tzikeh

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Hey Jack Kerouac - 10000 Maniacs

Back at work, but thankfully 1. I don't have to commute, and 2. we are having no-meeting week, so I can just cross one major task off my list every day without adding new things like meeting notes or whatever.

I think the thing I've enjoyed most about the ancillary explosion of joy around Heated Rivalry is the two hockey podcasts that engaged fully and open-heartedly with it (well, and the proliferation of "Ilya gets added to the WAG chat" fic). Normally hockey podcast bros are not a species I have time for (aside from not being good at podcasts or audiobooks in general), but the Empty Netters dudes were super adorable in their reviews, and they also interviewed Ksenia Daniela with great excitement and are scheduled to have Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie on soon.

I also enjoyed What Chaos's less in-depth but still positive look at the show, and they have a couple of interviews with Jacob Tierney available that I haven't watched yet. I was also very pleased when, during a discussion about Shane's ginger ale habit, one of the dudes started talking about a restaurant(?) that lets you choose ginger ale or 7Up for your Shirley Temples, and I was like, "gotta go with ginger ale on that" and then the guy was like, "and the ones with ginger ale are great!" Because that is the legit truth, my friends. I'm not saying I won't drink a Shirley Temple with 7UP, but I am saying that the ones with ginger ale are 1. how we made them when I was a kid, and 2. better. I was reminded of how we ordered one every night at the free cocktail hour on that cruise we went on back in 2015, which definitely made an impression on the staff. *g* (Princess Donut also approves.)

So I feel like those were a great extender of joy, if you are in need. It's really lovely to see some cishet hockey dudes becoming fans of m/m romance.

In other fannish news, I just read that Sebastian Stan may be in Matt Reeve's The Batman, Part 2 and I don't want to get my hopes up or get fixated on a specific part for him to play, but like, wouldn't he be a fantastic Harvey Dent/Two-Face??? GIVE IT TO ME.

Scarlett Johansson has also been rumored to be involved somehow, and she'd have to be like, Poison Ivy, right? Though maybe they're going with more of a Mask of the Phantasm type thing and she'll be Andrea Beaumont? But I am not sure I buy Battinson as having a girlfriend before Selina, and also, why would you try to compete with Mask of the Phantasm? It's so good, you're just setting yourself up for not measuring up. (I guess she could be Talia, but I hope not.)

I guess we'll see what materializes! I'm kind of sad that they are not in continuity with James Gunn's Superman, because that would be fun to see.

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green

Current Mood: optimistic

This is my prompt table for

5soulmates

Table #0 - Custom
01. soulmates "live" each other's lives in their minds when they bond	02. empathic connection	03. first words	04. only one of the reincarnated soulmates remembers their past life	05. accidental soulbond

kass

Dear Purimgifts Author,

Thank you so much for writing me a story! I love all of these things and I know that whatever you write for me, I will love it too.

In general I am a big fan of: chosen family, happy endings, competence, characters being awesome, theology, snark and banter, kindness. I'm happy with anything that feels right to you given the characters at hand. If you want to cross a given fandom over with Megillat Esther, or with Tanakh in general, that is always my jam. (But you don't have to if you don't want to.)

Write something that makes you happy, and it will make me happy.

Please, no betrayal or unquenchable angst or people being awful to each other or grisly death or anything like that. There's enough of that in RL. Thank you kindly.

In closing: yay Purim! Yay you! Thank you so much!

Kass

( My requests: Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal, Parks and Rec, The Naturalist Society by Carrie Vaughn, Murderbot, The Diplomat, Stardew Valley )

dorinda

Happy New Year! Uh, belatedly! Time really got away from me...I fell ill right after Christmas, and am just now starting to play catch-up.

I got to write The Sting this year!:

What Wouldn't I Do For That Man (11779 words) by Dorinda
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Sting (1973)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Henry Gondorff/Johnny Hooker
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker (The Sting), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Con Artists, 1930s, Gay Bar, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Nonverbal Communication, First Time, Post-Canon
Summary: Johnny strained for the faintly crackling feeling of awareness he'd gotten used to, looked for those tiny shifts of head, hands, stance—but nothing doing. Henry's attention was fully on the matinee idol and the idol's on him, murmuring in their own closed circle, while Johnny watched them like a stray through a cafe window.

Okay, so, this was new. He'd gotten on top of every knuckleball Henry had thrown him so far. You just had to watch, and then you'd see. Nobody ever said it was always going to be a goddamn delight.

Alphabetotter had some intriguing prompts, including an interest in Johnny discovering a really big intersection between the grifter and queer communities, and that snagged me by the imagination right away. There's a lot more historical context I find thought-provoking but didn't have any reason to include or at least explicate in the story itself, so maybe that'll have to come up another time.

pocketmouse

OK, over on tumblr Te has invited a 'tell me about your weirdest fics' challenge, and since it involves some actual writing and critical thought, I figured I'd post it over here too.

( It was a struggle to come up with 5 )

In searching my archived fic I also found at least one older snipped marketd as published but not listed on the AO3, so if folks want a cracky dS/10th Doctor fic, that's been posted and backdated.

rhi

Current Mood: sick

Snagged from

swingandswirl :

01. Grab the nearest book.

02. Turn to page 126

03. The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.

Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses? Oh, this'll be fun.

"Paying the federal militia to suppress the rebellion cost $1.5 million, nearly one-third of the entire excise duties collected during the ten years the excise law was in force."

:reads. rereads. looks around. sighs again:

I'll just be over here.

bella_luugosi

(Given how many friends I have gained through Tolkien one way or another I really expected this to be about that. But it's not. I do love you all too though.)

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Content warning: this is saccharine and gooey and not really sarcastic at all and probably not of interest to anyone apart from maybe my dear friend M. I never knew I had it in me.

( Challenge #3: Write a love letter to fandom. )

shrift

I rang in the New Year by haunting liminal spaces, by which I mean getting stuck overnight at LAX on New Year's Eve after missing multiple connections due to weather and deicing.

For Yuletide 2025, I finally got the opportunity to write The Good Place:

Icarus (1882 words) by shrift
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Good Place (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chidi Anagonye, Jason Mendoza, Michael (The Good Place)
Additional Tags: Humor
Summary:

Attempt #479 aka Chidi and the series of escalating disappointments.

I also was lucky enough to receive two Yuletide gifts:

For the Greater Good (2552 words) by lapsedpacifist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar
Characters: Edgin Darvis, Xenk Yendar
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Banter, Undercover, Some Humor
Summary:

Edgin does a good deed and pretends he's Xenk Yendar's husband to save the man's life.

Too bad Xenk didn't actually need any saving.

an extraordinarily versatile hammer (1365 words) by kormantic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dr. Mensah & Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
Characters: Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), Amena (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Letters, uncomfortable information, Platonic Relationships
Summary:

— excerpt of personal correspondence from the desk of Dr. Ayda Mensah, President, Freehold Polity

green

Current Mood: exhausted

just spent two and a half hours setting up a new phone for my mom and getting all her new contacts in it and everything...

I'm EXHAUSTED from this. she was so anxious about it and over my shoulder the whole time. omg. OMG. I need to sleep for a WEEK now.

musesfool

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: Bucs vs Panthers on tv

I keep thinking I will have more brain to post about stuff but it keeps not happening, even with 2 weeks of vacation (back to work on Monday *sob*), so here are some brief thoughts about a variety of things:

- Miami Mika!!! Hopefully he is also Milano-Cortina Mika because after the bullshit snub of Jason Robertson by Team USA (in favor of JT Miller??? REALLY??? I've watched him play - badly (he's injured) - all season so idk what Bill Guerin is thinking there [I can see a role for Trocheck, who seems like a slightly less egregious choice to me than Miller, but still pretty bad, and I like Trocheck), I am in the bag for Sweden (or Finland) and hope Team USA doesn't even make the medal round.

- Speaking of hockey, I finally watched Heated Rivalry and I enjoyed it. I laughed, I cried a little, I predicted many lines of dialogue because I have written similar fic, and I'm probably one of the few people who wished for more hockey in the gay hockey show. I don't feel feral about it like most of fandom, but I kind of didn't expect to. It was lovely, though, and I'm glad it exists. Also, Connor Storrie needs to play Alexander the Great in something, or, since I texted

devildoll immediately with that thought and she replied, "Achilles," he should definitely play Achilles in something. I am just saying. I would like to see ( minor spoiler )

- The Stranger Things finale. Without spoilers, I liked it. I have quibbles but overall I found it emotionally satisfying. Also, while I appreciate Joe Keery and love Steve Harrington's arc, I have never found him particularly hot, per se, but ( spoilers )

- I'm enjoying season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I love Percy as a character and narrator, and I just enjoy spending time with him and his friends. ( spoilers )

- The Muppet Show returns!!! This is not a drill!!! I AM EXCITE!!!

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green

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

Gotta say my favorite 'pet' from my fandoms is Diefenbaker from Due South. But I'm gonna go with a more obscure one and then some from my own stories, instead.

Prada is Lydia Martin's canon dog from Teen Wolf. He's a six-pound black and white Papillon. He was onscreen once (in season 2's Frenemy) and then mentioned a couple more times later on.

I love animals, but I don't write original pets too often. I have in the past, though. Let's see if I can remember...

( behind a cut because I include snippets of my stories plus pet pics )

bella_luugosi

( Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom )

sakana17

跨年快乐！🎆🥳🎉 I hope you'll all have a better 2026 than 2025! ♥

I haven't posted since October, somehow. I don't know why I didn't manage any posts in November (although... the latest farmboys mini-show was airing 😅), but I didn't post anything in December because

thevetia and I went to China!

Where: Hong Kong -✈️-> Hangzhou (iykyk) -🚃-> Shanghai
Highlights: meeting

grayswandir, going to museums in each city, going to Shanghai Film Park(!)
Weather: We were very lucky! It only rained during the day once (in Hangzhou), and the temperatures in Hangzhou and Shanghai were not as cold as we'd been bracing ourselves for. The weather in Hong Kong was warm and pleasant.

( Trip, part 1: Hong Kong )

( Hong Kong logistics/recommendations )

mishaday

Current Mood: hopeful

When the year began, I had a notebook full of crafty projects I'd dreamed up, and a few piles of things that hadn't been finished yet. In the theme of starting as I mean to go on, I finished the knit hat I'd cast on last month.

It's a simple 1x1 rib knit beanie, to match the 1x1 rib knit scarf I'd cast on for travel knitting (easy, portable) with yarn from Mom's stash - I think back in 2020 when I was down in NM for her final months. Once I'd gotten back north and moved, I'd pretty much stopped knitting for a while, but in 2025, I joined the UW Knitting and Crochet group, and we sit down at lunchtime twice a week on zoom to knit together. So I actually made progress on the scarf and once it was done decided I had enough of this yarn for a hat and fingerless mitts (the next project to cast on.)

I've started thinking about knitting projects to add to my piles of new things to make, but I want first to make an effort to complete those that are already on the needles. Some of them have been shoved into storage, but I want to get them out of the way before I tackle anything else. Folks in the group are talking about their upcoming yarn purchases, but I'm fully stash-knitting (between mine and mom's stashes, I'm good. Even after a big donation back in Sept.)

I'm less tempted by yarn at this point - fabric has loomed as the larger inspiration/temptation, but there I feel I've done enough creation that I can updating of my wardrobe that I can focus on using what I have, and filling in wardrobe gaps more mindfully and taking my time with embellishment and details.

So. My first sewing project I will tackle is a bra - I've been working my way up to it - and had bought my first pattern and a materials kit right before the holidays. I think the neatest part of that kit was the dissolveable thread for the first mockup. Just get it wet and it'll fall back apart to redo the fit try again!

rivkat

Annalee Newitz, Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind: ( history and present )

Luke Kemp, Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse: ( not what I hoped )

Justin F. Jackson, The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines: ( so shockingly, racist! )

Elliott West, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion: ( this too )

Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America: ( um ... )

Charles S. Maier, The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: ( history as forces )

Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France:( it's complicated? but also racist; rape and rape myths )

Caroline Fraser, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers: ( Helter Smelter (her joke, not mine) )

Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age: ( lots'o'quotes )

Elliott Kalan, Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense: ( good instructions )

starwatcher

This is the list where you can choose different sellers. Here's the sale link --

https://earlybirdbooks.com/deals/1000-ebook-sale

**

Folks, I often don't open my laptop until noon or later. Since my timezone is GMT+7, that's awfully late for anyone in Europe, and these posts are fairly useless.

BUT! Note that there's a "subscribe" button at the top of the Early Bird Books page. If you subscribe, you'll get a daily email that lists a dozen or so discounted books, as well as early notification of these massive sales. (This one hit my inbox at 5:20 A.M.)

Also check out Bookbub -- https://www.bookbub.com/ If you sign up, you select the genres you like to read and your seller of choice. Then you get a daily email with approximately 15 to 30 discounted books in your selected genres. Bookbub doesn't have the massive sales like Early Bird Books, but often there are 3 or 4 titles "free" in the daily list. (At least, in the Romance genre.)

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As always, feel free to share this post or info wherever you choose. Happy reading!

bella_luugosi

Prompt One, and I'm already late...

( The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it. )

musesfool

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

I hope you all had a lovely New Year's celebration and started the year off the way you wanted.

I did a bunch of cooking yesterday - rice balls to eat at dinner (since I can no longer stomach eating at midnight, pun intended) and then the Smitten Kitchen orange cranberry buns, which were supposed to do an overnight rise in the fridge so I could have them for breakfast this morning (pics). Sadly, I did not find that they rose at all overnight and in fact they stayed cold for a long time before I finally baked them. They did puff up nicely in the oven and they are tasty, but I don't know why I never have success with sweet things rising overnight in the fridge - bread and pizza have worked fine for me, but this is like the third time I've tried overnight sweet rolls of some sort and it's always the same. Anyway, the recipe makes 12 so I have 3 in my freezer for future!me to enjoy at a later date. I still have a fuckton of cranberries in the freezer though, so I'll probably make them - or the scones - again soon.

I can't remember if I've mentioned this, but if you go see Marty Supreme, keep an eye out for my nephew! He's an extra in a scene in a pool hall (I think?). He got recruited when he was out at a bar with friends one night - a casting agent told him he had the right look (like he was from the 50s) for a movie she was casting, and he eventually got to be in it! He's pretty tall, so he might stand out, idk.

In other things I keep meaning to mention, on Christmas, my sister opened up a couple of bottles of wine, and we found a red that we actually liked! It's called "Clara's Red" by Keuka Spring Vineyard in upstate New York (Finger Lakes region). It's on the sweet side for a red, and tasted like it was 85% of the way to already being sangria and had no musty basement smell or taste at all! Their 2021 Reisling was also really good, and she opened another of their white wines (I didn't make note of the type), which also tasted good. (Lest you think I was off my face on wine on Christmas, I only had a sip of each because my stomach was basically empty, which is a whole other thing - they somehow had not thought to provide anything for me or my other nephew for breakfast despite knowing we would be there? Idek. Eventually I had a couple of mini waffles [generally breakfast for Baby Miss L when she is there], but it was not enough to be drinking on.) Anyway, I wanted to put it here so I remembered it if I need to buy wine any time soon, and also as a recommendation in case any of you want to try a new wine.

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green

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Hi, I'm greenie (or Green, if you want to be formal-polite), and I'm a 47-year-old weirdo who is back once again to play with the Snowflake Challenge!! Wooooo!!

Maybe we can get to know each other a little this month as we skip along the challenges together. (Hopefully, I'm skipping along and not outright skipping any like usual. Forgive me if that happens lol)

I love Snowflake because it gives me things to do and be excited about here on Dreamwidth, which is a place I love but don't spend enough time with.

Also, Snowflake frequently reminds me what's so great about fandom and fannishness to begin with!

twistedchick

The Post Office's little announcement that letters and objects won't be postmarked on the day they're received any more is a nastygram to mail-in ballots, and a removal of the status of a postmark as an official government designation of date and location.

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Dear Purimgifts Author

Yuletide reveal: "What Wouldn't I Do For That Man" (The Sting)

Weirdest fics

Book meme

Snowflake challenge prompt 3

Yuletide reveal

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his mobility is untrammelled

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Snowflake challenge prompt 2

跨年快乐！(and trip, part 1)

Get your successes in while you can

Happy New Year! Some (not all happy) nonfiction

Today only -- Jan 2nd -- ebook sale.

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and ice cream castles in the air

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