Imagine Finishing Mawaru Penguindrum

Oct. 3rd, 2025 12:16 am
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Remember how last year, I watched (and wrote about watching) Mawaru Penguindrum, and paired it with the episode reactions from the Imagine Me & Utena podcast? And how the IMAU reactions had only gotten through episode 17, but they had been on hiatus for long enough that I figured they weren’t going to come back to it, so I went ahead and watched the rest of the show?

The IMAU folks came back! After a year-and-a-half gap, they started up again, and got through the rest of the series!

(It’s in my folder of “podcasts that stopped updating a long time ago, but didn’t officially finish, so I check in once or twice a year, just to see if anything’s changed.” And sure enough, something had.)

Overall, I didn’t like the Penguindrum anime. There were some good parts, even a few great ones, and I still listen to the music — but that wasn’t enough to outweigh all the parts that were bad/rushed/nonsensical/poorly thought-out/generally-unpleasant.

Still looking forward to finally finishing the IMAU recaps. If you’re a fan of the series, or even if you also didn’t care for it but ended up watching the whole thing, check them out. (Direct link to the RSS feed.)

Penguindrum screencap of the idol duo Double H

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Fandom: Nail Polish (Industry) (the AO3 tag, probably worded to disambiguate from at least two bands by that name. I’m calling it Nail Polish Blogosphere, since the characters are using and reviewing rather than manufacturing the nail polish.)
Pairings/Characters: Gen; OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: Only Once: 449; Only Once Remix: 1,960
Content Notes: modern in-universe folklore, nail polish connoisseurship, possible unreality, the sad beauty of transience
Creator Links: (AO3)[archiveofourown.org profile] Sineala; (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] woodpusher
Theme: Uncommon Settings, Folklore & Fairytales, Friendship, Magic, Social Media

Summary:

[archiveofourown.org profile] Sinealla: The story of the most beautiful nail polish in the world.

[archiveofourown.org profile] woodpusher: Like a good manicurist, this story fills in some plot holes and smooths some rough edges from Only Once.

I was trying to boost my readership so welcome to the newly gifted.

Comments are welcome!


Author’s Notes: Cut_for_length. )

Reccer's Notes: The Uncommon Setting here is the fannish context: this area of experience has a fandom expressed in fanfiction? (Sometimes the answer turns out to be “No shit, Sherlock”; someone in the habit of compartmentalizing Jock Stuff from Geek Stuff might be astounded to learn that football, hockey, and Formula 1 RPF are not only things but major fandoms on AO3.)

The titular nail polish proves to be a profound unexplainable, unrepeatable, and unprovable one-size-fits-one experience; all one can do is pass it along to the next person and wait for their account, and a quiet and ecstatic bond therefore forms within an online community of initiates into The Mystery.

Although this storyline consists of only two stories by two authors, and my impression is that the events are to be taken at face value, it’s possible to construe it as an in-universe collective fiction á la GONCHAROV.

Fanwork Links:
Only Once, by [archiveofourown.org profile] Sineala for [archiveofourown.org profile] Lysimache; Yuletide Madness 2011
Only Once Remix, by [archiveofourown.org profile] woodpusher for [archiveofourown.org profile] Sineala, [archiveofourown.org profile] Meltha, [archiveofourown.org profile] kuramas30, [archiveofourown.org profile] Viridian5, [archiveofourown.org profile] Qem, and [archiveofourown.org profile] Lysimache.
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Project Title: Art for I could speak, or just let my body explain
Fandom: The Untamed
Link: AO3
Warnings: N/A
Bragging Rights: This story is about dragon-shifters, so I decided to give the cover art a more stylized look by using artistic Chinese-inspired dragons. It's a more minimalist look than I normally go for—not using any character images—but I really like how it turned out.

WIPBB - Nesting (Teen Wolf)

Oct. 2nd, 2025 07:54 pm
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Project Title: Nesting
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/70695051/chapters/183748051
Summary: Members of Talia's pack have started going missing, meanwhile Derek's things are disappearing. Can these things be related, and can the pack figure it out in time?
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Basically Argents Gonna Argent, And Torture Mayhem and Murder Are Their Jam
Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Sheriff Stilinski, Talia Hale, Derek Hale's Father, Peter Hale, Erica Reyes, Vernon Boyd, Isaac Lahey, Chris Argent
Pairings: Stiles/Derek, Erica/Boyd, Chris/Peter, Noah/Claudia, Talia/Papa Hale
When I Started: January 2025

Art for Passing Through

Sep. 27th, 2025 06:01 am
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Project Title: Art for Passing Through
Fandom: Doctor Who
Link: AO3
Warnings:N/A
Bragging Rights: This is a Doctor Who fic is about the time Jack was stuck in the past after his adventures with the Ninth Doctor. In Victorian England Jack meets Dorian Gray who turns out is a real person! The story has two important scenes, one which takes place in a theatre and one that takes place in a garden, and I wanted to invoke both of them in this art by combining the ivy around the window and the theatre through he glass. The author provided the face claim for Dorian. I'm very happy with how it turned out, and I hope it gives off the feeling of Jack being in a time outside his own.

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It better not awaken anything in me (it will).

At first I was like...Harry Melling? Really? For the sexy viking BDSM motorbike movie? That's a choice. But then I watched the trailer and now I'm more convinced. Apparently he's actually quite a good actor? I haven't seen him in anything but The Old Guard and Merlin since his HP days, I don't think. I do stand by what I said on bsky about Harry Trevaldwyn being my personal pick for weird timid British guy gets his world rocked by BDSM, but I'm willing to give Harry Melling a chance.

Murderbot saying "buy a butt plug" certainly was something.

Here's the trailer if you'd like to join me in anticipating when this is finally available to watch. It's showing at VIFF next weekend and releasing in the UK end of November. No North America release dates yet, wah.

Nomination Queries

Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:13 pm
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I have some crossover nominations without the fandom name included. Nominator(s), please edit your nominations so that they're listed as Character A (Fandom Name) and Character B (Fandom Name), for clarity. The ones I can see right now are:

Blue Sargent and Andrew Minyard and Neil Josten
Harry Potter and Neil Josten
Neil Josten and Declan Lynch
Richard Gansey III and Kevin Day
Ronan Lynch and Andrew Minyard
Ronan Lynch and Andrew Minyard and Neil Josten

If you've nominated a crossover relationship without clarifying what fandoms the different characters belong to, please edit your nominations as soon as you can!
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This is in the same vein of Politics in Space as the time I wrote Josh Lyman of The West Wing being Princess Leia Organa's political advisor because she'd inherited him from her father, Matt Santos Jimmy Smits Bail Organa, and then they observed Space Passover.

Malcolm Tucker of The Thick of It (link is very sweary) deserves someone he can really look up to (metaphorically) and cuss out (effectively).

I propose Chrisjen Avasarala of the Expanse (link is very sweary and also spoilery), who can give as good as she gets in the cussin' department. Malcolm can't physically look up to her, as she is a tiny Indian (subcontinent) grandmother who dresses fabulously. That won't stop her from kicking his ass.

I'm not sure he'd approve of her tactics, but he's on Team Earth all the way, unless one takes Peter Capaldi's legginess and runs with it to the wonderful world of Malcolm Tucker, Belter, sasa?

I am in the position of having studied English, Spanish, French, German, and Mandarin to the point of being able to mostly follow Belter Creole in audiobook form, where there are no footnotes to be had nor glossaries. Hell if that means I can write it, let alone write Malcolm Tucker Swearing in it, but now I want to try.

Kindly remind me that only about one other person on Earth, Mars, or in the Belt or Jovian system would understand this goddamn story, so it's not worth the effort, because I am very tempted. Unless of course it sounds like fun to you, in which case, can I get a beta offer?

some things!

Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:20 pm
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  1. Bookshop.org is now doing ebooks in the UK. Unlike Hive, they do not apply DRM to everything. V excited about this!
  2. I think -- think -- I have worked out an Acceptable Wagamama order, at least for the time being. I'm mildly annoyed about needing to order extra vegetables in order to have enough vegetables in my vegetable noodle dish, though. (The yasai pad thai + wok-fried greens is not My Favourite Thing They've Ever Done, but it is better than anything else I have managed to make the current menu disgorge. Which is useful, because we have A Routine, and it involves Wagamama.)
  3. I have POACHED SOME QUINCE (I am turning windfalls I located round the corner into cake, and the Gift Quince are probably going to turn into a Ruby Violet sorbet recipe). I am going to make a cake, probably with added bay leaves, as I think I mentioned, probably tomorrow but the quince won't hurt for spending a bit longer sat in syrup. I am contemplating the merits of showing up on the doorstep of the folk with the quince tree, with some cake, and being all "hello yes I made this with windfalls onto the public path, I will very happily make you more things :) out of quince :) if you don't know what to do with them :))) which I am KIND OF ASSUMING YOU DON'T given that the branches overhanging your garden are still COVERED IN THE THINGS, unlike the branches overhanging the public byway..." (The social anxiety almost certainly means I won't actually do this, but I am, you know, considering.)
  4. Meanwhile today's poking around at recipe books introduced me to the concept of medlar sticky toffee pudding, which is now extremely high up my list of things to do with this year's medlar as and when we get any. (Recipe is in a book I'm not actually going to get from Oxfam, or at the Torygraph.)
  5. I continue to really enjoy looking at the Pelikan Art Collection pens (further links from within that one). It is possible I tripped and fell and spent more time reading about them this morning.

[ SECRET POST #6845 ]

Oct. 2nd, 2025 05:36 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6845 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #977.
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.

It’s time!

Oct. 2nd, 2025 09:28 pm
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It’s time!

Spooky month is here! Rejoice! (Along with dozens of -tober month things, why is October the month for those?)

This spooky season I’ll be posting what I do spooky season.

Day 1: Welcome To Night Vale - Date Night, Fall Guys done Fall-o-ween Frights, ESO

First there was the new Welcome To Night Vale which, despite the name was spooky via the presence of the citizen eating town founder crashing the date night. As usually it was a fun ep (I giggled at the ai comments) and it was funny that though they did puzzle the founder so much was happening they didn’t know what it was. Also the restaurant was a mix of cute (awww bee petting!) and horrific.

Fall Guys had two Halloween events start and I completely the first one, which had rewards including a costume that looked like a robot jack o lantern. Elder Scrolls Online was more obviously spooky, with a quest to pet daedric princes causing trouble. (I’m also way behind on ESO cause this was an Apocrypha quest and there’s since been two story areas since then).

I did consider watching a treehouse of horror ep, but Disney+ didn’t have the Halloween section up and I didn’t have focus.

At the end of the last post I mentioned there not being Frankenstein dates, well today I checked the cinema site and there is some! Strangely Netflix said it would be one day only, on the 17th. However my cinema has at least a week of showings! So from the 24th-30th(at least!) and what’s more there’s not one but three showings per day! I was so worried I’d miss it on the 17th so that’s much better. My thought is to see it on the Wednesday, cause that’s when the Halloween art event at the art gallery is.

Speaking of cinema today was a cinema day. I had hoped to go see two things (my plan was to see The Roses) but my stomach had felt funny last night and so I didn’t feel like seeing it. Thankfully my stomach was ok today so I did go.

Before I did I had a delivery of t-shirts from qwertee, a silksong and an alien earth one. (And yesterday my tubbo cargo pants came!) And mum did some messing today in her room and found loads of things I’d been missing, including the Ranboo tee I won, the Hellfire Club tee I got and the Sorry Boys Book Club tee which I never wore before it was squirrelled away.

In town I picked up the new fantastic 4 comic, then some Halloween bunting and hello kitty Halloween tattoo things then went to the cinema. The Black Phone 2 display was set up and looked cool, plus I had a compliment from the guy that scanned my ticket for my Silksong tee which was nice.

The trailers were a strange mix. There was Corpse Bride and Paranorman, which are both getting seasonal re-releases. Then there was one for Battleship Potemkin (cause they’re getting silent film re-releases, this one with a musical score) and lastly was I Swear. This was the strangest choice to me. Cause the film was rated 12A the trailer was cut to hell to remove the swearing which just made it play out so oddly.

Curse Of Frankenstein was in one of the back screens, it might even have been the same one as Jaws, so it was one of the smaller screening rooms. There was a quite a few people there though which was nice.

I had been wanting to watch more Hammer Horror films since seeing a documentary on sky arts about it awhile back so I’m glad that the cinema had this one since it was so well done. It did surprise me a bit that most of it was focussed on Victor’s experiments, including reviving a dog (where did it go?) and then getting body parts. (Which, again, surprised me that it was 12A) And the creature only appearing in the last third (ish) of the film.

(It also makes me wonder if this is the film that put in the public imagination that the creature is a mindless lumbering monster. Hopefully the new film dispels that a bit)

I was surprised that Frankenstein’s mentor survived honestly. A few times it felt like Frankenstein would kill him but he didn’t. It did feel a little strange that Frankenstein went from reviving the dog to… make a man, like it felt he was making a leap there between the two instead of just taking the win. But like I said it was all well done and the vibes were pretty great. It probably wasn’t a faithful adaption but what it was still done well. (Apparently it had a limited budget which meant it was filmed largely in one location and they did use it so well despite that)

(It does feel a bit that words have failed me alas)

Next cinema trip is Monday which is gonna be Him and the mystery film. I’m 70% sure it’s Black Phone 2, 30% sure it’s Good Boy. Either is a good option, as it would be an earlier showing than the other Good Boy ones and I am wanting to see Black Phone 2.

Now though I’m gonna snuggle with Midna and watch the Pokémon stream jn a bit.

Here's to another season

Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:07 pm
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Hermitcraft season 10 just ended, and it was beautiful. The previous season ending I'd watched was season 9 and it ended with two people, Joe and Scar, each alone on the server, and then it was over; but season 10 ended with over a dozen hermits on the server together playing games and having fun and doing one last group hug while the bells counted down, and it was sad, yes, but also joyous. They built this together, they had a great time with their friends, and they're going to build more things together and have more good times together :) This really was the season they all became even closer.

Season 10 was the first season I watched live from the beginning, and it was great. So many fun stories, and events, and games, and great builds, and wonderful moments.
Some favorites, incomplete and in no particular order:
- the whole permit storyline, with Cub taking over as permit manager from Grian and then the No Poe being hunted down and exiled and Cleo riding back over the nether roof and more Taskmaster
- Ghastketball! And Hungry Hermits, and Ravager Rush, and Metro Mayhem, and the Labyrinth, so many cool games this season.
- The two big charity events with so many hermits meeting up IRL, once at the Gamers for Giving LAN party and once in the actual Mojang studio offices
- Mumbo getting really into building and also fans
- Fight club - I wish it hadn't petered out but what we got was still great
- Grian's quest for a mending book with the underwater chapel, and then Scar fishing one right in front of him
- The mystery of the ore snatcher - I wonder when we'll find out who the main ore snatcher was (since Grian already confessed to 'helping out' to throw Doc off the track)
- Tall Claims Court and Doc being sentenced to skyblock
- Cleo doing sculk experiments and concluding that the sculk is in love with Cub
- the Neighborhood was also fun, and I'll just ignore the two people who left (I'm really glad that that was handled so professionally and didn't blow up into huge drama on this side of the fandom)
- and so much more.

There's several s10 episodes yet to come, and in the meantime I look forward to the world download and the Hermitcraft panel at Twitchcon and then of course the next season, whenever it starts (my guess is mid to late November.)
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About three and a half days left till [community profile] guardian_wishlist reveals, and we're excited to see the gifts rolling in! There are only 7 wishlists without gifts!

If you feel like making a little something, especially for the needier wishlists, please check out the spreadsheet!

And this would be a great time to reblog our Tumblr post, or post your own reminder to other platforms, if you're up for that. We have a reminder graphic on the promo post.

Thanks so much, everyone! We're cheering you on! *\o/*

foster parents' "personal views"

Oct. 2nd, 2025 02:22 pm
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Posting this by request, as she wrote it:

The Boston Globe is soliciting opinions on whether or not foster parents's views on children being queer or trans should be taken into account.

MSN link

Basically, we have to explain not only that water is wet but that if foster parents are allowed to dunk a trans kid into the tank of their transphobia the kid can drown in there. The Globe's editorial board termed this a matter of "personal views" and of DCF demanding foster parents be "perfect", which is glaringly disingenuous but needs to be spelled out to hopefully influence public opinion.

The Globe's address is community@boston.com.
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I'm a little ahead of things here, as "Testimony of Mute Things" and Two Tales aren't out yet (coming soon!) but I intend this post as link-able till the next update, so I've added them in anticipation.

As ever, please share this post wherever the perpetual Bujold reading-order confusion may arise.


A Bujold Reading-Order Guide


Note: almost all of my titles are presently widely and instantly available both as ebooks, and as audiobook downloads.


The Fantasy Novels

My fantasy novels are not hard to order. Easiest of all is The Spirit Ring, which is a stand-alone. Next easiest are the four volumes of The Sharing Knife—in order, Beguilement, Legacy, Passage, and Horizon—which I actually numbered, as this is one continuous tale. The novella “Knife Children” is something of a codicil to the tetralogy.

The first three novels in the World of the Five Gods could each be read separately, but The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls are more closely connected, an optional duology better read in that order. The Hallowed Hunt is more of a stand-alone, taking place in a different realm and earlier century and not sharing characters (apart from the gods) with the others.

In terms of internal world chronology, The Hallowed Hunt would fall first, the Penric novellas perhaps a hundred and fifty years later, and The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls would follow a century or so after that.

The internal chronology of the Penric & Desdemona subseries is presently:

“Penric’s Demon”
“Penric and the Shaman”
“Penric’s Fox”
“Testimony of Mute Things”
“Masquerade in Lodi”
“Penric’s Mission”
“Mira’s Last Dance”
“The Prisoner of Limnos”
“The Orphans of Raspay”
“The Physicians of Vilnoc”
The Assassins of Thasalon
“Knot of Shadows”
“Demon Daughter”
“Penric and the Bandit”
“The Adventure of the Demonic Ox”

(“Demon”, “Shaman”, and “Fox” are collected as paper volumes in Penric’s Progress; “Mission”, “Mira” and “Limnos” in Penric’s Travels; and “Lodi”, “Orphans” and “Physicians” are collected in Penric’s Labors.)


Other Original E-books

The short story collection Proto Zoa contains five very early tales—three (1980s) contemporary fantasy, two science fiction. The novelette “Dreamweaver’s Dilemma” may be of interest to Vorkosigan completists, as it is the first story in which that proto-universe began, mentioning Beta Colony but before Barrayar was even thought of.

Sidelines: Talks and Essays is a collection of three decades of my nonfiction writings, including convention speeches, essays, travelogues, introductions, and some less formal pieces.

The Gerould Family of New Hampshire in the Civil War: Two Diaries and a Memoir is a compilation of historical documents handed down from my mother’s father’s side of the family. A meeting of time, technology,I, and skillset has finally allowed me to put them in sharable form.


The Vorkosigan Stories

The debate around the ‘best’ order in which to read the Vorkosigan saga mainly revolves around publication order versus internal-chronological order. I favor internal chronological, with a few adjustments.

It was always my intention to write each book as a stand-alone, so that the reader could theoretically jump in anywhere. But as the series developed it acquired a number of sub-arcs, closely related tales that were richer for each other. I will list the sub-arcs, and then the books, and then the duplication warnings. And then the publication order, for those who want it.

Shards of Honor and Barrayar. The first two books in the series proper, they detail the adventures of Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony and Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar. Shards was my very first novel ever; Barrayar was actually my eighth, but continues the tale the next day after the end of Shards. For readers who want to be sure of beginning at the beginning, or who are very spoiler-sensitive, start with these two.

The Warrior’s Apprentice and The Vor Game. The Warrior’s Apprentice introduces the character who became the series’ linchpin, Miles Vorkosigan; the first book tells how he created a space mercenary fleet by accident; the second how he fixed his mistakes from the first round. Space opera and military-esque adventure, The Warrior’s Apprentice makes another good place to jump into the series for readers who prefer a young male protagonist.

Borders of Infinity (3-novella collection) should be read before Brothers in Arms. Containing three of the six currently extant novellas, it makes a good Miles Vorkosigan early-adventure sampler platter for readers who don’t want to commit themselves to length, but it will make more sense if read after The Warrior’s Apprentice. Its three stories are short, not slight, and introduce some elements that are revisited later in the series.

(These novellas are also available ala carte by title as ebooks, as listed below so readers can see where they fit distributed in the timeline, but the collection is the preferable format. Even its little frame story has a few payoffs later on.)

After that: Brothers in Arms should be read before Mirror Dance, and both, ideally, before Memory.

Komarr makes another alternate entry point for the series, picking up Miles’s second career at its start. It should be read before A Civil Campaign.

Falling Free takes place 200 years earlier in the timeline and does not share settings or characters with the main body of the series. Most readers recommend picking up this story later. It should likely be read before Diplomatic Immunity, however, which revisits the “quaddies”, a bioengineered race of free-fall dwellers, in Miles’s time.

The novels in the internal-chronological/recommended reading order list below appear in italics; the novellas (officially defined as a story between 17,500 words and 40,000 words) in quote marks.

Shards of Honor
Barrayar
The Warrior’s Apprentice

“The Mountains of Mourning”
“Weatherman”
The Vor Game
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Borders of Infinity (3-novella collection)

“Labyrinth”
“The Borders of Infinity”
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign

“Winterfair Gifts”
Falling Free
Diplomatic Immunity
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance

“The Flowers of Vashnoi”
CryoBurn
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen


Advisories:

The novella “Weatherman” is an out-take from the beginning of the novel The Vor Game. If you already have The Vor Game, you likely don’t need this.

The original ‘novel’ Borders of Infinity was a fix-up collection containing the three novellas “The Mountains of Mourning”, “Labyrinth”, and “The Borders of Infinity”, together with a frame to tie the pieces together. Again, beware duplication. The frame story does not stand alone.

“Winterfair Gifts” and “The Flowers of Vashnoi” have been collected in the Ingram Spark indie paper-only volume Two Tales, and are available individually as ebooks and audiobooks along with the rest of the series.

Publication order:

This is also the order in which the works were written, apart from a couple of the novellas, but is not identical to the internal-chronological. It goes:

Shards of Honor (June 1986)
The Warrior’s Apprentice (August 1986)
Ethan of Athos (December 1986)
Falling Free (April 1988)
Brothers in Arms (January 1989)
Borders of Infinity (October 1989)
The Vor Game (September 1990)
Barrayar (October 1991)
Mirror Dance (March 1994)
Cetaganda (January 1996)
Memory (October 1996)
Komarr (June 1998)
A Civil Campaign (September 1999).
Diplomatic Immunity (May 2002)
“Winterfair Gifts” (February 2004)
CryoBurn (November 2010)
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance (November 2012)
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (February 2016)
“The Flowers of Vashnoi” (May 2018)

Happy reading!

— Lois McMaster Bujold

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on October, 02
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Sign-ups are now open for [community profile] hlh_shortcuts 2025, the long-running annual Highlander Holiday Shortcuts fanfiction exchange!

When:
  • Sign-up: October 1 to 11, 2025 at 11:59PM CDT on AO3
  • Receive assignments: By October 14, 2025
  • Default deadline: November 20, 2025
  • Submissions: By December 15, 2025 on AO3
  • Stories revealed: The first on December 20, 2025 (the winter solstice, Duncan's birthday) and the rest a few per day as long as they last, per tradition

How:

Yay, Highlander fun and friends! Come play with us?

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A field agent armed with privacy-violating technology searches for Nazi loot--stolen diamonds--on behalf of a South African diamond cartel.

Probe (Search, # 1) by Leslie Stevens & Russ Mayberry

Last night's dream

Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:28 am
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I dreamed I discovered a weapon in Half Life 2 that would generate and hurl at considerable speed empty shipping containers.

Nirvana in Fire Exchange 2025!!!!

Oct. 2nd, 2025 02:25 pm
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It has just been announced on Tumblr (nif-exchange). Here is the AO3 CollectionLink with the rules and schedule for this year.

Schedule:

Sign-ups: 1-31 Oct
Prompt Listing: Nov 1 to 3
Claiming: Nov 4 to 9
Assignment: Nov 10
Creation period: Nov 10 to Dec 21
Mandatory Check-in: Dec 10 to 14
Gift Reveal: Dec 25
Creators Reveal: Dec 31

Treats: Dec 10 to 31

I am but a simple Bat-fanperson

Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:24 am
petra: Old Luke Skywalker glaring (Luke Skywalker - No)
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And when the internet gives me things like this short about Mark Hamill vis-à-vis Batman: The Animated Series, what can I do but weep and ship and weep and ship?

(It was SO HARD to pick an icon for this post. Too many options!)

Sunflower Auction: Art by Kingstoken

Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:05 am
spikedluv: jessica at typewriter (msw: jessica at typewriter by sarajayech)
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I won the bid for [personal profile] kingstoken at [personal profile] sunflower_auction!! Their offer was to create a cover or moodboard. I asked for a cover for either of my Jessica Fletcher, Agent of SHIELD stories, or for the series as a whole.

[personal profile] kingstoken made two different versions of a cover and I thought that they would both work great, one for the series and one for the second fic. They agreed and kindly added text to both covers and made me TWO covers.

Thanks to [personal profile] kingstoken for creating such wonderful covers and for going above and beyond!!


~*~
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I do intend to write about The Problem of Tomboys eventually, but the post is languishing as I struggle to come to terms with the massive amount of material. So in the meantime, I’m writing the companion post about Boys Who Don’t Want to Do Classic Boy Things, a topic to which far fewer Newbery books are devoted, presumably because the general cultural attitude is Who Wouldn’t Want to Do Classic Boy Things? Boy Things Are the Best Things To Do.

In fact, I only found two books that really fit the bill, and in both cases the Boy Thing that our Boy does not want to Do is killing. In Mari Sandoz’s The Horsecatcher (1958), our hero Elk has no interest in becoming a warrior. He wants to become a horsecatcher, which is still valuable and manly work but something you’re supposed to do alongside warrioring, rather than instead of.

Although circumstances conspire to force Elk to kill a raider, proving that he can kill and thus raising his status in the community, he remains true to his own path, traveling far and wide to meet other horsecatchers and learn their secrets. At one point he meets a pair of sisters who are famous for their horse-training skills, who plan when they marry to marry the same man: “We marry together.”

Because it’s 1958 the book of course does not SAY that in a few years time, the sisters marry Elk. But I like to think that sometime after the book ends, the three of them are happily married and surrounded by horses.

The second book is Jerry Spinelli’s Wringer (1998). Our hero Palmer lives in a town that is famous for putting on a pigeon shoot every year. Boys in town are expected to wring the necks of wounded pigeons to put them out of their suffering. Palmer doesn’t want to become a wringer, but also doesn’t want to admit that he doesn’t want to become a wringer because he knows the other boys will think he’s a sissy.

This book was absolutely everywhere when I was a kid, and I never read it because the cover is so creepy (look at it!) and the premise seemed both repulsive and borderline incomprehensible. Why are the boys expected to murder pigeons? Why can’t Palmer just SAY he doesn’t want to murder pigeons? “If you don’t want to murder pigeons, then just say you don’t want to murder pigeons!” I would have shouted at Palmer. “NO NORMAL PERSON WANTS TO MURDER PIGEONS.”

Reading it as an adult, I did grasp that the point was the crushing difficulty of bucking gendered social expectations. But uuuuhhh also I did still feel a little “Palmer stop being so lily-livered and just say you don’t want to murder pigeons.” Sorry Palmer. I know this was very unsympathetic of me.

You may have noticed that neither of these boys want to do girl things. They simply wish to be excused from committing indiscriminate slaughter and do other, slightly less manly boy things. To the best of my recollection (which is of course imperfect), there aren’t any Newbery books focused on Boys Who Want to Do Girl Things. Maybe 2026 will be the year.
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Hello on Thursday!  I am declaring it the weekend a day early, hope no one minds!

Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?

   - I thought about my fic once or twice
   - I wrote
   - I did some planning and/or research
   - I edited
   - I've sent my fic off to my beta
   - I posted today!
   - I'm taking a break
   - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?

   - I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
   - I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
   - I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
   - I'm going to take a break from writing

Have a great weekend with hopefully lots of writing happening!
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[personal profile] spikedluv
How is it October already?!!

I had a chiropractic appointment this morning. Today was a no-shopping day, but I got in a walk around the park while I was downtown. I stopped at Stewart’s on the way home and returned a book to the library on my way to mom’s.

I did a load of laundry (washed, dried AND folded) , hand-washed dishes, did a load in the dishwasher, boiled potatoes and stirred together potato salad after they’d cooled in the fridge, formed burgers for tomorrow’s supper (to have with the potato salad), went on several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter.

I started a new book (Winging It with You) and wrote ~1,000 on a new fic! (If you’re thinking it’s a Hudson & Rex ‘fix-it’, you’d be correct. *g*) I also watched some HGTV and Hallmark.

Temps started out at 39.4(F) and reached 66.6. It was cold this morning. A taste of winter that I do not appreciate.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing pretty well today. more back here )

Erostober 2025: Day Two

Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:49 am
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[personal profile] tweague
A short fill today, mostly dialogue, and only smutty round the edges. I've posted this as chapter 2 of my Erostober compilation on AO3; I've also updated the first chapter to show pairings, tags etc for the chapter. I'm trying to tag lightly so as not to end up with a massive wall of tags by the end of the month, but please let me know if I've neglected to tag for something you think I should have done!

Erostober, Day 2: Massaging - Sensory Deprivation - Overstimulation - Non-/dub-con , M, 1.1k:
Title: Unsporting
Rating: M.
Pairing: Max Carrados / Annesley Greatorex.
Words: c. 1.1k.
Additional tags: Mild dirty talk, disability.
Summary: Carrados has certain unfair advantages, and Greatorex attempts to level the field.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/71612771/chapters/186681941

Ninefox Gambit comic

Oct. 2nd, 2025 03:55 am
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There are parts of this comic theme I find wildly confusing, but after accidentally destroying my WordPress install ~a year ago, Ninefox Gambit comic is back online! Includes both the Cheris reboot prelude/origin story and Candle Arc comics.

ink and wash portrait of Kel Cheris ink and wash portrait of Shuos Jedao

(The companion site Candle Arc is more specifically focused on the 2D animated short in preproduction.)

...still buried under orchestration homework, see y'all later?!

Okay, this is very cool

Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:16 am
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[personal profile] rydra_wong
Guardian: Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Reading the lost diary of the first indigenous woman to study at Oxford (by her descendant June Northcroft Grant, who accepted Papakura's MPhil certificate at the ceremony)

What a cool person and fascinating life; really interesting and impressive to see someone succeeding in doing academic scholarship on an Indigenous group from within that group, in that time period.

OH SHIT IT'S HAPPENING

Oct. 2nd, 2025 08:14 am
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[personal profile] rydra_wong
Someone's finally cast Francesca Mills as Ophelia:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2025/oct/01/hamlet-national-theatre-hiran-abeysekera-shakespeare-in-pictures

Which I have been saying should happen for six years, since seeing her in Barrie Rutter's Two Noble Kinsmen as the Jailer's Daughter (a role which I described as "semi-comic shitty-first-draft Ophelia"). Also Juliet now please, casting directors.
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[personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted posting in [community profile] 100words
Title: 'This Is Tough!'
Fandom: The Monkees
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] ficlet_zone

This Is Tough! )

Drawtober! (Day 1)

Oct. 1st, 2025 09:53 pm
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It's the 1st of October, and the start of our annual Drawtober challenge over at [community profile] drawesome! :D

I don't think I was able to manage participating at all last year, but I'm determined to do it this time around. Sometimes it helps to keep a theme in mind or a particular direction to go in, so I'm thinking about focusing on figure drawing - gestures, line of action, musculature, that sort of thing.

Day 1's prompt was THROUGH A WINDOW. I sketched the figure from a reference photo and filled with marker:

Day 1 - Through a window

Feels like I haven't done any art in forever, so this is a good start I think! :)

One of my art goals is learning to convey movement using fewer strokes, to develop a more loose and natural figure drawing style, which I know will only come with practice. Not sure how many sketches I'll be able to do this month, but I'm hoping for around 10.

Here's the list of daily art prompts, for my own reference: Drawtober 2025 Prompts )

Whumptober Day 2: Sewer (Murderbot)

Oct. 1st, 2025 05:39 pm
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[personal profile] sholio
This is one of those times when I just ran off with the prompt as inspiration and it's not actually whumpy at all. (At least not in any way except the most incredibly minor petty way.)

No. 2: “You’ve got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears.”
Prophecy | Sewer | Taking Accountability

Murderbot, 380 wds, gen, could be TV-verse or bookverse somewhere post-Exit Strategy
Also posted on Tumblr.

380 wds under the cut )
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[personal profile] erinptah

Hazbin Hotel:

Charlie Morningstar, Princess of Hell, opens the titular hotel with the goal of “helping demons workshop their way to earning a spot in Heaven.” Most demons aren’t even interested, the handful that show up all have ulterior motives, and the other plot threads happening around it involve murder, genocide, hard drugs, and sex slavery. Watch Charlie flail her way through the hopelessly-doomed prospect of coaching this crowd to “do trust falls with each other” and “sing songs about how to apologize”!

Accurately described as “what if somebody got to make a professionally-animated TV series with all her 2000s-era DeviantArt OCs?” That’s not a complaint — they are good designs, aesthetically pleasing, fun to watch — it’s just a description of this very specific energy they bring.

Based on fandom osmosis, I was expecting a good amount of darkness and irreverence, with a generous serving of sexy iddiness. (Of the two characters whose names I knew before I started watching, one of them is the gay porn star who presents himself as sassy and slutty but is hiding a deep vulnerability in his soul. Obviously fandom loves him.)

I didn’t realize it was going to do all that and try to have fully, unironically earnest messages about love and redemption. Charlie’s quest is not hopelessly doomed! And the show does actually want you to get on board with that! One minute you’re getting a totally-serious song about the power of fighting for love (did I mention this is also a musical?), the next you’re getting a comically-bloody scene about the demon whose gimmick is indiscriminate stabbing!

It mostly works, too. You would really expect this to fall apart, and there are points where it teeters, but overall it holds together as it soars through the first season and sticks the landing.

Weird and enjoyable. Looking forward to season 2.

Marvel Zombies:

A very short (4 half-hour episodes) expansion of that one What If…? episode. I never like zombie stuff, but I do like post-apocalyptic survival stuff…and, listen, it had some new tidbits of Moon Knight stuff. So I had to catch it at some point.

I liked all the scenes that focused on “here’s a handful of disparate MCU characters who got thrown together by the weird circumstances, let’s watch them wrangle the apocalypse as a team.” In general, it felt like the character interactions were written by people who liked them, and put some thought into them. (After that disappointing s3 episode with Shang-Chi and Kate Bishop, it’s extra-refreshing to see an AU where Shang-Chi and Katy’s friendship gets to shine, and Kate gets a subplot with a trick arrow.)

But then the show tried to have an over-arching plot. And it felt like the plot was written by people who thought “Wanda makes a cool and terrifying villain, so our priority is to make her a cool villain, and we don’t really care how she got to that point or whether her motives make any sense.”

The MK content was “in this AU, Marc and company got zombie’d early in the outbreak, and their buddy Blade was recruited as next Moon Knight.” This is the MCU version of Blade, who suffers from a bad case of His Main-Timeline Debut Hasn’t Actually Happened Yet. So I don’t blame these writers at all for not knowing what to do with him. (The guy is half-vampire, there should be all kinds of questions to explore about how that interacts with a mostly-zombified world — and this show has no interest in any of them.)

At least we got a cool new MK suit design out of it. And a fun scene of Khonshu having an argument with Valkyrie.

Knights of Guinevere production art

Knights of Guinevere:

Sci-fi psychological horror, which is also a scathing commentary on the creator’s career as a Disney animator. Follows a couple of friends who live and work in the garbage-strewn shadow of a planet-sized theme park, and a broken android (?) mascot who could really use their help.

Only the first episode is finished right now, so there’s a lot we can’t know, but it’s so rich and dense with worldbuilding info that there’s a ton of possibilities to speculate about. At this point I’ve seen multiple “breakdown of all the little things you missed in the Knights of Guinevere pilot!” videos, and haven’t stopped picking up new details yet.

Very excited to see where the rest of the series goes.

You can watch the episode on YouTube. And you should. It’s amazing. (IMDB has specific content warnings.)


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[personal profile] kingstoken posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Stede/Ed and Stede/Ed/izzy
Rating: G
Length: 2252 words
Creator Links: charlieloverboy
Theme: Uncommon settings, unconventional format & style 

Summary: FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Video title: “Blackbeard and the Gentleman Pirate Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED”
From WIRED Entertainment

Reccer's Notes: This fic is written like it's the transcript of a WIRED interview, the ones where the celebrities answer google's most searched for questions about them.   It's a modern AU where Ed and Stede are rock stars and its implied that Izzy is Ed's manager.  I'm not sure how the author did it, but they got the tone and how most celebrities speak in these interviews spot on, while also telling us a narrative about Ed and Stede and heavily implying Ed/Stede/Izzy.

Fanwork Links: AO3

My straight man

Oct. 1st, 2025 06:25 pm
petra: Bruce Wayne smooching Dick Grayson while LARPing as Louis XVIII and Marie Antoinette (Bruce & Dick - Marie Antoinette smooch)
[personal profile] petra
SO: "'We sell topsoil.' I never see anyone saying they sell bottomsoil."

Me: "I want my soil to be vers."

SO: "Hm?"

Me: "Soil that switches between top and bottom. I believe it's short for versatile, but I never inquired."

SO: "Maybe it's short for Versailles."

[ SECRET POST #6844 ]

Oct. 1st, 2025 05:46 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6844 ⌋

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


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #977.
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.

Monthly Round Up - September 2025

Oct. 1st, 2025 10:30 pm
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[personal profile] shadowhive
September

Fics wrote: -
Books read: -
Games done: Donkey Kong Bananza
Podcast: Welcome To Night Vale - Horror Recs, The Magnus Protocol - Deep Trouble, Unlicensed - Bought To You By Frendi, Welcome To Night Vale - The HOA, Unlicensed - Castles In The Air, $780000, The Hands Of The Farmer, Mother Hawk, Coach’s Orders, What To Bring Into A Fire Zone, Dig Your Own Well
Who audios: Jago And Litefoot - The Spirit Trap, The Similarity Engine, Demons Of Red Lodge - The Demons Of Red Lodge, The Entropy Composition, Doing Time, Special Features
Other Big Finish stuff:-
Comics read: Fantastic Four 3
Graphic novels read: -

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Buzzfeed Unsolved - The Mysterious Death Of The Somerton Man/the Horrifying Unsiolved Slaughter At Hinterkaifeck farm
Blu Ray: The Savages
DVD: -
Disney+: Alien Earth - In Space No One…, Futurama - Destroy Tall Monsters, The World Is Hot Enough, High Potential - Pawns, Futurama - Fifty Shades Of Green, Rebuild The Galaxy Pieces Of The Past - Part 1, Part 2, part 3, part 4, Futurama - The Numberland Gap, Alien Earth - The Fly, Emergence, Futurama - Scared Screenless, High Potential - Checkmate, Alien Earth - The Real Monsters
Netflix: Wednesday - If You Don’t Woe Me By Now, A Murder Of Woes, The Conjuring, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Wednesday - Here We Woe Again, The Devil You Woe
Shudder: Hell Motel - Cat And Mouse, Grand Guignol, House On Eden
YouTube: Mystery Files - The Strange Case Of The Blue Family In Kentucky, Is Bigfoot real?, Honey Don’t trailer, Pokémon - My Friend Malamar, Mystery Files - The Outrageous Plot To Steal The Millenium Star Diamond, Nintendo Direct, Ghost Files - We Go Ghost Hunting With A Psychic, The Mandalorian and Grogu Trailer, Mystery Files -The Disturbing Disappearance Of The Princes In The Tower, Ghost Files Debrief - Shane Argues With A Ghost
Cinema: Honey Don’t, Jaws, The Bad Guys 2, Thunderbirds

I had hoped to do some ficcing and had started things, but again, completely stalled. And my focus has been too off to read anything either.

On the plus side watching stuff has gone better. I largely enjoyed Alien Earth and what I’ve seen of Futurama and Wednesday so far. Plus, yay! Finishing Hell Motel!

The cinema only had two trips, but I did love Honey Don’t so much (as well as Bad Guys2/Thunderbirds).

Also in audios I finished some pretty good stuff (I loved Demons Of Red Lodges mix of one episode stuff, which were all pretty good) and I finished Unlicensed. It’s by the guys that do Night Vale, but it is very different, being much more grounded and about two private detectives, but it was really great.

***

As you can see I didn’t watch Stranger Things as planned Monday, cause mum decided to wake me up by being bitchy (which, of course, she denies), then I spent yesterday in bed with a bad head/achy eyes. So neither was ideal and it’s kinda stalled my week and plans for today.

Tomorrow is a coin flip. It largely depends how I feel when I wake up. If I feel too headachey/woozy I’ll stay home. If not I’ll go to the cinema to see Curse Of Frankenstein. (And speaking of the new Frankenstein trailer looks so good I hope the cinema gets it!)

some. good. things.

Oct. 1st, 2025 09:07 pm
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[personal profile] kaberett
  1. Clean, hot, on-demand running water.
  2. I do not thus far feel particularly inspired by any of the recipes in Mary Woodin's The Painted Garden Cookbook, but I am very much enjoying leafing through the watercolours.
  3. Bread came out of the oven not terribly long ago and will be breakfast tomorrow; I'm looking forward to it (probably with spiced medlar jelly, yes yes).
  4. Continuity Gripes notwithstanding, I have this evening been extremely glad to have several October Daye short stories I'd not yet got to.
  5. The pen I was using to take notes on The Challenge of Pain was running out of ink juuust enough that I was having to have repeated attempts at the odd letter, but not enough that it stopped writing before I was done making said notes. Great Satisfaction Achieved (and I'm hopeful that the thorough bath it has just had will mean it starts behaving better...)
  6. Various greenhouse peppers continue to pep. The purple jalapeños are thus far mysteriously very much green, the thing that I think is a poblano (there was a mishap with labels) is setting fruit, and I've got no idea what exactly the short very bushy thing is but that too is now covered in flowers so with a little bit of luck I might even find out soon.
  7. The second sowing of kohlrabi I'd entirely given up on... appears to be coming up after all???
  8. A is a Very Good A Indeed and has finished unpacking the car following the event back in the first half of September. Before we wind up driving it across London again. And has cleared a bunch of the pile of Misc to take out to store in the garage.
  9. Fancy moisturiser.
  10. Warm Bed. yes. good. off I go.

Guardian Bonus Bingo October Prompts

Oct. 1st, 2025 05:02 pm
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[personal profile] tehfanglyfish posting in [community profile] sid_guardian

While June feels like it was just yesterday, October is upon us, taking us into the final month of new Guardian Bonus Bingo prompts. We hope everyone has enjoyed the fest so far. Remember that after this month ends, you’ll still have all of November to catch up on any prompts you might have missed.

You’re also welcome to join us if you’re just now discovering the fest. With the November catch-up month, there’s plenty of time left to fill all prompts even if you’re starting with October.

October (O) Prompts:

Illumination | Worth It | Shameless

You only need to create for one of these prompts to earn a fill for this month, though you’re welcome to create more if you feel so inspired.

While the fest account is located on Tumblr, you don't have to be a Tumblr user to participate or to earn a badge at the end of the fest. (Filling one prompt per month over five months is what matters for earning the badge, not where you post your fills.)

Friendly Fest Reminders:

  • This is a low-stress fest. The point is to create fan works and have fun.
  • All modes of creation are accepted!
  • All ratings, all ships, rpf, Weilan derivatives, and even works based on other Priest novels are accepted. Please tag accordingly.
  • Three prompts per month instead of one. This is to give people more options. You only need to create for one prompt to earn a fill. (You are, however, welcome to complete or combine all of them if you’d like.)
  • Prompts are inspiration only – follow them as strictly or as loosely as you’d like
  • No min/max content requirements.
  • No works created using generative AI

About/FAQ - Contains full fest info

AO3 Collection - You may also post in other places (tumblr, Dreamwidth, etc.)

If you @ our tumblr account, we’ll happily reblog your fill.

Let us know if you have any questions. We are so excited to see what you'll create in August!

Fest Prompt Master List:

June (B): Chase | Door Key | Respite

July (I): Cake | Reconciliation | Emergency

August (N): Incoming Call | Free Space | Festival

September (G): Hands | Midnight | Good Fortune

October (O): Illumination | Worth It | Shameless



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[personal profile] full_metal_ox posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Hilda the Plus-Size Pinup
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 100
Creator Tags: IN SPACE!, Drabble, wonder, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide Madness, Drabble Invitational
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] Missy; (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] bring_me_sugar

Theme: Uncommon Settings, Drabble, In Space, Old Fandoms, Sense Of Wonder, Small Fandoms

Summary: Hilda makes it to space - the universe is vast, but she's one with it.

Author’s Notes: For [archiveofourown.org profile] Topaz_Eyes.

Reccer's Notes: Hilda takes her exploration of The Great Outdoors to the next level. This is a gift-wrapped illo-op; I’m envisioning her in a brilliant red Latex Space Suit with an emergency backflap—in homage to her winter longjohns.

Fanwork Links: Here I Am, by [archiveofourown.org profile] Missy for [archiveofourown.org profile] Topaz_Eyes, for Yuletide Madness 2020.

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Oct. 1st, 2025 07:07 pm
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I've told this story to so many people but I just. I cannot. I. Well. The new job is going pretty well, I'm really getting into it, I have a crush on my boss and I like everyone I've met so far.

Yesterday one of my new colleagues came into the office a little down-hearted after being out for a meeting. The meeting hadn't gone well, she explained. "I forgot to invite anyone."

Bundle of Holding: The Far Roofs

Oct. 1st, 2025 02:01 pm
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The complete tabletop RPG about the heroic rats of Fortitude

Bundle of Holding: The Far Roofs

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