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Some more 3 Sentence Ficathon fills I wrote

any, any, too kink to torture: Hundred Line, Yugamu | AO3

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"Ooh, you've captured me. Whatever will you do with me?" Yugamu asks, already salivating in anticipation. "Will you torture me? Rip my nails out? Show me my entrails? Cut off my limbs, one by one?" Yugamu shivers excitedly, barely able to contain his excitement.

"Uh, Supreme Commander?" the Commander named Murvrum says, turning towards V'ehxness. V'ehxness gives Yugamu a look of contempt and frowns.

"Lock him in one of the cells but treat him well."

"W-well?" Murvrum squawks, and Yugamu's face falls.

"Yes." V'ehxness "He'll be ready to tell us everything in the morning."

any, any, canon is the fix-it: Naruto, Minato | AO3

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In his last life, Minato had failed. Kushina had been kidnapped by shinobi from Kumogakure, and then the Kyuubi had razed Konoha to the ground, and Minato couldn't do anything except die.

This time, Minato had the mind of an adult shinobi in the body of a young child. He wasn't going to fail Kushina or Konoha this time; he was going to become the strongest shinobi in Konoha.

After, there's a war, and Minato struggles without foresight of the future. He loses Obito, and then Rin. But at least he's alive, and Kushina is still here, too. They're even going to have a child together.

When Minato seals the Kyuubi with the Dead Demon Consuming seal, he knows that he won't get another chance at this life. But he came back to protect Konoha, and even though he failed in keeping Kushina safe again, he can at least protect their newborn son. So Minato dies for a second time, with gratitude in his heart that he had gotten a second chance at all.

any, any, always being the second choice: Hollow Knight Silksong, Lace/Hornet | AO3

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Lace had been created as a substitute for the Weavers, this she knew. Mother would always prefer the Weavers to Lace. Even long after the Weavers were gone, Mother chased their remnants and descendants even though she already had Lace. This red-cloaked spider was her mother's newest fixation, and Lace had tried to kill her out of spite.

So why did Lace saving her from the Void that she had summoned to swallow Mother? Lace had watched the little spider traverse Pharloom, stirring emotions in her that Lace struggled to name. She realized, as the void dragged her down, that she saved Hornet because Hornet cared. Hornet cared for Pharloom far more than Mother, and more than even Lace herself. Hornet deserved to live; Lace deserved whatever fate awaited her mother.

When Lace surfaced from the Void, she could only look at Hornet. Hornet, who had inexplicably leapt into the Void for her sake. To save Lace, something that she truly had not expected when she intervened to save Hornet from the Void. Of all the beings that Lace had known in her long life, not one of them had ever chosen her first, not until Hornet. Lace knew then, that she would follow Hornet forever, wherever she went, if only for the chance that she could experience this again, the joy of being chosen first.

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* I need a new hoodie, but I am going to do this amazing things where instead of buying it today, I am going to buy it tomorrow and that solidarity is going to fix everything! No change is spending or behavior patterns, no need to like actually sully your karma by voting, but boy howdy me waiting a day is going to show the billionaires for reasons!

Some very left-leaning small businesses here in PDX were posting against the general strike, asking what the demands were and how they could be satisfied even if we had them, asking who organized this and what the message even is. Then they later posted they were closing today, because people are so in love with the idea that this is going to send a message. One bookstore is now asking for donations because of how closing on a Friday and what they'll need to cancel will effect them. Small businesses are going to feel the pinch more than Amazon. Why the fuck are they included in this? And don't get me started on the 'don't go to school' part of this.

Anyway, the best and most cost effective place to get said hoodie and some other stuff I need is Target, but I haven't touched them since their bullshit and still wont.

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2582 / The Pitt, 2.04; Shot

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[MULTIFANDOM] Three is Not a Crowd

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The Day in Spikedluv (Thursday, Jan 29)

I hit Price Chopper while I was downtown. Yes, again. My meal plans got rearranged due to Pip’s toothache. I already had the pork chops in the oven when he got home yesterday, so there was no changing that, but I decided to do French toast (which he had requested one day) because it should be easy for him to eat. I was not prepared with enough bread in the house, or bacon. o_O

I did two loads of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip/the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I also wrote out checks for the property tax (personal and LLC).

I read more fanfic and watched Wild Cards and an ep of House Hunters International. Zoo Tampa was my background tv.

I had more stomach issues today. ( cutting for the gross details )

Temps started out at 7.2(F) (and actually went up a bit to 7.5 before I left the house) and reached 23.2. The lows for the next three nights (including tonight) are supposed to be below zero. *shivers* DNW!! There was sun again today, which was nice.

Speaking of DNW, it appears that the N’oreaster this weekend might miss us this far inland? I hope that continues to be the case. Looks like Boston is going to get hit hard again. (As well as North Carolina, so stay safe down there!)

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay when I visited. She had some protein drink just before I got there and I made her an egg with cheese for lunch. (One egg with cheese filled her to almost uncomfortable. I can’t believe just how small her stomach is. I know they took about 1/3 of it, and that by not eating it’s probably shrunk even farther, and yet I’m still surprised by it.) I also took her some of the steamed butternut squash chunks so she could do with it as she wished. (I’m sure I would have put too much butter and or brown sugar on it for her taste.)

While I was there she got a phone call from my brother’s long-term GF’s (they’ve been together since high school, so a couple years longer than Pip and I have been together) mother. This woman was a year ahead of my mom in high school and they were never friends, and even just acquaintances after R & T got together, but she recently asked if it would be okay if she called. It sounded like they had a good conversation.

My mom mentioned that my brother calls her every night, which is nice. She also told me she was expecting my aunt and uncle tomorrow morning.

I wrote out a check for her and put it back in the mail.

Sister A and Ian had just arrived when I was talking to her in the evening and she told me that her BFF had been there in the afternoon after I left, so she had some nice company today.

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poll: 2025

Our favourite releases of 2025, part 2!

Thanks everyone who voted! These are our democratically voted and well deserving winners:

( 3rd place )

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( 1st place )

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Little Mushroom by Yi Shi Si Zhou, book 2

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due South: Twenty Cents a Page by dance_across

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen & up
Length: 1782
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: dance_across on AO3
Themes: Crack treated seriously, Friendship, Humor, Pining, Post-canon

Summary: Ray and Fraser discover that someone's been writing stories about them. Slashy, slashy stories.

Reccer's Notes: This is set after canon, during Ray and Fraser's quest. They've become minor celebrities in the wake of the big submarine/terrorists drama and when they briefly hit an outpost of civilization (a motel with internet), Ray checks his email and finds Frannie's sent him a link to a fanfic someone's written, called "Snowfall in Summer". Hilarity then ensues as they decide to read it together, and it leads to Ray making a big decision. The cracky premise is the existence of fanfic about them, and as far as possible, dance_across shows us how that might actually pan out. In a romantic way, of course, with a hopeful ending! It's a lot of fun.

Fanwork Links: Twenty Cents a Page

WIPs poll

I got tagged into this on Tumblr but might as well give you lot a chance too.

Here's a list of all the WIPS I've touched in the last three years, listed by working title. The deal is that I write 100 words for every vote (no deadline.)

No, you don't get to ask for any more info, though I have talked about some of them before. The oldest one is about twenty-five; the newest was started for yuletide this year. There are 25 different fandoms involved, which is definitely part of the problem, yes.

Poll #34146

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32

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Which WIP?

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A novel example of three-factor, one locus sex determination in a Terrestrial chordate
1 (3.1%)

a shadow on snow
0 (0.0%)

All Men Raising
0 (0.0%)

Arha the Ninth
3 (9.4%)

Chappa'ai
2 (6.2%)

Cheris the First
2 (6.2%)

Children of Barrayar
4 (12.5%)

Clark Knows Better
1 (3.1%)

The #@%$^$ Coffeeshop Fic Fine
1 (3.1%)

Dyson Swarm
1 (3.1%)

The First Sedoretu of Ankh-Morpork
5 (15.6%)

The Hanahaki Protocols
1 (3.1%)

Hello My Name Is
1 (3.1%)

Hikarigakure
0 (0.0%)

I <3 Boobies ch 2
0 (0.0%)

If A Body Meet A Body
1 (3.1%)

I Was The Yiling Laozu's Concubine And All I Got Was This Gauzy Robe
3 (9.4%)

Kobayashi Gusu
0 (0.0%)

Necro-Gothic
0 (0.0%)

One Is One And All Alone
1 (3.1%)

Paris Lui-Meme Imite
1 (3.1%)

Peace love & Quebecois
1 (3.1%)

The Second Master of Yiling
1 (3.1%)

Slow Like Honey
1 (3.1%)

Something Rotten
1 (3.1%)

Tiger Burning Bright
0 (0.0%)

Untitled Shous Game
0 (0.0%)

The White Dynasty Does An Activism
0 (0.0%)

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community: thursday recs

Thursday Recs

Got time for some more Thursday Recs?

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: nothing now

Mach it happen.

Challenge #14

In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

You've probably heard of Top Gun at this point. Yes, you - the generic you, the one reading this post right now. I'd be more surprised if it hasn't come up at this point, given the cultural footprint the movies hold, to the point that the first one was considered significant enough to be included in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry and the second one played in movie theaters for over six months in a time when that's practically unthinkable because people kept buying tickets. But maybe you haven't seen it. No shame in that. Maybe you know it's not for you. I can't speak to your tastes. Then again, maybe you're not sure. Maybe you need some enticement. Maybe you need to be told that it's more or less American live-action anime, down to having beach episodes. Maybe you need more than that.

Might I offer a homoerotic volleyball montage, voted "best movie scene" three years in a row by Suck magazine, a fact that made the director tremendously proud?

What about Val Kilmer snapping his teeth at Tom Cruise, a moment he confirmed was improvised?

How about one actor sneaking porn onto set and playing it during a scene, creating the conditions for someone to say "This gives me a hard on" and for someone else to respond "Don't tease me" and for that moment to be included in the final cut?

Were you aware that the first movie's aesthetic was largely inspired by Bruce Weber, noted gay photographer?

How about that for all its endorsement by the US military, it manages to be astonishingly gay by 1986 and contemporary standards, with Kilmer himself being the first Iceman/Maverick shipper?

Would it please you to know that between Top Gun Maverick and the Mission Impossible movies, combined with all the cumulative explosions from his movies, Tom Cruise qualifies as a Dekahelen?

Possibly you'd enjoy knowing that the sequel is a surprisingly somber meditation on aging, loss, regret, and reconciliation in addition to all the thrills of the practical stuntwork?

Or that together, both movies total just over four hours' runtime so it's not even a big commitment, and that all four of those hours are full of beautifully composed scenes and shots?

Maybe you've made up your mind a while ago. I'm cool with that. But if you haven't and you're willing to give it a shot, drop me a line and I can hook you up, no streaming services required.

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

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Golden - Huntr/x

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adventures in cooking

you know together we're glowing

As a post-Christmas treat, I bought myself this Emile Henry dutch oven and the instructions say to boil milk in it (and then clean it out) before using it the first time? I've never heard of that, but my other dutch ovens are enameled cast iron, not ceramic. Has anyone heard of this/done this?

anyway, mainly I bought it because I want to try this no-knead everything bread but didn't want to deal with my 6 qt cast iron dutch oven, which is extremely heavy and also tucked away in a closet somewhere. My plan is to mix it up tomorrow after work since it needs an on-the-counter overnight rise, and then bake it Saturday morning. We'll see how it goes!

I might also make garlic and bread soup again this weekend, and also maybe some version of citrus and soy noodles (it's a ramen recipe but I'm just going to use angel hair instead since I already have it) for dinner tomorrow. Oh, and those orange cranberry scones again - the cranberries are still taking up too much room in my freezer and must be used up!

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第五年第二十天

部首
手 part 7
承, to bear; 技, skill; 把, object marker (and counter for umbrellas) ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=64

语法
2.21 (part 2) Degree complements with high degrees: 很, 多, 要命, 不行
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-2-grammar

词汇
出口, exit; 出色, outstanding; 出售, to sell; 出席, to attend; 付出, to pay out; 作出, to make ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
那是我科技界的国民老公可不是白叫的, they don't call me the National Sweetheart of STEM for nothing
这猫有灵性得很，它有名字吗, this cat is very smart, does he have a name? The Chinese uses the animal pronoun "it" but I am translating it as "he" for the sake of Da Qing's dignity
你的演讲很出色, your speech was outstanding

Me:
你快点把酸奶放在冰箱里。
今天冷得要命，我又不想出门。

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historical

Small Stuff

I seem to be the respository for old papers in various lines of descent. None of them worth a damn, except their voices are such a joy to "hear". But on recent visit my daughter asked for the little iron box containing her great-grandfather's letters from WW I.

Jack Murray was a typical nineteen year old and it comes across so clearly. He joined the army early on, and was shipped from CA to Florida to base camp. There, they went around asking if anyone was familiar with automobiles. He said he fooled around with them, as many Los Angeles boys did.

They yanked him out of infantry and put him in the nascent motor pool, before shipping them off to France. The ship journey, their arrival in France, and the rapid development of Motor Transport is fascinating to read from his ground-level perspective. After the war, he was one of the last to leave France, as he was vital for the transport system.

My daughter commended on how very, very earnest he was about his longing to marry Great Granny (then seventeen or eighteen) RIGHT NOW. Also, she commented on the slang of the day. Everything was a peach. A peach of a car, a peach of a trip, a peach of a meal. She was a peach of a girl!

Next Ihope she wants to read the letters of a great-great grandfather through her grandfather's line--these beautifully written copperplate letters from California right after the gold rush, through a quake, and a riot . . .

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Heated Rivalry rec

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* I am excited to watch the Kraken game tonight, especially since it should be a Joey start... but I have D&D tonight so no hockey watching.

* I just leveled my character and had to redo all my pages of combat notes... I will never not hate how D&D chooses to lay out information across their books in a way that makes you need to check multiple chapters to get all the info. People are like 'GURPS is such a complicated system!' No, it's not. The basic calculations are in numerical format and we have charts. D&D info is a word problem with the words spread out between pages 15 and 293.

* IDK what is going on with the Conjuring House right now. There is a typically fairly drama-loving clickbaity youtuber who was covering it, and in the absence of my usual sources I decided to watch his update... and his update was that the matter had devolved into so much doxxing and doing illegitimate copyright strikes and stuff that he's noping out of covering it for the time being. Jason Hawes did a video a bit ago not saying the full situation, but pointing out that a lot of other people's takes were fundamentally wrong. So, I am just going to go by whether he says anything or not until this resolves. I am sure enough that the doxxing, strikes, trying to drag in family members, etc does Not come from Jason's camp, it's against his. I am curious if it's coming from the Rife camp, but what it would take to look into with all of my known sources deciding it's too hot to touch... yeah, I've got better things to do with my time.

Just going to hope to wake up one day to the news that Jason got the house.

* Because I need someone not HR/hockey in my media diet to avoid burning out hard, I'm going to start a new Scarlet Hollow playthrough. Hopefully, the next chapter will be out by the time I get there. (It's a chaptered visual novel about going to town in Appalachia your family came from. Spooky, amazing, fantastic, but accounting for the very many possible branching paths means the final chapters are taking a bit. Chapter 5 of 7 should be out soonish, tho)

I need to decide what traits to do, because even though I have a couple of saves this will likely be the one I roll into the new content with.

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Okay, so I haven't finished playing this game yet, but I did play a huge chunk of it without posting any thoughts on it yet. I want to do my best to sum up all of those thoughts!

Routes I've played (spoilers only for route names):

Route 0 ✅ (completed entirely) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Excellent introduction, I enjoyed the mystery of everything. I kind of want to replay it after 100%ing the rest of the game?
2nd Scenario ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Very very good, the last battle got me good.
Reset ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Lots of fanfic potential here.
Goodbye Eito ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Very good.
Rebellion ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Possibly my favorite, definitely has my favorite ending.
Eva ✅ - ⭐⭐ - Had some interesting ideas that it didn't do much with
Multiple Eitos ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Excellent. So good.
Serial Battles ⭕ (unstarted) - I do want to 100% the game so I'll get to it eventually but I'm not super excited about the prospect lol
Conspiracy ✅ - ⭐ - Would be zero stars if I could find a way to communicate that in emoji. Awful.
Casual ⭕ - Looking forward to this route!
Box of Blessings ⭕ - I'm looking forward to more lore from this route, but suspect it won't be incredibly enjoyable.
Box of Calamity ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐ - It was decent at parts, tedious in others.
Cult of Takumi 🟨 (in progress) - Still pretty early in this one.
V'ehxness ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Loved the dimension that this gave to V'ehxness
Coming of Age ✅ - ⭐ - Hated it. It had a few good moments but mostly I hated the whole vibe of it all.
Retsnom ⭕ - Looking forward to it!
Steady Fundamental 🟨 - I'm mostly enjoying it, with some caveats.
Romance ⭕ - Probably the route I am looking the least forward to, even less than Serial Battles. I hope it has some decent moments, at least.
Slasher ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐ - I didn't hate it, and enjoyed some branches, but other branches just felt tedious.
Comedy ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐ - Some bits were funny, most were tedious, but it did give me all the free time I needed at least.
Killing Game ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- Another possible favorite, I loved the character writing.
Mystery ✅ - ⭐⭐⭐ - It was alright, I guess.

Characters (spoilers only for character names):

Takumi - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Excellent protagonist
Takemaru - ⭐⭐⭐ - He's fun, if underdeveloped as a character
Hiruko - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - LOVE, she's so great
Darumi - ⭐⭐⭐ - She's fine, I guess
Eito - ⭐⭐ - Kind of flat to me tbh
Tsubasa - ⭐⭐⭐ - She's fine
Gaku - ⭐⭐ - More annoying than charming
Ima - ⭐⭐⭐ - He's alright
Kako - ⭐⭐⭐ - She's alright
Shouma - ⭐⭐ - Has potential, but has so far generally been underutilized in the routes that I've played
Nozomi - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - FAVE. Love her so much
Kurara - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Very fun
Kyoshika - ⭐⭐⭐ - Kind of one note, but she is pretty funny and I love her relationship with Kurara.
Yugamu - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - LOVE him, he's great
Moko - ⭐ - Eh. One note and kind of annoying
Eva - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - LOVE her, I wish we got to see more of her real personality
Sirei - ⭐⭐ - Don't like him as a person, as a character I find him kind of interesting but everyone else more so
Nigou - ⭐⭐⭐ - Started off thinking he was ugly af but now I've come around and think he's cute
V'ehxness - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Kind of a one note villain, but she's given enough complexity for me
Shion - ⭐⭐⭐ - He's alright

I think that mostly summarizes my thoughts? Oh, and ships. Here are my favorite ships.

No outright spoilers, just the ships themselves:

Favorite: Eva/Nozomi
Love: Takumi/V'ehxness, Takumi/Hiruko, Hiruko/Darumi, Darumi/Takumi/Tsubasa/Yugamu
Like: Nozomi/Takumi (as long as it's twisty and fucked up), Nozomi-G/Takumi, Ima/Kako, Kurara/Kyoshika, Kurara/Nozomi, Takemaru/Hiruko, Takumi/Yugamu
NOTPs: Gaku/any female character but especially Eva or Kurara

fics I've already written for this fandom

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H50 Drabble: Pineapple Liqueur

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Title: Pineapple Liqueur
Author:

kat_lair
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0
Pairing: Steve/Danny
Tags: Drabble, First Kiss
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: Pineapple has never much been to Danny’s taste. Until now.

Author notes: For

fandomtrees I wrote five drabbles for

pushkin666. They were themed around the five senses. This one is taste.

Pineapple Liqueur on AO3

( Pineapple Liqueur )

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misc tv,
tv talk

TV Talk: Best Medicine & Wild Cards

Best Medicine: I enjoyed this ep better than last week’s. ( spoilers )

Wild Cards: Good ep. ( spoilers )

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SHERLOCK BBC: Once, Twice by Rhuia

Fandom: Sherlock (BBC TV 2010)

Pairings/Characters: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, John Watson

Rating: Explicit

Length: 4400 words

Theme: Crack Treated Seriously

Summary: Sherlock and John swap bodies. John doesn't want to talk about it.

Creator Links: Rhuia

Reccer’s Notes Sex pollen on Earth requires some shenanigans, but add in body swap and we’ve got a deep dive into how this combo would affect these two’s self-knowledge and desire. Very explicit, very steamy, very funny.

Fanwork Link Once, Twice