thatjustwontbreak: books and candle (bibliophile)
[personal profile] thatjustwontbreak
Top 10 Challenge

I went through a couple different ideas for this one- top ten recipes, top ten podfics, top ten national parks- and then I realized I wanted to go broad. So we're doing top five fandoms in no particular order, because this got long and these are the ones that immediately came to mind. 

1. Check Please! - Check Please! is/was an online webcomic about an ice-skater turned hockey player who makes wonderful friendships on his college hockey team and and falls in love with his grumpy captain. This fandom is still damn fun. Everyone on tumblr is hilarious and the author is tumblr-fluent herself so she does a nice job participating (but not getting in too deep) and she maintained a twitter account for her protagonist that was in-character and greatly added to the canon of the comic. Fic in this fandom is phenomenal. Writers consistently handling mental illness and homophobia in really thoughtful ways.

Fic Rec:
The Left Hand of Godlessness by tourdefierce 

2. Cowboy Bebop - Space bounty hunters anime from the 90s. Found family trope. Pretty violent. I think this was actually how I first got into reading fic. Classic anime, very well-known. I can't speak to the fandom broadly because at the time I wasn't very aware of the culture.

Fic Rec:
Freaks Flock Together by bigbigtruck 

3. Inception- Science fiction film where criminals make good money stealing things from marks' subconscious/dreams. Fantastic concept, which the fandom really does right by with their fic, but my rec is actually an AU.

Fic Rec:
Next Big Thing by earlgreytea86 

EGT posted this chapter by chapter and there was tons of participation in the comments, so the fic is full of fandom in-jokes and comment in-jokes and while the fic holds up to re-reads, it was a blast to participate in the comment section at the time. 

4. The Social Network- RPF movie about the guys who made facebook. This was how fandom got me into tumblr. Livejournal was still kicking so we had kink memes and stuff like that on LJ but the tumblr community was really going full-throttle for a while. 

Fic Rec:  Heave Ho, Thieves and Beggars by antistar_e (kaikamahine)  Crossover TSN/Firefly fic. 

5. Teen Wolf - Frankly I have no idea what happens in canon for this because I never watched the show. But the talent in the fandom is top tier. 

Fic Rec: Wolf in the House by JoeLawson  OLD SCHOOL WHUMP

If I were to go on, I'd likely include MCU, HP, hockey RPF, Firefly, and the Walking Dead. Another day! :)

snickfic: Giles from Buffy, text: Bookish (mood reading)
[personal profile] snickfic
Starting the year off strong with two winners! (And several DNFs, but they were left over from the last year, so I say they don't count.)

The Sisters of the Vast Black (2019) by Lina Rather. Several decades after a brutal civil war between Earth and the diaspora, a living spaceship full of nuns minister to the world amidst progressively more challenging circumstances.

This novella has:
- canon f/f
- an atheist nun
- a mother superior with a dark past and the beginning stages of dementia
- a theological dilemma involving a living ship's reproductive cycle
- a rising tide of authoritarianism
- daring heroics and a growing political resistance

The first half of the book is enjoyable enough, but the plot really turns on the jets in the second half and comes to a thrilling conclusion that I was all in on. Atheist rationlist Sister Faustina is my favorite, and I kind of ship her with kindhearted idealist Sister Lucia, especially by the end of the book.

This is Rather's longest work to date. I'm really looking forward to whatever she decides to write next.

--

Knock Knock Open Wide by Neil Sharpson. In 1979, Etain disappears, is held at a farmhouse in the Irish countryside, and escapes with no memory of what happened.

Boy, this book goes PLACES. It's about Irish mythology and fraught mother/daughter relationships; it's also about a bunch of other things that I would rather let you discover for yourself. It's about Ashling, a drama student at University College Dublin in 1999 whose mother hates her, who might be gay, and who is at any rate dating a woman that she's convinced can't possibly really love her. It's about various factions jockeying just beneath the surface of the world, to the point that sometimes it feels like an espionage novel only masquerading as mythological horror. There's even a spunky journalist turned old-school battleaxe who's never gotten around to losing her Barbie-pink suit.

It's nonlinear as hell, which Sharpson juggles with remarkable dexterity, so that even when we're switching between timelines mid-chapter--and there are a LOT of timelines--I was never in any doubt about where we were. I found the integration of mythology and plot generally worked well, even though I sometimes had trouble keeping track of it all and frankly think there was enough there to support a sequel or two rather than cramming it all into this one. The characters are great and messy and complex and almost all female, which I also really enjoyed. Playing out over such a long timespan, this novel really lets you feel the tragedy the follows the horror. And this novel is VERY Irish, which I especially enjoyed having been to Ireland a couple of times. They keep mentioning the Liffey, and I'm like yes, I know that river! :D And I could hear the accents sometimes in the dialogue!

Overall, a fantastic time and a wild ride. If you've read it or do in the future, I would love to compare notes! I looked it up in some of my usual discussion spots and it seems like it kind of slipped under the radar. I see Sharpson released another horror novel last year, which I'm now anxious to check out.

ships20in20 > Various Fandoms & Ships

Jan. 11th, 2026 09:13 pm
flareonfury: (Adam/Morgan)
[personal profile] flareonfury posting in [community profile] fandom_icons
Multiple ships for Round 4 of [community profile] ships20in20.

Preview


sooo many ships, so little time....

Fandoms & Ships:
Charmed (Abigael/Mel #6 & AC#2), Heartstopper (Charlie/Nick #7, AC#3 & #4), High Potential (Adam/Morgan catgeory), Grimm (Nick/Adalind #4 & AC#1), MCU (Carol/Yon AC#5), Nancy Drew (Nancy/Ace #1 & #3, Nancy/Ace/Bes #9), Siren (Ben/Ryn #10), Singin' in the Rain (Don/Cosmo/Kathy #2 & #7), X-Men Evolution (Scott/Rogue #4)

Snowflake Challenge Day #6

Jan. 11th, 2026 08:40 pm
kingstoken: (Default)
[personal profile] kingstoken
two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text


Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge


Okay I originally planned to do a top ten vids list, but I checked and I did that last year and not much has changed.  Then I was going to do top ten fics I read in 2025, but they would all be Sherlock Holmes so not very exciting.  Finally I thought about listing my top ten Sherlock Holmes adaptations, but then I realized that I haven't watched ten adaptations.  So after all that and racking my brain I just thought I'd do something simple and pick my top ten Doctor Who companions!

I will preface this by saying I have only watched New Who and only up til Thirteen's last season.  At that point I got sucked into Sherlock Holmes and haven't returned (but I hope to at some point).  So this excludes all of Classic Who and Fifteen.  I'm also excluding characters like The Master and River Song because they don't quite fit in the companion category for me, and I'm excluding one episode only companions (although we've had a few great ones).  Lastly, this is just my personal preference.     

10. Graham
9. Yasmin
8. Sarah Jane
7. Clara
6. Amy & Rory
5. Jack
4. Rose
3. Martha
2. Bill
1. Donna

Mail Call

Jan. 11th, 2026 07:57 pm
senmut: Guinan propping face on hand (Star Trek: Guinan)
[personal profile] senmut
[personal profile] jenab, thank you for the card. It got here a few days back but I kept forgetting to post.
wintermod: (Default)
[personal profile] wintermod posting in [community profile] pinchhits
Event:[community profile] wintertime_woes_exchange, an exchange for unhappy endings
Requirements: 500 words, or a sketch on unlined paper
Pinch hit link: https://wintertime-woes-exchange.dreamwidth.org/5688.html
Due date:January 17, 11:59PM UTC

PH 5 - fic - Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Moon Knight (TV 2022), Dragon Age (Video Games)

PH 6 - fic - Deltarune (Video Game), Team Fortress 2, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison, Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), The Electric State (2025)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/wintertimewoes2025/user/Kaz3313


To claim, please comment at the pinch hit post linked above, or email wintertime.woes.exchange@gmail.com. Thank you very much!

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #6

Jan. 11th, 2026 04:06 pm
tjs_whatnot: (Default)
[personal profile] tjs_whatnot posting in [community profile] snowflake_challenge
Introduction Post* Meet the Mods Post Challenge #1 * Challenge #2* Challenge #3* Challenge #4* Challenge #5 *

Sorry for the delay! It's been... a day. But no matter! Hopefully you had some time to catch up, to talk with new friends... or to nap. 😍

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #6 ) And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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

New Year's Resolution

Jan. 11th, 2026 09:37 pm
hunningham: Woman reading book (Reading)
[personal profile] hunningham

New Year's Resolution - Read for fun!



I want to read for fun, for pleasure, to reread old favourites, to read fan-fiction and not to be waylaid by 'should read..' or 'best of...' I'm planning to visit brick-and-mortar bookshops and take my own sweet time browsing and selecting a book to read. I'm going to pick a book which I want to read right now this minute, not one which looks interesting and will just be added to the TBR pile.

Inspired by this Tom Gauld cartoon which I have printed out and stuck on to the fridge.

(no subject)

Jan. 11th, 2026 01:06 pm
snickfic: (Oasis walkon)
[personal profile] snickfic
Incredible work by Noel's socmed person. The combo of text and image is *chef's kiss*. Original is here on his official insta. (No I am still not over Liam appearing on Noel's socials in case you were wondering!!)

flareonfury: (Scarlet Witch)
[personal profile] flareonfury posting in [community profile] fandom_icons
The below icons are for [community profile] characters20in20 Round 20 with Wanda Maximoff of MCU. Images are mostly from WandaVision, Multiverse of Madness, and Civil War.

Preview



"You break the rules and you become a hero. I do it and I become the enemy. That doesn’t seem fair...."

final Yuletide canons tally

Jan. 11th, 2026 11:45 am
snickfic: (Yuletide)
[personal profile] snickfic
One of my favorite aspects of Yuletide has become making a list of stuff from the tagset that I'm interested in checking out and then orienting my fall reading/watching around it. I'm generally bad at reading on a theme, but it turns out "maybe I can write this for Yuletide" is a theme that does work.

I thought this year I'd record for posterity what all I tried:

The hits:
Moby Dick reread
Red Rooms (2023)
The Shadow of the Leviathan
The Secret of Chimneys
Short films My Sister and the Prince, Corvidae, Serpentine, Possibly in Michigan, and The Vampire Gastelbrau

The misses:
Strangers on a Train - did not enjoy this! DNFed with 60 pages to go!
Pern reread - wooof the misogyny
Crooked House (2017) - a deeply mediocre Christie adaptation
Battle Royale (2000) - idk man, it was fine?
The Starving Saints
The Incandescent
Rotherweird
The Ascent of Rum Doodle - this was Too Silly

The... other?
Crash (1996) - I can't tell if I liked it, but I wrote a fic for it, so!

Snowflake Challenge #3

Jan. 11th, 2026 02:31 pm
nyctanthes: (calvin & hobbes moon)
[personal profile] nyctanthes
Challenge #3: Fandom Love Letter

A total cheat. This is not my love letter, but New York Times reporter Taffy Brodesser-Akner's. The entire article (sans photos) is behind the cut. It’s also HERE, hopefully as a gift link.

Why on Earth Have I Seen the Same Broadway Show 13 Times? An Investigation )
rachelmanija: (Books: old)
[personal profile] rachelmanija


Mosscap and Dex's adventures continue from where they left off. They visit human places, including Dex's large and confusing family. Mosscap has a brush with mortality. Dex does not return to being a tea monk, their vocation still up in the air.

I enjoyed this novella for much the same reasons I enjoyed the first one, though I missed the tea service, which was my favorite part of the first book. Mosscap does turn out to be fallible and learns from Dex as much as Dex learns from it, which was nice. My favorite part of this book was the glimpses of the world, which still seems like an extremely nice place to live in.
kingstoken: (Christmas tree outside)
[personal profile] kingstoken posting in [community profile] pinchhits
Event: fandomtrees
Event link: [community profile] fandomtrees
Pinch hit link: Google Spreadsheet 
Due date: Jan 10 Jan 17

We have 3 trees with no gifts and 13 with only one gift, and the minimum is for everyone to receive two gifts. We could use some help filling them. The minimum is only 100 words for fic or a simple sketch for art. Please see the community for rules and FAQs
  1. mastershield's Tree: f:astro boy, f:balan wonderland, f:kingdom hearts
  2. aftonheir's Tree: f:five nights at freddys, f:kingdom hearts, f:portal
  3. memobu's Tree: f:karaoke iko, f:mahotsukai no yskusoku, f:nu carnival, f:tiger and bunny
  4. plicate's Tree: f:head on, f:set it off, f:succession
  5. soricel's Tree: f:les miserables, f:little women, f:raven cycle
  6. badass_tiger's Tree: f:discworld, f:hades, f:original fiction/artwork
  7. kalloway's Tree: f:brave nine, f:crossovers, f:fire emblem, f:granblue fantasy, f:gundam, f:kingdom of heroes, f:super robot heroes
  8. whoremoantreatments' Tree: f:advance wars, f:bleach, f:hypnosis mic, f:kuroko no basket, f:pokemon, f:tales of berseria, f:the world ends with you
  9. EstelRaca"s tree: f:alan wake, f:control, f:fbc firebreak, f:max payne
  10. Kalika_999"s tree: f:given, f:grimm, f:jujutsu kaisen, f:midnight scenes, f:outlast, f:wind breaker
  11. akuuni's Tree: f:boku no hero academia, f:danganronpa, f:haikyuu, f:milgram, f:persona, f:tokyo dedunker
  12. TeaOtter's Tree: f:el eternauta, f:family by choice, f:i wanna hear your song, f:love like the galaxy, f:original fiction/artwork, f:recipes, f:the double, f:the gorge
  13. galerian_ash's Tree: f:book recs, f:flight of the intruder, f:once upon a time in shanghai, f:silent flute, f:terminator, f:unbeatable
  14. uchihabait's Tree: f:mononoke, f:naruto, f:original fiction/artwork, f:rurouni kenshin
  15. pitchblackrenegade's Tree: f:backstage, f:beyblade, f:beyond the universe, f:black dynasty, f:pokemon, f:teen titans, f:toonami, f:yu-gi-oh
  16. overmore's Tree: f:identity v, f:limbus company, f:one piece
vriddy: Hawks looking back cheekily holding a feather (cheeky hawks)
[personal profile] vriddy
And it is done! New fandom always a bit fraught to write in, but as stories apparently beget stories, I've already started a (MUCH SHORTER) one XD


Warm as life | Kaijuu No. 8 | Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina | 13k words | 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.

Profile

dollsome: (Default)
dollsome

December 2021

S M T W T F S
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
1920212223 2425
262728293031 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jan. 14th, 2026 03:48 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios