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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote in [community profile] recthething2025-06-17 07:31 pm

A few recs from Diagetic Exchange

[community profile] diegetic_exchange is for in-universe fanfic/RPF/etc. Here are some things I enjoyed from it!

Babylon 5

Stars Uncrossed: My Vorlon Sex Story! (1300 words, explicit)
OF COURSE there is Vorlon/human reader insert smut on Future Space AO3, and of course there are some very recognizable Space AO3 usernames in the comments. The author's notes are also pure gold. MINBARI DNI.

Megamind

Am I the Asshole for impersonating someone else to be with my girlfriend? (700 words, Megamind/Roxanne)
The most in-character thing ever. The comments are great, and also extremely in character.

Murderbot Diaries

Bot Sacrifice (600 wds, gen)
Sanctuary Moon fanfic with ART's inline beta comments. Hilarious and very them, and also very touching.
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Volkameria ([personal profile] volkameria) wrote2025-06-17 07:25 pm

Bit of a Bloggin' Break

Taking a break from online activities given how nuts everything currently is. Imagine me hanging up one of those "Out to Lunch, Back Soon!" signs on this blog. 

Hope you all find the good in each day and have ample opportunities to find rest! 
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-06-16 10:38 pm
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Recent Babylon 5 ficlets from various places

1. Vir and Delenn

From the "Only One Bed" meme (which at the moment has gone the way of most of my attempts at memes, alas), for a request for Vir and anyone.

700 words of Vir and Delenn )

2. Basking Narns

Posted as commentfic as a result of a comment discussion about cool-blooded Narns. (Also posted on Tumblr.)

400 words of basking Narns and Londo not being normal about it )

3. Ta'Lon and Vir

From a request on Tumblr for anything about Ta'Lon which actually ended up being not that much about Ta'Lon and more about the new ambassadors post-canon.

1000 words of Ta'Lon and Vir )
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transficex ([personal profile] transficex) wrote in [community profile] pinchhits2025-06-16 10:54 pm

Transfic Exchange Post-Deadline Pinch Hits Due June 21st

Event: Transfic Exchange

A fanwork exchange for works focusing on transgender, genderqueer, and gender diverse characters. Minimums are 1000 words for fic and one completed piece for art (mediums vary by request).
Pinch hit link: Active pinch hit post. See comm for more details and to claim.
Due date: June 21st/ASAP

PH 2 - Degrassi the Next Generation, Psych (TV 2006), Roseanne (TV 1988)

PH 4 - Haikyuu!!, Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)

PH 6 - Doctor Who (2005)

PH 10 - Yellowjackets (TV)

PH 11 - Live A Live (Video Game), Breath of Fire IV, Chrono Trigger, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, 英雄伝説 黎の軌跡 | Kuro no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 クロスベル編 | The Legend of Heroes: Crossbell Arc (Video Games), NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games)

PH 14 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)

PH 16 - Team Fortress 2, Mouthwashing (Video Game), Scream (Movies), The Venture Bros, Gravity Falls

PH 19 - Black Sails

PH 21 - Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Supernatural (TV 2005)

PH 22 - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), NoPixel (Web Series), Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga)

PH 23 - ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon, Yellowjackets (TV), Men's Hockey RPF
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Volkameria ([personal profile] volkameria) wrote2025-06-16 07:27 pm

Fandom Update, June 16, 2025


Fixation of the Week
  • I got my Jeltsje/Rodney bracelets, and the artist was so sweet and made buttons of them too!! I've been so happy about them all week, and I think when I get paid I'll ask them to make a Takumi/Francis themed pair.

Media Stuff
  • Dr Who S05E06-10 - Oh man, I love this silly British twink and his adventures through space and time! They're so hopeful and lovely, and even silly and bad episodes have this sense of delight, and childlike wonder and fun. I feel like I'm watching a comforting fairy tale each time. The show sometimes puts me to sleep, but in a nice way; the chamomile tea of sci-fi. Excited for the next season of Eleven!
  • DNDads S3E01-04 - Relistening to refresh my memory on the plot, and also to get little characterization snippets of Francis. I love his development so much - he's very clearly a coward but has dedicated goals and works hard toward them, alongside being... well. Francis. A bullied pervert with impossible parental expectations thrust upon him.
  • Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping - a very cute, short little visual novel. Played it all in 1 sitting! Highly recommend because the lead duo of Sean Chiplock and Brain David Gilbert as a drunk noir duck detective and an overly enthusiastic sidekick is hilarious.
  • Deltarune (sensing a theme here) - Beat Chapter 3 this weekend, and moving on to Chapter 4 right now. Was not expecting that twist at the beginning, or at the end. It has reawakened my latent crush/"oh my gosh they're so cool I love them so much" feelings re: Susie, and I ain't complaining. I was not expecting the symbolism and throughline of media consumption in Chapter 3, and it honestly gave me a lot to think about, alongside...
  • How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News (holy title, Batman) - almost done with this book, and I think the author has taught me a lot! I think his emphasis on the Bible being a tool to draw us toward the pursuit of wisdom and adapting to new information, and not a literal be-all end-all truth, has been a wonderful way of showing the development of the Christian religion while not forcing yourself to be married to a particular translation, or collection of books. I'd been worried about the Apocrypha and my lack of knowledge on this subject, but the book was a great way to show that there's a lot of contradictions that arise from simply viewing the Bible as this monolith rather than a divinely inspired book put together by fallible humans trying to make sense of the world around them through the lens of their own culture and that divine inspiration. 
  • The Children's Blizzard - a nonfiction book about the blizzard across the Dakotas in the late 1800s that caused hundreds of people to die due to its severity, and the lack of proper weather forecasting seriousness in the US Army at the time. Utterly fascinating, and so well written. There are quite a few quotes from this I've saved simply because the author does a lovely job describing storms and their destructive power in such poetic language. 
  • Looking at signing up for [community profile] iddyiddybangbang this summer to get some of my Takumi/Francis brainworms out of my head. Am I going to put these funky guys in Situations? Yes I am. Am I going to go into gratuitous detail? Yes I am. Still thinking through the scenario, but I think once I get it written down I'll officially put myself down for a 5k+ fic of whump! And thankfully, signups aren't until July 10, so I have plenty of time. 
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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-06-16 09:08 pm
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Daily Check In

*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 3,418 6,649 yes
Monthly 13,032 164,994 4 days
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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-06-16 08:14 pm

Package!

[personal profile] foxmoth, first box arrived, thank you!
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opal trelore ([personal profile] used_songs) wrote2025-06-16 07:47 pm

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I finished Bat Eater this morning. I ended up really liking it, although it felt a bit rushed at the end. But I loved what the author did with the ghosts and the ways in which she had Cora change and grow.

I read a bit more of Teaching with AI, but so far it's been a lot of "What is AI? What do all of these letters mean?" background. I might actually skip some bits so I can get to the actual topic. 

We finished season 2 of Severance today as well, so I am open for discussion if anyone wants to talk about it. I don't know how I would've ended it (not like that!), but it definitely gave E and I a lot of room to speculate about season 3 and what the focus will be.

We started Ted Lasso today and so far I'm not digging it too much; however, E seems to like it. There's just a lot of CONFLICT in the first 2 episodes and it's stressing me out.

Did you know there is a Jessica Fletcher action figure?! Sadly, it's pretty expensive and I have vowed not to buy a lot of unnecessary fan stuff like figures, but it's super tempting. 



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opal trelore ([personal profile] used_songs) wrote2025-06-16 03:14 pm
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LJ Idol Prompt #1: Quality

Yesterday I sat on the couch next to you because you were in a rare mood for cuddling. You turned your little head and looked at me with your big, blank, brown eyes. Same dark lashes. Same black mask, just shading white around your mouth. Same soft wrinkles. But your eyes. Flat and expressionless, and liquid and curved, and alive and endless.

If I stare deeply enough, I can see them. The tiny pyramids that are also on the back of the paper money. A camera lens watching me. The triangles are far back in your eyes, deep in the black pupils, shadowy like storm clouds. But they are there. I think it’s possible that is what reflects my flashlight when we go outside early in the morning.

Maybe not.

Yesterday I sat and stared into your eyes, beautiful girl, and the cameras were watching me back. Someone sitting in a room full of 90s office furniture, squeaky chair, framed certificates and ballpoint pens, heavy plastic monitor next to a landline, was staring at me. I could feel them, feel the weight of their intensity. What are they watching for? When you stare at me in order to make me give you a treat, what do they see?

I don’t care if you’re a spy. I love you.

I have given you salmon oil in your high quality kibble, boiled chicken and white rice, pumpkin puree, an assortment of healthy fruits and vegetables, washed your feet, wiped your face with coconut oil, loved every one of your rolls, kissed your soft head, dusted beige probiotic powders over your food, bought you a thousand dollars worth of toys to destroy, comforted you over every trimmed nail. I don’t care who you work for. I don’t care if you are real.

I don’t care if you are spying on me. You have brought 346 sticks into the house that I have had to take away before you chew them up and eat them. I have pulled threads of grass out of your butt when you panicked and ran, tucked up like a round ball. I pick up your shit.

Yesterday you turned your little head and you looked at me and you yawned, white teeth, pink tongue, the elegant ruga along the sides of your lips, the black spot across the ridges of your hard palate, the dark tube of your throat. You leaned in and I could feel your breath against my face. I leaned in. Your fur is soft, you smell like sunshine and sticks and dried mud. You have tiny brown hairs, the most perfect brown that has ever been.

Yesterday I thought about the other dogs, the ones who already lived and are sealed in caskets upstairs, always with me. Did they have spy cameras, robotic intelligences like you? Were they cameras? Did they each have their own bureaucrat, sitting in an uncomfortable chair and watching? Or are you special?

Am I the eyes looking back at me, looking up while looking down? Are you me? I wait impatiently, as you refill the blue bowl with clean water from the tap. But I prefer the hose outside and maybe I will tell you I need to go out just to drink that water. Press my nose to the door until you open it and then make an immediate right to the spigot. I wait impatiently by my yellow bowl, as you use the big spoon to measure out chicken, to mix in the powder, to add chicken broth. You set it down. I am excited. You set it down. I dance. You set it down. I am so hungry!

Yesterday I looked through the eyes and I saw a cascade of water, the smallest insects, the fallen sticks, the edges of the cut grass, the metal strip at the bottom of the door. But, of course, the equipment isn’t built to transmit the smells and tastes or even how it feels to be alive. I can see and I can hear, but that’s all. I lean back in my chair and it squeaks.

I lean down, smiling, “That’s all, mama. That’s all.” Straighten. “Go take a nap while I wash your bowl, sweet girl.” I turn back to the sink, the counter tops cool beneath bent fingers.

You know there are robotic dogs, now, that have simple AI, that can make a few decisions, that can rebalance themselves like animals that are kicked, that can trot and climb and accompany people. Is that who is in the pyramids, not an outside watcher, but an inside one? Who is inside you? When I touch the little remolino on your hip, you feel warm and real. When I look across the table and you pick up your head from your loose sprawl in the exact center of the kitchen floor, in the way of everyone and every cabinet door and the oven and the refrigerator.

Yesterday on the hammock you rolled over and covered my feet, but you were watching the squirrels and maybe you didn’t notice. I’m shredding your chicken and you are drooling on the floor. The mockingbirds are eating the chiltepins off that bush that sprang up in the yard, the one you chewed up last winter and I thought you had killed it but I didn’t care.

Yesterday the squirrels climbed the greased pole to get to the bird feeder. Their flicking tails made you angry. You told them. You ate a fly.

Pyramids are where queens lie, that’s where the treasure is. If it comes to it, if I have to entomb you in the dark box, think of me like a sacrifice, a portrait painted on the walls to accompany you.

Beautiful dog, beautiful girl, the most perfect brown dog ever, your beautiful eyes, your dark lashes, your soft face, the dark bars across your toes, your wrinkles, your beautiful rolls, perfect, perfect, perfect. Watch me like I watch you. Wonder about me like I wonder about you. The mystery of a person who is not human, who looks at me and wonders. I know your dark eyes are wondering. The little alien on four legs that is sitting on my couch as I type this. The little alien who dozes when Alexa plays Philip Glass, the person who plays with her sweet potatoes and her plushes, who is not allowed upstairs but sometimes goes there.

It’s stupid to talk about yesterday and tomorrow when we live in the infinite now. I sit on the couch next to you because you are in a mood for cuddling. You turn your little head and look at me with your big, blank, brown eyes, alive and endless. You turn your big head toward me and look with brown eyes, too.
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get me off this crazy thing ([personal profile] hafital) wrote2025-06-16 09:21 am
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Podfic rec: Moondance -- HL

Oh my goodness you guys look what I got yesterday as a gift! Check out the podfic for my story Moondance or A Series of Extraordinary Events. I'm so happy and pleased! Link in the notes for the story. 

Honestly never thought I would ever have a podfic made from one of my stories, but how perfect to receive one for this story in particular. ❤️  Thanks to [personal profile] killabeez and [archiveofourown.org profile] AlbatrossGJ !


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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-06-15 08:51 pm
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Daily Check In

*\o/* Word Count Step Count Headache?
Daily 1,914 10,470 yes
Monthly 9,614 157,872 3 days
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idficmod ([personal profile] idficmod) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2025-06-15 08:00 pm

IPQ 2025 PDPHs

Event: Id Pro Quo
Event link: [community profile] idproquo
Pinch hit link: https://idproquo.dreamwidth.org/tag/pinch+hits
Due date: June 20th, 10pm EDT
Work Minimums: 2k fic or finished artwork

PH 47 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)

Thank you for considering our pinch hits!

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longficmod ([personal profile] longficmod) wrote in [community profile] pinchhits2025-06-15 06:48 pm

Fandom5K Pinch Hits Due 13 July

Event: Fandom5K is a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum.
Event link: @fandom5k
Pinch hit link: https://fandom5k.dreamwidth.org/tag/pinch+hits
Due date: 13 July

PH 1 - Blue Lock (Manga), 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail

CLAIMED - PH 4 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agatha All Along (TV), Wicked (Movie 2024)

PH 5 - Hannibal (TV), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

PH 7 - Path of Night (Podcast), Vampire: The Masquerade - Various Authors (Choice of Games), Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast)

PH 8 - 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 9 - 琅琊榜之风起长林 | Nirvana in Fire 2: The Wind Blows in Changlin (TV), Original Work, 永夜星河 | Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (TV)

PH 11 - The Fugitive (Movies), Crossover Fandom, Father Brown (2013), Forever Knight (TV 1992)

CLAIMED - PH 12 - Star Wars: The Acolyte (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)

PH 13 - Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games), Xenoblade Chronicles (Video Game)

PH 14 - Call of Duty (Video Games), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Teen Wolf (TV), 9-1-1 (TV)
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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-06-15 05:29 pm
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Various Links 6/9 - 6/15

Oh look, I found things! 14 of them!

I swear I did my work this week... )
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abby82 ([personal profile] abby82) wrote2025-06-15 04:31 pm

fic: pick up your sword [la femme nikita]

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pick up your sword
by abby82

category: Post Series
rating: General
word count: 4,800
warnings: None
author’s note: This story came together in less than a week when I hit a brick wall on another story I was working on. It's based on the screen grab for the title card from Roy Dupuis' 2013 movie, "L'Autre Maison". He plays a photojournalist with an assignment in Afghanistan and the NATO convoy he was riding in gets hit by a roadside bomb. That sequence in the film inspired the mission that Michael wants to participate in.

story began and finished: June 2025

links: LJ | AO3 | Tumblr

summary: Nikita pulls rank when Michael proposes going out into the field for a Section One mission.

 


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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-06-15 03:30 pm

Into A Bar: The Golden Girls/Designing Women

Title: The PFLAG Conference
Author: [personal profile] senmut
Prompt: Dorothy Zbornak goes into a bar and meets... Julia Sugarbaker (Designing Women)!
Fandoms: The Golden Girls / Designing Women
Word count: 587
Rating: General Audiences
Contents: The situation for support for Southern queers has not changed since the era of these shows and that is referenced here.

The PFLAG Conference

As far as conferences and political rallies went, Dorothy was glad this one seemed to be staying at a civil discourse. Not, she amended in her own thoughts, that she wasn't ready to blaze truth across narrow-minds in a hope of seeing people live better, stronger lives in the open. She had to stand up for all of her principles, and was glad that joining PFLAG had given her a new outlet to do so.

Still, it had been a long day, and while she wasn't given to drinking much, a nightcap would settle her muscles down, giving her a better chance for sleep in the hotel's luxurious bed. She slipped into more casual, but still classy, attire, picked up her clutch, and headed down to the bar. It might even give her a chance to mingle with others of like minds.

If she found some of different minds, she had a piece or two of her own she'd be able to give out.





Julia Sugarbaker had been brewing on a storm since early that morning. It was bad enough that Georgia didn't have a proper organization to help the young men and women suffering from vitriol and hate, but she'd run into one too many damned Yankees tossing around their patronizing looks about even attempting to get one set up!

She straightened out her blouse, adjusted the sleeve at the wrists, and then snatched up her purse rather than stay in this ridiculously ill-decorated hotel room. She'd seen a bar downstairs. A nice little cocktail hour would help bring her down from her anger, and leave her more likely to find the right words on where to tell the next New York organizer where they could stick their disbelief in gay rights for the South!





Dorothy had seen the brunette going into one of the conference rooms earlier in the day. The decided emphasis on how the woman sat at the bar next to her spoke of difficulties.

"You're here with the PFLAG conference, yes?" Dorothy asked after the woman had a mint julep in front of her, while playing with the straw in her Long Island Iced Tea.

"I am here attempting to convince them to invest in my geographical region instead of writing us all off under the heels of those — " The woman cut herself off completely, took a deep breath. "Yes," she answered instead. "Julia Sugarbaker."

Dorothy raised an eyebrow. "The Julie Sugarbaker who was thanked in Representative Sugarbaker's speech last week?"

Julia softened her stance. "You pay attention to Washington, I take it, ma'am?"

"Dorothy Zbornak. Trying to put more effort into my ideals these days.

"And yes. Helping keep my chapter informed of events, since I have more free time."

"Were you instrumental in organization, or did you step in later? And either way, would you be willing to share any tips? The idiot I spoke to today doesn't feel there is any room in Georgia for them."

Dorothy sighed. "There are so many places in Florida that need outreach, and we run into that there. Or upstate New York, because no, the entire state does not follow the city's lead," she agreed, sympathizing. "I would be glad to work with you, and talk about how to get the support you need."

Julia smiled broadly. "Then Ms. Zbornak, I am looking forward to getting to know you."

"Likewise. Someone willing to stand up when the deck is stacked that way is the kind of woman I'd like to know," Dorothy agreed.