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Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Gaila & Christine Chapel
Rating: Teen
Length: 4,185 words
Creator Links:

igrockspock
Theme: Female relationships

Summary: Privacy and fairy tales are two concepts that don't translate well into Orion.

Content notes: This is about Gaila, so there are mentions of enslavement and prostitution.

Reccer's Notes: I am fascinated by stories of how people come to Starfleet and what it must be like to meet people from such disparate backgrounds. This story approaches this subject with grace as Gaila and Christine Chapel become roommates at Starfleet Academy and must figure out each other's very different values and expectations. By opening up to each other, they forge a friendship. I like how creative the author is in describing Gaila's background and culture. The cultural exchange never feels heavy-handed. It's conveyed with tiny, realistic details like borrowing things from someone else's desk.

In addition to the cultural exchange element, the story weaves in ideas of resilience and having the power to change your life.

Fanwork Links: Once Upon a Time. And the WONDERFUL podfic by nickelmountain.

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The last couple of books I read gave me two more bingos. I'm currently reading books that will satisfy the two remaining squares with a theme, and then I'll just put whatever I read after that on the free space.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: F/F; Madam Jin/Yu Ziyuan; Madam Jin, Yu Ziyuan, Jiang Cheng
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 600
Content Notes: adultery (mentioned), angst, arranged marriage, bereavement, generational trauma, heteronormativity, marriage politics, possible (unexpressed) adult-> minor pining
Creator Tags: 5+1 Things, Drabble Sequence, Zǐdiàn (Módào Zǔshī) - Freeform, Canonical Character Death, Socially Imposed Heterosexual Marriage, Background Relationships
Creator Links: (AO3):

Zdenka
Theme: Female Relationships, Arranged Marriage, 5+1, Mutual Pining, Pining

Summary:

Five times Madam Jin saw Zidian on Yu Ziyuan's hand, and one time she saw it on her son's.

Notes:

Written for femslashfete for the prompt "artifact."

Reccer's Notes: Zdenka manages to cram so much into 600 words: an exquisitely painful soromance fulfillable only through generational proxy, imposed in turn—and the reader has the added pang of knowing what’s going to become of that couple.

Fanwork Links: Advance and Retreat, by

Zdenka.

Current Music: An early summer rain, long overdue.

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Our theme for June is female relationships!

That's any kind of relationship—platonic, romantic, professional, familial, adversarial—between characters who identify as female.

The tag for this round is: theme: female relationships

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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Title: snoozing
Fandom: Marvel Comcis
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of Tony Stark sleeping or trying to sleep or waking up from sleep....

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Title: Fate and Care
Fandom: The Iliad/Greek Myth
Characters: Patroclus/Achilles, Neoptolemus
Rating: G
Length: 549 words
Summary: Neoptolemus joins the war early. Patroclus watches Achilles try to navigate being a warrior and a father.

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Title: tangible
Fandom: The Double (cdrama)
Content notes: none
Length: 100 words

Summary: Some memories are too vivid to forget.

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Title: Mix Up by

kotosk
Reader:

pingistam
Bingo Square(s): Read A Friend’s Fic, Crack, Lower Vocal Range (for you)
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Edward Elric & Roy Mustang
Summary: "Fullmetal. How on Earth do you accidentally buy cocaine out of all things?"
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply
Link to Podfic: Mix Up [Podfic]

Title: Right as Rain by

Tierfal
Reader:

pingistam
Bingo Square(s): Disability, Include an animal, Read Angrily, Read Loudly
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Edward Elric/Roy Mustang
Summary: Surprises come in several varieties, and all of them are illuminating.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply
Link to Podfic: Right as Rain [Podfic]

My Card:

Wild Card Fail (at) Sex Fucking Grapefruits [Podfic]	New Author (for you) Fucking Grapefruits [Podfic]	Repod Your Own Podfic Christmas Confession [Podfic]	Rare Pairing The Pairing Trilogy [Podfic]	Include an animal Right as Rain [Podfic]
Read A Friend’s Fic Mix Up [Podfic]	Higher Vocal Range (for you) A Christmas Conundrum [Podfic]	Humor No Comment [Podfic]	~~Use a Speed Effect~~ <10 Minutes Long From calm to cuddles [Podfic]	Polyamory/Polycule The Prevailing State of Things [Podfic]
Character Voices No Comment [Podfic]	~~Breathplay~~ Crack Mix Up [Podfic]	FREE SPACE Garnish [Podfic]	Transform an Existing Podfic (In)Convenience [Podfic]	Het The Pairing Trilogy [Podfic]
Ace/Aro Character it's not easy to be yourself [Podfic]	Fix-It The Prevailing State of Things [Podfic]	Boy slash No Comment [Podfic]	Disability Right as Rain [Podfic]	Read with a Smile A Christmas Conundrum [Podfic]
Read Angrily Right as Rain [Podfic]	Read Loudly Right as Rain [Podfic]	Trans Character Fucking Grapefruits [Podfic]	More Articulation (for you) it's not easy to be yourself [Podfic]	Lower Vocal Range (for you) Mix Up [Podfic]

February challenge - Laughter: Garnish [Podfic]
March challenge - Cozy: From calm to cuddles [Podfic]

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2+ Hours Long And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down (in the City that We Loved)	Repod Cold Candy Kisses	Read Quietly His Blood, Like Wine	Domestic Love & Hair Dye	Whisper Heir With Debt
Read Sadly The strength to live	Read Quickly (for you) You and Me and the Cat Makes Three	Record at a new time Some kind of resurrection	Try an Accent Une fleur qui en ce monde n'existe pas	Rare Pairing Watch the sky (falling out of space)
Record While Lying Down Something Real	Angst Been going by a non-name	Nonlinear story What Stays Behind	Dirty Talk Feel you from the inside	Record Original Fic Attractive Fixed Set
Read A Friend’s Fic Devil's Bargain	Incorporate Verbal Effects Got a feeling that I'm going under	Collaborate with one or more writers A crack in everything	Read Loudly Jimin ascending	Moaning/Panting Tangled Threads, Stolen Breaths
Female Character Lost, but also found	Dark (for you) Replenish the Sea	Radio Play Style Two monks invent snails	More Articulation (for you) Fear is the monster you forgot to flee from (fear is the monster that won't let you go)	AU A thousand days

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A books update!

Recently finished:
Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke. Continuing my foray into Rilke's entire bibliography! I think this is my favorite of his works so far, with a clearer narrative arc than his other works that I've read.

The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed. This started off strong, but the second half got messy and felt a bit rushed. I can see what Mohamed was going for - the complete devastation of war, how even peace movements fall to violence when a situation is desperate enough, how looking at your enemy can be looking at a mirror - but it didn't stick the landing for me.

The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo. The first of two murder mysteries I read recently (I'll get to the second in a moment)! Loved the take on fox spirits in this and how they sit uneasily between the world of humans and the world of gods. I also really liked the elderly gentleman detective and his long-lost first love. There are a couple plot points I wanted more development of (I thought the people without shadows were underutilized), but on the whole I really liked this.

Catching the Big Fish, David Lynch. A series of essays on film-making, life, and meditation (a passion of Lynch's). I really liked the film-making essays - they put me in mind of Ray Bradbury's more autobiographical writing - but the meditation proselytizing got to be a bit too much woo for me.

A Song to Drown Rivers, Ann Liang. A retelling of the story of Xi Shi, one of the four great beauties of China. I wanted to like this more than I did, but I felt like it did a lot more telling than showing. I think it would make a great movie, but it was emotionally distant as a book, and I had a hard time connecting with the POV character.

Most Ardently, Gabe Cole Novoa. A YA trans retelling of Pride and Prejudice. This was recommended to me by my sister (a huge Jane Austen fan) and my nephew (he read it twice in a week lol), and it was very cute. I like some of the tweaks Novoa made, and Oliver's family's acceptance of his gender felt earned and cathartic when it very easily could have been treacly. I recommend it if you like P&P but want it queer!

Hyo the Hellmaker, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh. My favorite read of May! A kind of steampunk fantasy murder mystery set in a place that is not exactly Japan, but not not Japan, too. I mentioned on bluesky that it hits some really interesting notes on colonialism/colonization with its worldbuilding, though that isn't the focus of the story. It also has really cool takes on gods and patronage thereof, and you can definitely see the influence of both Japanese mythology and British mythology/fairy stories in the writing (the author is British-Japanese). And it's illustrated by the author!

Current Reads:
Unromance, Erin Connor
Think Little, Wendell Berry

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The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman

Blurb:

London 1815. Newly widowed Lily Adler returns to a society that frowns on independent women, but she's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. She's back in town and eager to have a renaissance with friends, particularly with Lady Serena Walter--from their school days--determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She expects scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect, as she's visiting Lady Walter is a dead man laying in her garden.

Lily happened to overhear the man just minutes before he was shot: young, desperate, and attempting blackmail. When she finds out Lord Walter bribes the investigating magistrate to drop the case, Lily is worried, and becomes the only one with the key to catching the killer.

Aided by Navy Captain Jack Hartley and heiress from the West Indies Miss Ofelia Oswald, Lily sets out to discover whether her friend's husband is mixed up in blackmail and murder. The unlikely team sets out to conceal their investigation behind the whirl of London's social season, but the deceased knew secrets about people with power. Secrets that the powerful have desire and influence to keep hidden. Now, Lily will have to uncover the truth, before she becomes the killer's next target.

This is the first mystery in the series - setting the place an time more than the following books. We get more of Lily's backstory and grief over the loss of her husband, and her initial friendship with Ofelia as well as her working relationship with Simon Page. Very enjoyable.

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Title: Put to rest
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,201 words
Content notes: Minor spoilers for BigFinish audioplay “Expectant”
Author notes: Written for Challenge 480 - Nap
Summary: Ianto is relieved to have things back to normal, but getting Jack to admit he should take some time to recuperate is challenging.

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Title: Shuteye
Fandom: none
Author:

veronyxk84
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Content: 9 icons (100x100) with characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy (x3), Spike (x2), Giles, Willow, Xander, Tara and Dawn. Made with GIMP.
Disclaimer: This is a fanart created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #480 - Nap

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 14,383
Content Notes: mild, essentially harmless exploitation of a baby by Rodney (the baby's well cared for)
Creator Links: Helenish on AO3, dodificus on AO3, dodificus on the Audiofic Archive
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Kidfic (has a child), Pining, First time, Friends to lovers, AU: fork in the road

Summary: It was easy to imagine fucking Rodney, the way he'd groan and clutch at John's arms and be too bossy about the whole thing; it was easy to imagine the problems it could cause.

Reccer's Notes: This is a cut off from Earth AU with the focus on John Sheppard's angst, pining and denial, but the ending, contrary to the title, is not unhappy. We follow John who's unwillingly and increasingly attracted to Rodney (but initially there's no way he'd ever let Rodney know). John tries to pretend he doesn't have feelings for Rodney while being tormented by jealousy, especially when Rodney temporarily cares for a refugee baby, partly as a "chick magnet". Helenish writes pining, self-deluding John brilliantly and this is another tour de force, packed with plot, UST, frustration, humor, and finally, finally, a happy ending, even though they're squabbling and miscommunicating throughout.

Fanwork Links: Your Inevitable Unhappy Ending on AO3
And the podfic read by dodificus is here

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Prompt: 480. Nap
Word count: 1,017
Rating: T
Summary: Lyra just wanted to nap instead of dealing with the most annoying person in existence.

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occasionally I remember that I actually have the ability to make polls (which I think is because someone gifts me dw paid time periodically? it is very sweet, thank you, I make basically no intentional effort to use those perks and usually forget I have them)

anyway I have been thinking about this and so:

Poll #33178 so if your journey to work involves multiple steps...

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

View Respondents

...how long is your commute?

View Answers

8 min (length of time you drive)
2 (7.4%)

20 min (amount of time it takes to reach your workplace)
11 (40.7%)

35 min (how long before work starts you gotta leave)
14 (51.9%)

Context:

I work at a site which is 5-10min away depending on lights/traffic. At the hour when I drive to work in the morning, it averages like 8min to get to the parking lot I must park in (which is further than the actual work site). I must get there before the shuttle to the work site leaves. I tend to get there like 10min before the shuttle leaves because I hate being late. Once the shuttle departs, it doesn't take long to get to the site, and then we are sitting there in the break room for ~15min before work actually begins.

Like! To be clear! This is not a bad commute even at the long form! I just! Don't enjoy being asked to show up to work 20min before work begins/before they'll pay me for my time! (Will I show up early on principle if it's by my choice? Sure.)

(also yes I suppose I could get there later and walk from the parking lot to the site, but uh that would get Commented On unless I still showed up at the work site at least 10min before work begins, so I'd rather just take the bus...)

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FK Fic Fest 2025

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fkficfest '25 is releasing!

We have 12 all-new Forever Knight fanfic stories this year. We're releasing one per day as long as they last to savor the goodness. So far, 4 are available to read! We're looking forward to 8 more!

Follow the reveals as they happen on our '25 AO3 sub-collection or DW community.

Do you remember Forever Knight (1992-1996) on CBS's "Crimetime After Primetime?" In local syndication? On the USA cable network or the original Sci-Fi Channel? DVDs? Streaming on Crackle, AppleTV, or Amazon? We still love our favorite vampire homicide cop and all his friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, and car. Come play with us!

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Star Trek AOS: Once Upon a Time by igrockspock

2 More Bingos

Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling: Advance and Retreat, by Zdenka.

Round 175: Female Relationships

Marvel Comics | icons | snoozing

Metaphor: ReFantazio Kink Meme

Greek Myth: Fanfic: Fate and Care

The Double: fanfic: tangible

May summary - Fullmetal Alchemist - 2 Podfics & BLACKOUT II

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Tokusatsu: Tokurecs May 2025 Monthly Self-Reccing Period

Book Bingo: B5 | From the Library | The Body in the Garden

Torchwood: Fanfic: Put to rest

Fic: Love Amidst the Cherry Blossom: due South/ Star Trek Enterprise

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanart: Shuteye (9 icons)

SGA: Your Inevitable Unhappy Ending by Helenish

Original Fiction: Heroics Aren't For Boys

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