22degreehalo: (PWAA holy)
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu
Rating: Explicit
Length: 18,992
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] benwisehart
Theme: Amnesty, Book Fandoms, Domestic, Established Relationship, Humor, Trauma & Recovery

Summary: The System gives Shen Qingqiu the ability to exchange B-Points for items, and what better way to earn points than by raising the satisfaction level of Zhongdian's favourite protagonist?

OR: The one where Shen Qingqiu starts seducing the fuck out of Binghe in order to enable his caffeine addiction.

Reccer's Notes: This one seems like it'd be just a fun kinky romp (which it also is!), but it's also very thoughtful about why Shen Qingqiu was reluctant to indulge in some of these things to begin with. Sometimes it's just his self-conscious personality, and sometimes it's because he was too quick to judge, but he's also his own person with his own preferences and traumas and those deserve to be respected, too! Really, the ultimate benefit out of this whole sequence of events might just have been allowing these two a sliver of genuine open communication, even if that's sometimes a hard-won lesson.

Fanwork Links: The Scum Villain's Sex and Pleasure Catalogue
full_metal_ox: A gold Chinese Metal Ox zodiac charm. (Default)
Fandom: Lord of the Rings; How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Sauron, the Mouth of Sauron, Pippin, Sam Gamgee, the Hobbit community
Rating: General Audiences
Length: (Fic) 957 words; (Comic) 30 panels
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply
Creator Tags:

Erisif | Valarhalla: #i could have done something useful today #instead i wrote this #i hate myself
english-history-trip: #lotr #nonsense #well that was my day how was yours #why is sauron in a cave and then a tower #go to hell that's why #why is frodo bartholomew cubbins instead of a who #the answer won't surprise you

Creator Links:
(Fic):
Elisif: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] Elisif; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] valarhalla
(Fancomic): english-history-trip: (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] english-history-trip

Theme: Amnesty, Crack, Crossovers/Fusions, Just Plain Fun, Non-Fic Recs: Fanart, Non-Fic Recs: Fancomic, Poetry, Tumblore

Summary: Every being in Eä liked peacetime a lot…
But Sauron, who was also in Eä, did NOT.


Reccer's Notes: Elisif’s retelling of The War of the Ring in Seussian rhyming verse, firmly informed by The Lore, maps the Shire onto Whoville without introducing an anachronistic Christmas (that’s for Narnia.)

And then, in proper cumulative Tumbloric fashion, english-history-trip proceeds to remix Seussian illustrations to match. (Spoiler: Sauron does not experience redemptive cardiac enlargement; another character gets to preside over the grand climactic celebration.)

Fanwork Links:

Fic: AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26135110
Tumblr: https://valarhalla.tumblr.com/post/190955320437/every-being-in-eä-liked-peacetime-a-lot-but

Fancomic: https://english-history-trip.tumblr.com/post/636994579930939392/english-history-trip-english-history-trip-part
wrennette: yellow and brown wren birds on a bright coral field (Default)
just dropping some links in here to things i've either read recently and might want to find again, or have been meaning to read and not gotten to yet, so i can close a couple tabs.
  • The hardest working font in Manhattan: https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
  • anarchism starts in the now: hope for a better future: https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/anarchism-in-the-now/
  • Notes on Living a Translated Life: https://hyperallergic.com/notes-on-living-a-translated-life/
  • The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.: https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but
  • A Collective Bargain: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/
  • The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/endless-appetite-fanfiction
  • Open access collections on JSTOR: Advancing scholarship and visual literacy in 2025: https://about.jstor.org/blog/open-access-collections-on-jstor-advancing-scholarship-and-visual-literacy-in-2025/
  • Plague Poems: https://jayhulme.com/blog/plague-poems
  • The Trans & Autistic Guide to Cruising: https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/the-trans-and-autistic-guide-to-cruising
  • New archaeology at abandoned Oregon town reveals hidden lives of Black logging families: https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/17/maxville-archaeology-oregon-black-history/
  • 40 ACRES AND A LIE: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/40-acres-and-a-lie/
  • The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined: https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/
  • How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/artificial-intelligence/turn-off-ai-tools-gemini-apple-intelligence-copilot-and-more-a1156421356/
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runpunkrun: combat boot, pizza, camo pants = punk  (punk rock girl)

Hey all, it's December and that means it's time to share your suggestions for next year's themes!

You can comment on this post with up to 10 suggestions. Comments will be screened, but I'll unscreen mine so you can get a feel for how it goes.

Suggested themes should be new to the comm and broad enough to sustain a month of recommendations, and I'm going to be more particular than I have in the past, as I'd like to focus on general themes that make it easier for everyone to participate. To give you an idea of what this means, I'm aiming for themes that have at least 5,000 completed works on AO3. I've also preloaded the list with some common genres that, surprisingly enough, we haven't done yet, like fantasy.

I'll drop by your comments and let you know which of your suggestions meet these guidelines. As part of this process I may offer slight alterations or rework themes to make them more inclusive.

If you can, check out our spreadsheet of past themes before commenting to make sure your suggestions aren't already on there.

If you need some inspiration:

I'll add the suggestions to this post once they've been confirmed, but I still, somehow, don't have all the past themes memorized, so if I make a mistake or if I accept a suggestion that is hurtful or badly worded, let me know.

Theme suggestions will be voted on later this month and the most popular will advance to the monthly theme polls in 2026.

Confirmed Theme Suggestions )

If you have any questions or need help, come find me!

full_metal_ox: A gold Chinese Metal Ox zodiac charm. (Default)
Fandom: Chen Qing Ling;
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; the Cloud Recesses bunnies
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2:26
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, anvilicious rabbit symbolism, canon-typical blood, canon-typical phallic sword symbolism, corporal punishment, fluff (figurative and literal), innuendo, societal homophobia (in-story and real-world), sparring with subtext, Xiao Zhan’s A+ rabbit handling, (not you, Wang Yibo, you’re fine.)
Creator Tags: vid, Bunnies, Pining, i'm sorry lan wangji, no really a lot of pining
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] soupytwist, (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] soupytwist, (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] soupytwist (locked); (YouTube) [youtube.com profile] twistedsoup

Theme: Amnesty, Angst With A Happy Ending, Animals, Humor, Non-Fic Recs: Fanvid, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Pining

Summary: If you look inside the heart of the mighty Hanguang-jun, you might find... bunnies.

Author’s Notes:Continue. )

Reccer's Notes: A rec in celebration of the 4 December 2025 Full Supermoon. Stephin Merritt’s wryly anguished anthem of gay pining gains not only an unironic tenderness but the hope of a happy resolution when juxtaposed with CQL’s literal rabbits (and their pervasive symbolism as tokens, symbols, and allegory of Wangxian’s relationship, as well as allusions to a Rabbit God who’d bless a gay union.)

Nor does soupytwist’s pitch-perfect syncing of visuals to lyrics hurt one bit.

Fanwork Links:
AO3 (locked): [FANVID] Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits; Part 2 of Gusu Love Songs.
Vimeo: Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
YouTube:Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
petra: CGI Obi-Wan Kenobi with his face smudged with dirt, wearing beige, visible from the chest up. A Clone Trooper is visible over one shoulder. (Obi-Wan - Clones ftw)
I don't actually ship Rex/Echo, but that doesn't stop me from wanting a Lord King Bad Vid to For Good for the very simple reason that Rex is going to be with Echo like a handprint on his heart.

I feel like this needs a good bunch of Bad Batch, which I have not seen, in much the same way that I have only seen Wicked on stage once, and haven't seen the movies.

I also can't listen to the song without tearing up because I've sung it at too many funerals.

Clearly I am highly qualified to care about this vid. I must've gotten someone else's inspiration particle.
petra: CGI Obi-Wan Kenobi with his face smudged with dirt, wearing beige, visible from the chest up. A Clone Trooper is visible over one shoulder. (Obi-Wan - Clones ftw)
Back in the day, the 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army made the rounds of the internet.

The one that stuck with me hardest:

87. If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it.

This came to mind because I thought of a great tag that will baffle the good wranglers at the AO3, but which I will apply to the story forthwith, despite its having made me giggle for longer than 15 seconds.

Then I started wondering.

These are the fanworks on AO3 tagged with Skippy's List. Happily, various people have written Clone Wars versions so I don't have to.
petra: Dick Grayson and Tim Drake doing one-handed handstands on a moving train. You can't see it in this image but they're also blindfolded. (Dick and Tim - Blindfolded Trainsurfing)
I do not keep up with DC Comics canon anymore. I haven't for a long-ass time. But people on my Tumblr dash do, and they share just enough to confuse me.

I remember when Bruce Wayne adopted Tim Drake because I immediately wrote a story about it in which a) they have sex and b) they have issues. I mean -- so many issues.

The punchline of that story has always been, for me, that Bruce has no goddamn business adopting the 16-year-old son of people he knew.

20 and a bit years on, Tim is 16 again despite the theoretical passage of time in comics, various other characters aging, and assorted other nonsense, and DC Editorial has him Cut for spoilers )

There was also a page that went by on my Tumblr dash recently that drew Tim with Shoulders and Muscles, from who knows when, which was also #notmytimdrake, but in a way that made my brain convinced that Bernard was cheating on Tim with Kon.
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runpunkrun: combat boot, pizza, camo pants = punk  (punk rock girl)
Fandom: Stranger Things
Pairings/Characters: Steve Harrington & Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Rating: Explicit
Length: 11,087 words
Creator Link: [archiveofourown.org profile] thefourthvine
Theme: Amnesty, Just Plain Fun, Platonic Life Partners, Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies AUs, Canon LGBTQ Characters, First Time

Summary: As soon as Eddie gets to the counter, Steve turns to him and says, "Back me up here. Kissing is no big deal, right?"

Steve Harrington is talking about kissing. Eddie's brain shorts out. "Uh," he says.

Reccer's Notes: Steve accompanies Robin to a gay bar where he discovers his skills with the ladies are transferable to guys. Robin and Eddie both have a crisis over it, though for different reasons. Very fun and very hot, with Steve at his himbo best.

Fanwork Link: We Better Make a Start
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
This Tumblr post has Salman Rushdie's account of meeting Umberto Eco and Mario Vargas Llosa after each of them had trashed the other two in the press, and discovering that they got along extremely well in person.

OT3!

Having read none of them save a little Vargas Llosa en español, I can't begin to write it, but I can Want it.

*puts it in the Maybe Someday Yuletide tag*
annathecrow: screenshot from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. A detail of the racing pod engines. (Default)

Hi!

This is a free-for-all chat corner. Anything SW-related is fair game.

Have fun!

EDIT: Surprise! Your inattentive ass of a mod has finally noticed a Dreamwidth bug/feature is eating her posts! *facepalm* As it turns out, if you try to make a post that has the same title and content as a previous one, DW thinks it's the same post, and will just... not create a new post when you click "publish".

Anti-spam feature, maybe?

Anyway, sorry about that! Feel free to laugh on my account.

runpunkrun: combat boot, pizza, camo pants = punk  (punk rock girl)
Photograph of the aurora borealis taken in Norway, text: Amnesty, at Fancake. The northern lights are a bright green scribble that stretches over the horizon, along a snowy mountain ridge, and up into the starry night sky.
As always, our theme for December is amnesty. This month you can post recs for any past round—from any year—as long as the work hasn't already been recommended for that theme. Refresh your memory with a spreadsheet of previous rounds or search the comm for past recs.

Be sure to tag your recs with theme: amnesty in addition to the relevant theme(s).

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

Rules! )

Posting Template! )

Promote this round! )

fignewton: (sam janet fanfic)
Many thanks to [personal profile] cassiope25, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] mific, and [personal profile] sgatazmy for all their November recs! We had 11 recs this past month.

Our December reccers are:

[personal profile] cassiope25: Rodney McKay
[personal profile] goddess47: Jack O'Neill
[personal profile] mific: John/Rodney

Reccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.

If you wanted to volunteer for this month to finish out the calendar year (!) and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.
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mific: (DS blue)
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser, Ray Vecchio, Diefenbaker, Harding Welsh
Rating: Teen
Length: 4590
Content Notes: The author chose not to warn. AU from the end of Victoria's Secret as Fraser wasn't shot and he left with Victoria on the train.
If you'd much rather know about major AO3 warnings and be spoiled for the reveal at the end, click the arrow at left. SPOILERSRay doesn't realise until near the fic's end that it's Fraser's ghost meeting with him, as Victoria killed him then ran for the US border. But with Fraser's and Welsh's help, they catch her.
Creator Links: MSSalieri on AO3, Salieri's old website
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Friendship, Cops and Crime, AU: Fork in the road

Summary: He’s in a booth around the corner, hands folded on the Formica table. It’s his jacket, the one he had on when he jumped onto the train, so Ray believes it’s him. But it’s not the guy Ray knew. His hair hangs to his collar. His eyes are dark with exhaustion, his face gaunt. He’s been gone nineteen months. It might as well be nineteen years.

Dief’s whine is thin, a little panicky. He’s shivering against Ray’s knee.

“Hello, Ray,” Fraser says.

Reccer's Notes: This is a tough story, but I keep going back to it from time to time because it's just so good. Set more than a year after Ray Vecchio stumbled and missed the shot so that Fraser left with Victoria on the train, Ray meets up once more with a very changed Fraser in a motel at the ass end of Canada, in a blizzard. It's sad, spooky, and wonderfully written. Powerful and haunting, and very much worth a read.

Fanwork Links: Dysmas on AO3, Dysmas on Wayback

mific: John sheppard head and shoulders against gold orange sunset (Sheppard orange)
Shows: SGA
Rec Category: Apocafic
Characters: John Sheppard/Nancy Sheppard, Sam Carter
Categories: F/M
Words: 3254
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: [personal profile] busaikko
Author's Website: busaikko on AO3
Link: Happy Little Delusions on AO3, or backup on Wayback in case AO3's playing up.
Why This Must Be Read: This is set in Vegas'verse and it goes AU near the end of the episode, as in this fic John doesn't manage to get the Wraith killed in time and its signal gets through. So the Wraith fleet is coming for Earth and John's recovering after almost dying, at Nancy's, as she's still his listed next of kin. Beautifully written and with great characterisation for Nancy and John, this is kind of bleak, yes, as the apocalypse looms, but at the end there's some hope, and some redemption.

snippet of the fic under here )

sgatazmy: John reading a book. Smiling. Hand drawn. (book)

Show: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Categories: gen
Warnings: None
Word Count: 6,727
Author on DW: [personal profile] sholio
Author's Website: sholiofic.com

Link: Between the Lines on AO3

Author's Summary: Sometimes you'd never dream of being friends with someone, especially the most annoying person in Antarctica, until you get stuck with them in another galaxy.

Why This Must Be Read: I love this story so much. Sholio hits it out of the park with this story where Sheppard considers his first impression of McKay then follows them through canon and the amazing friendship they are building together. It's sweet and fun. I've probably read it several times because of the humor mixed with just the perfect view of them. Sholio really understands John and Rodney and gets their witty banter down perfectly. I can't recommend it enough.

And! There's a wonderful podfic by Rheanna for it as well which I've listened to at least twice. One of my favorites.

Snippet of Fic )
sgatazmy: John reading a book. Smiling. Hand drawn. (book)
Show: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Categories: gen
Warnings: None
Word Count: 6,516
Author on LJ: Kodiak Bear Country No DW
Author's Website: Not on AO3, so fanfiction.net link
Link: Nobody Said It Was Easy (ffn). or on LJ

Author's Summary: Sheppard and McKay are trapped in a cave Sheppard reflects on how he got to where he is on his birthday.

Why This Must Be Read: Kodiak Bear Country is one of my favorite authors and she always right a spot on John Sheppard. In this story, she has John reflecting on his past and his choices as he and Rodney wait for rescue. It's his 40th birthday. It's written before we learned about John's dad and other stuff in canon, but it's not far off from what canon decided. I love this John so worried about Rodney while thinking about what brought him to this point. It's sweet, reflective, and a quick read.

Unfortunately, Kodiak Bear Country has all her stuff on LJ and fanfiction.net and not on AO3, but I still think it's really worth the read anyway.



Snippet of Fic )
full_metal_ox: A gold Chinese Metal Ox zodiac charm. (Default)
Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen, background M/M (Everything implied no specifics); Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao & Nie Mingjue; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Xingchen, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen, A-Qing, Original Character
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 6,330
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, OC POV, Outsider POV, Neurodivergent Character POV, disability as a communication obstacle, heavy verse-specific content
Creator Tags: Communication is hard when you're dead, We ain't afraid of no ghosts, We've been dead for years, Bad jokes because writer is in a mood, NaNoWriMo Breaktime, ghost hunt - Freeform, mystery haunting, Undead Investigation Team

Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] JustAWanderingBabbit; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] justawanderingbabbit

Theme: Mystery & Suspense, Casefic, Just Plain Fun, Outsider POV, Post-Canon

Summary: The Vermillion Peony Tree has stood for two hundred years... It might stand for two hundred more.... Given no one's stupid enough to annoy its guardian.

In which a possibly familiar Original Character meets a group of very familiar Night Hunters, attempting to clear a haunting from an inn built maybe a bit too close to the Burial Mounds.

(Part of the Mending the Pieces Universe.)


Author’s Notes:

* Not every monster or ghost you go after is a real monster. Sometimes the ones you have to worry about are the living people.
* Which, of course, was the message of the early Scooby Doo Adventures. Wish they hadn't lost that later on.


Reccer's Notes: A post-canon Halloween Scooby-Doo homage in which sapient fierce corpses Nie Mingjue and Song Zichen and demi-undead Meng Yao, incognito and under aliases, have become a wandering occult investigation trio. (Or, to the inn stableboy who can see ghosts Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing, a quintet.)

(JustAWanderingBabbit is the sort of author who maintains a repertory company of sorts; POV character Ah Bai is an OC who recurs in several of her MDZS works.)

Fanwork Links: House on Haunted Hill (AO3-locked).
goddess47: Emu! (Default)
Show: SG-1, Teen Wolf, The Sentinel

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: Clone Jack O'Neill/Stiles Stilinski
Categories: slash, crossover,
Warnings: canon-typical violence
Word Count: 90,824
Author on LJ: [profile] elumish No DW account found.
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: new destructions in the sky

And a set of stories in the same universe: the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky worth checking out.


Author's Summary:

Go to the Sentinel/Guide conference, Lydia said. It’ll be useful, Lydia said. You might even find your Sentinel, Lydia said, because of course in the ridiculous town of Beacon Hills that’s full of supernatural creatures there is precisely one Sentinel of the right age and Parrish is already her Guide.


Why This Must Be Read:

This really is for the Teen Wolf fans who also adore Stargate SG-1. This is a Stiles-centric fic from start to end but Stiles is a Guide who ends up with Clone Jack O'Neill as his Sentinel. It's a Stiles who doesn't want to be a Guide. And Clone Jack still remembers being bonded to Daniel. That's as messy as it sounds.

Add in rogue NID agents kidnapping Guides, a confused Sheriff who is not happy with the apparent age of his son's Sentinel, werewolves, NDAs up the wazoo, and a frustrated Blair who is challenged every step of the way by Stiles who asks 'why' about everything and you have a fascinating fic that brings some of our favorite people into one place.



snippet of fic )

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