aviv_b_artwork | Entries tagged with hanukkah

Is there anything better than Torchwood Holiday Crackfic? The correct answer is 'no.' It makes the pain of visiting with disagreeable relatives vanish, removes migraines you get from the colors on the hidious sweater Aunt Philipina bought you (three sizes too big of course), as well as helping you recover from all the over indulgences of the season.

So when you are sitting around wondering how you managed to consume so much dinner/sweets/liquid libations at one time, treat yourself to some no calorie, always refreshing, really silly, Holiday Crackfic.

Even if some of the stories are old, new comments are always nice.

A Torchwood Merry Christmas http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/128929.html (New Story) A TW rendition of 'The Night Before Christmas.'

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah
All Chapters G/PG (8 short linked chapters) Dreidels are disappearing in Cardiff! Will TW solve the mystery and save Chanukah? Chapter 1: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/17398.html

A Pteranodon's Christmas in Wales (Myfanwy's First Christmas). Myfanwy recalls her first Christmas with Torchwood. Rated G http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/78654.html

Baby Done Gone. Last Year, dreidels were disappearing from Cardiff. This year, it's the baby Jesus from the Nativity display. What is it with aliens and holiday symbols? Rated PG
http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/79459.html

It was the Worst of Times - It’s the worst Christmas ever at Gwen & Rhys’ flat. Come join the hilarity of a drunken, stoner, naked, burning down the house kind of evening. Rated PG-13/R
Part 1: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/13039.html
Part 2: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/13280.html
(Part of Ianto's Journey, but written as a standalone story).

Myfanwy's Favorite Christmas Gift. http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/111332.html
____
And two stories a little less cracky. One sweet, one a little angsty.

Skating Away for a Day. Another Christmas Fic. Gwen touches something she shouldn't in the archives which has interesting consequences for her and Ianto (A Gwen-Ianto friendhsip fic). Rated G http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/78942.html

Current Mood: busy

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 8/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~785
SUMMARY: Chanukah is saved! Parties are held, everyone (including Torchwood) sings songs, eats latkes and plays dreidel.

Chapter 8 here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/20852.html

Comments disabled here, but they are very much appreciated at the story.

Current Mood: relieved

Current Mood: relieved

First Things First: Life is, well, interesting. My mom's doing a lot better, but now we're having cancer scares with my dad and sister-in-law. Oy! Dad's is much more worrying, but we won't know anything until some more tests are run. Let's just say that 2010 has not been the greatest year health-wise for my family.

I've been having some minor eye problems and have had to restrict my time on the computer a bit. So no writing on-line the last couple of weeks (hence no new Chanukah story this year). I guess an average of 15 hours a day on the computer is not so good for one's vision. Who would have thunk. Apparently electronic devices cause you to blink less - and with all the sinus/allergy medicine I have to take take my eyes get very dry anyway. I ended up with mild corneal cracks (yikes!) which lead to a sudden and rather dramatic loss of vision. The good news is that some steroidal eye drops have helped, the bad news is that this is likely to be an ongoing issue. The worst part - this means no Kindle or iphone in my future.

I have some ideas for some Christmas stories starring our favorite TW pet - I'm hoping I can start something next week. The working titles are Myfanwy's 1st Christmas, Myfanwy's 2nd Christmas, Myfanwy's....well you get the idea.

My annual holiday party is this Saturday. Just finished placing my Peapod order (yeah, online groceries), and I have pretty much everything else I need. House still needs to be cleaned. Oh joy!

All my Chanukah and Christmas cards are mailed, I have one small kid's gift to buy and all out of town gifts will be mailed by Friday. All other gifts are wrapped and ready to go. Mostly stuff for my co-workers and some special children in my life.

I found the cutest books for kids this year (I am the official book lady). And after I bought the books, I noticed there seemed to be an overall theme. See if you can guess:

For the little girly pre-reader, we have:

No, that is not me on the cover.

For the little girl just reader, we have:

No, that's not Ida on the cover, but I think she'd be a very good doctor.

And for the big girl (7) reader we have:

Yes, that cat has an uncanny resemblance to Teddy (behavior-wise anyway).

Finally, for the really big girl, with the bad eyes (yes, that's me) we have:

No, that's not me either, though I wouldn't mind...

Anyway, my eyes are tired, so I'm getting off the computer before I get myself into trouble. Nighty-nite!

Current Mood: cranky

No, that is not me on the cover.

For the little girl just reader, we have:

No, that's not Ida on the cover, but I think she'd be a very good doctor.

And for the big girl (7) reader we have:

Yes, that cat has an uncanny resemblance to Teddy (behavior-wise anyway).

Finally, for the really big girl, with the bad eyes (yes, that's me) we have:

No, that's not me either, though I wouldn't mind...

Anyway, my eyes are tired, so I'm getting off the computer before I get myself into trouble. Nighty-nite!

Current Mood: cranky

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 7/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~1410
SUMMARY: Disappearing dreidels, reappearing dreidels, strange blue powder with unidentified genetic material, plus 2 good looking Rabbis. Torchwood helps the aliens return home.

8 short chapters so you can enjoy all of Chanukah with the Torchwood Team

Chapter 7 is here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/20650.html

Comments disabled here, but please feel free to comment at the story link.

Current Mood: productive

Current Mood: productive

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 6/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~860
SUMMARY: Disappearing dreidels, reappearing dreidels, strange blue powder with unidentified genetic material, plus 2 good looking Rabbis. Who's stealing the dreidels? The trap is sprung! What did they catch?

8 short chapters so you can enjoy all of Chanukah with the Torchwood Team

Chapter 6 here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/20440.html

Comments disabled here, but please feel free to comment at the fic.

Current Mood: groggy

Current Mood: groggy

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 5/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~560
SUMMARY: Disappearing dreidels, reappearing dreidels, strange blue powder with unidentified genetic material, plus 2 good looking Rabbis. A trap is set to catch the dreidel thieves

8 short chapters so you can enjoy all of Chanukah with the Torchwood Team

Chapter 5 here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/20124.html

Comments disabled here, but please feel free to leave comments at the fic.

Current Mood: tired

Current Mood: tired

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 4/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~1300
SUMMARY: Disappearing dreidels, reappearing dreidels, strange blue powder with unidentified genetic material, plus 2 good looking Rabbis - sounds like a job for Torchwood!

8 short chapters so you can enjoy all of Chanukah with the Torchwood Team

Chapter 4 here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/19951.html

Current Mood: sleepy

Current Mood: sleepy

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 3/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Andy, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~ 950
SUMMARY: Disappearing dreidels, reappearing dreidels, strange blue powder with unidentified genetic material, plus a good looking Rabbi - sounds like a job for Torchwood!

8 short chapters so you can enjoy all of Chanukah with the Torchwood Team. A repost from last year cause there's not exactly a lot of Chanukah stories out there.

Chapter 3 is here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/19640.html

Current Mood: amused

Current Mood: amused

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 2/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Andy, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~ 800
SUMMARY: Disappearing dreidels, reappearing dreidels, strange blue powder with unidentified genetic material- sounds like a job for Torchwood!

8 short chapters so you can enjoy all of Chanukah with the Torchwood Team. A repost from last year cause there's not exactly a lot of Chanukah stories out there.

Chapter 2 here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/17417.html

Comments disabled here - but please feel free to comment at the fic

Current Mood: indifferent

Current Mood: indifferent

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 1/8
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: All Chapters G to PG
CHARACTERS: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, Andy, Cardiff Rabbis, and Aliens (the synagogues are real, but the Rabbis are completely fictional, no disrespect intended).
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~ 600
SUMMARY: Dreidels are disappearing in Cardiff. How can you celebrate Chanukah without dreidels?

8 short chapters so you can enjoy all of Chanukah with the Torchwood Team. A repost from last year cause there's not exactly a lot of Chanukah stories out there.

Chapter 1: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/17398.html

Comments disabled here - but please feel free to comment at the fic

Current Mood: good

Current Mood: good

This is rant. A heartfelt, head-spinning rant. I've just received my third "Holiday Gift Meme" in as many days and I DO NOT WANT!

I normally avoid stores from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. Not only do I hate crowds, but the whole gimme grab leaves me saddened and exhausted. If I told you I didn't exchange gifts with friends, I'd be lying. But more and more, I've been moving toward gifts to charities, personal assistance to others in lieu of material gifts.

And while I don't begrudge any else's buying of gifts, its the not so subtle asking that seems to becoming a bit more ballsy the last few years.

My least favorite version of this phenomenon is the LJ/Facebook/Blog Christmas exchange list/Holiday gift meme.

The 'if you just happen to have a deluxe full feature camera, or an iPad, or gee, maybe a cashmere coat that you weren't planning on doing anything with - maybe you could send it my way?'

For the record - if I have something I don't need, I give it to charity. Coat I'm not wearing goes to charity. Sweater that doesn't fit - ditto. Blu ray player - how many people have spare blu ray players sitting around their house? And if you do, I'll bet a nursing home or children's hospital would be thrilled to have it.

Don't you feel any embarrassment at your obviously grubby begging meme, in many cases asking virtual strangers to give you stuff? Not food or clothes or shelter, but luxuries that no one has to have?

This isn't anything like a person trying to raise money to pay medical bills or offset funeral expenses or help with college tuition when their scholarship discontinued or vet bills for a sick pet.

This is asking your on-line pals to be Santa.You want something for free...use freecycle. But honestly, I don't want to be accosted with lists for wonderful sparkly items you'd like to have cause, well, because dammit everyone else has one.

In a year when the stated US unemployment rate is 10%, but the real unemployment rate is closer to 20%, people are losing jobs and homes faster than the blink of an eye, maybe, just maybe, this is the year where you say..."I have all that I need, I have more than I need. I am not so self-involved that I think my need for an iphone deserves more attention than someone who doesn't have a winter coat."

And please don't tell me how filled with the Christmas spirit you are, or how Jewish you feel (whatever the hell that means) and then put up a list of what you want as gifts. Because really, who are you kidding?

Now in the interest of full disclosure, if anyone has the following hanging around in exra supply, please feel free to forward them to my attention. I'll make sure those who have real needs get these:

Affordable health care for everyone
A government that works for the people not the big corporations
Food for everyone, so that no one goes to bed hungry
Ending discrimination against others because of their race, or religion, or country of origin, or sexual orientation, or gender or disability, or political beliefs or personal private behavior.
A decent job with decent pay and benefits for anyone who is willing to work.

That's my small list for the holidays. Funny thing, it hasn't needed changes for many, many years. And I suspect it won't be changing this year either.

So bah humbug to the gift list memes.

I wonder how long it will take to get the first 'you're a stinkin' socialist' comment.

Current Mood: irritated

Profile

aviv_b

August 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Syndicate

Page Summary

Torchwood Holiday Crackfic Roundup
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 8/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 8/8
Real Life - Health & Holidays (& TW of course)
Real Life - Health & Holidays (& TW of course)
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 7/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 7/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 6/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 6/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 5/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 5/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 4/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 4/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 3/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 3/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 2/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 2/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 1/8
How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 1/8
Why I won't be doing a 'Gimme, Gimme Meme!'

Style Credit

Style: Green Summer for Modular by branchandroot
Resources: p r o l o g u e

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page generated Jun. 8th, 2025 04:50 pm

Ptorchwood Ptales & Ptimely Pthoughts

copyright © all entries.

Entries tagged with hanukkah

Torchwood Holiday Crackfic Roundup

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 8/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 8/8

Real Life - Health & Holidays (& TW of course)

Real Life - Health & Holidays (& TW of course)

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 7/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 7/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 6/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 6/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 5/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 5/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 4/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 4/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 3/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 3/8

How Torchwood Saved Chanukah (or Hanukkah if you prefer) 2/8