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It's the cold and dark of winter and I made the daily challenge on my discord be "Screaming", because it's sorta how everything has felt. In revenge, I had to have an annoying conversation with my boss about some (uncompensated, non-contract) responsibilities I hold have been slipping, and had one of my cabinets literally collapse in the middle of proctoring a serious standardized test. It was very dramatic, luckily it was just me and one student to be very badly startled.

Also luckily, my anti-Nemesis (comrade? buddy? hero?) was able to quickly swing by, and as he always does, he made my life demonstrably better. Huzzah! Now, when can we have a building that doesn't use the cheapest possible materials? We have not been present long enough for things to be literally falling apart.

Before the mild disaster, I managed to do a bunch of what my therapist yesterday called "productive avoidance". Genuinely good things! Things that need done! I checked some serious stuff off my todo list! None of it was the stuff that's the highest priority right now, which not surprisingly, is also the stuff that's stressing me out right now. Maybe tomorrow I will finally do some grading? Hahahah oh god.

I dunno man, it's the cold and dark of winter and also it's the cold and dark of fascism. I should probably be texting a lot more often with my sister who's currently in a city overrun by government thugs. I hope she's okay. I hope she stays okay. I hope we all stay okay. That's not just sisters, I hope we all stay okay.

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I wrote all the above during the department meeting, when I was still kinda sad and frustrated, but then Geometry PLC was quite good, and Clayton and I were able to walk home together and that was _excellent_. It's always pretty good, it's so _so_ valuable to have people I genuinely like to work with, but this time was also especially fun because he was filling me in his theory that Moby Dick is just an anime. It's very charming when he gets into things like that!

This evening has been...not terrible? Not amazing. Played a lot of video games, which is sometimes very good, and sometimes very avoidant. It wanted to be the really big push for packing for Arisia, since tomorrow night is dance class and I will be less inclined to do any packing work then. I did a non-zero amount of packing! It's nowhere near complete, but it was good progress! I also, critically, did all the laundry, so I'm actually set _up_ to do more good packing tomorrow.

And I helped Rey buzz her hair short which was quite fun --I always like a chance to play with the clippers! And I washed all the dishes, which is good --I've been only an intermittent dish fairy these past few weeks, so it felt good to do it proper.

I still need to update my dailies list, which I'm trying to pay better attention to this year than last. I think I sussed out it was ~130 days that I actually logged things last year? Which is...not great. I'd like to do better this year, I'd like to see if I can at least get 2/3rds of the days gone. Using Habitica too, helps. Having the double things to log is actually quite nice, they scratch similar but not-quite-the-same itches.

I hope you are well and happy and stay that way.

~Sor
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My schedule for Arisia this year is minute, but a fairly big deal for me since the state of my health last allowed me to participate in programming in 2021. I mean, at the moment the state of my health is failed, but I'm still looking forward.

Dramatic Readings from the Ig Nobel Prizes
Saturday 3 pm, Amesbury AB
Marc Abrahams et al.

Highlights from Ig Nobel prize-winning studies and patents, presented in dramatic mini-readings by luminaries and experts (in some field). The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions about the research presented—answers will be based on the expertise of the presenters, who may have a different expertise than the researchers.

Cursed Literature
Sunday 4:15 pm, Central Square
Mark Millman (m), Alastor, Kristina Spinney, Sonya Taaffe

Some literature describes haunted houses; other books seem like they are haunted, as though the act of reading the book is inviting something vaguely unclean into the reader's life. Whether considering the dire typographical labyrinths of The House of Leaves, or the slowly expanding void at the heart of Kathe Koja's Cypher, some works leave a mark. Panelists will explore books that by reputation or their own experience, produce a lingering unsettled feeling far beyond the events and characters of the story.

SFF on Stage
Sunday 5:30 pm, Porter Square B
Raven Stern (m), Andrea Hairston, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Stephen R. Wilk

Science fiction and fantasy have long been mainstays of live theater; William Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1595. Peter Pan introduced one of the 20th century's best known characters in 1904. In 1920, R.U.R. gave us the word "robot." Universal Studios' famous version of Dracula was adapted not from the novel, but the wildly successful Broadway play. That's not even getting into modern musicals like Wicked or Little Shop of Horrors. What does it take for genre to work in a live setting, and where have we seen it succeed (or fail)?

Anyone else I can expect to see this weekend? The ziggurat awaits.

Current Music: Wednesday, "Wasp"

1. What are you currently reading?

Sort of nothing. Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault is waiting until I can re-borrow it from Libby, and I'm of course picking through 盗墓笔记 vol. 2 and I'm one day behind (I'm aiming for a page a day and I started on the 1st, but I've only finished 13 pages, mostly because I was too busy this morning and while I read MOST of a page, I didn't finish). I probably won't bother mentioning DMBJ every week considering that at this rate I'll finish in like September or October so... yeah.

2. What have you recently finished reading?

Lout of Count's Family vol. 6 by Yu Ryeo-Han: unsurprisingly I motored through this. I just want Cale to collapse in a pool of his own blood once before all the volumes of the book are over. Is that too much to ask???
Delicious in Dungeon vol. 7 to 14 by Ryoko Kui: finished my "now I own it, Imma reread" read-through. Still love it. Zero regrets on purchasing the box set, especially because once I started reading it, my daughter (who is 7) binge-watched the show, wanted more, and is now reading the manga too lol. I warned her that there's some graphic stuff in the later volumes (like [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS])
Firefly Wedding vol. 1 by Oreco Tachibana: I have absolutely no idea how this m/f historical Japan thing ended up on my TBR? Maybe I thought it was m/m? anyway, once I had it I figured I might as well read it. It was... interesting? I'm gonna give it one more volume but I'm not terribly enthusiastic about it. It is at least more interesting than a lot of shoujo is to me these days.
Yona of the Dawn vol. 21 by Mizuho Kusanagi
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vol. 3 by Makoto Hagino: modern gl. This volume was soooooooo slow that I'm not sure I'll keep going if the pacing doesn't pick up at least a little.
Nirvana in Fire manhua vol. 1 and 2 by Hai Yan: I reread vol. 1 before reading vol. 2. The art continues to be lovely. I'm not sure the story would be followable to anyone not already familiar with it, tho.
The Way of the Househusband vol. 12 by Kousuke Oono: I read these out of order cause the order doesn't matter at all; I've now read 1 to 14 and am caught up! with the next volume coming out next Tuesday, lol.

3. What will you read next?

Novels: I'm vending four days this week (Fri - Mon) and will have a fair amount of time at my booth doing nothing, so I'm gonna bring four books: The City We Make and The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin, and Don't You Like Me vol. 1 and 2 by Lv Tian Yi.

Physical graphic novels/manga: nothing from the library right now, and nothing from my own pile that I intend to read this week (next up, whenever I do it, are the four volumes of the Link Click cinemanhua.

Libby loans: I've got two due in the next week, so definitely them - Fragtime: The Complete Manga Collection by Sato and Kase-San and Yamada vol. 3 by Hiromi Takashima.

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Starting today, and running through Wednesday, January 28th, we’re raising funds to publish the third and last book of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence! Whether you backed the campaigns for books 1 and 2, or you’re just hearing about these books for the first time from this post, now is a great time to get one book, get two books, or get the whole trilogy so you can read the full story!

People with Talent—Mages, Dreamwalkers, shapechangers, and others—have always lived among mankind. Their existence was hidden until ten years ago, when the world was abruptly introduced to the existence of these secret magic users after a young gymnast spontaneously teleported during the Olympics. This event heralded the start of the Emergence; whereas, once, Talents were close-kept secrets that ran in family lines, now everyone knew that there were people with incredible abilities in communities all over the world.

The Emergence wrought changes at every level of society.

At Pine Hills University, a small liberal-arts college in Upstate New York, these changes have been pronounced, as the University has taken the lead in studying Talent academically: encouraging Talented students to apply, hiring Talented faculty, and debuting Talent-related curricula, minors, and majors.

This is the milieu against which the events of the Twinned trilogy unfold. Ten years has been just long enough for the young, Talented students of Pine Hills University to think they know where they fit in the world—but there are many changes yet to come…

For this campaign, we’re also making some fun Pine Hills University merchandise—the crest of the fictional university as an enamel pin, a car back-window sticker, and one of our signature dux in a PHU-colored varsity jacket.

Oh and – these books are hella queer! The main character is a gay aro man, the lead of the second is asexual biromantic and has a trans twin brother, and book 3 features an established m/m relationship between the leads. That’s just the tip of the iceberg; lots of the side characters are also LGBTQIA+.

Visit our Kickstarter campaign page and learn all the details, read the book blurbs and excerpts, see the merch, get to know Tris Lawrence, and more!

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Running this many days without sleep, I find it hard to tell whether I had an insight about creativity this weekend or just reinvented a 101-level objection to LLMs and so-called generative AI, but it ocurred to me that such technologies are not capable of allusions. Their algorithms are not freighted with the same three-dimensional architecture of associations which accrete around information stored in the human cold porridge, all the emotional colors and sensory overtones and contextual echoes which attend the classic example of a word like tree when you throw it out across the incommensurable void between one human mind and another to be plugged into their own idiosyncratically plastic linkage of bias and experience whose least incompatibility may be the difference between a bristlecone and a birch and Wittgenstein has to lie down with a headache, but all of these entanglements form as much of the texture of a writer's style—of any human communication—as the word cloud of their vocabulary or their most commonly diagrammed sentences. It has always interested me to be able to detect the half-rhymes or skeletons of familiarity in the work of other writers; I have always assumed I am reciprocally legible if not transparent from space. I've seen arguments against the creativity of LLMs based on intentionality, but the unintended encrustrations seem just as important to me. By way of illustration, this thought was partly sparked by this classic and glorious mashup.

I was delighted to find on checking the news this morning that a new Roman villa just dropped. Given the Iron Age hillforts, the twelfth-century abbey, the Georgian country house, and the CH station, Margam Country Park clearly needed a Roman find to complete the set. I have since been informed of the discovery of a similarly well-preserved and impressive carnyx. Goes shatteringly with a villa, the Iceni tell me.

I joke about this rock I spend most of my time under, but how can I never have heard of Marlow Moss? The Bryher vibes alone. The Constructivism. And a real short king, judging by that jaunty photo c. 1937 with Netty Nijhoff. Pursuing further details, I fell over Anton Prinner and have been demoralized about my comprehension of art history ever since.

Last night I read David Copperfield (1850) for the third time in my life. It has the terrible feel of a teachable moment. In high school I bounced almost completely off it. About ten years later, I enjoyed the dual-layered narration and was otherwise mostly engaged by the language. Now it appears I just like the novel, which I have to consider may be a factor of middle age. Or I had just read the necessary bunch more of Dickens in the interval, speaking of traceable reflections, recurring figures; my favorite character has not changed since eleventh grade, but I can see now the constellation he's part of. It seems improbable that I was always reading the novel while waiting for chorus to start, but I did get through Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) in the down time of a couple of rehearsals that year. I was not taking either of the standard literature classes, but I had friends who left their assigned reading lying around.

I have to be at three different doctors' offices tomorrow. I could be over this viral mishegos any second now.

Current Music: Pavement, "Grave Architecture"

We recently received a request for a rec list of science fiction books with aro or aroace characters. Aro characters are still few and far between, but we did our best and came up with a short list of great aro scifi books! The contributors to the list are: Rascal Hartley, Alessa Riel, Adrian Harley, Shea Sullivan, E. C.

Want to request a rec list from us? You can do that! Drop us an ask on Tumblr!

Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley

Atticus “Finch” Davani does not want to be an astronaut. He hates space, he hates the ship, and he strongly dislikes his fellow crew members. He makes that painfully clear in his letters to Aku, his corporate-assigned penpal back on Earth.

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace

“Twenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counter’s stalled at eight hundred eighty-seven while I’ve been standing here like an idiot. My health bar is flashing ominously, but I’m down to four heal patches, and I have to be smart.”

New Liberty City, 2134.

Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country’s remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side.

Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis’s wargame SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the game’s rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal–looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Mal’s sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife’s developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she’s only experienced through her avatar.

Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón

Màgòdiz (Anishinabemowin, Algonquin dialect): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the Madjideye, a faceless, formless spiritual entity that has infiltrated the world to subjugate the human population.

A’tugwewinu is the last survivor of the Andwànikàdjigan. On the run from the Madjideye with her lover, Bèl, a descendant of the Warrior Nation, they seek to share what the world has forgotten: stories. In Pasakamate, both Shkitagen, the firekeeper of his generation, and his life’s heart, Nitàwesì, whose hands mend bones and cure sickness, attempt to find a home where they can raise children in peace, without fear of slavers or rising waters. In Zhōng yang, Riordan wheels around just fine, leading xir gang of misfits in hopes of surviving until the next meal. However, Elite Enforcer H-09761 (Yun Seo, who was abducted as a child, then tortured and brainwashed into servitude) is determined to arrest Riordan for theft of resources and will stop at nothing to bring xir to the Madjideye. In a ruined world, six people collide, discovering family and foe, navigating friendship and love, and reclaiming the sacredness of the gifts they carry.With themes of resistance, of ceremony as the conduit between realms, and of transcending gender, Màgòdiz is a powerful and visionary reclamation that Two-Spirit people always have and always will be vital to the cultural and spiritual legacy of their communities.

All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries series) by Martha Wells

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.

But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.

But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.

Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Hundreds of years ago, the last humans left Earth. After centuries wandering empty space, humanity was welcomed – mostly – by the species that govern the Milky Way, and their generational journey came to an end.

But this is old history. Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. When a disaster rocks this already fragile community, those Exodans who have not yet left for alien cities struggle to find their way in an uncertain future. Among them are a mother, a young apprentice, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, a man searching for a place to belong, and an archivist, who ensures no one’s story is forgotten. Each has their own voice, but all seek answers to inescapable questions:

Why remain among the stars when there are habitable worlds within reach? And what is the purpose of a ship that has reached its destination?

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The best thing about a photo I found tonight of John Vickery in 1981 is not that it headcanoned itself instantly as an image of the younger Neroon, it's that I had just been watching him in an American Theatre Wing seminar from that same year and been struck by how little of his older self in or out of character was immediately traceable in his thin collegiate face and especially his light Californian voice and so when looking out of mildly feverish curiosity for his notices that summer as Prince Hal I was really not expecting to find through nothing but chiaroscuro and expression his future Minbari bones.

Offstage, he had reminded me more of Kyle MacLachlan and barely looked old enough to have the bachelor's in mathematics which was part of his origin story. He tells it again in another seminar in 1998 and still has a nervous gesture of touching one of his eyes as if tired or distracted slightly; he's a great fidgeter in front of an off-the-cuff audience. I had gone looking originally for his voice, which turns out not even to be that mid-Atlantic when he's using it for himself. Three decades plus I had to notice this actor with my brain on perpetual standby for B5 and now it has an opinion.

To keep on the theme of theater, I had no idea until her obituary that Tina Packer started her career in the three-quarters burninated 1966 BBC David Copperfield with Ian McKellen and then the much more successfully recovered 1968 Doctor Who: The Web of Fear before she discovered she cared much less for acting than directing or producing, whence Shakespeare & Company. The last time I saw Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code was in 2011 at Central Square Theater and they are reviving it this spring with the actor I last saw as Gaveston in the ASP's Edward II in 2017, whom I expect to be a superb Turing and me to leave the theater muttering about Joan Clarke as usual. In lieu of a teleporter, I have to hope for a transfer of this High Noon.

Current Music: Townies, "Elderberry Wine"

Happy recruitment opens day! I’m so excited to announce that now through January 31st, 2026, we are accepting applications from authors interested in writing for our next anthology, Beyond the Galactic Tide!

Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction?

If the answer to both these questions is “yes,” then this may be the perfect opportunity for you! Duck Prints Press (the spiffy indie press founded by fandom author unforth to publish the original work of fancreators) is looking for approximately 15 authors to write all-new, original stories, 5,000 to 7,500 words long, for a minimum pay of $75 per story! What will these stories be about? TL:DR, ACE…. IN…. SPAAAAAACE! For the slightly longer version, we’re soliciting pitches for stories about asexual characters in outer space settings. Are they exploring? Are they settling? Are they traveling? Are they just livin’ life and vibing? You tell us!

Every pitch must include:

Setting: Space!
People: at least one main character who is on the asexuality spectrum
Genre: any that can reasonably be placed into space
Relationships: any or none
A happy ending!

Curious how to apply? If you are over the age of 18 and have posted at least 3 completed fanfiction works totaling a minimum of 10,000 words, then you are qualified to apply, and you should follow these links to learn all the deets – how to apply, what to submit, how long pitches should be, and more! Only applicants who meet our fanfiction requirements will be considered!

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The application period ends when the last timezone in the world hits 11:59 p.m. on January 31st (which I approximate to 8 a.m. Eastern time on February 1st), so make sure to get your applications in before then!

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While we seem to have skipped actual plague, all of my households have acquired the going lurgi and my head feels like a balloon which has been filled with concrete and may at any second fall off. I have not been ill with a pharmacologically suppressed immune system before. I hadn't been sure it would be capable of running even a low-grade fever.

I have him so totally identified with the role of Neroon on Babylon 5 (1994–98), I keep forgetting that John Vickery in common with many actors who could handle the hours of makeup made several appearances on Star Trek, although the time I actually seem to have seen him in that universe involved no enhancements beyond near-catatonic terror as the sole survivor of a creepily derelict death-ship in TNG's "Night Terrors" (1991). Perhaps it was just lost to the sands of fanzines, but I was genuinely surprised that no one on AO3 ever filled in some kind of /comfort for a character who spends nearly his total screen time telepathically looping through cryptically traumatized echoes and crying. Just when you think you have a handle on other people's id.

It is not reasonable that for two years the earth has been bereft of a rust-black little cat with cut-lime eyes, my miracle, my salty boy, my sassafras, while it suffers the weight of human people who are not worth one of his twenty-six claws, snagged in my bathrobe as he clambered to my shoulder for his terrycloth time after a shower. I miss turning back the covers in this weather to find his sincere blink up from the bedclothes, the absolute trust in the soft curl of his back that no one would shift him from his burrowed comfort. I miss the notes in his purr, from the musical edge of wanting to the subterranean roar of contentment, the whole architecture of his body vibrating like throat singing with the little whiffle that went in and out of his voice, his signature trill. I miss the unretractable click of his claws that announced his progress and the calluses of his desert-rose pads with which he gripped fiercely for human touch. From childhood I was taught that cats turn into flowers and Autolycus lies with his grave goods at the roots of the forsythia I have twice watched bloom since his death; the candle lit for him after sunset burns and his sister did not spring immediately off the bed when I stumbled into it, nauseated and head-aching. I am not without cat in my life. But I am without this cat and he was of inestimable worth to the world.

Current Music: Vivian Girls, "Where Do You Run To"

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that readers love words! And whatever better time to celebrate words than National Word Nerd Day? We’ve previously shared the words that our contributors love and love to use. This time, we asked the folks in our Book Lover’s Discord Server what their favorite words are, and here’s the list we compiled! And what are YOUR favorite words?

Our Favorite Words of 2026!

hefted. (of livestock) accustomed and attached to an area of upland pasture (source: rossrunswild.com)

apoplexy. a state of intense and almost uncontrollable anger (source: merriam-webster.com)

ambivalent. having or showing simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward something or someone (source: merriam-webster.com)

ephemeral. lasting a very short time (source: merriam-webster.com)

luminesce. to exhibit luminescence (the low-temperature emission of light) (source: merriam-webster.com)

baby. a term of endearment (source: merriam-webster.com)spite. petty ill will or hatred with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart (source: merriam-webster.com)

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Time for more Thursday Recs!

Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

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Yesterday I was in a bad mood after my meeting, and also I'm a little sleep-deprived and I've been in a weird mood for a couple days anyways. Also, the band Seeming, who I'd just gotten pretty into one of their albums¹ right before winter break, did a "all our pre-2025 music free" as a special, and it felt prudent to nab it².

Sometimes we can do things the right way though, and so instead of playing mindless phone games, I just put the song du jour on repeat, and got my sketchbook, and drew a picture:

Write the song you need to hear. And draw it, I suppose.

( art process babbling under here )

Anyways, that's what I did last night, and I'm pleased about it! Maybe I will draw other things sometime this year, I would like that.

~Sor
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1: Specifically, Madness and Extinction. BDan recommended it, on one of the times I was looking for Bandcamp Friday recs. After the third time of tossing it into the "after school album rotation" and being all "damn this is really good I should go tell BDan", I finally took actual notice.

2: Technically I did pay-what-you-will at a dollar per album, since that way they get put into my Bandcamp account and I can stream them, instead of just being emailed the mp3s. I really like this set-up! And I went ahead and put the 2025 stuff into my cart to nab at above-cost on the next Bandcamp Friday.

(I appreciate so much that Bandcamp hasn't fully enshittified yet.)

3: Different fun fact! "The Earth is radiantly suicidal" is written three times because it was too off-kilter when I inked it once, and so I wanted to rebalance the picture. I sorta wish I had stuck with twice, since that's how they do repetitions of it in the song, but it's fine.

Now that we are back in the swing of the year, my days are marked by doctors' appointments. I preferred being outside the calendar. I did dream briefly and unexpectedly of Alexander Knox, playing one of those harrowed, abrasive, obdurate figures on the other side of some internment or imprisonment that made me think he would have been anachronistically great as E. T. C. Werner. Have some link-like things.

1. John Heffernan falls into the category of actors of whom I have somehow become very fond without actually seeing all that much of them, which normally happens with character faces in the '40's. I am unlikely even to see his latest project, the freshly announced Amazon TV version of Tomb Raider, but since his character is described in the promotional dramatis personae as "an exhausted government official who finds himself tangled up in Lara's unusual world," it's nice to know I would almost certainly develop a disproportionate attachment to him if I had the chance. You can tell I am otherwise a solid generation of actors behind the times since I was impressed by the casting all in the same place of Jason Isaacs, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie, Paterson Joseph, and Sigourney Weaver.

2. This song transfixed me a few nights ago on WHRB: Barbez, "Strange" (2005).

3. I meant once again to praise the Malden Public Library for ordering me a sun-bleached, peach-orange, jacketless first edition of Leslie Howard's Trivial Fond Records (ed. Ronald Howard, 1982), about whose selected nonfiction I have been intensely curious since discovering its existence in 2008, but the problem with reading some of the broadcasts he made for J. B. Priestley's Britain Speaks in 1940 is that one runs into passages like:

Democracy today, to survive at all, must be as militant as autocracy, and what the world is desperately in need of now is not the gentle, philosophic democracy of Jefferson, but the outspoken, militant and ringing democracy of Roosevelt, representing the righteous anger of the free people of the world aroused against the cynical arrogance of the totalitarian feudalists.

Current Music: Barbez, "Strange"

Next weekend, January 16th to 19th, Arisia 2026 is taking place in Boston! Arisia is a convention for fans of science fiction and fantasy, in all forms of media, held at the Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge. It includes panels, vending, table-top gaming, meet-ups, and other fun things to do. Duck Prints Press is part of the Creators Corner, along with about 10 others; there’s also a Dealer’s Room AND an Artist Show!

If you’re in the Boston area, I hope we’ll see you there!

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Every month, creators with Duck Prints Press come together to hold a literary convention-style panel on a topic chosen by our Patrons or selected by the panelists themselves. Our January panel? This Saturday, January 11 at 10 a.m. Eastern (converter) we’re having a get-together with five authors – Sebastian Marie, Puck Malamud, Alex Bauer, Tris Lawrence, and Lucy K. R. – about being a neurodiverse creator!

Description: As an umbrella term for a wide range of ways a brain can work, the word “neurodiverse” has become one way of grouping people with conditions ranging from autism and ADHD, to dyslexia and dysgraphia, to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. For creators, having these conditions can have advantages – such as changing how we see and interact with the world, helping us to unique points of view and frameworks, and supporting our work process – and they can also have disadvantages – such as interfering with ability to focus, causing mood swings that can make creativity tough, and making developing and maintaining creative habits difficult. In this panel, we’ll talk about our own neurodivergence, the ways we find our neurodivergence strengthens us as creators, the challenges that our neurodivergence introduces and how we’ve navigated those challenges, and the value we’ve found in forming communities with other neurodiverse people, touching on the extent to which we find the “neurotypical” and “neurodiverse” frameworks useful and relevant.

If you’re already a Patron, I hope you’ll join us! And if you’re not, become one today at the $7/month level or higher and get access to this panel, recordings of our past panels, and lots of other awesome benefits!

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1. What are you currently reading?

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault: it's not bad but it's also not really grabbing me, so I'm going really slow. I accepted yesterday that I won't manage to finish it before my current loan expires, so I put a hold on it again so I can continue. I'm about 20% in.
Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi vol. 7 by Ryoko Kui: see below, lol
盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔: since I finished 我和我对家, this is my new Chinese novel read (as picked by the survey I posted on Tumblr!). I'm taking a bit of a different approach with this one, annotating, underlining words I look up, writing definitions and/or pronunciations. Even if I weren't doing that, I definitely feel like I'm understanding this better; the sentences are more structured and the language more standard/less slang. It's written more formally, which matches better with what I've learned through studying. However, the pages are also a LOT longer and more dense with text, so it's sloooooow. It takes about 20 minutes for me to read a single page. Also, I had thought this would correlate to English vol. 2 of Daomu Biji, but it doesn't, it correlates to English vol. 3 which is. A pity. Because that's my least favorite of the DMBJ books I've read. But oh well, what can ya do

2. What have you recently finished reading?

Failed Princess by Ajiichi: modern yuri. Incredibly annoying characters, I'm not gonna continue this one. I'm usually pretty good at differentiating between "the author thinks this" vs "the characters think this" but this truly reads like the author has some unconsidered views on how important appearance is for a girl. Like, it's either the author doesn't get it, which is uncomfortable, or the character is like that, which is unpleasant, and either way I'm done.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 4 and 5 by Fuse and Taiki Kawakami
Kase-san and Morning Glories (Kase-san and... vol. 1) and Kase-san and Yamada vol. 2 (Kase-san and... vol. 7) by Hiromi Takashima: modern yuri. both of these were better than the first I read in this series (which was vol. 6 of the overall series), I'll keep with it for now.
Yona of the Dawn vol. 20 by Mizuho Kusanagi
Sakamoto Days vol. 17 by Yuto Suzuki
Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi vol. 1 - 6 by Ryoko Kui: this is a reread. I used holiday money I was gifted in the form of Amazon giftcards to buy the full series box set and I've done nothing but reread it ever since, lmao. Bonus, my daughter immediately started watching the anime, lmao. She's such an adorable weeb. (she is 7 years old)

3. What will you read next?

Novels: poor The City We Became, getting bumped again lmao... I picked up my spo of Lout of Count's Family vol. 6 by Yu Ryeo-Han, so that.

Physical Graphic Novels/Manga: I have none from the library, but with the box set of DunMesh at hand, you can safely assume I'll be finishing my reread of that before I do anything else.

Libby Graphic Novels/Manga: none of my loans are due in the next week so it's a bit of a crap shoot, but the ones due soonest are A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vol. 3 by Makoto Hagino and Fragtime: The Complete Manga Collection by Sato, so. Probably at least those.

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Our most recent anthology, Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories, is now available for general sales. Miss the Kickstarter and want to get a copy? Hearing about it now for the first time? You can buy Scholarly Pursuits from the Duck Prints Press webstore, request it from your library, order it at your local bookstore, or purchase it from one of the many retailers who sell our books!

Blurb:

Duck Prints Press presents 22 delightfully fluffy, happy, odd, snug, and cozy stories about queer characters pursuing academic excellence! From field research shenanigans to cooking adventures, from space station education departments to eldritch libraries, creators brought their vivid imaginings to life in these charming fantasy and science fiction stories. Settle into your favorite research carrel or prepare to read on the sly under your desk as you join us for “Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories.”

Buy your copy, as an e-book or print book, today!

We also have limited quantities of leftover merchandise from the crowdfunding campaign!

If there was any merch you wanted, there’s no time like the present to make sure you get it before supplies run out.

Bird Skull Enamel Clip Bookmark (top row, left)
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This, and lots of other awesome anthologies, books, stories, and bookish and queer merch are available on the Duck Prints Press website!

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Doubtful as it may be under present conditions to find encouragement in anything of military origin unless it's the USS Princeton in 1844, about twenty-seven seconds into the two minutes' patriotism of Warship Week Appeal (1942) I cracked up.

Two hundred feet exactly of no-credits 35 mm, the object in question is a trailer produced for the Ministry of Information, essentially the same concept as the film tags of WWI: a micro-dose of propaganda appended to a newsreel as part of a larger campaign, in this case a sort of public information skit in which it is supposed that Noël Coward on the Denham sets of In Which We Serve (1942) is approached by Leslie Howard, slouching characteristically on with his hands in his pockets and his scarf twisted carelessly label-out, anxious to discuss a problem of National Savings. "How do you think we can make an appeal so it won't quite seem like an appeal?" With limited screen time to realize their meta conceit, the two actor-directors get briskly down to explaining the mechanics of the scheme to the British public with the shot-reverse-shot patter of a double act on the halls, but the trailer has already dropped its most memorable moment ahead of all its instructions and slogans, even the brief time it rhymes. Diffident as one end of his spectrum of nerd heroes, Howard apologizes for the interruption, excuses it with its relevance to naval business, and trails off with the usual form of words, "I'm sure you won't mind—" to which Coward responds smoothly, "I'm delighted to see you. And I know perfectly well—as we rehearsed it so carefully—that you've come to interview me about Warships Week." He doesn't even bother to hold for a laugh as Leslie snorts around his unlit cigarette. It doesn't all feel like a bit. The interjection may or may not have been scripted, but Coward's delivery is lethally demure and his scene partner's reaction looks genuine; for one, it's much less well-timed or dignified than the smile he uses to support a later, slightly obligatory joke about the income tax, which makes it that much more endearing. It's funny to me for a slant, secondhand reason, too, that has nothing to do with the long friendship between the two men or further proof of Noël's deadpan for the ages: a dancer with whom my mother once worked had been part of the company of Howard's 1936 Hamlet and like all the other small parts, whenever her back was to the audience and the Hollywood star was stuck facing the footlights, she tried to corpse him. One night she finally succeeded. Consequently and disproportionately, watching him need the length of a cigarette-lighting to get his face back, I thought of her story which I hadn't in years and may have laughed harder than Leslie Howard deserved. If it's any consolation to him, the way his eyes close right up like a cat's is beautiful, middle-aged and underslept. It promotes the illusion that a real person might say a phrase like "in these grim days when we've got our backs to the wall" outside of an address to the nation.

Not much consolation to the MOI, Warship Week Appeal accomplishes its goal in that while it doesn't mention for posterity that a community would adopt the ship it funded, the general idea of the dearth of "ships—more ships and still more ships" and the communal need to pay down for them as efficiently as possible comes through emphatically. It's so much more straightforward, in fact, than I associate with either of its differently masked actors, I'd love to know who wrote it, but the only other information immediately available is that the "Ronnie" whom Coward is conferring with when Howard courteously butts in is Ronald Neame. Given the production dates of their respective pictures, it's not difficult to pretend that Howard just popped over from the next sound stage where he was still shooting The First of the Few (1942), although he is clearly in star rather than director mode because even if he's in working clothes, he is conspicuously minus his glasses. What can I tell you? I got it from the Imperial War Museum and for two minutes and thirteen seconds it cheered me up. Lots of things to look at these days could do much, much worse. This interview brought to you by my appealing backers at Patreon.

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After a full week without water in the kitchen, the plumber cameth on half an hour's notice from the property manager and was horrified to hear about it, but he was swift and competent and we have a new and working faucet, which was all the problem turned out to be. Hestia made herself invisible in the bedroom throughout the proceedings. I washed a fork without first boiling water and it felt like a big deal.

I just finished reading David Hare's A Map of the World (1983), whose device of examining an interpersonal-political knot through the successive filters of the roman à clef, the screen version, and the memories of the participants reminded me obviously of similar exercises in metafiction and retrospect by Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn, double-cast for an effect at the end approaching timeslip such as works almost strictly on stage. I did not expect to find some fragments preserved in an episode of The South Bank Show, but there were some of the scenes with Roshan Seth, John Matshikiza, Bill Nighy, Diana Quick. I wish I thought it meant there were a complete broadcast I could watch, but I'm not even finding it got the BBC Radio 3 treatment. More immediately, it reminded me of how many of the stories I read early were about stories, their propagation and mutation, their conventions, their shifting distances from the facts. "And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it."

The problem with the denaturing of language is that when I say to

spatch that the political situation is insane, I don't mean it's a little far-fetched, I mean it is driven by wants and processes that are not rational and it is exhausting to be trapped inside someone else's illness.

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Duck Prints Press’s monthly “created works round-ups” are our opportunity to spotlight some of the amazing work that people working with us have done that ISN’T linked to their work with Duck Prints Press. We include fanworks, outside publications, and anything else that creators feel like sharing with y’all. Inclusion is voluntary and includes anything that they decided “hey, I want to put this on the created work’s round-up!”

Check out what they’ve shared with us this month…

Teen Titans: Wrath of the Ravager by Elias Strunck

art || teen titans || no ships || general audiences || no major warnings apply || complete

summary: Cover and sample pages in the style of the 2003 Teen Titans show

other tags: Ravager/Rose Wilson

TUMBLR – INSTAGRAM – LINK

When You’re Ready by Boomchick/Lucy K.R.

fiction || svsss/the scum villain’s self-saving system || m/m || luo binghe/shen yuan || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 15,673 || work in progress

summary: On the last season of The Bachelorette, host Shen Jiu went off the rails and attacked sweet, handsome contestant Luo Binghe, losing his place on the franchise and sullying the program’s quest for love.

Now, Shen Yuan has taken his brother’s place as host for the new season of The Bachelor, starring the very same Luo Binghe who his brother hurt & derided–a handsome, friendly, charming young man who clearly deserves all the best in the world. Surely Shen Yuan can protect his brother AND help Luo Binghe find love among the charming women vying for his affection. Surely things won’t get any more complicated from here, right?

Right!?

other tags: Alternate Universe: Reality TV, The Bachelor, Ensemble Cast, Luo Binghe’s Harem as Bachelor Contestants, background f/f relationships, background implied qijiu, slow burn, light angst, romantic comedy, getting together

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as a whetstone loves a blade by corduroyserpent

fiction || trigun (anime & manga 1995-2008) || m/m || legato bluesummers/millions knives || mature || no major warnings apply || 7,855 || complete

summary: Sometimes you have to bring your emotional support human back from the dead, and live in an abandoned house with him, and never talk about your feelings. Normal thing for Millions Knives to do.

other tags: Post-Trigun Maximum (Manga), Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Chronic Pain, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Suicidal Thoughts, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Ambulatory Wheelchair User Legato Bluesummers, Millions Knives is on the Aromantic Asexual Spectrum, Demisexual Legato Bluesummers, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse

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The Way of House Sparrows by Vee Dragonmuse

fiction || ted lasso || poly (multiple genders) || roy kent/jamie tartt/keeley jones || explicit || no major warnings apply || 147,736 || complete

summary: In which, Jamie continues his journey to be a better man while still embracing his inner prick and Roy whenever he stands still long enough. Keeley finds that kind of personal growth very appealing.

other tags: Post S3, domestic life, discussion of past child abuse, PTSD

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In the Heart of the Lake by Shadaras

art || original work || platonic or familial || teen & up || no major warnings apply || complete

summary: Any time he can skip out of work to hold his child, he does.

other tags: Father-Child Relationship, Underwater Setting, Non-Sexual Nudity

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Long, long ago, in the faraway land of Deimos… by EvilToTheCore13

fiction || warframe || m/m || loid/albrecht || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 12,376 || work in progress

summary: A cursed sorcerer-prince. A clever and brave servant who becomes a prisoner in the beast’s enchanted castle.

Nothing is ever quite so clear or quite so easy as it is in fairytales. Can love truly break a curse? And even if it can–will Albrecht Entrati ever accept it?

other tags: Alternate Universe – Beauty and the Beast FusionAlternate Universe – FantasyAlternate Universe – Historical, Some Whump, Eventual Romance, Human/Monster Romance

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After the Moon Rose Anew by Shadaras

fiction || the spear cuts through water – simon jimenez || m/m || jun ossa/keema of the daware tribe || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 1,048 || complete

summary: After the curtains close on the Inverted Theater, there are still moments of interest in the lives of these two young heroes who are no longer gods but mortals seeking contentment in their second lives.

This is one such moment.

other tags: Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Introspection

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Mosaic Haiku (Art and Poetry), nine new paintings and a drawing by EliotQueliot

art || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || general audiences || creator choses not to use warnings || work in progress

summary: Mosaic Haiku celebrates the lifetime of love between Eliot and Quentin that yielded the “key to greater magic” in “A Life in the Day.” For the Time Is an Illusion event held by Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza, I added nine paintings to Mosaic Haiku, in Chapters 5, 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16 on AO3 (specifics about which art are listed in the chapter notes). For links to the works of art as individual pieces, see @eliotqueliot on the creators list for the Time Is an Illusion event (the Tumblr link for this post) and click the titles of the artworks to see the individual Tumblr posts. Additionally, following the event, I added a drawing to Chapter 6. The Instagram link takes you to that drawing (with links in the post to the individual Tumblr post).

other tags: Haiku, Poetry, Mosaic, Beauty Of All Life, Episode: s03e05 A Life in the Day, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Watercolors, Drawings

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The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 7: Soulmate Cards by EliotQueliot

fiction || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 4,113 || work in progress

summary: In Quentin’s room, Eliot does his best to move the mission along (specifically: to bang one Quentin Coldwater). But he doesn’t want to hurt Quentin, and he actually has feelings for the boy that make him wish that other life Margo told him about could be real again. So the route proves more circuitous than one might expect from one Eliot Waugh.

other tags: Horomancy, Post-Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Fix-It, POV Eliot Waugh, Character Death Fix, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Time Shenanigans, Episode: s03e05 A Life in the Day, Physical Kids Cottage (The Magicians), Rescues, Eliot Waugh Is Smart, Margo Hanson is a Good Friend

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The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 8: Soulmate Cards (Part 2) by EliotQueliot

fiction || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 2,629 || work in progress

summary: Eliot and Quentin choose to talk this time, and things go better.

Part of that may be due to Eliot realizing how important it is to share his feelings…

…and to a tiny, beautiful magic that lives in Quentin now.

The magic which made the soulmate cards…

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The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 9: Striptease or Fashion Fight? (Or, Cats and Kittens) by EliotQueliot

fiction || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 2,738 || work in progress

summary: Eliot’s mission: seduce one Quentin Coldwater to save his life. But really, who’s seducing whom?

TUMBLR – AO3

…Baby One More Time, Chapter 12 by EliotQueliot

fiction || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || mature || creator choses not to use warnings || 5603 || work in progress

summary: “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try until you give up the ghost, because I’m not giving up on Quentin.”

(This fic started as a May Trope Mayhem 2024 entry, and a few additional chapters entered May Trope Mayhem 2025!)

other tags: Time Loop, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Quentin Coldwater Lives, Time Travel Fix-It, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Memories, horomancy, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Age Difference, The Clock Barrens (Fillory), the mosaic, Post-Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day)

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…Baby One More Time, Chapter 13 by EliotQueliot

fiction || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || mature || creator choses not to use warnings || 5,537 || work in progress

summary: Quentin meets Quentin.

Eliot confronts his truth.

(This fic started as a May Trope Mayhem 2024 entry, and a few additional chapters entered May Trope Mayhem 2025!)

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Mosaic Haiku, Ch. 20: Snow Days at the Mosaic by EliotQueliot

poetry || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || general audiences || creator choses not to use warnings || 227 || work in progress

summary: Have fun playing in the snow

other tags: Haiku, Poetry, Mosaic, Beauty Of All Life, Episode: s03e05 A Life in the Day, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Watercolors, Drawings

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Mosaic Haiku, Chapter 21: Time Is an Illusion by EliotQueliot

poetry || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || general audiences || creator choses not to use warnings || 1,293 || work in progress

summary: In this episode of Mosaic Haiku, Eliot and Quentin reflect on the very first smoldering days of their friendship. These moments are both their past—and their future, somewhere, since they’ve time-traveled to the past of Fillory.

The events we see in Season 1, Episode 1, include some of their favorite moments from their first days together, and they reflect on these and remember them to one another over the years at the Mosaic. (Being armchair time-travelers has become a favorite pastime.)

Please note: The Tumblr post has the photoscenes from the show in place. The AO3 chapter has some of the art (there will be more added over time).

other tags: Haiku, Poetry, Mosaic, Beauty Of All Life, Episode: s03e05 A Life in the Day, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Watercolors, Drawings

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Need by ShannonXL

fiction || the vampire diaries (tv) || f/m || elena gilbert/damon salvatore || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 4,373 || complete

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Elena gets hit by a curse and Damon is the one who’s there.

other tags: fuck or die

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Merry Christmas to my Dog by ShannonXL

video || original work || no ships || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 00:00:39 || complete

summary: Did you know that animals can talk on midnight on Christmas eve? Something about Jesus dying for capitalism makes them chatty.

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If You Don’t Have Your Own Deathworlder, Homegrown Is Fine by Pherryt

fiction || witcher || no ships || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 22,317 || complete

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Lambert’s gone missing and Geralt’s not going to let that go without an investigation. While chances are slim, there’s always hope his brother is still alive.

Meanwhile, Lambert wakes up in a strange metal cage, face to face with the largest cat he’s ever seen – and it’s wearing clothes!

—–

Aka: Witchers in space – brought to you by the author getting inspired by multiple Deathworlder fics and all those humans are space orcs posts from Tumblr.

other tags: blood and injury (non graphic), imprisoned, impled past torture, nothing graphic

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Am I just a phantom waiting to be ripped around on shady ground?

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'Cause your eyes are the green of tornado skies

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Does it seem slow to rain? Does it feel like soft moss?

Next Weekend: Arisia!

If you’re in the Boston area, I hope we’ll see you there!

Patreon Panel This Sunday: On Being a Neurodiverse Creator

If you’re already a Patron, I hope you’ll join us! And if you’re not, become one today at the $7/month level or higher and get access to this panel, recordings of our past panels, and lots of other awesome benefits!

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Now Available: Our Anthology “Scholarly Pursuits”

Buy your copy, as an e-book or print book, today!

This, and lots of other awesome anthologies, books, stories, and bookish and queer merch are available on the Duck Prints Press website!

Now let's listen to a conversation between two English actors on the subject of Warships Week

How am I supposed to know what's real?

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