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Apr. 23rd, 2025 03:54 am
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I'm back at it with another freebie, but this time it's something that reminds me of rainy season I'm in right now~


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Recent Reading: The Starless Sea

Apr. 22nd, 2025 06:39 pm
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The most recent commute audiobook was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, of The Night Circus fame (although admittedly I have not read that one yet). This is a fantasy novel about Zachary, a young man swept into the drama of a secret underground society and the mysterious figures who surround it.
 
I finished this book on Sunday morning, catching the last 7 minutes of a whopping 19-hour runtime over breakfast, and since then I've settled into a relative disappointment. On paper, this book has so many things that should make it an ace in the hole for me: Book lovers! Cats! Secret magical societies! Queer characters! Women who are something Other taking control of their destinies! And yet, overall, this book just did not land for me.
 
As is a risk, I think, with all stories that are about the power of stories, The Starless Sea comes off a little pretentious and self-important. It is a book lauding the unmatched importance of books. I felt aware at various points throughout the book of how hard it was trying to appeal to people like me, who would enjoy the idea of a dark-paneled underground room with endless books and an on-demand kitchen, and this sense of pandering did take away from it at times.
 
However, it also does some interesting things with regards to what it is like to be the person in a story (such as the fate of Eleanor and Simon, once their part in the story is done) as well as the risks of valuing preservation over change and growth. Without giving too much away, there is a secret society in decline, and a woman so determined to prevent its downfall that she ends up causing significant harm to the organization she's trying to save because she is unwilling to accept that an end comes for all things. I enjoyed this theme and I felt like it was echoed well throughout the story, and in many ways it's easy to sympathize with her ultimate goals, if not her methods.
 
 

[ SECRET POST #6683 ]

Apr. 22nd, 2025 06:31 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6683 ⌋

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


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 23 secrets from Secret Submission Post #955.
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.
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CANON: MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
CHARACTERS: Sam Wilson | Captain America (Anthony Mackie).
ADDITIONAL INFO: 80 Icons.
CREDIT TO: [community profile] inkonic


HERE @ [community profile] inkonic
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CANON: MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
CHARACTERS: Sam Wilson | Captain America (Anthony Mackie).
ADDITIONAL INFO: 80 Icons.
CREDIT TO: [community profile] inkonic


HERE @ [community profile] inkonic

More signs of spring

Apr. 22nd, 2025 12:15 pm
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I saw my first garter snake and two snapping turtles near my local pond.

Drugs Challenge: Babylon 5: Walkabout

Apr. 22nd, 2025 02:03 pm
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Title: Walkabout
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Stephen Franklin.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Spoilers/Setting: Walkabout.
Summary: He doesn’t know who he is anymore, and maybe he never did, but it’s time he found out.
Content Notes: References addiction.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79, using Challenge 84: Drugs.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.



Walkabout... )
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Title: Unexpected Guests
Fandom: Miss Marple/Winnie-the-Pooh
Rating: G
Length: 489 words
Summary: When Miss Marple opens her door, she's surprised to see Tigger and Rabbit standing on the doorstep

van gogh close-ups (25)

Apr. 21st, 2025 05:35 pm
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Experimenting with zooming in super close so you can see the cool brushstrokes and other details, basically.

Preview:


The rest here at [community profile] lakertya

[ SECRET POST #6682 ]

Apr. 21st, 2025 06:50 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6682 ⌋

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


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 30 secrets from Secret Submission Post #955.
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.
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Di talks about science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction on her Booktube channel BookishDi and is one of the founders of the SFF book and fandom discussion show Stitch & Bitch. She can be found on BlueSky talking about books, politics, and women's sports.


On Wednesday, April 16, the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling on the legal definition of “woman” that excluded trans women. This case challenging the Equality Act was funded in large part by JK Rowling, and she celebrated the ruling with a series of disgusting, transphobic tweets. This is just her latest action to stigmatize trans women and destroy their ability to exist in public life in the UK. Coincidentally, the same day, UK based subscription box Illumicrate announced a special edition of the upcoming book, Rose in Chains by Julie Soto. This novel is based off of her hit Draco/Hermione fanfic, "The Auction", the premise of which is Voldermort winning the war and Hermione being sold into sexual slavery to Draco Malfoy. But don’t worry, he’s a good fascist and treats her well enough that she’s willing to defend the nice Nazis (I mean Death Eaters) when their actions come to trial. Plot points and names that directly identify it as HP have been changed for the trad pub release, but at its core it is still Harry Potter fanfiction.

Read more... )
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Title: Ridiculous Accident
Fandom: FAKE
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee, Bikky, OFC.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo injures himself in a really ridiculous accident.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79, using Challenge 380: Position.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.





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Apr. 21st, 2025 12:21 pm
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69 multifandom icons

Apr. 21st, 2025 12:16 pm
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Apr. 21st, 2025 05:51 pm
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[8] Lockwood & Co.
[4] Ghost (band)



Here at [community profile] iwillnotdance

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Apr. 21st, 2025 05:50 pm
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[8] Lockwood & Co.
[4] Ghost (band)



Here at [community profile] iwillnotdance
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I’ve been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite,
can stop the bleeding — most people forgot this
when the war ended. The war ended
depending on which war you mean: those we started,
before those, millenia ago and onward,
those which started me, which I lost and won —
these ever-blooming wounds.
I was built by wage. So I wage love and worse—
always another campaign to march across
a desert night for the cannon flash of your pale skin
settling in a silver lagoon of smoke at your breast.
I dismount my dark horse, bend to you there, deliver you
the hard pull of all my thirsts—
I learned Drink in a country of drought.Read more... )

From Postcolonial Love Poem - pg 1

Challenge 477: Amnesty

Apr. 20th, 2025 04:42 pm
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Our new challenge is our seventy-ninth:

AMNESTY



During amnesty challenges, you can post works for any of the challenges we've had to date: Complete list of prompts )

See this gdoc spreadsheet for a complete list of prompts (sheet 1 listed by date; sheet 2 alphabetical & linked)


Of course, you're always welcome to post multiple works to any challenge if you finish them before the challenge closes, but that isn't always possible. So dust off those unfinished works and half-formed ideas -- now is the time!

In amnesty rounds, please include the challenge you are posting for in the subject line of your post (eg, Bright: The Untamed: Podfic: Bunnies!).

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Thursday, May 1st. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom, media and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

Also, keep an eye out for the next [community profile] ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the comm yet, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

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