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yhlee) wrote2025-09-10 09:38 pm
yhlee) wrote2025-09-10 09:38 pmEx Tenebris TTRPG on Kickstarter! (I'm writing a scenario for this)
Ex Tenebris: a gothic space opera TTRPG [Kickstarter, already funded!].
- Josh Fox, lead designer & writer
- Becky Annison, writer
- Juan Ochoa, illustrator
- Nathan D. Paoletta, layout and graphic design
- Andriy Lukin, logo design
- Jog Brogzin, cartographer
- Chirag Asnani, writer
- Sarah Doom, writer
- Eleanor Hingley, writer
- Kieron Gillen, writer
- Yoon Ha Lee, writer (howdy!)
- Tejas Oza, writer
- Galen Pejeau, writer
Beyond the dark emptiness of space, beyond dreaming, lies the Tenebrium. Only you can unearth its mysteries, defeat the twisted horrors that lurk there, and keep humanity from becoming prey.
In Ex Tenebris, you play a ragtag team of investigators, protecting the Republic of Stars from terrifying supernatural threats. You will face sorcerers and cults, dark technology from lost civilisations and the slobbering terrors lurking in the nightmare realm of the Tenebrium.
Ex Tenebris is a complete TTRPG containing all the rules, setting and scenarios that you need to embark on adventures amongst the stars.
[...]
Ex Tenebris takes inspiration from the grotesque imagery of the Aliens movies, the existential dread of Event Horizon, the mysticism of Dune, the dark gothic setting of Warhammer 40,000, and the weird science/magic fusion of Ninefox Gambit.
- Josh Fox, lead designer & writer
- Becky Annison, writer
- Juan Ochoa, illustrator
- Nathan D. Paoletta, layout and graphic design
- Andriy Lukin, logo design
- Jog Brogzin, cartographer
- Chirag Asnani, writer
- Sarah Doom, writer
- Eleanor Hingley, writer
- Kieron Gillen, writer
- Yoon Ha Lee, writer (howdy!)
- Tejas Oza, writer
- Galen Pejeau, writer
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chibifukurou) wrote in fancake2025-09-10 07:53 pmSVSSS: The Way to a Man's Heart is His Stomach by CheckersXIV
Fandom:The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: T
Length: 14.5k
Creator Links:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
CheckersXIV
Theme: Food and cooking, (Five) Things, Complete AU
Summary: Luo Binghe has accepted his life for what it is: a dull repetition of a burned-out passion for a job. Back when he started his "Not Your Mother's" cooking channel on youtube, he had been ready to face the world. Now he just wants the world out of his face. When he hits one more bump in the road, he can't really say it's too surprising considering that the universe seems to just hate him.
And yet, the universe sends him to Shen Yuan.
_
Or 5 times Shen Yuan accidentally distracts Luo Binghe's attention from his videos, and the one time Luo Binghe gets his.
Reccer's Notes: This theme was a good excuse to go back for a reread. I love a fic where the point isn't so much falling in love as growing into the kind of person ready to love and be Loved.
5+1 is always a fun framing device. Particularly when combined with in universe comment section. And I love that this js a broad world with various people who know each other from various settings in it.
Fanwork Links: The Way to a Man's Heart is His Stomach
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: T
Length: 14.5k
Creator Links:
Theme: Food and cooking, (Five) Things, Complete AU
Summary: Luo Binghe has accepted his life for what it is: a dull repetition of a burned-out passion for a job. Back when he started his "Not Your Mother's" cooking channel on youtube, he had been ready to face the world. Now he just wants the world out of his face. When he hits one more bump in the road, he can't really say it's too surprising considering that the universe seems to just hate him.
And yet, the universe sends him to Shen Yuan.
_
Or 5 times Shen Yuan accidentally distracts Luo Binghe's attention from his videos, and the one time Luo Binghe gets his.
Reccer's Notes: This theme was a good excuse to go back for a reread. I love a fic where the point isn't so much falling in love as growing into the kind of person ready to love and be Loved.
5+1 is always a fun framing device. Particularly when combined with in universe comment section. And I love that this js a broad world with various people who know each other from various settings in it.
Fanwork Links: The Way to a Man's Heart is His Stomach
yhlee (yhlee) wrote2025-09-10 04:49 pm
yhlee) wrote2025-09-10 04:49 pmEntry tags:
alpaca adventures, cont'd
Test spin of small experimental alpaca floof batch.
For lagniappe, the completed smol woven object made from my handspun that's headed to
eller, mostly wool/silk/angelina blends (both colorways). :3
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-11 07:18 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-11 07:18 amThursday @ 7:18 am
As a huge slut for Rosé Pine, this is highly Relevant to my Interests . . .
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-11 05:01 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-11 05:01 amThursday @ 5:01 am
Well. Don’t know what I did to fuck up my sleep but haven’t had an insomnia night for a while, so I guess I was overdue?
Luckily I don’t have to operate any heavy machinery or whatever today, hey.
yuletidemods (yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-09-10 11:37 am
yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-09-10 11:37 amEntry tags:
2025 RPF Coordination Post
RPF nomination categories can be fluid in Yuletide, so we encourage RPF fans to coordinate with each other about the social circles, career groups, and characters you're interested in, to help ensure the resulting categories suit as many people as possible.
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Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-10 11:31 pm
alisx) wrote2025-09-10 11:31 pmEntry tags:
Gifts from an alternate universe.
I suspect the freedom to publish directly on the web, if proposed today, would face strong resistance. Like allotments or public libraries, it resembles a gift from an alternate universe.
Caolan on .
I remember when we used to get to laugh at the periodic poster on, like, Overclockers or whatever who would proposed his (it was always a “his”) revolutionary idea for something “like a video store, except you pay to rent books.”
Man. Remember when the entire economy wasn’t run by those dipshits?
Entry tags:
Yuletide Fandom Promo 2025!
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Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!
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yuletidemods (yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-09-10 10:17 pm
yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-09-10 10:17 pmEntry tags:
Yuletide 2025 Evidence Post
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Riona (rionaleonhart) wrote2025-09-10 11:03 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2025-09-10 11:03 amEntry tags:
Fanfiction: Reality (Danganronpa: Despair Time)
I continue to write exactly the same fic concepts in every single fandom, and nobody can stop me.
I've stretched out the timeline a little here; certain events take place a few days further apart in this fic than they do in canon!
Title: Reality
Fandom: Danganronpa: Despair Time
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,400
Summary: Spending this much time with the dead doesn’t seem healthy. But it’s not like David has had particularly healthy habits up to this point.
Warnings: Spoilers up to the end of chapter two.
( Reality )
I've stretched out the timeline a little here; certain events take place a few days further apart in this fic than they do in canon!
Title: Reality
Fandom: Danganronpa: Despair Time
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,400
Summary: Spending this much time with the dead doesn’t seem healthy. But it’s not like David has had particularly healthy habits up to this point.
Warnings: Spoilers up to the end of chapter two.
( Reality )
22degreehalo (22degreehalo) wrote in fancake2025-09-10 03:54 pm
22degreehalo) wrote in fancake2025-09-10 03:54 pmEntry tags:
- fandom: scum villain,
- length: 80.000 & more words,
- theme: (secret) hobbies,
- theme: asexual & demisexual characters,
- theme: au,
- theme: au: complete au,
- theme: au: complete au: modern,
- theme: book fandoms,
- theme: canon lgbtq+ characters,
- theme: characters of color,
- theme: disability,
- theme: families of choice,
- theme: favorite fanworks,
- theme: food & cooking,
- theme: no canon required,
- theme: novel-length fic,
- theme: trauma & recovery
SVSSS: Life is (not) a Hallmark Movie by Mellicindi
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: T
Length: 143,334
Creator Links:mellicindi
Theme: Food & Cooking, (Secret) Hobbies, Asexual & Demisexual Characters, Alternate Universe - Modern, Book Fandoms, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Characters of Color, Disability, Families of Choice, Favorite Fanworks, No Canon Required, Novel-Length Fic, Trauma & Recovery.
Summary: Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2016, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life.
And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell.
Or: Shen Yuan is a Hallmark movie protagonist, Luo Binghe is a Lifetime movie protagonist, and somehow they make it work.
Reccer's Notes: I read this fic over three days right in the middle of Battleship and it instantly became one of my favourite fanfics of all time. I could seriously gush for hours about this fic and its themes: the recurring thread of food as a love language (especially given protagonist Shen Yuan's digestive disability he's too self-conscious to talk openly about), the differing nature of familial, romantic, and friendship bonds and the varying privileges and presumptions behind each, this Luo Binghe's long-term trauma that manifests in the best goddamn depiction of Borderline Personality Disorder I've seen outside Crazy Ex Girlfriend seemingly entirely on accident - and among all of that, it's just a goddamn well-written story, incredibly easy to read and funny and heartfelt and true to its characters while being 100% readable fandom-blind and just - if any of the above appeals to you, I really can't advise anything other than to read it ASAP. <333
Fanwork Links: Life is (not) a Hallmark Movie
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: T
Length: 143,334
Creator Links:
mellicindiTheme: Food & Cooking, (Secret) Hobbies, Asexual & Demisexual Characters, Alternate Universe - Modern, Book Fandoms, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Characters of Color, Disability, Families of Choice, Favorite Fanworks, No Canon Required, Novel-Length Fic, Trauma & Recovery.
Summary: Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2016, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life.
And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell.
Or: Shen Yuan is a Hallmark movie protagonist, Luo Binghe is a Lifetime movie protagonist, and somehow they make it work.
Reccer's Notes: I read this fic over three days right in the middle of Battleship and it instantly became one of my favourite fanfics of all time. I could seriously gush for hours about this fic and its themes: the recurring thread of food as a love language (especially given protagonist Shen Yuan's digestive disability he's too self-conscious to talk openly about), the differing nature of familial, romantic, and friendship bonds and the varying privileges and presumptions behind each, this Luo Binghe's long-term trauma that manifests in the best goddamn depiction of Borderline Personality Disorder I've seen outside Crazy Ex Girlfriend seemingly entirely on accident - and among all of that, it's just a goddamn well-written story, incredibly easy to read and funny and heartfelt and true to its characters while being 100% readable fandom-blind and just - if any of the above appeals to you, I really can't advise anything other than to read it ASAP. <333
Fanwork Links: Life is (not) a Hallmark Movie
Sholio (sholio) wrote2025-09-10 12:12 am
sholio) wrote2025-09-10 12:12 amEntry tags:
Murderbot fic: Crime and Punishment
DW catchup continues ... I posted this on AO3 yesterday, and I wrote most of this fic in the car, actually, on the 7-hour drive home from my mom's part of Alaska. I would drive for a while and think of a new section of fic and stop to write a bit on my laptop.
Crime and Punishment (Murderbot books, Mensah POV, 2500 words)
Missing scene/tag for Fugitive Telemetry. Mensah gets a call from station security. (Entirely bookverse.)
Follow-up on Mostly fluff and banter, in spite of the actual topic.
( Fic under the cut )
Crime and Punishment (Murderbot books, Mensah POV, 2500 words)
Missing scene/tag for Fugitive Telemetry. Mensah gets a call from station security. (Entirely bookverse.)
Follow-up on
Spoilers for Fugitive Telemetry
the refugee shooting Murderbot in the novella.( Fic under the cut )
iddybangmod (iddybangmod) wrote in iddyiddybangbang2025-09-10 12:04 am
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yhlee (yhlee) wrote2025-09-09 02:42 pm
yhlee) wrote2025-09-09 02:42 pmEntry tags:
processing alpaca floof, cont'd
I used hand carders after washing, then drying outside. It's extremely fluffy (and probably de facto blended with catten floof). I've never spun alpaca before, so that's next!
Alis (alisx) wrote2025-09-10 05:31 am
alisx) wrote2025-09-10 05:31 amEntry tags:
DeadEI.
Any good Marxist can tell you that the ruling class of any nation will frequently make social concessions as a way of buttressing its brute political power with moral credibility. What makes these concessions effective is that the sentiment behind them is often genuine: It really is objectively better not to be misgendered at work. But anyone who thinks that the brief ubiquity of corporate diversity trainings is proof that the radical left wields great power and influence in America has quite simply never sat through a corporate diversity training.
On .
See also: this.