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Time for a dream roundup!

( Dreams from October to December. )

Oh, wow, is Christmas really only ten days away? My brother's asked me to write him a story this year; I'd better get cracking.

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Name: Cobalt/Cob [/irl name if we get to know each other] (transmasc : he/him)

Age group: born in 2001, so mid 20s ig!

Country: France

Subscription/Access Policy: As long as you're an adult Im pretty open about it
I like to post about: Regular life logs, since I want to benmore active here to be less on Twitter, thoughts about whatever i'm watching/playing and art !! I am a concept art student so i spend 80% of my time drawing digitally or traditionnaly, and also cosplay stuff when they're worth being seen hehehe

Main Fandoms: Persona 4, South Park, AI : The Somnium Files, Homestuck, Star Trek TOS, Yaoi/BL

Other Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII, Danganronpa, TBOI, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Vocaloid, Code Geass, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and others you can find either on the interest corner of my profile or my strawpage !

Fannish Interests: Digital art, traditional art (doing fanarts yeah....), cosplay, sharing my headcanons and making self insert OCs

OTPs and Ships: Kirk/Spock, Tweek/Craig, Kyle/Stan, Kyle/Cartman, Randy/Gerald, Adachi/Dojima, Adachi/OC, Cloud/Sephiroth, Lelouch/Suzaku, Dave/Karkat, Eridan/Sollux, Karkzt/Gamzee, Yu/Yosuke, Joker/Akechi, Sherlock/John, Sherlock/Moriarty, Walter/Jonathan (SMT4)

Favourite Movies: Snatch, American Psycho, Man Bites Dog, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather

TV Shows: South Park, Star Trek TOS, BBC Sherlock, Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Books: 1984, American Psycho and I dont read a lot im working on that....

Music: Nine Inch Nails, Ptite Soeur, Korn, KMFDM, Limp Bizkit, MSI (i downloaded everything.....), Bones and way more.... i love music so much (special mention to goth music, french experimental rap and industrial metal tho)

Games: Persona 4, Final Fantasy VII, AI: The Somnium Files, TBOI, PJSK

Comics/Anime: Code Geass, JJBA, Haruhi Suzumiya

Misc: Old tech in general, concerts, arts and craft

My blog is still kind of under construct as I discover more and more everyday about this platform, I'm always open to discover new people and new stuff so don't hesitate to come say hi ! :D

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Vulcan - Snake River Conspiracy

oursin

Happy birthday,

dancing_moon and

sdn!

james_davis_nicoll

Now you can have the ebook (which you're only renting if it is DRMed), hard-to-shelve trade paperback, or the expensive hardcover.

james_davis_nicoll

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PH #121: SMPLive, Roughhouse SMP, Mirai SMP - XYouly, Highcraft (Web Series)

Request 1 by serilly
SMPLive
Characters: cscoop (SMPLive), Traves (SMPLive), Joko (SMPLive), Worldbuilding (SMPLive)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I love Joko/Cooper, they have a really fun dynamic that's like "when I like a guy so I have to psychologically torment him about it". I'm always interested in reading about them.
I also just love Travis in general, I think he's a very fun character.
SMPLive's world also has a lot of fun underexplored aspects for worldbuilding both from a metafictional (hits, the wheel, chats and the court system) and fully in-universe (the bread/void/salmon cults, Spawn City's economy, the server cop mechanic) perspective.
Likes: Fish hybrid Cooper, dog hybrid Travis, goober Joko (skin color matches emotions), courtroom drama, worldbuilding, shenanigans, light metafiction
DNW: RPF, explicit sexual content, power dynamics, chatfic, unrequested setting change AUs, superpowers, kidfic, graphic violence

No letter

Request 2 by serilly
Roughhouse SMP
Characters: Pokay (Roughhouse SMP), RoastedJames (Roughhouse SMP), Wuna301 (Roughhouse SMP), Michaelmcchill (Roughhouse SMP)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I really really badly want to read Poke/James fic, there's like none!! I think they have a really fun dynamic, they're basically inseparable. I would say they're almost like the same mind in two bodies. They are infesting my brain lately.
I think this is my most wanted out of all my requests. There's absolutely no content for this SMP or these guys in general which makes me really sad.
I really like interpreting James as being like, very emotionally reserved and hiding it under being "the funny guy" and "the problem causer".
Likes: Alien (vaguely Slowpoke-esque) Poke, avian James, trans male James, mutual pining, chaos, avian courtship, the rest of Roughhouse terrorizing Michael, Michael/Luna as secondary pairing, Michael in general (he's really funny)
Other characters from RHSMP very welcomed as supporting characters, i.e. Beef, Dink, Burren, Crumb, etc!
As a heads up, if you include Luna in the fic, Luna uses they/them pronouns now, they used he/him when RHSMP was ongoing.
DNW: RPF, explicit sexual content, power dynamics, chatfic, unrequested setting change AUs, superpowers, kidfic

No letter

Request 3 by serilly
Mirai SMP - XYouly
Characters: Travis (Mirai SMP), Technoblade (Mirai SMP), Joko (Mirai SMP), Cooper (Mirai SMP)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

I am OBSESSED with the dynamic between Travis and Joko in Mirai SMP. They're very "toxic yaoi". However I'm really not a fan of the possession plot twist so please just disregard that entirely!
I would love to see some relationship study on how their roles sort of shift towards the opposite as the game goes on, with Travis hardening up and using his crazy emotional intelligence to read Joko like a book and Joko struggling to keep up his apathetic, intimidating persona.
Especially with how the underlying guilt Travis has with Cooper's death and his falling out with Techno plays into it. Super fascinating stuff.
I'd also really love to read an AU where they win and get out together with their plan to exploit the bounty on Techno.
The fic can be read on here or on Wattpad, no SMPLive knowledge is needed at all.
DNW: RPF, explicit sexual content, chatfic, unrequested setting change AUs, superpowers, kidfic, Amanda (I know she's canon in Mirai SMP, but I don't like that she is)

No letter

Request 4 by serilly
Highcraft (Web Series)
Characters: wtbarce (Highcraft), traves (Highcraft), JOKO (Highcraft), cscoop (Highcraft)
My gift must feature one or more of my chosen character tags (giver's choice)

This series is mostly episodic, so you most likely won't need to watch all of it if you've never watched it.
I have a couple different ideas in mind:
- Building off the SMP and "I raised his property value" where Cooper rebuilds Joko's house in the sky could be fun
- I love the modded episodes, especially the more fantasy-based ones like the Aether and the Twilight Forest ones, I'd love to see something based on one of those with worldbuilding and such
- I really love Travis and there's not a lot of good fic about any of his characters, so anything centered on him would be nice. A lot of stuff writes his characters as naive or childish when he's not and it frustrates me because I love how he's incredibly intelligent and can read people like a book despite his shenanigans. He's kind of a high int low wit type character.
Likes: Anthro dog Cooper, tired basemom Cooper or little bastard Cooper with no in between, Joko/Cooper, Travis/Barce, troublemaker Travis, adventure map worldbuilding, mod worldbuilding
DNW: RPF, explicit sexual content, chatfic, unrequested setting change AUs, superpowers, kidfic, graphic violence

No letter

Canon links: Playlist for Roughhouse SMP, partial playlist for Highcraft, link to fic for Mirai SMP

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letzan

I want to shine an occasional spotlight on fandoms that are in flux. There are two kinds of fandoms here:

Fandoms that are growing rapidly, which are typically not in the top 20 now, and may never get there, but might be interesting for F/F readers to check out and encourage.
Fandoms that are losing ground on the top 20, and seem to be "post-peak." They may well peak again in the future, but it's a good moment to look back at the impressive amount of F/F which has been written so far.

I'd love for readers to help me signal-boost some recs for these fandoms. If you've read and enjoyed F/F fic in any of the fandoms listed in this post (either the new ones or the old standards), please send me some works you liked! I'll share all the recs I get in a future Week In Review post. Feel free to send recs on Tumblr as reposts, inbox messages, or DMs, and on Dreamwidth as comments or messages. (Let me know if you don't want to be credited for your rec.)

Fandoms that are growing rapidly

Each of these fandoms has at least twice as many total F/F works now as it did 12 weeks ago.

Dispatch (Video Game): This is a superhero workplace comedy video game, which was released in the past couple of months. The fandom is primarily M/M, but it's growing by about 20 F/F works per week. The top femslash ship is Blonde Blazer | Mandy/Invisigal | Courtney.
Pluribus (TV 2025): This is a post-apocalpytic SF TV show which premiered in November. Fic in the small fandom is almost entirely F/F, and the fandom is growing at about 10 F/F works/week. The top ship is Carol/Zosia (an author who is resisting the hive mind and the chaperone tasked to help her join it).
Pokemon Legends: Z-A (Video Game): This is a new RPG in the Pokemon universe. It's not predominantly F/F, but it's growing about 5 F/F works/week, spread over a couple of ships.

Fandoms that are losing ground

Each of these fandoms dropped on the chart by at least two places, comparing the average in the past twelve weeks to the twelve weeks before that.

Alien Stage (Web Series): This is a Korean animated web series in which aliens run a singing contest for abducted humans. The web series ran from 2022-2025. The fandom first appeared on the chart in 2024, and charted every week over summer 2025, briefly cracking the top 10. It's falling off the chart now, from an average weekly rank of 14.7 last quarter to 20.0 this quarter, presumably because the series ended. Fic in the fandom is about 1/4 F/F, and the top ship is Mizi/Sua.
The Owl House (Cartoon): a portal fantasy cartoon series that aired from 2020-2023, and has charted every week since mid-2020, 279 weeks in total. Its average rank fell from 13.4 to 16.8 this quarter, which is still pretty good for a show that ended over two years ago, but that chart streak is likely to end soon. The biggest ship by far is canonical F/F ship Amity/Luz.
Yellowjackets (TV): this thriller drama series about a group of teenagers stranded in the wilderness by a plane crash, has been a chart regular since 2023. The most recent season ended in April, so it's no surprise that the fandom has fallen out of the top five, from an average rank of 4.7 last quarter, to 7.2 this quarter. However, the current chart streak of 71 consecutive weeks is very likely to continue until the next and final season airs in 2026. Fic in the fandom is overwhelmingly F/F, and the top ships are still Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor, Lottie Matthews/Natalie Scatorccio, and Van Palmer/Taissa Turner, all of whom are members of the soccer team.

neonvincent

I saved this image, used for the first version of the preview image for 'The Last of Us' wins Best Adaptation at The Game Awards, then decided to replace it with one I liked better.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Potentialbliss Twitch stream

oursin

Last week's bread held out fairly well until it did a variety of mould-related activity. There were still some rolls left, fortunately.

Friday night supper: Gujerati khichchari (with cashew nuts) which I do not seem to have made for absolute yonks.

Saturday breakfast rolls: brown grated apple: Light Spelt flour, molasses, a touch of ginger (this didn't really come through, probably overpowered by the molasses): rose like absolute whoah.

Today's lunch: the smoked haddock and pulses thing - smoked haddock loin fillets baked in cream + water with bay leaf, mace and 5-pepper blend, flaked and then layered with bottled black beans (would buy again), some of the cooking liquid added, top sprinkled with panko crumbs and baked in moderate oven for c. 40 minutes, served with baked San Marzano tomatoes, and slow-cooked tenderstem broccoli, finished with lime, some of which seemed less tenderstemmed than one might have expected.

skygiants

On a lighter Parisian note, I read my first Katherine Rundell book, Rooftoppers, which I would have ADORED at age ten but also found extremely fun at age forty!

The heroine of Rooftoppers is orphan Sophie, found floating in a cello case the English Channel after a terrible shipwreck and adopted by a charming eccentric named Charles who raises her on Shakespeare and Free Spirited Inquiry. Unfortunately the English authorities do not approve of children being raised on Shakespeare and Free Spirited Inquiry, so when they threaten to remove Sophie to an orphanage, Charles and Sophie buy themselves time by fleeing to Paris in an attempt to track down traces of Sophie's parentage.

Sophie is stubbornly convinced she might have a mother somewhere out there who survived the shipwreck! Charles is less convinced, but willing to be supportive. On account of the Authorities, however, Charles advises Sophie to stay in the hotel while he pursues the investigation -- but Sophie will not be confined! So she starts pursuing her own investigations via the hotel roof, where she rapidly collides with Matteo, an extremely feral child who claims ownership of the Paris roofs and Does Not Want want Sophie intruding.

But of course eventually Sophie wins Matteo over and is welcomed into the world of the Rooftoppers, Parisian children who have fled from orphanages in favor of leaping from spire to steeple, stealing scraps and shooting pigeons (but also sometimes befriending the pigeons) and generally making a self-sufficient sort of life for themselves in the Most Scenic Surroundings in the World. The book makes it quite clear that the Rooftoppers are often cold and hungry and smelly and the whole thing is no bed of roses, while nonetheless fully and joyously indulging in the tropey delight of secret! hyper-competent! child! rooftop! society!!

The book as a whole strikes a lovely tonal balance just on the edge of fairy tale -- everything is very technically plausible and nothing is actually magic, but also, you know, the central image of the book is a gang of rooftop Lost Kids chasing the haunting sound of cello music over the roof of the Palais de Justice. The ending I think does not make the mistake of trying to resolve too much, and overall I found it a really charming experience.

celli

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james_davis_nicoll

I was a bit surprised to come across this as Hartwell wasn't really the go-to editor where women's SF was concerned. An interesting snapshot of SF in a sixteen-year period. The end is the fall of the American republic. Not sure what was significant about 1984.

( Read more... )

james_davis_nicoll

One very small step for a man, one giant leap for Her Majesty's Government.

Cold War in a Country Garden (Dilke, volume 1) by Lindsay Gutteridge

oursin

Happy birthday,

amindamazed and

hhw!

selenak

Aka the third Benoit Blanc mystery plotted and directed by Rian Johnson. Now, each of these movies has a main character who is not Blanc whose fate and/or motivation to solve the mystery is at the heart of the story - Martha in Knives Out and Helen in Glass Onion respectively - and in this case it's Father Jud, played (well and movingly) by Josh O'Connor. In each case, the movie's structure harks back to the classic age of detective mysteries with various twists and turns and a grand denouemonet while also commenting on the here and now in its social satire. If Glass Onion among other things went for the tech bros and the self satisfied "disruptors", Wake up, Dead Man! is very much about the US under the Orange Menace despite his name not mentioned even once. And lo and behold - it even offers hope. And hey, there is even a Star Wars gag. (Just for the record, I still stand by The Last Jedi being the only one of the sequel movies which actually tries to do something new and creative with the franchise. #RianJohnsonwasRight . The gag has nothing to do with that at all, though.)

( Vague spoilers have to offer from their own free will in order for it to mean something )

Current Mood: calm

muccamukk

Eighty years before this year, WWII ended.

Eighty years before WWII ended, the American Civil War ended.

So we are as far away from (or as close to) WWII, as the people in WWII were from (or to) the Civil War.

IDK, it's interesting to think about. Something Elizabeth Samet has written about, a bit, too.

I only wrote a very short version of that fic where Steve Rogers was a civil war vet, who was frozen until Tony from Iron Man Noir found him, but I was always fond of that idea.

james_davis_nicoll

I am not aware of any big name authors who got their start with a work published by Baen Books after 2006. If there are recent analogs of Bujold or Weber, I do not know of them.

rionaleonhart

In twenty-five years of writing fanfiction, I think this might actually be the most obscure fandom I've ever written for. I hope there's someone in the world who's interested in reading this!

Be aware that this fic contains major spoilers for Death Trick: Double Blind, which is a mystery game and is best played unspoiled.

Title: Invisible Touch
Fandom: Death Trick: Double Blind
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Detective/Magician
Wordcount: 1,100
Summary: The Detective and the Magician get to know each other a little better.

( Invisible Touch )

neonvincent

Crazy Eddie's Motie News earned 97,885 page views and 12 comments on 30 posts during the 30 days of November 2025.

( Most read, commented on, liked, and shared posts during November 2025 behind the cut. )

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Dinomite Twins Twitch Stream

oursin

I think this is an absolutely terrible idea, and that they should be giving book tokens, and, okay, maybe recommendations, but letting people choose their books:

30 authors on the books they give to everyone

I am in particular stunned by the choices of Some People, e.g. Colm Tóibín's Christmas Downer:

There is a book I buy as a present that never goes out of fashion. It is The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.... the extraordinary plot creeps up and bites you before you know where you are. The narrative curls and twists; the narrator knows too much or too little. But at some point the appalling and ingenious nature of the treachery – what is called “cheating” nowadays – becomes apparent and you feel that you have been let in on some intriguing and explosive secret. It is perfect, thus, for Christmas.

I am also beswozzled by what Tessa Hadley considers comfort reading: Rumer Godden??? Okay, some of her works fall into that category, but on the whole I would not consider the ones she does name - The River in particular - exactly comforting.

Much as I love them, I would not press into anyone's hands Middlemarch, The Fountain Overflows, Cold Comfort Farm or The Pursuit of Love, urging that they they must read this.

I am reminded of GB Shaw's rewrite of the Golden Rule, about not doing to others as you would be done by, as tastes differ.

Take it away, Sly and the Family Stone!

Current Music: Everyday People

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rionaleonhart - Plus Something About Fraudulent Symbols Of Power, But I Don't Remember The Details.
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james_davis_nicoll - RIP the Mass Market Paperback
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yuletidemods in yuletide_pinch_hits - Pinch Hit #121
letzan - Femslash Week In Review side content: high-velocity F/F fandoms as of 2025-12-08
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oursin - Culinary
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celli - things I'm doing/sleep I'm getting
james_davis_nicoll - 200 Significant Science Fiction Books by Women, 1984–2001, by David G. Hartwell
james_davis_nicoll - Cold War in a Country Garden (Dilke, volume 1) by Lindsay Gutteridge
oursin - (no subject)
selenak - Wake up, Dead Man! (Film Review)
muccamukk - Random perspectives in time
james_davis_nicoll - After some digging
rionaleonhart - Fanfiction: Invisible Touch (Death Trick: Double Blind, Detective/Magician)
neonvincent - Top posts of 11/2025 at Crazy Eddie's Motie News
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Plus Something About Fraudulent Symbols Of Power, But I Don't Remember The Details.

Finally doing this instead of work!!!

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RIP the Mass Market Paperback

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Femslash Week In Review side content: high-velocity F/F fandoms as of 2025-12-08

Fandoms that are growing rapidly

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Replaced image for Game Awards post

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things I'm doing/sleep I'm getting

200 Significant Science Fiction Books by Women, 1984–2001, by David G. Hartwell

Cold War in a Country Garden (Dilke, volume 1) by Lindsay Gutteridge

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Wake up, Dead Man! (Film Review)

Random perspectives in time

After some digging

Fanfiction: Invisible Touch (Death Trick: Double Blind, Detective/Magician)

Top posts of 11/2025 at Crazy Eddie's Motie News

What, to absolutely EVERYONE???

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