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Base:
Start - ch 29, into the back bump make 27 sc (putting a st marker in first st), turn chain to front and do a 3 sc inc in last st of chain (put stitch marker in middle st), 27 sc around on other side of chain. (See Tuula Maaria's youtube video demonstrating this technique here if needed)



Row 2 - sc in first sc, 3 sc inc in second sc (put stitch marker in middle stitch), 25 sc, 3 sc inc in next (the st just before the stitch marker) and put stitch marker in middle st, sc (the stitch that had been marked on previous row), 3 sc inc in next (st after where the stitch marker had been (put a stitch marker in middle st) 26 sc, 3sc inc in last st (put stitch marker in middle stitch)



Row 3 - 2 sc, in stitch marker corner 3 sc replacing st marker in center st, 27sc, 3 sc in st marker corner replacing st marker in center st. 3 sc, in stitch marker corner 3 sc replacing st marker in center st, 28 sc, 3 sc in st marker corner replacing st marker in center st.

Row 4 - sc until st marker at corner, 3sc inc in that st (replacing marker in center st), sc to next corner, 3sc inc at corner (replacing marker in center st) etc

Repeat row 4 until size desired, approximated 12"/30cm

Ending row - when base reaches 12"/30cm (9-10 rows) sc to corner just past start of newest row (top right on the opposite side from the end of the starting chain) and do an inc of (sc, hdc, dc) in corner, putting marker in the hdc, and then a round of dc like the sc row repeat described in row 4 (one dc in each sc and 3 dc in the corner stitches) but when return to corner where the DCs began do only single dc (in the sc) ch1 and do a stacked sc to start next round OR 3dc and change color in last st

Sides:
Side Row 1 - stacked sc, ch1, dc into next sc, ch1, skip st, dc, c1, etc with (dc,ch1,dc) corner end with dc in corner, ch1, st to stacked ch

Row 2 - ch3, (dc into dc, ch1, sk ch1 space) repeat until at corner sk dc, 3 dc in ch1 sp, sk dc, skip ch1 sp, ch1, (dc into dc, ch1, sk ch1 space) etc until last corner where only do 2dc and slst to ch3

Row 3 - ch3, (dc into dc, ch1, sk ch1 space) repeat until at corner, dc into first dc, ch1, sk second dc, dc into third dc, ch1, skip ch1, (dc into dc, ch1, sk ch1 space) etc until last corner, dc in first dc, ch1, sk dc, slst to ch3

Repeat rows 2 and 3 until desired height is reached, ending on row 3. Change color if desired.

Solid row side finishing band row 1 - sc around in each dc and ch1 until the ch1 space before corner, skip dc before corner sc+ch1+sc in corner, skip next dc and sc into ch1 space, continue around repeating the (skip dc before corner sc+ch1+sc in corner, skip next dc and sc into ch1 space, sc into each dc and ch1 space) slst to first sc

Solid side finishing band row 2 - ch1 (counts as 1st sc) sc around, sc in every st and ch1 over the ch1 for the corners.

Repeat second finishing band row 3 or 4x

Handles: (will be made and attached long side to long side)
to start - sc 13 from the corner of last completed row.
Switch to a hook one size up from what had been being used.
Turn work and bring up a loop in the next 5 stitches (there will be 6 loops on hook)

Do 75 rows of Tunisian simple stitch.

to attach - put one one stitch marker 8 st from corner's ch1 and another 13 st from the ch1.
Switch back to original hook.

With final loop still on hook, put hook through the marked 13th sc on bag, yo and bring loop through the sc and then through the loop on hook





put hook through next bar on strap



and through the 12th sc on bag



YO and pull through sc and bar (2 loops on hook)



put hook through next bar and 11th st on bag, yo and bring through both (3 loops on hook), through next bar and 10th st on bag, yo and bring through both (4 loops on hook), through next bar and 9th st on bag, yo and bring through both (5 loops on hook)



turn strap slightly to work hook through end and then through 8th st on bag, YO and bring through both (6 loops on hook)





chain 1 (6 loops on hook)



Remove 6th hook and put hook through the post of the bag's sc



place loop back on hook and pull through (6 loops on hook)



YO and through 2 loops (5 loops on hook)



repeat working back to end of strap, after final yo and through last 2 loops then slst to same st, the 13th st.

For second strap - put stitch markers at 8 and 13 st from end of row's ch1 corner space. Slst to the 13th stitch marker. Slst into stitch marker, switch to larger hook. bring up loop in that and next 5 st (to other marker) resulting in 6 loops on hook. Do 75 rows of Tunisian simple stitch.

Attach the same way as first strap.

Put one one stitch marker 8 st from corner's ch1 and another 13 st from the ch1. Switch back to original hook. With final loop still on hook, put hook through the marked 13th sc on bag, yo and bring loop through the sc and then through the loop on hook (1 loop on hook). Put hook through next bar on strap and through the 12th sc on bag, YO and pull through sc and bar (2 loops on hook). Put hook through next bar and 11th st on bag, yo and bring through both (3 loops on hook), through next bar and 10th st on bag, yo and bring through both (4 loops on hook), through next bar and 9th st on bag, yo and bring through both (5 loops on hook). Turn strap slightly to work hook through end and then through 8th st on bag, yo and bring through both (6 loops on hook). Chain 1 (6 loops on hook). Remove 6th hook and put hook through the post of the bag's sc, place loop back on hook and pull through (6 loops on hook), YO and through 2 loops (5 loops on hook), repeat working back to end of strap, after final YO and through last 2 loops then slst to same st, the 13th st.

For extra sturdiness then slip st across to other strap and slst into first attaching st (13th st from other corner) and continue all the way around, adding a row of slip stitches over the scs. FO.

Congrats, you have made a bag!



(The bag pictured was made with Knitpicks' Dishie cotton yarn, a worsted weight yarn and it used nearly two entire skeins, with only a small bit of the grey remaining. It had 15 rows of blue for the sides in total and its approximate measurements are 14"x6" for the base base, the sides are 10" or so high (9" of mesh, 1" of solid finishing edging) straps are about 2' long in total.)

whumpex just had author reveals. I picked up a PH for it and wrote a Detective L fic for the lovely facethestrange:

The Kindness in the Morgue. Summary: When Ben comes across and storm-battered and bruised Luo Fei he steps in to help. (1,320 words)

I finished another blanket, one mostly made to try to use up yarn I got when a (furniture maker maybe?) company went out of business and had a crazy good sale and I picked up a stupid amount of yarn for next to nothing back in 1991 or so (it was all 100% wool on huge cones and despite making many, many things and donating half to my kids' school when they were little munchkins I still have some left and wowsa I am tired of trying to use it up). Unfortunately the pictures I took of the whole thing came out awful, the colors and patterns just washed out, but here's a mediocre photo of the corner I held in the sunlight from the window that actually shows what it looked like

And now I need a new project. I might try making a more hefty version of a market bag with regular cotton yarn as opposed to the typical thread string bags I keep making and losing. I have a lot of yarn from a black friday sale a few years ago I should try to get through.

And, last but not least, have two weeks of recthething recs (tumblr art and vids)

Doctor Who and The Backrooms crossover:
- The TARDIS has landed in the backrooms (excellent eeriness in this)

Jeeves and Wooster
- Dancing (just lovely)

Merlin
- a little tribute piece to anthony head (amazing Uther sketch)

Muppets/Princess Bride crossover:
- Dread Pirate Frogerts (incredible kermit-as-westley muppet build)

Murderbot
- Home is a place, home is a person. (wonderfully wistful)

Nirvana in Fire
- i have to believe he’s never coming back (xiao jingyan and the pearl, oh my heart)

Star Trek (TOS and AOS crossover/comparison)
- Old Man by Neil Young (excellent Spirk vid)

Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, Enterprise, Academy and Picard)
- ✨🏳️‍🌈🌈 Star Trek Pride🌈🏳️‍🌈✨ (clips of various canon scenes set to Acid Tunnel of Love by Toby Fox)

I finished the blanket I'd been working on. I'd misjudged when buying the yarn (from 2025 black friday sale) for size son wanted and have two skeins left but oh well. Blanket!

the pattern was "textured groove" and that was very valid, it has a great texture to it. 45"x60" give or take

David Burke died earlier this week. He was the original Watson in the Jeremy Brett Granada Sherlock Holmes series. Most of the obits talked about how he brought a competent, strong, true-to-canonness back to the character which I didn't think was quite fair since while Nigel Bruce (Basil Rathbone's counterpart for those movies) was a bit of an audience insert bumbler, H. Marion Crawford's Watson in the 1954 Ronald Howard's Holmes tv show was lovely. That said, Burke's Watson was absolute excellent! Granada!Holmes has the reputation it does for a reason and I loved that the Burke->Hardwicke switch was timed perfectly with Burke's last episode being The Final Problem and Harkwicke's first The Empty House and Burke's Watson had a young, twinkle-in-the-eye energeticness to him while Harkwicke's was more world weary and brokenly gentle which was perfect way to show how the character might have changed post-Holmes' and Mary's death.

RIP David Burke, may his memory be a blessing.

I may do a rewatch of my favorite Holmes' this weekend. Youtube has so much of it: the Rathbone movies, the Howard and Crawford series and, of course, all the Granada episodes. I don't think my favorite version of Hound is up there anymore (Ian Hart's Watson from 2002 with Richard Roxburgh as Holmes) but oh well, lots of other great Watsons and Holmes to spend time with there.

Have *sighs* three weeks of recthething recs (lots of tumblr art and one MDZS/Untamed fic)

Daredevil:
- Ben Urich (love the coloring on this)

Discworld
- Death and Binky (really nice)

Heated Rivalry
- the only place worth sleeping is one right next to you (adorable hollanov comic)

MDZS/The Untamed
- No one struggles like teenji (no he was not trying to make the rabbits kiss, Lan Xichen, that would be silly :D )
- portrait series by echo-bleu - Jiang Cheng, Wei Wuxian, and Nie Huaisang so far (all gorgeous with amazing use of lights/lighting)

Star Wars (a whole bunch of art was posted for May the Fourth, here's some I really liked)
- You Will Be A Jedi, I Promise (prequel art, Anakin and Obi Wan)
- chewbacca (adorable chibi)
- Han and Chewie (so cute)
- Skywalker twins and force ghosts comic (utterly hilarious)

Word of Honor
- something changed (absolutely lovely zhou zishu art triptych)

MDZS/Untamed fic:

Written, never said by sandorara (6.6k)
Summary Snippet: Thirteen years of correspondence, understanding and friendship. (loved this mostly epistolary Luo Qingyang&LWJ fic)

In news the first - Archive of Our Own is officially out of open beta! It looks so wrong to not see the little 'beta' there after site header in superscript on the top left corner. (I do wonder if the timing was done on purpose, considering April's Fools "omega" joke where they changed it to say omega instead of beta there so when they removed the omega they just didn't have to replace it with anything.) Reading the article, I also realize I was mistaken, I'd always thought I'd gotten my account the day it went to open beta but it turns out it was the day after.

Kind of hilarious they put out a badge for it:



In news the second - all of Farscape is legally on youtube!! (here's the playlist)

In news the third - useful links update has been completed!! All links checked and either work or mention that they do not and a backup is provided if possible (I leave up links to sites that appear to just be having hiccups rather than being closed down to check randomly later on and will remove if it turns out they're down for good, but since I've had ones that were down when I started checking but up by the time I finished I try not to delete them unless I'm sure it's gone and anyway, it's only a dozen overall.) I am always amazed at how many links *do* die between checks, even in the 6 months since I did it last this time, and how alternate/backup links had to be chased down or resources removed. As always, if anyone finds a freshly dead link (or has a great resource for me to include) please let me know!

Between the twelve posts there are just shy of 2.5k links. Slightly over 250 of those are wayback machine links. Thank you internet archive, you are a wonder.

And in news the fourth - have two weeks of recthething recs (MDZS fic and and tumblr art in a bunch of different fandoms):

all the lies on your resume by someitems (58k)
Summary Snippet: After Wen Ning is cursed at his workplace under mysterious circumstances, Wei Wuxian goes undercover as his replacement to help find out what’s really going on. He unearths a web of nepotism, lies, malicious cultivation and evil schemes. But his biggest discovery of all may be that his feelings for former college crush (and current coworker) Lan Wangji refuse to stay buried in the past. (interesting modern-with-cultivation AU where WWX is a curse investigator and ends up being reunited with LWJ)

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
- He’s just too cool to not draw him, okay?… (Roy and Riza with neat fire affect)

MDZS/Untamed
- Visitor (gentle and touching art of a-yuan and LWJ when LWJ was recovering after the whipping)

Merlin
- Something eternal (gorgeous)
- Merlin and Gwen (love the depth B&W adds to this)
- Emrys: The Greatest Sorcerer; The Biggest Liar (love the dual look of this)
- Fuck You Kilgharrah! (Merlin's only yelling what most of us were thinking at various points during this show, 2 part comic)

and, while not exactly a fandom, fannish at least:
Happy 15th birthday to Nyan Cat! (the original animation and a cake for it, drawn by its original artist)

Another exchange, Battleship, announced it won't be running this year :( It's totally understandable since even before it had so many signups it was so intensive to run but with the #s it had and all the chaos from last year it makes sense they'd want a break but I'm still sad it's skipping this year, I really only do three exchanges a year (h/c ex, battleship and yuletide) with two not running it's such a change for me and leaving me frustrated and wrong footed.

Being totally out of touch with current popular fandoms and fannish trends doesn't really help either. I have tried more popular/commonly found in exchanges canons but either they are very much not my thing or something that I enjoyed enough but have no interest in delving into fanfic/fandom-wise (like Heated Rivalry, I enjoyed the show but was perfectly content with the story it told, I don't have the desire to fill any of the plot holes or explore any other aspects of the sandbox it exists in or AUs of it, etc). And I haven't had a fandom I truly wanted to dive into on my own in a while either, there's been a few where a story idea here or there called to me, but once I wrote it I was good and if there were requests I might treat them but if not I probably won't be engaging with it much outside of reblogging a gifset here or there if I happen to find one.

Oh well.

Crafting babble under the cut (nalbinding babble and a recently completed rug)

I did stick with the nalbinding long enough to figure out a lot of the stitches. It is an interesting craft but I mostly wanted to learn it for making socks and while I liked the coptic stitch (which was how Romans and Egyptians made their socks) I could *not* get the increases to lie flat (apparently this is common according to the vids I watched) and while I could get the york stitch ones to do so, in general working it (and all nalbinding actually) just took so much attention I couldn't really do anything else while crafting and there also was quite a bit of eyestrain. Glad I gave it a serious try, might pick it back up some day, but for the moment it's a done and dusted thing for me.

After that I decided to try to replace the rug we'd had under the rocking chair that the moths got to. It was an old wool round one we'd inherited and while I've gotten pretty good at knotting rugs these past few years I tended to focus on oval ones since my first two attempts at round ones hadn't been great. But, I had a lot of premade strips that actually matched to use up (3 men's button down dress shirts (white, grey, and royal blue) and a bunch of random white strips left from two different sheets I'd previously made into rugs) which I quickly realized wasn't going to be enough so cut up two crappy pillowcases in the to-be-rugged drawer (green and a blue/grey) but then *that* wasn't enough so grabbed 3 more pillowcases (scratchy dark blue ones) and some more random stained white fabric and stripped all of that. (Strip prep actually takes a while, tshirts and sheet fabrics are different enough the method/result isn't all that similar, for sheets it involves cutting measured notches along one edge and then tearing down to the other end and then I roll the strips into discs to make sure they ripped evenly and also collect all the wispy flyaway schmutsy scraps so the strips will be cleaner to work with later - usually I gather it into a little bags and then use that for fillings when making amigurumi later). So it took a lot longer than planned but still, viola! Rug! 39"/100cm ish circle!

Very happy finally figured out how to make a circle rug; I don't think it'll be something I make often due to lack of place to put it and also the amount of space needed to make it but still. Yay, rug!

Here's a few weeks of recthething recs, all MDZS/Untamed fic recs:

A-Yuan Talks to the Police and Finds His Baba a Friend by fieldofvision (2.5k)
Summary Snippet: Police officer Lan Zhan helps A-Yuan find his Baba at the farmers market, and A-Yuan finds his Baba a friend (cute little ficlet)

Honey, ginger, and the warm flavor of care by by Anaxyat (2.3k)
Summary: Jiang Yanli used to be the first person Wei Wuxian would call whenever something was wrong. After her, it would be Wen Qing. However, she had not received a single call in the past few days that could explain what was now unfolding before her eyes. (cute JYL modern no-powers AU sickfic)

Frame the Halves, and Call Them Brothers by Bodldops (41k)
Summary: Lan Xichen meets the Jiang's new (and terribly young) head disciple. A relationship blooms from there, and though he doesn't mean anything by it in particular, it is the small stone that starts an avalanche involving three of the great sects. (wonderful WWX&LXC friendship no-war AU)

I'd known about The Bibliotheca Fictiva (the world’s largest collection of literary forgeries, maintained now by John Hopkins) for a while now thanks to an NPR article from 2014 but it was very interesting to see this more recent article discussing it and looking at it via an AI and updated lens. Very interesting.

In exchanges news, Candy Hearts exchange had reveals- I wrote an angsty triple drabble for S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV):
- To Banishing Memories Summary: It wasn't a bedside vigil, it was more that Bai Yutang just couldn't make himself leave.

hurtcomfortex also announced it would not be running this year :( but will be back in 2027 :)

Since the beginning of the year I got it in my head to teach myself nalbinding (an incredibly ancient technique, while now thought of mostly as a Viking era thing it actually predates the Vikings by thousands of years, with textile fragments made using the technique found at the Nahal Hemar Cave (modern Israel) dating back to 6500BCE and from 4200BCE in Tybrind Vig (modern Denmark) but there's lots of evidence from many places more "recently" like socks from 4th C CE Egypt and hats and shawls from Peru from 300BCE to 300 CE) and post-Birthday Bash really threw myself into figuring it out. There are SO many different stitches and techniques and very little standardization and there's very, very little out there about it (i.e. NO patterns basically whatsoever). After watching approximately eleventy billion videos and trying to muddle my way though some articles and books I have sort of figured out a few different styles/stitches but who knows if I'll manage to actually make anything. It's been fun (and frustrating but whatever) to attempt though!

And, as always, recthething recs (tumblr art for Bridgerton, Doctor Who, Merlin and Under the Skin):

Bridgerton
- Sophie at the ball (gorgeous)

Doctor Who
- Sillies (cute doodle of Ten and Thirteen interacting)

Merlin
- Happy Valentine's Day!! (adorable modern!au doodle)
- I once read a fanfic with a modern AU where Arthur is a restorer. Now I think about it all the time (I haven't read that fic - it's in Russian and incomplete - but I really like this art for it)

Under the Skin (TV)
- Cuddle (adorable Du Cheng hugging Shen Yi and settling in Shen Yi's lap)
- uno reverse of the cuddle (so gentle and sweet of the two in reversed positions)

If, like me, languages interest you, I thought these two Old English/Middle English/Modern English story telling techniques were a fascinating way to show the way English has changed through time. How far back in time can you understand English? (posted story) and From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue (video).

Quick post because I wanted to get these recs posted while it's still Threshold day. In the past two weeks I finished two rugs (pictured below) and am about half of the way through a third. Rugs:

21.5"x14.75"ish rug made from sheets


23"x13"ish rug made from three t-shirts (one white, two tie-dye)

Assorted tumblr recs (Batman/DC, Doctor Who, Heated Rivalry, MDZS/Untamed, Merlin, The Mummy, and ST:Voyager)

Batman/DC comics:
- Red Hood (amazing digital art of Jason)

Doctor Who:
- Nine (love his expression, perfectly him)

Heated Rivalry
- ilya destroying that plate of spaghetti right before this sweet moment is so fucking funny (adorable comic version of the e6 spaghetti scene)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Personal time with their little radish/little bunny (adorable WWX & A-Yuan and then LWJ & A-Yuan)

Merlin
- I have absolutely no time to draw, but I have the silly little ones in the silly little costumes (adorable Merlin and Arthur doodle)
- Not your type? I'm everyone's type! (hilarious Methur comic)
- The power couple they would have been… (gorgeous)

The Mummy
- I am a librarian! (gorgeous)

Star Trek Voyager: (assortment of arts celebrating today which is the 30th anniversary of Threshold Day)
- you know how it goes (doodle of cute threshold baby wearing a party hat)
- Happy Threshold Day! Animal Crossing Threshold Baby design. (wearing a cute little starfleet outfit)
- Happy 30th Birthday to the Threshold babies! (neat take on a character card)
- This is a new blend. I’m calling it Paris Delight. It’s in honour of you. (Janeway and a threshold baby, drinking coffee - adorable)
- Janeway is off doing Captain things and Tom is left to babysit the kiddos :3 (adorable #1 dad 'photo')
- Good morning and happy birthday babies🥰🥰 this years threshold craft is embroidery! (love the embroidery, the lizard babies and the quote chosen)

Oh, and nearly forgot to mention, but I managed to rec something every week again last year, that means over 4.5 years of weekly recs! No idea how long I'll be able to continue that but still, quite the achievement!

So... ummmm... this January has been something, huh? Although I don't go out of my way to talk about where I live I don't try to hide it either so let me just say that while things are chaotic in my general area, it's not in my (very) specific immediate area and me and mine are fine. Generally speaking, there's the potential for things here to get as bad, if not worse, as when there were the riots a few years ago but here's hoping it all dies down before then. With the egos involved it seems unlikely (which really says something about the world today that I am even typing that) but, hey, it's possible.

But, in trying not to dwell on any of that or going into details on an unlocked post... craft spam time!

Feast your eyes upon this adorable Werewolf in a Top Hat (made by request and done by adapting a few different patterns)


He's a fine gentleman and tipping his hat to you in greeting. :)

I've also made two rugs


The pictures are a bit deceiving, the white and grey one is small-medium sized, 27"x17", while the following blue and white one is one of the larger I've made, 43"x30".

I don't really have a plan or a place for either (nor for the one I'll make out of the fabric strips I'm currently cutting) but upcycling stained/torn sheets and shirts is better than tossing them and I enjoy doing it so who cares.

Have two weeks of recthething recs! One MDZS/Untamed fic and tumbr art for that, Merlin, Murderbot and ST:TOS:

I'll Stop the World (And Melt With You) by Rainewritesfanfics (28k)
Summary: Lan Zhan comes from a long line of aerokinetic heroes. Over time, his family came to found the Cloud Recesses School for Young Heroes. Lan Zhan will now be attending this very same school, however he, unlike his relatives, has no powers. To make matters worse, even though Wei Ying is only steps away, they are barely on speaking terms since the incident before summer break. Add in a dash of conspiracy, a school full of ghosts, and cryptic fortunes, and Lan Zhan and Wei Ying are in for a lively first year! (This is a Sky High fusion but I only know the broad strokes of that movie and still thoroughly enjoyed this fic and its accompanying art)

tumblr art:
MDZS/The Untamed
- Something is gained when something is lost (3 panels, LWJ and A-Yuan, oh my heart)
- When had children started growing up so fast? (two LWJ raising A-Yuan sketches, adorable)
- Wei Ying and his ducklings (adorable wwx and the juniors art)

Merlin
- Still waiting for his king… (hauntingly beautiful)

Murderbot
- I just want to watch my shows I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate. (too valid these days)

Star Trek:TOS
- uhura sketch ^^ (love this style)

And, not rec related, but I know there's some due South fans here and I wanted to share an excellent fandom-specific resource I just discovered: A due South tumblr that posts archival stuff from the show like making of episodes and scripts as well as character bios and episode storylines and whatnot. (I really love the first 5 pages of the second draft to the pilot posted here)

Got my yuletide assignment posted and have been keeping my eye out for pinch hits over at the PH comm, yuletide_pinch_hits but so far there's been nothing I could take. I am hoping to manage a few treats, we'll see, the writing brain has not been braining.

Generally speaking, there's not much going on here, but I wanted to post my recthething recs while the exchanges they were from are still anon (because I am lazy and don't want to have to look them all up and recode things rather than C&Ping them) so here are two weeks of recs, from ficinabox (assorted things) and doodle4doodle (art):

Some recs from ficinabox, creators anon until Dec 20th:

Casablanca
- Victor Lazlo: A Retrospective (excerpt). Summary: ...no review of the life of Victor Laszlo would be complete without mention of his long-time collaborator (some say long-time lover) Richard “Rick” Blaine, well known for his brief stint as founder and owner of “Rick’s Americain” café and casino in Casablanca. [excerpts of a magazine article] (neat papercraft/magazine article/in universe magazine article combined work)

DCU
- kiss and fly (absolutely adorable Superman/Batman animation)
- Alfred Pennyworth: Amigurumi!. Summary: It's Alfred Pennyworth - As an amigurumi weeble-wobble. (really cute crocheted Alfred)
- we can get a little reckless. Summary: Diana and a beautiful evening. (beautiful colorwork on this art)
- Not Fit To Print. Summary: When Dick leaves Gotham on bad terms with Bruce, he takes an internship at the Daily Planet in an attempt to move on. Instead, he submits a series of unpublishable articles—each one stranger and more personal than the last. Gargoyle surveillance. Emotional furniture. The weather patterns of Bruce Wayne’s guilt. These are the short excerpts, quotes, and fragments from the stories that never made it to print. (Hilarious snippets with great commentary on each by Lois, Perry and Clark. 4k)
- Continuity Error (And Other Family Traditions). Summary: When a curse summons the ghosts of Dick’s younger selves, his family comes face to face with the boy, the partner, the leader, and the survivor they each thought they knew. (great weaving together of different glimpses of Dick and interactions with his favorite people, 6k)

Discworld
- Minder of the Keys [ART - pottery]. Summary: Sybil Ramkin's smallest dragon likes to keep watch over her trinkets. (amazingly detailed pottery dragon guarding a trinket dish)

Original Work
- [Art] Excerpts from 'Field Guide to Woodgeists' (Interlibrary Loan). Summary: Forest Spirit via pottery and a field guide that definitely, totally, actually exists. (brilliant ceramic woodgeist and its 'write up' in a field guide.
- [Art] Leaf Friends. Summary: Pottery leaf friends in autumn colors (lovely collection of ceramic leaves)
- [Art] Fig. 8. Megafauna of the Southern Hemisphere. Summary: Excerpt from A.Y. Oaks, Megafauna & Environmental Anthropology (3d ed. 9673). (really fascinatingly done scientific illustration)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Love, Love Love. Summary: It all went wrong. (Yungmeng Brothers vid, right in the feels)
- price of postage. Summary Snippet: Wei Changze sends one letter to his old friend Jiang Fengmian, and inadvertently changes the course of the future - all out of love for his wife... Or, an epistolary fic, comprising of letters sent across the Jianghu over the course of several years, starting with a letter to an old friend. (love when stories are told creatively like this, 6.6k, locked to archive)

Some art recs from doodle4doodle (works anon until Dec 19th):

Original Work:
- forest friends. Summary: A couple of small critters I encounter on nature walks: a wood frog and a white-lipped snail. (a neat looking frog and snail)
- houseproud. Summary: I'd be proud too, with a nice house like that one! (very impressive box turtle)
- snow bunting. Summary: A small subarctic friend. (gorgeous bird, amazing work on the feathers)
- Owl Moon. Summary: A great horned owl. A waxing gibbous moon. (beautiful owl and moon)
- [Art] Looking for this? (An adorable rat familiar in a wizard hat)
- Fancy Little Men. Summary: Three penguins midway through molting their baby feathers. (so cute!)
- frogs on leaf (four cute, colorful frogs on a leaf)

Stargate Atlantis
- [Art] Not Himself. Summary: John: Last night, Ronon clubbed me in the head. Ronon: By accident. Sort of. John: I was cut. I went to the Infirmary...and by the time I got there it was completely healed. (gorgeous use of color and negative space in this one)

Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
- Leia (an adorable doodle)

Had a hilarious exchange in one of my discords recently where someone commented something to the effect of "Oh man it's 37 out now" and, after checking my weather I responded with "Oh wow, here too" but then after thinking about it for a half sec quickly added "But I think you're complaining about 37c being too hot while I'm thrilled since it had been -19f here a few days ago and 37f is a lovely change!" (It was, but the weather's supposed to drop again and a massive snow storm is supposed to blow through YUCK but still, the internationalism of fandom will always be a wonder to me)

Hope everyone's having a good Hanukkah/holiday season and staying warm/cool!

It's that time of year again!

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

Everyone go throw your names in the hat so you can get some holiday love too! :)