Title: When You Say Nothing at All
Fandom: Miami Vice
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: G
Words: 290
Characters/Pairing: Sonny’s heart/Rico’s heart
Summary: No matter how much Sonny and Rico try to pretend they’re just friends, their hearts know different. It was always more.
Notes: Here’s a belated Valentine’s Day ficlet
“When You Say Nothing at All,” by Ronan Keating is ‘their’ song if ever there was one.


( When You Say Nothing At All )

used_songs posted this meme, and I thought it would be interesting to have a go.  Because I've decided to answer for myself (Me), our two adult kids (TS/TD) and my granddaughter, aka Mini Hobbit (MH), I'm splitting it into three parts over the next few days.

Adults responsible for your care actively helped facilitate your early learning. (Reading at bedtime, playing educational games, going to child-friendly museums...)
Me: Yes - I was read to, played card games etc, and was taken places although child-friendly hadn't really been invented then.  I do remember one gallery in the Science Museum in London with knobs to push and twist which was very exciting.
TS/TD: We always read to the kids, and they had educational games to play, which we played, and we went to various places, including seeing the mammoth in the National Museum Cardiff.
MH: Her parents have always read to her, played games and they go places like St Fagans National Museum of History

You had a library card.
Me: Yes.  My mother would take me to the library in the town and once they built a new branch literally down the road from us and I was a bit older I took myself.
TS/TD: Yes. We either visited the mobile library which came to the village or we drove up to the nearby branch.
MH: Yes.  TS takes her to their local library.

Adults in your life involved you in tasks that involved mathematical skills.
Me: No idea, but probably.  Both my parents were accounts clerks so were used to working with numbers.  I doubt they specifically considered that we did things involving mathematical skills, more that these things came naturally.
TS/TD: Again both husband and I worked with figures, so we tended to use them automatically rather than specifically.
MH: I don't know.  But she's doing fine with numbers at school so I presume she does.

If you started falling behind in school, you received help from a private tutor.
Me: I didn't, and if I had that wouldn't have been possible.
TS/TD: It turned out that both were better at practical skills than purely academic ones.  So we encouraged them in those areas.  Their basic skills were fine so we never felt the need to push, which since both were very determined, wouldn't have worked anyway.  When I saw a teacher to discuss TD's post-16 prospects he asked me what grades she needed to get for her GCSEs.  I told him and he said, 'and that's what she'll get'.
MH: As far as I'm aware she isn't.  The school have provided extra support for her handwriting.  (When TD had poor handwriting I resorted to bribery to get her to practise, which worked.)

You went to a well-funded school.
Me: I had standard state funded primary school, so have no idea.  I do remember they had a rebuilding project at my first infant school (in north London).  They knocked down one wall and we all had to stand on the other side of the playground - it was a while ago.  Secondary was well-funded.
TS/TD: Yes.  Their secondary school was well-funded and popular, which no doubt helped.
MH: Yes.  She's due to go to the same secondary school as TS.

17. Chinese New Year begins today, and festivities continue until March 3rd – the year of the Fire Horse. What animal are you born under in Chinese astrology?

I'm a water dragon.
Animal: Dragon
Element: Water
Polarity: Yang
Personality traits: ambitious, intelligent, and energetic. The water tempers the fire in the dragon. I'm supposed to be more calm, and flexible.
Compatibility:dragons are traditionally most compatible with the Rat and monkey, while often clashing with the Dog. My hubby of 56 years is also the Water Dragon. Dang it he's not a rat or a monkey. 😂 we probably won't last. Hahaha.

What’s something you wish others knew about you?

Most people know this but just in case I'll mention it tonight. I write children books. I have four published.

1. The Well-Mannered Giant. This one is a favorite of mine.
2. Ride, Rocky, Ride. Very cute one.
3. I Thought I Saw a Lion.
4. A Calf named Boo. My 2 year old great-granddaughter walks around the house carrying it and recites some of it as she walks. She's so cute. And that makes me feel so lucky.

I have six that I'm working on right now. They are going to be so dang cute. Has anyone else written children books? Mine usually rhyme. My grandkids always loved that part.

The old computer was unchanged this morning. I've gotten almost everything off it now. I forgot one file I wanted to grab, and two of them refused to go onto the flash drives, even zipped, claiming they're too big, and my initial attempts to transfer them by other means have failed; that's probably going to be a next weekend problem.
At least I have now completed one years-long endeavour: by far the longest podfic I have ever recorded. Editing it has been an education in itself. Though even now I'm now much better at getting rid of clicks and such, to remove all the sound glitches from this one remained impossible. I'll actually be testing out my new microphone by recording something a little shorter on it, and if it fixes that problem, it'll be worth it for that even if the whole streaming thing doesn't work out.

Title: In the Closet of Our Discretion
Author: firefright
Original Fic: here (Only viewable by registered AO3 users)
Fandom: Critical Role
Characters: Caleb/Essek, the Mighty Nein
Music: "Made You Look" by Peak & Pitch
Disclaimer: Characters from show. Original fic by firefright. Music isn't mine either.
Warning: Some reference to both these characters' issues. Also some very mild sexual content, enough to get the original fic an M rating.

Having a senior kitty with a disease is stressful.

And I don't mean the helping him clean his bum. Or the apoetite stimulant. Or the ordering of several different exoensive cat food varieties to see which ones please his majesty today.

He suddenly was super lethargic. Gums were still pink, his breathing was normal. Mine was not.

And suddenly it hit me.

Hes old. He has kidney disease he could die.

Obviously, age does not have to be a factor, Miso was only five when he died a year and half ago a grief that sometimes hits me just as hard as it did that first day.

I do not want to think about the day thats coming. I want to enjoy the silly Jasper things he does.

I do not want to borrow the grief that will come sooner than I would like. Both Mushi andvSebastian turn 15 this year. Bitsy turns 10 and Nori my youngest turns 6. Time is marching on.

I do not want to dwell and yet...

2026 60 questions meme
What are three qualities do you value most in life?

1. Kindness. If a person isn’t kind I have a hard time liking them. Kindness is so easy to have that I don’t understand why everyone isn’t. It’s not like it’s hard work. I think everyone can be kind but some choose the negative.
2. Honesty. I think we need honest friends and family. I would want to know I treated someone badly and left it like that. If someone is a good friend they’ll give you their opinion. Whether you like hearing it or not.
3. Helpfulness. We all need help now and then. So, when I see someone struggling I quickly go into the helpful mode. I think most people do.

What are your three?

Not quite 365 days questions meme

16. Do you own your own washing machine in your home, or do you use a laundry service/laundry room in the building or a launderette?

I haven’t been to a laundromat in 50 years at least. We have owned a home for that many years. I think once we were waiting for a handyman to fix our washer and we had to take everything down to laundromat. It sucked. It made me much more thankful.

How about you?

Present for makamu 

As I'm just watching this ep now.

Yeah, Rico wasn't the only one Sonny strung along... 😉 

He had issues, always choosing the ones who were all wrong for him (and often criminals). Gina and Rico should probably form a club.