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It all stemmed from wanting to do something to celebrate Venom reaching issue 252–the number in which in Amazing Spider-Man Spidey started wearing the symbiote. When I suggested we put Venom in a red and blue costume, I was only kidding…but so many of the best ideas start as jokes! Everyone loved it. I got Luchiano to design it because hot damn he is great at that. There are so many great details in there. I then took that design to writer Jordan Morris, who came up with the character and story to go with it. That story will be a backup in the issue and introduce this new Venom to the world! But we weren’t done with the design yet–Al Ewing ALSO loved the look of it and the celebration, so he cooked up an excuse for MJ to rock that look in 616 as well! -- Jordan D. White

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The revisions for this chapter involved reducing the instances of "annoying", "annoyed", "annoyance" to huh fewer than the original 15 times but probably still too many XD That's what Narumi inspires, I suppose ;)

Warm as life | Kaijuu No. 8 | Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina | 9k words (WIP, 5/7) | rated M

Summary: The new threat posed by No. 9 weighs heavily on everyone. Under these circumstances, emotions run high and what starts as a way of relieving stress can easily bloom into unexpected feelings. Some people find that easier to admit than others.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

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Signups have closed! Any unmatchables will be notified on 1/8, and assignments will go out by January 10, 11:59 PM EST at the latest.

You can look at requests via the request summary or the app, and there's also the letters post.

This could be a good time to add to the fandom/relationships promo post!

vriddy

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week... I have apparently been very very active??! XD Had to check I didn't accidentally leave in my notes from last week!

Posted and commented on bnha_fans. Vigilantes season 2 started! :D

Commented on anime_manga.

Commented on candyheartsex (that is, did a canon promo for K-9 :D ACT SURPRISED, QUICK!!). You might still be able to sign up in time today?? In the next huh 10 minutes I guess good luck

Commented on goals_on_dw.

Commented on common_nature (heron! ice!)

Commented on threeforthememories, a comm that I look forward to seeing on my reading page every January. Consider this a signal boost, too!

Commented on getyourwordsout.

Commented on smallbatchicons.

Promoted octobercest, finalfantasy, friending_memes, snowflake_challenge.

Signal boosts:

findthatbook - I like plugging this comm because the more readers know about it, the more helpful it becomes... and also someone needs help right now!!
moodthemeinayear is starting up again, if you'd like to try your hand at creating a mood theme for Dreamwidth this year, together with a chill and supportive community :D There are various ways to go about it so it's not as overwhelming as it might first sound.
Via followfriday, there's a new comm for the Heated Rivalry folks around here :D gamechangerhr
Also cultivativity, a space for cultivating creativity but without the pressures that can come with a challenge, may be of interest to some of you here!

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Thank you so much for making something for me! I'm really looking forward to opening my candy box in a couple of months and seeing what's inside. <3 A lot of my ideas and prompts here were written for exchanges with longer minimums, so feel free to write just a scene or vignette of the idea.

( Likes and Dislikes )

( Oasis RPF- Fic, Art )

( Kyle Murchison Booth stories - Fic )

( Riddle-Master Trilogy – Fic )

( True Detective: Night Country – Fic, Art )

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The Lamp and The Bell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1921. Readaloud. This is a blank verse play that Millay wrote for a Vassar College reunion -- she enrolled at age 21 after having launched her career as a poet, and caused lots of trouble by not being a proper young lady. (A previous version of this post claimed she wrote it as a student, but actually it was 4 years after graduation.) I'd been wanting to read this play aloud for a while, and enjoyed doing it! It inevitably invites comparisons to both Shakespeare and the best of Millay's poetry, and comes up short, but it's still very good at being what it is, which is a fairy-tale-ish melodrama revolving around the romantic friendship between two stepsisters.

Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot and Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, Alexis Hall. I really liked Hall's Regency romances narrated by Puck and The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, but hadn't gotten into Hall's contemporary romance -- but then I was recommended Audrey Lane, which is the third in Hall's series set on a thinly disguised version of The Great British Baking Show. This one is an f/f romance between a contestant and the showrunner (nothing happens until after after it stops being a conflict of interest). There's some nice reality show meta, in that our POV character's day job is as a journalist, so she sees the show from a more media-savvy lens even before she starts dating the showrunner. I liked it enough to go back and read Rosaline Palmer, which plays the reality TV show storyline more straight. I haven't read the second book in the series, which I've been warned is all about the protagonist's anxiety, but might eventually read it anyway.

Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky. I bought this one along with Cage of Souls when I was in Edinburgh almost 2 years ago, and read Cage of Souls on the airplane because it was the paperback, and then set this aside because I didn't want to read two Adrian Tchaikovsky books in a row. (Also it wasn't out yet in the US so I didn't have as many people to discuss it with.) Finally coming back to it now, but not far enough into it yet to say much.

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Congratulations, everybody! Thank you to all the participants and voters. 🎉🏆🏅
The tally if needed is in the comments of the voting post.

Challenge 199: Film Fandom Fest - Winners

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1st Place
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2nd Place
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Best Crop
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3rd Place
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Best Color
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Mod's Choice
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I have caught up on my circle, but barely commented. Still digesting national news (rage) and unofficial anecdata via work (grief concerning mortality in children and this "cold" that seems to be nationwide).

That said, I will leave the comments open to anyone who wants to prompt me for a drabble in a fandom I know or for original concepts. I will, however, screen them.

Format something like "Fandom/Character(s)/Simple Prompt" or "Original Genre/Character Archetype(s)/Simple Prompt". Include your name on AO3, SquidgeWorld, Ad Astra, or CFFA if it is fannish and you want it gifted.

We Will Persevere.

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2025 was the first year my reading started to feel less like a miracle and more like, "oh yeah, reading! I do that without struggling." I read 78 books, although a lot of them were rereads. I'm happy to reread The Murderbot Diaries and a bunch of my favorite romance novels a few times a year. The brain craves familiarity.

I have elevenish favorites this year (I combined books in series, because I make the rules). My top book, which is no big secret as I've been shouting about it for months, is the only one ranked; the rest are here in alphabetical order.

( Favorite Books )

( The numbers and musings )

That's a wrap on 2025! If you read any of my favorites and have readalikes, I'm always hyped for recs. If you wrote a favorites post for your SFF reading, I'd love to see it (and then link it in Intergalactic Mixtape, haha).

lebateleur

What I Finished Reading This Week
Nothing, as three of the four books I'm reading this week are over 400 pages long.

What I Am Currently Reading

Skeul an Tavas - Ray Chubb & Nigel Roberts
I tackled most of the first chapter this week.

The Stations of the Sun – Ronald Hutton
I read the chapters on Christmas, the New Year, and Plough Monday.

Mannaz – Malene Sølvsten
This book is a giant, over-the-top potboiler and I am here for it.

After the Forest – Kell Woods
I was suspicious, given the cover, that this would be standard Tor-quality YA dreck, but it is very, very good indeed.

What I’m Reading Next

This week I acquired Ray Chubb and Nigel Roberts's Skeul An Tavas, Richard Marsh's Meath Folk Tales, and Angela Saini's Inferior.

これで以上です。

lebateleur

Challenge #4: Rec Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

A lot of fandom takes place digitally, everywhere from the websites where we read, watch, play, purchase, and talk about canon or merch to the computers on which we do much of the writing, watching, reading, vidding, and talking; the ISPs that get us online; and the processors we use to pay for all these things.

The recent Livejournal stuff is a good reminder, should anyone need one, that the majority of these entities do not by any means have users' best interests at heart. So why not make life a little harder for them, and happier for your own privacy and data security.

If you use Windows, here's a useful guide to getting rid of a bunch of the data security-destroying "features" and bloat on that operating system.

And if you'd like to get even more security conscious, The Opt Out Project has an excellent Cyber Cleanse Guide that will make your fandoming--be it consuming, creating, or discussing--a whole lot harder for the big tech and ecommerce giants to track, capture, and mine for your data.

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

これで以上です。

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I also ran across H.R. 1936 (No Invading Allies Act) that was introduced by Seth Magaziner (D-RI) in March, and it sounds like it might be useful to contact Reps about: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1936

(the summary isn't up for some reason, but the full title is 'To prohibit funds for the Armed Forces to engage in operations to invade or seize territory from Canada, the Republic of Panama, or the self-governing territory of Greenland.')

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Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander in Heated Rivalry (s1, e1-6)

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It's a zombie apocalypse, only instead of zombies, there's cats.

In a future in which 90% of the population owned a cat, a strange virus spreads. If you cuddle a cat, or a cat nuzzles you, you turn into a cat! It's a catastrophe! A catlamity! A nyandemic!

Not only are cats everywhere, but the cats are either instinctively trying to turn humans into cats, or they just want to be petted. Cue every zombie movie scene ever, but with cats. Cats scratch at the doors! Cats peer through the windows! Groups of cats ambush you in tunnels!

The characters are all very upset by this, because they love cats! And now there's cats everywhere, just begging to be skritched! And they can't skritch them! "We can't even squish their little toe beans!" The horror!

Needless to say, they would never ever harm a cat. In fact they feel bad when they're forced to spray cats with water to shoo them away.

I'm not sure how this can possibly be sustained for seven volumes, but on the other hand I could happily read seven volumes of it. The cat art is really fun and adorable. I would definitely do better in a zombie apocalypse than a cat apocalypse, because I would never be able to resist those cats.

Content notes: None, the cats are fine.

selenak

My definition of "MCU" includes the tv shows (that I've seen). With this in mind, in no particular order:

1) Agatha Harkness & "Teen" ( spoilery identity is spoilery )
, Agatha All Along: I adored this show in 2024 when it was released and I still adore it, and have rewatched it three times already. There are many reasons why, but the relationship between these two characters is most definitely one of them. It has different layers, not least because the characters are both holding back information about each other and their true reason for the show's quest for a considerable time, and yet they bond in a very real way even before the various reveals. It ends up as mentor/protegé, with a sideline of odd couple and sort of, kind of, family. And I really hope that whatever the MCU future brings, we will see these two together again.

2) Jessica Jones & Matt Murdoch, (The Defenders): speaking of combinations I hope to see again - The big crossover miniseries of the Netflix Marvel shows was flawed in several ways, but the various combinations of characters were all gold, and I loved the Mattt & Jess combo most of all. To put it as unspoilery as possible: their different ways of reaching the top of a building had me in stitches. And the serious character scenes were fantastic. That neither of them was sexually interested in the other might have been why they got along so well, given both characters have a really messy love- and sex life.

3) Tony Stark & Bruce Banner, (The Avengers): their scenes were such an unexpected delight. Very differnet personalities, and yet a meeting of the minds, so to speak, and great chemistry to boot. We hardly saw them in the same room again after Age of Ultron, which I regretted, but given the ensembles grew larger and larger, it was probably inevitable. (Also, the writing for Bruce Banner changed a lot.)

4) Yelena Belova & Alexei Shostakov, (Black Widow, Thunderbolts): I was torn between this and Yelena & Natasha, and Yelena & Kate Bishop, but Alexei wins with a combination of the relationship being showcased in two different movies and the way we see it change through said movies. Also: Alexei may have been a deadbeat (spy) dad, but he can make Yelena smile (intentionally, I mean, not just when he's being goofy) in an incredibly touching way. Again in both movies.

5) Nebula & Gamora (both of them), Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Infinity Wars and Avengers: Endgame: pace Yelena & Natasha, but these are my favourite sisters in the MCU. They get introduced as a seemingly straightforward rendition of bad girl and good bad girl, the evil and the heroic sister - and then it gets complicated. Given their incredibly screwed up childhood and youth (Thanos trying his best to win the worst Dad competition in the MCU), it's a miracle they had non-hostile feelings for each other to begin with, and yet they do. The moment in Guardians 2 when we find out what Thanos did each time Gamora beat Nebula in a match is absolutely gut wrenching. And when we see them connect and change through sevearl movies, it is both touching and absolutely cheerworthy.

6) Mark Spector & Steven Grant, Moon Knight: that they're both played by Oscar Isaacs is the least of it. The miniseries was so clever in the way it introduced us to them which turns certain tropes on their head because ( it gets spoilery )The result is a sort of "unknown and seemingly very different brothers find each other" tale which also manages to be self exploration and offers moments of grace, support and love in the last three episodes that still make me reach for my hankerchief upon rewatch.

Not included: Peggy Carter & Dottie Underwood (Agent Carter), because the subtext is barely sub, and I definitely ship them, which makes them disqualified for a list of platonic relationships (which I want to remain platonic). But they definitely had "my best enemy" potential in that show. And fantastic chemistry.

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