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All Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, Stargate SGU, The Sentinel, Misc Fandoms and Non-Fandom artwork that requires a link should now link internally and not to imgur.

In White Collar, the headers and picspams have also been sorted, but the wallpapers and other artwork still needs new links doing. It may take a day or two to fix these, as there is a lot of artwork to sort out.

I am also going to check out pages that contain links to other sites, to make sure that a) they still work and b) they don’t link to dodgy sites – but the artwork is my priority at the moment, so be careful of anything that links to other sites for now.

I’ll post a new update when all the artwork is sorted, then another when I’ve finished checking out the links and making any other alterations I feel need to be made.

And then, maybe, I’ll amuse myself with some new icon making...

ranalore

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Current Mood: cold
Current Location: the state of CONFUSION that is Utah in spring

schneefink

I think the exam this morning went well, that is a big relief (though I won't find out for sure for six weeks or so.) Finally time to catch up on fandom things!

I participated in

mcytbattleship this year - the first one, technically, since last year was AUFest in battleship format - and I had a lot of fun. I was on team Tide and we won!! It was extremely close, too, team Bolt was missing one board tag at the last check.
I came into the event planning to write at least one fic, and I ended up writing six, which I'm very happy with, and two of those (the last two in this list) especially. All six stories were for Hermitcraft/Life series, and all featured ZombieCleo - yes I have a clear favorite. (I started fics without them too but those didn't come together.)

The Watcher at the End of His Games, Hermitcraft/Life series
1k, Cleo&Etho&Grian, Watcher!Grian
Summary: After the last game ended badly, Grian invites Cleo and Etho to one more world.
Notes: Roomies <3 This needed more editing to come together the way I wanted it too but not bad I think.

Waxen Care, Hermitcraft
0.7k, Cleo & Joe, came back wrong, platonic wax play
Summary: Cleo's body was changed, again. Joe helps.
Notes: I think several tags I was aiming for a very obvious, and I do like Joe taking care of Cleo.

Find the Missing, Life series
1.2k, Cleo/Etho, superhero AU
Summary: The downside of having a famous superhero ex is that you might get kidnapped to get to him. The upside is that he will come and rescue you, and you might even find out how much you still care about each other.
Notes: This is an urban fantasy AU so technically I could have tagged this Hermitcraft but idk Life Series seemed to fit this version of them better. Not written in second person btw, for some reason I put the summary like that.

Parsec High Club, Hermitcraft
0.6k, Cleo/Etho/OFC, brainship AU
Summary: Due to the limitations of being a spaceship, Cleo could sometimes use some assistance in properly taking care of their captain.
Notes: I just had to write something to hit "AU - Brainship" ^^ Sidenote, this one and the next had five tags from the rare tags list which gives me a golden ticket for next year, need to figure out what to use it for...

/keep @server hermit 2, Hermitcraft RPF
1.1k, Cleo & Grian, IRL Hermits on Hermitcraft isekai
Summary: Being on Hermitcraft is different when the Server doesn't let you leave.
Notes: My first actual MCYT RPf fic, and I have wanted to see more Hermits-on-Hermitcraft for a while. The recipient called it "kinda horrifying, actually. But also lovely." which is pretty much what I wanted :)
I really liked my idea to use a made-up gamerule for the title; I don't know anything about gamerules but I got some feedback that made me think it's maybe not immediately clear but makes sense in context.

The Swarming of Hermits, Hermitcraft
2.8k, Cleo/Everyone (Cleo/Grian, Cleo/Etho, Cleo/Cub), e-rated xeno harem with lots of breeding kink
Summary: The Time of Swarming has begun, and Hermits from all over the place have gathered together.
Cleo breeds her swarm.
Notes: This year there was a battleship tag "grasshopper-style gregarization," and I found a prompt for it that also included xeno, oviposition, and breeding kink, and somehow I came up with this. Definitely the kinkiest fic I have ever posted! Feels a bit awkward to reread but I'm also proud of it. And I have many thoughts about the worldbuilding that I will hopefully write down at one point.

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idproquo

Tagset Links: 2026 Characters & Relationships Tagset | Eternal Freeform Tagset

Nominations for the 2026 round of IPQ are now open, and will remain so until 10pm ET, on the 24th of April. Please review our nomination rules at Rules and Info as some rules have changed since last round.

swan_tower

When writing a poem in (my best English approximation of) a classical Latin meter, upon an ancient Roman topic, do I treat the proper names:

1) according to how we tend to pronounce them in English and where the stress falls, or

2) according to the Latin scansion rules of which syllables are short vs. long?

In other words, is "Augusta" stressed on the second syllable, or is it two long syllables followed by a short one, for the purposes of that poem's scansion?

(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/Lcf5kG)

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recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fanart/fanvids/other kinds of fanworks/fancrafts/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

princessofgeeks

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badly_knitted posting in

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Title: Another Challenge
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Scott, Fred, Willaway, Varian, Liana.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Entering a new zone, the travellers find there’s now a huge mountain in their path. What are they going to do?
Word Count: 1604
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 512: Obstacle.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

( Another Challenge... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

osprey_archer

“Self,” I told myself, as I circled the bookstore display of Asako Yuzuki’s Hooked, “self, you must de-hype yourself. Yes, this is the new book by the author of your beloved Butter, and yes, Yuzuki has teamed up once again with all time favorite translator Polly Barton, but you must not expect to love it as much as Butter! That is too much weight to place on a book!”

And indeed I did not love Hooked as much as Butter, but it’s still a fascinating book and just as propulsively readable, even as it went off the rails a bit at the end.

Hooked begins with our heroine Eriko arriving at work early. She is a successful employee but otherwise struggling in life. She’s thirty years old, still single, keeps getting dumped by her boyfriends, and doesn’t have a single female friend.

This last fact is the one that torments her. She believes (despite the solid counter-evidence of all those dumpings) that she’s good with men, but she’s terrible at female relationships and she knows it. In fact, sometimes she laments that she’s never had a female friend, although once again - solid counter evidence - she keeps running into her old friend Keiko in the apartment halls. But Eriko destroyed that friendship when she was 15, and hasn’t had a friend since.

However, Eriko has achieved a pleasurable parasocial relationship with her favorite blogger, Hallie B, who bills herself as The World’s Worst Wife. She has neither a job nor children, just stays home all day neither cleaning the house nor cooking, just loafing about and occasionally updating her blog.

Oh, and Hallie B seems to have no female friends either. This makes Eriko feel extremely seen.

Then one day, Eriko catches sight of Hallie B having lunch at a local neighborhood spot. She introduces herself as a big fan of the blog, Hallie B introduces herself by her real name Shoko, and they make plans to have dinner at a nearby Denny’s.

Dinner is a blast! They super hit it off! Eriko rides home on the back of Shoko’s bike, like they’re in a high school anime, amazing. Eriko concludes that her friendship problems are OVER because she has now found a BEST FRIEND FOREVER and they are now going to hang out, like, ALL THE TIME.

Shoko thinks they had a nice evening and hopes they can continue to hang out occasionally.

You can see where this is going. Soon Eriko is sending Shoko lengthy strings of texts promising that she is NOT a stalker, and also stalking the Denny’s where they hung out that one time in case Shoko comes back so Eriko can tell Shoko to her face that she is not! not! NOT! stalking her!

Eriko has some of the same energy as Izzy in The Appeal, except somehow simultaneously more deranged and more self-aware. It seems like these two qualities should be contradictory, and indeed there are times when Yuzuki doesn’t get the balance quite right, and instead of seeming fascinatingly, complexly batshit, Eriko just seems incoherent.

( spoilers )

umadoshi

Our planter is here! Getting it wasn't actually a saga, but it felt a bit like one. ( TL;DR: delivery service annoyance )

We also both took yesterday off (and I'm off the rest of the week, but got up at my usual workday time today in hopes of getting a fair amount of manga work done), and ventured out to buy veg seeds for the planter. (We also still need to get soil/fertilizer/etc., but want to read up on it more first. I think I might order a hard copy of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, which I got on sale in ebook recently and like so far.)

Yesterday's important lesson: when noting down which seed varieties we like the looks of, include the source, because our local store, at least, has separate displays for each originating company, and knowing that would make it much easier to check for the various varieties. Anyway, here's what we wound up with (descriptions are in my last post):

Basil: Devotion.

Cabbage: Early Golden Acre (green) and Serpentine F1 (savoy).

Spinach: Bloomsdale and Renegade.

Lettuce: Brighton (Butterhead), Black Seeded Simpson (green leaf), Red Salad Bowl (red leaf), Grand Rapids (green leaf), Freckles (romaine), and Drunken Woman.

Current Mood: busy

lucy_roman posting in

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Title: Perfect
Author: lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: George and John are on their way to a crime scene. Some sheep get in the way.
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
Word Count: 326

( Perfect )

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

scrubjayspeaks

Contrary to common misconceptions, lighting a candle was not a matter of introducing fire to the wick’s fuel using a match--that was just the lure. The match was proof the location was a suitable habitat for fire, which was shy and uncertain about emerging from its safe and waxy home. It was best not to let it get too comfortable, though, as domestic fire, like a goldfish, would grow to fill its enclosure, even if its enclosure was an entire house suddenly consumed by flame.

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LL#1383

ranalore

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Current Mood: crappy
Current Location: it's not that I like desert summer but at least it is consistent then

settiai

I've finally started my rewatch of the early episodes of CR4 so that I can properly get caught up on Critical Role. Actually starting it has been the hardest part, so I'm hoping that now that I've begun I can stick to at least one episode a day and more if possible.

It's definitely easier to keep track of things in the early episodes now that I actually know who everyone is and what's going on. Having advance knowledge of just what groups everyone will be splitting up into shortly seems to be helping as well, as I have a better idea of what's really important to focus on and what's not. I'm also picking up on some smaller details that I completely missed the first time around just because I was already struggling to keep track of who was who and such.

I'm hoping that this rewatch will help it keep my attention better than it was the first time around. 🤞🏻

Current Mood: hopeful

sovay

Today I have slept less than three hours for the second day in a row and the afternoon just clouded over. Have a couple of links.

1. I can't tell if the BLO's Daughter of the Regiment will be queer enough for its invocation of Deborah Sampson, but then I was distracted by discovering Alex Myers. I blame it on plague that I missed the queer Arthuriana of The Story of Silence (2020).

2. I had an excuse to link Bradley Kincaid's "The Two Sisters" (1928), the oldest version of the ballad I have heard recorded as opposed to seen written down. I used to sing its bleaker descendant by Roger Wilson. Tom Waits does a pretty straight one.

3. Hen Ogledd's "The Loch Ness Monster's Song" (2020) is a setting of Edwin Morgan. It may be the most zaum thing I have encountered since Victory Over the Sun (1913).

For the first time in this apartment, there was an Interloper Cat. Collared and silver-tagged, on the doorless back porch, a substantial ginger and white presence had seated itself in one of the windows with its evident object of a robin in the other. It stared directly through the back door. Hestia was wild. The bird was motionless. I did not let her out and the next time I looked, both bird and interloper had gone.

Current Music: The Grownup Noise, "See You in the Hall"

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I got out to one of our local trails late last week.

This one is an old state park that has been partially developed. It's a fun but small trail that has a variety of habitats for wildlife.

It goes around this drainage pond, which attracts many birds and waterfowl.

Then it passes the condo development, eventually leading to a bike path along the bay.
You can see one of the condos on the right.

musesfool

I knew Isa Briones was on Broadway, but I had never heard her actually sing until yesterday when I saw this on tumblr: Isa Briones sings "Who's Sorry Now" from JUST IN TIME | Now on Broadway. What a set of pipes!

*

Today's poem:

Fire

a woman can't survive
by her own breath
alone
she must know
the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow
with the elusive
bodies
of night winds
who will take her
into herself

look at me
i am not a separate woman
i am the continuance
of blue sky
i am the throat
of the mountains
a night wind
who burns
with every breath
she takes

—Joy Harjo

*

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Who's Sorry Now - Isa Briones

rionaleonhart

Thank you to

wolfy_writing for inspiring the concept of Robert trying to help Chris accept his sexuality! I had a great time writing this.

Title: Breaking the Closet
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: G
Pairing: Robert/Chris
Wordcount: 2,200
Summary: “Left to his own devices,” Robert says, “Chris will simply continue to repress his homosexuality. We have a duty to help.”

( Breaking the Closet )

swan_tower

The "Wildwood" issue of Fairy Tale Magazine is out today, containing a poem from me! (Yes, I have had rather a lot of poems published since the beginning of this year.) As the name suggests, this issue is themed around Green Men and Green Women, dryads, tree spirits, and other things in that vein. My poem, "Drawing Strength," is a sonnet about meditation and metamorphosis, and I'm joined by some excellent names in the Table of Contents. You can download the PDF issue for free, though they do ask for a donation to help keep the magazine operating. It's a PDF because they do gorgeous, art-filled layout -- check it out!

(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/SLbDAr)

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leesa_perrie - Website Updates Done So Far
ranalore - makes tides that eat radar & sailors
schneefink - Fic I wrote for MCYT Battleship
idficmod in idproquo - Nominations for 2026 Round Open!
swan_tower - Today's question for the nerds
glitteryv in recthething - Community Recs Post!
princessofgeeks - news? I think?
badly_knitted in fan_flashworks - The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Another Challenge
osprey_archer - Book Review: Hooked
umadoshi - Planter and seeds acquired!
lucy_roman in fan_flashworks - Inspector George Gently: Fanfiction: Perfect
settiai - Aurendor D&D: Summary for 4/15 Game
scrubjayspeaks - Lake Lewisia #1383
ranalore - Propulsion and smelt-speak until the crows flew off
settiai - Critical Role
sovay - I might fail math if you don't move your shoulder
ribirdnerd in common_nature - Trails
musesfool - i am the throat of the mountains
rionaleonhart - Fanfiction: Breaking the Closet (The Goes Wrong Show, Robert/Chris)
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