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Jan. 17th, 2026 08:54 pm
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Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.


In fic, I'll pretty much always give wingfic, superpowers, and mpreg a try. I rarely turn down outsider POV or post-canon explorations. Fics that peer around the corners of the canon to look at what's lurking there are usually worth checking out. There's not much else that I'll click on pretty much every time I come across it - what I want in Top Gun fic is very different from what I want in Scrubs or Deep Space Nine, and there's certain tropes that I'll deliberately seek out in some fandoms and work to avoid in others.

In terms of general media, some that I always get a kick out of are a bunch of people from very different backgrounds thrown together, which I generally see ensemble casts, but not always - it depends on the circumstances, with less of it in The Wire than MASH. Urban fantasy is something where my tastes are pretty narrow, so I'm willing to check it out fairly regularly in the hopes I've found something new in that narrow range. I enjoy extreme competence and awesome Jews are always welcome.


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Snowflake Challenge 2026 - Day 9

Jan. 18th, 2026 12:58 pm
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Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

This is not the best question for me, because I don't really think in terms of tropes very much. I'm a characters first, tropes second kind of person, so my approach to tropes is always "how does the trope provide a framework for exploring the character or relationship?" rather than "I have a favourite trope that I want to read/write".

Any trope can be good for this, except for tropes that impose characterisation from somewhere else onto the characters. So stuff like A/B/O is not for me.

Mostly, I like tropes that force intimacy onto the characters, or make them lose their inhibitions, so fake relationships, soulbonds and sex pollen (generally not all at the same time - but hey, it could work 😂) are up there as tropes for me.


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Title: only one bed (for three)
Fandoms: MCU
Pairings: Darcy/Pietro/Wanda
Rating: Teen
Warnings/Spoilers: AU!Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies. Established Relationship.
Summary: Darcy, Wanda and Pietro. Only one bed.
Notes: Written for [community profile] fandomtrees 2025 for [personal profile] unhindered_dreams prompt Darcy/Pietro/Wanda - only one bed and [community profile] 100ships prompt champagne. This is my first try at Darcy/Pietro/Wanda, hopefully not the last?
[...Table...]

only one bed (for three)
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I may feel like a dishrag, but if so it's a dishrag who had a wonderful time returning to Arisia after six years, even if the ziggurat on the Charles is still a dreadful place to hold a convention. For the Dramatic Readings from the Ig Nobel Prizes, I performed selections from W. C. Meecham and H. G. Smith's "Effects of Jet Aircraft on Mental Hospital Admissions" (British Journal of Audiology, 1977) with what I hope was an appropriately haggard channeling of my sleepless night and Leonie Cornips' "The semiotic repertoire of dairy cows" (Language in Society, 2024) with what I hope was an appropriately technical rendition of cow noises. I heard papers on the proper techniques of nose-blowing, whether snakes dress to the left or the right, the sexual correlations of apples. It feels impossible, but it must have been my first time onstage since onset of pandemic. Readers who overstayed their allotted two minutes were surrounded by a chorus of bananas.

I had forgotten how much socializing my attendance of conventions used to entail. I turned the corner for registration and immediately spotted a [personal profile] nineweaving, followed in close succession by a [personal profile] choco_frosh, [personal profile] a_reasonable_man, and a [personal profile] sorcyress. I was talking to the latter in the coat check when Gillian Daniels came in and now I have a signed copy of the second edition of her chapbook Eat the Children (2019/2026). I had not lengthy enough catch-up conversations with [personal profile] awhyzip and [personal profile] rinue and am now in possession of a signed copy of Nothing in the Basement (2025). I brought water with me and kept forgetting to duck outside to drink it. Dean gave me a ride home afterward and commented on my tired look, which was fair: six, seven years ago I could sprint through programming even after a night of anaphylaxis or a subluxed jaw and these days there's a lot less tolerance in the system. It seemed to be a common refrain. If I have fun and don't take home any viral infections from this weekend, it'll be a win.

Tomorrow, panels.
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Title: girlfriend's new pet
Fandoms: MCU
Pairings: Yelena/Kate
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: Thunderbolts* movie.
Summary: Yelena returns to Kate with a surprise.
Notes: Written for [community profile] fandomtrees 2025 for [personal profile] southernmedicine prompt Yelena/Kate - sharp/fluff and [community profile] 100ships prompt cherry.
[...Table...]

girlfriend's new pet

Saturday 17 January 2026

Jan. 17th, 2026 05:53 pm
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135. Voyage of the Damned - Frances White ) I have actually seen some positive comments about this book, and I'm still baffled by that fact.


136. The Cloud Roads - Martha Wells ) This was fun! I'm hoping to read the sequels.


137. Death in the Spires - KJ Charles ) Definitely not a romance - but I like mysteries more than I like capital-r Romances, so that worked for me.


138. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch ) This is still a cracking series opener. What a banger.


139. That Stick - Charlotte Yonge ) A lesser Yonge, but still relatively entertaining.


140. The Wicked + The Divine vol 1 - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie ) I didn't love this, but it started a number of interesting plot threads; I'll have to see where it goes.


141. Meddling and Murder - Ovidia Yu ) A decent conclusion (at least so far) to the series! I'm sure she could write sequels if she wanted, but this changes the status quo enough that it feels like a good place to stop.


142. Augustine the African - Catherine Conybeare ) This was fascinating; I lent it to our parish priest (who is sort of mentioned in it! as part of the group of Augustinian friars Conybeare meets when visiting Annaba (the city formerly known as Hippo) and he's already told me he's buying his own copy.


143. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Samin Nosrat ) I had high expectations for this book, so it's probably partly my own fault that I wasn't blown away; it did have some good stuff in it, but I spent a lot more time arguing with the author than I expected.


144. Princess Puck - Una Silberrad ) A delightful tale.


145. Death of a Dormouse - Reginald Hill ) A really fun character arc; I enjoyed this.


146. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie ) Just fabulous.


147. Mona Maclean, Medical Student - Graham Travers ) Not as medical as the title implies, but very charming.


148. Blue Machine - Helen Czerski ) An interestingly different perspective on the oceans compared to my usual more animal-focused natural history versions.


149. The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo ) A satisfying read, and interesting as a historical as well as fantasy.


150. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 3 - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ) The story is moving right along now!


151. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L Sayers ) Excellent reading of a good book.


152. Deeds of Wisdom - Elizabeth Moon ) These short-story collections are always enjoyable, even though they don't usually go much beyond that.


153. Alien Clay - Adrian Tchaikovsky ) A decent idea, reasonably well done, but Tchaikovsky just fundamentally doesn't do it for me.


154. Night Sky Mine - Melissa Scott ) I'm very glad I discovered this in my collection! Scott is always a good time.


155. The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold ) An absolute classic which I will re-read many more times yet, if I get the chance.


156. The Hero and the Crown and 157. Beauty - Robin McKinley ) THatC is still just such a weird book, and Beauty is so conventional! McKinley what are you even doing.


158. The Summer War - Naomi Novik ) Terribly short novella but it still manages to pack a lot in! Excellent siblings.


159. Still Life - Sarah Winman ) Endlessly charming even when it gets implausible; I really enjoy this book.


160. The Sisters Avramapul - Victoria Goddard ) Goddard is such a compulsive writer! I enjoyed these.


161. Heated Rivalry and 162. Tough Guy - Rachel Reid ) Decently-entertaining hockey romances.
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OMG. I have FINISHED my current longfic! About a third of this was written after November 2024, which is when my writing slowed down a lot because of, well, emotional competition from other things in my life. I am VERY proud nevertheless to have finished it, and honestly I can't tell the difference in quality between my writing before and after (my beta said the same). It just took a longer time. And speaking of beta reading, I am very grateful to [personal profile] garonne, as always. <3

Far Frae the Bonny Hills and Dales (108912 words) by Luzula
Chapters: 22/22
Fandom: Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron/Alison Grant
Characters: Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron, Alison Grant (Jacobite Trilogy), Lachlan MacMartin, Margaret Cameron, Lord Aveling (Jacobite Trilogy), Earl of Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Character Death Fix, Grief/Mourning, Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Penal Transportation, Slow Burn
Summary: Ewen is brought to trial in Carlisle and convicted, but sentenced to another fate than the scaffold.

Dept. of Memes

Jan. 17th, 2026 10:56 am
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Music Meme, Day 19

A song to drive to:

Years ago, Bob and I, and Drs. Bob and Gonzo (respectively the husband of Dr. Gonzo, and his wife, our 300-pound Samoan Attorney*) went on a legendary road trip from Chicago up through Toronto and east through Quebec, New Brunswick, and down to Nova Scotia to visit my mother, thence over to Maine and down to New York to visit Dr. Bob and Gonzo's families. After that, we headed west back to Chicago.

It was a hell of a ride, and we ruined Bob and Gonzo's poor little 4-goat-power Ford Escort. But oh, the memories! Gonzo and I being mistaken for Times Square working girls by a NYPD patrol officer while the two Bobs were behind us in a porn shop, perusing available material ... introducing the doctors to the Bay of Fundy in Halls Harbor and other small ports, introducing them to my beloved mum and my amazing brother ... dealing with Gonzo's mother, who we learned to llove despite everything ....

And driving. Driving on the flat land between Chicago and Toronto, stopping at an open bar in Toronto for breakfast after driving all night. Dr. Gonzo discovering how much fun it was to drive 80 mph (she'd worried about that, until we were passed by an RCMP car going even faster). Dr. Bob discovering how much he loved driving up and down hills in Maine, shouting "Banzai!" as he did. 

Going up and down small hills, then longer hills, higher hills. The hills everywhere on our trip were part of the fun.

My first big hill came accompanied by this song; heading down faster and faster, while the Boss told us about the girl he's in hopeless love with, while the bass and keyboards anchored the song that threatens to go off the rails with his longing, with the multi-part ending not letting go until absolutely necessary. 

To this day, I remember the joy of going faster and faster to this song. It's probably lucky that I don't have easy access to it while driving these days.

Here's the original from his breakout album.




And here is the song sung live, in all its overheated glory.




Here are links to the previous days of this meme. Day 17, and Day 16 cover the waterfront.

* Ed Sunden gave our beloved bass playing lawyer the sobriquet Dr. Gonzo, naming her in honor of Hunter Thompson's sidekick from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the amazing Oscar, Zeta Acosta, an attorney, writer and activist in his own right. 

Round 183 Theme Poll

Jan. 17th, 2026 09:23 am
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Poll #34091 round 183 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 44

Pick the next theme of fancake:

In Denial
17 (38.6%)

Inept in Love
13 (29.5%)

Power Dynamics
14 (31.8%)

How Are You? (in Haiku)

Jan. 17th, 2026 08:18 am
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Pick a thing or two that sums up how you're doing today, this week, in general, and tell me about it in the 5-7-5 syllables of a haiku.

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Promo and Reminder

Jan. 17th, 2026 01:04 pm
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icontalking current round

I'll be busy today rounding up the icon quest and starting the new round at [community profile] retro_icontest, so I'll keep the Rainbow Mystery Box challenge here open for another week. Not everyone who got a box has submitted icons yet. So you now still have another week to submit what you have. A single icon is enough to participate.
New deadline: January 23.

icontalking next round

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Fandom: Hench, Ask A Manager Blog
Pairings/Characters:
Rating: teen
Length: 2k
Creator Links:
Theme: crack taken seriously, superpowers, small fandoms, secret identities, crossovers

Summary: It's hench week at Ask a Manager!

Reccer's Notes: Ask a Manager is an advice column for workplace issues, and Hench is a comic about henchmen. This hilarious story is a series of good advice for both evil henchmen and people who manage evil henchmen, dealing with all sorts of workplace hazards ranging from the aftermath of sex pollen to how to manage someone who is using their evil to annoy their own team and beyond. It's amazing and funny whether you know either canon or not.

Fanwork Links: my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more

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