WED Day 10

Feb. 10th, 2026 05:25 am
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Check-in post for day 10!

Day 1: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme,[personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 2: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 3: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 4: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 5: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] ashelterofpages, [personal profile] miss_ingno, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 6: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] ashelterofpages, [personal profile] miss_ingno, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 7: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] ashelterofpages, [personal profile] miss_ingno, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 8: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] shadaras, [personal profile] ashelterofpages, [personal profile] sakana17, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 9: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] ashelterofpages, [personal profile] chanter1944,

Day 10: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] ashelterofpages, [personal profile] chanter1944,
linky: Kyoka glancing to Lachesis. (Gotchard: KyokaLachesis - Glancing)
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Title: Together At Last
Fandom: Kamen Rider Gotchard
Pairing/Characters: Kyoka/Lachesis
Rating: G
Author's note: Also drawn for the [tumblr.com profile] tokushippingweek prompt of Canon Divergence.
Also on Ao3, or viewable behind the cut:

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In 2005, my family went on a three week trip to Australia and New Zealand, on which I embarked determined to bring back gems of antipodal literature.

Unfortunately, I was not very internet savvy at that point, so I didn’t successfully manage to search for the titles of these gems. Presumably I could have asked the booksellers, but this literally didn’t occur to me until I was writing this post, so clearly that was a non-starter.

So mostly I purchased the complete works of Isobelle Carmody, plus some of Lynley Dodd’s Slinki Malinki books (happy to report that my niece now enjoys them). But I did consider Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This?, before concluding that this book would obviously make it to the United States before long.

I was correct! The book made it to the United States within a year or two after that trip. I proceeded not to read it for another twenty years.

But finally I have read it. At this point it’s kind of a period piece of my own youth. CDs! DVDs! Young people who use their cell phones to actually call each other! Be still my beating heart.

But also, the character who is so relentlessly fat-shamed by her mother and her classmates that she informs our heroine that she wishes she could become anorexic. Unable to achieve this fatal disease, she instead takes up smoking. She ultimately gives it up when she gets a boyfriend who likes her curves, but still. Oh, 2005, how I don’t miss you. What an awful year. Awful decade in fact. Sometimes I feel like an old curmudgeon shaking my metaphorical cane at The State of the World These Days, so it’s cheering in a way to be reminded that I hated the world when I was a teenager, too.

“But Aster,” you complain. “The actual book? Do you have any thoughts about Does My Head Look Big in This?

Well, to be honest, the book also reminded me that I had a tortured relationship with contemporary YA even before its Twilightification. It also seemed to me that the move from children’s literature to YA echoed the arc of Fern’s character growth in Charlotte’s Web: at the start she saves Wilbur the runt pig and spends hours listening to the talking animals, but at the end all she cares about is some stupid boy who took her for a ride on the Ferris wheel. It’s a shift from wonder and possibility and talking animals to boring romance and clothes and makeup (or boring sports if the main character is a boy).

As an adult I have more tolerance for this sort of thing, but I suspect that in my youth I would have been horrified that our heroine starts wearing the hijab full-time and still spends most of her time thinking about clothes and makeup and boys. To my seventeen-year-old mind, the chief benefit of wearing the hijab would be never having to think about any of those things ever again! Or at least until you’re ready to get married. (I recognize that this is not how it actually works, but it’s still what I would have thought.)

So in fact it’s a good thing that I waited 20 years to read the book, because I probably would not have much appreciated the book in 2005. But in 2026, it’s given me a nice wander down memory lane.
bluedreaming: (killuazoldvck​ - dewi hw skeletons I)
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Fandom: Melody of Secrets
Mods please use the f: tv (category) tag
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: reference to canonical character death
Author notes: The title is from No Gifts from War by Angkarn Chanthathip, translated by Tracey Martin.
Summary: Finally knowing the truth doesn’t mean that things aren’t still broken.

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Granblue Fantasy - Affinity

Feb. 10th, 2026 07:44 am
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Title: Affinity
Fandom: Granblue Fantasy
Rating: AA
Notes: Lancelot, Siegfried
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Affinity )

Granblue Fantasy - Rewards

Feb. 10th, 2026 07:42 am
kalloway: Halloween costume Zeta and Vaseraga from Granblue Fantasy (GBF Zetaraga Halloween)
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Title: Rewards
Fandom: Granblue Fantasy
Rating: AA
Notes: Zeta/Vaseraga
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rewards )
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[personal profile] cmk418 posting in [community profile] halfamoon
Title: Little Annoyances
Fandom: OZ (HBO)
Character: Gloria Nathan
Rating: G
Word Count: 254
Summary: Another day, another email from the drug company

Little Annoyances )
marginaliana: Simon on Numberwang wearing "I am from space" shirt. (Simon is from space)
[personal profile] marginaliana
Various:

--Mental health quite bad recently, but am persevering.

--An allegedly Australian phrase I learned today: "I'm so hungry I could eat the arse of a low-flying pigeon."

--Am writing about 6 fics simultanously, which is very pleasing to my self-identity as 'person who writes things,' but one of them involves a lot of subject matter that is perhaps not great for the mental health as per above. If I finish it then I will be done with it? It's so close to done.

--Have had a song stuck in my head for days due to this frankly magnificent Festivid:

ASSHOLE (197 words) by cupidsbow
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Looney Tunes | Merrie Melodies, Multi-Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes), Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes)
Characters: Daffy Duck (Looney Tunes), Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes), Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes), Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig (Looney Tunes), Marvin the Martian (Looney Tunes), Yosemite Sam (Looney Tunes)
Additional Tags: Talking Animals, Animation, Comedy, Slapstick, Pranks and Practical Jokes, Fanvids
Series: Part 62 of cupidsbow's fanvids
Summary:

I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream.

Day 10 Theme - Acting the Fool

Feb. 10th, 2026 06:19 am
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Today's theme is Acting the Fool.

Here are some ideas to get you started: Sometimes even the smartest characters can make a really dumb mistake or behave like a complete idiot. Sometimes even the most serious characters can have a moment of playful silliness. Show us a moment that a character may not have been at her most sensible (whatever that may be for her).

Just go wherever the Muse takes you. If this prompt doesn't speak to you, feel free to share something that does. You can post in a separate entry or as a comment to this post.

Want to get a jump start on tomorrow's theme? Check out the prompt list in the pinned post at the top of the page. Please don't post until that day.
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Yesterday I sat down to make a consecutive list with ratings (by hand, because it's just nicer to write with a fountain pen) and it took three hours.

I have read a total of 19 by John Dickson Carr, counting the first one a few years ago (Castle Skull) and The Hollow Man, from the bookclub list in Wake Up Dead Man. Several more of his early books have the same irritating features as these, but his later books frequently do not. He has other weaknesses - most strikingly, his focus on surprising puzzle solutions sometimes leads to endings that are flat, thin, and/or ridiculously silly, like in the acclaimed The Judas Window (1938, 4/5, rec) and the less-beloved The Ten Teacups (1937, 3.5/5, rec). I can recommend about half the ones I've read so far. The only ones I would rate 5/5 apart from the previously mentioned Till Death Do Us Part (1944) are 1939's The Black Spectacles, 1944's He Who Whispers, and 1938's To Wake the Dead. I give 4.5/5, however, to 1935's The Red Widow Murders. Yet I nearly DNF 1942's The Emperor's Snuffbox (2/5) and 1935's Death Watch (3/5) and I ranted about 1937's The Burning Court (1/5) for a good ten minutes.

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