November: Villain Wins

2/11/25 10:40
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Welcome to another new month! Apologies for not getting this post up yesterday, but time kind of got away from me.

Anyway, the theme for November is Villain Wins. Whether that's an AU, a possible future, or even an exploration of canon events, what happens when the villain wins and the heroes lose?

Posting guidelines are here, and if you have any recs or prompts you'd like to share, you can leave them in the comments using the templates below:

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This theme will last until 30th November.
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Max Gladstone’s Craft Wars series and Apocalyptic Musings

2/11/25 02:02
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I’m currently reading (and loving) Max Gladstone’s latest Craft Wars novel Dead Hand Rule - this series follows his equally wonderful 5 book Craft Sequence. Despite being about undead wizards, physically present deities, and even dragons, I maintain these books are science fiction and not fantasy, both for how careful he is with the setting and more importantly because like all the best SF these novels are all insightful social commentary.

The novels are about industrialization and capitalism, and more specifically about how this economic system is notably superior to the previous system for most of the population, but it also fails a lot of people quite badly, and (in this series) deals with the fact that it is also harming the planet, and likely collapsing civilization.

In the Craft Wars series, the existential threat consists of vast soul-hungry creatures from the stars, while in our world the threat is the far more mundane, if in no way safer problem of climate change. In any case, the books and this book in particular are exciting, thought provoking, and very well done, but I started reading it when hurricane Melissa was about to make landfall on Jamaica and reading about the size and power of that storm while reading this novel definitely amped up the apocalyptic feel.
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The word “perforce” does not belong in YA

30/10/25 04:47
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I don’t care if it is in character, pick another word! (And while it ought to be in character, she hasn’t exactly been dropping the big words every other dialog line. Or if she has, I didn’t notice?)

Strasbourg weir

2/11/25 09:35
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There's a stretch of the river that has a powerful weir that once fed a watermill.

The old mill building is still there.

Weir to the left and lock gate in the middle:



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Mind Your Language: Fanfic: Solo tu

2/11/25 13:39
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Title: Solo tu
Author: harryschreine
Fandom: Mind Your Language
Pairing: Giovanni Capello/Maximilion Papandreou
Characters: Giovanni Capello, (implied) Maria Papandreou
Rating: PG-13
Length: 111 Words
Prompt: #496 Missing
Add. Notes: Set in Season 4 era, 1980s
Summary:  "Max... where are you?"

 

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Drawtober 2025 Round-up

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My husband knows I’m traumatized by grippy socks, yet he keeps giving them to me

2/11/25 00:31
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/01/asking-eric-thomas-traumatic-socks/

Dear Eric: My husband of more than 20 years gives me slipper socks with grippy soles. I hate them!

We live in a hot climate, so I have little use for them. They filled up my sock drawer and retraumatized me every time I touched them. I threw them away and they came back.

He gave me five more pairs at Christmas. They can’t be worn with shoes or out in public. They are synthetic so I cannot even use them to polish the furniture. I kept them for animal first aid.

I cannot be cool about these socks. They remind me of the horrible time I had in the hospital having emergency surgery. My husband couldn’t even manage to hug me or talk with me before my surgery.

I’m trying very hard to be graceful and grateful for any gift from my husband, but I want to throw these at him. He knows darn well I dislike them but has given them repeatedly to me. I have to use my good fabric shears to slice them up or he will “rescue them” from the garbage.

Is there a graceful way to handle the next installment of fluffy grippy socks? I tried to no avail telling him I get my grippy socks the old-fashioned way – at the hospital, in person!

– Sock Drawer Full
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Ognissanti

1/11/25 23:17
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It's All Saint's Day. Since time no longer means anything to me I thought it was Il Giorno dei Morti (head desk) You can learn more here.

Since right now with my broke ass fridge I don't have milk/eggs so I couldn't make any of the sweets. Was going to make Frutta Martorana (marizpan shaped like fruit) but Kroger was out of it and I'm WAY too lazy to make it by hand. I did make up a batch of suga di zucca because I am too lazy to make pumpkin gnocchi so I'm putting pumpkin sauce over shelf stable potato gnocchi. You can find the recipe I used here. (unless you read Italian, you will need to hit translate)

Got a letter today. My bank has change my routing number. Remember when my job couldn't pay me and my loans couldn't get paid back in April/May and my bank insisted it wasn't them...bullshit. You see my bank bought out my original bank EIGHTEEN years ago and suddenly now they made it a Wesbanco routing number so now I have to go change ALL my credit card payment sites, paypal, Payroll, my student loans, change my checks and they gave me my new routing number. It's my SAME number. OMFG. did you send this to everyone?!? now I need to call them.

And it's NaDruWriNi right? Well I didn't look at the discounted wine when I grabbed it to make my sauce. It was peach/mango yellowtail (I thought I grabbed the pinot grigio) It was like adult kool-aid. I drank a little...turned out it was half the bottle. Oops. off to write.

It's been a long time but here you go, science saturday (all from one source, lazy lazy me)


Differences in red blood cells may have 'hastened the extinction' of our Neanderthal cousins, new study suggests

Building blocks of life detected in ice outside the Milky Way for first time ever

'Puzzling' object discovered by James Webb telescope may be the earliest known galaxy in the universe

James Webb telescope celebrates Halloween with eerie image of a dying sun — it's what our own might look like one day

Nanotyrannus isn't a 'mini T. Rex' after all — it's a new species, 'dueling dinosaurs' fossil reveals

Halloween dragons click them if you want
Dragon Cave: Adopt one today! Dragon Cave: Adopt one today! Dragon Cave: Adopt one today! Dragon Cave: Adopt one today! Dragon Cave: Adopt one today! Dragon Cave: Adopt one today! Dragon Cave: Adopt one today!


( Hazbin Hotel S2 spoilers but what ain't a spoiler is it has 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is now the most viewed animate show. Ever. )
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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 36: annual November Mini WriMo now open for signups

1/11/25 22:17
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Mini WriMo on LJ -- minimum 100 words a day for 30 days -- is open for signups from now until November 10th.

Mini WriMo 2025 Welcome Post

Mini WriMo 2025 Signup Post
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Admin post: Community check-in October 2025

2/11/25 16:11
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It's just after the end of October, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you since August? (having just realised we haven't had a check-in post for a while, oops, sorry!)

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in the past three months, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you looking at a bunch of end-of-year deadlines? Feel free to share upcoming art challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on. There's probably been a lot happening since it's been a while since we did this, so feel free just to give us the highlights!

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An Offer and an Explanation (part 1 of 1, complete)

1/11/25 23:08
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An Offer and an Explanation
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (Story only): 1800


:: Jackie and the clowder of kids and cats meet Doctor G and make a new friend. The offer of a place to stay is precious. Written for the October 2025 Feathering the Nest prompt call, the idea was suggested by [personal profile] mama_kestrel, with my thanks. I’m posting it today because a kitchen accident demands that I not type for at least twelve hours. ::




Jackie swallowed as she parked the car. The small building had once been a fast food restaurant, but it, and the entire ell of the strip mall were part of something called Soup to Nuts, while the former gas station with a single mechanic’s bay now held a zoomwagon company. The kids eyed the buxom, dark-skinned woman curiously as she sneaked behind the dark-haired man soaping the grill of the vehicle. The woman held up a bucket, noticed the children watching, then pressed a finger to her lips. The bucket swept forward, but instead of dumping water on the man washing the zoomwagon, a sweep of glittering flakes, like shavings from a bar of soap, struck the man, the zoomwagon, and the tarmac. They fuzzed and fizzed, evaporating before anyone could draw a breath to shout.

The man turned, laughing. He sighed rapidly, making comical faces all the while.
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Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #74 (Drawtober 2025) - Round-Up Post

2/11/25 15:58
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Congrats to those who took part in this challenge!

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Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #74 - Drawtober 2025:

Too many to list! So just follow the challenge tag to see them all.

As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art post with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list.

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! :D

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fic title alphabet meme

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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 35: Postal Mail from Fen

1/11/25 21:51
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Thank you kindly to [personal profile] james and to [personal profile] dine for Halloween cards, and to [personal profile] noxelementalist for the art postcard.
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Worldbuilding

1/11/25 19:56
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The Most Powerful Type of Worldbuilding by Curious Archive

I rarely link YouTube videos anymore, but this one had some good observations about "moldy worldbuilding" and how it shows the passage of time. So I'll throw out some ideas based on that.

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2/11/25 02:30
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I have now completed three different versions of the secret ending and screencapped a lot of the results. It's interesting what does and does not work that way.

... my achievements did not work. I still don't know why. I was liking how it would give little trophies when I did the fiddly things.

I can start again at a higher difficulty level and probably will, but given how thorough I've been with achievements in the main game now, I won't know if it'll give me any until the actual last The End. I would have to find harder games intrinsically motivating. I shall have to ponder.

Meanwhile I started a new go at Inevitable Excess with the secret ending character (Belmor, tiefling witch Angel, a combination with no synergy, where aasimar oracle angel would have kicked almighty arse) in the hopes it'll actually give me the Hard gear if I do the challenge on Hard this time. Going to Unfair seemed a bit much but I can try it later if I want. But then I remembered I do not actually like the game play in Inevitable Excess. It just makes annoying things fiddly. It's worse than Enigma for that, changing the way you have to move around even, boring and lots of trying to find the right pixel to get it to agree with you.

So I have stopped playing the game at a mere two in the morning.

And then got distrated looking up builds and being baffled by what they consider to be min maxing. Unfair must have very different numbers than the ones I had fun wiping just now.

Boring day, need a new plan now victory was achieved.

#166: Facetious: BBC Sherlock: Gen

1/11/25 22:16
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Title: Journaling
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Characters: Sherlock, John, and Lestrade
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
Prompt: Facetious
Also for: Whumptober Day 5: My panic's at the ceiling but I'm face down on the carpet & Dream journal & Phobia
Inspired by: This article in The Onion https://theonion.com/study-finds-regular-journaling-can-help-provide-clues-about-mysterious-disappearance/

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[Prompt: #466: Collection] The Iliad/The Odyssey - Collection

1/11/25 20:46
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Title: Collection
Fandom: The Iliad/The Odyssey
Characters/Ship: Penelope/Odysseus
Rating: G

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