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1. Good things first: I updated my soap opera today. I got a lovely Saint Patrick's Day card from

dine.

2. I went running today at the lake, but it was FREEZING and my time was as slow as the first of the year. :( On Sunday, I picked up Minor's prescriptions, three of them were $5 each and the epi pen was...$560! I didn't get it. I asked the doctor to send it to another pharmacy and will use a Good Rx coupon to try to get down to something more reasonable. Epi pen. Like the thing that prevents ANAPHYLAXIS. American healthcare, ladies and gentlemen.

And the boys' father changed our insurance. So we used to pay $50 for specialist visits, but now Minor's 20-minute visit to the allergist was...$311. I feel like I need a lie down and a cold compress and smelling salts every time I get a healthcare bill these days.

3. I had an awkward conversation at dinner last night and I came to realize that I have no idea how Minor's brain works, and after a long, long discussion trying to understand, many questions trying to tease out his logic, I still don't understand him. And he said some hurtful things among other things, I am 'a character' to him. :( I wish I were a character in my own fanfic! What a wonderful world that would be.

4. I have a new lady client on Thursday and Friday. We'll see how it goes.

5. Diet isn't working. I am trying to track my calories but failing. I got a year subscription to My Fitness Pal app so I can just scan the barcodes but I am not doing a good job of keeping up with it. The good thing about the diet is I have access to a web portal with Monday, Wednesday, Friday new 20 minute workouts with the Australian/New Zealand young lady screeching at you (not the British lady with the beautiful wife who runs the programme) and it is strangely motivating to do it and finish so she can rest her voice.

6. I got the Netflix (for BTS comback!) and watched Kpop Demon Hunters. It was okay. It was a bit too close to home at the portrayal of kpop fans for me. I feel SEEN and I don't want to be SEEN. But I didn't mind them poking fun at the 6-pack abs phenomenon among kpop idols.

My favorite Irish YTer:

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I blatantly stole this from

dine:

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April will be a Flashback round where we revisit a classic theme from the early years of the comm.

Poll #34378 round 185 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 54

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Arranged Marriage
26 (48.1%)

Forced Proximity
13 (24.1%)

Threesome
15 (27.8%)

larryhammer

This famous post is doing the rounds again:

my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and the guy was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”

This story is so Chinese.

It’s a real incident, btw: the guy was Su Shi, a Song dynasty poet/artist/essayist/statesman sometimes better known by his art name Su Dongpo, the friend was Chan (Zen) master Foyin, the abbot of a temple across the lake he was staying, and 屁 means both “fart” and (idiomatically) “nonsense.” Very Zen.

---L.

Subject quote from Cruel Summer, Bananarama.

stonepicnicking_okapi

May the luck of the Irish be with everyone today! Thank you to

dine for the fun card.

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fancake

Fandom: Vorkosigan
Pairings/Characters: Gregor Vorbarra, Ivan Vorpatril
Rating: Gen
Length: 7k
Creator Links:

callmecasandra
Theme: siblings, AU, fork in the road, family, gen, old fandoms, book fandoms

Summary: Gregor need not have worried.

Reccer's Notes: Gregor Vorbarra is Emperor of Barrayar, and he has monsters in his family tree. His father Serg was a rapist and a murderer who died when he was a small child (and Serg's own father Emperor Ezar arranged his death), and his great uncle was Mad Emperor Yuri who was paranoid and homicidal and awful. Gregor understandably has issues about his family.

But what if Ezar had seen the sort of person Serg was, and how many monsters are in the family tree, and not only made sure Serg died before inheriting the throne, but also ... made sure that Serg would not father the next emperor of Barrayar?

This is a short but compelling AU. The series is marked incomplete, but there are no dangling plot threads and it hasn't been updated in over a decade.

Fanwork Links: The Cuckoo

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Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Leia Organa
Rating: Gen
Length: 2k
Creator Links:

Darkmagyk
Theme: siblings, gen, family,

Summary: “We were very close.” Sola says, and Leia smiles her politician's smile in response.

This woman is convinced she and her sister were the best of friends. And she’s telling the secret daughter, from a secret marriage, all about it.

Leia doesn't need the force to know it wasn't true.

Reccer's Notes: This is about Padmé and her sister Sola, but it's also about Luke and Leia, and about family, and about memory.

Fanwork Links: Lonely In Your Company

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Fandom: Captain America
Characters/Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: G
Length: 16,400 words
Creator Links:

odsbodkins
Theme: Outside POV, siblings, female characters, gen,

Summary: Becca Barnes is eight years old, and her big brother can do no wrong. The events of the two Captain America movies, from the perspective of one of the sisters Bucky leaves behind.

Reccer's Notes: This story has an excellent child's perspective, and a deep and abiding love between Becca and Bucky. It's lovely and it makes me cry.

Fanwork Links: My Brother, the Hero

rydra_wong

https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/

March 17-31, 2026

The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

We are calling on the reader community to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters.

As before, I would like to request that people shout out their favourite eligible books in the comments!

queenslayerbee

We've all heard about tumblr right? LOL. If nothing else, I do hope this means more people (especially those I already know and like from there!) consider joining dreamwidth. It'd be a good outcome. And even if they end up reverting the update (I'm not holding my breath) I still want to use this journal more. At the moment I'm crossposting old fics here every two days, so in the meantime, I hope I'll keep the momentum and post other things on days in-between. Today, I thought I'd start with telling you guys about some of the things I've been reading and watching lately (a lot of them last week, because I got sick and I took shameless advantage of that).

tellshannon815 mentioned "56 Days" by Catherine Ryan Howard in a recent-ish post. A few days later I finished it LOL. As of now I've read three more thrillers by this author ("The Trap", "The Liar's Girl", and "The Nothing Man"). With some nitpicks here and there, I've really enjoyed them, especially the last one. The author is really good at landing twists and her character work is quite good. I really appreciate how... real, I find her female characters, and her voice when she's writing from the POVs of the killers is particularly perturbing in its mundane evilness.

I also read a few comics. Caught up with Absolute Wonder Woman (it's fine, but at the moment I think my interest has waned, sadly), and I read Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring (with the original comic, I loved #1 and thought the last issue landed really well, even if the middle wasn't as good. With this one, I think what failed to landed properly is the ending, but I really enjoyed the rest) and The Night Eaters, the other comic by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. I definitely recommend that one, it's a very engaging and inspiring read.

Although these will be long-term projects LOL, I've finally gotten around to start both the Vorkosigan saga and the Earthsea cycle. In the latter case I've only read "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names", two sort stories that ~planted seeds for what the larger series would be, but I hope to start the first novel... soon-ish (I own the complete illustrated collection, which is very pretty and all, but not something you can carry around without breaking your back xD, and next week I might have to travel). Meanwhile, I did read "Shards of Honor", and loved it. I found the couple really charming in their absolutely charmless way LOL, and the book did a really good job convincing me that they were the perfect partner for each other and that Cordelia made the right choice when [redacted].

After my third attempt, I completed the Psych series, films included (minus additional material I have no interest in). It's a really fun romp with lovable characters, and I really appreciate that the lead couple made the choice to be childfree. For now, at least, I don't trust tv writers on this lol. Which is why I wouldn't be at all heartbroken if there were no more movies, tbqh.

There are many other shows I should've caught up with instead, but alas. Right now, other than the above, I'm only watching the weekly episodes of Grey's Anatomy and The Pitt. I have little to say about the first one (and might stop watching it until the season is over and I have time to catch up), and plenty about the latter LOL, though most of that I've reserved it for conversations with other people on tumblr. The second season hasn't been as good as the first, and unfortunately I think a lot of it is how much Collins's absence is felt: without her, the female characters as a whole feel unmoored, while she connected them all. The show's misogynistic and racist biases pop up more, in ways that can't be attributed to "characters showing flaws." But a lot of it continues to be really engaging, and I am more and more interested in the female characters week after week. I wish I could know everything about them LOL, but I'll be content with the crumbs this format allows!! Santos continues to be my dearest darling, but I'm also really enjoying others like Al-Hashimi or Javadi or García. Or Mohan, though her storyline has left a lot to be desired.

And now, for an ask game:

GIVE A CHARACTER
and I’ll break their ass down:

How I feel about this character
All the people I ship romantically with this character
My non-romantic OTP for this character
My unpopular opinion about this character
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Florence + The Machine - Howl

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Name: Distractions
Story: The Conservatory
Colors: Cattleya #2: Myötähäpeä
Word Count: 1087
Rating: G
Warnings: NA

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Jeannie Miller, Jack O'Neill
Rating: Explicit
Length: 23,191, 02:40:45
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply.

spoilery content note

Rodney and John weren't raised as brothers, but they discover they are. After having fucked. This causes some angst for a while, and Rodney's rationalisations are amusing.

Creator Links: speranza on AO3, speranza's own site

Themes: Siblings, Action/adventure, Family, AU, AU - fork in the road

Summary: "Jean isn't your sister," Rodney said, speaking to John as if he was a small child. "Jean is my sister."
John's whole face changed. "What?"

Reccer's Notes: Written as a slightly cracky Harlequin fic, this is a favourite story of mine, full of action, adventure, and family complications. John and Rodney meet at Patrick Sheppard's funeral and afterwards happen on an alien artifact at his apartment. A wild ride ensues as they try to get it to Area 51. Rodney's a physicist and John's air force, but at the start, neither of them know about the Stargate program. There's lots of excellent drama, romance, and snark as they gradually discover all the secrets their parents hid from them.

Fanwork Links: Last Will and Testament on speranza's site, and on AO3
And I podficced the story

cornerofmadness

It was 78 yesterday. Today my students freaked out and raced through lab because it was snowing its brains out. I wasn't going to go to water aerobics but my friend peer pressured me. We came out of that, wet headed, to 2 inches of snow on our cars. OMG

Water aerobics was good, weird but good. She doesn't use music. I've never done this without music. we were too busy laughing at each other anyhow. I'm the only one who had ever done water aerobics before. That pool was empty. It's also...awful. 20 years I've never been in there. it was closed the first five years I was here. I have always avoided it because I didn't want in the pool with students and it was always 'booked up' and another faculty member said no, it's always empty. it needs painted badly. It's a soulless structure but it is a pool.

Hope I won't be too sore tomorrow.

And it was a rough night. I woke up at 4 to an alarm. It was my dexcom. My sugar was at 51 and crashing out. Fun times.

Speaking of actual fun times, both of my panels, (my sabbatical research on the first lady doctors, and a panel on Victorian/Edwardian medicine) were accepted by the Gettysburg Steampunk festival. I'm very excited about this. I'm thinking of doing something for Tsubasacon as well

Another panel I'd like to offer up next year would be women of horror in the Victorian/Edwardian era (and maybe one of the same group for SF/F) and to that affect let me offer up for Women's History month not our dark queen Mary Shelley but rather Charlotte Riddell who wrote ghost stories that were also tied into social restrictions and social commentary. You can read more about her here.

It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is 17 A song that got you into this artist Share your faves too.

( I'm sharing my first songs for several artists. Love to see yours )

here's the whole prompt list

( It's under here )

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Criminal Minds

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Here are the entries for this challenge:

( List of entries )

Please Note: Because we only have 4 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (both spots) in order to be counted. Winner votes are worth 2 points, Runner Up votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

When voting, please copy/paste the ENTRY NUMBER and the FIC TITLE from the list above into the spot you're voting for (this prevents accidentally mis-numbering a vote and casting it for the wrong entry). It should look like this:

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Please note that you cannot vote for your own entry, and that votes cannot be made anonymously. You do not have to be a member of the community in order to vote, nor have submitted an entry for this week; everyone is welcome to participate in the voting. IP addresses are logged to prevent duplicate voting.

Voting closes Wednesday, March 18 at 9:00PM EST.

silveradept

Let's begin with this: the fish doorbell is active again! See fish on the camera, push the button to have the keeper go and let them through.

A lovely profile on Diane Duane, who has been in fandom and making fandom and having her own fandom for many decades at this point.

Bruce Campbell, star of Evil Dead, Brisco County, Jr., Bubba Ho-Tep, and frequent guest star on Xena: Warrior Princess, among other roles, revealed a cancer diagnosis that was going to make his tour for a new movie come up short. Gods-cursed cancer. Here's hoping Bruce can beat it and the treatments are effective.

Permission to use more modern music in figure skating programs has meant an entire series of headaches to obtain copyright clearances to use the music, because skating has not yet worked out appropriate blanket licensing permissions, I guess, with all the relevant countries and possible artists. I'm interested as to why copyright holders and/or companies would reject the use of their music during skating programs or the Olympics, outside of "this person using this music is not someone we want associated with the music."

Because the United States is not a safe place to be, nor to try and enter and exit legally, the Ig Nobel Prizes have moved their award ceremony to Zurich, Switzerland. The Annals of Improbable Research have found something far too probable, about the way that U.S. immigration is treating everyone, so they went somewhere safer.

( And speaking of ignoble people... )

Last for tonight, Black Africans are everywhere in history, including in places where the average studier has their focus pinned down to the whiter side of Europe, instead of the greater world Latin Christendom interacted with.

And a searchable database of ukiyo-e prints through several eras of Japanese carving and printmaking.

(Materials via

adrian_turtle,

azurelunatic,

boxofdelights,

cmcmck,

conuly,

cosmolinguist,

elf,

finch,

firecat,

jadelennox,

jenett,

jjhunter,

kaberett,

lilysea,

oursin,

rydra_wong,

snowynight,

sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

umadoshi,

vass, the

meta_warehouse community,

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: awake
Current Music: Booker T and the MGs - Green Onion

sholio

A vid about the Marines. Clips from seasons one and two; spoilers.

(CW: guns, violence, smoking - the usual show stuff. No fast/stuttery cuts.)

Watch on YouTube

Music: Janelle Monae
Length: 2:48
Crossposted: On AO3 | on Tumblr

Download: 212 Mb MP4 (zipped)

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sweetandshort

Welcome to our challenge Unique/Rare Words .

In March, the word is:
hullabaloo
a fuss, commotion, or loud noise

Feel free to interpret the prompt as you want. You don't have to use the word itself in your work.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems such as haiku or tanka, icons (100 x 100px), and graphics (maximum 500 x 500px).

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome. Original works and real-person works are fine, too.

Please tag your work with all relevant tags.

This challenge runs until March 31, midnight in your timezone.

:::

Challenge Reminder:
10 out of 20
This and That

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This month's challenge is:

Reverse Fandom: Cheers

Click on the challenge, pick any episode title, or more than one, as inspiration, and start writing!

Reminder of Rules

Entries can be any length you like. You can post as many entries to each challenge as you're inspired to write.
If posting direct to the community, please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Category, Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your fic, though you can if you like. Please include the song or episode title you use in your header.
Suggestions for future challenges are welcome on the Questions & Suggestions post.
There is no deadline for entries.

Have fun!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Guardian Reverse Exchange 2026. Image shows Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan facing each other, gripping the Sundial between them.

Links: General info/rules/schedule | Sign-ups on

sid_guardian

Description: A 镇魂 | Guardian fandom multimedia exchange covering the drama, the novel and RPF. Participants can offer and/or request fanfic, fanart, icons, vids, podfic, meta, a remix of an existing fanwork, or fanart for an existing fanwork. Or any combination of the above!

This is a reverse exchange with a two-part sign-up process: first you make your offer, saying what you like to create; then you choose three anonymised offers from the list and make your requests. (Only one of your requests will be assigned.)

Important Dates:
Sign-ups part 1 (offers): until Friday 27 March - sign-ups open now
Sign-ups part 2 (requests): Saturday 28 March - Friday 3 April
Deadline: 13 May
Reveals: 20 May (520 Day)

For more info, see the General info post.

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stonepicnicking_okapi - Views & News Day: Luck o' the Irish edition
spiralicious in endings - (no subject)
scifirenegade in small_fandoms - Fanfiction: Broken Melody
runpunkrun in fancake - Round 185 Theme Poll
larryhammer - “the air so heavy and dry/ strange voices are saying (what do they say)/ things i can’t understand”
stonepicnicking_okapi - Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
beatrice_otter in fancake - Vorkosiverse: The Cukoo, by callmecasandra
beatrice_otter in fancake - Star Wars: Lonely In Your Company by Darkmagyk
beatrice_otter in fancake - Captain Americs: My Brother, The Hero by Odsbodkins
rydra_wong - Oh hey it's Trans Rights Readathon time again!
queenslayerbee - exodus
soricel in rainbowfic - [The Conservatory] Cattleya #2
mific in fancake - SGA: Last Will and Testament by speranza
cornerofmadness - Mother Nature is Drunk
fanweeklymod in fandomweekly - [#292 | Daydreaming] Voting Post
silveradept - Would-be Caesars should always be worried about getting stabbed in the back. - Early March 02026
sholio - Vid: Tightrope (One Piece Live Action)
prisca in sweetandshort - March: Rare/Unique Words
badly_knitted in ficlet_zone - Challenge 96: Reverse Fandom: Cheers
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Views & News Day: Luck o' the Irish edition

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Fanfiction: Broken Melody

Round 185 Theme Poll

“the air so heavy and dry/ strange voices are saying (what do they say)/ things i can’t understand”

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Vorkosiverse: The Cukoo, by callmecasandra

Star Wars: Lonely In Your Company by Darkmagyk

Captain Americs: My Brother, The Hero by Odsbodkins

Oh hey it's Trans Rights Readathon time again!

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[The Conservatory] Cattleya #2

SGA: Last Will and Testament by speranza

Mother Nature is Drunk

[#292 | Daydreaming] Voting Post

Would-be Caesars should always be worried about getting stabbed in the back. - Early March 02026

Vid: Tightrope (One Piece Live Action)

March: Rare/Unique Words

Challenge 96: Reverse Fandom: Cheers

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