Poem: "A Different Language, a Different Vision of Life"
Jan. 2nd, 2026 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThis poem is spillover from the April 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from see_also_friend. It also fills the "Lagenlook / Layered Look" square in my 4-1-25 card for the Aesthetics Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Rutledge thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.
Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to see the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes a refugees, crying baby, religious unrest, language acquisition issues, emotional upheaval, crying man, reference to past tragedies, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.
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see_also_friend. It also fills the "Lagenlook / Layered Look" square in my 4-1-25 card for the Aesthetics Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Rutledge thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to see the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes a refugees, crying baby, religious unrest, language acquisition issues, emotional upheaval, crying man, reference to past tragedies, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.
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Disco Elysium; Death Note: THE HIT AND RUN by brawltogethernow
Jan. 3rd, 2026 12:27 amsasheneskywalker in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fancakeFandom: Disco Elysium, Death Note
Pairings/Characters: L/Yagami Light, Harry Du Bois & Kim Kitsuragi
Rating: Mature
Length: 36,039 words
Creator Links:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
brawltogethernow
Theme: crack treated seriously, crossover, casefic, unconventional format
Summary: Harry hits Light Yagami with his car. (Based on a joke post, taken extremely seriously.)
Reccer's Notes: Murder mystery where Harry Du Bois investigates a murder he himself committed, putting him right in the middle of the Kira case. Very funny! The dialogue is perfectly in character, the art is fantastic, and I love how the entire fic is told in the style of the game.
Content Notes: major character death (Light Yagami is dead), graphic description of corpses similar to that of Disco Elysium canon
Fanwork Links: THE HIT AND RUN
Pairings/Characters: L/Yagami Light, Harry Du Bois & Kim Kitsuragi
Rating: Mature
Length: 36,039 words
Creator Links:
Theme: crack treated seriously, crossover, casefic, unconventional format
Summary: Harry hits Light Yagami with his car. (Based on a joke post, taken extremely seriously.)
Reccer's Notes: Murder mystery where Harry Du Bois investigates a murder he himself committed, putting him right in the middle of the Kira case. Very funny! The dialogue is perfectly in character, the art is fantastic, and I love how the entire fic is told in the style of the game.
Content Notes: major character death (Light Yagami is dead), graphic description of corpses similar to that of Disco Elysium canon
Fanwork Links: THE HIT AND RUN
Poem: "Liberosis"
Jan. 2nd, 2026 04:22 pmysabetwordsmithThis poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "all that glitters is not gold" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows series.
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Friending Meme
Jan. 2nd, 2026 03:37 pmysabetwordsmithfriending_memes has posted a new friendzy. Visit the main event on that community. I've also copied my entry below.
Click the banner to join us and make some new friends!
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Wildlife
Jan. 2nd, 2026 02:23 pmysabetwordsmithMissing for 200 Years, the Galapagos Rail Reappears Following Floreana Island Restoration
Centuries after they were made famous by Charles Darwin, and a century after they had become plagued by invasive rats and cats, the Galapagos Islands are well on their way to recovery.
Few events could better capture that recovery than the recent reappearance of the beautiful blue Galapagos rail, a bird which hadn’t been seen on Floreana island for 200 years.
After almost a decade of preparatory work, invasive rats, avian vampire flies, and domesticated cats were eradicated from the island thanks to the close coordination of several conservation groups from around the world working alongside the Galapagos National Park Directorate.
Restoration projects often foster the revival of rare species, or those believed to be extirpated or extinct. It's not often this dramatic, so this is exciting news.
Centuries after they were made famous by Charles Darwin, and a century after they had become plagued by invasive rats and cats, the Galapagos Islands are well on their way to recovery.
Few events could better capture that recovery than the recent reappearance of the beautiful blue Galapagos rail, a bird which hadn’t been seen on Floreana island for 200 years.
After almost a decade of preparatory work, invasive rats, avian vampire flies, and domesticated cats were eradicated from the island thanks to the close coordination of several conservation groups from around the world working alongside the Galapagos National Park Directorate.
Restoration projects often foster the revival of rare species, or those believed to be extirpated or extinct. It's not often this dramatic, so this is exciting news.
Fanfic: Hit The Floor (tv); Jude/Zero & Laura; Jude secretly contacts Laura
Jan. 2nd, 2026 11:33 ampairatime in smallfandomfestTitle: The Investment
Author: pairatime
Fandom: Hit The Floor (tv)
Pairing/Characters: Jude/Zero & Laura
Rating/Category: PG
Prompt: Jude secretly contacts Laura
Spoilers: Season 3. Who Laura is.
Summary: Jude sets up a meeting to talk with Laura to find out why.
Notes/Warnings: This is a follow up to The Letter but all you really need to know is Jude sent Laura a few letters, she returned them.
Link:AO3
Author: pairatime
Fandom: Hit The Floor (tv)
Pairing/Characters: Jude/Zero & Laura
Rating/Category: PG
Prompt: Jude secretly contacts Laura
Spoilers: Season 3. Who Laura is.
Summary: Jude sets up a meeting to talk with Laura to find out why.
Notes/Warnings: This is a follow up to The Letter but all you really need to know is Jude sent Laura a few letters, she returned them.
Link:AO3
Birdfeeding
Jan. 2nd, 2026 01:28 pmysabetwordsmithToday is partly cloudy and chilly.
I fed the birds. I've seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen at least 4 male cardinals chasing each other around the trees, along with 2 squirrels.
EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen at least 4 male cardinals chasing each other around the trees, along with 2 squirrels.
EDIT 1/2/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I am done for the night.
pairatime in smallfandomfestTitle:Cookies and Clean-up
Author: pairatime
Fandom: Shelter (2007)
Pairing/Characters: Zach/Shaun & Cody
Rating/Category: PG
Prompt: They make a mess of the kitchen while baking cookies for Cody’s class (or author’s choice), but Zach and Shaun have fun cleaning up after Cody’s in bed
Spoilers: The movie
Summary: Shaun helps Cody make cookies, Zach and Shaun talk after.
Link:AO3
Author: pairatime
Fandom: Shelter (2007)
Pairing/Characters: Zach/Shaun & Cody
Rating/Category: PG
Prompt: They make a mess of the kitchen while baking cookies for Cody’s class (or author’s choice), but Zach and Shaun have fun cleaning up after Cody’s in bed
Spoilers: The movie
Summary: Shaun helps Cody make cookies, Zach and Shaun talk after.
Link:AO3
The Magnus Archives: Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues [...] by shinyopals
Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:28 ambirdylion in fancakeTitle: Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Pairings/Characters: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims; OC management advice blogger, OC internet commenters
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 43626 words
Creator Links:shinyopals
Theme: crack treated seriously, epistolary, no canon required, outsider pov
Summary:
I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.
As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?
Kind regards,
New Manager
Abigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.
Reccer's Notes:
Content Notes:
Fanwork Links: Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work on ao3
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Pairings/Characters: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims; OC management advice blogger, OC internet commenters
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 43626 words
Creator Links:
Theme: crack treated seriously, epistolary, no canon required, outsider pov
Summary:
I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.
As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?
Kind regards,
New Manager
Abigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.
Reccer's Notes:
The Magnus Archives is a horror audio drama in which the main character starts a new position as archivist in an organization named Magnus Institute that specializes on investigating strange/magical phenomena. Very soon, strange things start to happen to him too. Also, it turns out that his workplace itself is ... not what you could call safe.
This story starts with the idea that the main character writes to a management advice blog about the strange things about his workplace, and becomes a regular writer. The fanfic is told in the form of this advice blog as it could appear on the internet: We get the mails he writes in, and the bloggers answers, and also the comment section. It's hilarious, but also it's taken so seriously as the story progresses and gets darker.
As an outsider POV, it really brings out how horrible the whole Magnus Archives story really is. It also shows very well how the story starts so inconspicuous and then boils the characters in horror like a lobster it a pot - and in this fanfic, the character doesn't event write to the advice blog about what's actually happening (because of secrecy), only the workplace safety circumstances. It's such a fascinating outsider POV.
Since it doesn't expect any canon knowledge, it can be read fandom-blind. Even without fandom-knowledge it's a hilarious and tragic advice blog story and in my case, it was my intro to the story, which I listened to after finishing this fanfic, so it was great advertisement for The Magnus Archives. (Note that it contains out of context but significant spoilers if you're going in fandom blind. For me this added to the re-read factor of the fanfic.)
This story starts with the idea that the main character writes to a management advice blog about the strange things about his workplace, and becomes a regular writer. The fanfic is told in the form of this advice blog as it could appear on the internet: We get the mails he writes in, and the bloggers answers, and also the comment section. It's hilarious, but also it's taken so seriously as the story progresses and gets darker.
As an outsider POV, it really brings out how horrible the whole Magnus Archives story really is. It also shows very well how the story starts so inconspicuous and then boils the characters in horror like a lobster it a pot - and in this fanfic, the character doesn't event write to the advice blog about what's actually happening (because of secrecy), only the workplace safety circumstances. It's such a fascinating outsider POV.
Since it doesn't expect any canon knowledge, it can be read fandom-blind. Even without fandom-knowledge it's a hilarious and tragic advice blog story and in my case, it was my intro to the story, which I listened to after finishing this fanfic, so it was great advertisement for The Magnus Archives. (Note that it contains out of context but significant spoilers if you're going in fandom blind. For me this added to the re-read factor of the fanfic.)
Content Notes:
- depictions of outrageously bad workplace safety
- (canon-typical) dysfunctional interpersonal relationships
- lighter on the actual supernatural horror than the original canon
- out of context (but significant) spoilers if read fandom blind
Fanwork Links: Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work on ao3
Follow Friday 1-2-26: Most Useful Communities
Jan. 2nd, 2026 12:19 amysabetwordsmithToday's theme is Most Useful Communities. These are communities with popular topics and plenty of activity, that often come up in searches, and thus make it easy to find fun things to do or new friends to meet. There are other highly useful communities that may not have come up in my searches, so if you'd like to suggest more, leave a comment. For more ideas see followfriday and the Follow Friday Master Post of thematic community lists.
Note that this post is sorted by topics, so a few communities appear more than once.
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followfriday and the Follow Friday Master Post of thematic community lists.Note that this post is sorted by topics, so a few communities appear more than once.
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Poem: "Heartspur"
Jan. 1st, 2026 11:39 pmysabetwordsmithThis poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "silver-tongued" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows series.
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Watch "The Other Large Thing"
Jan. 1st, 2026 09:45 pmysabetwordsmithLove Death + Robots "The Other Large Thing" S4 E05 2025 Full Episode
This anthology show is hit-or-miss. Some episodes are meh, some cringeworthy, but the hits are among the best science fiction ever created. This is one of the best. It's a cautionary tale, and if you know cats ... disturbingly plausible. Also hilarious. Do not watch with mouth full.
I adore the pairing, too, such a memorable set: Dingleberry Jones and his minion Thumb Bringer.
This anthology show is hit-or-miss. Some episodes are meh, some cringeworthy, but the hits are among the best science fiction ever created. This is one of the best. It's a cautionary tale, and if you know cats ... disturbingly plausible. Also hilarious. Do not watch with mouth full.
I adore the pairing, too, such a memorable set: Dingleberry Jones and his minion Thumb Bringer.
Ack!
Jan. 1st, 2026 09:03 pmsoc_puppetThis year, new moodthemeinayear posts go up on Thursdays, just like the weekly recs post at queerly_beloved; now I have two communities I might forget to post to on Thursdays! 😳
moodthemeinayear posts go up on Thursdays, just like the weekly recs post at queerly_beloved; now I have two communities I might forget to post to on Thursdays! 😳
art for 'love of your darkest dreams' by maralagidyne
Dec. 31st, 2025 01:25 pmskargasm in wipbigbangArt Title: ⟫ The Love of Your Darkest Dreams by Maralagidyne
Fandom: ⟫ Teen Wolf
Posted @ sites: ⟫ AO3 or DW
Warnings: ⟫ N/A
Bragging Rights: ⟫ I was utterly intrigued by the concept when I saw the snippets that were posted, so was incredibly pleased to be given this fic for my art assignment. Maralagidyne was a joy to work with – she answered all of my questions about her characters, the tone of the fic, and any particular things that she wanted.
My original ideas (four of them) were much brighter in tone than where we ended up, but after talking to Maralagidyne, my brain came up with a slightly darker concept and she was more than happy to let me run with it. I deliberately left the images that I sent to Maralagidyne large enough to show all of the detail of the images and they shouldn’t be lost when they are made smaller for actual posting.
Book Cover: ⟫
The story and the rest of the art can be found at the links above.
Fandom: ⟫ Teen Wolf
Posted @ sites: ⟫ AO3 or DW
Warnings: ⟫ N/A
Bragging Rights: ⟫ I was utterly intrigued by the concept when I saw the snippets that were posted, so was incredibly pleased to be given this fic for my art assignment. Maralagidyne was a joy to work with – she answered all of my questions about her characters, the tone of the fic, and any particular things that she wanted.
My original ideas (four of them) were much brighter in tone than where we ended up, but after talking to Maralagidyne, my brain came up with a slightly darker concept and she was more than happy to let me run with it. I deliberately left the images that I sent to Maralagidyne large enough to show all of the detail of the images and they shouldn’t be lost when they are made smaller for actual posting.
Book Cover: ⟫
The story and the rest of the art can be found at the links above.
Thursday Recs
Jan. 1st, 2026 09:00 pmsoc_puppet in queerly_belovedFirst new Thursday Recs of the year; come share some stuff you've found!
Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
OFMD: Thistle Teach ‘Em by sweatervest
Jan. 1st, 2026 09:05 pmkingstoken in fancakeFandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Crew of the Revenge, Israel Hands/Roach (it's tagged this, but it's very blink and you miss it)
Rating: T
Length: 2182 words
Creator Links: sweatervest
Theme: crack treated seriously
Summary: A single artichoke appears onboard the Revenge, and Izzy Hands is nowhere to be found. Naturally, the crew draws the most logical conclusion.
Reccer's Notes: The crew finds a single artichoke on the Revenge and draw the very erroneous conclusion that Izzy has been turned into a vegetable by a sea-witch. This is delightfully funny, as the crew try to protect the artichoke from getting eaten, among other things. It very much fits in with the silliness of season 1 of the show.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Pairings/Characters: Crew of the Revenge, Israel Hands/Roach (it's tagged this, but it's very blink and you miss it)
Rating: T
Length: 2182 words
Creator Links: sweatervest
Theme: crack treated seriously
Summary: A single artichoke appears onboard the Revenge, and Izzy Hands is nowhere to be found. Naturally, the crew draws the most logical conclusion.
Reccer's Notes: The crew finds a single artichoke on the Revenge and draw the very erroneous conclusion that Izzy has been turned into a vegetable by a sea-witch. This is delightfully funny, as the crew try to protect the artichoke from getting eaten, among other things. It very much fits in with the silliness of season 1 of the show.
Fanwork Links: AO3