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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-08-04 05:34 pm

Murderbot fandom (and books)

I am having such a good time in Murderbot TV fandom! It's been a long while since I was in a bigger, more active fandom, and it's just such fun: loads of fic, WIPs updating daily, activity/meta/gifs on Tumblr. I haven't fallen out of love with everything else, but I am having a great time with my new shiny.

I've read all of the books except Network Effect and System Collapse, which tbh I .... probably won't? I did a little skimming for context, so I know what happens, at least.

More on that, and the general state of the fandom )
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-08-04 10:43 am

Fancake's Theme for August: Marriage of Convenience

Photograph of a young Vietnamese couple in a sunny urban environment, with added text: Marriage of Convenience, at Fancake. A bride in a white dress and sunglasses leaves her groom behind at a bus stop. The bride is smiling and carrying a bouquet of lilies as she hikes up the long skirt of her dress and walks away. The groom is in the background, wearing a dark grey suit and sitting on a bench. He's blurry, but it looks like he might be smiling at her.
We're having a Flashback Round at [community profile] fancake this August and revisiting our Marriage of Convenience theme! That means in addition to the new recs being shared this month, there's already 63 recs waiting for you at the comm. We've also got a bonus banner this month if you want to help promote the theme.

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-31 10:22 am
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Gravity is the Thing, by Jaclyn Moriarty

Abigail Sorenson as a teenager, an adult, a sister, a wife, a single mother, a student, all of her offered to you at once, though in pieces, while the story rolls along like a katamari, gaining in size as it picks up all those pieces and a lot of other stuff besides, and just keeps on rolling through the years, investigating the grief of lost loved ones, the philosophy of self-help, the question of correlation versus causation, and the way all of Abi's life lead to this point, here, where it picks up one last piece and snaps together like an origami ball. I found it inventive, painful, curious, striving, playful, and, in the end, very satisfying.

Moriarty has a light touch as a writer. Her characters are detailed, but effortlessly so. Her prose is easy and whimsical and while it can verge on twee, for the most part, I find it delightful. The novel deals with heavy subjects, but in her hands, it's joyful too. In fact, it's mostly about joy, about building human connections, about finding your place in the universe, and about being subscribed to a mysterious newsletter.

Contains: references to underage sex, some of it coercive; references to adult sex, including a one-night stand with dubious consent; missing family member; MS diagnosis; ableism; pregnancy, including two early miscarriages; infidelity; child in medical peril.
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Linky ([personal profile] linky) wrote in [community profile] fandom_icons2025-07-31 12:05 pm

Multifandom Icons



Ten Multifandom icons. (Kamen Rider Gotchard, Chojin Sentai Jetman, Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, Queen Millennia, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

Find them here at [community profile] chemyxstory
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蝶になって ([personal profile] bluapapilio) wrote in [community profile] fandom_icons2025-07-30 09:42 pm
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Wind Breaker

  

🎐 x39 icons here!
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-07-28 07:47 pm
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Trivial life stuff follow-up

I FOUND OUT WHAT HAS BEEN EATING MY GARDEN

I became even more convinced it was a moose after discovering this morning that some of the remaining pea vines were decimated in the night, evidently from the tops. So I was out there this evening picking the rest of the broccoli (so far untouched) ...

And all of a sudden, with no warning, a GROUNDHOG exploded out of the broccoli plants at my feet. (Definitely a groundhog/woodchuck. Not a marmot, not a ground squirrel. A groundhog. We do have them in Alaska, and this isn't even the first one I've seen here, but it's certainly the first one I've caught in the act of SHAMELESS GARDEN BANDITRY.)

They're reddish colored and large, about the size of a big cat. I screamed, because I was not expecting LARGE MOVING THING IN THE BROCCOLI. I'd had no idea it was there. It spend past my feet and under one of the cars and vanished.

So the culprit has been identified, and it's definitely coming back every day now. They can dig and they can also climb (jerks), so building a groundhog-proof fence would be a heck of a job. I asked Orion for ideas. He asked me if I mind if he pepper-sprays my garden, because he has some expiring bear spray and he wants to find out what using it is like just in case he ever has to use it for real. I'm like, sure, why not. I gave him some guidelines (don't spray anything I plan to eat, lower leaves only, etc) and went into the house to be out of the literal line of fire.

Shortly I heard coughing and sneezing and he came into the house eventually to report that bear spray is highly volatile and prone to floating on the wind. Good to know. A few minutes later, *I* was coughing and sneezing too, because it turns out it also sticks around on clothing and skin. (I didn't get it nearly as bad as he did, just a coughing fit and some running sinuses, but COME ON.)

He has now thoroughly showered.

And that's the story of how we bear-sprayed ourselves while trying to bear-spray the garden.

(He reports that bear spray tastes like very spicy food. Apparently the active ingredient is capsaicin, so it's not toxic. I didn't get enough of it to actually taste it.)

I guess we're about to find out if groundhogs enjoy spicy food.
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-07-27 10:38 pm
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Trivial life stuff (and fandom)

1. SOMETHING IS EATING MY GARDEN. I don't know what; my guess is either a) moose (we know there's a cow-calf pair hanging around; we've caught them occasionally on the driveway game camera), or b) a porcupine. Which would never have been on my radar as something that would eat a garden if I hadn't seen it in the backyard a week or two ago, absolutely going to town munching on raspberry bushes and fireweed. I feel like the way that the garden is getting decimated is consistent with something low to the ground that's pulling down pea vines and similar, and also doesn't eat too much in one go. But after we put up loose wire fencing around one of the beds, it apparently got into it anyway and ate a bunch of my lettuce and some of the remaining pea vines. Porcupines can both climb and dig, so it's possible a motivated one could get over loose fencing pretty easily - but the damage pattern this time could also have been something leaning over and eating from the top. I CAN'T TELL, but it is really annoying because it's taken out nearly all my peas and a bunch of the salad stuff. I picked some broccoli tonight even though I didn't need to use it yet, because my broccoli heads are just about fully crowned and I'm going to be incredibly annoyed if I wake up tomorrow to find that they've been devastated as well.

2. I got to pet puppies today! One of the people in my TTRPG game group has a dog (a Great Dane) that had puppies, ELEVEN of them - the 101 Dalmation jokes write themselves - and invited us over after gaming to pet them if we wanted to. They're about 3 weeks old, eyes open and toddling, but still potato shaped and incredibly soft and pleasant to hold. Puppies. <3 (I miss having a dog, although I don't want a Great Dane for a number of reasons. Handling someone else's puppies is delightful, though.)

3. Summer of Horror authors revealed, including my very unsurprising offering. I continue to be delighted with my deliciously spooky/romantic gift!

4. The Biggles prompt fest is also going delightfully.
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-27 10:37 am
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the blue cheese incident

I played a hilarious trick on myself. I had a coupon for a free Follow Your Heart vegan cheese, and the Kroger had fake parmesan (with ingredients I avoid), fake feta (but they were out), and fake bleu cheese (which I didn't like even when I could eat cheese).

But the coupon was about to expire and it was free, so I got the bleu cheese style crumbles as an experiment. Hilariously it tastes (and smells!!) just like blue cheese, only not quite as strong. I sprinkled some on my salad and didn't hate it and so I kept sprinkling because I don't get many novel flavors these days, and now it's actually starting to grow on me. It's tangy and creamy and kind of melts into the salad dressing in a pleasing way. If only it didn't taste like blue cheese.

Anyway, if you're a dairy-free-ish person who likes blue cheese, I recommend this! It's vegan, soy-free, and gluten-free, and I had my dad, a cheese-eater and gorgonzola enthusiast, try it and he was surprised at how good it was, saying it could pass as the real thing. I'm really looking forward to trying their feta. I have high hopes that it's similarly realistic.
Current ingredients: Filtered Water, Organic Coconut Oil, Modified Potato Starch, Sea Salt, Potato Starch, Natural Flavors, Less than 2% of: Potato Protein, Organic Vegan Cane Sugar, Calcium Phosphate, Lactic Acid, Caramel Color, Spirulina, Beta Carotene for Color.
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silvercat17 ([personal profile] silvercat17) wrote in [community profile] justcreate2025-07-27 09:06 am

Just Create - Time Zones Edition

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky
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hello hello; ([personal profile] zombieproof) wrote in [community profile] fandom_icons2025-07-26 08:37 pm

[324] THUNDERBOLTS*

---[324] THUNDERBOLTS* spoilers under cut
[x]324 yelena belova


(We used to throw thunderbolts;)
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-07-26 01:48 pm
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A few Murderbot things

I really enjoyed this David Dastmalchian interview and also this adorable associated piece of fanart from the part of the interview in which he basically starts channeling Gurathin.

And some of my stuff on Tumblr:

Something I noticed rewatching the first episode

Random thought on bookverse!Gurathin

Oh, and I posted another fic a few days ago, Old Familiar Sting, which is pretty much all about characters working through the aftermath of Corporation Rim medical trauma.
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Commissioner Clawseau 🔎 ([personal profile] casemod) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2025-07-26 10:29 pm
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Casefic Exchange: Post-deadline pinch hits due 8 August.

Event: Casefic Exchange is a fanwork exchange focusing on investigations. These can be solving murders, retrieving stolen items, finding missing people, missions, and mysteries. As long as it has an investigation as its core theme, it fits with the exchange. We are an AO3 exchange; you must have an account and be 18+ to participate.

Minimum requirements: We allow three mediums: a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction, a minimum of 10 panels for a comic, or a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags. Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested.

Event link: [community profile] caseficexchange.
Pinch hit link: Current pinch hits.
Due date: Friday 8 August at 11:59pm EDT.

Available post-deadline pinch hits:



Thank you for considering!
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-07-25 02:42 pm
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Biggles prompt fest

I thought it might be fun to run a Biggles July prompting free-for-all over at [community profile] bigglesevents. Because we haven't had a prompt fest in a while! (Of course I'm posting this at a time when most of the Biggles fandom is asleep.)
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-23 09:52 am
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The Brightness Between Us, by Eliot Schrefer

A good old fashioned young adult novel about being stranded on an inhospitable planet and struggling to live off a steadily declining cache of resources. In one case, it's an alien world far in the future, and in the other, the dying Earth those colonists left, where the last inhabitants are about to extinguish themselves through nuclear war. Ah, children's lit.

This is actually a sequel to The Darkness Outside Us, but if you're a chaos demon you might be able to read this without having read the first. Partly because it stands on its own while gently reminding the reader what happened in the first book, but also because it fully retreads some of the same ground.

Because half of this book was telling me stuff I already, basically, knew, I was much more interested in the sections on the alien planet with its frontier survival vibes and foreign mysteries. I wanted to spend all my time there rather than on Earth, since I already knew that was a lost cause, and any new information we got in those sections could have easily been worked into the future segments and much of it, in fact, was. But it wasn't a chore to spend time with the original versions of Ambrose and Kodiak as they come to terms with the lies they've been told and try to undo some of the damage they caused, and together the two parts of this book tell a full story that comes to a satisfying conclusion, whether or not there's ever a third book in the series. But if there is, I'll be there.

Contains: queer dads; child harm and references to child death; wild animal harm/death; mental illness with intrusive thoughts; gun violence; nuclear apocalypse; climate disaster.