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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-08-14 11:35 pm

Here we are in the summer rain again

It was sunshowering most of the afternoon, so without doing anything as sensible as looking for rainbows, I went for a walk with my ancient digital camera which now turns itself off at regularly inopportune moments and still managed to capture some rain-dusted flowers.

We all live in the sun and in the rain. )

The latest fruit of college radio has been Mona's "Kiss Like a Woman" (2018) and the all-ages cute queerness of its video. Since I had just been talking to [personal profile] spatch about Charles Mee, I was extremely happy to see that the (re)making project is still online. The shell-shocking student production of The Trojan Woman: A Love Story (1994) which I saw at Brandeis in 2002 had been substantially, correctly rearranged from the original text. It triggered short fiction of mine directly and I still think about it.
infinitum_noctem ([personal profile] infinitum_noctem) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-14 11:20 pm

Terraria: Fanfiction: Starry Night

Title: Starry Night
Fandom: Terraria
Rating: G
Length: 52 words
Summary: Tonight is a peaceful night.

Read more... )
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breyzyyin ([personal profile] breyzyyin) wrote in [community profile] iconcolors2025-08-14 09:39 pm

Round 174: Astral Projection



Final Fantasy VII Rebirth / Tekken 8 / Sword and Fairy: Together Forever

Characters & Icon URLs... )
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LBDex Mod ([personal profile] lbdmod) wrote in [community profile] littleblackdressex2025-08-14 08:35 pm

Delay and Repost of Pinch Hits 11 and 12!

Delay!


Reveals have been delayed until August 23rd at 11:59PM EDT (click here for a countdown)! This will also push creator reveals back a week.

Pinch Hits


We still have two PHs, which will need to be filled in order for the collection to reveal! These pinch hits are due on August 22nd at 11:59PM EDT (click here for a countdown).

To claim a PH, please reply to this post with your AO3 username or email littleblackdressex@gmail.com with your AO3 name and the pinch hit you would like to pick up. You do not need to be signed up to the exchange to pick up a PH, but do need an AO3 account!

PHs must meet follow the assignment rules and meet the exchange minimums:
  • Fanfic: A completed work with a minimum of 500 words.
  • Fanart: A clean sketch on unlined paper.
  • Podfic: One complete and edited podfic of a text that is at least 500 words. Podficcers may produce podfic of a pre-existing work (with the author's permission) OR write and record a fic for this exchange. In the latter case, the minimum is only 250 words, however both the text and audio must be posted (either separately or in the same work).


PH 11 - Fanfic - Felvidek (Video Game), Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, 15th Century CE RPF )

PH 12 - Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic - aoen (Band), &TEAM (Band), TOMORROW X TOGETHER | TXT (Korea Band), Dark Moon: The Grey City (Webcomic), ENHYPEN (Band) )
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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-08-14 06:48 pm
Entry tags:

Podfic!

[Podfic] Only a Robin (31 words) by Ravin_Pods
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU - Comicverse
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown
Additional Tags: Introspection, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:

A rundown of Robins

Podfic of Only a Robin by Merfilly.

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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-08-14 06:36 pm

The Rowan Drabble

Musical Choices (100 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Rowan
Additional Tags: Drabble, Introspection
Summary:

The Rowan, on music



Musical Choices

Sometimes, the Rowan would find a recording of the show she had attended with Goswina and the others of that class, her mood pouring over the unpleasantness of the aftermath, and the ultimate joy it had brought her in one Afra Lyon, Goswina's little brother.

Other days, she would put music on, purposefully choosing subdued vocals and music with subtle harmonies, to avoid any of the more robust, loud music that Siglen had preferred. Her teacher had been as loud in her music tastes as in her choices of decor.

The Rowan had long since chosen to be quite different.

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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-08-14 06:35 pm
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Two Ted Lasso Drabbles

Supporting Change (100 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ted Lasso [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Keeley Jones
Additional Tags: Drabble, Introspection
Summary:

Keeley's thoughts on the direction of the club and life



Supporting Change

Keeley hadn't been sure that any of it was a great idea, but it didn't take long for her to see the change in everyone — especially Roy.

His gruff exterior and piss-off attitude was intact, but there wasn't the same level of loathing for life there. Keeley just pushed into the change, and did all she could to reward the change.

If that meant more sex, she certainly wasn't going to complain. Nor did it take long to realize saying anything to Jamie was enough to rile Roy up in that really good way.

She could get behind the changes.



Excursions (100 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ted Lasso [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Roy Kent, Phoebe [Ted Lasso]
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life
Summary:

Roy is hunting somewhere, and has Phoebe with him



Excursions

"Fuck."

"Fuck," Phoebe parroted, and Roy had to turn and glare at her. "Frack?"

"Who let you watch terrible TV?" Roy asked, before looking all around him.

"That's from a show? You must have watched it to know the word. What was it about?" Phoebe asked. "I learned it from Billy."

"Billy watches terrible TV then. Where are we supposed to be?"

Phoebe did not make it any better when she giggled and pointed to the tiny hole-in-the-wall candy shop.

Roy took a firmer hold on her hand and walked them over, intent on getting Keeley the best chocolates ever.

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kaffy_r ([personal profile] kaffy_r) wrote2025-08-14 05:17 pm
Entry tags:

Dept. of Shallow

Thirst Trap Summer

WHAT??!?

I'm sitting here, freshly out of the increasing heat and humidity, loving the sunshine I'm healthily out of, loving the AC, loving the music that is playing altogether too damn loud in my earbuds, and I am reminded that it doesn't matter how old I am, I do, in fact, have the right to admire the physical beauty of guys, gals, gender nonconforming folks, agender humans - in fact, I have the right to admire all the beauty one can find in our delightfully diverse species. 

Is this shallow? I'm sure it could be viewed that way. I'm certainly aware that one can't judge a book by its cover, that outward beauty can hide inner ugliness (the portrait of Dorian Grey is an excellent reminder), that looking at beautiful bodies all too often fetishizes the minds and hearts inside those bodies, especially if the view is of a sexual nature. I know that. 

And yet I insist, selfishly I suppose, that I do have the right - arguably a occasional duty, since ignoring beauty might dishonor one of Mother Nature's gifts - that I'm not evil for looking at pretty people and breathing out the appreciative phrase "Helloooo, Nurse!"*

And this summer, my continuing immersion in KPop provides me a delightful opportunity to appreciate beauty. Suggestively sexy beauty. Outright sexy beauty; you know - thirst trap beauty. 

WHAT??!?

Here. Have some, courtesy of Ateez. Tell me I'm wrong later. 








You're welcome.

* Those of you who grew up in the 90s undoubtedly recall the Warners Brothers. There you go!


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incorrigibly frivolous ([personal profile] usuallyhats) wrote in [community profile] doctor_who_sonic2025-08-14 09:09 pm

Thursday August 14th 2025

Do you have a Doctor Who community or a journal that we are not currently linking to? Leave a note in the comments and we'll add you to the watchlist ([personal profile] doctor_watch).

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quailfence ([personal profile] quailfence) wrote2025-08-14 01:57 pm

of or relating to canada

Title: of or relating to canada
Length: 319 words
Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Apollo Justice & The Judge, The Judge & The Judge's Brother (Gyakuten Saiban)
Characters: The Judge (Gyakuten Saiban), Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice, The Judge's Brother (Gyakuten Saiban)
Additional Tags: Childhood backstory, Canada, Backstory, Exposition, Gift Fic, Battleship Exchange 2025, Siblings
Summary: In which the Judge tells Apollo why his brother is Canadian
Notes: Written for [archiveofourown.org profile] coernixen as part of the 2025 round of [community profile] battleshipex .Tag claims: Canada, Childhood Backstory. Originally posted 13 Jul 2025.

“Have you ever worked with my brother before?” The judge asked Apollo as they walked through the courthouse

“Unfortunately, your honor, I have not,” he replied. “Though, I have heard about him, especially from Mr. Wright. He’s Canadian, isn’t he?”

The judge chuckled. “More so than I am at least.”

Apollo nodded. “Apologies if this is a strange question, but… how did you end up with a Canadian brother? I’d have assumed that the two of you would be from the same place.”

“You would be quite right in assuming that, Mr. Justice! In fact, we both grew up in that country!”

Apollo was momentarily lost for words, but he quickly recovered. “If that is the case, then why-“

“Is my brother the most Canadian person you’ve ever met, while I am a rather ordinary Japnifornian?”

“Well…yes.” Apollo said. (Though, it’s a bit rich to call yourself “a rather ordinary Japanifornian”), he thought.

The judge smiled, evidently happy to talk. “Yes, that’s right! We were both born right here in Japanifornia, but when we were children, our parents decided that they would try their luck in Canada!”

“…and just because of that, your brother is extremely Canadian, while you aren’t?”

“Well, that’s the full story. I was thirteen, so I wasn’t quite a child when we moved. I had already spend many years in Japanifornia, and I considered myself Japanifornian through and through. But my brother is much younger than me, and he was only three when he moved. He grew up in Canada, and was quite proud of it! In fact, while I moved back right after college, he stayed in Canada for many years.”

“So then, if he liked Canada so much, why does he live here?”

“Well, two reasons. One, he wanted to live near me. Two, the judges are much better paid here.”

(Well, I suppose there are worse reasons to move…) Apollo thought.
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littlefics ([personal profile] littlefics) wrote in [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles2025-08-14 01:57 pm
Entry tags:

7 Initial Pinch Hits

We have 7 initial pinch hits, which are due at the assignment deadline, Saturday, August 23, 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown).

If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment on this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

PH 1 - NoPixel (Web Series), Video Blogging RPF, ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga), Sakamoto Days (Anime) )



CLAIMED PH 2 - InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, 赤髪の白雪姫 | Akagami no Shirayukihime | Snow White with the Red Hair (Anime & Manga), How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying - Django Wexler, The Pirates of Dark Water )



CLAIMED PH 3 - Dial M for Murder (1954), The Big Country (1958), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Big Heat (1953), Home Before Dark (1958), The Country Girl (1954), North by Northwest (1959), The Swan (1956), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) )



PH 4 - Fireworks (1947)/Succession (TV 2018), O Fantasma (2000), O Fantasma (2000)/Succession (TV 2018), The Sergeant (1968), Succession (TV 2018) )



CLAIMED PH 5 - Ender Series - Orson Scott Card, The Lesser Dead (Christopher Buehlman), Fevre Dream - George R. R. Martin, Dracula's Guest - Bram Stoker )



CLAIMED PH 6 - Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson, The Twa Sisters - Anonymous (Song), The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison, The Fairyland Series - Catherynne M. Valente )



PH 7 - Final Fantasy XIV, Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, Valkyrie Profile Series, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy X )

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abyss_valkyrie ([personal profile] abyss_valkyrie) wrote in [community profile] perioddrama_ic2025-08-14 07:19 pm

Challenge Eighty: Icon Maze-Last reminder!

Hello, all! There is 1 more day remaining for our current challenge to end. If anyone wants an extension, please let me know.
Check out the details of this round here.
Chanter ([personal profile] chanter1944) wrote2025-08-14 11:09 am

strange AO3 glitch

Anybody else getting persistent SSL handshake failure errors when trying to visit AO3? Or is it just me? The issue's been popping up randomly for the last week or two, but today it's near-constant, if not entirely so.
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Glittery ([personal profile] glitteryv) wrote in [community profile] recthething2025-08-14 09:46 am
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Community Recs Post!

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 podfics/fancrafts/fanvids/fics/fanart/other kinds of fanworks 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.
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osprey_archer ([personal profile] osprey_archer) wrote2025-08-14 08:08 am

Book Review: The Hidden Life of Trees

I read Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World (translated from German by Jane Billinghurst) as a sort of follow-up to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. Although they are coming at the question from different angles, both books make the same point that plants are, like, alive??

On the one hand, this is something that I think most people vaguely know. But it’s still startling to discover the plants communicate with each other through their root systems, and can send sugars through those roots so effectively that other trees can keep a tree trunk alive for centuries after its crown has died.

But this only occurs in trees in naturally occurring forests. When humans dig trees up to transport them and plant them where we want them, we sever the root tips, and trees never recover the ability to interface with other roots - even if there are other trees available to commune with, which there often aren’t if a tree is planted, for instance, alongside a street.

This helps explain why trees along streets and trees in tree plantations tend to be, in tree terms, quite short-lived. Also, Wohlleben points out, the qualities that humans consider “good” in trees are usually not the qualities that are actually good for trees. For instance, humans like to see trees growing fast, and sometimes point at the quick rate of growth in spruce plantations as proof that these plantations are actually good for trees.

But in fact fast growth is dangerous for a tree, as it creates structural weaknesses that will often kill a tree when it’s around a hundred years old. For human foresters, this is fine, as that’s about as long as we let plantation trees grow anyway, but from a tree’s perspective, 100 years is not a long time at all.

In Wohlleben’s view, humans struggle to understand trees because their perspective is so alien to ours. They’re stationary. Their senses and methods of communication are so different from ours that we struggle to believe trees have senses at all. (“In Wohlleben’s analysis, it’s almost as if trees have feelings and character,” says the incredulous author of this Guardian article, apparently unable to grasp that Wohlleben is arguing that trees DO have feelings, no “almost” about it.)

And, as Upton Sinclair pointed out, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” The modern industrial lifestyle depends on seeing not just trees but the entirety of the natural world as raw materials we can dispose of as we will. Now, of course we’re capable of accepting that trees have feelings and then blithely refusing to change our behavior on account of that fact: after all, we do this with other humans all the time. But why bother embracing extra cognitive dissonance? It’s just easier all around if we continue to see trees as technically animate but more or less inert objects.
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-14 12:55 pm

Torchwood: Fanfic: A Twinkle In The Dark


Title: A Twinkle In The Dark
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1105
Summary: On an exploration expedition out on the rim of known space, Jack and Ianto discover something interesting.
Spoilers: Nada.
Warnings: None needed. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
Written For: Challenge 488: Twinkle.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.



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VeroNyxK84 ([personal profile] veronyxk84) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-08-14 01:46 pm

Twinkle: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Coming Home

Title: Coming Home
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S7, at the end of ep. 7x11 “Showtime”
Summary: Buffy’s POV when she finds Spike.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #488 Twinkle


READ: Coming Home )
 
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scifirenegade ([personal profile] scifirenegade) wrote2025-08-14 11:06 am

Oh no, oh no

Here's an article on Mubi about Il Cinema Ritrovato's 2014 edition, which premiered a shiny, new, HD restoration of Caligari. But the section about it is, uh,

[...] it also shows us Veidt's private parts through his too-tight leggings. Which may not appeal to everyone, but at least what we see is suitably impressionist: a thin, jagged penile bayonet.


It's true, but you shouldn't say it. Or at least do so in private, as we have enough TMI weirdness as is (and I say it perfectly aware of the shit I say).