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Traumatic Experiences Post-Deadline Pinch Hits (1 Returning) - Due March 1st 8PM PST

flowing_river

pinchhits

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:55 pm

Event: Traumatic Experiences
Event Link:

traumaticexperiences
Pinch Hit Link: Current Pinch Hit Post
Due Date: March 1st at 8PM PST

traumaticexperiences is a (psychological) trauma themed multifandom exchange. We have 1 new returning pinch hit and 7 previously unclaimed pinch hits! You must write a fanfiction that is a minimum of 1000 words and include a requested fandom, relationship or solo character, and freeform in your fill. The collection will not reveal until everyone who requested 3 unique fandoms has received a gift that meets the minimum assignment requirements.

Assignment Requirements

PH 2 - Dredge (Video Game), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), 間の楔 | Ai no Kusabi (Anime)

PH 6 - Given (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Wind Breaker (Anime), Outlast (Video Games)

PH 7 - Four Assassins (2011), RoboCop (Movies 1987-1993), Half-Life (Video Games), Crossing Jordan (TV 2001)

PH 8 - The Defenders (Marvel TV), Charmed (TV 1998)

PH 17 - NoPixel (Web Series), 仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Undertale (Video Game)

PH 18 - 你却爱着一个傻逼 - 水千丞 | In Love with an Idiot - Shui Qian Cheng, 火焰戎装 - 水千丞 | Huǒ Yàn Róng Zhuāng - Shuǐ Qiān Chéng, 职业替身 - 水千丞 | Professional Body Double - Shuǐ Qiān Chéng, 小白杨 - 水千丞 | My Little Poplar - Shuǐ Qiān Chéng, 时光代理人 | Link Click (Cartoon), 老婆孩子热炕头 - 水千丞 | Lǎo Pó Hái Zi Rè Kàng Tou - Shuǐ Qiān Chéng, 附加遗产 - 水千丞 | Fù Jiā Yí Chǎn - Shuǐ Qiān Chéng, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 谁把谁当真 - 水千丞 | Shéi Bǎ Shéi Dàng Zhēn - Shuǐ Qiān Chéng, Crossover Fandom

PH 19 - Winx Club, My Little Pony Generation 4: Equestria Girls (Cartoon 2013), My Little Pony Generation 4: Friendship Is Magic (Cartoon 2010), SK8 the Infinity (Anime)

PH 20 - Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Firewall (Book)

For more details/to claim, view the pinch hit post.

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Just some things

nanslice

Saturday, February 14th, 2026 09:14 pm

Birthday was the 13th! I'm officially 40! I do not think I have the maturity levels to be a 40 year old! I smoke too much weed and forget laundry in the wash and stay up too late just to regret it deeply in the morning. Shit's crazy. But as Guillermo del Toro said, "As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day. The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7." So...idek what 7 year old me desired, but it was probably something to do with being happy, so that's what I'm aiming for.

cypher and I played Warhammer 40k: Kill Team today! They with their Plague Marines and me with my Hernkyn Yaegir team. It was a slow match at first but soon there was fierce battling. It ended up being 7 (me) to 10 (them). It was A LOT of fun and I think I learned some things. We're trying to get good enough that we can play in public, haha.

I heard of

spikedluv's passing. It's always so surreal when someone in fandom dies. Like...we're not supposed to do that? I don't know. It's strange. We were not friends but we ran in shared fandom circles and she was such a presence on DW. My heart goes out to all who knew her. <3

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lycomingst

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:53 pm

For

dreamsdare's February "Things I Love" post.

I decided to skip Challenge 1 because I recently had done a top ten movies and there were no more additions.

Challenge 2:

Make a Top Ten list for your favourite series and tell people exactly why you love it. This can be in any format - tv series, book series, radio plays, movie sequels, something else not mentioned here. Your series can be as short as two vaguely linked pieces of media and as long as... well, the sky is your limit. Whatever you like!

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It all never really ends - Early February 02026

silveradept

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:46 pm

Let's begin with the understanding that your librarians are dealing with additional stresses than they had been in the past, and that the stresses they have been forced to deal with in the past are increased in velocity, size, and intensity. Beyond that, the current administration, after trying to zero out the funding available through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has explicitly made it so that IMLS will give preferential treatment to grant applications that are in line with the administration's political ideology, which is about as anti-library as he can get. (Unless, of course, your library is more in line with the traditional duties and ideologies that it had, employing white women as saviors to blacks, browns, and poors to teach them how to act properly white and give proper deference to whiteness.)

Now updated for 2026, Hazel Newlevant's SARS-CoV-2 zine.

Also, if you've used or updated your Notepad++ program within the last few months, you really want to reinstall it from scratch and check for signs of compromise, because apparently some state actors hacked the hosting provider for the program and inserted malicious code into it. So that will be fun for everyone who uses that program.

Under-rated ways of changing the world, which doesn't always mean they're easy, but that many of them are effective, and the kind of thing where you end up celebrating Petrov Day because you managed to correctly recognize a system was malfunctioning, rather than that the United States had decided to destroy the world. (#6 has a certain amount of appeal to me, as someone who doesn't work in a nondescript government office, but who has that kind of pathway available to themselves to make change in the world through boring, unflashy interactions with others.)

Every Olympic organizer has to deal with the fact that they are getting a lot of young people who are at the peak of their physical fitness and putting them all together in close quarters, and they try to plan accordingly to have enough prophylactics on hand. Milan-Cortina's suppy lasted three days.

( And more of people behaving badly, muppets in charge, and techbros being unable to read the room inside )

Last out for tonight, The ways that the mountie falls off the pedestal, and the way that everyone tries to be a bit more like the mountie in due South, which makes the characters and the show better all the time.

The passive-aggressive technique of triangulation, where a person uses a third party to express their difficulties with, or to engage in bullying of, another person. Which I have apparently been victimized by, and only found out after the person who was doing it had left the organization. Which I still have massive issues with, because I prefer direct feedback rather than indirect feedback as both as a "I can't fix what I don't know about" issue, but also because people complaining about me instead of to me was also things that the manager who wanted to fire me took into account. Without telling me there were problems.

And a laugh: Accusations of penis enlargement to provide more lift for ski-jumping costuming in the 2026 Olympics. Yes, we have gotten to the point where penis size matters. Clearly, the condom suppliers didn't get the memo.

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adrian_turtle,

azurelunatic,

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cmcmck,

conuly,

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jjhunter,

kaberett,

lilysea,

oursin,

rydra_wong,

snowynight,

sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

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little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

Current Mood: moody
Current Music: Gustav Holst - Mars, the Bringer of War

Writerly Ways

cornerofmadness

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 11:33 pm

I've been thinking about writing hard to write emotional states, beyond say the actual words we can find in the emotional thesaurus (which is a great resource) How do we carry forward these states. I'm not sure I know the answer but I do have some examples.

One of the harder ones to write is naivety. So often naive ends up reading as stupid. That's not the same thing. two examples Mrs. de Winter from Rebecca and Charlie Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel. Both of these ladies I believe are meant to be naive (especially Charlie)

They are similar in how this naivety is shown. They make mistakes but they don't learn from them. The nameless Mrs de Winter is a passive twit without a brain in her head (which is a different problem) She is meant to be young and naive and caught up in the manipulations of older, vicious people but at what point do you learn from this and move on. 250 pages is almost it for her (which she immediately turns around and nearly ends up dead but that's another story as well) Without a character learning and moving on, becoming less naive you end up with a character who comes off dumb.

I see this again with Charlie. She is a sheltered princess of hell. In S1 she is naive but she seems to learn. Instead of continuing that, in S2 she digresses.

Daily Happiness

torachan

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:42 pm

1. We walked down to Pita House today for lunch, the place where I got the amazing shawarma cheese fries a couple weeks ago when Carla was out of town. We got that again to split, and even splitting between two people we were stuffed! They're so good, though.

2. Sales at the new store continue to be great. Mid week sales were lower this week than last, but yesterday's totals were higher than last Saturday, which was higher than grand opening on the previous Saturday.

3. The cutest snoot.

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Artistic apotheosis, aka Royal Ballet Giselle, Nuñez/Bracewell, 02/14/2026

chestnut_pod

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:12 pm

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Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: Giselle: Pas de Deux - No.5(bis) La Chasse(II) - LSO & Anatole Fistoulari (Adam)

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#81 Help Arrives (part 2 of 2, complete)

dialecticdreamer

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 11:04 pm

Help Arrives
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 729
[Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 6 pm]

:: Once they’re home from the library, the Teagues are dragged into the problem that Win is investigating. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

Back to Help Arrives, part one
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to

:: Win arrives for dinner, and takes charge of the situation the Teagues are now entangled in. Part of the Teague Family story arc. ::

There was a low, building silence, like the stirring of vapor and air to become a cloud. Several minutes into the meal, the only noises involved cutlery, dishes, and the occasional bump against the coffee table. “You know, we can’t call you Nick, because that’s the name of Shandiin’s husband, and he lives right across the yard. We see him every day,” Ed began slowly. “We could ask you about your favorite flower, or your favorite author.”

“Austen,” Nicole answered immediately, then rubbed her face with a trembling hand.

The boy nodded. “I skimmed a couple of those books at the library, because they’ll be assigned later in the school year. Do you like Jane or Emma better?”

“Emma?” the teenager whispered, staring at the strawberry blond.

“That’s one idea then. It’s not saying anything about your personality. It’s just a name that you would like to hear more than your own, for now.”

“Bella means pretty,” Mac declared abruptly. “My grandma said so.”

The teenager, her face hidden behind a curtain of bangs, wrinkled her nose.

“That’s a nope,” Vic declared cheerfully. “Let’s not bombard her with suggestions, though. How about we each make one suggestion each day, if she okays it. So, my suggestion for today…” He drew a deep breath, clicking his tongue as he did, then smirked. “Lara. From a Russian novel that I never managed to finish reading.”

Across from him, the teenage girl snickered.

“Ah, I see,” Aidan nodded, with an exaggerated ‘wise’ expression. “One name suggestion, then. I could suggest something serious, or something more playful. He waited a beat. “Beatrice.”

That made the girl laugh softly. She shook her head only once, slowly.

“Well, now that that’s done, Vic made a cobbler for dessert. Would anyone like some?” the auburn-haired man offered, smiling.

Gently, a chorus of affirmative sounds, and one distinct, “Yes, please,” from Win, swept through the room.

A few minutes later, when the cobbler was tasted and the bowls halfway empty, Aidan spoke again. “Win, do you know how long it might take to find the young lady’s family? And…” HIs eyes clouded with worry. “And, are they safe for her? Some parents might not be, after such a strange situation.”

“My parents aren’t like that,” the teenager blurted, then stuffed a large bite of cobbler in her mouth. Her nostrils flared as she huffed, and she was forced to chew very slowly to avoid choking on her food.

Win smiled. “I know them. Do I have your permission to contact them?”

The girl squirmed, then nodded. “My head’s a mess,” she whispered. “Time is weird. Words… run away.” Shivering, she took another too-large bite of dessert.

“I’m not trying to insult anyone,” Win prefaced, sitting very straight and still. “But do you feel safe enough to sleep here tonight? Your parents will need some time to fall apart, then pull themselves together to come to get you. I’ll need them with you, for legal reasons, when I take a formal statement, and I really, really hope that you can get a good night’s sleep before that.”

“There’s an enormous bed in the bedroom,” VIc volunteered. He smiled at Nicole. “It’s not being used, because it’s really too soft to us.”

Aidan nodded once. “It feels like trying to sleep in a pan half full of syrup.”

“I doubt it’s that bad,” Win protested, her brows puzzling together.

“For about fifteen years,” Aidan answered, his lips quirking up, “I slept with a wooden block as a pillow. It helped my spine tremendously, but I lost it and many other possessions in a move.”

Vic shrugged. “I didn’t have a pillow when I… well, it was only for a few months, but I can grab a throw pillow from one of the sofas and be fine, too.”

Win studied the apartment for a long moment. “Or, Miss, you could stay with me. It’s something to think about, before I call your parents. Either way, I’ll have them plan to meet us in the morning at the station. And… please don’t tell anyone your arrangements tonight. The repercussions could be… severe for me.”

The teenage girl shook her head quickly. It took several deep breaths before words slipped out as she exhaled. “I. Won’t.”

“Thank you.” Win’s smile was soft, but genuine.

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Author’s note: spoons error today. ALMOST have a handle on this!

Current Mood: anxious

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Ace Attorney: Fanfic: The Snowflake

refuse2shine

fan_flashworks

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 10:37 pm

Title: The Snowflake
Fandom: Ace Attorney
Characters: Maya Fey, Pearl Fey
Rating: G
Length: 418 words
Author notes: Set directly after Turnabout Goodbyes in the first game.
Summary: On a cold December morning after her arrival back at Kurain Village, Maya reflects on her life and has a little moment with her cousin Pearl

( Maya Fey was not like most people )

Deadline Has Passed!

tavina

au5k

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 10:08 pm

Hello hello!

The works due deadline has passed - thank you to everyone who has turned in a work or otherwise contacted me regarding an extension, our next deadline is on the 17th, when all our extensions are due.

There are several participants who have not contacted me prior to deadline - thus far I've marked these as mod defaults on the sheet, but if you get your default, work, and or mod contact in before 10am Eastern (roughly 12 hours from now) tomorrow on the 16th when I get the pinch hit post out, you will not incur the one year ban penalty for no show defaulting.

Let's all take a collective possumscrem, and write/pod/art like the wind to meet the deadline on the 17th everyone! O/ We got this!

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Icons — Evelyn de Morgan

sheliak

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 06:07 pm

I've had a folder of Evelyn de Morgan's art hanging on my desktop for I think a few years now, I'm very disorganized—anyway, the gold drawings are my favorite but she had a pretty style in general.

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3 Good Things

jjhunter

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:51 pm

1. The snow has stayed on the ground here long enough that we're finally Acquiring Some Sleds in anticipation of going sledding with friends next weekend. It is so wonderful to have a winter feel like winter again.

2. Hosted a neat new-to-me game yesterday with some close friends and a potential new friend I met through my Awesome Neighbor friend. We all had a great time! We immediately rolled right into plotting More Fun Like This Soon. It's good to be exercising my making-new-friends muscles again.

2a. The game being Molly House, with its gripping shifts between personal queer joy, community delight, and pressuring fears (constables, rogues, and gossip all threatening to trigger police raids of the central molly houses),( I would be fascinated to play it again... )

3. I am looking forward to some quiet time at home tomorrow, I say, also having ambitions of Bake & Roast All The Things, do my taxes so I can get my solar panel credits reimbursed (yay, solar!), and maybe get some extra time in at the local studio before my pottery class starts.

Bonus: This being the cold hard dark slog time of year, it helps to have something joyous to move to. I went and looked up what all the musicians I last bought music from (mostly 5+ years ago) have put out in the last few years since, and bought the latest album of each. So far I'm particularly enjoying Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn's debut collaboration merging American old-time music and Chinese folksong, and the latest from MEUTE.

Have you been listening to anything particularly good lately? What is bringing you joy, defiant or otherwise?

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The Reality of Living Together - Harry Potter (PG)

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harry100

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:21 pm

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MDZS Manhua, Donghua, and Audio Drama Post

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Sunday, February 15th, 2026 04:43 pm

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CQL Watchalong Post

spookykingdomstarlight

wwxfans

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 04:40 pm

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MDZS Readalong Post

spookykingdomstarlight

wwxfans

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 04:27 pm

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Announcing wwxfans mdzs/cql read-watch-listen-along

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Sunday, February 15th, 2026 04:14 pm

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Nominations are Open!

themanemod

the_mane_event

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 07:11 pm

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skygiants

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 06:17 pm

I never got around to writing up Anne McCaffrey's The Mark of Merlin when I read it last year, but I've been thinking about McCaffrey a lot recently due to blitzing through the Dragons Made Me Did It Pern podcast (highly recommended btw) and

osprey_archer asked for a post on my last-year-end round-up so now seems as good a time as any.

The important thing to know about The Mark of Merlin is that -- unlike many of the things I've read recently! -- it is not, in any way, the least little bit, Arthuriana. They are not in Great Britain. There are no thematic Arthurian connections. There is absolutely zero hint of anything magical. So why Merlin? Well, Merlin is the name of the heroine's dog, and he's a very good boy, so that's all that really needs to be said about that.

Anyway, this is McCaffrey writing in classic romantic suspense mode a la Mary Stewart or Barbara Michaels, and honestly it's a pretty fun time! Our Heroine Carla's father Tragically Died in the War, so he asked his second-in-command to be her guardian and now she's en route to stay with Major Laird in his isolated house in Cape Cod. Tragically scarred and war-traumatized Major Laird has no Gothic-trope concerns about this because Carla's full name is Carlysle and her dad accidentally forgot to tell him that the child in question was a daughter and not a son; Carla is fully aware of the mixup and but has not chosen to enlighten him because she thinks it's extremely funny to pop out at Major Laird like "ha ha! You THOUGHT I was a hapless youth and wrote me a patronizing letter about it, but INSTEAD I am a beautiful and plucky young co-ed so joke's on you!"

There is an actual suspense plot; the suspense plot is that Someone is hunting Carla for reasons of secret information her dad passed on in his luggage before he died, and also his death was under Mysterious Circumstances, and so we have to figure out what's going on with all of that and eventually have a big confrontation in the remote Cape Cod house. But mostly the book is just Carla and the Major being snowed in, romantically bickering, huddling for warmth, cooking delicious meals over the old Cape Cod stove, etc. etc. Cozy in the classic sense, very little substance but excellent for reading in a vacation cottage while drinking tea and eating a cheese toastie.

As a sidenote, I did not know until I started listening to Dragons Made Me Do It that McCaffrey's Dragonflight preceded The Flame and the Flower, the book that's credited as being the first bodice-ripper romance novel and launching the genre of historical romance as we know it today, by a good four years. It's interesting to place this very classic romantic suspense novel -- which was published almost a decade after Dragonflight, but, at least according to this Harvard student newspaper article I turned up, at least partially written in 1950 -- against the full tropetastic dubcon-at-best dragonsex Pern situations, which clearly belong to a later moment. And speaking of later moments, it's also a bit of a mindfuck for me to think very hard about McCaffrey's place in genre history and realize how very early she is. I was reading McCaffrey in the nineties, against Lackey and Bujold. Reading her in conversation with Russ and LeGuin is a whole different experience.

But this is all a tangent and not very much to do with The Mark of Merlin, a perfectly fun perfectly fine book, very short on the wtf moments that have characterized most of my experiences with McCaffrey, and if anything comes late to its moment rather than early.

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musesfool

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 06:42 pm

I lost most of yesterday to feeling unwell and spending a good part of the day in bed, but I did make char siu and therefore did make pork buns today and as always, they are so good! And remarkably easy, too, if you follow the recipe. I still have tomorrow for doughnuts, potentially.

I also spent some time yesterday watching more Pluribus and I find myself arguing with myself about it. ( spoilers )

So I still am not sure how much I like it as a show, but I am definitely curious to see where it goes (no spoilers past "HDP" please!).

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Current Mood: intrigued
Current Music: Work That - Mary J Blige

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Slo-Mo Rewatch: Guardian episode 11, part 2

trobadora

sid_guardian

Monday, February 16th, 2026 12:15 am

Hi, welcome to this week's instalment of the Guardian drama Slo-Mo Rewatch! Watch half an episode a week, and then come and chat about it here in comments. Or you can just jump into the comments without rewatching, of course!

Here is last week's half-episode. On to the second half!

Episode 11, from 22:22:

Summary: The SID is back in Dragon City, though Guo Changcheng and Chu Shuzhi brought back diarrhoea and Zhao Yunlan has been brooding ever since. Zhao Yunlan is going over every clue he caught, and some he didn't at the time, about Shen Wei and the Envoy. He hasn't contacted Shen Wei since they came back from the mountains. When Da Qing comes to bring him out of his brooding, he asks him about the Envoy too, but Da Qing doesn't know much.

At a lab, a sonic experiment is carried out and vaporises a fish. The lab's boss has brought his stepdaughter and wants her to play the violin; one of the scientists tries to protect her, and is fired for his troubles. Later that evening, the lab's boss and the two remaining scientists are attacked by sonic waves. And the SID has a new case: what appears to be a triple suicide. Two people are missing: Zheng Yi, the stepdaughter, and Tan Xiao, the fired lab worker. And it turns out that one of the victims' last phone call was to Shen Wei.

Meanwhile, Zhu Hong and Guo Changcheng are sent to the Snake Tribe to ask about the origins of the Hallows, but Fourth Uncle isn't keen on the subject. He drugs Zhu Hong.

Quote:

Zhao Yunlan: "Do you think it's possible the Black-Cloaked Envoy actually stays in the human world, and even uses a human face?"

Da Qing: "Don't you think you're talking nonsense? Dixing has the Regent and the Dijun as administrators, but the Black-Cloaked Envoy as a major decision maker and commander of Dixingren is of pivotal importance. Why would he come up here? To see his lover?"

Zhao Yunlan: "But going by his appearance, he doesn't look like someone who has a lover."

Detail:

When Da Qing talks about Dixing powers that could make someone commit suicide, he says they don't know through what medium that power was activated - setting up a major element not just for this case (Zheng Yi vs. Zhao Yunlan's earplugs) but also for the eventual defeat of a major opponent (Zhu Jiu vs. blackout).

Questions:

What's your favourite bit in this half-episode? Or your favourite clip from Zhao Yunlan's Shen Wei/Envoy flashback sequence? The sonic lab: bad work environment or worst work environment? Do you think Chu Shuzhi has permission to read Guo Changcheng's diary? When Zhao Yunlan asks Da Qing if the Envoy might actually live in the human world, does he actually still have doubts? What is it he's finding so hard to wrap his mind around? How does this post-reveal sequence compare to the novel? What does he mean when he says the Envoy doesn't look like someone who has a lover? What's going through his head when Shen Wei answers the phone? How much does Fourth Uncle actually know about the Hallows, and where does he know it from?

(These are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the rewatch to join in!)

Here is our schedule for the next batch of episodes - please do sign up to host a post if you can!

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kaberett

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 10:56 pm

Reading. A Variety of books with the Child, including One Fish, Two Fish and A Squeeze and a Squash.

For my own purposes I have been continuing with The Rose Field, Philip Pullman, and I do indeed continue unimpressed. Not enough to stop! But.

I also picked up What Is Queer Food? (John Birdsall) from the library when I was having an insomnia; I have made it most of the way through the introduction but I am not yet grabbed.

Writing. Words... increase.

Listening. More Hidden Almanac catch-up! "While doing the laundry" or indeed "weeding" continues to work quite well.

Playing. Puzzle progresses! I am not calculating current %age but Significant Progress.

I think we did a leeeeettle bit more of our current run of Inkulinati? But it is petering out.

Cooking. Pineapple upside-down banana bread! This time with some ground almond in it. Otherwise I think... very little of note.

Eating. I was very excited to get to try a Neuhaus dark chocolate poppy seed praline, which on the one hand was not actually quite as dark as I would like and on the other has given me Ideas.

Growing. I got some broad beans in the ground?

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In Memoriam: sad, shocking news about spikedluv

ride_4ever

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 04:32 pm

spikedluv. Seemingly fine one day and gone soon thereafter. I can't even.

Link to obituary.

Current Mood: sad and shocked
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Weekly Reading

torachan

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 02:36 pm

Recently Finished
Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin
I was thrilled to have a new Enola Holmes book to read. I'm not sure if this is the last one (the ending kind of felt like it could be), and if so, I will miss them. This has been such a fun series.

The Age of Miracles
I found out about this from

rachelmanija's review and was immediately interested. When the MC is eleven, the earth's rotation suddenly slows and the world changes. But even as these big events are going on, she is focused on the big things in her own life: friendships changing, her parents' marriage falling apart, crushes on boys, starting middle school. I really loved the balance between the two.

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Margaret, having defined herself as a tween detective in middle school, now struggles in high school with how to grow up and ends up developing an eating disorder that lands her in a treatment center.

This sounded very relevant to my interests from the blurb but it just didn't work for me. As someone who grew up around the same time (maybe five years earlier or so) and loved mysteries and series like the BSC, and struggled with weight and being queer in a time before the internet and easy access to knowledge of the fact that people like me even existed, I should be the target audience. But I am not that big a fan of the paranormal and magical realism, and while those elements are not mentioned at all in the summary, they feature heavily throughout, and more and more as the story goes on. I wanted something realistic, and this is not that. It's well written and I love the idea of it, but it's just not for me.

Middle of the Night
The MC moves back into his childhood home when his parents move out to a retirement community. Immediately strange things start happening, and he is constantly having nightmares of the night he and his best friend were camping in the yard and his friend went missing and was never found. Now his body has been found nearby, and the MC has to figure out if he's really being haunted or if someone is messing with him, and if they are, are they the murderer? I liked this all right.

The Legend of Auntie Po
Graphic novel about a Chinese American girl in the 1880s who lives in a logging camp with her father, a cook. I liked this a lot.

A Map to the Sun
Graphic novel about a struggling girls' basketball team. I liked it.

A Star Brighter Than the Sun vol. 4

Kindaichi Papa no Jikenbo vol. 3

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Beware the charmer

mxcatmoon

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 05:08 pm

Present for

makamu

As I'm just watching this ep now.

Yeah, Rico wasn't the only one Sonny strung along... 😉

He had issues, always choosing the ones who were all wrong for him (and often criminals). Gina and Rico should probably form a club.

Current Mood: amused

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flemmings

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 04:52 pm

Went out yesterday in the grey and slush and got my library book, then went to Pour Boy where the lovely waitress came out to hold the door for me and then helped me lift the walker onto the snowbank so it didn't block the doorway. Checked my paper diary and yes, it's been a month since I was out at a restaurant and six weeks since I was there. Seems like a mighty long time because it was.

The melt has led to the usual ponds at street corners so today I put on my unsatisfactory new boots which are at least more waterproof than my ten year old pair. The left boot slopped around because that's evidently the shorter foot and inserts don't cut it. Had a bright idea and put my orthotic sole into it and it was fine. So now I know.

Otherwise I need to get back to the bike machine but melt temperatures also conduce to achiness. And of course vodka and Bailey's don't help the couch potato reflexes.

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You flipped the script and you shot the plot

sovay

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 03:42 pm

I have not slept in two nights as opposed to brief random hours elsewhere on the clock, but the sunlight this afternoon was gorgeous.

( I'm a little hungover and I may have to steal your soul. )

Like just about the rest of this weekend, any plans I had to attend even part of this year's sci-fi marathon at the Somerville did not survive contact with my stamina. Hestia has now broken four slats out of my blinds for a better view on Bird Theater and having tired herself out chattering at their delicious players sleeps innocently against my mermaid lamp, softly and a little snufflily breathing out a purr.

Current Music: Houndmouth, "Sedona"

reading #51 ★ many many books!

wearing_tearing

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 06:34 pm

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I logged on to post about something else...

lebateleur

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 03:57 pm

...but instead I will just say that I am incredibly saddened to learn of

spikedluv's passing. She was such a lovely presence on my reading page and like so many others, I will miss her.

これで以上です。

Current Music: ronn mcfarlane - lady athenry

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the snow is slowly melting in the just-above-freezing warmth

shadaras

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 02:38 pm

I get tomorrow off! I'm looking forward to that, especially since I finally feel pretty human again, no more lingering illness.

1.
The horizon has glimmers of color as I drive to work, these days. It's very nice! It also means I'm cynically like "it's going to be sunrise when I'm driving to work and then daylight saving is gonna happen and it'll be dark again", because that's just how it goes.

2.
Periodically I remember that doing things gives you more energy for doing things, inclusive of how hanging out with people means you have more energy for hanging out with people? Truly the most annoying thing, knowing that sometimes forcing yourself to do the thing will result in feeling better! But also sometimes you need to not because of being out of energy/spoons. Balancing this! The worst!

3.
Star Trek: Discovery s3 continues to be overall good!
(When did I last talk about this. Ep4, apparently! So!)
s3e5 "Die Trying": I adored the set design for the seed ship. This was a good example of moving the plot along while setting up a farewell episode for a crew member who wouldn't be continuing on!
s3s6 "Scavengers": I want the miniseries/full arc of this episode. I am extremely here for the Michael/Phillipa/Book trio! I also think that having more time to dig into the prioritization of "solve the Burn" vs "obey Starfleet structure" vs "save people" would have been excellent.
s3e7 "Unification III": I will indeed cry upon seeing old footage of Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Uh. idk, the Qowat Milat are always cool? This episode progressed arcplot, mostly?
s3e8 "Sanctuary": god I really want more specifics about what Book's empathy powers are. Fun antics around following the letter of the law with Starfleet protocol, and makes it clear that yeah the Emerald Chain is gonna be the arcvillain. Also, Adira comes out to Stamets as nonbinary! in a scene that's very "okay yeah this is meant to be #relatable to teens", which isn't a bad thing but also I fundamentally am like "but it's Star Trek, why would a nonbinary person be worried about if they'd be accepted in Star Trek?"
s3s9-10 "Terra Firma", parts 1 and 2: A two-episode farewell to Mirror Phillipa Georgiou. I loved this as a character study for her! However! It makes the season's pacing really weird, since there are only three episodes left in the season and these two episodes were basically not about the arcplot at all. Phenomenal for the relationship between Michael and Phillipa, though, holy shit.

Truly a lot of my feelings about DSC s3 are that it doesn't seem to quite know if it's an episodic show or an arcplot show, and that leaves me resenting both the cutaways from episodic plots to arcplot scenes and the cutaways from arcplot for episodic plots. xD I still enjoy it because of the character dynamics, and I'm glad Tilly is starting to get what she's owed, but it's kind of messy plotting. Looking forward to the finale anyway, and I also expect that s4 will have an easier time with figuring itself out since it won't be as busy trying to establish the new time/setting as well.

4.
I also watched the first 9 episodes of Duet of Shadows a republican-era cdrama with ~19min episodes about very butch4butch investigator protags. Definitely having a good time! The first case/arc is basically "a trans man opera singer got outed and died", for reasons that turn out to not be a gender-related hate crime (his gender is very respected by those who know him! there's a scene in which someone who knew him hands one of the protags a binder and is like "pls use this instead of bandages"!). I think this is fun. Not everyone will. xD Curious what the next case/arc will be, and shall see how long it takes for me to finish it!

5.
Watching Yanxi Palace slowly continues! We're seven episodes in now, and Yingluo has attracted the Empress's attention (positive). The brief cut back to the eunuch tasked with figuring out who the quick-witted maid (Yingluo) is for the Emperor in the midst of that was very funny. But mostly these episodes have been about how clever and ruthless Yingluo is, and how those are necessary traits in the inner courtyards of the imperial palace.

6.
Six Sentence Sunday is always a fun meme. This is more than six sentences, but it is Sunday!

“Ms. Warram,” Ames said icily, his patience worn thin, “you have not even given me details about your offer. Your letter said nothing about compensation, support, or even a timeline for prototyping. It merely told me what you wanted from me, and nothing about this conversation leads me to believe I will enjoy the environment of your trading company. Treat me with the respect the title of Chief Engineer implies and I might consider visiting your workshop to make an informed decision. Otherwise, I do not see any reason to continue this conversation."

Emeline sat up straight, hands folded in front of her, that ring catching the light. He still couldn’t quite make out the design on it. “Amaranth dev Citronel,” she said, “I will show you the workshop. You will come with me?”

Ames opened his mouth to say “No”, but the light kept gleaming from Emeline’s eyes and ring, and he couldn’t concentrate through them. His tongue felt thick and heavy, as did the rest of his body.

It occurred to Ames, as the light stole over him, that he had been so busy worrying about the mundane side of predatory business contracts that he hadn’t even thought about a mage dead-set on taking him.

His lips said Yes, and Ames’ last conscious thought was that, if nothing else, Rhei would know something was wrong as soon as they arrived back in Jogan’s Rest.

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[ SECRET POST #6981 ]

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fandomsecrets

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 03:13 pm

⌈ Secret Post #6981 ⌋

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

01.

( More! )

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 31 secrets from Secret Submission Post #997.
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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twistedchick

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 02:54 pm

Sweetiecat is starting to do better. Her tail isn't dragging, she lifts her head to look at me and she's purring a little. Last night she jumped up on the bed next to Steve, which she hasn't done in a while. She is eating and visiting the litter box, and moving around.

Zoomy is a bit of a sad sack, because he feels left out; Sweetie is getting all the attention, he thinks. I have the door open, and he could come in at any time and curl up next to me, but he is not doing it; he's fussing about Sweetie. She's his big tolerant sister who puts up with him jumping on her until she does a judo move and stand over him and lets him know that's enough. He is a dear loving boy, and getting bigger every day, or longer.

And I have decided, after much upset and a cost-benefit calculation, not to go to Sacred Space, the big interreligious pagan conference that is less than 15 miles from me this time. ( more behind cut )

The Wounded Name fic

sanguinity

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 12:00 pm

candyheartsex has revealed, and I have received a delightful gift!

In Which Laurent Rises to the Occasion
The Wounded Name -- D. K. Broster
Laurent/Aymar, Amyar/Avoye
Canon divergence, Pre-Poly

Aymar despairs of clearing his name and leaves France, leaving only a letter behind.

Laurent is so delightfully himself, burning with passion for all the things! For Aymar! To clear Aymar's name! To tenderly care for him! And also to straighten out this mess where Aymar is determined to throw himself on his sword for Avoye's sake, without first consulting with Avoye about whether she even wants that! (If there is one thing that Laurent has learned from his association with Aymar, it is the frustration of having a lover throw himself on his sword for you without asking first! NOT THAT THIS FLEETINGLY CRITICAL THOUGHT MEANS HE LOVES AYMAR ANY THE LESS!!!!!!!)

I have strong suspicions as to who wrote the story (*casts a meaningfgul glance in

luzula's direction*), especially given the central theme that maybe you should ask your girlfriend what she wants before making a grand life-altering gesture in her name. (A genre of story that

luzula excels at!) But I shall refrain from offering official thanks until after reveals. (But please know I enjoyed it very much!)

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twistedchick

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 02:45 pm

A little sarcasm and a lot of truth, connecting one thing and another of everything around us right now politically -- and the end of it is FOTUS' ego.

Culinary

oursin

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 07:37 pm

This week's bread: a v nice loaf of Dove's Farm Seedhouse Flour.

Saturday breakfast rolls: the ones loosely based on James Beard's mother's raisin bread, Marriage's Light Spelt flour.

Today's lunch: tempeh marinated in oil, tamari, maple syrup, pomegranate vinegar with some crushed garlic and ginger paste for a couple of hours (?overnight might have been better?), stirfried with chillies, mangetout peas and choi sum, and the marinade added at the end, served with sticky rice with limeleaves.

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Designed for one another - A Frankenstein Fanvideo

littlecatk

vidding

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 08:21 pm

archive.org/details/frankenstein-designed-for-one-another

Title: Designed for one another

Vidder: littlecatk

Fandom: Frankenstein (Universal Monster verse: Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein meets the Wolfman (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944)

Music: Bride by The Mountain Goats

Summary: The Frankensteins: fathers, sons, daughters, mothers and brides

Warnings: Physical triggers (quick cuts/flashing lights), suicide, death including death of a child

On my dreamwidth acount here / on AO3 here / on tumblr version without subtitles here / version with subtitles here

This is the first vid in 3 years I finished.

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greghousesgf

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 11:00 am

I have to be honest here. The main reason I wanted to go to the deYoung so much yesterday was because I love art and I wanted to cheer myself up for reasons other than hurting my shoulder in that accident. Valentine's day gets on my nerves because I've had no boyfriend for DECADES. I pretend not to let it bother me but it stinks. I want anybody reading this to know I don't hate men. I like men. I have lots of men friends. Also, I'm a feminist but I'm not whatever the female equivalent of an incel is. I do NOT think men owe me sex. NOBODY OWES ANYBODY SEX. That being said, men are not sexually or romantically attracted to me at all. There are two reasons for this and I can't change either one of them:

1. I look really bad. It is not all in my head. People who don't even know me say horrible things to me. If you look at my old passport I have a really sour expression because the photographer said something very insulting to me right before he took the picture. Also, I've seen people who look even worse than I do who are absolutely convinced they're gorgeous and I can tell you right now gaslighting yourself like that doesn't fool anyone but yourself. It just makes you seem like an egotistical idiot.
2. I'm nuts. Not in a dangerous way, I'm just on the stupid fucking autism spectrum, I wouldn't hurt anybody but I can't hold down any sort of a job and men are not attracted to women who are crazier than they are (unless they look like a model or something, and even then they often don't stick around for very long)

Current Music: Yutaka

three things make a post

princessofgeeks

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 12:43 pm

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turps

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 06:23 pm

I was shocked to hear about the passing of

spikedluv obituary is here and you can also see comments on her last post on her journal.

It feels like she's always been around, and I'll miss her comments and constant support. I'll also miss her daily posts, both fannish and real life, which especially included her happiness as she wrote Jessica Fletcher into multiple other shows.

My love goes out into the universe for Spikedluv's family and friends. And thank you to those who started passing the word.

Be a Goldfish WEEK 7 (take 2!)

marcicat

Sunday, February 15th, 2026 12:08 pm

Be a Goldfish WEEK 7 (take 2!): Valentine's, Galentine's, & Palentine's

A rec List for MDZS / The Untamed, because wangxian invented love. The fandom truly has a wealth of amazing fics to choose from; these are a few of my favorites that I've read multiple times. <3

( love wins )

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