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double_dutchess ([personal profile] double_dutchess) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-10-11 02:06 am

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, October 10th

Giles: A, a Slayer slays, a Watcher--
Buffy: Watches?

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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-10-10 04:31 pm

[ SECRET POST #6853 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6853 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #978.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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popliar ([personal profile] popliar) wrote in [community profile] paradisediner2025-10-11 01:38 am
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Yuletide nominations / Korean Fandoms Exchange sign-ups

Yuletide has finished the nomination period and the tagset is open. Under the cut are the kpop nominations, i.e. all the fandoms and characters you can request and offer to write. I think I caught everything but let me know if I missed something. Sign ups start on 14 October.

Yuletide nominations )




The Korean Fandoms Exchange is open for sign-ups!
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profiterole_reads ([personal profile] profiterole_reads) wrote2025-10-10 04:05 pm

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao is the sequel to Iron Widow, where Zetian co-pilots giant robots to fight aliens.

The plot now focuses on dismantling capitalism and keeps deconstructing gender roles.

There's major bi4bi m/f (a pairing I didn't like, but was probably not supposed to like much anyway?), minor f/f, as well as an enby character who appears towards the end. I seriously missed the m/m/f from Book 1 and might not buy the next book.
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Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-10-10 07:11 pm
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I Wish The Metrics For Value Were Completely Different

My book has only been out for a day and I've already had an epiphany: that it's not just being employed that makes me depressed, it's also thinking about the prospect of earning money, or I should say, the prospect of doing something to earn money on purpose. If I earn money by accident, I'll be happy.

But how do I Survive if trying to earn money (rather than money coming as a consequence albeit not the main intended consequence) makes me depressed?? Like??? I asked Vara on our walk today after trying not to relapse ALL DAY and Vara said, "Maybe you're finding that what you thought to be truth might have been an assumption." Like!!!

THE LAST TIME I WROTE A BOOK, I DID NOT HAVE A WHOLE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, SO WHY NOW. As soon as I think about whether this book will profit, or earn out, or earn at all, I'm very blue, as blue as the bottom of the ocean where the sun doesn't reach. I thought it's because of a lack of hope at first, but really it's about everything above. Whenever I'm doing something, whatever it is, I don't want to have to think about money. I don't want to feel anxiety about spending. I don't want to feel anxiety about earning. Spending five years in the formal workforce didn't help my anxiety about either. Having been laid off from the workforce and existing as I am now isn't helping my anxiety about either.

Also early readers have been telling me that the book reads like fanfiction and I'm heartily saying, "Then I have accomplished what I have set out to," that is, prioritise pleasure; but when getting these reactions I remembered this tumblr post about fanfiction. Especially this bit:
fandom exists in a completely different environment—an unacademic one—a rare non-monetary one—so the metrics for value are completely different. And if you stuff fanworks into containers of capitalistic consumption, you're gonna be very frustrated. "But was that journal entry good?" "But was that meal among friends good?" "Was that time we spent in the idea that I shared good?"


I am aware that I should be compensated for the labour of writing this book, and that I need money to live, but
I Also Wish The Metrics For Value Were Completely Different.
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Agnes ([personal profile] toothpastepancake) wrote2025-10-10 06:42 am
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hi :)

I wish I could say I've been up to more than I've actually been doing. Mostly, I've been focused on my tech projects, my Fic in a Box assignment (only one assignment left to go!), and in between those I've been working on electronic music with my alter, as well as bitsy games, personal writing, and digital art. I have been doing the montly Minvember (Babylon 5 monthly prompt and palette challenge on Tumblr) stuff and it's been really fun, too. I'm trying sooo hard to finish a game one of these days. I keep joining jams and then never doing them.

My life's been pretty unexpectedly great lately, even if I've been struggling a bit with PTSD and paranoia as of the past few days. I'm in a place where I can reach out to others for reassurance without feeling bad about it, and I think that's a really good place for me to be in. It's an accomplishment for sure. I'm so grateful for all the good things I have. It's a little insane to me that I feel content and finally see a future for myself.

I find myself dreaming a lot about the future lately. I hope mine is beautiful. I am going to try so hard to make it beautiful, and to make the lives of my loved ones equally as beautiful.

I usually don't go places besides my ketamine treatments, but I find myself both satisfied for once with my online life and wishing I wasn't so housebound. I find that I am happy talking to my loved ones on Discord and playing with my bird and writing silly fanfiction. I wish I could go out and do things, to be a part of the universe around me, but that's simply not something my body will allow at the moment and I have to make peace with that. I think it'll all be okay.

What else? 

Future self-hosting projects I'm going to be working on--
1) Personal blog
2) Community blogging or journalling site (a better one than Mourning Dove lol)
3) Reestablish forums
4) New features to my instances of OTWArchive

I have a lot to do! Mostly right now I am focusing on Sunset upgrades and bug fixes. It's been a wild ride with Sunset so far, but I do have a passion for it.

I don't really know what else to say, other than that I wanted to do a more in-depth update for once. I hope you're all doing well.

Some things I'd like to shout out:

Hotties Haunting the Narrative

Multifandom Poetry Fest

[community profile] ficortreat 




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shadaras ([personal profile] shadaras) wrote2025-10-09 08:38 pm
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Today was really lovely; crisp and cool without being cold, the sun bright in the pale blue sky, and the leaves all turning rich autumn reds and golds <3

Also I went to the other dojo tonight to help a friend with test prep, which was a delight, and then stayed after for another ~45min doing some extra practice and talking with them and another mutual friend (who I hadn't seen in a while).

Lovely day, good people, good things. <3
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itsnotmymind ([personal profile] itsnotmymind) wrote2025-10-09 07:11 pm
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Succession: "You're the Face"

When Logan is telling Kendall why he has chosen him to be sacrificed in "This Is Not for Tears", he says "The hearings…you did so well. But now…you're the face."

But this did not happen passively.

In the previous episode, "DC", Logan turns the heat on Kendall during the hearings. “At that point, I believe my son was across that operation, right?” he says in response to a question directed at himself.

This is very deliberate - so deliberate that Logan actually apologizes to Ken afterward: "I'm sorry if it was rough". Kendall insists “it was fine. We're good. It's all good.” I think Logan both feels guilty and is trying to get a read on Kendall, to decide if Kendall will go along with being the face of the scandal, if Logan has that much power in the relationship. I don't know that Logan was planning on sacrificing Ken at this point, but he definitely was setting up a situation that made that kind of maneuver possible.
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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-10-09 06:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #6852 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6852 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 07 secrets from Secret Submission Post #978.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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TARLAN (tarlanx) ([personal profile] tarlanx) wrote in [community profile] c_ent2025-10-09 10:25 pm

ICONS and a GRAPHIC: Various Fandoms

Icons created for various challenges:

The Legend of Anle - Han Ye and Di Ziyuan by Tarlan Meet You at the Blossom - Jin Xiaobao-Zongzheng Huaien by Tarlan The Untamed - Lan Wanji-Wei Wuxian by Tarlan The Yin Yang Master - Dream of Eternity - Boya-Qingming by Tarlan

Mark Chao - Pillow by Tarlan The Great Wall - Tactic 01 by Tarlan The Great Wall - Tactic 02 by Tarlan

Fandoms/Stock:
The Legend of Anle - Han Ye and Di Ziyuan
Meet You at the Blossom - Jin Xiaobao-Zongzheng Huaien
The Untamed - Lan Wanji-Wei Wuxian
The Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity - Boya-Qingming
Mark Chao
The Great Wall

Tumblr-style graphicThe challenge was to create a graphic from one fandom with a quote from another fandom:

Word of Honor  - Eureka Quote by Tarlan

IMAGE Fandom: Word of Honor (TV 2021)
QUOTE Fandom: Eureka
QUOTE:
Stark: Wow, that didn't even leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Carter: Wait for it.
Stark: Oh... there it is!

 
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Fae ([personal profile] fatalfae) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-10-09 03:38 pm

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, October 9th

BUFFY: You know, this place is okay for a hole in the ground. You fixed it up.
SPIKE: Well, I ate a decorator once. Maybe something stuck.

~~Dead Things~~



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    anais_pf ([personal profile] anais_pf) wrote in [community profile] thefridayfive2025-10-09 03:18 pm

    The Friday Five for 10 October 2025

    These questions were originally suggested by [livejournal.com profile] angelicid.

    Name five…

    1. ... things you can't live without.

    2. ... of the best moments in your life.

    3. ... celebrities you can't stand.

    4. ... books you enjoy(ed) reading.

    5. ... items in your purse/backpack/on your desk.

    Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

    If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!
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    Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-10-09 10:08 pm

    Bloodhunt Academy's release

    Bloodhunt Academy is officially out, in all its glory. Right now it's available on the Zon and KU but gradually, as spoons allow, I'll be looking at how to make it available to digital libraries (perhaps via Hoopla? And Overdrive to get the book into Libby?) Research is pending.

    If you know someone who'd like to read a polyamorous romance about bisexual vampires who fall in love with humans, trust-building, and rebels in dystopia, word of mouth helps. And that's enough promo for today. (I have sent the launch newsletter, updated website and posted to Instagram. I should post to Bluesky but don't feel like. I'll do it tomorrow.)