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Prompt: 484. Science
Word count: 449
Rating: M
Summary: Cameron's therapist says it's normal, it's not her fault. Cameron's mind says she always had a choice.
Warnings: A/B/O, past child sexual abuse, mentioned sexual content, incest.
Note: I came across the term "arousal non-concordence", made the most basic research, and it seems to fit a couple of characters of mine. Since I've been working in writing about this one again, she's the chosen one to suffer.
I'm basically a high school dropout, I apologise for inaccuracies – you can blame them on the nature of omegaverse.

Read more... )
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[personal profile] garryowen posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: G
Length: 1 min 41 sec
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] indeedcaptain
Theme: Working together, outsider POV

Summary: the flagship may not be all it's cracked up to be

Reccer's Notes: Have you ever wondered what it's like to work with a commanding officer who has zero judgment when it comes to the captain and who does shit like almost kill him while under the influence of Vulcan mating hormones? Or how about working under a captain who has zero judgment when it comes to his first, and is always doing shit like risking his life and the ship to save his first's life? This short song captures what that must be like. It's the little things like trying to get your damn performance review submitted to Starfleet.

I'm not super into filk, but this one is well-written, with some fun rhymes and nice progression from beginning to end. It'll put a smile on your face.

Fanwork Links: HR Violations on the USS Enterprise

heck yeah, murderbot season finale

Jul. 10th, 2025 07:42 am
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[personal profile] marcicat
*I thought ep 9 was great

*very curious to see what the show does with ep 10!

*Sanctuary Moon y/n?

(PS very very funny to me that when Preservation decides to free a secunit in ASR, they go about it very officially, legal channels, documentation, all that stuff. Court orders! Probably actual real ones! And then in Network Effect, when ART and crew meet Three, they're all just like 'so we're going to lie about this, right? everyone in favor of plan: lie and deceive? excellent, yep')
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[personal profile] highlander_ii posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Do ALL the Science!
Fandom: Iron Man / Marvel 616
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of Tony Stark doing / using all of his cool science stuff.


Do ALL the Science! )

Greek Myth: Fanfic: In the Family

Jul. 9th, 2025 08:38 pm
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[personal profile] drabblewriter posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks

Title: In the Family
Fandom: Greek Myth
Characters: Apollo, Asclepius
Rating: G
Length: 265
Summary: Asclepius's hands part carefully, and Apollo sees what he's holding: a brown songbird, feathers ruffled and spotted with blood, an arrow protruding from one wing.

Read more... )

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Jul. 9th, 2025 07:20 pm
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[personal profile] skygiants
When [personal profile] kate_nepveu started doing a real-time readalong for Steven Brust & Emma Bull's epistolary novel Freedom and Necessity in 2023, I read just enough of Kate's posts to realize that this was a book that I probably wanted to read for myself and then stopped clicking on the cut-text links. Now, several years later, I have finally done so!

Freedom and Necessity kicks off in 1849, with British gentleman James Cobham politely writing to his favorite cousin Richard to explain he has just learned that everybody thinks he is dead, he does not remember the last two months or indeed anything since the last party the two of them attended together, he is pretending to be a groom at the stables that found him, and would Richard mind telling him whether he thinks he ought to go on pretending to be dead and doing a little light investigation on his behalf into wtf is going on?

We soon learn that a.) James has been involved in something mysterious and political; b.) Richard thinks that James ought to be more worried about something differently mysterious and supernatural; c.) both Richard and James have a lot of extremely verbose opinions about the exciting new topic of Hegelian logic; and d.) James and Richard are both in respective Its Complicateds with two more cousins, Susan and Kitty, and at this point Susan and Kitty kick in with a correspondence of their own as Susan decides to exorcise her grief about the [fake] death of the cousin she Definitely Was Not In Love With by investigating why James kept disappearing for months at a time before he died.

By a few chapters in, I was describing it to [personal profile] genarti as 'Sorcery and Cecelia if you really muscled it up with nineteenth century radical philosophy' and having a wonderful time.

Then I got a few more chapters in and learned more about WTF indeed was up with James and texted Kate like 'WAIT IS THIS A LYMONDALIKE?' to which she responded 'I thought it was obvious!' And I was still having a wonderful time, and continued doing so all through, but could not stop myself from bursting into laughter every time the narrative lovingly described James' pale and delicate-looking yet surprisingly athletic figure or his venomous light voice etc. etc. mid-book spoilers )

Anyway, if you've read a Lymond, you know that there's often One Worthy Man in a Lymond book who is genuinely wise and can penetrate Lymond's self-loathing to gently explain to him that he should use his many poisoned gifts for the better. Freedom and Necessity dares to ask the question: what if that man? were Dreamy Friedrich Engels. Which is, frankly, an amazing choice.

Now even as I write this, I know that [personal profile] genarti is glaring at me for the fact that I am allowing Francis Crawford of Lymond to take over this booklog just as the spectre of Francis Crawford of Lymond takes over any book in which he appears -- and I do think that James takes over the book a bit more from Richard and Kitty than I would strictly like (I love Kitty and her cheerful opium visions and her endless run-on sentences as she staunchly holds down the home front). But to give Brust and Bull their credit, Susan staunchly holds her own as co-protagonist in agency, page space and character development despite the fact that James is pulling all the book's actual plot (revolutionary politics chaotically colliding with Gothic occult family drama) around after him like a dramatic black cloak.

And what about the radical politics, anyway? Brust and Bull have absolutely done their reading and research, and I very much enjoy and appreciate the point of view that they're writing from. I do think it's quite funny when Engels is like "James, your first duty is to your class," and James is like "well, I am a British aristocrat, so that's depressing," and Engels is like "you don't have to be! you can just decide to be of the proletariat! any day you can decide that! and then your first duty will be to the proletariat!" which like .... not that you can't decide to be in solidarity with the working class ..... but this is sort of a telling stance in an epistolary novel that does not actually center a single working-class POV. How pleasant to keep writing exclusively about verbose and erudite members of the British gentry who have conveniently chosen to be of the proletariat! James does of course have working-class comrades, and he respects them very much, and is tremendously angsty about their off-page deaths. So it goes.

On the other hand, at this present moment, I honestly found it quite comforting to be reading a political adventure novel set in 1849, in the crashing reactionary aftermath to the various revolutions of 1848. One of the major political themes of the book is concerned with how to keep on going through the low point -- how to keep on working and believing for the better future in the long term, even while knowing that unfortunately it hasn't come yet and given the givens probably won't for some time. Acknowledging the low point and the long game is a challenging thing for fiction to do, and I appreciate it a lot when I see it. I'd like to see more of it.

Daily Check-in

Jul. 9th, 2025 06:04 pm
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[personal profile] starwatcher posting in [community profile] fandom_checkin
 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, July 9, to midnight on Thursday, July 10. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33344 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am OK.
15 (62.5%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
9 (37.5%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (45.8%)

One other person.
9 (37.5%)

More than one other person.
4 (16.7%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

Poll: Guo Changcheng's major (drama)

Jul. 10th, 2025 10:57 am
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[personal profile] china_shop posting in [community profile] sid_guardian
Poll #33343 Changcheng's qualifications
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10


What did Guo Changcheng study at university?

View Answers

Anthropology
0 (0.0%)

Chinese Language Teaching and Applied Chinese Language Studies
2 (20.0%)

Computer Science
0 (0.0%)

Corporate Governance and Sustainability
2 (20.0%)

Creative Writing
1 (10.0%)

Criminology
2 (20.0%)

Economics
2 (20.0%)

Environmental Studies
1 (10.0%)

Financial Accounting and Management
1 (10.0%)

History or Art History
1 (10.0%)

Law
0 (0.0%)

Media Studies
0 (0.0%)

Philosophy
1 (10.0%)

Psychology
1 (10.0%)

Visual Communication Design
0 (0.0%)

other
1 (10.0%)

he couldn't settle on a major and kept switching
4 (40.0%)

Best forgiveness/redemption moment

View Answers

Wang Xiangyang relinquishing the Merit Brush on his deathbed
0 (0.0%)

Ya Qing switching sides and then kneeling to Zhu Hong
3 (30.0%)

Ye Zun's posthumous reconciliation with Shen Wei
4 (40.0%)

Zhao Xinci fighting alongside the Yashou elders
1 (10.0%)

Cong Bo agreeing to work for the SID
2 (20.0%)

Ye Huo acknowledging the Envoy's authority
1 (10.0%)

Lin Jing becoming a double agent
3 (30.0%)

Da Ji fighting to protect Dragon City
0 (0.0%)

Wang Yike crying after accidentally ageing her girlfriend
2 (20.0%)

Dr Feng Qubing giving his life force to reverse the harm he did
4 (40.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

Guardian: fanfic: Winging It

Jul. 10th, 2025 10:29 am
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[personal profile] china_shop posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Winging It
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: G-rated
Length: 600 words
Notes: Much thanks to [personal profile] trobadora for beta, including making me add the final section. <3
Tags: Gen, Post-Canon, Everyone Lives, Yashou Renewal, Education, A New Era for the SID, Original Crow Character, Drabble Sequence
Summary: The Crows need a science tutor.

Winging It )
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[personal profile] veronyxk84 posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Guilt and Pain
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S7, during ep. 7x13 “The Killer in Me.”
Summary: Buffy feels helpless when Spike’s chip misfires.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #484 Science


READ: Guilt and Pain/Double drabble )
 

workaday Wednesday

Jul. 9th, 2025 07:44 am
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[personal profile] marcicat
Had an absolutely wild dream last night that one of my coworkers was doing the Battleship Exchange and somehow we both found out that the other was participating, and they kept trying to message me about it on the team chat...

And sure, 1) don't cross the streams, everyone knows that; but also 2) consider this: it was hilarious.

Crossovers.

Jul. 9th, 2025 02:58 am
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[personal profile] rogueslayer452
Sometimes I wished fandom fucked with crossovers more like it used to. *

Maybe I'm not looking in the right places since I know it stills happens, it's just that I remember when fandom crossovers were a massive thing especially during my early days in fandom. Yeah, fanfic fusion AUs exist, but it's not the same. There would be fanworks of various kinds where alternate universes featuring different fictional worlds would visit each other, either already existed in or created a kind of wormhole or portal to go into each other's world. It didn't need to make sense, it just needed to be like "how would these characters from this story interact with these others from this other story?" and that's that. But I rarely see those kinds of fanworks anymore, at least not in the way that it used to thrive in fandom spaces. I only see aspects of it now among the cdrama fandom. Of course, this is mere speculation on my part, I kinda theorize that the rise and fall of SuperWhoLock sort of got people to shy away from doing crossovers in such a way, because it was viewed as "cringe" since it was everywhere and dominated a lot of the fandomsphere especially on Tumblr. Which would be a shame if that were true. There is something amazing and uniquely fannish about crossovers, whether it be fanfiction, fanart, fanvids, or classic image manips, it's always been interesting to see the kinds of creativity fandom can come up with. You might not always know the fandoms in question, but it's nice to see people having fun.

(* I'm including myself in this as well, since I had once created some crossover fanworks in the past but have also unfortunately fallen off that wagon and need to get back on.)

Torchwood: Fanfic: SUV-mersible

Jul. 9th, 2025 08:03 pm
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[personal profile] m_findlow posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: SUV-mersible
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,644 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 484 - Science
Summary: Jack has a surprise for Ianto.

Read more... )

Me-and-media update

Jul. 9th, 2025 03:06 pm
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[personal profile] china_shop
Previous poll review
In the Crowd-sourcing randomness poll, heads got 19.4%, tails got 22.2%, edge got 25%, and zero-g (the coin never falls) got 38.9%. Either a) the laws of probability have ceased to function in a localised manner, b) Dreamwidth is surprisingly popular in space, c) we've stepped into an alternate dimension, or d) these results are not statistically robust.

In ticky-boxes, hugs came first with 75%, followed by surviving AO3 outages (69.4%), and grumbly cats in search of treats (66.7%). Thank you for your votes!

Reading
Two chapters to go in The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. It hasn't hugely grabbed me, maybe because of my stop-start reading habits, but I am very much enjoying mentally casting Grover from Sesame Street as Gurgi. I have an omnibus of the Chronicles, so I may continue on to The Black Cauldron.

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, read by Arian Moayed -- ahh, this is so good! It's about a young death-obsessed recovering-alcoholic gay Iranian American who's writing a book about martyrs. It reminds me a bit of Love in the Big City, but it's more experimental and lyrical. I'm halfway through nearly done. Surprising, funny, sad, beautifully written. Warnings for drug use, alcohol addiction, suicidal ideation, and politics.

Also Guardian by priest, and I currently have on loan from the library: No Rules Tonight by Hyun Sook Kim and Freya Marske's Swordcrossed in audio.

Kdramas
My Dearest Nemesis -- I am enjoying this so much. The leading man, as well as being a closet fanboy, is adorably ridiculous and so love-starved. I want to give him a puppy. (In fact, I think he should just have a dog for a couple of years, and one or two more friends, and then he can get a girlfriend.)

Other TV
Ghosted on Apple TV+, a spy/romcom with Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. The reviews are terrible, and it was indeed very very silly, but we watched it on its own terms and enjoyed it tremendously. Some laugh-out-loud moments. A+ popcorn movie! (The trailer is VERY spoilery, ftr.)

Murderbot, Poker Face, Fringe, Étoile (omg, someone please give these people media training!! Also, I'm sad I looked at that one gifset, because I'm very spoiled for the plot thread I'm most invested in, which is undercutting the tension), and Turning Point: The Vietnam War (so disturbing and thoughtful and informative).

Guardian/Fandom
Partying on. <3 <3 <3

Audio entertainment
Not much; my listening time is being eaten by Martyr!

Writing/making things
I'm currently working on a handful of different shortish things in a desultory "what shall I pick up today?" fashion. This is not how I finish things or even get a satisfying sense of progress! (Yesterday's was another CSZ/SW/ZYL fic -- many deliciously difficult feelings; today's was a gen drabble sequence for FFW.) Just pick a WIP and finish it, china!

I now have 238 Guardian fanworks on AO3. Ten more will make it my most-created-for fandom. # writing goals

Online life
I keep getting as far as checkout on shop websites and then drifting off. The fear of buyer's remorse is very real. Yet another reason I have so many tabs open.

Link dump
Screenwriter's Secret to Mindblowing Plot Twists by [youtube.com profile] heyjameshurst | [personal profile] mergatrude's e/R playlist (Youtube) | Music: Mon Rovîa - Rust. (Live) (Youtube, via [personal profile] teaotter) | US politics: 5 calls | Newsblur RSS reader | ‘I wanted to be a teacher not a cop’: the reality of teaching in the world of AI (The Spinoff, local indie newsite) | Hieronymus Bosch butt music (tumblr link, via [personal profile] mific) | Underrated Apple TV+ show recs? ([community profile] tv_talk post) | Thai Coconut Chicken Soup recipe (via [personal profile] autodach) | Poetic fic meme (via [personal profile] extrapenguin). There, I've closed a dozen or so tabs. # progress

Good things
New shampoo making my hair soft. Guardian. Warm buttery toast. My sister coming over this evening. Kdramas and books. Yesterday's sunshine, and walking through the trees along a shared mountain-bike trail. Sushi on the waterfront. Writing. Clean sheets.

Poll #33341 Companions
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51


What talking animal would you take on an adventure?

View Answers

emotionally unavailable alley cat
22 (43.1%)

naive gecko
9 (17.6%)

sad wolf
11 (21.6%)

stoic capybara
19 (37.3%)

trivia-obsessed fennec fox
21 (41.2%)

upbeat skunk
9 (17.6%)

coffee-addicted giant panda
11 (21.6%)

other
7 (13.7%)

ticky-box of frittered-away time
21 (41.2%)

ticky-box full of infinite monkeys and... wait, who's providing all the typewriters?
21 (41.2%)

ticky-box full of liquid birdsong that tastes like vengeance
20 (39.2%)

ticky-box full of dancing, light as thistledown, to an orchestra of metronomes
19 (37.3%)

ticky-box full of hugs
34 (66.7%)

Gundam: Fanfic: Study

Jul. 8th, 2025 08:20 pm
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[personal profile] samuraiter posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Study
Fandom: SD Gundam G Generation Eternal
Rating: PG
Length: 495 Words
Content Notes: None.
Author Notes: None.
Summary: Pilots can benefit from good science.

* * * *

Study )

Daily Check-in

Jul. 8th, 2025 05:50 pm
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[personal profile] starwatcher posting in [community profile] fandom_checkin
 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, July 8, to midnight on Wednesday, July 9. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33340 Daily Check-in
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 32

How are you doing?

I am OK.
17 (54.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
14 (45.2%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (34.4%)

One other person.
15 (46.9%)

More than one other person.
6 (18.8%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

Smoothie Love

Jul. 8th, 2025 03:25 pm
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[personal profile] sylvanwitch
I'm a smoothie fiend in the summer months, and I usually throw together whatever I have on hand to make a healthy, light lunch. I try to pack as many good things into my Ninja as I can. I might occasionally post a recipe, keeping in mind that these are all very personalized, with the "smoothies" tag. This is so I can find the recipes, but I also don't mind sharing with you. Feel free to ignore these posts.

Chocolate Cherry Bean Smoothie )

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