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It started in October 2024 - it's been seventeen issues and one annual.

It's the Cirque, which Dick'd encountered as Robin, having designs on him and Blüdhaven.

In issue #132, he'd confronted the Cirque's representative Olivia Pearce - and seen her face.

( Her master, the Zanni, came out of it. )

Current Music: CYBER DRAGON - CityOfFeelings

torachan

1. We had a very nice morning at Disneyland today. A little warm (I wore a sweatshirt when we got in and had to take it off about halfway through, so then I had to lug it around the rest of the time, which was annoying) and a little crowded, but we ate a lot of good food and had a good time.

2. Poor Tuxie looks like he got in a scuffle again. Yesterday he came to the door with one eye partially closed and the fur between his eye and ear on that side scraped up. He's looking better today (eye fully open) and unlike some times before where he disappeared for a few days to hunker down, he has been spending his time in our yard as usual, so hopefully he's doing okay. I do wish he wouldn't get in fights. :-/

3. Jasper is just hanging out.

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The launch of Justice League Quarterly might’ve seemed excessive, but in retrospect, it let Giffen, DeMatteis, and Jones explore a few story concepts in depth that otherwise might’ve been sent to the margins. First up was Booster Gold’s new super-team, the Fighting Shills. No, wait, I mean the Intellectual Property. No, wait, I mean the Bought-And-Paid-For Hacks. No, wait, I mean…the Conglomerate? Are we SURE that’s their name?

( In 1990, the name ‘‘Citizens United’’ would’ve said ‘super-team’ more than ‘‘overextension of corporate power.’’ )

tsuki_no_bara

i watched miracle last night, about the 1980 olympics and the miracle on ice (when the us hockey team beat the soviets, for them what might not be familiar), so today i had to watch current olympics hockey because they reran the men's gold medal game this afternoon. us-canada, us gets the gold in overtime. very exciting. :D i love that one of the us players, his uncle played on the 1980 team and his grandfather played in 1960 (also a gold medal year). and not only was this the us men's first hockey gold since 1980, we won it on the same day. just, you know, forty-six years later.

(in 1980 i was in the denver airport and when the us team won the crowds of people standing around the gates watching the game on those tvs in the waiting areas lost their collective shit. it's hard to overstate how big a deal it was. i mean aside from the geopolitics the soviet team was highly trained and the us team was made up of college kids who'd only ever played college hockey against each other. which is not to discount their talent and hard work but just that they were trained under a very different system and expectations were very low.)

i'm kind of going to miss the olympics and to be honest i'm really going to miss the olympics themed ads. especally the little girl skating in the attic in front of all her stuffed animals, the other little girl who wants to skate so bad and falls the second she gets on the ice - and then you see her thumbs-up before she hauls herself upright again - and the "we're all on the same team" one. (all the folks in competing sports jerseys giving each other the stink-eye cracks me up.) i'm also going to miss curling being such a big part of the national conversation. and it would've been nice to get another curling medal but i'm not in any way complaining about the silver we did get.

in that vein, have a video about the weird-ass physics of curling stones (among other things). no one can figure out why they spin the way they do.

a farm in vermont has a tournament every year using cheese wheels as curling stones. no word on whether or not the winning team wins its own cheese wheel. if not, it should.

you can learn something from every sport. like that skeleton is the most terrifying sport in the winter olympics, second only to luge. either you go down an ice chute feet first or head first but both are extremely scary options.

so we're in for another storm around here and according to the french toast alert we're doomed. by which i mean A LOT of snow. curling was canceled tonight and tomorrow and the u is closed altho that just means campus is closed but if you can do your job remotely you still have to do it. one of my monday meetings was canceled anyway so we can, in the words of the pi, "enjoy the blizzard". i got food, i got a shovel, i got a metal ruler to measure how much snow lands on my car, i'm prepared. and i missed the last big storm on account of i was in florida so maybe mother nature thinks i'm owed one.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: the dark tower

Animanga etc tuber: Tyranno - Analysis and reviews of new anime. Along with them, Mother's Basement have sensibilities towards certain topics in animanga that I appreciate. Both are willing to check out BL/GL shows on top of all the other stuff out there and give them a fair chance.

“such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea- did she just win.- This is so fun and now I really want an extended manga or comic like this

"Sentient robot series I’ve watched and will watch" - "Sentient robot series is a guilty pleasure of mine and I’ve watched a few here and there, so I figured I would give my two cents on the matter."

Stranger Things Failed A Long Time Ago

Guardian TV cliches

castle-nim - "Most manwha use 3D assets from an asset library. One such asset is Castle Nim - a 3D castle that shows up in many different series." Isn't there also a horse asset that people use that's really unrealistic looking as well?

Current Mood: busy

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It's feeling like déjà vu
When I'm standing next to you
And all these years of running
They led me straight to you🎤
Cannons - Crush

Current Mood: busy

muccamukk

I just have such a strong reaction to the question: "Is it queerbaiting if straight actors play gay roles?"

My answer is neither "yes" nor "no."

It's "Not today, Satan!"

torachan

Today is Anaheim Ducks Day at DCA and I specifically made a reservation for today rather than Saturday (our usual), not because either of us care anything about hockey or the Ducks, but because last year we just happened to be there on that day and had an amazing burrito that they only serve on Ducks Day lol.

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, February 22, to midnight on Monday, February 23 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34278 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 16

How are you doing?

I am OK
11 (68.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
5 (31.2%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
4 (25.0%)

One other person
8 (50.0%)

More than one other person
4 (25.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

lightbird

The throw pillow I needlepointed in the late summer/early fall is now finished!

My Completed Masterpiece:

I also made ornaments which will be gifts for my friends. Pics under the cut.

( more masterpieces! )

wychwood

( 1. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett ) Pratchett at his best balances the comedy with really meaningful moments, and this is definitely one of those.

( 2. The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean ) Definitely not my jam.

( 3. Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us - Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman ) Very light, sometimes questionable, but packed full of fun anecdotes (and a surprisingly good examination-in-passing of how scientific research works).

( 4. Ocean - Colin Butfield and David Attenborough ) Not life-changing, but well worth a read.

( 5. Common Goal, 6. Role Model, and 7. The Long Game - Rachel Reid ) I wasn't keen on CG, but I liked the other two a lot - and I'm looking forward to the seventh book coming out later this year! More Ilya and Shane: give it to me.

( 8. The Fifth Form at St Dominic's - Talbot Baines Reed ) Worth a read! But it's not going to shoot up my list of favourite school stories.

( 9. Time to Shine - Rachel Reid ) Not brilliant, but sweet.

( 10. Identity - Nora Roberts ) Mostly you know what you're getting with Roberts! This was very heavy on the wealth porn, but despite all my mockery I did enjoy reading it.

( 11. Persuasion - Jane Austen ) A delightful story as always.

( 12. Strange Pictures - Uketsu ) Short, weird, and interestingly different.

( 13. The Snow Tiger - Desmond Bagley ) This has aged much better than I expected; I was genuinely gripped.

( 14. Swallowdale - Arthur Ransome ) These are just such good books.

( 15. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo ) Interesting to read the original after all the cultural osmosis, but actually I disagree with her quite a lot! I'm not sorry I read it, though.

( 16. Sassinak - Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon ) I did still quite enjoy this, but it was a distinct let-down from my much-better remembered version!

kaberett

Reading. Finished The Rose Field (Pullman)!!! I am Making Arrangements for it to Leave My House. ( Read more... )

ANYWAY. I finished it. It Is Done.

Then read the first few pages of Dead Hand Rule (Gladstone; latest in the Craft Wars) before deciding that actually I need to reread at least the end of Wicked Problems in order to remember what's going on...

Writing. Progress continues both glacial and extant.

Listening. My relisten-while-actually-awake of the first chunk of The Hidden Almanac continues, slowly.

Playing. We have finished an Exploders run on Hard in Inkulinati. I am contemplating, given how smoothly that went, whether I want to have a try at Very Hard...

Cooking. It's not quite "this week's breakfast dal, and a loaf of bread", but it does sort of feel like it was. Partly because for reasons we did not get our usual box of veg on Monday last week, which meant that we were scrabbling around using up Shelf Things and the occasional Supermarket Discount Item...

NO WAIT, I also DID make buckwheat pancakes, and inspired by lnr combined Tinned Pear and Stem Ginger with Vanilla Essence and also Ground Cardamom to go in same. V good. Will repeat.

Eating. My mother acquired for us, as A Special Treat, a variety of Baked Goods from The Fancy Bakery In Eddington: my favourite is still the fig-and-?ricotta, but the blueberry-and-?ricotta is also very good, as is the fougasse. A was extremely pleased with the pain aux raisins. AND my mother made some excellent baba ganoush, eaten with said fougasse.

This week also feat. rainbow bagels (which we got to watch some of the manufacturing process for!) as well as misc other foodstuffs from Shalom Hot Beigels.

A has some coffee and butterscotch cake (leftovers from a test bake!) from Flour Arrangements; alas by the time I got my act together to actually collect Excess Test Cake the apple pie and lemon had both all gone...

Exploring. I got to spend a little time in the City of London Cemetery, which is currently ablaze with (among other things) purple crocuses; we also (on our second attempt) managed to go on A Snowdrop Walk Around Anglesey (with thanks to aldabra for reminding me that it is That Time Of Year still!). Snowdrops excellent. May or may not get around to sharing some photos. (Our first attempt at A Snowdrop Walk Around Anglesey Abbey wound up mutating into a poke around the back of Churchill and Astronomy to peer at bulbs and other plants misc, which was also very enjoyable even if I did once again fail to take A to see the Barbara Hepworth.)

Growing. ... I bought a bag of snowdrops In The Green at Anglesey, to go into the ground around the cherry tree at the allotment? The lemongrass seedlings haven't all died?

jadelennox

I take a lot of pictures of three classes of things:

Cats: This pictures are good on any camera, including my agéd single-lens SE.
Birds: These pics are shit on the aforementioned handheld phone.
Moss and lichens and bugs: These pics are fine on the phone, but could be much better.

My real constraint is my hands and arms. I can't hold my arms above my head, I can't hold a phone still very long, the non-ergonomic controls and shape of a phone are shit, I realistically can't carry a tripod on a hike, and I can't bear weight on my shoulders or the back of my neck for any length of time. (I recognize that this collection of constraints means my pictures will never be great, and that's okay.)

So, questions:

Are there any cameras that have particularly good ergonomics, are particularly light, or have a good reputation for accessibility?
I believe I could get a remote shutter trigger & a remote focus, so I could prop the camera somewhere and get a good pic from a less painful angle; do you know how to choose a hand-friendly one? (Not finger-fiddly, easy to attach & detach, easy to click buttons.)
On a modern camera, is it possible to get lenses good enough for bird pics that are not, you know, heavy? Last time I had an SLR I was taking pictures on film, so that tells you how out of date my knowledge is.
What's the lightest tripod that works well for people with shit fine motor control and no finger strength? I can sort by weight on hiking sites, but hikers put up with a lot of fiddly controls that I can't handle.

(I'm only looking for advice from your experience or from the experience of people you trust. Please don't GoogleKagiGoPT it for me!)

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Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Another tradition of forming a super-hero team: the members having a little bit of conflict first.

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It's 3 months out from the Canberra Spinners and Weavers annual exhibition and sale and I'm focusing on making stock to sell. I thought I'd include some of my design thoughts and process as I do, not to show off or promote stuff to sell, but to show that I'm just doing dumb stuff until it works. Anyone can do what I do, and more importantly everyone should be out there doing dumb stuff with their hands and their brains. The world is now not only on fire, but filled with creations that can make things but they cannot make at. Because art requires intention, and that's something Al doesn't have (yet). So use your hands and your brains and make things our techno overlords cent replicate.
( I, for one, do not welcome our new overlords )
( Making stuff 2: Electric Boogaloo )

umadoshi

Reading: Last week I finished Stephanie Burgis' Wooing the Witch Queen (fun!) and read Heated Rivalry. I opted to just skip straight to the actual HR novel rather than first reading the Scott/Kip novel, which worked out fine, since I also had that context from the show. I enjoyed it a fair bit, but now I'm in the awkward position of wanting to see the next chunk for Shane and Ilya but no more urgently than after I finished watching season 1 of the show. The choices now are a) read the entire series (presumably doubling back to actually read book 1), b) skip ahead and read The Long Game, or c) hold off entirely and wait for season 2 of the show.

I also read a few more volumes each of Hikaru no Go and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, but I'm still in rereading territory with both. (I think I've already read up to vol. 12 of Kurosagi, but for Hikaru, I think the odds are against me really realizing when I've hit new territory until I go to enter a volume in Goodreads and find it's not already on my Read list there.)

Watching:

scruloose and I are caught up on both The Pitt and Frieren, and we finished Midnight Mass last weekend (a very solid, intense ending).

With my crunch time at work starting, it's not an ideal time for us to start a show that's a significant time commitment or that's going to leave me desperate to see a next episode when work is eating most or all of my evenings. It's possible this will result in me just showing

scruloose Heated Rivalry, since it's apparently our key cultural export of the decade and all. *g* Only six episodes and I don't have to worry about being impatient to see what happens next or about being spoiled.

(I still don't feel actively fannish about HR at all, but am enjoying being adjacent to it and seeing all the fannish excitement and meta and such. I have saved many fic recs to my read-later list on A03, but have yet to actually read a single one [and may never, given how slowly I go through fic--there's still a steady stream of Guardian fic I haven't read that also goes on that list].)

Weathering/Working: We have what sounds like a significant nor'easter blizzard arriving at some point tomorrow, with heavy wet snow. Will this be where our luck fails for the season and we lose power for the first time? (I'm completely astonished that it hasn't happened yet. Probably it's not really because the generator and backup power are warding that off, like carrying an umbrella around...)

And of course the spring crunch is set to start tomorrow in the late afternoon, right around when the storm is likely to be in full swing. Will the weather have much impact? (Mainly, I guess, in terms of Those Who Speak all being able to make it there safely; I kinda hope that there's some kind of backup power in their actual building, but I don't know for sure one way or the other.)

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candyheartsex author reveals have happened! And here's the fic I wrote for

facethestrange:

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Title: in the darkness with you
Word count: 4,233
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Pairing: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Rating: Mature
Content tags: Blind Zhao Yunlan, First time, Hand-Feeding, Finger-Sucking, Clothed Sex, Zhao Yunlan's oral fixation, Episode Related, Episode 21, Missing Scene, Blindness Arc
A/N: Many thanks to

china_shop for beta-reading.

Summary:

Zhao Yunlan woke to the smell of citrus, sweet and strong in the air. Without fully turning his face out of the pillow, he slitted open a sleep-heavy eye - to complete, unchanged darkness. Reality came crashing down like a landslide. Right: still blind.

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Here we are, folks: there is only one days left until the deadline on February 23 (anywhere in the world)!

If you haven't posted all of your fics and art yet, now's a great time to check out our Posting Guide here or our Embed Guide here. For your mods' sanity, please don't wait until the last minute to post! We're available for last-minute tech support, but we do sleep sometimes.

If you're still not quite ready to post, please contact us ASAP! You have a few options:

The backup protocol. This option is for people who’re not sure whether they can complete their assignment, but who really really want to. A backup is a pinch hitter assigned ahead of time. If you complete your assignment, that’s great! If you don’t complete your assignment, you can call it off at the last minute - while your pinch hitter has had time to prepare. To request a backup, please email purim_gifts@yahoo.com.

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Full default. If you’re absolutely sure you can’t complete your assignment, this option is for you. You can activate it by emailing purim_gifts@yahoo.com, or by hitting the “Default” button at the AO3. Either way, you won’t be penalized for it; life happens, and we get that.

And if you’re not sure which of those options is right for you, please email purim_gifts@yahoo.com ASAP! Please don't leave it until the last minute; the earlier we know what's going on, the more options we have to help you.

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Two very updates for Squidge Images.

The first update is we have opened up signup access for Squidge Images. Instead of having to leave us a ticket for an image hosting account, we have decided that it's been long enough, and the folks who were abusing image hosting have most likely moved on. So all that is done.

Second, and most important, Squidge Image Hosting will be down starting at 8am Pacific on Sunday, March 1st for an upgrade. Read that again. I say this because we will inevitably get 8,000 tickets asking us why image hosting is down, and when will it be back up again. Seriously. We've seen this with FenRecs.com posts - they are completely ignored and people will log tickets asking when it will be back (later this week, we hope!). This upgrade is important because will be transitioning from on-site hosting of images to remote hosting of images. Oh, and the upgrade should bring video support as well! So if you have videos you need hosting and, like us, hate Youtube, you'll be able to host your videos on Squidge Images.

Again, Squidge Image Hosting will be down starting at 8am Pacific time on Sunday, March 1st for an upgrade. We hope to be fully upgraded and back up within four hours, but we all know technology can be a giant pain sometimes.

Questions? Leave us a message here, or leave us a trouble ticket by clicking here.

flareonfury

Inspired by

adventdrabbles, I will be posting daily prompts at

40daysofdrabbles from Ash Wednesday to Easter, prompts will mostly be winter/spring themed things.

Any fandom (minus RPF/Reality TV), pairing or rating is allowed. Feel free to combine with other challenges! Minimum word count is 100 words, but no maximum.

Our first five prompts are now up! Feel free to start writing or follow us incase a prompt jumps out at you!

Or want to suggest prompts? Have questions?

So check out

40daysofdrabbles!!

The original purpose

40daysofdrabbles is just to write 40 drabbles about whatever you want to focus on, or ask your friends for prompts/ships/fandoms - this is open year-round although it originally started as a personal challenge ages ago for Lent. This still applies if you want to combine the two events.

Check out the profile page for more information!

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Title: Well, it is Raining!
Fandom: Hercule Poirot
Rating: G
Length: 348 words
Summary: Hastings comes in very wet; Poirot does not approve.

( But, ma fois... )

"Meimu /
Delusion"

Shimotsuki Kairi, 2008

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Summary: A short 8 page story about a commanding officer and a disobedient fighter pilot's concerns regarding death in combat.

My comments: I had this on my TBR because it's by the author of Brave 10 and I was desperate for more of her male/male dynamics. I didn't realize this was going to give me heart palpitations.

The characters are fighter jet pilots. Toudou is the commanding officer, he's a rough guy. Trine seems more laid-back. He writes his last rites basically on his jet and Toudou gets mad seemingly because it's against the rules but it's way more about the idea of losing Toudou, because he wouldn't make it through if he died. I get the feeling they weren't together before, but this was Toudou's way of confessing by bringing up 'lover's suicide' and Trine responding with the kiss.

I was so worried it would end with a sad page geeze my heart.

Art: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Characters: ⭐️⭐⭐⭐⭐
Story: ⭐️⭐⭐⭐
Rereadable: 🇾

My rating: 4.5/5

Current Mood: drained

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Here are items with dates between Sunday, February 22nd and Saturday, March 1st, as well as items added recently that started this past week. Remember, you can comment here on new items that need to be added to the list.

Items starting since the last update & this coming week

Open Date	Close Date	Community	Type of Challenge	Prompt/Information	Link
02/22/2026	04/18/2026	tardis_remix (DW)	Fanworks	Doctor Who: Signup and prompt fill period for Doctor Who and Related Fandoms Remix	click here for details
02/23/2026	03/02/2026	the_mane_event (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Signup period for The Main Event, a gift exchange for all things hair-related.	click here for details
02/26/2026	03/07/2026	unsent_letters_exchange (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Signup period for Unsent Letters - An Epistolary Exchange.	click here for details
03/01/2026	03/31/2026	marchmetamatterschallenge (DW)	Meta	Multifamdom: March is the time for backing up Meta entries to backup sites.	click here for details

Items ending this coming week

Open Date	Close Date	Community	Type of Challenge	Prompt/Information	Link
02/15/2026	02/22/2026	the_mane_event (DW)	Tagset Noms	Multifandom: Tagset nomination period for The Main Event, a gift exchange for all things hair-related.	click here for details
02/18/2026	02/25/2026	goreswap (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Sign up period for Goreswap Exchange 2026	click here for details
02/18/2026	02/25/2026	unsent_letters_exchange (DW)	Tagset Noms	Multifandom: Tagset nomination period for Unsent Letters - An Epistolary Exchange.	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	allbingo (DW)	Fanworks	February's theme is Valentines Fest Bingo	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	allbingo (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Aromantic February Prompt List bingo fest	click here for details
01/01/2026	02/28/2026	beagoldfish (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: A multimedia microbang with all types of media encouraged	click here for details
12/10/2025	02/28/2026	blackcestfest (Tumblr)	Fanworks	Prompt filling period for Harry Potter Blackcest Fest 2025	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	bookclub_dw (DW)	Book Club	The book for February is Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Future	click here for details
02/08/2026	02/28/2026	dove_drabbles (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: February Prompt is "Chocolate's the best way to say 'I love you'""	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	elasticella (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Fresh Femslash Salad Bar is underway all of February	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	emotion100 (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: February Prompt is Desire	click here for details
12/01/2025	02/28/2026	falloutbang (Tumblr)	Fanworks	Author signup period for Fall Out Boy fandom's Big Bang	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	fancake (DW)	Recs	Multifandom: Round 183 - Inept in Love	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	likealighthouse (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Fall Out Bou Femslash February Ficathon (based on Fall Out Boy titles, lyrics, etc.)	click here for details
02/14/2026	02/28/2026	romancingmcshep (DW)	Fanworks	Stargate Atlantis: Posting period for Romancing McShep	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	selfcest_fest (AO3)	Fanworks	Multifandom: SelfCest Fest runs all of February	click here for details
02/14/2026	02/28/2026	sga_saturday (DW)	Fanworks	Stargate Atlantis: Posting period for Romancing SGA Fest, a "Everything but McShep" romance fest	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	small_fandoms (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: The Frbuary 2026 Small Fandoms Drabblethon!	click here for details
02/14/2026	02/28/2026	stargatefests (DW)	Fanworks	Stargate SG-1: Posting period for Romancing SG-1	click here for details
02/02/2026	02/28/2026	sweetandshort (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: February 10 out of 20	click here for details
02/15/2026	02/28/2026	sweetandshort (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: February's challenge for Unique/Rare Words - The word is "petrichore"	click here for details
02/01/2026	02/28/2026	trope_of_the_month (DW)	Fanworks	Multifandom: Prompt for February is: Aliens Made Them Do It	click here for details
02/01/2026	03/01/2026	akurokubigbang (Tumblr)	Fanworks	AkuRoku: Signup period for the AkuRoku big bang	click here for details
02/20/2026	03/01/2026	fan_flashworks (DW)	Fanworks	Multifamdom: Challenge 507: Amnesty	click here for details

NOTE: Here are a few challenge communities that (can) have challenges that (usually) aren't part of the list:

Harry Potter fandom challenges can be found at PotterFests

The Vocab Drabbles Community does weekly challenges

The AU Challenge Community offers multiple AU challenges with no deadlines

The Froday Flash Fiction Challenge has weekly & other challenges

The Fic Promptly Community has daily prompts

The MCU100 Community offers weekly drabble challenges for the MCU fandom

The XMEN100 Community offers weekly drabble challenges for the X-Men fandom

The 10TrueLoves Community offers multifandom character prompts

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unclutter

How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?

Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.

Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!

ps. I'm going to be a bit sporadic for at least the next month; please cheer along others in the comments!

nanila

Last weekend, we stayed in a Landmark Trust property a mere half-hour journey to Bletchley Park. We were surprised by nice weather on the Saturday, so we made the trip. Below is an assortment of photos from the selection of buildings we managed to visit over the course of five hours. I don’t think we saw more than a third of it, so we’ll definitely take advantage of the year-long entry that the steep admission price gets you to see the rest.

The dingy basement has had a lick of paint and yet somehow doggedly retains its character.

Listening stations.

Keiki does some Morse code-breaking.

Humuhumu does some Enigma encoding.

A surprisingly dry and sunny day after all the rain we’ve been having.

Daffodils were not quite ready.

The Mansion seemed like it was a bit of all right.

Not so sure the Intelligence Factory needs this.

Humuhumu and I spent quite a while on this interactive exhibit, plotting the locations of various maritime assets and enemies.

Many of the personal testimonials in the exhibition mention how boring and repetitive some of the intelligence work was.

You can see why they resorted to putting frogs in the pneumatic tube system to liven up the day.

The Park is beautifully maintained and the interactive exhibits are well designed and engaging - I’d say from the age of about 10 on up - so well worth a visit. I restrained myself to one book in the gift shop (The Walls Have Ears by Helen Fry) but could easily have brought home a stack.

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Title: Fallen In Battle
Fandom: War of the Worlds (1988-90)
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Harrison Blackwood, Paul Ironhorse.
Rating: PG
Setting: Seasons 2, Episode 1.
Summary: An alien clone of Colonel Ironhorse wreaks havoc on the Blackwood Project.
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 507: Amnesty 84, using Challenge 15: Double.
Disclaimer: I don’t own War of the Worlds, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

( Fallen In Battle... )

Current Mood: tired

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candyheartsex has revealed authors!! Another delightful round. Because the minimum requirements are so small (300 words for fic) and there are usually several hundreds participants, I decide to go mega self-indulgent and ask only for my rare polyships, in tiny (K-9) and larger (Wind Breaker) fandoms. And therefore I was SUPER DELIGHTED to get, guess what?? A gift for one of my beloved rare polyships :D :D :D :D 💖💖💖 *happy sigh* A delight, truly.

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yesthisisnarumi | Wind Breaker | Sakura/Nirei/Suou/Kiryuu/Tsugeura | ~700 words | rated T

Summary: Akihiko wakes up in the middle of their bed and tries his best to find a way out.

Read it on AO3

Meanwhile I wrote two things :D :D One for a beloved BNHA polyship, and the other for K-9... I was so glad to have an outlet for some of my feelings over the fact that OBORO CANONICALLY GETS A COLLAR lol. This is probably the FIRST EVER K-9 fanwork in an exchange, too? >:D Mwahahaha

hardly an abduction | Boku no Hero Academia | Miruko/Dabi/Hawks | ~800 words | rated T
Summary: Dabi is injured. Miruko and Hawks take a risk to help, hiding in an abandoned shelter in the mountains.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

tailor-made | K-9 | Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari | ~400 words | rated M
Summary: Oboro pretends not to make a big deal out of it when Hidaka hands him a collar.
But it is.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

Current Mood: happy

Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I finished 7/6 on my last board. Even though I only read 1 chapter of non-BL stuff, the BL stuff was mostly great so I was happy. :'> I hope I get to read another great BL and I'll get to use my new scale again.

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Skill: Beat the trap tile once, draw a prompt

Roll #1:

An 8! Generate from TBR list! #1108. It's a oneshot called Meimu.

Roll #2:

A 10, prompt: roommates. 3P Lovers Shared House. The tags are very polarizing, apparently it's both toxic AND wholesome...

Roll #3:

An 8, prompt: amnesia. B-Eyes. This one has both shoujo and bromance so I'm a little worried, maybe I'll be able to OT3 them in my head though?

Roll #4:

A 5, prompt: historical. Let's see how well I remember Golden Kamuy...

Roll #5:

A 7, prompt: manga by a woman that got an anime. Blue Exorcist.

Roll #6:

An 8 and the end, that went fast although I'm about to conk the fuck out. The physical BL manga this time is Sweet Revolution. Only 5 single volumes left now...

Most looking forward to: 3P Lovers Shared House
Least looking forward to: Meimu? it's only like 8 pages though

~Manga TBR List~

[BL/Drama] Meimu ✔️
[BL/Comedy] 3P Lovers Shared House
[Shoujo/Horror] B-Eyes
[Action/Comedy] Golden Kamui
[Action/Fantasy] Blue Exorcist
[BL/Romance] Sweet Revolution

x1 shoujo, x2 shounen, x3 BL

Current Mood: tired

For my manga TBR list:

I read the BL Beta Off Not Dating and rated it 7.5/10!

Read chapter 10 of Men of the Harem.

Read chapter 23 of Ouji-sama nante Iranai.

Read chapter 115 of Dr. Stone!

Read the BL off stage love side, rated it 8/10!

Read the BL Shards of Affection and rated it 6.5/10.

And finally, I read off stage love side Re and rated it 9/10!!.

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1. So nice to get back to my routine at home. I tried my best to stick to the things I could while away but it's not the same and it's definitely a source of stress.

2. Carla got some frozen char siu fried rice from Trader Joe's and it's really good. Making fried rice from scratch is an easy meal, but I wouldn't mind keeping a bag of this in the freezer for times we feel like something even easier.

3. A moth got in the house the other day and Carla was able to get some really great pics of Ollie when he was laser focused on the moth.

citrakayah

Adapting this from a Werelist post.

I liked The Rose Field. It's one I had to think about to properly appreciate, though.

It's an interesting novel. Pullman's a good writer and the feeling of the characters and setting is beautiful. The true antagonists to the book come off as appropriately clinical and materialistic, to the detriment of all other parts to their being; the narrative feels like something out of myth; daemons come off as a little more animalistic in this latest set of novels than they did in His Dark Materials--they hunt, they eat, they leave corpses. Yet upon a closer inspection, a lot of people think it's a mess.

And they're not without reason. There's dropped plot points. Pullman retcons things, even within the book itself; they're warned against going someplace because of they will surely fall victim to a sickness, but when the protagonists go there there's no indication of danger from it. Many of the events that happen within the book are never properly explained. People are killed and we never find out who's responsible. The book doesn't really resolve the main plot line at all. At the end, the Magisterium is still turning Britain into a police state and their power is unbroken even if their leader is dead.

But thinking about it more, I think that actually helps the book. The biggest enemy in The Rose Field is an all-consuming materialism that breaks all relationships, seeing everything as interchangeable numbers on a spreadsheet. The necessity of imagination and unexplained things to the psyche is emphasized over and over again. Taking this into account, that "messiness" seems purposeful. It might not actually be, since apparently Pullman had to rewrite the ending. But if you have a book where a theme is "imagination is necessary and it's not psychologically healthy to obsessively try to pin everything down," having plot points that aren't fully explained works.

This is the first novel I've read in the past couple years that actually made me sit down and think about its themes. It's something I've thought about before--working in the sciences, I have an interesting relationship to the unknown. I want to expand the boundaries of knowledge, but don't want to know everything, because if we did, science would cease. The material effects of science are all well and good (well, usually--I could go without Agent Orange), especially in my field. But part of what makes science wondrous is that it's an attempt to understand what we don't know. And for that, we need an unknown.

What would happen, if we knew everything? It would be a horrible fate for any scientist, because there would be nothing more to study. We could teach the subject, we could have people memorize facts, we could consult, but it would be the spiritual death of our discipline.

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Finding Moments (627 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 长公主在上 | Zhǎng Gōng Zhǔ Zài Shàng (Web Series)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gu Xuanqing/Li Yunzhen
Characters: Gu Xuanqing, Li Yunzhen

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Creator: innitmarvelous_og
Fandom: Stock
Characters/Pairings:
Prompt: Challenge 507: Amnesty using Yellow
Word Count/Medium: 6 icons
Rating: None
Warning: None
Summary: Six icons featuring yellow
Notes: Yay! This is #3 for me!

( Follow the yellow brick road! )

thawrecka

Terrible headache and I didn't even drink last night, it's just that people were too loud in the pub. Amazing how you can get symptoms identical to a hangover without alcohol just from being around people yelling for hours.

Recently read: The Woman Dies by Aoka Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton - I picked this up partly because I enjoyed Barton's translation of Butter, and partly because the cover art is so cool. Collection of stories, much of it flash fiction, tacking sexism, gender, technology, the media, etc. A lot funnier than I expected. The titular story, which is my favourite, is incisive about sexist cliches in the movies, but also has a very funny conversation about vaginas. I feel like this is best read all at once, because so many threads are picked up repeatedly in multiple stories (the Japanese national anthem jokes, for example), and it has a great rhythm that way, so I'm glad I read it all at once. I had a great time with this.

Currently reading: Lord of Mysteries: The Clown, Part 1 by Cuttlefish that Loves Diving - I'm 44 chapters in and really enjoying myself. There's some things the animated series glossed over but that the novel goes into more depth on, so the world feels even more textured. I'm most delighted by how sneaky Klein is, and how awkward all his interactions with Leonard are, but there's a lot to enjoy. I like that this has more on the tarot club, and I'm amused by Audrey and her large dog.

Yen Press doesn't seem to list a translator anywhere in the book, but I can believe there is a human translator because there are so many clunky adverbs. When did adverbs stop being considered bad writing, my guys? Maybe I'm out of touch on this, because I see them so often in published fiction these days (especially in translated fiction), and they always annoy me.

DNF: The Moon Glow Bookshop by Dongwon Seo, translated by Shanna Tan - the idea of a bar that sells drinks that tell stories is fun, but the prose in the translation is so clunky and surface, with no real subtext or interesting description, no depth or texture, that I just can't push myself forward.

torachan

Recently Finished
The Reyes Incident
I think I got this on some sort of ebook sale. It feels like the sort of thing where I'd be like "well, it's free or just a dollar, so I'll take a chance". It wasn't great, though. Interesting premise about a woman who comes to the police station with a story of killer mermaids who ate her friends. The writing just wasn't great, though.

Another Appalachia
Memoir about a queer Indian woman who grew up in West Virginia, where her dad had taken a job as a company doctor for one of the chemical companies there in the 70s. I liked this.

A Skinful of Shadows
Set in the 1600s during the English civil war, the MC is the bastard of a powerful family who all have the ability to see ghosts and host them inside themselves. When her mother dies, she is taken in by the family, who it turns out, like to keep bastards close in the event that they need a ghost host, becaue the currently living members of the family are all host to multiple ghosts each, of dead family members. In some cases the host is too weak and becomes completely taken over by the ghosts. This was a neat premise and an enjoyable read. I have never not liked anything by Francis Hardine that I've read, and this was no exception.

Paying the Land
Non-fiction graphic novel about First Nations people in the Northwest Territories. The author is white, but he spent a lot of time interviewing people and it's basically like an illustrated interview. Very interesting.

Hen na E vol. 4

Ojisama to Neko vol. 16

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