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Summer of Horror and other fun things

Jul. 20th, 2025 10:13 pm
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[personal profile] summerofhorrorexchange revealed today! I got an astonishing 15K(!!!) Biggles fic (!!!) which I won't be able to properly start reading until tomorrow, but I cannot WAIT, it looks amazing and I'm dying to read it!

Obligatory reminder that I have a fic in the exchange as well. Deeply mysterious, hid my tracks amazingly as usual. And there is a lovely selection of other horror fic as well!

Earlier today, before all of that, I posted yet another Murderbot TV-verse fic, System // Handshake (2500 wds, gen, post-canon). Summary is spoilery for the finale; it's loosely springboarded off another fic I'd read earlier.

There's also this seriously adorable short interview with the whole Murderbot cast (link goes to Tumblr) in which they talk about playing the Bitter/Sweet game from the show on the set. HOW ARE THEY SO CUTE, I DIEEEEEE

And, longer and more serious, but I really enjoyed watching this David Dastmalchian interview; he talks about the show, as well as some of his other projects (Dune; comic book writing) and is so adorably excited about the show and invested in it.

Music Monday

Jul. 21st, 2025 02:02 pm
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🎵 Nothing More, “IF IT DOESN’T HURT

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Pear, Boss 2

Jul. 20th, 2025 10:16 pm
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You look at the odd collection of taco and honey-related artifacts you’ve excavated out of the soil and wonder what Professor Fuzang will make of it. You decide to start by bringing him the coins you gathered along the way, though, and save the best for last.

When you enter the Pear Wiggler, you find it surprisingly muddy. Before you can figure out what’s going on, though, the Manager sets upon you. “There you are! All those hotpot fumes made the golems start tracking mud everywhere, so corporate hired an octopus, but this octopus is completely useless! Go teach it, or at least distract it, or we’ll never make it through dinner!”

Something crashes. The Manager swears and rushes off.

You step a bit further in, and see the giant octopus from earlier perched atop the pear juice fountain. It, too, has a giant pear on its head. Professor Fuzang is looking at it with some concern.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. You plonk your coins in front of him. “Professor,” you plead, “in lieu of payment for the coins, would you please help distract the octopus?”

“Oh, of course,” he replies, “and please, just call me Fuzang.”

He stretches out and takes to the air, performing a brilliant dragon dance in the mist of hotpot fumes, completely bewitching the octopus for the moment. You sigh with relief and get started planning other distractions. Maybe you could also teach the octopus something?


Pear Boss 2 progress tracker

Pear Collection | Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)

Boss 2 Rules )

Assets.

Jul. 21st, 2025 04:11 am
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[I]t’s been a genuinely wild experience watching an industry that spent the last two decades canonizing technical prowess and venerating innovation and chasing semimythical “10x engineers” turning itself around in bare months to declare “we’re fully committing ourselves to using opaque machines that generate statistically plausible outputs.” Funny story but it turns out our people aren’t our most valuable asset at all! Haha, we were all so wrong about that for the last twenty or thirty years or whatever. They’re like third or fifth or something. Our most valuable asset is now the bill we pay every month for this third-party ML SAAS service and our previous most valuable assets can get right with that or get lost. We Are Now An Averaged-Outputs First Company. Remember to repeat ‘do not hallucinate’ a few times every morning while you beg your computer to act right.

mhoye on ch-ch-ch-changes.

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I promised myself I wouldn't make any more websites. I always make the structure too elaborate! They're so time-consuming!

And yet they're also so much fun.

Welcome to Kira's Tokyo, my brand new Death Note website! Mainly consisting of my rambling about Light Yagami, because, wow, I have a lot to say about Light Yagami.

As with my websites for Final Fantasy VIII and Silent Hill 2, much of the text originally comes from my posts on this blog, so parts of the site will probably sound familiar if you've read my previous Death Note rambling! I hope it's fun to see my thoughts presented in this new format, though.
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Thank you very much again to the pinch hitters that have helped out so far. We have eight returning pinch hits, for which we will be delaying the collection opening by another week to give time for them to be filled. These pinch hits are due on July 26th at 11:59 PM EDT or ASAP. To claim a pinch hit, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and the PH number you would like to claim (comments on this post are screened).

PH 5 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest )



PH 8 - Persona 5 )



PH 9 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher )



PH 10 - Beyond Skyline (2017), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), Tintin (Comics) )



PH 14 - Doctor Who (1963) )



PH 21 - Noctilucent: Before Dawn (Video Game), Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game), 너의 스탯이 보여! | Show Me Your Stats! (Webcomic) )

PH 24 - NoPixel (Web Series), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga) )




PH 27 - Naruto (Anime & Manga), 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Teen Wolf (TV), Merlin (TV) - Claimed

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Event: MDZS To Tell You the Truth, an exchange for secrets, lies, and reveals
Event link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/mdzs_ttytt/profile
Pinch hit link: https://mdzsxchange.dreamwidth.org/2312.html
Due date: Urgent! June 26 @ 23:59 UTC

PDPH 3 - The Untamed (TV), Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, (or any adaptation); Song Lan/Xue Yang

Fic minimum is 1k. Full details and claiming instructions at the linked post.

New Community for Fan Writers!

Jul. 20th, 2025 09:33 am
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[community profile] fan_writers comm - for meta about writing



Come on over to [community profile] fan_writers geek out about writing! Some posts shared in the comm:
- "Where I Need to Be": A discussion on your preferred writing environment.
- "Links to Writing Meta": Writing meta from AO3 and Dreamwidth.

Sunday @ 10:11 am

Jul. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
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Two grey heron-type birds on a balcony railing. A sandy cove with palm trees and hut bungalows can be seen in the background.

These things make, no joke, the worst noise hey.

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Small triumph

Jul. 19th, 2025 05:32 pm
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I bought my first Rainbow High doll the other day (big mistake, this is a gateway drug) and I didn't like her skirt (it matches her legs skin colour) so I bought an outfit pack to give her a new bottom but now I have a whole second outfit and shoes? So I thought 'there's a CHANCE there might be one at the thrift store' because sometimes there is! Very rarely though, as these are pricey motherfuckers.

But there was one! In a slip! So she had no new clothes that were going to give me problems!

I took photos of fun sculptures too, for a later post.

The two dolls I own now are Zooey Electric (bought new) and Ruby Anderson (needs a bit of tidying and brushing, but a perfect find).

In my heart I want Victoria Whitman but I'm being good and not buying her at the prices she is now.

Strawberry, Board 2

Jul. 19th, 2025 01:58 pm
[personal profile] battleshipmod posting in [community profile] battleshipex
The lunch rush finally ebbs and you sit down at a table, exhausted and hungry. A golem brings you a raw salad garnished with cold fries. "I could have made something better with all those vegetables," you mutter. If you're going to be stuck in a cooking game, the least it could do is let you cook.

"You could," a melodious voice agrees. You look up to see a spark-sprite hovering next to you. "True culinary delight comes from creativity, and only sentient beings can be creative. The golems, poor things, have dirt for brains. They can chop vegetables and not much else."

That seems a little insensitive, and you wince, but a passing golem doesn't look bothered at all. It takes your empty bowl and gives you a glass of water, which you gratefully chug. Being a bard is thirsty work.

"But as the golems could not be creative," the sprite continues, "they could not provide entertainment. For that, only you and your fellows would do. And you did it so well!" he adds warmly. Literally warmly — a few sparks fall from his wings for emphasis. "Word spread and I had to come hear you for myself. I was not disappointed, I must say! And as I am a professor of the arcane and mundane arts, I know whereof I speak."

"Thanks," you say, feeling a little better. It's nice to have your art appreciated, even if the professor thinks it's mundane. You made some good tips, too. If only that game currency meant anything in the real world. But who knows when you'll see the real world again...

Your melancholy musings are interrupted by the sprite producing a peculiar mechanical device that's nearly as big as he is. Magical or electrical energy crackles along its wires and prongs. It reminds you of the goblin devices that sent you into the game in the first place. "Hey," you say, sitting up. "Do you know —"

"That the golems are drenched in ancient magic?" the sprite exclaims. "I do! Tell me, do you know anything about the soil they're made of?"

You neither know nor care. You just want to go home. "Uh, not really. Professor —“

“Then further research is needed!" He puts the device away (how? where?) and gestures to you. "Come! You're no longer needed for the lunch rush, so I need you to dig around in the ground the golems came from and see if you find any ancient items of interest. If you can further my research, I shall be most grateful."

You don't want to dig more, but you like the idea of the professor owing you a favor. Maybe then he can help you get home.

There's just one problem: when you go outside, it's foggy and you can't see very well. You cough, waving your hands around to clear the air. It smells like vegetables and dragon spit.

"Sorry!" Stray calls, sticking their head out the back door. "The dragons got a little enthusiastic making steam to sanitize the dishes. Oh, hello, Zzt. Did you enjoy the salad?"

"Terrible," he says briskly. "But the fine entertainment was worth it. Why didn't you tell me your vegetable patch was full of magical residue?"

Stray huffs. "Why should I tell you anything when you're so rude?" They go back into the cafe, slamming the door.

Professor Zzt shrugs and turns back to you. "Nothing to be gotten from them. But I'm sure you'll turn up everything I need."

A new tracking board appears. It seems you have no choice but to accept this quest.


Strawberry Board 2 Grid and List of Goals

Strawberry Collection | Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)

Board 2 Rules )

Saturday @ 8:22 pm

Jul. 19th, 2025 08:22 pm
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
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TIL Beavis and Butt-Head is still running? Legit wut???

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Fandoms: Stargate: SG-1, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Characters/Pairings: Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Sam Carter, Daniel Jackson, Sarah Connor, Cameron, John Connor
Rating: Gen
Length: 1886
Creator Links: cofax on AO3
Themes: Working together, Action/adventure, Crossover, Time travel, Teams, Robots and Androids

Summary: SG-1 meets a very intense woman with two heavily-armed teenagers in a warehouse in Modesto.

Reccer's Notes: A short fic about Sarah Connor's team helping Jack's team while on a mission in the past, dealing with a Terminator. Gripping action - and an intriguing and worrying AU in terms of the future of this crossover Earth. As Jack says: "That's just ... great." (Need to log in to AO3 to read it)

Fanwork Links: Temporary Alliances

Grape, Board 2

Jul. 19th, 2025 02:45 am
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A dark and foggy mist has descended over the vegetable garden. It does smell good, you have to admit, as you blindly grope around in search of your teammates. Instead your hands connect with grapes that squash in your fingers. They smell delicious – and taste even better.

“Hurry up!” a voice calls – the manager, you think. “It’ll be dinner rush soon enough. That dragon-fueled hot pot is not going to fill itself.”

Is that where the mist is coming from?

You’re trying to squint through the fog when the manager comes up to you. Her hands are now carrying large bushels of grapes.

“There’s someone I want you to meet,” the manager says. “A visiting archeologist, very important. The professor. Over there.”

She nods her head in the direction of a man kneeling down in the dirt. If it weren’t for his size and relative lack of dirt, you’d have mistaken him for another of the golems. You go over to him.

“Hello, professor,” you say, and he stands back up, taking you in behind those thick glasses and bushy beard. You like him immediately.

“This is an extremely interesting place,” he says as he squats back down and pokes at the dirt. You follow him, curious, but also afraid of more golems popping up. They’re sweet and friendly, sure, but they also came out of the dirt with no warning and you do not want to be on the receiving end of that. “You know, I think it’s just the place I’ve been looking for. It’s been written about, spoken about, and perhaps I’m the lucky one to find it.”

The professor’s eyes glimmer as he speaks and you can’t help but feel his own excitement filling you.

“Like what?” you say.

“Oh, strange things, interesting things. Artifacts, magical dirt…” He smiles, it lights up his whole face. “You should keep digging and see what you can find.”


Grape Board 2 Grid and List of Goals

Grape Collection | Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)

Board 2 Rules )

Saturday @ 2:16 pm

Jul. 19th, 2025 02:16 pm
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Magic cards on a table.

Today’s schedule: massage, cocktails, pool, and FFXIV M:tG.

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