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([personal profile] westiec posting in [community profile] pinchhits Oct. 21st, 2025 08:32 am)
Event: Sex Pollen Plus is a multi-fandom exchange focused on sex pollen and other fuck compulsion tropes. Minimum for fic is 1000 words, and works must be rated M or E.

Event link: [community profile] sexpollenplus Event rules are in the sticky!

Due date: ASAP – creator reveals are October 26 at 7 PM GMT

We have one emergency pinch hit for the following fandoms:

EPH (fic) - NoPixel (Web Series), 吸血鬼すぐ死ぬ | Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu | The Vampire Dies in No Time (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs


We also still have two non-required PDPH whose details are listed here

PDPH 10 (fic) - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)

PDPH 13 (fic) - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Challengers (Movie 2024)
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([personal profile] wickedgame posting in [community profile] icons Oct. 21st, 2025 04:13 pm)
Fandoms: Bed Friend, Echo, Euphoria, Fallout, Hawkeye, I Will Turn Back This Time, Jessica Jones, Killing Eve, Legends of Tomorrow, Mako Mermaids, Moon Knight, Motorheads, Mr. Robot, Ransom Canyon, Superman & Lois, Wednesday, Yellowjackets

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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Oct. 21st, 2025 08:55 am)


The story that began the grand tradition of picking on a teenager's work.

The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis
([syndicated profile] smartbitches_feed Oct. 21st, 2025 12:12 pm)

Posted by SB Sarah

Sometimes the only way for me to figure out if something is working or not is to do a post and test drive the code. So, uh. Hi!

I think the transcript and the spoiler code are malfunctioning and alas, I can’t blame it on AWS.

Any boodle, here’s a spoiler.

can you believe who shot JR?

That Kristin had great hair, too.

That was my first “grown up tv show” and wow, did I enjoy some big hair and shoulder pads. I really thought that when I was an adult my hair would look like romance cover models hair (big, bouncy, covers several acres) and I would dress like folks on Dynasty and Dallas (also big, bouncy, covers several acres). What a shame that adulthood arrived in the late 90s and fashions were a little different.

Oh, and also:

And speaking of Psycho...

My guy had some Issues with his Mother. Woodamn.

I totally ruined Adam’s day when I told him that…

the winner of this season of the Great British Bake Off is...

KIDDING! I don’t know that one!

Also I coded all of this on my phone so watch how much this is not going to work because of my thumbs!

So, sorry to have spoiled things. Got any secrets or spoilers you want to share?

If you want to test drive the code in the comments, it’s:

[**spoiler**]

Spoiler omg

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***Remove the  5 asterisks!***

 

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([personal profile] spikedluv Oct. 21st, 2025 08:12 am)
9-1-1: Good ep! spoilers )


Matlock: Have seen the first two eps and they were both good, though you probably can already guess my caveat. spoilers )



Tracker: Good ep! spoilers )
And now for a wrap-up of a few final Amber Spyglass thoughts that I couldn’t fit into my earlier posts.

First, beyond all the other reasons I hated the ending of The Amber Spyglass as a child, I also loathed it as yet another variation of the evergreen classic of the children losing the magic at the end of a children’s fantasy novel: Peter and Susan can’t return to Narnia because they’re too old, Fern loses interest in talking animals because a boy took her on the Ferris wheel, etc.

Upon reread, I discovered that this isn’t technically what’s happening at the end of The Amber Spyglass. Yes, the timing does happen to coincide with Will and Lyra falling in love, but technically Lyra loses the ability to read the alethiometer because that ability was given to her by grace (by the rebel angels, one presumes) and has been taken away now that her quest is over. And Will breaks the subtle knife (which gives him the ability to travel between worlds) because the subtle knife turns out to be releasing a soul-eating Spectre every time it opens a doorway between worlds.

So they’re not losing the magic because they personally have grown too old, which at least still leaves room for another child (for instance, the child reader) to have a magical adventure. They’re losing the magic because every magic doorway forever must be closed, because the magic portals are actually EVIL. The magic was BAD ALL ALONG.

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And finally, swinging back around to Dust. In the first book, Dust is a big mystery: it settles on humans, especially adults, but not animals, not even the armored bears who talk and wear armor and have kings etc. The Magisterium thinks that Dust is sin, which, okay, the Magisterium and I clearly have a different understanding of sin (the bears clearly have the ability to knowingly do wrong, which is how I would define sin), but sure! Why not! The Magisterium is clearly supposed to be wrong anyway and the story is great, so I’m not getting bogged down in metaphysics.

Unfortunately, the story became less great and the metaphysics became more explicit. In The Amber Spyglass, we learn that “Dust came into being when living things became conscious of themselves.” Dust is like “the stars of every galaxy in the sky, and every one of them was a little fragment of conscious thought.” And the doorways between worlds are draining away the Dust, and without Dust, “Thought, imagination, feeling, would all wither and blow away, leaving nothing but a brutish automatism; and that brief period when life was conscious of itself would flicker out like a candle in every one of the billions of worlds where it had burned brightly.”

Well, first of all, this breaks Pullman’s own worldbuilding. We know that the armored bears are capable of conscious thought, feeling, and even imagination: we saw Iofur Raknisson with his doll daemon perched on his knee. They understand themselves to be bears, think about what it means to be bears, and understand death. Why don’t they get Dust?

I think the answer to the armored bears question specifically is that Pullman hadn’t fully thought through that aspect of his worldbuilding in book one. But unfortunately for Pullman, this issue is far wider than the armored bears. It touches on one of my pet topics of animal intelligence, and can I just say: Holy Descartes!

So animals are merely brutish automatons, incapable of thought, imagination, or feeling? I realize that research in animal intelligence has become more widely known since this book was published in 2001, but that was still decades after Jane Goodall did her pioneering chimp research. The general public may not have been up on the intelligence of cephalopods and crows, but we knew great apes and dolphins were smart. We may have even been vaguely aware of elephant intelligence.

And I simply feel that if you are writing a book series about the nature of consciousness, maybe you should, in fact, familiarize yourself with the latest research about the nature of consciousness.

It’s incredibly frustrating that Pullman is taking aim at the destructive impact of certain Christian teachings on Western society but straight-up recreates the belief that humans are different from animals not merely in degree but in kind. We are not simply the smartest animals, we are the only conscious animals at all, in fact not really animals but marked out by the cosmos as different by the way that we attract the glowing golden particles of conscious thought that are Dust.
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([personal profile] spikedluv Oct. 21st, 2025 07:29 am)
I had another chiropractic appointment this morning. Apparently I misunderstood; the pinch isn’t in the sacrum, it’s in the lower lumbar region. Which is one of the spots in my back that started hurting as the pain in my buttock/leg lessened. The chiropractor said that is expected, as the pain will eventually be felt where the actual pinch is, rather than where it radiates to. Almost forgot to mention that the pain is less again today, in part, I'm sure, because of the adjustment.

I hit Walmart and CVS (for mom’s prescriptions) while I was downtown. I did two loads of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered.

I watched the current ep of Tracker and some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 58.8(F) and reached 61.3. It rained most of the night and was supposed rain most of the day, as well, but it was more off and on than steady. We’d have periods of rain, then the sun would come out, then more rain, then sun . . . It was also quite windy. (Pip told me that the pot one of the mums was in had blown into the field. I was like o_O how could that happen? Apparently the plant was blown over, and the pot blown right off it! Who knew that could happen?)


Mom Update:

Mom was doing well yesterday. more back here )

Posted by Amanda

Welcome back!

A short and sweet release week for us at SBTB HQ! We have a holiday romance making an appearance, horror, and a fae romance.

Which releases are you excited for this week? Let us know in the comments!

A Fae in Finance

A Fae in Finance by Juliet Brooks

Author: Juliet Brooks
Released: October 21, 2025 by Orbit
Genre: , , , ,
Series: How to Do Business in Fairie #1

She’s working for a fae in finance, business plan, 6’ 5”, big wings…

​In this hilarious contemporary fantasy, an exasperated low-level investment banker is trapped in a magical realm by a faerie prince, where she must survive in a strange new world with only her wits—and a solid Wi-Fi connection.

When investment banker Miri is purposely trapped in Faerie by her client, the Princeling of the Faerie realm, she does what any normal 20-something would cries, makes jokes in denial, and worries loudly about her cat, Doctor Kitten. Instead of rescuing her, her boss simply confirms she has solid internet access, leaving Miri stranded in a strange land with only a warning that the quality of her work should not decrease because of a change of address.

But Miri grew up reading fantasy, and she knows there are always ways to work around magic—she just needs to find them. In order to make her daring escape, Miri must navigate Faerie political drama, lies by omission, faerie seduction tactics, deteriorating mental health, and a mother who never hangs up the phone.

Amanda: “I’m looking for a fae in finance…6’5″, blue eyes.” This just seems so silly and fun.

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The Devil She Knows

The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur

Author: Alexandria Bellefleur
Released: October 21, 2025 by Berkley
Genre: , , ,

“A fantasy-tinged sapphic romance with perfect banter.”—People

A down-on-her-luck woman makes a deal with a crafty demon to win back her ex-girlfriend after a proposal gone awry, only to discover the girl of her dreams might be the devil she knows, from nationally bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur.

Samantha Cooper is having a day from hell.

In less than 24 hours, her life has unraveled, leaving her single and with nowhere to live. Adding insult to injury, she’s trapped in an elevator with a gorgeous woman claiming to be a demon.

Daphne is not at all what Samantha expected from someone claiming to be an evil supernatural entity. She’s pretty, witty, dressed in pink, and smells nice. And she’s here to offer Samantha a deal she can’t refuse. Six wishes in exchange for one tiny trade—Samantha’s soul. There’s a glaring loophole in their contract, one Samantha fully intends to exploit so she doesn’t fork over her soul. After all, she only needs one wish to win her ex back.

Hell-bent to gather the last of the one thousand souls she needs so that she can be free of her own devilish deal, Daphne grants each of Samantha’s wishes . . . with a twist, so that Samantha is forced to make another.

As Samantha’s wishes dwindle and Daphne offers her glimpses into the life she thought she wanted, the unlikely pair grows close. Perhaps the girl of Samantha’s dreams is actually the stuff of nightmares, but Samantha and Daphne will have to outsmart the Devil himself if they want a chance at happily ever after.

A new f/f romance from Bellefleur with a paranormal twist.

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Girl Dinner

Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake

Author: Olivie Blake
Released: October 21, 2025 by Tor Books
Genre: ,

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Girl Dinner is a darkly-fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . .

Good girls deserve a treat.

Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected.

After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she’s taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey.

Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner’s new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane’s clothes don’t fit right, her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is, and even the few hours a day she’s apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.

As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.

Amanda: A+ title!

Elyse: I really enjoyed Olivie Blake’s other work and I’m intrigued by this turn toward horror.

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Good Spirits

Good Spirits by B.K. Borison

Author: B.K. Borison
Released: October 21, 2025 by Avon
Genre: ,
Series: Ghosted #1

The USA Today bestselling author of Business Casual, B.K. Borison is back with a whimsical new holiday romance—this time with a magical twist—that will have everyone falling in love with the Ghost of Christmas Past.

He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She’s not exactly Scrooge.

Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future.

Harriet York has no idea why she’s being haunted. She’s a good person—or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together— and realize there might be more to moving on than expected.

With the deadline of Christmas Eve fast approaching, will they find the key to their futures in each other’s pasts? Or will they stay firmly in the present, indulging in their unexpected, spirited connection?

Filled with magic, mayhem, and cozy holiday charm, this swoony romance is B.K. Borison’s best yet!

B.K. Borison is starting a new paranormal series! I’m curious if the rest of the books in the series will be holiday-focused. 

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([personal profile] oursin Oct. 21st, 2025 08:57 am)
Happy birthday, [personal profile] adore!
The rain eased off after four o'clock, but until I got to Chapin Beach I still thought I would be making an affectionately overcast farewell to Cape Cod Bay, not arriving just in time for one of those conch-pink flaming sunsets for which my camera creakily consented to make an effort for about five minutes before shutting itself back down again and stubbornly refusing to be coaxed further. I walked back and forth on the wet metallic sands and collected a fragment of white-and-purple-whorled shell and watched the clouds fade to peach and charcoal. I put my hands in the water where it ran clear over the wave-rounded litter all faintly green-tinged, just to feel it on my fingers colder than before. I had all the talismans necessary to remember myself.

Did the shamrock on your shoulder bring good fortune and pay off? )

It was such good sea. I had not had so much of it daily in years. And it is not that I can get none of it in the still working seaport of Boston, and Cape Cod remains sandier than the mountain-folded ledges of Cape Elizabeth or the glacier-scraped boulders of Cape Ann, but it is still Atlantic and still cold to the touch and still live. I am home now and approved by Hestia for the second time in a month, an unusual sign of travel in my life these days. Dinner was with my parents and [personal profile] spatch and came from Szechuan's Dumpling, who thanks to my being literally the last customer in and out of the restaurant threw in an order from earlier in the evening that no one had ever come to collect, i.e. free crab rangoon and what it just occurred to me to recognize as suan la chow show made by a kitchen that wasn't Mary Chung's. I did not get anywhere near as much done with my brain as I had wanted, but I am working on thinking of it as recharge rather than failure. I am not acclimated to unemployment. Tomorrow I plan nonetheless not to move very much.
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([personal profile] viridian5 Oct. 21st, 2025 02:09 am)
spotlight paint 1I just put up a whole bunch of Saks Fifth Avenue window displays I shot a year or two ago but didn't post to my Flickr. I'm definitely not a fan of these mannequins and would've been much happier if they had heads instead of necks sharpened to a stake, but I really liked the colors and effects Saks used in the displays.

I'm going to try to get into the city one night within the next week in the hope of picking up some nice window displays before the stores spend most of November shrouded as they put together their holiday windows.

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A water leak the second-floor neighbors complained about for months was traced to our toilet Saturday. My toilet was supposed to be fixed Sunday but wasn't anchored properly and would move when you got on and off it, so we made the landlord and his cheap repairman return today. It seems okay and stable now.

So, that was four hours Saturday, three hours Sunday, and three hours Monday where I wasn't allowed to use my bathroom for anything.

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I wanted to see a few Open House New York locations Sunday but woke up feeling awful so I didn't. The places I wanted to go were in Manhattan and would've required me taking the subway and buses--and figuring out what was running where for a weekend day--and doing a few miles of walking. Maybe next year.
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([personal profile] china_shop Oct. 21st, 2025 07:04 pm)
This talks positively about the value of the protests. I'm putting it behind a cut for those with politics DNWs.

From Heather Cox Richardson... )
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([personal profile] china_shop Oct. 21st, 2025 06:26 pm)
“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks… and it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'”
– Maya Angelou

My day 20: Applied some edits to a fic. Then went into town in a howling gale to have lunch with a friend. Now the sun is out, the sky is blue, the birds are singing like, "What? What gale? We don't know what you're talking about."

The tally
Day 16: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 17: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 18: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 19: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] callmesandyk, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora

Day 20: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] shippen_stand, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora

When you check in, please say what day(s) you’re checking in for. You can join in or take a break at any time; you’re always welcome back. And please let me know if I’ve missed you.
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([personal profile] conuly Oct. 18th, 2025 12:50 am)
and they're pretty much all fanfic right now? I've clearly been falling behind.

(Don't ask how long this has been the situation, just do not ask.)

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Read more... )
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([personal profile] conuly Oct. 17th, 2025 08:29 pm)
To me, one silly task is like another.
I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride.
This flesh will never give a child its mother,
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
And madness chooses out my voice again,
Again. I am the chosen no hand saves:
The shrieking heaven lifted over men,
Not the dumb earth, wherein they set their graves.


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Link
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([personal profile] snickfic Oct. 20th, 2025 08:57 pm)
The Secret of Chimneys (1925) by Agatha Christie. An adventurous fellow arrives in England set on delivering a manuscript and a batch of illicit love letters and ends up in a wild plot involving a murder, a stolen jewel, and a Ruritanian country in Eastern Europe.

This is one of Christie's light-hearted romps. I definitely read this at some point 25+ years ago but had forgotten basically everything, including how much fun Christie is when she's in this mode. (Aside from the ambiant xenophobia, classism, antisemitism, and some unexpectedly central pro-monarchial sentiments.) I had a great time.

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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer. A collection of essays spanning a wide range of topics at least tangentially related to climbing. As the title suggests, not many women in this book. Overall a mixed bag, as an essay collection is liable to be, and sometimes Krakauer's voice wears a bit thin, especially when he's trying to be funny. OTOH, in the midst of "Tentbound," an otherwise tediously humorous essay on being stuck in your tent for days at a time, we get this passage, the end of which delights me more than I can even articulate:

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious, peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington Post: "Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound . . . Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly." The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredome, lest his tail grow scaly.


My favorites out of the bunch are probably "Valdez Ice," about climbing frozen waterfalls; "Club Denali," about people attempting to climb Denali; and "Devil's Thumb," about him randomly deciding at the age of 23 to go to Alaska and solo climb a particular peak. You will notice all of these are about difficult, hazardous climbing in very cold temperatures, aka sort of similar to his Everest book.

In addition, usually Krakauer gives kind of mixed messages about his own climbing, on one hand saying it's an addiction and the only thing he's good at, and on the other hand only talking about how uncomfortable it is and how much he would rather be doing something else, So Devil's Thumb in particular was nice for a story of him actually doing some major climbing and only making a little bit of fun of himself over it.
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([personal profile] brithistorian Oct. 20th, 2025 09:13 pm)

A., L., and I are rewatching Brooklyn Nine-Nine. As we were sitting down to watch tonight, L. asked "Do you think there's Brooklynn Nine-Nine fanfic on AO3?" As A. and I assured her that there certainly was, I picked up my phone so I could tell her how many there were. As it turned out, there were 6,999 of them. So of course after we finished watching, I wrote a drabble to bring the totally up to an even 7,000. If you're interested, go check out "Dance the Night Away", in which one Sergeant Terrence Jeffords attends a TWICE concert!

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([personal profile] troisoiseaux Oct. 20th, 2025 09:02 pm)
I hadn't planned on reading Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, both because I hadn't really clicked with any of her previous books and because I've seen mostly negative reviews of Katabasis specifically, but it was available as a short-term/lucky/skip-the-line loan on Libby and who am I to look a gift book in the mouth. I'm really enjoying it! Two rival graduate students of Analytical Magick descend to the underworld to rescue their dissertation advisor so they can graduate with his valuable recommendation; it's great for spooky season, with vivid descriptions of the very nasty ways one can die from doing magick wrong and something darkly whimsical about the version of Hell that they navigate with the ambiguous aid of the different accounts of underworld journeys (Orpheus, Dante, etc.) as filtered through alternate translations and theories of interpretation and academic technobabble. ... )

Back to the theme of Bad Times on Boats with Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade, a nonfiction account of the 2015 sinking of an American cargo ship after capitalism led it to sail directly into a hurricane. Technically focused on unfolding the narrative of a specific event (the loss of the El Faro in Hurricane Joaquin) but throws in a bunch of stuff for context, such as how hurricanes are formed and measured, the history of U.S. shipbuilding and shipping industries, etc.
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([personal profile] ysobel Oct. 20th, 2025 05:28 pm)
...Ian just did a Vulcan Death Grip. *squints*

(also my dryer has fantastic timing. Dramatic scene ends with "let him die", dryer promptly tootles a cheerful triumphant tune...)
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([personal profile] torachan Oct. 20th, 2025 05:22 pm)
1. Got my hair cut this morning. It doesn't seem like a month since the last time, but that's how I schedule it, so I guess it is! Due to the AWS outages, they were unable to take payment through their system and their backup of Venmo was also down, but I do have a card on file with them, so they were able to offer the option of just charging that card as soon as things were up and working again, which they seem to have been this afternoon, as I did receive an email receipt from them.

2. I'm glad I always download audiobooks to my phone to listen to rather than streaming from the app, as apparently Hoopla was also affected. I happened to finish the book I was listening to right as I arrived at work, and opened the app to return the book, and it the app wasn't working at all (though it had still been playing while I was driving).

3. Tomorrow and Wednesday are likely to be long days at work, but I was able to finish up early today, which was nice. I think I got home around 4:30ish.

4. I love how Tuxie's legs look like a fish tail here.

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([personal profile] siria Oct. 20th, 2025 08:21 pm)
Bee's K-N-E-E-S
The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~500 words | For [personal profile] sheafrotherdon

(Also on AO3)

Jack, Robby, and the NYT Spelling Bee. )
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([personal profile] scrubjayspeaks Oct. 20th, 2025 05:13 pm)
A local potter is asking for help, particularly from video game enthusiasts, with their latest project in repaired objects. Caches of pots have been hidden around town--and yes, some of them have small prizes inside, of course--and volunteer adventurers are being asked to find and smash them with gleeful abandon. The broken pots won’t go to waste, as they will be used for kintsugi and mosaic work that will pay homage to dungeon crawling tropes and the economics of destruction in storytelling.

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LL#1319
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([personal profile] aurumcalendula posting in [community profile] cnovels Oct. 20th, 2025 06:27 pm)
As of yesterday, Pale Mirror's finished editing their translation of Reading the Remnants and has posted EPUBs and PDFs for it!
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([personal profile] sholio Oct. 20th, 2025 11:39 pm)
Yet another instance of the Whumptober prompts basically being used for creative inspiration, but not really whump as such.

I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).

No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation

450 wds under the cut )
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