Challenge #19
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Roundup: Challenge 18 - Track & Loyal
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Hello~
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Age group: Mid-30's
Country: United States (West Coast)
Subscription/Access Policy: Anyone can subscribe, but all access list people are vetted beforehand! Prefer 25+, but 18+ is an absolute must.
Main Fandoms: The Elder Scrolls (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, ESO), Baldur's Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda ( Ocarina of Time --> Twilight Princess), Silent Hill (1-4)
Other Fandoms: The Witcher (books up to The Tower of the Swallow and Witcher 3), Dragon Age (Origins --> Inquisition), Fallout (3, New Vegas, 4, Prime Video series), Dishonored (1&2), The Evil Within/Psychobreak (1&2), The Longest Journey trilogy, The Devil Came Through Here trilogy, Bridgerton, The Sims (1-4), Ancient Magus Bride, Apothecary Diaries, Arcane (Netflix, I've never played LoL and I never will), Once Upon A Time (up to Season 5 I think???), Harry Potter (I do not support the author's stance against trans people, I just enjoy the fanworks at this point), Life Is Strange (1 & Before The Storm).
Fannish Interests: Playlists, writing, art, moodboards, theory essays, character studies, fan-OC discussions, psychology
OTPs and Ships: Halsin/Astarion (BG3), Gortash/Durge (BG3), Severus/Lily (HP), Tom/Bellatrix (HP), Harry/Draco (HP), Ganondorf/Zelda (LoZ), Jayce/Viktor (Arcane)Favourite Movies: Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away, Pan's Labyrinth, Death Becomes Her, Shaun of the Dead, Forrest Gump, The Witches of Eastwick, Practical Magic
Music: Classical, classic/hard rock, symphonic metal, folk music, grunge
Before you follow: I write lengthy annotations of novels I'm reading that may be intended for 18+, and some of my creative works veer in that direction as well, so PLEASE no minor interactions! 🙏🏻 I also curse a lot, and talk about some heavy subjects that occur in my own life (under cut and with content warnings in the Reason for Age Restriction field, like a civilized netizen), so if that's not your cup of tea, we might have issues connecting.
Fanfic, Bionicle - All Media Types, Nuju & Nixie, Learning to read the stars
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Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Bionicle - All Media Types
Pairing/Characters: Nuju & Nixie
Rating/Category: Gen
Prompt: Bionicle - All Media Types, Nuju & Nixie, Learning to read the stars
Spoilers: Nothing concrete but references to later arcs.
Summary: Nixie begins her journey of understanding the skies above Mata Nui.
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.
Read it on Ao3 here!
Derpy on a muffin!
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148/365: Derpy Hooves on a muffin, Worcester
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If you've been here a while then you'll probably know this first bit -- but if you're newish to this journal and are surprised by my subject line, then please read on: in the very specific context of the My Little Pony fandom, "Derpy" is the appropriate term here. It's the first name of the grey pony standing on my chocolate muffin. Although you can't see it in this profile view, she has wall eyes (originally an animation error) and is generally considered the fandom's mascot. There's a fairly detailed story behind why "Derpy" is almost universally accepted, which I'll happily repeat if anyone would like me to. But suffice it to say that in an MLP fandom context as applied to this specific pony, it is not only not a slur, it is the preferred name for her for the large majority of disabled Pony fans -- including for use by us non-disabled fans. I don't use the word anywhere else, but I do use it in Pony fandom without qualms.
As to why she's standing on my chocolate muffin... this is a photo from the MLP fandom meetup I went to today in Worcester. Derpy canonically loves muffins. I am very fond of them as well. I am also very fond of Derpy, though that's pretty much universal in the fandom. "Bolero" is the name of the café we use, a place which has been extremely good to us for some years now and which I thoroughly recommend. By the way, the character you can just see on the bag to the top left is Nightmare Moon. She was banished to the Moon (canonically "in the Moon", in fact) by her sister for a thousand years after trying to impose eternal night. Because, you know, kids' cartoon. :P
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Author: Tarlan (
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Fandom: Jurassic Park (movies)
Pairing/Characters: Alan/Billy
Rating/Category: PG/Slash
Prompt: 3 times Alan wasn’t able to tell Billy how he feels about him, and 1 time he finally told him
Word Count: 2789
Spoilers: None
Summary: Several times Alan had an opportunity to tell Billy how he felt about him but each time slipped away with the words unsaid until it too late. A miracle gives him another chance.
Content Notes: None
On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66986050
PINCH HITS AVAILABLE AT CASEFIC EXCHANGE (DUE FRIDAY 18 JULY).
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PH 4 (comic, fic) - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), NoPixel (Web Series)
PH 13 (comic, fic) - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime)
The pinch hits are currently due Friday 18 July at 11:59pm Eastern time.
The exchange requires a completed work of a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction or a minimum of 10 panels for a comic. (We also allow a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags, but these requests are not asking for podfic.) Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested. You must have an AO3 account to participate.
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PINCH HIT AT CASEFIC EXCHANGE (DUE FRIDAY 18 JULY)
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PH 11 (comic, fic) - Tokyo Babylon, 崩坏:星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
The pinch hit is currently due Friday 18 July at 11:59pm Eastern time.
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From space girls to catgirls
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What a lucky guy
Finished Episode 2 of the Dirty Pair series and will continue it as much as I get the time to do do so.
Speaking of Anime watching, am also resuming All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (say that ten times fast,) which I haven't got to finish it ever since I owned a VHS tape with a couple episodes long ago. That's something I need to rectify.
Also trying to finish Patlabor the Mobile Police to move on to other series like Dr. Stone and the last season of My Hero Academia. There are other series I'm eyeing but for now, I'm trying to finish what I had watched before in order to move forward.
Mori Reads Lady Speculative Fiction!
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- “Sultana’s Dream”, by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. 1905 Bengali Muslim biting satire about a carless future society where women rule and all the men have to stay indoors and never be perceived by humans outside their servants and immediate family. The edition I had shared the short story and then all the historical, cultural, and personal context as to WHY the story got made, who the author was (a feminist who fought hard for women’s rights in now-Bangladesh) and why it matters. Very historically interesting and edifying! (Also, for real, I do love the fantasy of Garden Future where all roads look like gorgeous garden paths because cars don’t exist and everyone moves by walking or floating helicopter/zeppelin thingies! In 1905, a carless future was imaginable! When the narrator regrets treading on such pretty flowers, another character tells her not to worry, these are special street flowers that can’t be harmed by feet!)
- Return to Isis, by Jean Stewart. 1992 lesbian separatist post-apocalyptic matriarchy story. Didn’t finish; everyone was just kind of unpleasant to each other, and if you’re going to write evil rapist men, I damn well require you understand how misogynist rape works. (I am probably the equivalent of the lawyer going “ugh” whenever they have to watch a courtroom drama, when it comes to the study of human sexual douchebaggery, though.) First book of five book series; maybe she got better as she went on, but I have other books to read!
- Madame Aurora, by Sarah Aldridge. 1983 historical novel about two girlfriends in their seventies at the turn of the last century who, struggling with money and disability, decides to set one of them up as a spiritual advisor, and the events that follow. I really enjoyed this one! Old ladies who still bang! Sordid history! Is it psychic or is she just really intuitive? What’s the deal with that scabby old Colonel? Aldridge does a good job, I think, of writing even unpleasant characters with an understanding of why they are how they are. Refreshing!
All that remains now is Katherine V. Forrest’s Daughters of a Coral Dawn. Forrest is apparently a better mystery writer than sci-fi (and I read one and liked it!) but I am willing to give it a shot and declare it library-worthy if I can’t stand it.
A successful booking!
Honey Mustard Red Potato Salad
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Honey Mustard Red Potato Salad
Total Time Prep: 20 min. Cook: 20 min. Makes 16 servings
Ingredients
3 pounds baby red potatoes, unpeeled
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 green onions
1 cup finely diced celery
1/2 cup diced red onion
1 medium carrot, grated
DRESSING:
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
Directions
Place potatoes and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a Dutch oven; add water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, uncovered, until tender, 10-12 minutes. Drain and cool.
Mince white portions of green onions; slice green portions and reserve. Combine minced onions with celery, red onion and carrot. For dressing, whisk together vinegar, honey, mustard, thyme, sea salt and coarsely ground pepper. Gradually whisk in oil until blended.
Cut cooled potatoes into 1-inch pieces, preserving as much peel as possible. Combine potatoes with onion mixture. Drizzle dressing over salad; toss to coat. Top with reserved green onion slices.
Watching Dirty Pair
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Up till now I've only watched the OAVs and the reboot Dirty Pair Flash which didn't attract me as much as the old timy whimy series. I never even knew a series existed until I stumbled into them on youtube. I gotta say there's a lot of what you can learn from here which potentially connects to said OAVs, and the 80s scifi feel of its phenomenal.
Dirty Pair is a gallant guilty pleasure of mine.
Bingo
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G1 (support) -- "Fatherhood Is Support" (standalone)
G2 (aroace) -- "Preparing Every Nook and Cranny" (Polychrome Heroics: Finn Family and Mallory)
G3 (found family) -- "Born and Found and Made" (standalone)
G4 ("I'd rather eat cake") -- "The Bond with a Dog" (Polychrome Heroics)
G5 (belonging) -- "Worthy of Love and Belonging" (Polychrome Heroics: Kraken)
B3 (activism) -- "The Result of Your Own Bad Behavior" (Monster House)
B5 (unlabeled) -- "Emodox" (A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows)
I3 (rainbow) -- "Along These Sympathetic Fibers" (Peculiar Obligations)
I5 (community) -- "When Warmth and Gentleness Are Needed" (Clay of Life)
N1 (growth) -- "Tomato Seedlings in Tin Cans" (Daughters of the Apocalypse)
N5 (comfort) -- "All It Takes to Be Invulnerable" (Polychrome Heroics: Marionettes)
O5 (validation) -- "Choose to Be Gentle" (Arts and Crafts America)
Midsommar: a queen for all seasons by Selkit
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Characters: Dani Ardor, Hanna, Siv
Rating: T
Length: 4,212
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Theme: female relationships
Summary: In her dreams, dark smudges crowd the edges of the world. One looms larger than the rest, twisting into impossible shapes, morphing into a figure with many faces, all of them howling with rage.
When she jolts awake, the dream-figure lingers. She tries to ignore it. She’s no stranger to nightmares. Her whole life has been one ever since her family’s deaths.
But things are different now. This is a new life. A new family.
Right?
Reccer's Notes: I love seeing what happens with Dani after the events of Midsommar, and this is such a good look at the continued ritual of being the May Queen! I am a known ho for ritual, but especially building off of the existing worldbuilding in such a believable way. I really enjoyed seeing more of Dani interacting with the other women of the Hårga as she learns to be part of her new family and culture. Plus the parts with Maja’s (and Christian’s) daughter were just perfect.
Fanwork Links: on AO3