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isisDecember has been busy-busy for me between Yuletide preparation (as a mod) and Yuletide preparation (as a participant who also took on a pinch hit), but now, ahh, everything is done and I can reap the rewards!
My awesome gift (5-minute fandom: British Airways "May We Haveth One's Attention" Safety Video):
A British Original: Discovering Haddersford House and Its Residents (2248 words, gen)
Summary: A magazine article from the world where characters in costume drama occasionally come to life of their own--and stick around after the cameras stop rolling and the crews have gone home.
I really had no idea what to expect from this request (just that I had to have something about this marvelous video!) and I love how it's played with an absolutely straight face. Also, there's a nod to Planet Vancouver, hee!
Speaking of the ridiculous played straight, this is understandable (and hilarious) with only osmosis knowledge of The Godfather:
An Offer You Can’t Refuse (Unless You’re Lactose Intolerant) (1008 words, Godfather movies, gen)
Summary: On the day of his daughter’s guinea pig’s wedding, Don Vito Corleone received a request he could not immediately refuse.
Absolutely the best Godfather fic ever.
The rest of my recs really do require canon knowledge, but I know many of you know these canons:
Memories Are Made of This (4002 words, Northern Exposure, Ed Chigliak-centered ensemble gen)
Summary: “So this is Cicely,” Ed said, gazing wide-eyed up and down Main Street. “Where’s the rest of it?”
This is wonderful - like an episode of the show, warm and funny and a little bit off-kilter.
Hoar and Hound (2236 words, Cadfael Chronicles, Brother Cadfael-centered gen)
Summary: On a frigidly cold December night, Cadfael follows a trail through the abbey grounds.
A lovely, thoughtful portrait of the abbey and of Cadfael. The way he quietly assesses the needs of the people (and creatures) around him is perfectly in tune with canon.
Dis Manibus (1364 words, Frontier Wolf, Alexios/Cunorix, Alexios/Hilarion, G)
Summary: Alexios goes out to make an offering to the shades of the dead, but he does not go alone.
This is lovely and tender and measured, and has something of Sutcliff in the descriptions. For me Alexios/Hilarion only works if it honors the close friendship between Alexios and Cunorix, before things went bad - and this is perfect.
We Greet the Peoples of the Tower (1717 words but heavily illustrated; Chants of Sennaar, gen)
Summary: There are some oddly regular scratch marks on a wall in the Alchemists' level...
Basically this is a fangame (though the game part is optional; the first set of chapters are illustrations with glyphs as in the game, and the second half holds the translations), a whole new level in which the Monster goes seeking the other peoples to assert he is a human and their brother. It's a moving story that fits with the game themes, and it's just very cool!
Actually, if you've played Chants of Sennaar, I recommend all the Yuletide works for the game as the fandom has clearly brought its A-game, they're all great. (The one above is just extraordinarily so!) And there are two Madness works I haven't even looked at yet!
My awesome gift (5-minute fandom: British Airways "May We Haveth One's Attention" Safety Video):
A British Original: Discovering Haddersford House and Its Residents (2248 words, gen)
Summary: A magazine article from the world where characters in costume drama occasionally come to life of their own--and stick around after the cameras stop rolling and the crews have gone home.
I really had no idea what to expect from this request (just that I had to have something about this marvelous video!) and I love how it's played with an absolutely straight face. Also, there's a nod to Planet Vancouver, hee!
Speaking of the ridiculous played straight, this is understandable (and hilarious) with only osmosis knowledge of The Godfather:
An Offer You Can’t Refuse (Unless You’re Lactose Intolerant) (1008 words, Godfather movies, gen)
Summary: On the day of his daughter’s guinea pig’s wedding, Don Vito Corleone received a request he could not immediately refuse.
Absolutely the best Godfather fic ever.
The rest of my recs really do require canon knowledge, but I know many of you know these canons:
Memories Are Made of This (4002 words, Northern Exposure, Ed Chigliak-centered ensemble gen)
Summary: “So this is Cicely,” Ed said, gazing wide-eyed up and down Main Street. “Where’s the rest of it?”
This is wonderful - like an episode of the show, warm and funny and a little bit off-kilter.
Hoar and Hound (2236 words, Cadfael Chronicles, Brother Cadfael-centered gen)
Summary: On a frigidly cold December night, Cadfael follows a trail through the abbey grounds.
A lovely, thoughtful portrait of the abbey and of Cadfael. The way he quietly assesses the needs of the people (and creatures) around him is perfectly in tune with canon.
Dis Manibus (1364 words, Frontier Wolf, Alexios/Cunorix, Alexios/Hilarion, G)
Summary: Alexios goes out to make an offering to the shades of the dead, but he does not go alone.
This is lovely and tender and measured, and has something of Sutcliff in the descriptions. For me Alexios/Hilarion only works if it honors the close friendship between Alexios and Cunorix, before things went bad - and this is perfect.
We Greet the Peoples of the Tower (1717 words but heavily illustrated; Chants of Sennaar, gen)
Summary: There are some oddly regular scratch marks on a wall in the Alchemists' level...
Basically this is a fangame (though the game part is optional; the first set of chapters are illustrations with glyphs as in the game, and the second half holds the translations), a whole new level in which the Monster goes seeking the other peoples to assert he is a human and their brother. It's a moving story that fits with the game themes, and it's just very cool!
Actually, if you've played Chants of Sennaar, I recommend all the Yuletide works for the game as the fandom has clearly brought its A-game, they're all great. (The one above is just extraordinarily so!) And there are two Madness works I haven't even looked at yet!
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torachanRecently Finished
Either Side of Midnight
Sequel to Trust Me When I Lie. This was good, but I do enjoy the Ernest Cunningham series better.
Murder Under Her Skin
Second in the Pentecost and Parker series. Just okay. I'll read more in this series, but it's not a priority.
Damn Straight
Another second book in a murder mystery series. This one the Lillian Byrd series. Same as above, I liked it well enough that I'll continue the series, but I'm not rushing out to read the next one.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact
There's a new series of Lower Decks comics! In fact, there's enough issues for a second volume, too, though it's not coming out until next year. My issue with these is the same with every comic based on a cartoon, which is that they're never quite as good as the show. They're enjoyable enough, though.
My Home Hero vol. 20-22
Either Side of Midnight
Sequel to Trust Me When I Lie. This was good, but I do enjoy the Ernest Cunningham series better.
Murder Under Her Skin
Second in the Pentecost and Parker series. Just okay. I'll read more in this series, but it's not a priority.
Damn Straight
Another second book in a murder mystery series. This one the Lillian Byrd series. Same as above, I liked it well enough that I'll continue the series, but I'm not rushing out to read the next one.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact
There's a new series of Lower Decks comics! In fact, there's enough issues for a second volume, too, though it's not coming out until next year. My issue with these is the same with every comic based on a cartoon, which is that they're never quite as good as the show. They're enjoyable enough, though.
My Home Hero vol. 20-22
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torachanIt was a busy day at the park, being a holiday weekend plus the first sunny day in a while. The park opens at nine and we got down there around 9:45 and the line for parking was super backed up, but thankfully the ADA lot still had a ton of spaces left, so once we finally got to it, it was easy to get a spot. The lines for the front gates were probably the longest I've seen, but still moved pretty smoothly.
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I think this will be our last amusement park visit of the year. We're planning on Disneyland on the 1st, but it's supposed to rain again, so we'll see.
This year my totals are 79 at Disneyland (including 4 at Tokyo Disney), 4 at Knott's, and 2 at Universal Studios. That's a lot! O_o
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I think this will be our last amusement park visit of the year. We're planning on Disneyland on the 1st, but it's supposed to rain again, so we'll see.
This year my totals are 79 at Disneyland (including 4 at Tokyo Disney), 4 at Knott's, and 2 at Universal Studios. That's a lot! O_o
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waterswordYuletide very pleasant; usually I get a comment on an old fic or two in a fandom someone has rediscovered through Yuletide and gone on a deep dive for, but not this year!
About three or four inches of snow (7-10cm) fell overnight and I shoveled my front sidewalk and steps, because the snow removal guys had done next door but not us (?), and then tromped down to my assigned house in the neighborhood, where I shoveled the longest driveway in Rhode Island and enough sidewalk for two houses and what felt like two flights of front steps. Thank goodness it was light and powdery, and almost all of the above was in good repair so I didn't have to fight the asphalt like last year, but I earned every bite of the steak and eggs and homefries (not nearly as good as last time) at the diner.
And then C. and her kid and I went to the ZOO and saw CREATURES. Macaws! Ibis! Elephants! A two-year-old giraffe who is already trying to fuck the other giraffes in the enclosure (this is a good thing, they want genetically-diverse babies from him) but he's not tall enough yet! An anaconda 99.8% percent in the water in its tank, I wanted to boop its snout SO MUCH. Red pandas that were so fluffy they looked fake. The river otters were having so much fun in the snow and splashing in their pool. The docents were super friendly and the French fries were delicious. Would 100% zoo again.
Then a hot bath and a nap. Bliss.
sovayI spent so much of Boxing Day curled on the couch with my books, I failed to notice it was snowing until well after dark when it glittered down through the streetlight in one of those soundstage tinsel veils. One of my goals for this afternoon was to get out into its Arctic wonderland, whose streets were spidered with ice and drift-blue with chemical salt instead of glacial age. I walked further than I had intended and had to come back across the snow of the imaginatively designated Veterans Memorial Park between the iron freeze of the Mystic River and the less elemental red lights of Route 16.
( Look quick, is that something you missed? )
I have been sick for so long, I feel that I have once again come unplugged from any of the places where I live. I don't know that I will be any less sick in the immediately foreseeable future, but I have to try to socket myself back into these streets, this light, the inside of my own head. I remain so tired the latter feels emptier than I would like, but at least I am trying not to punt every idea that crosses it as pointlessly exhausting. In the meantime I am enjoying Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (ed. Edward Parnell, 2024) and Russell Hoban's The Bat Tattoo (2002).
( Look quick, is that something you missed? )
I have been sick for so long, I feel that I have once again come unplugged from any of the places where I live. I don't know that I will be any less sick in the immediately foreseeable future, but I have to try to socket myself back into these streets, this light, the inside of my own head. I remain so tired the latter feels emptier than I would like, but at least I am trying not to punt every idea that crosses it as pointlessly exhausting. In the meantime I am enjoying Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (ed. Edward Parnell, 2024) and Russell Hoban's The Bat Tattoo (2002).
kaberettI am now noticing that it is in fact Fairly Consistent that I can Do More in terms of Pilates if I'm doing it at a rate of Two Full Sessions A Week rather than three. I am Somewhat Dismayed at now needing to go "okay, this clearly means I'm not fully recovering doing what I'm currently doing at a rate of every other day-ish, which means I will derive more benefit if I do less of the activity"; I am trying to cheer myself up by persuading myself that what it Actually Means that I get to play with a greater variety of Colouring Things In on The Sticker Chart.
I am amused that I am about as Oh No This Is Terrible about Officially Reducing My Mat Time as I am about getting onto the mat. Brains. Brains!
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ride_4everThe event is called Rewrite A Fic. It's a multifandom event that gives you eleven months to rewrite a fic you've written before. The event rules are that the work written has to be yours originally, the fic you are rewriting has to be at least 1 1/2 years old, and using generative AI for the fic is strictly prohibited. The length of the fic doesn't matter. There are no content restrictions, but the use of proper content warnings is required when posting the work.
See full comm details, including how to post to the comm and how to add to the comm's AO3 Collection at rewrite_a_fic on DW.
See full comm details, including how to post to the comm and how to add to the comm's AO3 Collection at rewrite_a_fic on DW.
luzulaPlease check in here! It is late and I had a little alcohol, so I am too tired to write a proper post. Did not write. Will edit in the tally later. As for my farm news, we drank my homemade cherry wine, which came out great.
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petraI am going through my traditional "How many fests and challenges can I imagine in a week?"
I don't think I'm doing Psychic Wolves this year.
On the other hand, Té suggested a fest of blorbos touching the Rockstar Lestat and now I want it.
hannah points out that, if we want to know what Tom Cruise's Rockstar Lestat would have looked like, we have but to consult this video of Cruise in a jukebox musical singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
...it's been a really long time since I was sexually attracted to Tom Cruise, but apparentlyhannah has the secret sauce.
Also, I now want vampires:
+ the New Burbage Festival (OMG DARREN NICHOLS) (Slings & Arrows)
+ on G-ERTI (they can only fly at night) (Cabin Pressure)
+ working for Oracle (Birds of Prey and a half)
+ visiting Chicago in the era of the Mountie (experimental hair for all who will) (due South)
+ what-ho'ing Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
+ in the world of the Five Gods (hello, is this The Bastard, I have your king shit devoté on hold) (Chalion)
+ dealing with the Light and the Dark, and falling somewhere between (Dark is Rising)
+ eating hockey players
+ being in the future and baffling Aral Vorkosigan with being a) not soldiers and b) hot AT THE SAME TIME (Vorkosigan Saga)
+ and Muppets (Lestat as lone "human"?)
+ in Narnia (Aslan would shit a lit. brick)
+ becoming Black Ribboners (time for a sing-song around the harmonium! NOT LIKE THAT, LESTAT) (Discworld)
+ in Night Vale (it's Tuesday)
+ mad, in a coma, AND back in time -- the Life on Mars trifecta -- let's see Lestat trying to eat Gene Hunt
+ calling Car Talk
+ hiring Neal Caffrey to do a spot of forgery (White Collar)
+ with war horses who correspond with Copenhagen and Marengo, gaily (Warhorses of Letters)
+ fit as a fiddle and ready for love (would they love or loathe Lockwood and Lamont?) (Singin' in the Rain)
+ come on Darth Vader gold glitter looks Great on you
+ choosing the lesser of two weevils (Aubreyad)
+ ...okay i just died a little over quentin coldwater fanboying the vampire lestat (The Magicians)
+ side-eyeing and being side-eyed by Magneto (X-Men)
+ and I had a good belly laugh at Lestat meeting Felix Harrowgate: battle of the asshole first-person narrators who think they are special
+ Zaphod! Beeblebrox! would so get it on with Lestat! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with thalergy? Let's Find Out (The Locked Tomb)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with constructs? Send Lestat to Preservation! (Murderbot)
+ okay hear me out Grantaire is weak for opinionated blonds but what if he met The Wrong One (Les Misérables)
+ it's already a doctor who episode innit but let's get some harkness up in this joint
+ Awful Sykes has a crush and so does Torquil (Archer's Goon)
+ RIVERS OF LONDON which body of water can we blame everyone on
+ Last Week Tonight: Our main story concerns The "Vampire" Lestat (of course John does quote fingers)
+ Jacky Faber met our hero at some point in her meanderings. I bet they shared a stage.
+ James Flint. BWAHAHAHA. WOULD HIT THAT. (Black Sails)
+ Falsettos: writes. itself. Louis IS the gay plague.
+ did you ever want to see Lestat fuck a muppet wearing leather? I DO I DO (Farscape)
+ truly Julian Bashir needs his not-boyfriend to run interference or he's gonna get eaten (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
+ and then I hit Battlestar Galactica (reboot) which seems like a Terrible place to be a vampire but they'd have fun eating Gaius
+ Pern! is in the future! it can have Vampires if it wants 'em! Weirdest Harper Ever.
+ What happens with MCU? I couldn't begin to tell you. But there must be a clever answer.
+ Community: the study group goes to a concert and they all crush, each in their own way. Annie gets... scary.
+ I very much want Ray Person singing The Vampire Lestat across Iraq, but given the givens it makes me want to cry right now. (Generation: Kill, RIP James Ransone)
+ Scott & Bailey -- the teenage girls and Aunt Rachel bond over their crushes
+ Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has immortals. I want to see them emoting at Rice's.
+ And our wailing wonder, Lestat de Lioncourt. // Why, thank you, Sandi. (QI, the other guests are Phill Jupitus and Sue Perkins, because it's a Musical Episode)
+ ST: TOS -- Chekov and Sulu both have posters.
+ Does Venom want one? And how!
I don't think I'm doing Psychic Wolves this year.
On the other hand, Té suggested a fest of blorbos touching the Rockstar Lestat and now I want it.
hannah points out that, if we want to know what Tom Cruise's Rockstar Lestat would have looked like, we have but to consult this video of Cruise in a jukebox musical singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me."...it's been a really long time since I was sexually attracted to Tom Cruise, but apparently
hannah has the secret sauce.Also, I now want vampires:
+ the New Burbage Festival (OMG DARREN NICHOLS) (Slings & Arrows)
+ on G-ERTI (they can only fly at night) (Cabin Pressure)
+ working for Oracle (Birds of Prey and a half)
+ visiting Chicago in the era of the Mountie (experimental hair for all who will) (due South)
+ what-ho'ing Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
+ in the world of the Five Gods (hello, is this The Bastard, I have your king shit devoté on hold) (Chalion)
+ dealing with the Light and the Dark, and falling somewhere between (Dark is Rising)
+ being in the future and baffling Aral Vorkosigan with being a) not soldiers and b) hot AT THE SAME TIME (Vorkosigan Saga)
+ and Muppets (Lestat as lone "human"?)
+ in Narnia (Aslan would shit a lit. brick)
+ becoming Black Ribboners (time for a sing-song around the harmonium! NOT LIKE THAT, LESTAT) (Discworld)
+ in Night Vale (it's Tuesday)
+ mad, in a coma, AND back in time -- the Life on Mars trifecta -- let's see Lestat trying to eat Gene Hunt
+ calling Car Talk
+ hiring Neal Caffrey to do a spot of forgery (White Collar)
+ with war horses who correspond with Copenhagen and Marengo, gaily (Warhorses of Letters)
+ fit as a fiddle and ready for love (would they love or loathe Lockwood and Lamont?) (Singin' in the Rain)
+ come on Darth Vader gold glitter looks Great on you
+ choosing the lesser of two weevils (Aubreyad)
+ ...okay i just died a little over quentin coldwater fanboying the vampire lestat (The Magicians)
+ side-eyeing and being side-eyed by Magneto (X-Men)
+ and I had a good belly laugh at Lestat meeting Felix Harrowgate: battle of the asshole first-person narrators who think they are special
+ Zaphod! Beeblebrox! would so get it on with Lestat! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with thalergy? Let's Find Out (The Locked Tomb)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with constructs? Send Lestat to Preservation! (Murderbot)
+ okay hear me out Grantaire is weak for opinionated blonds but what if he met The Wrong One (Les Misérables)
+ it's already a doctor who episode innit but let's get some harkness up in this joint
+ Awful Sykes has a crush and so does Torquil (Archer's Goon)
+ RIVERS OF LONDON which body of water can we blame everyone on
+ Last Week Tonight: Our main story concerns The "Vampire" Lestat (of course John does quote fingers)
+ Jacky Faber met our hero at some point in her meanderings. I bet they shared a stage.
+ James Flint. BWAHAHAHA. WOULD HIT THAT. (Black Sails)
+ Falsettos: writes. itself. Louis IS the gay plague.
+ did you ever want to see Lestat fuck a muppet wearing leather? I DO I DO (Farscape)
+ truly Julian Bashir needs his not-boyfriend to run interference or he's gonna get eaten (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
+ and then I hit Battlestar Galactica (reboot) which seems like a Terrible place to be a vampire but they'd have fun eating Gaius
+ Pern! is in the future! it can have Vampires if it wants 'em! Weirdest Harper Ever.
+ What happens with MCU? I couldn't begin to tell you. But there must be a clever answer.
+ Community: the study group goes to a concert and they all crush, each in their own way. Annie gets... scary.
+ I very much want Ray Person singing The Vampire Lestat across Iraq, but given the givens it makes me want to cry right now. (Generation: Kill, RIP James Ransone)
+ Scott & Bailey -- the teenage girls and Aunt Rachel bond over their crushes
+ Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has immortals. I want to see them emoting at Rice's.
+ And our wailing wonder, Lestat de Lioncourt. // Why, thank you, Sandi. (QI, the other guests are Phill Jupitus and Sue Perkins, because it's a Musical Episode)
+ ST: TOS -- Chekov and Sulu both have posters.
+ Does Venom want one? And how!
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They wouldn't shut up about it, so there we go. They're not wrong.
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They wouldn't shut up about it, so there we go. They're not wrong.
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The Village Teacher by Liu Cixin [Graphic Novel by Zhang Xiaoyu]
Li Laoshi spends his whole life teaching and protecting the youth in a remote Chinese village. What for?
I read the German edition of the graphic novel version of Liu Cixin's novella. Same as last year, I needed to add a graphic novel to gain time for my challenge. It's cheating in a way, but just like last year, this graphic novel was a Christmas present that I would not otherwise have read, so it's predestined to be used for the Mount TBR challenge, and I don't feel very bad about it. (Not to mention that no amount of cheating will make me reach my goal of 12 books this year.)
some thoughts, spoilery
* The graphics style is very detailed and the aliens and starscapes especially are beautiful. The humans are a little ugly in comparison - but that's the point, I think.
* The whole point of the book is to show how much good teachers are worth. They'll save Earth from destruction.
* That the Earth is saved by a few youngsters spouting physical formulas (Kepler's laws) without understanding them is hilariously Chinese. (And maybe also the point.)
* The two things that stuck in my mind from this book:
** the idea that anyone could at any time be chosen by an alien race as a representative for Earth's population. This would not go well. (But hey, even choosing Chinese students from a backwater village seems to have been enough. Is there hope? :) )
** the fact that even with government support, the teacher wasn't able to pay for his cancer treatment
* It's, from what I've now seen, a pretty typical book for Liu Cixin. He puts his finger on systemic failures of Chinese society, and he invents fantastical alien races. Two for two.
* The moral of the story isn't even bad, knowledge is important, teachers are important. It's okay for a short story.
* I read the whole thing in under an hour, so I'm not surprised that the moral didn't leave a huge impression. It didn't have enough time to develop.
3 stars - very detailed artwork, the human faces a bit too (intentionally) ugly in places to really draw me in, but the novella plot was good
1 - 5 stars - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Final Architecture #1 [DW link]
2 - 2 stars - Miss Merkel: Mord auf dem Friedhof by David Safier Miss Merkel #2 [DW link]
3 - 4 stars - Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire Toby Daye #10 [DW link]
4 - 1 star - Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [DW link]
5 - 5 stars - Murderbot Diaries 1-4 by Martha Wells [DW link]
6 - 4 stars - Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur/We Have Been Harmonized by Kai Strittmatter [DW link]
7 - tbd
8 - 3 stars - Der Markisenmann by Jan Weiler [DW link]
9 - 3 stars - The Village Teacher by Liu Cixin [Graphic Novel by Zhang Xiaoyu] [DW link]
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nicolagriffith_feedFor all those who worried that in Christmas Day’s dragon attack, Charlie—drawn to the sound of wings, thinking, Bird!—might not have survived:
Here is proof of life from yesterday—note the newspaper (front page of the sport section).
So now you can watch it again, secure in the knowledge that no beasties were harmed in the making of this production:
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china_shop(Feel free to snag and/or adapt for other fandoms! Also, being me, I made rules ("pick one", "favourite") and then immediately broken them. *g*)
1. A fanwork you've read/looked at more than three times
- [Vid] Open Ocean by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
sakana17 (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan - so gorgeous)
- [Vid] Lost It All bysalamandras (Zhao Xinci & Zhao Yunlan - a vexercise! I particularly love the first version)
- [Art] Getting Comfortable [Explicit] byfacethestrange (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan art, a glorious gift for me, did I mention explicit?)
2. A resource you've used lately (or "lately")
- Dramatis Personae (with cast list) byextrapenguin
- SID Timeline byrheasilvia
- Guardian timeline byextrapenguin
3. A rarepair you would read
I'm fairly easy for trying out rarepairs. There are some characters I generally avoid "/" pairings for (in particular, Da Qing, Zhu Jiu, and Ye Zun come to mind), but I did read some delightful Lin Jing/Ye Zun fics overguardian_wishlist, so clearly even that isn't a hard line. (Da Qing might be, though.)
A rarepair that I'd actively like to read more of is Chu Shuzhi &/ Zhao Xinci.nnozomi wrote me one delightful fic for them [Mature], and it only whetted my appetite. *g*
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1. A fanwork you've read/looked at more than three times
- [Vid] Open Ocean by
- [Vid] Lost It All by
- [Art] Getting Comfortable [Explicit] by
2. A resource you've used lately (or "lately")
- Dramatis Personae (with cast list) by
extrapenguin- SID Timeline by
rheasilvia- Guardian timeline by
extrapenguin3. A rarepair you would read
I'm fairly easy for trying out rarepairs. There are some characters I generally avoid "/" pairings for (in particular, Da Qing, Zhu Jiu, and Ye Zun come to mind), but I did read some delightful Lin Jing/Ye Zun fics over
guardian_wishlist, so clearly even that isn't a hard line. (Da Qing might be, though.) A rarepair that I'd actively like to read more of is Chu Shuzhi &/ Zhao Xinci.
nnozomi wrote me one delightful fic for them [Mature], and it only whetted my appetite. *g*( Continued behind the cut. )
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Just released! This collection of papers presented at the Mythopoeic Society’s 2025 online conference focuses on intersectional feminist approaches to women and gender in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, and other mythopoeic work. The conference honored the first anthology on women and Tolkien, Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien (2015), edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan.
Available in paperback ($10) and e-book ($8).
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