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I signed up for

rarefemslashexchange! Very happy with my assignment, currently enjoying canon review. :D

I'm thinking of signing up for

candyheartsex, too! Is anyone else planning to do this one? Only 300 word minimum! I try not to have too many simultaneous open exchange assignments for myself, but this feels within reach. :D

Buuuuut also

seasonsofdrabbles will be running a round in January-February. I love drabbles, so this is tempting too! But three assignments (even ones with short minimums!) seems like it would be overwhelming, so I might stick to treating for this one.

Finally,

fandomtrees is seeking help creating gifts (2 for each recipient) before reveals, which are currently scheduled for Jan 10. If you're inclined to check it out, there's a handy spreadsheet of needy trees linked at this post!

Are there other exchanges, bingos, or similar challenges you're participating in that are coming up soon?

vriddy

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torachan

The forecast was saying the afternoon would be clear, but we were still expecting some rain in the morning, but while there was some on the drive down, it had stopped by the time we got there.

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snickfic

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

For those unsure what the heck the Snowflake Challenge is, it's a DW event through the month of January where they post a prompt every other day on

snowflake_challenge, and you can respond on your journal to whichever ones you want, at your leisure. (If that's unclear or you're curious for more details, feel free to ask me. I was very confused for a long time about how it worked.)

Anyway! Hi, I'm snick. I'm a fandom old who came to fandom via Buffy the Vampire Slayer a bit after the show had ended. My fannish evolution was something like:
1. Got into Buffy fandom, made my first fandom friends, wrote my first fanfic
2. Got into Supernatural, discovered kink memes, wrote my first porn
3. Got into hockey RPF, learned how to write. As mentioned above, I wrote before that, some that I'm still very proud of, but I feel like I really came of age as a writer in hockey fandom.

Since then I've spent time in the MCU, I got more into horror movies and sometimes into their fandoms, and I got into the band Oasis and have written a bunch of fic about that. I also got more and more into multi-fandom exchanges as a way to fill in the gaps (with mixed success) when I kept getting into smaller, less active fandoms.

These days, this journal is mostly for movie and book reviews and locked personal posts, but I do occasionally post unlocked about my writing or fannish events, that kind of thing. Every so often I even post news or meta about my fandoms, although that doesn't feel like what people do here on DW anymore, alas.

And to answer the other question, I'm doing the Snowflake Challenge because I really like seeing more activity on DW. I'm hoping for some prompts this year that will give me excuses to write about fandom stuff I'm excited about, which as mentioned above I rarely get around to doing. And I look forward to reading everyone else's posts and hopefully interacting with them more. <3

torachan

1. It was rainy this morning but I managed not to get rained on. When I woke up, I could hear the rain and was not looking forward to going out in it for my morning walk, because then I'd get my shoes wet and have to wear wet shoes later, but I looked at my phone and the weather app said it was supposed to stop raining in five minutes and be dry for at least half an hour and it did and it was! I did get dripped on a bit by trees, but that was fine. And then later in the morning we went to Disneyland and it rained on the drive down, but stopped by the time we got there and was dry all afternoon and evening. We're still supposed to get some more rain here and there over the next few days, but at least it seems to be more sporadic.

2. We had a really nice time today at Disneyland. The rain helped keep people away (especially in the morning), plus although it's still officially the holiday season through the weekend, the crowds are just not as wild as they were in the lead-up to Christmas.

3. The shopping center where the newest Tokyo Central is in Irvine formerly had a Persian market called Super Irvine. I had originally assumed they went out of business or something and that's why the space was for lease, but it seems like the property owner had wanted to completely raze the building and start from scratch, and the Super Irvine just moved to a new location, which just opened a couple months ago. We watched a video walkthrough recently and it looked really neat, so we've been wanting to check it out. There are a bunch of Persian shops in Westwood, which is very close, but nothing this huge (and because it's so large, it has a lot of other international stuff as well as just Persian). Irvine is just a short drive from Disneyland (especially on a day like today with no traffic), so we decided to go down there before going home, and had a lot of fun checking it out.

4. I don't really do resolutions, but there are a couple things I want to do this year. One is to try doing a wider variety of things. I like routine and it's very easy to get stuck in a rut and do something familiar, whether it's going to the same places or eating the same foods, but there are so many other things I want to do also, so I want to try and change that. So we'll probably go to Disneyland less often this year, but we go ridiculously often, so even if we go only 2-3 times a month that's still, objectively speaking, a lot lol. And it was nice today; we hadn't been in two weeks, and it felt fresher and less like just doing the same old thing.

The other thing I want to do this year is get a tattoo. I have wanted to get a tattoo forever. I have always thought they were cool and wanted one, but the problem is I don't have any strong feelings about what I want. Maybe something cat or dragon related. Maybe something rainbow/queer. idk. I have to think about it. But I'll be fifty this year and it seems like a good time. Also I find the whole process really overwhelming, in terms of finding someone and the design phase, etc. Anyone who has tattoos and has advice/suggestions about anything, please feel free to comment!

5. I wish Gemma wasn't always so suspicious of me, but she is very cute when she's suspicious.

rachelmanija

I wrote three stories this Yuletide. The first two won't make much sense if you don't know the canons. With the third, all you really need to know is that mushi are magical creatures and Ginko solves people's mushi-related problems.

28 Years Later

Memento Mori. Dr. Kelson creates his masterpiece.

I really liked the movie, which is extremely different from the first one (also extremely different from the second, which I don't care for) and also extremely different from the brilliant trailer, which introduced me to the astonishing recording from 1915 (!) of actor Taylor Holmes reciting Kipling's poem "Boots." It's a post-apocalypse movie that's partly a coming of age story, partly an action/horror movie, and partly a beautiful and moving drama about life, death, and remembrance. And then there's the last two minutes, which are basically parkour Trainspotting.

I actually matched on The Leftovers, but I liked the 28 Days Later prompt so much that I wrote that instead.

Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey

Hunger. Both Lessa and Kylara are Searched for Nemorth's final clutch.

I just really enjoy writing in this canon. I love the dragons and McCaffrey created a lot of very interesting characters even if she often ended up not knowing quite what to do with them.

Mushishi

A Turn of the Wheel. Ginko encounters an unusual mushi in a village known for pottery.

Mushishi is an incredibly beautiful anime and manga with a dreamy, wistful atmosphere. I saw a prompt for mushi infesting a piece of pottery and could not resist. This story was also inspired by having recently visited Japan in the summer, a time of year I very much do not recommend for a visit if you can possibly avoid it. It's like living in a sauna. Now imagine doing a kiln firing in that sauna.

snickfic

I had a fantastic Yuletide this year. I got two great gifts. I managed to write FOUR things for the main collection, a personal best! (The closest I've come previously is three in the main collection and one in Madness, and that was back in 2013.) I got really nice comments on them, even the one for a fandom I didn't think anyone would know. <3 And then I had so much fun browsing the collection this year, and I found some really wonderful fic. Perfect experience, no notes, can't wait to do it again next year.

Interestingly, everything I wrote this year was for fandoms I watched or reviewed specifically for Yuletide. Like, the two movies are two I pulled out of the Yuletide tagset and put on my to-watch list. I always enjoy making those lists from the tagset, but I don't think they've ever borne so much fruit directly before. (Then again, most of my old standbys that I don't need to review, like Oasis and Re-Animator and Scream, are now too big for Yuletide. That's probably a factor.)

First, my assignment:
stave my soul, Moby Dick, Ishmael/Queequeg, 2.7k. A ghost story. Last year I really wanted to reread Moby Dick and write Yuletide treats, I got about a third of the way in, and then I bogged down and didn't finish. This year, I wanted the same but even more, to the point that I not only offered it instead of planning to just treat, but I got very brave and culled my offers until nearly all my matches were Moby Dick.

I got assigned to whalebone (yes, really) and wrote this in a few days. The idea came to me pretty much fully-formed, and it should have been relatively easy to write once I got a handle on the narrative voice, but it was one of those times where I was finding writing very hard and was really mad at my past self for putting me in the situation, to the point that I wished I'd defaulted before the default deadline.

But! I did manage to write the fic more or less exactly as I'd planned. And this was by far my most popular fic this Yuletide, with more comments than I've gotten in a week on anything since 2020.

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fires of love, Moby Dick, Ishmael/Queequeg, 2.2k, omegaverse. Then I turned around and wrote a treat, and it was Moby Dick omegaverse. In fact, qkind's prompt for this last year was the number one reason I wanted to reread the book, and I was very happy that they prompted it again this year.

The big appeal here was describing an omegaverse scenario in Ishmael's inimatable prose, and I had a great time trying. In fact the first writing I did for Yuletide was some paragraphs of this that I got in the shower. Ishmael discoursing about omegaverse gender stuff was a hoot to write. This might be my favorite Yuletide fic I wrote this year.

I don't know if I'll write more Moby Dick; I feel like I've gotten those two high-concept fics out of my system, and I don't have any other burning ideas. I really have to get in the right frame of mind to tackle Ishmael's voice, and it's like I'm holding my breath the whole time and have to eventually come up for air. On the other hand, I definitely think there's room for more Moby Dick horror in the world, if nothing else.

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a restaurant called karma, Red Rooms (2023), Clementine/Kelly-Anne, 5.6k. This is an independent French-Canadian film about two serial killer groupies attending the trial of a man accused of raping and murdering several teen girls. I'd been meaning to watch this for a while, but seeing a Yuletide request was what finally got me to do it, and then I wrote this post-canon getting-together fic in like a week. This is the first fic in the tag, so I wasn't expecting much of a response, but I've been pleasantly surprised at how many people know it and have commented on the fic. <3

It was actually almost 2k longer at one point; the day before reveals I wrote 2k of porn, then woke up Christmas Eve morning and decided the porn took the fic way off track, and I took basically all of it out and made the fic fade to black, all before 1pm. I don't know if I've ever done that before. It was not my favorite time-crunch editing session ever! However, I ship the hell out of these two now and I hope more people write them.

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wreck, Crash (1996), James/Catherine, 1.1k. James gets in a new, more serious accident, and he and Catherine enjoy the aftermath. This was a quick little PWP of them being fucking weird together. I don't know if I really hit the "if he likes cuckolding, he'll LOVE being rendered impotent by a car crash" button as hard as I wanted, but hey, it's 1k, it's fine. And it turns out I and one other person in Yuletide inaugurated the James/Catherine tag on AO3, which blows my mind.

scintilla10

Yuletide reveals! I wrote a Galaxy Quest fic! I'm kind of blown away at the lovely reception my fic got this year - more than I ever expected in terms of comments and kudos, and several very kind recs. I love writing for tiny fandoms-of-one-or-two, but writing for a widely beloved movie for this year was surprisingly fun.

Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues: Season 1 Gag Reel (AO3 | DW)
Galaxy Quest | Gwen, Jason, Alexander (+ the rest of the ensemble) | 1867 words | rated T | no archive warnings apply
Tags: Post-Canon, Humor, Filming, Canon-typical shenanigans

"Sorry!" Guy said, flustered. "Shit, sorry, guys. As Crewman Number 6, I barely had any lines!"

Snowflake Challenge: A mug of coffee or hot chocolate with a snowflake shaped gingerbread cookie perched on the rim sits nestled amidst a softly bunched blanket. A few dried orange slices sit next to it.

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it. [Here.]

Today's the first day of the

snowflake_challenge! I enjoy this event, but I rarely manage to keep up with all of the days - so I'll keep any intentions to participate very low-key for myself, including not having expectations to share my posts on the comm itself (which sometimes makes me feel overwhelmed or self-conscious). Anyway, I've done some light clean up on my profile, access list, and sticky post, so I'll call that complete.

genarti

This year for Yuletide, I wrote one fic:

The Doorway to Home (3677 words) by genarti
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Changeling - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Martha Abbott/Ivy Carson
Characters: Josie Carson (The Changeling)

I'd never actually read The Changeling before, so it wasn't what my recipient and I matched on. But when I saw it on

deifire's requests, I suddenly remembered seeing Author of The Changeling! on the cover of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Egypt Game as a kid. I loved and reread The Egypt Game multiple times, EVEN THOUGH it had betrayed me on the first read by not actually being about ancient Egypt, so that's a mark of its quality, and I thought, "Well, these prompts sound interesting and I do like Zilpha Keatley Snyder, so maybe I should take this as impetus to read it!" And I did, and I loved it to bits, and here we are.

This fall ended up being very busy, between assorted travels and illnesses and upheavals, and so what I actually did was read the book and then let it marinate in the back of my head for a while, and then do a reread as I put together a timeline of what happened when throughout the book, and then write the entire thing in a frantic rush right before the deadline. But I had a wonderful time nonetheless! It was one of those experiences where you start writing and it just flows.

skygiants as usual was a last-minute rock star about betaing, DESPITE AS I HAVE JUST LEARNED WRITING AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FIC FOR ME IN A SNEAKY NINJA WAY--

mrs_leary

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Current Mood: ecstatic

rmc28

I had Kodiaks practice on the evening of 30 December, which meant getting home very late as usual. I did get up and out for the last hot yoga class of my festive pass in the morning of 31 December. From there I did a run into town to pay in a cheque (a cheque!) to N's savings account on the last possible day before it expired. After I got home, I looked at how many tickets remained for the public skate I was booked on, did some subtraction and decided the rink would be too full and I was too tired, so I cancelled the Last Skate Of The Year, and had a nap instead. It was marvellous.

In the evening we had a little family movie night with drinks and snacks:

Chicken Run (which everyone but Nico had seen before)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (which only Nico had seen before) - fun, but omg there were bad parenting choices, and excessive ~suspense~ due to even more bad choices in the final action sequence
Wake Up Dead Man (which Nico was uninterested in, but the other three of us enjoyed)

We managed to finish the last film with about fifteen minutes to go before midnight, so I put on BBC One on iPlayer and we watched some Ronan Keating and then the fireworks from London, and then I left Ronan Keating providing background music while sending and replying to HNY messages on my phone until I decided sleep was a better plan.

This morning I got up and used a free gym pass to get to a weights class, and confirm my opinion that I want to return to a regular gym routine. I met friends M, J & K for pub drinks this afternoon, and spent a bunch of time afterwards sorting out logistics for ice hockey games on Saturday (Kodiaks 1 are away in Chelmsford, Kodiaks 2 are "home" in Peterborough).

Tomorrow I will take Nico to a pantomime in the morning, work a half day in the afternoon, and go to Warbirds practice in the evening.

thawrecka

I kept a document open all year to paste these in as I went, but you can probably tell when that started to go awry...

( List of all the fic I wrote in 2025 )

The writing year in review meme:
Total words posted in 2025: 25,495 words
Total stories posted in 2025: 21
Longest story: The Ordinary Ever After Part: 5,552 words
Shortest story: Purring: 126 words
Story with the most kudos in 2025: Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man, 217 kudos (more than I expected!)
Story with the most comment threads in 2025: On His Mind, 10 comment threads
Story with the most bookmarks in 2025: Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man, 37 bookmarks
Personal favourite from this year: Probably Going Home, the Bleach Ichigo&Ishida gen I wrote after rereading the series yet again. I like the vibe of it! Either that, or the Pluto pinch hit I wrote for RMSE, which I feel really captured all my Paul Duncan and North no 2 feelings.

Overall thoughts: Weird year again! Didn't write much, and a lot of what I wrote didn't get much of a reaction. I joined a lot more exchanges in 2025 than in previous years, and they were marked by constant delays and not much in the way of comments. Not sure I'll bother much in 2026.

( Stats )

rmc28

New-to-me books read this year: 128
(Note for this exercise: I count audiobooks separately from paper/ebooks. I like both experiences but they are different experiences and different "books" to me, whereas reading paper or ebook feels interchangeable to me. My default is to read ebook, audiobooks and physical books are tagged as variations from the default.)

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Rereads: 19

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If you want to know more about a specific book I read in 2025, ask me about it. Or pick a random number between 1 and 147 and ask me to talk about that book.

Books acquired in 2025 and not yet read: 19

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[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book

autobotscoutriella

Challenge #1: The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Happy New Year, Dreamwidth! Here's to being a little more active here in 2026. :D

I'm Riella, and I've been doing Snowflake Challenge since...2019, according to my tags! Which seems like it should be just 1-2 years ago, but apparently not. What is time.

I have a mostly up-to-date intro post over here, but the short version: I'm in Transformers and Ace Attorney fandoms (mostly Ace Attorney this last year, because Klavier/Daryan and variations consumed my brain), I have two cats named Mirage and Springs (yes, after the Transformers), and I like sharks. So if you're here from

snowflake_challenge, that's most of what you'll see here: cats, robots, lawyers, and sharks, usually not all at the same time. And if you happen to be seeing this for the first time on my blog, come join us! It's a good time.

I really enjoy Snowflake as a good way to kick off the year; it gets me to post regularly and talk about my fandoms, and sometimes I make friends along the way! Some of my favorite posts have come out of past Snowflake prompts - shout-out to the Klavier/Daryan/Apollo ship manifesto from last year - so I'm looking forward to seeing what we've got this year. Last year I didn't manage to keep up with all of the posts (which is fine, it happens), but this year I'm optimistic I'll be able to do most of them!

Current Mood: chipper

slashmarks

I did fairly minimal reading after January by my standards, at least of books, and wrote a grand total of two reviews. This is mostly because I became obsessed with the Silmarillion back in February and so fanfic took over most of my reading time this year; having plowed through A Lot of what I was interested in, now, I hope I will read more books in 2026!

Here is the list, rereads in italics and books recorded the first time I finished them.

January

1. The March North – Graydon Saunders
2. Briardark – S.A. Harian
3. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
4. A Succession of Bad Days – Graydon Saunders
5. Safely You Deliver – Graydon Saunders
6. The Amazons: Lives & Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World – Adrienne Mayor [nonfiction]
7. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History From Antiquity to the Present – Michael Bailey [nonfiction]
8. Alchemy of Fire – Gillian Bradshaw
9. Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire – Patricia Blessing [nonfiction]
10. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire – David Cannadine [nonfiction]
11. Under One Banner – Graydon Saunders
12. A Mist of Grit and Splinters – Graydon Saunders
13. Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West – Alain Boureau, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan [nonfiction]
14. God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1500 – Ahmet T. Karamustafa [nonfiction]
15. The Bearkeeper's Daughter – Gillian Bradshaw
16. The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire: The Religious, Architectural, and Social History of Bursa - Suna Çağaptay [nonfiction]
17. A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine
18. The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery
19. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) – Sam Wineburg [nonfiction]

February

20. On Violence – Hannah Arendt [nonfiction]
21. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed – Eric Cline [nonfiction]
22. Waywarden – S.A. Harian
23. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 – Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham [nonfiction]

March

24. Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifestyle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture – Caroline Dodds Pennock [nonfiction]
25. Irreverant Persia: Invective, Satirical and Burlesque Poetry From the Origins to the Timurid Period (10th to 15th Centuries) – Riccardo Zipoli [nonfiction]
26. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

April

27. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
28. The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931 – John Martin [nonfiction]

June

29. Ottoman Plovdiv: Space, Architecture, and Population (14th-17th Centuries) – Grigor Boykov [nonfiction]
30. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

July

31. Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
32. Diavola – Jennifer Thorne
33. You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue
34. Sword at Sunset – Rosemary Sutcliff
35. Dark Force Rising – Timothy Zahn
36. Rose/House – Arkady Martine [novella]
37. Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq – Thomas Carlson [nonfiction]
38. The Last Command – Timothy Zahn

August

39. Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood
40. The Emergence of the English – Susan Oosthuizen [nonfiction]

September

41. The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine – Daphna Ephrat [nonfiction]

November

43. A Palace Near the Wind – Ai Jiang
44. Render unto the Sultan: Power, Authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the early Ottoman centuries – Tom Papademetriou [nonfiction]
44. The September House – Carissa Orlando
45. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction – Timothy Gowers [nonfiction]
46. Sources and Studies on the Ottoman Black Sea, vol. I, The Customs Register of Caffa, 1487-1490 – Halil Inalcik [nonfiction]
47. A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700 – Dina Le Gall [nonfiction]
48. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard [nonfiction]
49. Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity – Lauren Caldwell [nonfiction]
50. The Great Seljuk Empire – A.C.S. Peacock [nonfiction]

December

51. Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period – eds. Kurt Franz & Wolfgang Holzwarth [nonfiction anthology]
52. The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature’s Salvation – Fred Pearce [nonfiction]
53. Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie

thawrecka

Yuletide reveals:

My assignment:
Hand to Hand (1202 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 永夜星河 | Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ling Miaomiao/Mu Sheng | Mu Ziqi, Ling Miaomiao & Mu Sheng | Mu Ziqi
Characters: Ling Miaomiao, Mu Sheng | Mu Ziqi
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Holding Hands, Fluff, During Canon, Post-Canon
Summary:

Four moments in time when Ziqi and Miaomiao held hands.

Looks like my recip was double assigned. When I saw the other fic they got, they hadn't commented on that, either, but I haven't checked since. TBH, they had no likes/dislikes/prompts/DNWs in their signup, so I assumed they'd be a no show, so this isn't a surprise. We matched on Love and Redemption, but I couldn't think of what to write, so I wrote Love Game in Eastern Fantasy... which the other person assigned to them also wrote.

On to treats:

Strange Feminine Secrets (1431 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jennifer's Body (2009)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jennifer Check/Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Characters: Jennifer Check, Anita "Needy" Lesnicki
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, back from the dead, Undead, Horror
Summary:

Post-canon, Jennifer and Needy find each other again.

Probably my most successful fic of the exchange! After I posted it I did start to think of what I could have done better, should I have written a longfic that covered their whole murder rampage, etc. etc. but actually I think it's fine.

Two Coffees, One Tea (1372 words) by thawrecka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Two Husbands One Wife
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shinpei/Mia/Takuzo
Characters: Satomura Shinpei, Yanoguchi Mia, Mitsuda Takuzo
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fluff, Domestic Fluff
Summary:

Scenes from Shinpei, Mia and Takuzo's life together.

I was so tired when I posted this that I somehow did not realise I posted it in Madness, not the main collection 🤣 Anyway, I was inspired by the prompt, especially as I'd just finished the show. Only one of my fics with a recip comment ❤️ Usually I just treat random people because I'm inspired by their prompts, but this is the first time I wrote a treat for a friend ❤️

I had a whole plan to write more treats than last but ended up writing fewer, because I was so tired. Kind of a quiet Yuletide, I think, though I might think that because my fic overall was less popular than usual. I think the delayed author reveals are also throwing me off.

shewhostaples

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I've been an occasional participant in this challenge for several years. (I changed my handle this year; I used to be el_staplador, which was feeling increasingly less funny.) My profile is, miraculously, still more or less accurate.

This year feels like it needs a little more in the way of apologia, since I'm very out of touch with fandom at the moment, and have indeed fallen off many of the online platforms that I used to frequent. There are plenty of reasons for that, ranging from the very personal to the global, and I'm not actually upset about most of it. But I am feeling the pull towards more connection, particularly in person, but online too.

And that is why I'm doing this challenge. I don't expect to have the time to get into any fandom the way I used to, but I miss being fandom-adjacent. Snowflake feels like as good a way as any to return to the Internet the way I enjoy using it.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: back home
Current Music: New Year's concert, Vienna Philharmonic

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Books on pre-order:

Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May 2026)
Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie (12 May 2026)

Books acquired in December:

and read:
1. Last Victim of the Monsoon Express (Baby Ganesha) by Vaseem Khan
2. Harmonic Pleasure (Mysterious Arts 6) by Celia Lake
and unread:
1. Park Avenue by Renée Ahdieh
2. Wounded Christmas Wolf by Lauren Esker
3. Gift of the Magpie (Fated Mountain Lodge) by Lauren Esker
4. Claiming the Tower (Council Mysteries 1) by Celia Lake
5. Apt to be Suspicious (Liminal Mysteries 2) by Celia Lake
and previously read:
1. The Green and the Grey by Timothy Zahn
2. Triplet by Timothy Zahn

Books acquired previously and read in December:

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus 1) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus 2) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus 3) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus 4) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus 5) by Rick Riordan [May 2016]

Borrowed books read in December:

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson [3]
Bad Day at the Vulture Club (Baby Ganesha 5) by Vaseem Khan [3]
Inspector Chopra and the Million Dollar Motor Car (Baby Ganesha) by Vaseem Khan [3]
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan [3]
The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan [3]
The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles 1) by Rick Riordan [3]
The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles 2) by Rick Riordan [3]

I was right about how much I could read this month when I bought books, I was wrong about how easily I was going to get diverted by reading borrowed books instead. I finished up the Inspector Chopra series and intend to move on to the Malabar House series by Vaseem Khan once I've read and returned more of the Rick Riordan backlist.

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited

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2026 is off to a good start. Matthias and I spent the morning on a long, looping walk along the river, across the railway track, and back into town for coffee at the rig in the market square. I've done yoga, I'm about halfway through my first book of the year, and I also read this dystopian Kate Elliott short story, which imagines a world in which absolutely everything is pay-as-you-go, which is exactly as horrifying in almost every facet of society and social organisation as you'd imagine.

1st January means two things in my fannish calendar: Yuletide author reveals go live, and the first day of

snowflake_challenge is upon us. I always wait to share my recs from the Yuletide collection until after reveals, because I want authors to get credit for their creations.

( My reveals and recs behind the cut )

How were your Yuletides? What did you enjoy from the collection.

Challenge #1 is: The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

( Response here )

I'll close this out with a final link relating to changes at Livejournal. You may have seen

denise's recent post at

dw_maintenance regarding a new influx of Russian (and/or Russian-speaking) LJ users due to changes in the terms of service.

vriddy made the point that it's likely LJ's days as a viable site are numbered, and if you have anything there that you want saved, backing it up now is imperative. I imagine most of you are like me, and have abandoned, backed up, and deleted things on LJ many years ago (if nothing else, it's a massive security risk), but it's probably worth spreading the word.

sholio

It's 2026, and the winter-spring exchange cycle is getting underway!

Candy Hearts /

candyheartsex is now in signups! This is a low minimum relationships exchange (gen or ship) that reveals on Valentines Day.

purimgifts is also in signups! This is a low-minimum exchange for fanfic and/or podfic with a side helping of art, focused on characters who are at least one of: women, Jewish, or persecuted (preferably by evil viziers).

traumaticexperiences is a new exchange currently in nominations. Does what it says on the tin (an exchange about characters dealing with trauma).

amperslashexchange still has two lingering pinch hits, if anyone is interested! One is for Guardian (book, show, or RPF); the other has some various video game and book fandoms. At the current time, PHs are due on Jan 2 for a hopeful Jan 3 opening, but another extension is possible.

In other news, it sounds like LJ might be in its final death throes - see this bluesky thread from

rahaeli/

synecdochic about it. She recommends that you save anything off there that you want to keep.

I've kept my LJ account all this time despite being aware of the risks because a) I want to keep my blog links active as long as possible since I had so much fic posted on there back in the day, and b) I don't want to lose the ability to manage the various communities I used to run or co-run (sgagenficathon and stargategenrec among them) just in case of a troll takeover or similar. It's still useful for me to be able to log in occasionally to view locked posts, and I've really appreciated LJ's continued existence as a fic archive as I've gotten into some older fandoms over the last few years. (Torchwood was especially that way - a *bunch* of fic was only on LJ and had never been ported over to other archives.)

So I was feeling a little wistful about no longer having that option in future fandoms, but then I got to thinking about the sheer longevity of it. It was 20 years ago when I got into LJ, circa 2005 or so. 20 years before 2005 was 1985. In 2005, almost nothing about the internet as I had known it in the mid to late 90s was still the same. So the fact that I could go dumpster diving for 15-year-old fanfic in Torchwood fandom was really extraordinary compared to the experience I would have had in 2005 looking for fic from 1990. The most important rule of the early internet for me was that nothing lasts forever, and while it's been nice to have the longevity of certain aspects of its current incarnation, all things internet will still pass eventually.

Still, if there's anything over there you want to save, of your stuff or someone else's, now would be the time.

Edit: As per a question in the comments, does anyone know a way to save an archive of pictures from LJ without having to do it manually? A tool, technique, etc ... this is not for me, but I'd like to help if possible!

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