[Podfic] Only a Robin (31 words) by Ravin_Pods
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU - Comicverse
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown
Additional Tags: Introspection, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:

A rundown of Robins

Podfic of Only a Robin by Merfilly.

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Musical Choices (100 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Rowan
Additional Tags: Drabble, Introspection
Summary:

The Rowan, on music

Musical Choices

Sometimes, the Rowan would find a recording of the show she had attended with Goswina and the others of that class, her mood pouring over the unpleasantness of the aftermath, and the ultimate joy it had brought her in one Afra Lyon, Goswina's little brother.

Other days, she would put music on, purposefully choosing subdued vocals and music with subtle harmonies, to avoid any of the more robust, loud music that Siglen had preferred. Her teacher had been as loud in her music tastes as in her choices of decor.

The Rowan had long since chosen to be quite different.

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Supporting Change (100 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ted Lasso [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Keeley Jones
Additional Tags: Drabble, Introspection
Summary:

Keeley's thoughts on the direction of the club and life

Supporting Change

Keeley hadn't been sure that any of it was a great idea, but it didn't take long for her to see the change in everyone — especially Roy.

His gruff exterior and piss-off attitude was intact, but there wasn't the same level of loathing for life there. Keeley just pushed into the change, and did all she could to reward the change.

If that meant more sex, she certainly wasn't going to complain. Nor did it take long to realize saying anything to Jamie was enough to rile Roy up in that really good way.

She could get behind the changes.

Excursions (100 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ted Lasso [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Roy Kent, Phoebe [Ted Lasso]
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life
Summary:

Roy is hunting somewhere, and has Phoebe with him

Excursions

"Fuck."

"Fuck," Phoebe parroted, and Roy had to turn and glare at her. "Frack?"

"Who let you watch terrible TV?" Roy asked, before looking all around him.

"That's from a show? You must have watched it to know the word. What was it about?" Phoebe asked. "I learned it from Billy."

"Billy watches terrible TV then. Where are we supposed to be?"

Phoebe did not make it any better when she giggled and pointed to the tiny hole-in-the-wall candy shop.

Roy took a firmer hold on her hand and walked them over, intent on getting Keeley the best chocolates ever.

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Title: hold the doors
Fandom: BTS
Pairing: RM/Jin
Rating: Teen
Length: 200
Prompt: door
Summary: RM is leaving work late at night.

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So, we watched that one with the telepathic pitcher plant. Seven and Naomi bond - the writers really worked to make Naomi useful to the plot rather than just being kinda there, and it mostly works - but honestly, our space Ahab has chosen the least-efficient manner possible to destroy his whale.

Then we watch the two parter with the Borg Queen, in which we establish that the Hansens (whom Seven actually refers to as the Hansens) were absolutely terrible parents. I mean, even beyond the way they brought their child on a platter to be assimilated, growing up on a tiny spaceship with only two other people is just no life for a child. They should have left her at home. (And all the flashbacks establish that she spent a lot of her brief childhood scared. Poor baby!) At one point in this episode, Seven helps rescue a group of astonishingly passive refugees who are about to be assimilated. There's a lot of off-screen screaming, but I guess these refugees weren't paid enough to talk, because they're both passive and totally silent. Also, nobody at any points suggests trying to de-assimilate any drones, even the one who is probably Seven's father, if we can believe the Borg Queen. Seems a bit uncaring, but as I said, he wasn't a good father so fuck him, I guess.

This is followed by a kinda sad and pointless episode in which Harry Kim contracts love from having surprisingly racy (for 90s Trek) sex with a dissident from a xenophobic society. She achieves her primary objective, forcing the people in charge to allow those who want to leave their society to do so, but they still break up. He's sad about it. (E and I decided that the only other Varro with a speaking role has gotta be her dad. He sure acts like he knows her pretty well, and that ship has a lot more people than Voyager does!)

And then one of my absolute favorite episodes, the one where Tom and B'Elanna get married and there's apparently a new baby on the ship we haven't heard of before and, by the way, the ship is disintegrating. Lots of people hate this episode because it's sad and bleak and pointless, but I absolutely fucking love it.

We skipped the Chakotay episode because ugh, fake Native American fake spirituality, something something "vision quest", and then it was Think Tank, which is a very watchable episode. It's not great, it's terrible - it's watchable. Also, nobody really says it, but the spokesperson of the eponymous Think Tank is himself a victim of it. He was taken from them in childhood, which wasn't all that long ago. Possibly they all are victims except the founder. It sounds like being part of a particularly reclusive cult.

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Nominations Clarification 4

There will be one more clarification post after this. We're not quite through all the tags yet, but I wanted to get these queries out now.

Here is a little FAQ about Nominations Clarification posts for those of you who haven't run into them before, hidden under a details tag now:

What/why is a Nominations Clarification post?

Nomination clarifications are queries about tags we find confusing and updates about tags or the tagset in general. The goal of nominations is to create a tagset of unambiguous, easy to understand tags that will be useful to participants and solidly within the scope of the exchange. The goal of a clarifications post is to keep all of our participants up-to-date regarding our nominations work and solicit feedback where necessary to create the most useful tagset we can.

Do I need to read the whole post?

No. You can just skim each clarification post to see if a fandom you're interested in requesting or offering has been mentioned. We recommend doing this even if you don't care very much how the tagset is organized in case we make some kind of huge blunder with your favorite fandom or OTP.

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Yes! If you are not the nominator but have relevant fandom knowledge about something, please speak up. Nominators don't always reply to our queries, so answers from other people in the fandom are often very helpful.

Why haven't you processed my nomination(s) yet?

Nominations can't be processed in a strictly first-in, first-out manner because of various backend reasons, so most likely we just haven't yet had a chance because of the large volume of submitted nominations. Double check our nominations clarification posts for your tag. If sign ups open and one or more of your tags is mysteriously still missing, please reach out.

My AO3 tagset nomination(s) were rejected but aren't discussed below, why did you reject them?

Most likely you failed to disambiguate your nominations, or made some other error — we reject incorrect tags rather than fixing them. You're welcome to post a link to your nominations slate if you'd like us to tell you why the tag(s) were rejected. You can attempt to re-nominated tags either on AO3 or via the form if you'd like.

However, there is a delay between us rejecting and us posting nominations clarifications! Literally as I post this post, other people on the tagmod team are approving/rejecting new tags. So your rejected tag might show up in a future clarification post

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Yes! You can ask nominations questions on whichever nominations clarification post has been most recently posted, or you can ask on the Nomination Guidelines, or you can use the mod contact post, or you can email us. We're happy to help no matter how you get in contact!

Queries

Google Forms nominations

Crossover Fandom: Any Character (Naruto) in Konohagakure & Any Mountain Peak Lord (SVSSS) — Nominator, we're a little confused by this. Did you mean "Any Character From Konoha (Naruto) & Any Mountain Peak Lord (SVSSS)"? If so, we'd like to check that this will really suit what you want—"Any Character From Konoha" would include civilians and missing-nin, and "Any Mountain Peak Lord" is ambiguous enough that it might include people beyond the Cang Qiong Peak Lords. A more specific tag might look like "Any Konoha Ninja (Naruto) & Any Cang Qiong Peak Lord (SVSSS)"
DCU (Comics): WB: A Day in Arkham Asylum from the Perspective of an Employee (DC Comics) — To phrase this as a worldbuilding topic instead of a prompt, we've accepted this as "WB: Daily Life Of Arkham Asylum Employees (DC Comics)" — if that doesn't meet the nominator's needs, please let us know and we'll replace it or put in an alternate tag for you.
DCU (Comics): WB: Batman and Batman-adjacent (DC Comics) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey: WB: Seventh Path (Dragonriders of Pern) — Nominator, this was nominated twice in a row. Did you mean to nominate something else?
Falsettos - Lapine/Finn: WB: Sitting Shiva for Whizzer (Falsettos) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us? It seems like it might be a prompt rather than a worldbuilding topic.
Kraven the Hunter (2024): Sergei Kravinoff/Tangerine (Bullet Train 2022) — This has been accepted as "Sergei Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)/Tangerine (Bullet Train 2022)" under "Crossover Fandom"
Kraven the Hunter (2024): Sergei Kravinoff/Tangerine (Bullet Train 2022)/Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy 2024) — This has been accepted as "Sergei Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)/Tangerine (Bullet Train 2022)/Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy 2024)" under Crossover Fandom
Monster Prom (Video Games): WB: Liam Prom (Monster Prom) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
Original Work: Kind Male Rival/Previously Abused Man (OW) — Some of us were a little confused by this nomination. For clarity, we'd like to accept it as "Man Abused By Previous Partner/His Kind Male Rival (OW)"—unless you meant something else by this tag!
Original Work: Kind Male Rival/Previously Abused Man & Man's Adopted Son (OW) — Some of us were a little confused by this nomination. For clarity, we'd like to accept it as "Man Abused By Previous Partner/His Kind Male Rival & Abused Man's Adopted Son (OW)"—unless you meant something else by this tag!
Original Work: Male Rival/Injured Male Enemy He Rescues From An Abusive Situation (OW) — Some of us were a little confused by this nomination. For clarity, we'd like to accept it as "Injured Male Enemy In An Abusive Situation/His Male Rival Who Rescues Him (OW)"—unless you meant something else by this tag!
Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series): WB: Life of a Grunt (Pokemon Game) — To phrase this as a worldbuilding topic instead of a prompt, we've accepted this as "WB: Daily Life Of Grunts (Pokemon Game)" — if that doesn't meet the nominator's needs, please let us know and we'll replace it or put in an alternate tag for you.
Rats SMP Season 2: InTheLittleWood/Rendog (Rats SMP Season 2) — Nominator, is there a reason you need to specify the season for this SMP? We're pretty sure Ren was only in Season 2, so there shouldn't be any trouble there. If you were nominating this way because Empires is split up into seasons: we've done it that way this year because the worldbuilding and characters for both seasons are very different, and in previous years we've struggled with phrasing tags so that they only apply to one season or the other. We don't think Rats SMP has this problem, so we would prefer not to split it unless you have a compelling reason.
The Villains' Code Series - Drew Hayes: WB: The AHC (Villains' Code - Hayes) — We couldn't find much information about this via google, but this seems to be a group. If it is, we think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
The Villains' Code Series - Drew Hayes: WB: The Guild (Villains' Code - Hayes) — We couldn't find much information about this via google, but this seems to be a group. If it is, we think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
きみのせかいに恋はない | Kimi no Sekai ni Koi wa Nai | Is Love the Answer? (Manga): All tags with "Ito", "Ito Mayuri", "Enomoto", and/or "Enomoto Mayuri" — We require characters to be submitted with their full names so as to avoid confusion. Are Ito and Ito Mayuri the same character? Are Enomoto and Enomoto Mayuri the same character? If yes to both, we will edit the submitted tags and then accept. If these are different characters, we would appreciate help figuring out how to disambiguate the ones without last names from the ones with last names to prevent confusion.
きみのせかいに恋はない | Kimi no Sekai ni Koi wa Nai | Is Love the Answer? (Manga): WB: Relationship Negotiations (Kimi no Sekai) — WB: tags are required to be about a fictional aspect of the requested canon's world. Is there any reason to believe that relationship negotiations in this canon are substantially different from real life relationship negotiations? If not, we can't accept this tag.
不良執念清除師｜Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (TV): Chen Chuying & Pu Yiyong (Oh No Here Comes Trouble) — This is a duplicate of another tag. Did the nominator mean to submit it as / or something else?
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game): WB: Heliobi (Honkai: Star Rail) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?

Ao3 tagset nominations

Crossover Fandom: The Librarians: The Next Chapter (The Liibrarians: The Next Chapter TV 2025) & The Librarians (TV 2014) — We think this tag means you want any librarians from the 2014 show and any librarians from the 2025 show, but we're not totally sure. Oe maybe any character from either show? We're not quite sure but would definitely like to rephrase this tag. Maybe "Any Librarian (The Librarians: The Next Chapter) & Any Librarian (The Librarians 2014)" or "The Librarians Ensemble (The Librarians: The Next Chapter) & The Librarians Ensemble (The Librarians 2014)" or something similar?
Fear Street Trilogy (Movies 2021): WB: Chatrooms Discussing The Curse (Fear Street) — Two nominators re-nominated this WB tag from last year. As you can see on your nominations pages, we've accepted it as "WB: Internet Discussions Of The Curse (Fear Street)" -- this is because this year we've decided we want to avoid WB nominations that might seem to opt a requester into a particular medium opt in. If for some reason this rephrasing doesn't capture what you want out of the tag, I'm open to rephrasing again or adding a different WB: tag of your choosing.
Video Blogging RPF: Buddha & Sykkuno (VB RPF) — We found what we believe are Buddha's twich and youtube, but we can't confirm his age. We need either a credible source or a post from Buddha that says he's over 18, otherwise we can't accept this nomination.
XCOM (Video Games) & Related Fandoms: WB: The Commander's Implant (XCOM 2012 Reboot Series) — This seems like it only applies to one character (which is against our worldbuilding guidelines, because that sort of thing is better as a prompt under a Solo: tag) but we also couldn't figure out what this means...so maybe we're wrong?
駄作 | Dasaku (Visual Novel): Haiki Yuuki/Nanagaki Alice/Nanagaki Chloe (Dasaku), Nanagaki Alice/Nanagaki Chloe (Dasaku) — Nanagaki Chloe appears to be a character that only shows up in the Dasaku ~Arisu to Kuroe, Musubareru Hi~ follow-up and not in Dasaku proper. Would you like to change the fandom to include both the original visual novel and the follow up? Otherwise, we can move this to Crossover Fandom.

Rejected Tags

Google Forms nominations

Citizen Sleeper (Video Games): WB: Sleepers (Citizen Sleeper) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Crossover Fandom: Gotham City (DCU Comics) & Natasha Romanov (MCU) — Per discussion on Nominations Clarification 3, we don't consider Gotham to be thinking/feeling enough to count as a character for FIAB. We would be willing to accept this as "WB: Natasha Romanov (MCU) in Batman (Comics)", "WB: Natasha Romanov (MCU) in Batman - All Media Types", as a similar tag with a more specific fandom, or as a crossover tag specifying a specific DCU character for Natasha to interact with.
Crossover Fandom: The Magnus Archives in Gotham (DCU) — Nominator, this isn't a tag format we accept and we're confused about what you wanted. Are you looking for any character from The Magnus Archives to cross over into the DCU Batman Comics? The correct tag for that would be something like "Solo: The Magnus Archives Ensemble (TMA) in Batman (Comics)". Are you looking for a tag that would put a Magnus Archives team in Gotham? A tag for that might be "Solo: Original Statement Maker (TMA) in Batman (Comics)" Or was this maybe supposed to be a WB: tag? In that case, please elaborate on what kind of worldbuilding you wanted and we'll figure it out.
Doctrine of Labyrinths - Sarah Monette: WB: The Cade-Skiffs of Melusine (DoL - Monette) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey: WB: Dragons (Dragonriders of Pern) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey: WB: Firelizards (Dragonriders of Pern) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Dream SMP: WB: Horror Setting (Dream SMP) — Nominator, this seems to be a prompt for an AU setting instead of a worldbuilding topic, so we can't accept it. If we're wrong, please let us know. You can also review our worldbuilding guidelines and request an alternate WB: tag.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game): WB: Future Generations (Teenage Exocolonist) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game): WB: Previous Inhabitants of Vertumna (Teenage Exocolonist) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game): WB: Vertumna Group (Teenage Exocolonist) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
IT (Movies - Muschietti): Bill Denbrough/Mike Hanlon/Ben Hanscom/Eddie Kaspbrak/Beverly Marsh/Richie Tozier/Stanley Uris (IT - Muschietti) — FIAB only allows 6 characters or less per relationship tag. Which of these seven characters would you like to remain in this ship tag?
Original Work: Exhausted Man Signs Up For Cloning Scheme To Ease Workload/His Female Best Friend/His Clone(s) (OW) — We don't allow tags with "(s)". Any request for a group of characters can be filled with just one of those characters or with multiple. Do you want the singular or plural version of this tag?
The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison: WB: Cerberuses (Angel of the Crows - Addison) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
休日のわるものさん | Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san | Mr. Villain's Day Off (Anime): WB: Evil Organization (Mr. Villain's Day Off Anime) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
休日のわるものさん | Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san | Mr. Villain's Day Off (Anime): WB: Rangers (Mr. Villain's Day Off Anime) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game): WB: Trailblazer's Past (pre-Express) (Honkai: Star Rail) — This seems to be a request for a character's backstory, or possibly a group's backstory, which isn't an allowed worldbuilding topic for FIAB. We can put in a Solo: tag for you, or you can let us know what kind of worldbuilding topic you're hoping for and we can work out a new WB: tag!

Ao3 tagset nominations

Empires SMP: All tags — These were rejected because per our nomination guidelines, Empires SMP should be split into seasons 1 and 2.
Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant: WB: Any (Newsflesh) — We're rejecting this tag because we will add all WB: Any tags to the tagset after nominations close.
Real Person Fiction: Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Actor RPF)/Female Reader — "Real Person Fiction" is a little too broad of a fandom for us. We would also, if possible, like to avoid "Actor RPF". Is there a more specific RPF fandom, like for a show, that we could accept this tag under?
Real Person Fiction: Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Actor RPF)/Fred Hechinger (Actor RPF) — "Real Person Fiction" is a little too broad of a fandom for us. We would also, if possible, like to avoid "Actor RPF". Is there a more specific RPF fandom, like for a show, that we could accept this tag under?
Starian Cycle - Iris Foxglove: WB: Early Days of The House of Onyx (Starian Cycle) — Nominator, this seems like a backstory request for a group of characters, which isn't allowed per our guidelines. Can you elaborate on what kind of worldbuilding you're looking for?
Starian Cycle - Iris Foxglove: WB: Final Days of The House of Clay (Starian Cycle) — Nominator, this seems like a backstory request for a group of characters, which isn't allowed per our guidelines. Can you elaborate on what kind of worldbuilding you're looking for?
Video Blogging RPF: Sykkuno & Creator's Choice of Character (VB RPF) — Sorry, nominator, but like the previous KPop nomination we can't vet all possible "characters" in this RPF fandom as being 18+ and famous in their own right, so we can't accept this tag. We will update the nomination guidelines about this next year.

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I am now well over halfway through the book, and spent most of chapter four screeching to anyone who would listen about the extent to which either she is deliberately and cynically misrepresenting approaches that aren't Her Personal Programme in the interests of selling the latter, or she's just incompetent.

The actual suggested movements -- the strength-building and the stretching -- are totally reasonable, and also totally standard. It's the surrounding framing that has my eyebrows crawling into my hairline; I... tried to summarise and rapidly discovered I was launching into the full rant, and it's past bedtime, so let's start with: while there's a References section it's a whole 15 items long, and she's blithely saying "X states" or "Y says" as though the fact that something has been published in a single peer-reviewed paper means that it's unquestionably true, and of those fifteen one is a systematic review of any kind and... Several... are under the aegis of an organisation specialising in complementary medicine.

More details tomorrow, probably. With excerpts.

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( PH 18 - Biggles Series - W. E. Johns, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Labyrinth (1986), Sime~Gen - Jacqueline Lichtenberg & Jean Lorrah, Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Song), Original Work )

( PH 20 - Our Flag Means Death (TV) RPF, Secret Six (DC Comics), Arthurian Mythology, Batman (Comics), Macdonald Hall - Gordon Korman, Our Flag Means Death (TV) )

( PH 21 - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole, Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, The Mandalorian (TV), Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Crossover Fandom )

( PH 22 - 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù )

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This week's questions were suggested by

aforkintheroad.

1. What is your favorite experience in your life so far?

2. What motivates you to keep going every day?

3. Where do you want to go in life? What do you want to accomplish?

4. Is there anything that you regret? Do you try to change it?

5. What is your most cherished gift you have received? Why do you cherish it so much?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

mdlbear

Today I am thankful for...

The coconut octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, a tool-using invertebrate. It's also one of two octopus species known to walk bipedally.
Hopepunk (c.f. Denethor in Lord of the Rings is now a metaphor for doomscrolling, and "Bread and Butter and Hope" by Robert Reich.)
Getting the melody for m's new song transcribed. (Figuring out the chords is another matter. It might be in Cmin, but are those grace-notes quarter-tones?) (No; it needed quite a lot of proofreading this afternoon.)
A mastodon thread that starts out "I'm on the server floor of a "highly secure data center with 24/7/365 surveillance, direct access control and robust perimeter security".
An actual duck just walked by. 🦆

Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag

littlefics posting in

seasonsofdrabbles

We have 7 initial pinch hits, which are due at the assignment deadline, Saturday, August 23, 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown).

If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment on this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

( PH 1 - NoPixel (Web Series), Video Blogging RPF, ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga), Sakamoto Days (Anime) )

( CLAIMED PH 2 - InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, 赤髪の白雪姫 | Akagami no Shirayukihime | Snow White with the Red Hair (Anime & Manga), How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying - Django Wexler, The Pirates of Dark Water )

( CLAIMED PH 3 - Dial M for Murder (1954), The Big Country (1958), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Big Heat (1953), Home Before Dark (1958), The Country Girl (1954), North by Northwest (1959), The Swan (1956), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) )

( PH 4 - Fireworks (1947)/Succession (TV 2018), O Fantasma (2000), O Fantasma (2000)/Succession (TV 2018), The Sergeant (1968), Succession (TV 2018) )

( CLAIMED PH 5 - Ender Series - Orson Scott Card, The Lesser Dead (Christopher Buehlman), Fevre Dream - George R. R. Martin, Dracula's Guest - Bram Stoker )

( CLAIMED PH 6 - Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson, The Twa Sisters - Anonymous (Song), The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison, The Fairyland Series - Catherynne M. Valente )

( PH 7 - Final Fantasy XIV, Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, Valkyrie Profile Series, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy X )

daryl_wor

The Hound of The Baskervilles… I got the solution from my experience late at night on beaches kicking up the flashy stuff in the sand…

IT’S PHOSPHORUS!

outside that, it's been much cozier than I remember. ^_^

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: Memory Lane
Current Music: Conan Doyle

muccamukk

They seem to have fixed the technical issues (*knocks on wood, scratches a stay, turns around three times*) and I have gone to several panels! Both a virtual one of Nigerian authors and a filmed one of an in-person panel.

ETA: Both 10:30 panels I want to see either not streaming or not with sound.

ETA2: Caught the back half of one 10:30 panel (idk if the other one ever worked), and the sound was back for most of the noon panel, though it dropped out completely ten minutes from the end. Folks attending have been amazing with posting running notes to the discord, linking to works mentioned by the panellists.

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polyamships

Title: She's sweet like a lemon
Content Type: Fanfiction
Creator:

thepasteldyke
Fandom (if any): Show By Rock!!
Characters/Relationship: Gyaraco/Shimmakk/Leppanyo/Gilili
Rating: G
Length: 760 words
Content notes: Set fairly early relationship, Gilili doesn't actually show up but is referred to a lot. Using the prompt 'weather'.
Creator notes: Also for

femslashfete . Hope that's okay, I saw no mention either or in the FAQ.
Summary: They're supposed to pick lemons for one of Gilili's new inventions. Gyaraco however, gets them a bit sidetracked.

AO3 | DW | website

chanter1944

Anybody else getting persistent SSL handshake failure errors when trying to visit AO3? Or is it just me? The issue's been popping up randomly for the last week or two, but today it's near-constant, if not entirely so.

james_davis_nicoll

In Women of Futures Past, Rusch quotes Willis:

"The field didn't just have women writers--it had really good women writers. These were wonderful stories, and I don't believe they were overlooked at the time, because when I read them, they were all in Year's Best collections."

Rusch speculates that Willis is referencing Merril's Best S-F. However, Rusch says she only did a spot check. I reread the whole of Merril's Best S-F in 2023. Her anthologies were mostly stories by men.

OK, so maybe it was one of the other Best SF series around back then? But I checked Bleiler and Dikty, Harrison & Aldiss, and Wollheim & Carr and it's not them.

Was there another 1950s-1960s Best SF series?

Or was Willis thinking of a magazine-specific annual like Analog 1?

Not literally Analog 1, obs. But something like it from another magazine.

My guess, having checked the early years, is Willis was reading The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction. Specifically, Boucher's run.

(Guess two would have been something edited by Goldsmith but she does not appear to have edited anthologies)

oursin

I was madly irked yesterday to come across this in a report in The Times on classism at Oxbridge (surprise surprise NOT, surely, that is where one would expect to find it in its native haunts?):

'being offered “lessons in manners” after picking up the wrong spoon at a formal college dinner.'

a) I do not think deployment of cutlery comes under the heading of 'manners', unless, as in, was it The Lion in Winter or some forgotten Arthurian epic, somebody takes these here newfangled forks to be instruments of assassination. Or maybe starts flicking soup across the table with improvised spoon trebuchets. Providing that we're at the Norbert Elias Civilising Process stage of using cutlery rather than our fingers, anyway.

Wot do they even teach them at Oxbridge these days, eh?

b) Okay, people do weaponise manners, but essentially, manners are supposed to be about making people feel comfortable and at ease, and if you're picking on somebody for not knowing some niche culturally-specific rule relating to spoons, that is Bad Manners and RUDE.

Cite here to Cardinal Newman on The Gentleman:

The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at his ease and at home.

And a story that I was told in childhood about Queen Victoria, which when I look it up, has also been ascribed to QEII and now to His current Maj, about seeing a guest, unacquainted with fingerbowls, drink from theirs, and doing the same, so as not to show them up.

So I am pretty sure this is Totally Apocryphal, or else it was actually done by somebody who Was Not Queen V or even royal, but it is a story about Proper Behaviour.

GB Stern - not sure whether this is in her 'rag-bag chronicles' or one of the novels or maybe even both - mentions Mittel-European landowner lady who, when dining her tenants, deliberately spills glass of wine on the tablecloth herself, right at the beginning of the meal, to set them at ease.

redbird

I read a bunch while I was in Montreal, then got home and couldn't find my notes on what I'd read, so this is sketchier than it should have been.

The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett: this is both a fantasy and a mystery novel, and I think worked well as both. The world-building is interesting and unusual, with hints of a lot more than the narrator has reason to mention in telling this story. The mystery is twisty and full of questions about people's motivations. Definitely recommended. Based on some discussion on Discord, I'm glad to know there's a sequel, but not racing to read it.

Jellyfish Have No Ears, by Adèle Rosenfeld, is a novel told by a woman who has been hard of hearing since childhood, and is now losing the remains of her hearing, and trying to decide whether to get a cochlear implant. At least two of the characters are figments of the narrator's imagination. Interesting, but it felt like the story stopped too soon. I think I grabbed this for the "book in translation" square on my Boston library summer reading bingo card.

The Adventure of the Demonic Ox, by Lois McMaster Bujold: a new Penric and Desdemona fantasy novella. I liked it, but there's enough ongoing plot arc that I wouldn't start here.

The World Walk, by Tom Turcich: Memoir, by someone who decided at 17 that he wanted to walk around the world, and starts on the journey after finishing college. He has the advantage of a supportive family, and he also mentions some of the ways that the trip is easier for him because he's American. The travelogue is mostly about people, even when he's also talking about the sky from the Atacama Desert, or the interesting foods he eats while traveling. His planned route isn't literally around the world on foot, but he meant to walk on all seven continents. Instead, the section on Asia and Australia is foreshadowed by the celebration of New Year's Day 2020. Overall, an upbeat book. despite that, health issues, and encounters with hostile police and other officials.

So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane: reread of a young adult fantasy novel. picked up from Emmet's bookshelf after I ran out of things I wanted to read on my kindle. I enjoyed rereading it.

I'm now partway through John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion, a retelling of the Heracles legend, because I had it on my kindle (shared by

cattitude) and needed something for the flight home from Montreal on Tuesday. The characterization is oddly flat, for a first-person narrative.

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agonyaunt

Content advisories: bodily fluids, nudiry, sexual harassment

( CEO being VERY INAPPROPRIATE; bodily fluids )

( Nudity and people should know better )

Current Mood: shocked

tozka

Book Info

Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir

LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/1911762/t/I-Married-a-Logger-Life-in-Michigans-Tall-Timber

Acquired from: Digger’s, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Started reading: August 14, 2025

Finished reading: TBD

Reading Updates

Page 0: I picked this book up because a) it’s a memoir set in Michigan (where I’m currently catsitting) and b) the author did her own illustrations and they’re pretty good! Published originally in 1951 and this is a reprint by a local Michigan publisher in the 80s.

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.

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recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool podfics/fancrafts/fanvids/fics/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

james_davis_nicoll

What could possibly go wrong while transporting a possessed ox?

The Adventure of the Demonic Ox (Penric & Desdemona, volume 14) by Lois McMaster Bujold

elainegrey

Just a note to confirm that I remained horrified by the world, horrified by the Israeli government's treatment of Gazans and Palestinians, horrified by Putin's aggression against the Ukraine and his throwing Russians into the meat grinder of war to make that happen, sick to nausea of the US Federal government's "immigration" policies and enforcement ... and well, all of the policies, from the ones that directly impact me to the ones that slightly less directly impact me. But all of it impacts the nation's collective well being and -- i just can't articulate. Only cry.

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jo posting in

tv_talk

Alien: Earth premiered this week and I've seen nothing but rave reviews. It's on FX/Hulu/Disney+ (Canada, US, UK).

Watch on YouTube

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fan_flashworks

Title: A Twinkle In The Dark
Fandom: Torchwood
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1105
Summary: On an exploration expedition out on the rim of known space, Jack and Ianto discover something interesting.
Spoilers: Nada.
Warnings: None needed. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
Written For: Challenge 488: Twinkle.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.

( A Twinkle In The Dark... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

veronyxk84 posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Coming Home
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S7, at the end of ep. 7x11 “Showtime”
Summary: Buffy’s POV when she finds Spike.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #488 Twinkle

—
( READ: Coming Home )

elainegrey

Re-reading i see i was not clear in my comments about Dad's coming heart valve repair. I had gotten in my head that the open heart surgery would be possible for him AND would result in a long lasting repair. Since Dad is otherwise healthy, i imagine him having many more years.

I don't think he imagines himself having many more years that he wants -- and he dreads a lingering existence in which he needs others to care for him.

Realizing how long three months seems at the end of your life compared to how fast things are flying by for me right now.... well, the considerations around how to resolve Dad's heart valve have probably led me to think more about my limited time in this life than about his.

I spent a good bit of Sunday with him, helping him get his boat in the lake. Unfortunately the engine wasn't cooperating.

Also got some yard work done with the pleasant weekend weather.

It's back to sauna, glasses fogging over when stepping outside, windows covered with condensation, fog in the trees in the morning.

Fig season is beginning. I'm done with the mulberries and elderberries: the rest can go to the birds and other critters. The blueberries have tailed off as well. If i can motivate myself, i want to get winter plantings of brassicas and lettuces in. This month is hard to imagine as time to plant but since i didn't do much in the way of summer seedings (one sad marigold sprouted and is not thriving) I've nuked weeds and i can actually imagine preparing the beds.

I got some grass seed in the front right as rains were beginning where i scalped the lawn -- which was pretty much all invasive stilt grass. I have grass seeds for the orchard, too, where i will only focus on "the boulevard" and the square anchored by the corner of garage and house. Moss is taking hold in a good bit of the orchard and, despite Carrie's running tearing out chunks of the moss, it would be nice to have something that needs less mowing.

Worked late yesterday, and maybe late earlier in the week? It's a blur.

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Event: WIP Big Bang & WIP Reverse Bang
Event link: Dreamwidth | Tumblr
Pinch hit link: WIPBB (authors looking for artists) | WIPRB (artists looking for authors)
Due date: Pinch hitters can collaborate with their WIPBB authors/WIPRB artists for an earlier posting date to post at the same time, but pinch hitters are allowed to post throughout the month of December without having to claim a posting date.

Pinch hitter guidelines are here on our Tumblr
We have 57 WIPBB fics up for art claims. The fic available for claiming is in the following fandoms:

All For the Game, Arcane: League of Legends, BBC Sherlock/Marvel Cinematic Universe (Agents Of SHIELD), Bright, Captive Prince, Death Note, Formula 1 RPF, Formula 1 RPF/Motercycle RPF/Motorsports RPF, Haikyuu!!, Harry Potter, Hetalia: Axis Powers, Invisible (2022), Invisible Inc., Lego Monkie Kid, Lucifer (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe (Captain America movies & The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), The Alienist (Books & TV)/Marvel Cinematic Universe (Captain America movies), My Hero Academia | Boku No Hero Academia, Professional Wrestling (Please note there are not WWE wrestling fics), Project Wingman/Ace Combat, Saiyuki, Star Trek (Kelvinverse), Star Wars (Rogue One), Stargate SG-1, Ted Lasso, Teen Wolf (TV), The Legend of Zelda (Breath of the Wild & Skyward Sword/Linked Universe/Hyrule Historia/Skyward Sword Prequel Manga), The Order of the Stick, The Umbrella Academy, Undertale/Doki Doki Literature Club, Zero Escape, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), Qiāng Jìn Jiǔ, The Untamed (TV), Bangtan Boys | BTS

We have 12 WIPRB art projects up for fic claims. The art available for claiming is in the following fandoms:

Doodle World (Roblox), DreamSMP, Invisible Inc., JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind. Naruto/Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, Promare, Transformers, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, MDZS/The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/Heaven Official's Blessing

but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

vocab_drabbles

Title: 'Bitter Pills'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Characters/Pairings: Original
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to

ficlet_zone. Using Challenge #115: Garrulous, Challenge #138: Duplicity, Challenge #143: Disingenuous, and Challenge #157: Diffident.
Summary: His smile doesn't fade. But there's a flinty hardness suddenly, behind his eyes.

( Bitter Pills )

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lyricaltitles

Title: Hurt So Good

author:

cornerofmadness

Summary: Angel and Husk decide to move their relationship into potentially dangerous waters for Angel as they work in the BDSM Angel enjoys but Valentino has damaged. Husk is nervous about it but he wants to make Angel happy and feel safe at the same time.

Rating: explicit

pairing Angel Dust/Husk

Warnings explicit sex, BDSM

Artist: John Mellencamp
Album: Footloose Soundtrack
Song: Hurts So Good

And this one finishes my album!

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Midsomer Murder

everysecondtuesday posting in

jump_scare_exchange

Nominations are open every year through the close of sign ups.

There is one eternal freeform tag set and one yearly fandoms and relationships tag set.

If you use all your nomination slots, nominating via sock is welcome.

A reminder that matching is on Fandom, Medium(s), and Archive Warnings. All extra information is optional and your artist/author does not have to use it. All participants are encouraged to try to make something their recip will like, but you're only guaranteed Fandom, Medium(s), and Archive Warnings.

Things that can be nominated include fandom, characters in the form of "Solo: Character Name" and ships in the relationships field, and freeforms. / denotes a romantic or sexual relationship. & denotes a platonic relationship.

Fandoms with umbrellas can be nominated as the nominators please, with both individual franchises and umbrella categories eligible. For instance:

Star Wars could have Star Wars (All Media Types), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars Thrawn novels nominated.
Marvel could have Marvel (All Media Types), Marvel 616, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (movies), Thor (movies), and individual game and comic titles nominated.
If you want to increase your odds of getting something with characters you both know, you may wish to narrow in on a more specific version of your nomination like Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic or Iron Man (movie).

Crossover ships should be nominated under Crossover Fandom or under [Canon name 1]/[Canon name 2]. As matching is only on fandom, you are most likely to get what you want by nominating the canon names. Example: Fandom: Iron Man (movies)/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Relationship: Tony Stark & Spike.

Recursive fanfiction (aka fic or art of fic) is allowed if the creator has given public permission for their work to be included as a fandom in an exchange. Looking at you here, Dreaming of Sunshine fandom. Because Dreaming of Sunshine was synned to Naruto and its previous disambiguated for exchanges version was, too, to prevent Naruto eating DoS tags, please nominate under the new "Dreaming of Sunshine (Fanfic Disambiguation)" fandom tag. If you have a different recursive fandom you wish to be included, please point me in the direction of where the creator has given public permission.

The following nominations for fandoms will not be accepted:

Nazi RPF
RPF involving modern serial killers, mass shooters, or other modern tragedies
Other similar public figures who have living victims
Modern RPF for persons under the age of 18
Modern RPF for persons not famous in their own right

Other RPF is eligible. Fictional canons are eligible. Original Works are eligible. If someone nominates it, Creator's Choice of Fandom to give your creator complete freedom is eligible. The mod reserves the right to use their best judgment (or the fandom equivalent of phone a friend) for if something is or isn't allowed.

Because we're not matching on characters, ships, or freeforms, they do not have to be unique. Tags may wander. Unless the mod messes something up, this shouldn't cause any problems.

Freeforms should in some way be related to the theme, either to give an idea of the level of spookiness you're up for or to serve as some form of on theme prompt. Fic and art are expected to run the gamut from gentle spooks to screaming scares. Dark fic and art, horror, and the spoopy are all allowed and encouraged. If you have a preference, you should indicate it via freeform.

Because this is a flash exchange, we will not be doing clarification posts for freeforms. We'll still try to use a very open approach to what's on theme. Because we're only human, something may be rejected by mistake or misclick. If so, please let us know if your spooky/spoopy/horror freeform was accidentally rejected.

Examples of freeforms that would not be approved:

Trans Character

Fluff

Pining

Examples of freeforms that would be approved:

Trans Character Trying to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

Human Makes Friends with the Monster in Their Closet

Ghost Pines for Their Living Lover Who Can't See Them

Eternal Freeforms Tag Set
2025 Fandoms and Relationships Tag Set

This post allows anon comments. Comments are not screened. If you wish to communicate with the mod privately, please either use the mod contact post or e-mail the mod at jumpscaremodding@gmx.com

I will be using this post as the new eternal nominations post, so rather than linking directly to the all links and schedules post, I will say to please check the sticky post at the top of the comm for all links and the current schedule.

everysecondtuesday posting in

jump_scare_exchange

Jump Scare is a themed flash exchange dedicated to the spooky, spoopy (think Casper the Friendly Ghost or that Spooky Scary Skeletons vid), and horror. Nominated freeforms and the works themselves should adhere to the theme.

Eternal Freeforms Tag Set: Nominate freeforms here!
2025 Fandoms and Relationships Tag Set: Nominate relationships here!
2021 Tag Set (for reference; not taking nominations)
2025 Collection
Parent Collection
Canon Promo Post
Rules and FAQ
Nominations Post

2025 Schedule:
August 16-21 nominations and sign ups (closed 8:59 PM EDT)
August 22 matching
August 23-30 creating
August 30 8:59 PM EDT works due; 11:59 PM EDT works reveals
September 1 8:59 PM EDT creator reveals

To contact a mod, please comment on the Mod Contact Post, DM tuesday on Discord, or e-mail the mods at jumpscaremodding@gmx.com

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musesfool

I'm off work tomorrow and Friday - I have my annual eye exam tomorrow (they have sent me about 17 requests to confirm and I have each time but wtf) and I decided to just take Friday off for a long weekend - so I logged off work at 4:30 and ended up taking a long nap. I woke up to an intense thunderstorm with a truly shocking (pun intended) amount of lightning.

My brother had hip replacement surgery this morning and it went well - he is home already!

Baby Miss L loved the books - especially the Pete the Kitty goes to preschool one and I got adorable videos of her "reading" it.

Speaking of books, I did indeed finish the last 3 books of Dungeon Crawler Carl over the weekend and I was incensed that book 7 was not the end - there are supposedly 3 more books coming to wrap things up and ugh, I hate having to wait. This write-up on tumblr (vague spoilers for the whole series, as an enticement to read the books) is a great summary of why you should read it and then come talk to me about it. I am not even a cat person and I love Princess Donut! There is a wide array of female characters! There is a lot of gory violence and an unfortunate amount of fatphobia (i.e., any), but the anti-capitalist rage is real. I just hope Dinniman can stick the landing.

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Mets vs Braves on tv

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dreams_mayhem

Welcome to Score Wednesday where I will post the previous weeks' scores for the regular challenge and team challenge.

Please try to combine as much as possible your fills into one or two posts so we can avoid anyone feeling like they're being spammed!

Notes for the week:

Okay, I would love to see you guys making one fill if you can! I get sometimes real life happens or you are not inspired by the prompts but you can check out the WORD POOL if that's the case or even come up with ONE fill in your own. fleetsparrow and alasse_irena, y'all there? I hope everything's okay!

Team Chaos members are: vexed_wench, starfleetbrat, and alasse_irena and you guys post here.

Team Order members are: pattrose, endlesstwanted, fleetsparrow and you guys post here.

Now, onto the Scores!!!

Regular:
On Week 3 (mod included) we had THREE members participate by posting at last one fill for the week!

TWO members (mod included) scored a maximum of 21 points and a total of EIGHT works.

First Place: pattrose with 47 points
Second Place: endlesstwanted with 30 points
Third Place: starfleetbrat with 27 points
If you feel I am in error, please let me know!

Team:
Team Chaos Prompt Week 2: Cover
Team Order Prompt Week 2: Ratty
Team Chaos Score Week 2: ZERO point this week which means that they have TWO points total
Team Order Score Week 2: TWO this week Team Order has the lead with SIX overall points total!

Each week, according to the total number of points each team scores by the number of fills members post, that team will either win ONE point together or they will win TWO POINTS

Remember you can post as many fills as you want for the team and the more you post, the more points you will score towards your team winning for the week. I am banking the points scored from the fills individual members have made so those can be divided equally among the contributors of their team's challenge.

Comments? Questions? Concerns? Put them below!

Current Mood: tired

stonepicnicking_okapi

This bingo card was created by

kingstoken. More about the challenge here: https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/109837.html

From your TBR: Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper. This was a gift and it is very much in the style of Edward Gorey with a lot of tropes from mystery novels. I liked it so much that I gave my sister a copy for her birthday last month, and she enjoyed it too.

Banned Book: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I can't believe I went to all women's university for undergraduate and never read this. It was published a year after I graduated but still. It seems like it would've crossed my path before now. FUCK! It was a hard read. I had to read it one chapter a day in the car between clients. Given all the ways women's reproductive rights are being taken away, it really cuts too close to home. Also, next year, I think I am going to use a substitute for the banned books square. It's just depressing. Either stuff like this or teen sex or trans kids books.

Non-Human POV: Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann (aka the sheep detective book). I was disappointed. The premise is excellent but there are too many sheep and humans to keep track of and the rules about what the sheep understand (and come to understand) and don't understand about the human world and the vague descriptions of some of the scenes (and some of the backstories) and the woo-woo (supernatural/occult bits) made it confusing. And the ending is wholly unsatisfying. And my sister is a vet and has, on occasion, filled out lots of paperwork for animals to be taken to different countries and I don't think sheep can actually go on holiday from Ireland to the Continent. But I understand they are making a movie of it! [I am also trying to do as many squares as I can of

garonne's 2025 Book Bingo here: https://garonne.dreamwidth.org/58219.html so I think this qualifies as G-I-5: Non-human protagonist. I also filled another square for the Garonne book bingo: Book read AFTER seeing/hearing about an adaptation. I didn't think I could fill this one but my second client and I binged a few episodes of "Tracker" one Friday and I listened to The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, book 1 of the series upon which the TV series is based after that Friday.]

And that's done!

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I signed up for Battleship this year, my second time, knowing that I would leave for vacation nine days in. That seemed fine, since I figured eight days of Battleship would probably be enough for me, and then I burned out in six days. 😅 Still, I received some things and I wrote a bunch of things, and as always the team atmosphere was very fun. I'll put the stuff I wrote in a different post.

Things I received:
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ElasticElla, Suspiria 2019, Susie/Madame Blanc, 800 words. A trippy little post-canon piece, and the one gift I received for one of my requests.

Dirty Water by

darkrosaleen, Jaws/The Witch crossover, Martin Brody/Thomasin, 900 words. I got offered this in DMs (as someonetimes happens in Battleship), and the combo was so wild I couldn't resist.

Wrist Day by

Nary, Letterkenny, Jonesy/Katy/Reilly, 1.5k. A very silly PWP with the humor and voices of the show, which I adopted when it was offered up on discord (as also sometimes happens in Battleship).

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(This cultivar is called Blue Fire. I was very late getting my tomatoes started, but I am about to have lots of them and I am excited by this! Rainbow planting didn't quite work partly because none of the Yellow Pear-Shaped made it but largely because I lost track of which were my purple plum tomatoes and which were instead my orange, but -- I'm about to have A Bunch of ridiculous coloured tomatoes, and this is probably the showiest of the lot of 'em!)

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