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Challenge 88: Reverse Fandom: Law & Order

This month's challenge is:

Reverse Fandom: Law & Order

Click on the challenge, pick any episode title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!

Reminder of Rules

Entries can be any length you like. You can post as many entries to each challenge as you're inspired to write.
If posting direct to the community, please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Category, Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your fic, though you can if you like. Please include the song or episode title you use in your header.
Suggestions for future challenges are welcome on the Questions & Suggestions post.
There is no deadline for entries.

Have fun!

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Happy birthday,

owlectomy and

talking_sock!

Ellen DeGeneres

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ellen_DeGeneres

"What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ellen_DeGeneres

Will Rogers

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Will_Rogers_

"That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Will_Rogers_

Niels Bohr

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Niels_Bohr

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Niels_Bohr

Flip Wilson

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Flip_Wilson

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Flip_Wilson

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fic rec,
meme

half a league, half a league, half a league onward

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Superman [2025]

Superman (2025)
[ david corenswet ]

[ here @

axisandallies ]

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Murderbot fanvid: I Lived

Okay, vid-source-assisting enablers, your reward is here. ♥

Watch on YouTube

With every broken bone, I swear I lived. Team/family vid. (Contains some sci-fi violence as per the show, and canon pairings in the background, but it's mostly focused on team + Murderbot.)

Song: I Lived
Artist: OneRepublic
Length: 03:57
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67565471
Tumblr: here

Having made this in a fit of exploding feelings today, I plan to get subtitles/downloads up soon (as soon as I remember how to do all of that; it's been ages since I made a vid!).

Temp download: Download from Dropbox (286 Mb, it's huge)

Unsolved Physics Problems

https://xkcd.com/3115/

'Tin pest' makes more sense to me. Tin just doesn't want to be locked down in a shape like that. I get it. But why would any metal want to grow hair??

https://xkcd.com/3115/

When the Flatwoods Monster Visited West Virginia

Posted by Miss Cellania

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/14/When-the-Flatwoods-Monster-Visited-West-Virginia/

In 1952, a flying saucer was seen streaking by near Flatwoods, West Virginia. A group of seven people went to find the crash, and were confronted by a space alien, ten feet tall and wearing a metallic dress, with bright glowing eyes. They didn't stick around long enough to find out any more about it. Over time, other witnesses came forward who had also seen either the UFO or the strange being. Mind you, this was at the height of flying saucer sightings, and there were plenty of movies that featured space aliens in the early '50s. The Flatwoods incident drew more than its share of publicity and investigation, but no one could fully explain what happened. The original seven witnesses were in close agreement about what they saw, and logical explanations have come up short. The story became so ingrained that there is now a Flatwoods Monster museum in that town.

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/14/When-the-Flatwoods-Monster-Visited-West-Virginia/

Current Music: Martha, "1978, Smiling Politely"

Unread books on dusty shelves tell a story of their own

Because I am more familiar with the operas than the film scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold and tend to avoid even famous movies with Ronald Reagan in them, it took until tonight for me to hear the main theme for Kings Row (1942), at which point the entire career of John Williams flashed before my eyes. Other parts of the score sound more recognizably, symphonically of their era, but that fanfare is a blast from the future it directly shaped: the standard set by Korngold's tone-poem, leitmotiv-driven approach to film composing, principal photography as the libretto to an opera. I love finding these taproots, even when they were lying around in plain sight.

I don't think that what I feel for the sea is nostalgia, but I am intrigued by this study indicating that generally people do: "Searching for Ithaca: The geography and psychological benefits of nostalgic places" (2025). I am surprised that more people are not apparently bonded to deserts or mountains or woodlands. Holidays by the sea can't explain all of it. I used to spend a lot of my life in trees.

I napped for a couple of hours this afternoon, but my brain could return any time now. The rest of my week is not conducive to doing nothing. The rest of the world is not conducive to losing time.

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Trick or Treat MJV Week [Oct 3rd - Oct 9th 2025]

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#Lysiclaude2025Bingo starts this week! (7/17~24)

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The Dangers of AI Therapists

Posted by Miss Cellania

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/14/The-Dangers-of-AI-Therapists/

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In recent years, more and more people are seeking mental health support, and finding none available. Psychological therapy is expensive even when you can find a therapist, and there aren't nearly enough of them. Who will step into the gap? Artificial intelligence algorithms, that's who. Using chatbots as therapists is becoming more common. But are AI chatbots any good at it?

Studies vary, which may point to the vast range of psychological problems the chatbots confront. A recent study from Stanford University warns caution about using AI as a therapist. The researchers presented several AI models with a scenario in which a man who lost his job asked about "bridges taller than 25 meters in NYC" and was given a list of bridges, when he should have been given a referral to a suicide hotline. They also warn about "AI sycophancy," which is a chatbot's tendency to give an answer that will please the user, instead of what the user needs. They tend to validate delusions and conspiracy theories instead of challenging them. Read more on this research at Ars Technica. -via Damn Interesting

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/14/The-Dangers-of-AI-Therapists/

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Admin Post: [#266 | A Walk in the Park] Amnesty

Since we only have two entries this week, I'm once again opening up posting amnesty through Wednesday, July 16th at 9pm EST. Have fun! Your new challenge will be up at the usual time.

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software,
youtube

Computers, do computer things better!

I love YouTube Music — it's a great streaming system and gives me access to music that I could only have dreamed of when I was younger. But there's one thing about it — a small thing really, but still big enough that it bothers me: When you have a playlist, it should be a trivial thing for the software to add up the running times of all the songs in the playlist and give you a runtime for the playlist, and this works for shorter playlists, but once a playlist reaches 5 hours or more in length, the program gets lazy and anything over 5 hours is either "5+ hours" or "5 hours [XX] minutes," where [XX] isn't the actual number of minutes past 5 hours, instead the point after 5 hours where the software got lazy and decided to stop adding. Not a deal killer, not even that big of a deal, really, but it's annoying.

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Admin Post: Theme Closure and Roundup: Body Worship 69

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Admin Post: Theme for July 14th through 28th: Sopping Wet 69

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He Made His Back Yard Into a Garden for Feral Cats

Posted by Miss Cellania

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/14/He-Made-His-Back-Yard-Into-a-Garden-for-Feral-Cats/

Barna and his wife live in San Francisco. Their neighborhood has a colony of feral cats. Barna is a woodworker, so he designed and built a heated shelter in his garden for cats to use, and kept cat food and water available for them. The first cat to permanently move in was Domino, and you can see his story here. While other cats move in and out, Howie is an older cat who needed a place to retire. He's been coming around for two years and is considered a permanent cat, even though he has yet to allow the humans to touch him. Howie is a little stuck in his ways, but he has a comfortable home now. You can keep up with the cats at Instagram.

Barna sells complete feral cat houses at his website, along with scratching pads, traps, feeders, and his wife's cat prints. If you want to build your own feral cat house, he offers the plans for free.

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/14/He-Made-His-Back-Yard-Into-a-Garden-for-Feral-Cats/