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no_tags has been revealed so I can say I wrote We're Going Down Swinging which is technically Frank/Gerard and Mikey/Pete but in reality more gen with a nod to the pairings and involves battling to survive against aliens. The prompt called to me as soon as I saw it and I had a lot of fun writing it, and apparently was very me if you know my writing.

As always, huge thanks go to themoononastick for beta reading and encouragement when I was wobbling about the ending.

I know it's not exactly how the exchange works due to being anon, but thank you to dapatty for the lovely response to my prompt.

And in general, a well done to everyone who took part, the mods, the writers and especially the two pinch hitters who went above and beyond to get stories to everyone. ♥ to all.

It was Tinker's B12 injection day yesterday, so the plan was to attempt it when she was relaxed and chilled on my lap. That was attempt number two as my first thought had been to do it when she was lying on the cat tower against the radiator, at which point she usually turns into a limp fur rug. However, when I attempted to reach her she stuck her nails in the material of the tower, increased to double her size in stand up floof and then ran away. Then the lap idea didn't work either. Tinker Two. Terri Zero.

It's rained non-stop yesterday, so the porch roof was leaking again. But, if anywhere in the house is to leak, it's good that it's there as apart from having damp patches on the wallpaper and having to take a picture down that gets dripped on, there was no major issues. Though, I would prefer no leak at all of course.

Today I'm half considering going to a huge festive fair at the Stadium of Light, our local football stadium. One hand one, hundreds of stalls filled with festive goods, carol singers, entertainment etc. On the other, it's wet, it's cold, half the stalls are outside, plus, I'm a sucker at the best of time for market-style stuff, add in the festive element and I can see me coming home with bags of festive flavour cheese, artisan loaves and overpriced slices of cake, stuff we don't actually need and don't really have the money for.

I guess we'll see if I can resist the pull of festive magic.