gokuma | Reading

Happy belated The Original No Kings Day.

I had mom duty from 8am to 3pm. Before I left I hand-washed some dishes and changed kitty litter. I returned a book to the library on my way there. While I was at mom’s I went for a walk. (I had eyed up this walk previously, thinking it would be close to my half-mile walks, but this was the first time I tried it. It turned out to be .65 mi, but it was a nice walk. Aside from the horrid sidewalks. The village really needs to fix the sidewalks, which have been in poor condition since I was a child, and probably before that.)

When I got home I did more hand-washing of dishes, grilled steak for Pip’s supper, shaved, and tossed a load of bath towel in the washer (AND dryer!).

I started the next Amelia Peabody book.

Temps started out at 57.4(F) and reached 77. It was a lovely day, sunny with a strong breeze.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay today. ( more back here )

delphi

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kingstoken's 2025 Book Bingo: Non-Human POV

(I checked this square off my bingo card last time, but this new release arrived with perfect timing, so I'm doubling up.)

Ew, It's Beautiful is the newest collection of cartoonist Joshua Barkman's webcomic False Knees. It contains around 120 short comics, the majority of which were new to me, separated into sections for winter, spring, summer, and fall based on their setting.

The stars of False Knees are usually birds, but there are some cats, insects, and at least a couple of beavers in the mix here. Barkman's art is legitimately beautiful, with a naturalist's specificity and a knack for combining human expressions with realistic animal features, and his writing captures the universal experience of being a small creature in an unfathomably big world. It's full of absurd humour, occasional moments of awe, and recurring bits about the creative process, self-image, and the way friends or family can be on entirely different wavelengths. The comic is where I got my current default icon from, and it almost never fails to bring me a little joy or give me something to appreciate.

( 3 Comics )

madimpossibledreamer

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Johan, Jotaro, and Kakyoin discuss what they know about Rush as they head to check out another lead.
Word Count: 1540
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

( Chapter 381: Trail of Fire )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Propane Nightmares - Pendulum (Celldweller Remix)

alexcat

Dragons

My Scroll.

spikedluv

I did not have any mom-duties today so I went downtown like usual. (My old usual. *g*) I hit Walmart, but was unable to get in a walk around the park because it started to pour just as I was checking out. (I stood in the self-check out area and stared in dismay out the doors. It was not supposed to rain this morning.) Thankfully, by the time I got home, it was no longer raining here. (Must’ve hit us first and headed east to downtown.)

Once I had unpacked the car and put everything away, I left to visit my aunt, stopping at the library on the way. The librarian working today is the one who got me into two of the book series I’m reading, and I had to talk to her about them. *g* I showed my aunt photos from Ian’s graduation and paid my monthly visit to the business office.

I stopped at Sunnycrest on the way home and picked up more of the beef sticks Pip likes, hit Stewart’s for milk on the way to pick up the dogs, then went for a short walk with the dogs when we got home. I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, hard-boiled some eggs, and scooped kitty litter. Being home meant I could make supper, so I grilled pork chops.

I finished reading the second book in the Lily Adler series, watched an HGTV program, and talked to mom on the phone like old times!

Temps started out at 63.3(F) and reached 82.4. There was some sun, but not much.

Mom Update:

Mom had her follow-up visit with the surgeon this morning. ( more back here )

kaffy_r

They Did It

I mean, there was no way it wasn't going to pass, but it's still like a knife twist, like salt in the wound that knife left, like the laughter of the people who brought knives and salt to the scene.

Motherfuckers. Murderers.

Current Mood: crushed
Current Location: the living room
Current Music: Nothing. Not a damn thin.

alexcat

Dragons

My Scroll.

spikedluv

I had the morning off of ‘mom-duty’ because of appointments. I told my sister S I’d be there by noon definitely, but would try to get there earlier, just so I didn’t have to rush. I got there around 11:30am.

I had a chiropractic appointment this morning (to go over results of last week’s tests and an adjustment) followed by a pedicure (I cancelled the last appointment because mom was still in the hospital so I really need it as I have an ingrown toe nail issue that needs addressing almost every visit). I chose a pretty lilac purple for my toes. I also got in a walk around the park.

I was also relieved early because my one sister has ‘summer hours’ and gets out early, and since she wasn’t staying the night, she bridged me and our other sister. I was home early enough to grill baby back ribs for Pip’s supper (saving the frozen GF pizza for another night). I also did a load of laundry, emptied the dishwasher, hand-washed dishes, and scooped kitty litter.

I started the second Lily Adler book, watched an HGTV program, and showered.

Temps started out at 66.7(F) and reached 84.4 that I saw. It was beautiful today, hot but not humid and there was a lovely breeze. A perfect day, really.

Mom Update:

Mom was up and sitting at the table with my sister, who was putting together a puzzle, when I got there. Mom didn’t seem that interested in the puzzle, but she was eating a yogurt. She later got on her tablet and then ate some rice krispies. I turned on Matlock while I was eating lunch, but it was a bust because it was two eps that my mom didn't like to watch (with Matlock being locked inside a prison to solve a crime).

I asked my sister S about scheduling for Friday and she was like, I can barely think about Thursday. *rolls eyes* I told my sister A (can't recall if I mentioned it to S) that I want to have a meal free to cook something for the holiday, either lunch or supper. I'm happy to spend the day there as long as I can get off early enough to grill (and it better not rain). We'll see what happens.

viridian5

The number of times recently when I was reading the cover copy summary of a fantasy book and get interested in the plot... and then it gets to the part about the protagonist's attraction to so-and-so and I realize it's a romantasy and put it down... way too many. And it's almost always a dark, illicit, or unwanted attraction.

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My left ankle is doing well! It barely hurts. I left off the compression/support sleeve altogether today because it was making the top of my foot hurt and I was fine. I'm looking around and walking much more carefully and with more awareness though.

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I tried the first episode of season 1 of Peacemaker and bounced off it hard. I didn't even make it all the way through the first half. Didn't like the characters, didn't like the tone, it didn't make me care.

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My current WIPs are Encanto. No idea if anybody here is reading my Encanto fics, but it's what I'm doing.

Current Mood: tired

viridian5

This book fought me. There were so many times I nearly put it down for good, but some online reviews said it got much better at about 50% of the way through so I slogged on. It does pull off something pretty cool at the end, enough for me to raise the rating from "did not like it" to "it's okay" but not enough for me to rate it higher or feel like the effort to get there was entirely worth it.

There are some great scenes! Punctuated by long stretches where I was so bored. How could a book about a lesbian highwaywoman seeking revenge on the industrialist who had her family and friends murdered when she was a child--only she survived the massacre--have boring stretches? And yet.

The writing is florid and sometimes nearly blurry. Metal from Heaven's main viewpoint character often sees the world somewhat off because she's deeply allergic to ichorite, a metal that she was exposed to a lot at the foundry she and her family had worked at that is now being laced into everything. When close to it or in contact with it, it hurts her body in many ways as well as overlays a nearly hallucinogenic slant to everything she sees. ( spoiler )

It might've been nice having more POVs than just hers.

This book throws a lot of superfluous details at you... then reveals much later on that not all of it was superfluous. Some transitions were abrupt and awkward. There are so many names in this--people, places, religions--that it can be hard to keep track of who is who and what is what, so an appendix would've been nice.

Some of the twists were very clever, but one major one absolutely failed at my suspension of disbelief. I was not able to go along with it.

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: "Jonestown" by Concrete Blonde

alexcat

Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Goals? Oh my! I think I might have given goals some time back. These days, just getting thour8gh the day is good. Living in t****'s America is draining. I would love to get back into writing. It does help with all that existential dread and angst I feel these days. My favorite Big Bang canceled this year. Maybe I'll hunt another one. Anyhow, my rest of the year goals and July goals are to do more fandom things.

I made this:

alexcat

Basics
Name: alexcat
Age: 65
Location: Southern US
Other blogs/socials: alexcat45 at Tumblr and alexcat45 or alex_writes on Discord

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about? Fandom stuff, fics, life in general(friends)
How often do you post? Whenever I write something usually. I am way too lazy.
What communities, if any, are you involved in? I write some challenge fics for

cap_ironman and

fan_flashworks. I host

fandom50challenge.
What kind of accounts do you like to follow? I like to read about other people's daily lives if they like to share. I like fandom and fic oriented posts as well.

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms: MCU, Sherlock Holmes, Babylon 5, Tolkien - and others.
Favorite Characters: Steve Rogers, Sherlock Holmes, John Sheridan(B5) and Tolkien's elves.
Ships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes... you get the drift.
Things you're into but not fannish about: I LOVE Star Wars but am not in the fandom.

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username: Many years ago when I had to come up with a username, I was into CATS with my daughter AND I have been obsessed with Alexander the Great since I was in 3rd grade so... alexcat came about.
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): Fall. It reminds me of buying notebooks and pencils when I was a kid, as well as the county fair, Halloween and my birthday in November. An added bonus is cool weather.
What's your vibe? I am not sure I have a vibe... I am a grumpy old cat so that might be my vibe.
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): This is strange but MCU, probably Nat and Steve... they like the outdoors.
Opening song on your summer mixtape: "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith. I remember hot days at the beach as a teen with Aerosmith playing loudly on the jukebox while we played Eight Ball in the Pier House. We wore short shorts and flirted with silly boys we'd never see again.

spikedluv

I finished five books this week! That's what happens when you spend the days at your mom's and have so much time to read.

What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: The Ape Who Guards the Balance (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) by Elizabeth Peters, The Prince and the Apocalypse by Kara McDowell, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells, Where Memories Lie (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) by Deborah Crombie, and All Mortal Flesh (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) by Julia Spencer-Fleming.

What I am Currently Reading: I haven’t had time to start another book, but my plan is for it to be the second Lily Adler book.

What I Plan to Read Next: I have the next Amelia Peabody at the library, so probably that one.

Book 48 of 2025: The Ape Who Guards the Balance (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) (Elizabeth Peters)

It was slow-going getting into this book, but once I did I really enjoyed it. ( spoilers )

I enjoyed this book and have requested the next. I'm giving this book four hearts only because of how difficult it was to get into.

♥♥♥♥

Book 49 of 2025: The Prince and the Apocalypse (Kara McDowell)

This was so good! I can't recall who posted about this book, but thank you! ( spoilers )

I highly enjoyed this book and have already requested the next from my library. I'm giving this one five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

Book 50 of 2025: Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries) (Martha Wells)

I really enjoyed this! Though I'm glad I was warned to read it out of order as it would have been weird to read this one then System Collapse. ( spoilers )

I enjoyed this book and can't wait for the next one to be released. (I heard there *is* a new one coming out, but I haven't seen a release date for it.) I'm giving this one five hearts. And have the urge to re-read the entire series.

♥♥♥♥♥

Book 51 of 2025: Where Memories Lie (A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery) (Deborah Crombie)

I really enjoyed this book! ( spoilers )

This book was very good and I'm giving it five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

Book 52 of 2025: All Mortal Flesh (Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) (Julia Spencer-Fleming)

This book was so good! ( spoilers )

I really enjoyed this and look forward to reading the next in the series. I'm giving this one five hearts.

♥♥♥♥♥

spikedluv

I was at mom’s by 6:45am so I didn't have much time to get things done before I left. I did manage to fold a load of laundry, hand-wash some dishes, cut up chicken for the dogs’ meals, scoop kitty litter, pack my own lunch, and dropped Grant at the garage. Whew!

My sister called to tell me she got out of work at 2:30pm and could relieve me early, so I was able to get home in time to actually cook supper! I planned to grill something, but it started to pour the moment I got inside the house, so instead I got sauce out of the freezer to defrost and we had spaghetti. I also baked chicken for the dogs, did the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and did a load in the dishwasher.

I started and finished reading the next Clare Fergusson book and watched the rest of the Hannah Swensen movie.

Temps started out at 72.1(F) and it was only 73 when I got home ~3pm since the storm was moving in, but it had to have broken 80.

Mom Update:

In mom’s own words, today she was ‘whooped’! ( more back here )

madimpossibledreamer

For Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, I just keep staring at MC and going “that’s Demifiend”

Current Mood: accomplished

spikedluv

Murderbot: Good ep. ( spoilers )

Resident Alien: Good ep. ( spoilers )

spikedluv

I arrived at mom’s at 6:15am, so, as you might imagine, I didn’t get a lot done before I left. Mom agreed that she would like to get out of the house and go for a ride, so I was able to get my shopping done at Price Chopper while she people-watched in the parking lot. (We also took the groceries to my house so I could put the cold stuff away, and stopped to fill her gas tank and for me to pick up a book at the library on the way back to her house.)

I was relieved at 5pm. I stopped at the library again to return a book I finished reading this afternoon. After I got home I did a load of laundry (washed and dried), hand-washed dishes, scooped kitty litter, and took a shower.

I finished the Duncan Kincaid book I was reading and watched the first half of the new Hannah Swenson movie.

Temps started out at 54.1(F) and reached 89.2 (at 5pm when I got home; Pip said it had gotten up to 93). I’m really glad I wore shorts even though it was a cool morning, because it heated up quickly.

Mom Update:

Mom felt alright today. ( more back here )

madimpossibledreamer

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stardust Legacy)
Summary: Josuke gets a clue about Sunnydale.
Word Count: 765
Rating: Teen

( skepticism no more )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Night Boarders - The Mummy OST

sheliak

I wasn't going to have one of these, but AO3 didn't have room to list my AFIRB and AFYCFB fandoms and my DNWs in the same box, and I didn't want to play favorites so here's a letter. This is going to be messy and will not have my usual formatting past the likes and DNWs sections.

DNWs

General DNWs:

Time loops (including both stable time loops and Groundhog Day style time loops)
Rape/noncon
Hopeless endings
Unrequested setting-change AUs (as opposed to canon divergence, which is pretty much always welcome)
Porn without plot
Mundane AUs
Omegaverse
Hanahaki
Soulmates
Characters begging to come/for sex acts
In art: genitalia

DNWs specific to 7 Seeds

Ango playing a major role (mention is fine).

DNWs specific to Akatsuki no Yona:

Yona/Hak, except as part of Yona/Hak/Soo-Won or Yona/Hak/Jae-ha.

DNWs specific to Chronicles of the Kencyrath:

Jame/Tori as a central part of a story, except as requested.
Harm to bonded creatures (e.g. Addy, Jorin, Drie's fish; also applies to original character creatures).

DNWs specific to the Dark Crystal universe:

Original Skeksis, urRu/Mystic, or UrSkek characters. (Original characters of any other species are fine, as are "nothing to work off of but the name, but the existence of an UrSkek/Mystic/Skeksis by this name is canon" characters.)

DNWs specific to Six Ages:

Any variant of the "Are Elmal and Yelmalio the same god or not?" mess.

DNWs specific to Star Trek: Rihannsu:

The Rihannsu becoming or evolving into the Romulans of TNG.

DNWs specific to Star Wars:

Jedi Order or Council bashing - I have a lot of affection for them, both as people as and a a culture/institution.
Tattooine Slave Culture (the specific fanon).
The Mando'a conlang, or Mandalore stuff in general.

DNWs specific to Werewolf: The Apocalypse—The Book of Hungry Names:

For art: the protagonist of the game in human form.
DNWs specific to X-Men:
The Phoenix Force being portrayed as an intrinsically evil being.
Trevor Fitzroy.
Selene, the Shadow King, or Mojo playing a large role (exception: if I'm requesting Spiral, Mojo is okay then).
Any romantic pairings involving Empath.
Ororo/T'Challa--please don't even mention the marriage, even to say they're divorced.
Mutant!Moira.

Battleship Tag DNWs
ABDL
Abusing Heat Suppressants
Accidental Knotting
Age Regression/De-Aging
Assgasm or Nogasm
Awkward Boners
Belly Kink
Biological BDSM AU
Boot Kink
Breast Expansion
Breeding Kink
Cheating/Infidelity
Cigarettes
Cock Warming
Come Inflation
Coming In Pants
Coregasm
Dry Humping
Eating disorders
Edging
Glory Hole
Hanahaki
Heat/rut
Hole Training
Inflation
Knotting
Makeover
Objectification
Omega/Omega
Omegaverse
Omorashi
Oral Knotting
Piss Enema
Plugged in Public
Red String of Fate
Rimming
Ruined Orgasm
Serial Killers
Sexting
Spanking
Somnophilia
Soulmate-Identifying Marks
Submission Pissing
Time Loop

Likes

General Likes:

Time travel, including: time travel fixit; time travel with the glorious angst of knowing you're overwriting your future to give the past a chance; time travel that results in forming new kinds of relationships with people, like becoming friends with someone who was an enemy in the old timeline.
Seers (in the absence of predestination) who know what may happen and use that knowledge cleverly.
Strict honor codes.
Worldbuilding.
Alien POV.
A sense of wonder.
Loyalty.
Characters temporarily putting aside their weapons or sources of power as a show of trust.
Best enemies, who might kill each other someday but fundamentally respect and trust each other, perhaps more than they do their nominal allies. Rivals and enemies becoming friends, or allies, or lovers, or swearing loyalty to one another.
Kneeling. Physical gestures of loyalty or affection.
Unexpected mercy. Mercy in general, too.
Heroism in desperate straits, characters choosing to be heroic even in a dystopia or doomed world.
Magical abilities/superpowers in daily life.

Time Travel Likes

Time travel fixit.
Time travel with the glorious angst of knowing you're overwriting your future to give the past a chance.
Time travel that results in forming new kinds of relationships with people, like becoming friends with someone who was an enemy in the old timeline.
Crack pairings that suddenly make perfect sense due to time travel!
Characters gaining a new perspective--on other people, history, themselves, etc.
Characters who were neglected in canon getting to shine, including but not limited to those characters using their knowledge of the future to achieve great things.
In action series, characters using their future knowledge to become totally badass (especially when it's a female character doing this).

Worldbuilding Likes:

Culture! I really love a piece that gets into the POV of the culture it's depicting.
Family structure. How do people see their relationships? Which ones do they prioritize?
Craft details!
Clothing, cloth, fibers, weaving, spinning... Also jewelry. Who wears it? What does it indicate (e.g., gender, status, ...?)
Architecture, how homes and public buildings reflect a culture.
Food! What do people eat? How do they store food for the times when they can't farm/hunt/forage for more? Do they trade for food?

Hurt/Comfort Likes:

Leaders slowly earning the trust of traumatized people who have every reason to fear the worst from the world in general and possibly them in particular.
A character is disparaged by their own allies, but an unlikely person (such as an honorable enemy or captor) recognizes their excellence and tells them so.
I already mentioned unexpected mercy, but it goes here too: I love a buildup of fear and then relief, mercy from someone who (as far as the character knows) has absolutely no reason to be merciful.
Characters who have no mercy for themselves, but can have it for others, or whose friends and lovers disagree with their self-judgement.
Characters pushing themselves to their limits and beyond, and others being there to catch them when they do.
Characters going to great lengths to help one another.
The less-hurt person also being in some distress, and struggling with it, and perhaps taking comfort in their own ability to help others.
Characters who are convinced that they don't matter and no one cares learning that actually someone does care and does think they matter.
Rescues! Rescues where the rescuee is convinced no one's coming, implacable rescuers overcoming terrible obstacles to save their friends/lovers.

Art Likes:

Pen and ink. Watercolor. Charcoal.
Use of light and shadow.
Limited color palettes can be very lovely!
Flowing lines.
Stained glass, decorated pottery, tapestry, art that evokes any of these.
Pixel art.
Body language.
"Royal ease" position, when appropriate (for gods and rulers).
Favorite artists: John R. Neill, Ivan Bilibin, Leo & Diane Dillon, Alphonse Mucha, Thomas Canty, James Gurney, Jan Pospíšil, Michelle Lockamy. On the comics side of things, Dave Cockrum for character designs & clothing, John Byrne for body language, Alan Davis, David Aja (his Scarlet Witch covers especially).

Any Fandom I've Requested Before [Fic]

1: Any Character I've Requested Before (AFIRB)
Any & Relationship I’ve Requested Before (AFIRB)
Any / Relationship I’ve Requested Before (AFIRB)

Medium: Fic

Tags:
Teaching/Mentorship
Time Travel Fix-It
Unexpected Mercy
Grief/Mourning
Hurt/Comfort
Interactions with Gods
Katabasis
Loyalty
Memories
Mirrors
Exhaustion
Blood
celestial
Experimental
Apocalypse
Mental Link
Shapeshifting
Dimension Travel
Peggy Sue Time Travel
Fealty/Devotion

For this fandom, you can see my other exchange letters, the fandom's tag on this journal, or my Everything page on the app for old prompts.

List of Fandoms (... I'm probably leaving something out):
7 Seeds
A Matter of Profit - Hilari Bell
Age of Apocalypse
Akatsuki no Yona | Yona of the Dawn
Bleach
Books of the Raksura
Casey Jones the Union Scab - Joe Hill (Song)
Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover
Chronicles of the Kencyrath
Crossover Fandom (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy x Star Wars Legends, Star Trek: DS9 x X-Men Comics, Chronicles of the Kencyrath x War Gods, X-Men Comics x Age of Apocalypse, Dark Crystal comics x Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), Transformers Generation One x Transformers Shattered Glass
마왕의 고백 | The Dark Lord's Confession (Webcomic)
Dreaming of Sunshine
Glorantha (sometimes as RuneQuest)
Heartstrikers Series - Rachel Aaron
Heer Halewijn (Traditional Ballad)
Homestuck (only the Eldritchfuck Roseworld AU from FFA)
John Barleycorn
King of Dragon Pass
Liavek
Long John Moore (Traditional Song)
Marvel Comics/Marvel 616 (X-Men, always)
Mesopotamian Mythology
Monstress
묘령의 황자 | Mystic Prince (Webcomic)
Naruto
New Mutants (Comics)
Original Work (mostly femdommy het, some gen with mostly similar power dynamics)
Otoyomegatari | The Bride's Stories
Planet of the Dragons - Richard Brightfield
Revolutionary Princess Eve (Webcomic)
SCP Foundation
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
SCP Foundation
Star Trek: Crossroad - Barbara Hambly
Star Trek: Rihannsu
Star Trek: The Entropy Effect - Vonda McIntyre
Star Trek: Various Authors
Star Wars Legends: Republic (Comics)
Star Wars: All Media Types
The Dark Crystal tie-in comics
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Sun Sword - Michelle West
Transformers (Skybound 2023)
Vespertine Series - Margaret Rogerson
The Vicars of Lower Squashby - Jared Pechacek
Vampire: The Masquerade
Warhammer (also as FFA Warhammer AUs )
X-Men (Comicsverse) (sometimes as Marvel 616/Marvel Comics)
Yona of the Dawn

Any Fandom I've Created For Before [Fic]

Ships:
1: Worldbuilding (AFICFB)
1: Any Character I’ve Created For Before (AFICFB)
Any / Relationship I’ve Created For Before (AFICFB)
Any & Relationship I’ve Created For Before (AFICFB)

Medium: Fic

Tags:
Hurt/Comfort
Antiques and Relics
Arranged Marriage
Bets & Wagers
Blood
body of water
Bodysharing
celestial
Dimension Travel
Dragons
Enemies to Lovers
Exhaustion
Experimental
Fealty/Devotion
Forehead Touching
Found Family
Grief/Mourning
hair petting
Hand/Wrist Kisses
Historical Fashion
Huddling For Warmth
Hurt/Comfort
Interactions with Gods
Katabasis
Loyalty
Medical Exam
Memories
Mental Link
Mirrors
Peggy Sue Time Travel
Politics
Polyamory
POV Outsider
rococo
Role Reversal
Scar Kissing
Second marriage
Shapeshifting
Sharing Clothes
Teaching/Mentorship
Time Travel Fix-It
Unexpected Mercy
Wings

List of Fandoms (complete going by AO3 posting; see

sheliak for characters/ships):
A Matter of Profit - Hilari Bell
Aladdin (Cartoon 1994)
Amalgam Comics
Astronomy (Anthropomorphic)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
Battleship Exchange
Bleach (Anime & Manga)
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
Chronicles of the Kencyrath - P. C. Hodgell
Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Elemental Logic - Laurie J. Marks
Fallen London | Echo Bazaar
Girl Genius (Webcomic)
Homestuck
Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
Naruto (Anime & Manga)
New Mutants (Marvel Comics)
Original Work
Otoyomegatari | The Bride's Stories
Oz - L. Frank Baum
RuneQuest (Roleplaying Game)
SCP Foundation
Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (Visual Novel)
Six Ages (Video Games)
Star Trek - Various Authors
Star Wars - All Media Types
Star Wars Legends: Republic (Comics)
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV)
The Heartstrikers Series - Rachel Aaron
Warhammer 40.000
Watersong - Mary Caraker
X-Men (Comicverse)
Yuri's Palace (Webcomic)
天使のたまご | Tenshi no Tamago | Angel's Egg (Anime)

Crossover Fandom (Transformers x Transformers Shattered Glass) [Fic]

Any Shattered Glass Decepticon(s) (Transformers Shattered Glass) & Optimus Prime (Transformers G1)
Any Shattered Glass Decepticons (Transformers Shattered Glass) & Ratchet (Transformers G1)
Combaticons (Transformers G1) & Megatron (Transformers Shattered Glass)
Combaticons (Transformers Shattered Glass) & First Aid (Transformers G1)
Combaticons (Transformers Shattered Glass) & Protectobots (Transformers G1)
Elita One (Transformers G1) & Shockwave (Transformers Shattered Glass)
Jazz (Transformers G1) & Soundwave (Transformers Shattered Glass)
Jazz (Transformers G1)/Soundwave (Transformers Shattered Glass)
Optimus Prime (Transformers G1) & Starscream (Transformers Shattered Glass)
Optimus Prime (Transformers IDW) & Shockwave (Transformers IDW Shattered Glass)
Optimus Prime (Transformers IDW)/Shockwave (Transformers IDW Shattered Glass)
Ratchet (Transformers G1) & Soundwave (Transformers Shattered Glass)
Hook (Transformers Shattered Glass) & Ratchet (Transformers G1)

Medium: Fic

Tags:
a brief respite
abduction/kidnapping
Alternate Universe
Angst
at gunpoint
Bathing/Washing
beaten up
Carrying
Catching Collapsing Character
Collars
Crying
Dimension Travel
Exhaustion
Facial Scars
Forced Marriage
Forced Bonding
Gentle touches
Getting to Know Each Other
Helping Character Walk
Hiding Illness/Injury
Hospitalization
Huddling For Warmth
Hurt/Comfort
Identity Reveal
Kindness
Loyalty
Manhandling
Marriage Hunt/Chase
Memories
memory sharing
Mind Control
Non-Consensual Body Modification
Non-Human Genitalia
non consensual drug use
On the Run
Poison
Portals
POV Outsider
Power Dynamics
Pre-Relationship
Promises
Protectiveness
Reluctantly Accepting Comfort
Rescue
respect
Responsibility
Restraints
Reunions
Robots
Role Reversal
Running Away
Scar Kissing
Scars
Secret Identity
Sentient Places
Shapeshifting
Shock/punishment collar
Soulbonds
Stabbing
Stocks (or pillories)
Teamwork
Temporary Character Death
Tenderness
Touch-Starved
trapped together
Trust
Unexpected Mercy
Vulnerability
worsening illness
Wound Tending

DNW clarification for this fandom: I'm fine with referenced past noncon for this prompt, just nothing between requested ships!

Fandom notes: I don’t have strong feelings about seeker trine fanon, empurata outside of IDW (in IDW I like the angst/whump of it) or Soundwave’s exact relationship to his casssettes. Follow your spark.

I am 100% okay with continuity soup for G1, and I like both canon Shattered Glass universes but also tend to like continuity soup Shattered-Glass-As-Generic-Multiverse.

However, for the ships where I specified IDW Optimus and SG IDW Shockwave, I do strongly want IDW—their histories there are a big part of why I want those characters to interact!

Prompts, general:
- The SG Autobots are terrifying, so I’d be very into the SG Decepticons being terrified of the nice Autobots when they meet them!
- I love the id factor of having to rescue the sweet mirrorverse good guy versions of your enemies from the horrifying mirrorverse versions of your friends.
- Also the idea of having to impersonate your evil self (with advice from your not-evil not-enemy kinda-prisoner, who has a much better idea of how your evil self acts)!
- I'm up for super tropey over the top scenarios—fell into the AU, got mistaken for your evil self and received their war prize? Find out that your friends are evil here because you see them torturing your enemy and now you have to save them? That kind of thing.
- It's really fun when Decepticons are scared of the medics to me, and that'd make extra sense if they're really scared of their evil counterparts.
- I'd be into as much whump as you like here as long as it's followed by rescue and/or h/c!

Prompts, Megs + Combaticons
- Okay, how would the whole “reprogrammed to be loyal to G1 Megatron” thing work with encountering an AU version of Megatron?
- I'm super into the slave coding mind control trope, both as whump with an evil "master" and as a justification for slavefic h/c tropes with a good guy in charge.
- I’m certain SG Megatron would be horrified by this situation… and wouldn’t that be surreal for the Combaticons?
- (And I am also amused by the idea of the professional soldier Combaticons meeting the Fun Pub SG Decepticons & realizing that this is a resistance movement run by academics. How are they not dead! … Wait, why do they object to the idea of them dying?)

Prompts, IDW1 Optimus + IDWSG Shockwave
- So both IDWSG and IDW Shockwave suffered empurata and shadowplay, but the shadowplay had opposite effects—SG Shockwave is still nice, just even more emotional. Knowing what he could’ve become if it had worked as intended would be traumatic! Horrifying! (… Boggling, given the claim to logic and then the black hole thing!)
- For Optimus: this is the friend and mentor he couldn’t save, who faced a horrible fate for trying to work within a broken system and who then turned into a terrifying enemy. And here he is, having suffered something similar but come through it far more like the person he used to like/admire/love…
- And meanwhile from Shockwave’s point of view: this is the ex-friend who betrayed him and did that to him! The enemy he’s been fighting against ever since! (And sure this Optimus has his flaws but he’d be horrified at his SG self.)
- And both of them could expect the worst from a version of their enemy/friend who has good reason to hate them.

Sun Sword - Michelle West [Fic]

Ship:
Elena Tamaraan/Telakar (Sun Sword)

Medium: Fic

Tags:
Enemies to Lovers
Femdom/malesub
Role Reversal
Unexpected Mercy
Rescue

Prompts:
- Their situation at the end of the series? Straight out of my id. He’d had the upper hand in their dealings before that, but he also set things up so that when he was mind controlled she’d have the chance to magically enslave him before he killed her. (And then he does say that he wants her dead for that—but this is after he had a very clear choice between killing her and this situation, and he chose to be magically enslaved!)
- It is so gloriously fucked up and I want so much more. I love femdommy power dynamics and I love the whole thorny implications of him putting himself under her power even though he knew he’d want her dead afterwards. I would really just like to roll around in those implications.
- How did he decide what he was going to do? How do they manage with each other afterwards? Their whole plotline seemed like setup for something, and I'm really curious about what...
- I’m also really into them saving each other's lives.
- There are also parallels between what Telakar did with Elena and what Isladar did with Kiriel—obviously those are very different relationships, of course, and Isladar has a grand plan—but it's there.
- I love all the emotional weirdness with the demons, and the ways that despite being alien some of them do clearly care for specific humans.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names [Art]

Ships:
1: Podge (Book of Hungry Names)
1: Nin (Book of Hungry Names)
1: Elton Dey (Book of Hungry Names)
1: Melodie Palys (Book of Hungry Names)
Nin & Podge (Book of Hungry Names)
Nin & Melodie Palys (Book of Hungry Names)
Melodie Palys & Podge (Book of Hungry Names)
Elton Dey & Podge (Book of Hungry Names)
Elton Dey & Nin (Book of Hungry Names)
Elton Dey & Nin & Melodie Palys & Podge (Book of Hungry Names)
Elton Dey & Melodie Palys (Book of Hungry Names)

Medium: Art

Tags:
Werewolves
Shadows - Freeform
Animal Transformation
City Lights
Cuddling & Snuggling
Gardens and Gardening
Ghosts & Spirits
green - Freeform
Huddling For Warmth
Ice
Ink
night sky
Non-Sexual Intimacy
Occult
Plants
Play Fighting
Rain
Rainbows
Roses
Shapeshifting
Sharing Food/Drinks
Size Difference
Sleepovers
sorcery
Sparring
Spring
Storms
Summer
Swimming
Texting

Prompts:
- Feel free to take any tag as a prompt.
- Nin texting/typing/typoeing in wolf form on her giant keyboard.
- Podge with his plants
- Melodie being cheerful with her sister's skull
- Elton's magic and books (and his decorating sense)
- Cleaning up the barrows
- Podge on Rosemary Street, Nin in her woods, Melodie in the barrows—something with them and their places and maybe the spirits there
- Spirit dealings! Any chiminage scene would be amazing, or just a werewolf looking skeptical at a spirit.
- Any two or more pack members cuddling in wolf form. (I have wanted this since I first played the game. Wolf cuddles. Please!)
- You can include the protagonist in wolf form if you like, but I DNW them in human form. (No preferences on their wolf appearance though! Want them to be green for that tag? Go ahead.)
- Daphne and Black Tarn are pack members too (well sometimes), you can include them if you want.

Art references (for all the characters I nominated—included Daphne and Black Tarn just in case):
Daphne Clear
Black Tarn (homid/human) and Black Tarn (lupus/wolf)
Elton Dey (homid) and Elton (crinos/hybrid war-form)
Ashley Nin (homid) and Nin (hispo/mostly-wolf hybrid form)
Melodie Palys (homid) and Melodie (crinos)
Podge (Patrick Hodge) (homid) and Podge (glasbro/mostly-human hybrid form)

William Taylor (Traditional Ballad) [Art, Fic]

Ships:
Captain & Sally | Sarah (William Taylor)
1: Sally | Sarah (William Taylor)

Medium: Art, Fic

Tags:
Blood
body of water
Exhaustion
Guns
Historical Fashion
Loyalty
Memories
POV Outsider
rococo
Sharing Clothes
Teaching/Mentorship

Prompts
- I love the song’s progression from a relatively straightforward “young woman crossdresses to follow her lover to war” song to murder ballad to a job offer.
- I’m curious about the captain’s POV on all this.
- I love where the song leaves the protagonist (at least in my favorite versions, with the captain giving her a military command and possibly also her own ship) and I’d like to see more of her post-canon.
- Was her original plan to go home, get married, and return to normal life? Did she change her mind about that before finding out William cheated on her—did she find that she liked being a sailor—or was it that after killing him she couldn't return home, or realized she was no longer the person who wanted to?
- I’d also love to see more of her interactions with the captain–in some versions he’s an antagonist to begin with, but by the end he’s 100% on her side and it’s really fun.
- Artwise: Sarah/Sally looking dashing in a sailor’s uniform or scary with guns, taking aim at her ex, her during that naval battle where her shirt malfunctions, her and the captain sitting down for a conversation, or take any art-suitable tag as a prompt.

Links to three versions:

Willie Taylor sung by the Longest Johns
https://thelongestjohns.bandcamp.com/track/willie-taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--_hQ3ATUQ

William Taylor sung by Robin & Barry Dransfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuf2hRVkpuM

William Taylor sung by Bill Jones
https://billjonesfolkmusician.bandcamp.com/track/william-taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51_JoDabqtk

Letter link for requests
https://sheliak.dreamwidth.org/129520.html

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Fandom 50 #22

Day by Day by

surprisepink
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Ship: Stede Bonnet/Izzy Hands
Medium: Fic
Length: 1361 words
Rating: Teen
My Bookmark Tags: slice of life, romance, humour, happy ending, established relationship, izzy lives, future, flirtation, compatibility, service
Summary: A typical raid for Captain Bonnet and his new first mate.

Excerpt:

“I’m getting the hang of this, if I do say so myself,” says Stede, cheerily.

“And you do.”

“What’s that, Izzy?’

“Say so yourself.” The man looks entirely unimpressed, but it does take a lot to impress Izzy. Stede has accepted it by this point, and knows not to take it personally. Knows, too, that if Izzy actually wasn’t at least a little happy with him, he could leave the ship just about anywhere and find another pirate crew to join. And yet, port after port, he doesn’t.

And all Stede had ever wanted was for people to stay.

This is everything I love about the idea of Stede and Izzy together on the Revenge, with Stede captaining and Izzy serving as his first mate. The way they rile each other up is perfect, tempered to just the right heat by a better understanding of each other. Izzy's ways of trying to serve Stede while keeping his ego in check are moving, and so is Stede's growing sense of what he's doing and what it means.

The story's funny, with a comedic moment early on that made me laugh out loud, and the sexual chemistry between Stede and Izzy absolutely crackles. This one really made my day.

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