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Soothing Noises from the BBC Shipping Forecast

The Met Office’s Shipping Forecast Key announces weather conditions in 31 areas around the UK. For internet users, real-time info is now available for each area via a handy-drop down

But it's the radio broadcast which has soothed me on many an anxious evening. Here’s five hours worth: https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM

They use a highly structured, compact format limited to 370 words:

Time and Date of the active forecast being read
List Gale Warnings current around the British Isles
General Synopsis
Area Forecasts, within each
- Location
- Wind direction
- Wind speed according to Beaufort scale
- Precipitation
- Visibility
Inshore Waters Forecast

The Beaufort Scale provides vivid descriptions of different wind patterns, as befits a tool standardized before radio or photography. For example,

Wind force 5, also known as "Fresh Breeze," is 29-38 km/h or 19-24 miles per hour or 17-21 knots. You can recognize this force when Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters. Moderate waves, many white horses. Probable wave height of 2.0 meters, 2.5 meters max, with a "sea state" of 4.

The newsreaders develop a very soothing rhythm—so consistent that many people have created "better sleeping through weather awareness" content on YouTube.

For radio nerds like me, nothing finer than this 30 minute deep dive: The Shipping Forecast: A Beginner’s Guide

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Current Mood: nervous

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Fic: Clean Session

Title: Clean Session
Author: blueraccoon/rebecca
Fandom: original characters, a/b/o tropes
Pairing: Will Greene/Jesse, aka original/original
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Summary: It's a weird system for weird biology. And it's very weird to realize your kid has to go through it.
Notes: The author's id, let her show you it. Or, rather: This fic is what happens when an author obsessed with worldbuilding tries to make sense out of a trope that inherently defies reality, but also wants to write smut.

This is the first thing I've posted to AO3 in eight years and it's fucking original a/b/o. I don't even know, y'all, but I've written more in the last two and a half months than I did in all of 2023 so I'm not complaining too much, and I think there's some nicely hot smut in there.

More notes over at AO3 explain how the universe came to be (tl;dr it's an AU of an AU of a ST:AOS fic but by this point there's no Trek in it whatsoever) so while you might not recognize anyone in this fic, this is actually the prequel to the main storyline and there might be a familiar face or two in that. The main storyline is written to a point; the problem is that it just kind of keeps going and I can't figure out where to cut it. I figured out a break point for the first story but I can't figure out where the second one should end. Once I figure it out I'll post. Assuming anyone cares about this.

Yeah, so. Be nice, I'm very out of practice.

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How is the writing going today?

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Forever Knight: FKFicFest 2025 (now releasing)

FK Fic Fest 2025

fkficfest | FKFicFest A03 Collection

fkficfest '25 is releasing!

We have 12 all-new Forever Knight fanfic stories this year. We're releasing one per day as long as they last to savor the goodness. So far, 4 are available to read! We're looking forward to 8 more!

Follow the reveals as they happen on our '25 AO3 sub-collection or DW community.

Do you remember Forever Knight (1992-1996) on CBS's "Crimetime After Primetime?" In local syndication? On the USA cable network or the original Sci-Fi Channel? DVDs? Streaming on Crackle, AppleTV, or Amazon? We still love our favorite vampire homicide cop and all his friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, and car. Come play with us!

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Fanfic, Minecraft: Story Mode, Romeo/Xara, Hanahaki Disease

Title: in her flower bed
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Minecraft: Story Mode (video game)
Pairing/Characters: Romeo the Admin/Xara
Rating/Category: Teen, Het
Prompt: Hanahaki Disease
Spoilers: Spoilers for the Admin's backstory if you haven't played season 2.
Summary: A retelling of the Admin betrayal, but Xara has Hanahaki disease.
Notes/Warnings: LOTS of angst, implied and on-screen character death. Fic is locked to Ao3 users only to avoid AI scraping.

Read it on Ao3 here!

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format: big bang/reverse big bang

Innocence: A D.Gray-Man Big Bang Update

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Fandom5K Pinch Hits due 28 June

Event: Fandom5K s a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum
Event link: Rules and FAQ on AO3
Pinch hit link: At the DW community
Due date: 28 June, with a required check-in during the week of 7-14 June

Pinch hits available:

PH 2 - Blue Lock (Manga), 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 5 - Temeraire - Naomi Novik, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

~~PH 7 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher~~

PH 8 - Path of Night (Podcast), Vampire: The Masquerade - Various Authors (Choice of Games), Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast)

PH 9 - 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 13 - The Elementalists (Visual Novel), Heart of Battle - Fay Ikin, Royal Affairs - Harris-Powell-Smith

PH 15 - Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games), Xenoblade Chronicles (Video Game)

PH 17 - Breaking Bad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), The Godfather (1972 1974 1990)

PH 18 - Ancient History RPF, Solstice (MoaCube Visual Novel), Crossover Fandom

PH 19 - Ace Combat (Video Games), Dishonored (Video Games), Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors

PH 20 - ATEEZ (Band), Blink-182 (Band), Men's Basketball RPF

~~PH 24 - Biggles Series - W. E. Johns, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Original Work~~

~~PH 25 - The Pitt (TV), The Faculty (1998), All Elite Wrestling~~

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ps longer letter later

things I wish to consolidate the cope to talk about

... include:

six months on from surgery: what's recovery looking like?
this is actually secretly mostly (but not entirely) about Pilates
grousing about getting the Framework actually set up Adequately under Debian (power management noooot doing what I want it to and the GPU seems to keep falling over; have not yet had time/brain to sit down with either the guide to Debian 12 or cross-referencing the way the Linux battery life tuning thread disagrees with the various guides for Ubuntu (which is an officially supported distribution)
What I Am Up To This Week

But everything is Very, so for now you just get the list.

Archaea

https://xkcd.com/3095/

FFA DW Post #2298 - He was a boy, I was a roach / Can I make it any more obvious?

He was a punk
I spread disease
What more do you need?

It was a dark and stormy night. I woke up and moved my antennae. Blorbeau and Blorbette were making out, and the path to the kitchen was free. The crumbs from their dinner were strewn under the table, ready to be devoured. My chitin exoskeleton shivered with antici-
pation.
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crafty things

Shirt update: shirt finished!

(Previous update here)
I did finish the shirt! Info below.
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FKFicFest: A Forever Knight Ficathon (now releasing)

FK Fic Fest 2025

fkficfest | FKFicFest A03 Collection

fkficfest '25 is releasing!

We have 12 all-new Forever Knight fanfic stories this year. We're releasing one per day as long as they last. So far, 3 are live!

Follow the reveals as they happen on our '25 AO3 sub-collection or DW community.

Do you remember FK on CBS's "Crimetime After Primetime?" In local syndication? On the USA cable network or the original Sci-Fi Channel? DVDs? Streaming on Crackle, AppleTV, or Amazon? We still love our favorite vampire homicide cop and all his friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, and car. Come play with us!

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prompt: #444 - wander

444. Wander - Original Drabble

Title: untitled
Original
Rating: T
Notes: warning for mental health issues

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[Prompt #444 — Wander] Metal Family — Things To Find Cute

Author: Audrelite Fandom: Metal Family Title: Things To Find Cute Prompt: #444 — Wander Rating: T Characters: Dee, Lif Word Count: 100 Summary: Lif is cute.

AO3 Link

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[Challenge #444: Wander] Friends: 'Reality'

Title: 'Reality'
Fandom: Friends
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to

anythingdrabble and

vocab_drabbles

( Reality )

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check in day 27

How is the writing going?

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Discussion: what is your favourite fandom to write in? the one you go back to the most.

(Might not be around for posting tomorrow as I'm travelling long distance straight after work.)

Tech/code question

I'm trying to write a scene where two co-workers are trouble-shooting a new custom security or encryption routine. Someone else (who isn't present) wrote the code and he will have been careful to ensure it works before sending it to them. So maybe something in the implementation of it?

The scene is dual purpose, showing their interaction growing closer while also hiding something else in plain sight. The tech part of it can be whatever is plausible and easy to convey without bogging it down in details. I am so out of touch with that sort of thing I don't know what's plausible any more.

What could go wrong with uploading the new code into their office network or onto their phones which would need a bit of trouble-shooting? The kind of thing one person might overlook and another catch. Preferably with them being literally close while they do this. And again - easy to convey without bogging it down in details. Jargon is fine.

Edit: Turns out jargon is not fine. Well it would be in the sense I meant, but that's not how it was taken. Am overwhelmed by how much I can't understand well enough to follow here, let alone distill into a few phrases. I know the readers for my lakorn-novel are non-existent but I can't swamp them with details.

Edit 2: Sorry to have bothered everyone. I'm just going to trash this. It was a stupid idea in the first place. Thank you for your time.