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Photograph of steel spoons and spices in a dramatic setting with added text that gives it the look of a gourmet magazine cover: September 2025. Food & Cooking, at Fancake. Steel teaspoons are arranged in an elogated oval to suggest a fish, with the bowls acting as scales and some of the handles left visible to create the fins and tail, giving the creature a spiky appearance. The concave bowls are dusted with a powdery orange spice for color and one spoon at the front of the fish is filled with a coarse black spice to create an eye. The fish is on a black surface with a rough texture and around it are three skinny green peppers, a mound of salt, a mound of orange spice, and a dipping bowl filled with a clear amber liquid.
It's farm to table—and every stop in between—at [community profile] fancake this month! Bring on over your recs for fanworks featuring hunting, farming, ranching, fishing, foraging, grocery shopping, farmer's markets, kitchens, restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, food carts, bars, wineries, breweries, waiters, bartenders, baristas, and, of course, cooking and eating.

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!

Suddenly, in Smallville...

Sep. 1st, 2025 09:12 am
runpunkrun: close-up of kryptonite necklace, text: K is for meteor rock (k is for meteor rock)
[personal profile] runpunkrun
My Smallville fics have been doing modest numbers over at AO3 for weeks now, due to, I can only assume, the new Superman movie. I've never had my old fics gain such sudden and sustained popularity because of a new installment to canon; in fact, this didn't happen with the previous Superman movies. Not that I was paying attention, but didn't Zach Snyder release like three of them? Or the same one three times? IDK you hear things.

Anyway, it's delightful that people are finding and enjoying my Smallville fics even if I have no idea how they're doing it. It's not like they're going to end up at the top of any filter sorted by engagement....or date.
anr: (ron: grace: help me)
[personal profile] anr
Swallows in the Air (823 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ready or Not (2019)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daniel Le Domas/Grace Le Domas
Characters: Daniel Le Domas, Grace Le Domas
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Daniel Le Domas Lives
Summary: She takes a slow drag of the cigarette. And then another. And then says, "you found me." Alone in a clearing of dead leaves and destroyed hope.

He meets her stare evenly. "You found me," he counters.



anr: (ste: trip: we were explorers once)
[personal profile] anr
Depression Works the Graveyard Shift (1008 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: T'Pol/Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Characters: Charles "Trip" Tucker III, T'Pol (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Episode s03e10: Similitude, Missing Scenes
Summary: "I wish you were not gone," she says, and he says, but I'm not, T'Pol, I'm not, I'm right here, I am, look at me, see me, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.

anr: (thg: effie: capitol sweetheart)
[personal profile] anr
Suddenly the Summer (877 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Haymitch Abernathy/Effie Trinket
Characters: Haymitch Abernathy, Effie Trinket
Additional Tags: Post-Movie, Sex, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Haymitch and Effie, after the war.

Fandom things

Aug. 30th, 2025 02:40 pm
sholio: aged sepia paper with printed text saying "If undelivered, return to Air Ministry, London" (Biggles-london air ministry)
[personal profile] sholio
My fandom gift basket is up: find it here!

Meanwhile [community profile] caseficexchange revealed and I have received TWO STUNNING GIFTS in two different fandoms, both of which I genuinely could not love more; the authors nailed the feeling of the caseficcier parts of canon in each of these fandoms, and I have had SUCH a good time last night and this morning reading and commenting on them!

The Case of a Forced Landing (Biggles books, 6800 wds, light Biggles/EvS)
Perfectly captures the feeling of the short SAP stories, with Biggles and EvS on an enforced holiday on the countryside with mysterious happenings and rural ambiance. Delightful!

The House Always Wins (Babylon 5, 16K words, Garibaldi & various)
Early season one casefic with Garibaldi investigating a missing artifact that both Londo and G'Kar claim cultural ownership of. Pitch-perfect character voices and canon tone, feels like it could literally be an episode.

(no subject)

Aug. 29th, 2025 11:31 am
sholio: two men on horseback in the desert (Biggles-on a horse)
[personal profile] sholio
State of Whumptober:
7/31 (24 to go)
2 Biggles, 4 Murderbot, 1 Babylon 5

They're definitely not all whump or even h/c; some of them are just using the day's prompt for a general ficlet. Because it's my journal and I say so.

Turns out writing short h/c snippets for Babylon 5 is extraordinarily hard (at least with the characters I want to write about) due to
spoilers.the incredibly short window of everyone being happy and getting along before it all goes to hell. You pretty much either need 20K of fixit beforehand, or somehow fit all your little hurt/comfort tropes into like 4 months of canon. (Obviously this pertains primarily to Londo.)


I also did sign up for Out of Order Flash. (Nominations are still open if the thing you want isn't in there.) I currently have no matches; I don't suppose any Biggles people (or Murderbot! or B5!) are around to be ~tempted~.

In other news, it is definitely early fall. Leaves are turning gold and falling! The air smells like autumn! I love this time of year best of all times of year, and yet .... help.

What We Do In The Shadows (2019-2024)

Aug. 29th, 2025 10:24 am
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[personal profile] runpunkrun
Last night I finished watching What We Do In The Shadows, and this morning I was sweeping up the kitty litter from the floor, just like I do every morning, and the kitten was there helping me by grabbing the broom, just like he does every morning, and as I raised the broom above his head, explaining that I was trying to sweep, I could hear Guillermo and that tired, flat voice he gets whenever he's trying to explain literally anything to the vampires.

Cats and vampires: Neither of them understands, or cares, what you're saying. And they hiss when they're angry.

Circle Updates

Aug. 27th, 2025 05:56 pm
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[personal profile] havocthecat
Just evening up a bit of subscription/access issues. Drop a (screened) comment if I removed you by accident.

Fly Trap, by Frances Hardinge

Aug. 27th, 2025 10:46 am
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[personal profile] runpunkrun
The continued adventures of runaway orphan Mosca Mye, her horrible goose, and Eponymous Clent, poet, thief, conman, and mentor.

This does a neat job of reminding the reader of the events and personages of the previous book, Fly By Night, while introducing a whole new city and its dark underworld. I enjoyed it even more than the first book. It's tense and inventive and the story doesn't let up for a second, with always something meaningful at stake.

Recommended! Though you'll probably want to read the first book first.

Contains: childbirth; incarceration; children in peril; rigidly enforced class system.

Whumptober 2025 prompts

Aug. 26th, 2025 11:23 pm
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[personal profile] sholio
It's that time of year. :D

Whumptober 2025 prompts list on Tumblr and text list on Google docs.

ExpandFull prompt list and alternates )

Happy to hear any suggestions, requests, or ideas/inspiration! (Results not guaranteed.) I will probably be looking at writing Biggles, Murderbot, and Babylon 5 for this, and I already have specific thoughts on a few of the prompts, but I'm happy to hear any thoughts or suggestions that you have.

Exchanges/Challenges

Aug. 26th, 2025 11:02 pm
sholio: Chess queen looking horrified (Chess piece oh noes)
[personal profile] sholio
I won't sign up for more exchanges, she said, before being tempted by exchanges. Although this is more a broad smorgasbord of things I'm currently being tempted by.

I'm probably not signing up for Sex Pollen Exchange despite being very tempted. I love the trope, but I suspect signing up to write it for other people would be a great way for my brain to decide it had never seen a sex pollen in its life. (Signups close Aug. 31.)

I'm definitely not doing [community profile] ficinabox this year (signups 'til Aug. 31) because I'm definitely not up for 10K right now, but I wish the best to all who are throwing themselves on that pyre!

One thing I actually am seriously thinking about signing up for is Out of Order Exchange, a semi-flash exchange for non-linear fic. Currently taking nominations, and the signup window is tiny (Aug. 29-Sept. 1), then there's a 2-week writing period. I just think it sounds like a fun challenge (300 word minimum, 1 fandom minimum for requests/offers).

I also did sign up for [community profile] fandomgiftbasket, which is taking signups until Sept. 5. This one has no requirement to create anything; you can simply leave prompts (3 fandom minimum) and receive gifts. They do have a tendency towards delays if they have trouble filling all the baskets.

And this year's Whumptober prompts are out! (There is also a Whumptember challenge, because of course there is.) This is like the WORST year to try to write all the Whumptober days, because I have a lot going on that month, but I am so tempted to at least give it a try.

Foundation 3x03-06

Aug. 25th, 2025 10:41 am
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[personal profile] sholio
This season continues to be definitely Something.

ExpandSpoilers )

Murderbot TV fic: Hide and Seek

Aug. 25th, 2025 12:41 am
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[personal profile] sholio
Hide and Seek (5088 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Murderbot & PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Arada (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Friendship, Post-Canon, Banter, Fluff, Team Bonding, Hide and Seek, background tv-verse canon pairing (pin-lee/arada)
Summary: Murderbot thinks its humans need more practice not dying under field conditions. The answer is obviously a staged war game, modified for Preservation concerns. (TV-verse with a few minor book elements.)

Apparently I need to write something like this in every fandom I'm in that has some kind of organized team.