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First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥

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nestra

Wow, I only made one post last year? I'm here every day, reading, so I keep up with anyone still posting here.

I didn't put up the Yuletide polls this year. Just didn't have the oomph. It's been an oomph-sapping kind of year or so, hasn't it? (Fuck me -- just looked it up, and it's literally the one-year anniversary of that shitbag's inaguration.)

ANYWAY. Fun stuff. Things I have posted since...a while ago.

( 911 )

( Heated Rivalry )

The Pitt

Bet

So as you can see, I'm generally obsessed with those three things. Putting more silliness and gay porn into the world.

the_wanlorn

Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge.

I can't even think of ten things that I eat regularly??? Never even mind fandom things??? Shit.

Top 10 Reasons to Watch Debris (and Write Me Fic)

I love it, which, really, should be all you need to know because my taste is impeccable.

It's bad scifi, but in the fun kind of way.

There is so much chemistry between Bryan and Finola.

There are so many secrets.

Nothing is explained. Like ever. It is ripe for fic explaining things.

The episodes are so totally out of order. I refuse to believe anything else. You, too, can join me in this conspiracy theory and try to sort out a reasonable order.

I can watch it while I'm high. Most TV shows and movies and youtube and everything, when I'm high, I get intensely aware that everyone is acting. Like it ruins my suspension of disbelief so bad. There are two (2) shows I can rewatch when I'm high without my suspension of disbelief being ruined, and one of them is Debris.

The ending is so open. So so so open. It is primed for another season or like. So much fic speculating where they were going.

Multiverse shenanigans. Just, I can not describe them without major spoilers, but you will know it when you see it and you, too, will be like muchsthescream.jpg.

The story of the penguin and the soldier. It will make you insane. You will listen to it and it will forever change your brain pathways. It will live rent-free in your head for all time.

Okay uh that was easier than I thought.

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

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I'm positive someone's made this joke before, but I just hit this bit in Cardcaptor Sakura and my immediate reaction:

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I've been sloooooowly doing a Cardcaptor Sakura rewatch that started just before the latest season dropped on Netflix. I used to watch a Malay-dubbed version with my housemates when it aired on weekends while I was in uni, and it turns out I'd watched way more of Clow Card arc than I thought I did. A whole bunch of the earliest episodes are fresh, and although I'd missed a few here and there, I must've gotten all the way through to the start of the Sakura Card arc since some bits are familiar, but I think I must've stopped there or they stopped airing it on TV because everything's new to me now. I wouldn't be surprised if I'd stopped watching back then around this time because my interest has been petering out now, too. I just don't find the Sakura Card arc as compelling.

Anyway it has baffled countless people and in this rewatch it has baffled me as well, that there are multiple cases of teacher-student relationships with eerie age gaps in this show, that although it's only seen in a few episodes, every time it pops up I'm just like, why does this exist in this very cute, very light, very fluffy, very low conflict show? Is it because the story is so sweet and breezy that the mangaka had a compulsion to add something to give it some "edge"? That's a rhetorical question, I don't really want to know. But it baffles me, it does.

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https://xkcd.com/3196/

I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all.

https://xkcd.com/3196/

settiai

I've been trying various new foods from Aldi (and experimenting with ways of cooking them in some cases), and I've found my new favorite comfort food for cold winter nights.

A bowl of their creamy curry bisque with toast made with bread, butter, and their shredded swiss & gruyère cheese is absolutely delicious. I've found it works really well for when I want something relatively quick and filling that's not too heavy.

I've also found a yummy way of using up russet potatoes that are starting to go a bit wrinkly or getting too many eyes on them, which I have happen way too often since it's just me eating them and even I struggle to make it through an entire small bag of potatoes before they start showing their age. I'll peel one and chop it up into something resembling cubes, toss it in a teaspoon or so of olive oil, and then add garlic power, onion powder, salt, pepper, and paprika. Then I dump it in my air fryer on 400°F for twenty minutes, shaking them halfway through.

The potatoes are great by themselves with some sour cream/ketchup/ranch/whatever you want to use, or they work as a side dish for breakfast or dinner either one. I especially enjoy them with an over easy egg and a slice or two of bacon (which I've also started making in the air fryer since my microwave here in the hotel is on the fritz again).

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kitewithfish

I am post- Arisia 2026* and I have come out of it with book recs and it was fascinating and I’m so so interested in sharing them with you and I’m tiiiired.

Some books and things that were mentioned in the panels I went to!

Moonwise Greer Gilman (out of print, may be on the internet archive) but part of a series that the author hopes to continue (I sense publisher problems)

Gillian Daniels is getting a book out! Jenny Will Eat You Now

Noble Train of Artillery

Carol Berg The Spirit Lens

Kingdoms of the Elfin by Sylvia Townsend

Out of the Dark David Weber

The Glass Pearls Emeric Pressburger – the panel that recommended this was interesting, as one of them mentioned that this book is full of the author’s memoirs of his youth in Hungary before he fled the Nazis and lost his family, disguised in the story as memories stolen from a Jewish victim of a Nazi war criminal. Pressburg was also a writer for film and some of them seem engaging.

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (movie)

There is no Antimemetics Division qntm

BLIT (short story) by David Langford in Different Kinds of Darkness

Dark is better Gemma Files

The Moment of Change Rose Lemberg (one story in particular but I didn’t actually log it with the title of the book)

Andrea Hairston – The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays (This sounded very funny)

Jane Yolen Wizard Hall

Elisha Barber by E C Ambrose (also publishes as E Chris Ambrose)

Virconium M John Harrison

M.R James – various ghost stories

Rosemary Kirstein – Steerswoman

The Stones are Hatching Geraldine ……

Cemetery of Forgotten Books - Wikipedia

Library of the Unwritten Aj Hackworth

The Book of Joan Lidia Yukanovitch

Wearing the Lion – john Wiswell (however, did not enjoy Someone You Can Build a Nest in, but it showed promising elements)

Nothing in the Basement – Romie Stott

Press Enter John Varley

Tony Tulathimutte – Rejection

Brent Weeks The Way of Shadows

Christopher Moore A Dirty Job

St Joan of the Stockyards – Bertolt Brecht

*Arisia is ongoing, but I am not.

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the_wanlorn

Challenge #5

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your wishlist if you feel comfortable doing so.

Oh boy oh boy, a wishlist! I am so good at those! My brain does not immediately go blank when asked to compose one!

Okay, a selfish thing I want: art for each chapter of my & my friend's Lucifer hitman!au. I'm slowly working on commissioning it, and I've got I think three? Four? Chapters done. But slowly is the key word here and man is it expensive to commission art and like. Actually pay the artist fairly!

A less selfish wish: More! Debris! Fic! Give me more Debris fic! Long fic! Plotty fic! I am d e s p e r a t e for more Debris fic, especially fic that continues the story. Give me all the post-canon fic in the world. I just. I loved that show so much. The story of the penguin and the soldier makes me insane. I forget about the back half of the season all the time because that two-parter felt like a finale. I am convinced the episodes are out of order and if I just watch it enough times I can put them in an order that makes the developing relationship between Bryan and Finola make sense. I start rewatching every time I get high because that is all my high brain thinks about. It aired in March 2021 and I am still obsessed, almost five years later. Please god someone write me fic.

A third thing. Hmmm. I would like fandom to go back to feeling more interactive. It feels like before AO3 kudos became a thing, and we didn't have hit counters, that more people commented on fic even if they were just tiny short comments. It feels like people replied to day-in-the-life posts/tweets/whatever more. It feels like there were more conversations and less shouting into the void, regardless of whether it was you as the OP or you replying to someone else.

And I'm using "feels" deliberately here because it probably isn't true!! It probably isn't true. Fandom is bigger than ever, so it really can't be true, I don't think. But it sure does feel true! And, in the end, that is what is important to me. Feelings may not be facts but I think in lowstakes situations like this it's okay if they are.

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

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January 19th, 2026: Me and JASON LOO (!) are putting on a SPECIAL EVENT with the Hamilton Public Library where we'll be discussing COMICS and WRITING and will sign all your books too! It's on January 29th, 7pm, at the Westdale Branch - hope to see you there!

– Ryan

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https://thecityofroses.com/story/HandsOfAnAngryOpening

Those wicked talons blackly shining relax their hold, lift, stretch, and he leans back, hands up in abeyance, as they resettle about the wooden dowel, rasp and clack, two curled about the front of it, and two behind. The insistent buzz of the electric lantern by his knee. He leans in close again. Wrapped about the knobbled yellow-grey leg above those talons a bit of olive canvas, and with great care he pinches it, the gleam of a brass snap winking in the shadow of his thumb. His other hand up to gently steady the feathered bulk looming above. Somewhere up there a shining eye, blinking, unconcerned, and the black curl of a wicked beak.

Setting the buzzing lantern on a rickety table of old grey boards, a crumpled leather notebook there beside it. That olive strap in his rough-edged palm, and pinned to it a dented metal capsule of that same olive color, absurdly small against his fingertips. Head tipped back and a breath sucked through his teeth, he sets to carefully unscrewing the wee top of it.

A bit of yellow ribbon just a couple inches long, unrolled, weighted down at either end with pennies, and tiny symbols scratched in brown ink down the length of it. He’s squinting at them, writing pairs of characters on a leaf of the notebook, IS, LK, CI, GF, FO. Off in the shadows back behind him cages creak, a rattle of chains, claw-clacks and the fluffs of settling wings. He’s circling letters, sketching arrows and lines from this one to that, then lifts the pen, looks up, peers down at the floor there by his booted foot. He’s returning to the page when it happens again, the faint knock somewhere below, but then there’s the crash of breaking glass.

https://thecityofroses.com/story/HandsOfAnAngryOpening

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cimorene

We made a simple oven pan of roasted root vegetables, chicken, and lemon, which we've eaten many times, but it came out extra delicious, partly just from a larger, juicier lemon.

This got me thinking. I love lemon bars and two near-identical recipes from my childhood for lemon tea cookies and lemon muffins. But I've never been really impressed with a lemon cake, and I wonder if it's just that it could be lemonier? The intensity of lemon meringue pie is nice, but I don't fully love the texture combination.

Maybe a lemon meringue cake? Or some other dessert that combines lemon curd or custard with something cake- or cookie-like?

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settiai - Dear Crow Contracts Creator,
nestra - (no subject)
the_wanlorn - Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #6
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec (WIP)
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec, incendiary warning
ineptshieldmaid - Reclist with Commentary: Romantic Monogamy As Kink
dine - expect the unexpected
scaramouche - Cardcaptor Sakura
xkcd_feed - Aurora Coolness
settiai - Comfort Foods
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec
dine - Music Monday
kitewithfish - (no subject)
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry question
the_wanlorn - Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #5
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec
dinosaur_comics_feed - rip to all those who lived in history times, what can we say but "you are dead now"
cityofroses_feed - “ – Hands of an Angry – ” (Opening)
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec
dine - id est quod id est
princessofgeeks - Heated Rivalry rec
celli - Completed BTS Fic: sentinel/guide speed dating
dine - lots of Heated Rivalry recs
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Dear Crow Contracts Creator,

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Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #6

Heated Rivalry rec (WIP)

Heated Rivalry rec, incendiary warning

Reclist with Commentary: Romantic Monogamy As Kink

expect the unexpected

Cardcaptor Sakura

Aurora Coolness

Comfort Foods

Heated Rivalry rec

Heated Rivalry rec

Music Monday

(no subject)

Heated Rivalry question

Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #5

Heated Rivalry rec

rip to all those who lived in history times, what can we say but "you are dead now"

“ – Hands of an Angry – ” (Opening)

Heated Rivalry rec

id est quod id est

Heated Rivalry rec

Completed BTS Fic: sentinel/guide speed dating

lots of Heated Rivalry recs

Lemony desserts lemonier?

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