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Hopepunk Princess ([personal profile] adore) wrote2025-08-25 04:55 pm

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Re: bookish things. There's a sale of indie books happening: Narratess Indie August Sale. A lot of $0.99 books with a few free ones and $1.99 books thrown in. I picked up a dozen books because there were quite a few cozy & queer books among them. I've started tracking my reading on Pagebound, it's an anti-AI alternative to Goodreads and it's really cute. I love the colours. I kind of wish I'd tracked my reading before, but it makes more sense to do so now than ever before, because I actually have a goal: to 'progress' in my enjoyment for reading, cognitively and emotionally. Maybe it won't feel like it used to, but I know I've improved a lot until now, so I'd like to keep more detailed track of how I improve from here on. It'll be useful to see which books help me do that.

Re: life/work. Several client projects have wrapped up, so my workplace shortened my notice period to the end of this month. I won't have to drag it on until mid-September, yay! This is my last week at work here. I can't wait to move on.

Re: fandom. CIX are having a comeback in September! It's my first CIX comeback so I'm very excited, especially after seeing the teaser pictures. The members all opened individual instagram accounts, which makes instagram a better place lol. Yonghee's VERY SECOND POST on instagram basically brought me salvation: tumblr link so that you don't have to visit a meta site. ISN'T THAT THE MOST BEAUTY YOU'VE EVER SEEN?

So, yeah, I'm on tumblr now, with the username consciousferality (because I'm hungry to partake in CIX fandom somehow). Unfortunately most CIX fandom seems to be happening on twitter, which I am only dipping into now and then because I remember the last time I was on stan twitter. It was Bad for my Mental Health. On the other hand, fangirling over k-pop is Great for my Mental Health, so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
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paradisedinermod ([personal profile] paradisedinermod) wrote in [community profile] paradisediner2025-08-25 08:34 pm
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New Music Monday - 25 August 2025

The regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.

IVE - XOXZ
AB6IX - Stupid
Chanyeol - Happy Accident (feat. Sole) / Upside Down
In A Minute - How We Do
zzone - Devil's Jam
The Vignettes - Little Letter
Sunmi - Blue!
Juniel - Comet
Kaya - Lv UP
P1Harmony
CMDM - First Step
Twice (Japan)
LUN8 (Japan)
H1-Key (Japan)
KJRGL - TipToe (Japan)
Soojin - Baditude
Neon
Lim Youngwoong
Girlset - Commas
Purple Kiss - Doremi (English version) / Want U Back

New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 18 August

Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.

[ Rec Something Wednesday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]
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thenewbuzwuzz ([personal profile] thenewbuzwuzz) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-08-25 11:42 am

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, August 24th

Drusilla: If you harm one hair on this boy's head... (strokes Xander’s hair)
Angelus: You've gotta be kidding. Him?
Drusilla: Just because I finally found a *real* man...

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dhampyresa ([personal profile] dhampyresa) wrote2025-08-25 12:34 am

Katabasis

I've mentionned a couple times on this journal that I was writing a pair of Natasha and Gamora fics about them escaping the Soul Stone via different afterlives, and now here they are!

Once More to See the Stars (9759 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Gamora (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Inferno (La Divina Commedia | The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri), Body Horror, Fix-It
Series: Part 1 of katabasis
Summary:

Natasha died on Vormir and awoke in the Suicide Wood of Dante's Hell. With Gamora's help, she made her way out.



Qabârum (3012 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Gamora (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Mesopotamian Mythology - Freeform, Body Horror, Fix-It
Series: Part 2 of katabasis
Summary:

For Gamora, the Soul Stone looked like Irkalla.



There's no real order to read them in -- they're added to the the series in the order I wrote them in, but reading them the other way around works too.

I had loads of fun writing a more poetic style than my usual in the Natasha fic. You get points for spotting the Hadestown reference, bonus point for the Galavant reference and mega bonus points for the (translated) Brassens quote.

Sort of spoilers for the Natasha fic, I guessI link Thor to Charon, not Phlegyas, because of the Etruscan psychopomp Charun having a hammer.


Sort of spoilers for the Gamora fic, I guessI got the tidbit about Mesopotamians burying their dead beneath their homes from Dominique Charpin's "La vie méconnue des temples mésopotamiens" ("The unknown life of mesopotamian temples"), specifically the section on the temples of Nergal.


I'm so happy I've finally managed to finish and edit and post fics! It's been... way too long.
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蝶になって ([personal profile] bluapapilio) wrote in [community profile] fandom_icons2025-08-24 04:09 pm
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A3! Act Addict Actors

  

⭐ x40 A3! icons here!
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itsnotmymind ([personal profile] itsnotmymind) wrote2025-08-24 04:05 pm

Spider-Man: Mary Jane Watson *Trigger warning for discussion of rape*

Awhile back I saw someone diss the most recent Spider-Man movies, and declared Sam Raimi Spider-Man "the real Peter Parker".

I gagged.

Then I realized my issue was not with Raimi's Peter Parker, but with his Mary Jane Watson.

Let's start at the beginning.

Face it, tiger, you just hit the jackpot! )
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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-08-24 02:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #6806 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6806 ⌋

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


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 30 secrets from Secret Submission Post #972.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - 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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temris ([personal profile] temris) wrote2025-08-24 07:12 pm
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Not a lot to say... Just need Antony/Octavian/Agrippa story somewhere. Please.
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haebin ([personal profile] haebin) wrote2025-08-24 01:00 pm

The Mistress of the Shadowland, Second Book, The next Chapter

Please enjoy the next chapter!!
And thank you so, so much for reading. It means a lot to me. ♥

The Mistress of the Shadowland, Second Book, The next Chapter )
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liminalovertea ([personal profile] liminalovertea) wrote2025-08-23 08:32 pm
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✍🏻 Decisions, decisions...

I want to write fanfic (not just drabbles--long-form one-shots and chapters), but I don't know where to post my work when I'm done with it.

Here? On Ao3?

I haven't heard anything good about Wattpad...

...and there's this platform called Quotev? Commaful? Webnovel?

Should I just let it rot in my PC folder?

GIF of girl with both hands on head in frustration

To quote Rose, it's been 84 years...(closer to 20 years, actually)...since I even thought about posting fanfics online.

GIF of a girl holding up a sticky-note that says HELP
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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-08-24 11:09 am
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Guardian Readalong: Vol. 3, Bonus Story: Pocket Dimension

Guardian novel readalong.


Hi, and welcome to the last installment of the Guardian novel readalong!

Here is last week's post about the Shen San extra, and you can find all previous discussions in the schedule posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), or via the !readalong tag.

In this week's extra, Pocket Dimension: Zhao Yunlan shows Shen Wei how to send red envelopes from his new phone, and Shen Wei sends bonuses to the SID team until he runs out of money. Everyone wants to work for the SID under Kunlun-jun, so Shen Wei has devised personalised applications. Mysteriously, more than twice as many applications have been returned as were sent out. Zhu Hong's Fourth Uncle disappears while visiting the South Sea Water Tribe, and Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei go to investigate. They get caught in a vortex full of bubble AUs, each with a connection point to the real world. Zhao Yunlan escapes from eighty-one pocket dimensions and reunites with Shen Wei, who seems traumatised. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei take a seaside vacation. Shen Wei thinks swimming trunks are inelegant.

Excerpts:

1) Shen Wei is possibly even worse at managing money than Zhao Yunlan is )

2) Shen Wei gives away all his money as SID bonuses )

3) Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan become trapped in bubbles )

4) What are the bubbles? )

5) Zhao Yunlan enjoys some virtual reality alernate lives with his boo )

Questions:
Did you enjoy this extra? What's your favourite thing about it? Do you have questions about what's happened in the six years between the epilogue and now? On a scale of one to ten, how terrible is Zhao Yunlan's dad? When Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan portal to the South Sea, who does the portalling: Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan, or both separately? We know Fourth Uncle is still alive, but what happened to him? Do you think the question of the duplicate applications was satisfactorily answered? How do you feel about the bubble AUs?

(As usual, these are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, and to say as much or as little as you like! You don't have to be keeping up with the readalong!)

Finally, I just want to thank everyone who's been part of this readalong, either by hosting, commenting, or reading along! It's been such a pleasure sharing this with you all for the last nearly-ten months. And super special extra thanks to [personal profile] trobadora for being an awesome co-mod! <3 <3 <3
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trobadora ([personal profile] trobadora) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-08-23 11:17 pm
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Guardian Wishlist: 2025 rules and promo

A gifting fest for Guardian and related fandoms: guardian-wishlist.dreamwidth.org


The Guardian Wishlist rules and FAQ for 2025 are up on [community profile] guardian_wishlist! Please check them out and let us know if you have any questions.

Sign-ups open on 28 August!

And if you're willing to post a promo to Tumblr, Twitter, Discord, or elsewhere to spread the word, please check out this post for promo graphics and text. (We'd love it if you commented there to let us know which platform and/or drop us a link, but don't feel you have to.) Thanks!

(Much thanks to [personal profile] teaotter for our lovely banner!)
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VeroNyxK84 ([personal profile] veronyxk84) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-08-23 11:16 pm

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, August 23

ANYA: Do you think we should set up lots of candles for Buffy's party tomorrow?
XANDER: Not if they're that horrible slug kind you keep trying to unload.
ANYA: I don't know why people get so turned off by slug.
XANDER: Honey, slugs get turned off by slug.

~~BtVS 6x14 “Older and Far Away”~~




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