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Snowflake Challenge #2

Jan. 4th, 2026 08:35 pm
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Snowflake challenge #2: Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

The theme of this post is Gallaghers Being Cute With Animals. It's Mucca's fault, she enabled me.

Noel professes very much NOT to be an animal person, but look at him.

This is Boots, whom Noel wanted to name Mr. Whiskers. Not that he cares! Definitely not.

Meanwhile, Liam is an animal person all day long. He currently has cats Sid and Nancy and a dog named Buttons, who he adopted from a rescue in Thailand. He submitted an application through the regular channels, and the people there were half-convinced it was a hoax. The whole story is very cute.


Liam asleep with Buttons.


Liam awake with Buttons.

When he adopted Sid from a shelter in 2018, that was pretty cute, too. Liam Gallagher: can't resist rubbing his face all over a kitten, any more than the rest of us can.


In conclusion, a recent tweet:

Music Monday

Jan. 5th, 2026 03:09 pm
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This is about Marcus.

Spoilers obvs )
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New B5 fic, this one's just pure self-indulgence.

A Map on the Skin (Londo/G'Kar, 1700 wds, scars)

I have been thinking about how to handle posting material from the script books. There are 14 of them and scripts for all the episodes, plus alternate versions of some, so it's like. A lot. I figured I'd do a poll about what you want to see most. (Poll is under the cut for mild spoilers.)

Poll about what you'd like to see from the books )

assorted fandom, mostly happy

Jan. 4th, 2026 04:22 pm
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* I'm really delighted that there were fantastic Yuletide fics about Stebbins from The Long Walk for both the novel AND the show. I love Garraty and McVries, obviously, but Stebbins always intrigued me in the novel, and I think he might actually be my favorite from a fanworks perspective? I don't know why it's never occurred to me before to look for fic about him.

* [community profile] threesentenceficathon prompts open Jan 17. I am so excited. I've started each of the past two years with tiny fics, and I'm ready for a third year.

* I wrote 200 more words yesterday on some self-indulgent Gallaghercest. When things suck, the OTP is here for me.

* from [staff profile] denise: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. đź§µ On her ffa thread, she added: Please spread this far and wide so as many people see it as possible, because I really don't see English-language LJ continuing in its present form for much longer, and I know some people may still have things they care about there. It doesn't matter how you get it backed up, but it's absolutely crunch time for getting it backed up.
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Fandom: Batman
Pairings/Characters: Kyle Rayner/Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Everyone
Rating: Teen
Length: 90k words
Creator Links: AddictedApple at AO3
Theme: crack treated seriously

Summary: Jason Todd discovers that he can travel through the multiverse (on top of his usual weirdness, ie, immortality) and chaos ensues.

Reccer's Notes: I recently fell hard into the Batman fanfic space, and this story bowled me right over. It takes Jason's canon resurrection (and the bizarre canon explanation for it), then posits a slow growth of powers from there -- from a recurring inability to stay dead, through the ability to skip universes, and beyond. All the canon reboots become a part of the story, and the pairing is a hilarious portrait of two guys being oblivious. Each chapter's notes contain extensive canon citations, which adds another level of awesomeness. Great fun and very affecting.

[Edited to add] Content note: The starting author notes include, "I will now put a blanket trigger warning for everything that happens in DC canon." That should be taken very seriously; the cited DC canon gets dark, and many abusive canon events are included in this story.

Fanwork Links: Journey to the Center of the Multiverse

The Show Must Go On.

Jan. 4th, 2026 04:06 pm
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I can't believe my fandom of the moment is The Goes Wrong Show. How on Earth do you write fanfiction for The Goes Wrong Show? It's a show that constantly employs visual comedy, a style of comedy famously unsuited to a non-visual medium, and the main characters are a troupe of actors who we only ever see actively putting on a play, meaning they're in-character most of the time and it's hard to discern the actors' voices.

There's something oddly endearing about how dedicated the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are, and how relentlessly they press on with the show as everything collapses around them. They always seem to believe that maybe the rest of the play will work out all right. Every line and every prop has been a disaster so far, but surely they can salvage this performance!

One thing I appreciate is that it's not just 'everyone fucks up and forgets their lines', as I originally thought it might be; the actors each have their own distinct set of traits and their own set of challenges. Dennis fucks up and forgets his lines, yes! Trevor, in the background as the stage manager, works very hard but also messes up constantly. But everyone else has different issues.

I'm going to try to pin those issues down, actually, as a characterisation exercise. Sandra plays up to the camera; Max plays up to the audience; Robert, convinced that he's God's gift to the theatre (he's my favourite), constantly feuds with the director and tries to bolster the importance of his roles; Jonathan is actually a solid actor but rarely makes it onto the stage on account of his inability to open doors. Vanessa and Chris would do fine in a less cursed theatre company but respond very badly to things going wrong; she panics and desperately follows the script even when it would be best to deviate, and he gets increasingly livid. Annie is surprisingly solid in this disaster of a theatre company - she's both able to act and able to think on her feet - but she can be a little overdedicated to the role, most notably in 'The Lodge', when she takes playing dead extremely seriously despite the fact that her character was not supposed to be killed.

I'm constantly impressed by these stupid disaster plays. The timing is absolutely extraordinary. I watched Peter Pan Goes Wrong on DVD last night, and I'm reeling from the fact that this show had an actual West End run, given that pretty much the entire set gets wrecked over the course of the play; did they have to destroy it every evening and rebuild it every day? Doing a play that goes wrong must be so much harder than doing a play that goes right!

I was hoping that writing this post might give me some inspiration, but, alas, I still have no idea how one would even start writing The Fic That Goes Wrong. I'm struggling to even think of a concept. They put on a play; it's going too smoothly; it starts to make the cast uncomfortable; they fuck it up on purpose and end up bowing triumphantly in front of the burning set while Chris screams in the background?

Whether I end up writing anything or not, though, I'm having a great time with this ridiculous show! Even if it's a great opportunity for my housemates to mock me, because I find Robert (as played by Henry Lewis) strangely attractive, and he keeps getting cast in such notably unsexy roles as Father Christmas, Adolf Hitler and the family dog.

A fun aspect of getting into The Goes Wrong Show: now, when I trip over or drop something or otherwise mess up, as I frequently do, I can think 'ah, just like my beloved disaster actors,' and somehow it makes everything less frustrating.

Fandomtrees due Jan 10

Jan. 4th, 2026 10:08 am
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Event: fandomtrees
Event link: [community profile] fandomtrees
Pinch hit link: Google Spreadsheet 
Due date: Jan 10

We have 18 trees with no gifts and we could use some help filling them. The minimum is only 100 words for fic or a simple sketch for art. Please see the community for rules and FAQs.
  1. mastershield's Tree: f:astro boy, f:balan wonderland, f:kingdom hearts
  2. aftonheir's Tree: f:five nights at freddys, f:kingdom hearts, f:portal
  3. edgeofmysoul's Tree: f:elden ring, f:game of thrones, f:soul calibur, f:super mario brothers, f:vermintide
  4. memobu's Tree: f:karaoke iko, f:mahotsukai no yskusoku, f:nu carnival, f:tiger and bunny
  5. plicate's Tree: f:head on, f:set it off, f:succession
  6. ladymonotone's Tree: f:jujutsu kaisen, f:love and deepspace, f:original fiction/artwork, f:predator badlands, f:redacted asmr/audio, f:transformers
  7. soricel's Tree: f:les miserables, f:little women, f:raven cycle
  8. badass_tiger's Tree: f:discworld, f:hades, f:original fiction/artwork
  9. kalloway's Tree: f:brave nine, f:crossovers, f:fire emblem, f:granblue fantasy, f:gundam, f:kingdom of heroes, f:super robot heroes
  10. fantasticwinter08's Tree: f:attack on titan, f:demon slayer, f:honkai star rail, f:zenless zone zero
  11. sandrine's Tree: f:another country, f:dare project, f:eye candy, f:hadestown, f:in the flesh, f:the accountant, f:the firm
  12. whoremoantreatments' Tree: f:advance wars, f:bleach, f:hypnosis mic, f:kuroko no basket, f:pokemon, f:tales of berseria, f:the world ends with you
  13. zukkaoru's Tree: f:avatar the last airbender, f:boku no hero academia, f:bungou stray dogs, f:jujutsu kaisen, f:link click
  14. Grayswandir's Tree: f:deer and the cauldron, f:duke of mount deer, f:lost tomb, f:movie/tv/game/vid recs, f:non-fandom icons, f:old miao myth, f:the rebel
  15. kay_obsessive's Tree: f:ace attorney, f:dishonored, f:fruits basket, f:legend of zelda, f:psychonauts, f:spyro the dragon
  16. Cat2000's Tree: f:alice in borderland, f:demon slayer, f:legend of zelda, f:mcu, f:x/1999
  17. marquisguyun's Tree: f:guardian, f:hikaru no go, f:love me love my voice, f:nirvana in fire, f:sha po lang
  18. tigerlily's Tree: f:black magician, f:buffy/angel, f:wicked, f:witch

Garbitrage.

Jan. 5th, 2026 02:18 am
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Tl;dr we in the West specifically make way too much garbage and there is no magic recycling bullet that’s going to fix the problem (but a lot of money going in to trying to convince us that it will).

Relatedly, I’ve noticed a lot more things coming in all-cardboard packaging recently. Which of course has its own problems, but at least those problems aren’t microplastics. So.

Leave a comment.+

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Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Pairings/Characters: Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Nikolai Gogol & Sigma, Armed Detective Agency Ensemble & Sigma, Decay of Angels Ensemble & Decay of Angels Ensemble, Dazai Osamu & Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Minor Fyodor Dostoyevsky/Nikolai Gogol, Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 18,403
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] valleykey
Theme: crack treated seriously, au - modern, social media, pov outsider, trans & non-binary characters

Summary: “Yeah I don’t really use much social media besides LinkedIn,” Sigma says sheepishly. “I post way too much on that app. Of course I have mutuals I like, but...”

A sudden silence.

“What?” Says Atsushi. At the same time that Dazai says, “Mutuals?”

Sigma frowns. “I...post on LinkedIn? What? It's a social media app. Of course I post? And have mutuals?”


/// the one where Sigma has 1.2 million followers on LinkedIn.

Reccer's Notes: An amazing fic that combines modern AU, social media, and crack treated seriously, with thoughtful explorations of characters and relationships that stay true to their canon selves. It’s engaging and will definitely make you laugh <3

Fanwork Links: everyone has a social media addiction

Babylon 5 script books, part 2

Jan. 3rd, 2026 10:43 pm
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Some more random excerpts from the script books, currently going through season 2.

(At the present time, I've taken pictures of pages in the book and haven't transcribed it. Sorry for lack of legibility/accessibility! I will try to type them up later.)

Spoilers for a lot of the show )

Snowflake (pet), and 2025 book meme

Jan. 3rd, 2026 07:04 pm
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two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom: Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

I was going to say that I don’t have any pets, but I guess that’s not true anymore: we do have the “sidewalk fish”, so called because we rescued them from the sidewalk when our neighbors moved out and left an aquarium full of murky water along with other garbage for trash pickup. Sidewalk fish story ) My daughter subsequently added some shrimp to the tank (now known as “the shrimpfestation”) and also a mystery snail, who proceeded to do what mystery snails do and gift us with progeny. The current snail count of the tank are two adult snails, a blue and a magenta, who are the children of that original snail, and >20 baby snails, the third generation. (Anyone want a mystery snail?)

Feeeesh )

As for pets-in-my-fandoms, a couple pop up here and there, more or less significantly – I mean, Bill the Pony is not quite a pet, Bel Thorne’s exotic pet hamster is hilarious to me personally but extremely minor, I’m not all that fond of more significant pets/pet-adjacent critters in my fandoms, like Toby the wonder dog in Rivers of London or Greebo in Discworld. But my answer to this is definitely Loiosh in the Vlad Taltos books. He is also not exactly a pet, being, rather, a witch’s familiar with a very serious job to do, and also a sapient creature, but he is also not NOT a pet, and I’ve wanted a wiseass shoulder-dragon ever since meeting him.

*

2025 books and book meme:

2025 book list )

My usual year-end book meme )
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Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Rating: Mature
Length: 11,604
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] nevertheless_turtle
Theme: crack treated seriously

Summary: In Which Obi-Wan Kenobi is Shown Holofootage of His 12-Year Old Padawan in a Seedy Nightclub With The Chancellor of the Republic And Has A Proportionate Response.

Reccer's Notes: What I love about this fic is the way that Obi-Wan does put in a certain amount of forethought into his actions, but it just happens to be the wrong forethought. You can see where he's coming from and why it seems like the right idea at the time, and yet it still goes completely off the rails. :D Truly delightful.

Content note for discussion of child sexual assault but no actual sexual assault.

Fanwork Links: Just Go Kill Palpatine
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Event: Platonic Rare Pair Flash

Event link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/platonic_rare_pair_flash/profile

Pinch hit link: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/platonic_rare_pair_flash/user/redgear

Due date: Urgent - Tonight January 3, 2026 at 11pm MST.

Assignment Requirements: 300 words for fic, a sketch for art (varies by request)
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Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Darth Maul & Darth Plagueis, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Maul
Rating: Mature
Length: 19,072 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] zuzeca
Theme: crack treated seriously, enemies to lovers, angst with a happy ending

Summary: In which Darth Maul applies for a loan, discovers a forgotten heirloom, experiments with space drugs, complains about his nemesis to a captive audience, and learns the value of bank fraud. Also love and friendship, but mostly bank fraud.

Reccer's Notes: A delightful story that starts with a cracky premise and takes it in an interesting direction. There’s a lovely exploration of Maul’s character and his relationship with Obi-Wan. It’s very funny with a heartwarming ending <3

Fanwork Links: Will Save the Galaxy for Better Credit Ratings

I have no words and I must--

Jan. 3rd, 2026 11:43 am
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Re: US actions in Venezuela as of this morning: to the rest of the world: I am so sorry.

At this point, it's my considered opinion (as a USAn) that the actual democratic/quasi-democratic rest of the world needs to yeet my nation stat for humankind's sake. (Probably should have happened a while back, but.)

I am also chronically/physically sick out of my mind and about to be playing a lot of Balatro and/or Mechabellum.

Peace and stay safe out there, y'all.

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