbourne with and on behalf of Wendy and Mary.

There are lots of artistic women in my mother's half of the family. I have on display around the house a couple of accomplished still life watercolours by my great-grandmother, a number of wood carvings by my grandmother, one or two ceramics by my mother and several paintings by my sister. Four generations of female artists in a direct line....

Today at the Meeting House one of our chaps is starting a discussion group which he's calling (I think) Quaker Explorers. He wants us to talk about the deep stuff. In his other life he's a psychotherapist....

(no subject)

If you have a friend or family member is a fan of a hockey team in the Pacific Division, please check on them.

(I haven't even checked the scores or standings, just seen the reactions and something about an Oilers player putting out a statement about a loss)

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Sharing my planner

Hi! I'm new here! A little late but sharing pics of my planner, it's a custom pre-printed from So Typical Me (as I said in a comment here, I'm a creative person trapped in a body that can't draw for s*** so I like preprinted, though I'm sad at the same layout EVERY week. Oh well)

( Planner )

(sorry if I haven't tagged this properly

Spring Broke

Posted by Bill Amend

http://foxtrot.com/2026/03/22/spring-broke/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spring-broke

https://foxtrot.com/?p=6009

http://foxtrot.com/2026/03/22/spring-broke/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spring-broke

https://foxtrot.com/?p=6009

(no subject)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260321.html

Spiral NGC 1300 and elliptical NGC 1297 are galaxies that

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260321.html

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Select Seeds Order

My seeds arrived from Select Seeds.

Painted Tongue 'Select Superbissima Mix' (seeds)

Yarrow 'Flowerburst Red Shades' (seeds)

Coreopsis 'Corusco Cream-Red' (seeds)

Current Mood: busy

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Prairie Moon Order

My Prairie Moon seed order arrived today. :D

Early Figwort (seed)

Late Figwort (seed)

Common Ironweed (seed)

Purple Love Grass (seed)

Lead Plant (seed)

tangent from the ballet questions

Is there a retelling of Sleeping Beauty (the general plotline, not the ballet specifically) in any media that deals with the whole castle being asleep for a hundred years?

Like, I assume that A Castle is a significant economic unit, and having it fuck off behind a hedge for five generations, and then pop back into life has some effects on the surrounding countryside? (I guess in the ballet they put the whole kingdom to sleep? WHICH I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT!)

Like your daughter is a maid in the castle, then poof! behind a hedge! But then she's back to meet her great grand nieces?

What if you had a financial relationship with the castle?

What if the neighbouring duke or whatever wanted your land? I assume he'd just take it, at that point, but then poof! the castle's back?

But also, the fey showing up and doing things seems to be normal and expected in this universe, so maybe people are just used to it, and have contingency plans for people stuck sleeping behind a hedge for five generations?

Anyway, is there like a novel that deals with this? If not Sleeping Beauty directly, then something similar, where it's a whole bunch of people forming a significant political and economic unit essentially yeeted out of time for a hundred years?

(Hard no on anything that involves the rapey version of Sleeping Beauty.)

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"it's just an ordinary day, and it's all your state of mind" (great big sea)

♥ Garden update:

Holding steady with 8 out of 22 dahlias sprouted at the two-week mark. (They're gonna need more space and more light.) 2 of 3 canna boxes are still sleeping; I will probably give up and pot some of the more reckless from the top box tomorrow. (They don't need as much light as dahlias, and I do have extra soil, if not space.)

Cleaned up some leaves and old pumpkins from the side and dogwood gardens today, pruned the crabapple and montauk daisies yesterday. Still watching the maybe crocus/scilla sprouts in the rock garden, no further evidence at this time. (Now I am even side-eyeing the chiondoxa: maybe it's daffodils this year! Who knows! Apparently not me.)

( pictures )

♥ Miscellaneous notes:

What America Could Learn From Asia's Robot Revolution, article adapted from Candi K. Cann's book augmented. I found the "conclusion" particularly memorable:

"To me, this is the crux of why Americans have such a hard time accepting robots and other new technologies into our everyday lives, and why our science fiction is filled with stories of humans versus robots. In the United States, robots are viewed as soulless, unlike in Asia, where they are viewed as soul-possible or soul-different. For those who cling to the notion of human exceptionalism, if robots could be viewed as sentient, then perhaps humans are not that special after all. Until we take seriously the ways in which our cultural and religious heritages inspire and impede our attitudes toward technologies, the development of these technologies will remain the realm of only a select few."

Finally, Duolingo has added "B2" levels to its Chinese course as A/B. For once I am on the exciting side of A/B testing, so I got to bump my level from 100 to 130 yesterday. According to last year's Duocon, there are no current plans to add further content after B2, but Duolingo has defined levels up to C2/160.

What does this mean? idk, but probably owls all the way down.

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Current Location: The tropics

New to dreamwidth!

Name: Mint

Age: 22

I mostly post about: Daily life and hobby updates

My hobbies are: I enjoy Vocaloid music, Vtubers, Anime/manga, literature, birdwatching, knitting and crochet, playing rhythm games. I'm also a programmer and may bring up tech stuff occasionally. I'm learning to draw.

My fandoms are: Current hyperfixation is NBA (go Nuggets). I keep up with F1 casually. I follow paleontology and aviation news. Currently reading JJBA, Chainsaw Man, slowly watching Dark Winds. Check my About Me sticky for the full list of stuff.

I'm looking to meet people who: Are also writing personal journals and forming community. Besides that, people who write or read more structured content. Such as personal journal, hobby updates, recipes, guides, media reviews, short stories. Bonus if you're posting outside of America (I'm from Southeast Asia myself).

My posting schedule tends to be: Few times a week.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Obviously don't be bigoted, though I assume most people on this site aren't. Probably won't come up often, but I'm not a big fan of people who post inflammatory or reactionary takes.

Before adding me, you should know: I will probably be posting about experiences with mental/physical health stuff, as I am AuDHD and am working through cPTSD. It won't be my main topic, but just a heads up that some of my posts will be heavy, and they'll have a content warning if they are.

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Daily Happiness

1. It's still supposed to be unseasonably warm next week, but today seems to be a little break in the weather. When I went out for my walk this morning, it was a bit foggy (though it had burned off by the time I got home), and then while it was sunny for a while midday, around 2pm it got overcast again and has stayed that way. It was really foggy again when we took our walk tonight, too.

2. I made a rhubarb pie earlier and we're going to have some of that for dessert. We still have a bunch of baggies of chopped rhubarb in the freezer from when we were buying it from the farmers market last year lol.

3. Ollie loves to snuggle on my clothes. :)