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Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Poll #34064 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 19
How are you doing?
I am okay
13 (68.4%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
6 (31.6%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
5 (26.3%)
One other person
9 (47.4%)
More than one other person
5 (26.3%)
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corvidology posting in c_ent Jan. 9th, 2026 05:45 pm)The Best Laid Plans of Ye Xiaoxiao (1097 words) 侠探简不知 | Ancient Detective (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Hei Wu/Qian Mian Ren | Ye Xiaoxiao
Characters: Hei Wu (Ancient Detective), Qian Mian Ren | Ye Xiaoxiao
Additional Tags: Wound Care, Fever, Delirium, Declarations Of Love
Amedia prompted: Ye Xiaoxiao/Hei Wu, a quiet, happy moment together.
All Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (972 words) HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Jack | Fang Liangdian/Zhao Li'an | Zhao-zi
Characters: Jack | Fang Liangdian, Zhao Li'an | Zhao-zi
Additional Tags: Restraints, Vanilla is a complex flavour, Inexperienced but game
Dishonestdreams prompted: "You never know, I might surprise you."
Badges of Honor (421 words) L'Oréal "Time Engraver" Commercials
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Time Engraver (L'Oréal "Time Engraver" Commercials)/original character
Characters: Time Engraver (L'Oreal "Time Engraver" Commercials)
Additional Tags: 12 Days of Christmas, The Dongzhi festival, First Time, immortal/mortal, Rebirth
Trobadora asked for: A winter holiday ficlet for the Time Engraver, Sorry, Dora. I wandered off a bit.
The Joke Was on Him (300 words) 双夭记 | The Silent Criminal (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Long Yao/Shi Jingyao
Characters: Long Yao (The Silent Criminal), Shi Jingyao
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Oblivious, Unintended Consequences
Dreamy_Dragon prompted: Unexpected change.
Getting Out of Their Heads (474 words) 猎罪图鉴 | Under the Skin (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Du Cheng/Shen Yi (Under the Skin 2022)
Characters: Du Cheng (Under the Skin 2022), Shen Yi (Under the Skin 2022)
Fangirlishness prompted: Shen Yi is overworked/stressed/gets in too deep and Du Cheng helps to get him out of his head.
A Transformative Evening (785 words) 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Bo Ya/Qing Ming (Yin Yang Shi)
Characters: Bo Ya (Yin Yang Shi), Qing Ming (Yin Yang Shi)
Additional Tags: Transformation, Pining, First Kiss, Animal Transformation
Shadaras prompted: Transformation.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Hei Wu/Qian Mian Ren | Ye Xiaoxiao
Characters: Hei Wu (Ancient Detective), Qian Mian Ren | Ye Xiaoxiao
Additional Tags: Wound Care, Fever, Delirium, Declarations Of Love
Amedia prompted: Ye Xiaoxiao/Hei Wu, a quiet, happy moment together.
All Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (972 words) HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Jack | Fang Liangdian/Zhao Li'an | Zhao-zi
Characters: Jack | Fang Liangdian, Zhao Li'an | Zhao-zi
Additional Tags: Restraints, Vanilla is a complex flavour, Inexperienced but game
Dishonestdreams prompted: "You never know, I might surprise you."
Badges of Honor (421 words) L'Oréal "Time Engraver" Commercials
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Time Engraver (L'Oréal "Time Engraver" Commercials)/original character
Characters: Time Engraver (L'Oreal "Time Engraver" Commercials)
Additional Tags: 12 Days of Christmas, The Dongzhi festival, First Time, immortal/mortal, Rebirth
Trobadora asked for: A winter holiday ficlet for the Time Engraver, Sorry, Dora. I wandered off a bit.
The Joke Was on Him (300 words) 双夭记 | The Silent Criminal (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Long Yao/Shi Jingyao
Characters: Long Yao (The Silent Criminal), Shi Jingyao
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Oblivious, Unintended Consequences
Dreamy_Dragon prompted: Unexpected change.
Getting Out of Their Heads (474 words) 猎罪图鉴 | Under the Skin (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Du Cheng/Shen Yi (Under the Skin 2022)
Characters: Du Cheng (Under the Skin 2022), Shen Yi (Under the Skin 2022)
Fangirlishness prompted: Shen Yi is overworked/stressed/gets in too deep and Du Cheng helps to get him out of his head.
A Transformative Evening (785 words) 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Bo Ya/Qing Ming (Yin Yang Shi)
Characters: Bo Ya (Yin Yang Shi), Qing Ming (Yin Yang Shi)
Additional Tags: Transformation, Pining, First Kiss, Animal Transformation
Shadaras prompted: Transformation.
Episode 1: Yona has the same VA as Homura from Magical Shoujo Madoka Magika and Rika from Kuroko no Basuke.
So this is a Korean ambience setting. Yona is a spoiled princess whose mother died when she was younger. Her cousin Soo-won comforted her and she fell for him, but her father the King doesn't want him to be King, plus the Queen was murdered and he doesn't want Yona to go through what he did. Hak is the third in the childhood friends trio and he and Yona have a bickering relationship.
On the night of Yona's 16th birthday, Yona goes to try and convince her father to let her be with Soo-won only to walk in on Soo-won murdering him. Hak is able to step in when Yona is about to be killed as well.
Episode 2: How can you say that the King was weak but somehow managed to stab his own brother to death?? Even if the older brother did something bad he would do the right thing and sentence him first at least. Maybe the older brother was involved in the Queen's death? He seemed so kind though.... But as we can see with Soo-won, that's not always what's going on underneath. I bet Soo-won didn't even try to learn why the King supposedly did it before killing him.
Poor Min-su. T_T
Episode 3: Mun-deok and Hak's dynamic is hilarious.
So the King asked Hak three years prior to be Yona's bodyguard but he said no at first because he hates the politics.attitude surrounding nobility.
Yona was only 12 and that guy was perving all over her. 😭And Hak had already developed feelings for Yona. I think he's like 15 here? Looks like the King would've been happy if they were together like Hak lied and said to get the perv off her back.
I definitely think Soo-won was genuine before his father died, though I wonder when he found out that the King killed him? Because that's when her probably really started scheming.
I'm enjoying this pretty well so far, I'm glad they're taking the time to show Yona's grief and I look forward to seeing how she develops from here.
So this is a Korean ambience setting. Yona is a spoiled princess whose mother died when she was younger. Her cousin Soo-won comforted her and she fell for him, but her father the King doesn't want him to be King, plus the Queen was murdered and he doesn't want Yona to go through what he did. Hak is the third in the childhood friends trio and he and Yona have a bickering relationship.
On the night of Yona's 16th birthday, Yona goes to try and convince her father to let her be with Soo-won only to walk in on Soo-won murdering him. Hak is able to step in when Yona is about to be killed as well.
Episode 2: How can you say that the King was weak but somehow managed to stab his own brother to death?? Even if the older brother did something bad he would do the right thing and sentence him first at least. Maybe the older brother was involved in the Queen's death? He seemed so kind though.... But as we can see with Soo-won, that's not always what's going on underneath. I bet Soo-won didn't even try to learn why the King supposedly did it before killing him.
Poor Min-su. T_T
Episode 3: Mun-deok and Hak's dynamic is hilarious.
So the King asked Hak three years prior to be Yona's bodyguard but he said no at first because he hates the politics.attitude surrounding nobility.
Yona was only 12 and that guy was perving all over her. 😭And Hak had already developed feelings for Yona. I think he's like 15 here? Looks like the King would've been happy if they were together like Hak lied and said to get the perv off her back.
I definitely think Soo-won was genuine before his father died, though I wonder when he found out that the King killed him? Because that's when her probably really started scheming.
I'm enjoying this pretty well so far, I'm glad they're taking the time to show Yona's grief and I look forward to seeing how she develops from here.
candyheartsex assignments have arrived, and I got what I hoped I'd get!In yesterday's poll, the majority of people work on one thing at a time when it's for a deadline, but on multiple things at once when it's not. Fascinating!
(Also, in tickyboxes, the majority said they'd tick whichever ones they like. More interestingly, 33,3% of respondents chose "tick them all", but only 11% actually did tick them all. *g*)
For me, I usually have multiple things going no matter what. When I'm in the very final phase of finishing a story, I need to focus on just that; otherwise, there may be a "main" thing I'm working on, but it's hardly ever the only thing. Creativity begets creativity, so the better the writing is going with one thing, the more ideas and snippets my brain produces for other things as well. *g*
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fandomtrees, but also, I had a brainwave and wrote some snippets plus a bunch of notes for an original fic WIP I hadn't touched since 2018. I think my writing brain is starting to function properly again if it's randomly throwing out things like that!WED Question of the Day
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15
My oldest WIP that I still hope to finish was started in ...
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before the year 2000
0 (0.0%)
2000-2004
2 (14.3%)
2005-2009
1 (7.1%)
2010-2014
5 (35.7%)
2015-2019
3 (21.4%)
2020-2023
2 (14.3%)
2024-2025
1 (7.1%)
2026
0 (0.0%)
I last worked on that WIP ...
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before the year 2000
0 (0.0%)
2000-2004
0 (0.0%)
2005-2009
1 (7.1%)
2010-2014
2 (14.3%)
2015-2019
2 (14.3%)
2020-2023
4 (28.6%)
2024-2025
5 (35.7%)
2026
0 (0.0%)
tickybox is ...
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If you've never heard of Carroll, he wrote odd, quirky, dark, magical realist/surrealist novels and short stories. Probably his most famous book was Land of Laughs. I found his style compulsively readable, though he was absolutely unable to write a satisfying ending to his novels, ever; generally there would be a fantastic buildup followed by either an anticlimax or the book just suddenly stopping or a conclusion where I'd have no idea what actually happened. Still, I did very much like his style and often enjoyed the first half or two-thirds or 99% of his novels quite a bit. (His short stories were sometimes fully successful and did have actual endings.)
I came across After Silence at a used bookshop, and was surprised as I'd never heard of it. I now realize there's a reason I've never heard of it. As far as I know, it's his only non-fantasy work. At least I think it's not fantasy. It has a solid build-up, then completely falls apart in the final third leading to a truly bizarre ending. Definitely my least favorite book of his.
It begins in a somewhat Carroll-typical fashion, with the main character, a cartoonist named Max, having a meet-cute with a woman, Lily, and her young son Lincoln in a museum. It's Carroll-typical because Max's somewhat successful cartoon is deeply weird, Lily takes him to the restaurant where she works which is charmingly weird, and there's hints that something odd is up with her and Lincoln that deepen as the three of them have quirky adventures and form a family.
( Huge spoilers )
To be fair to Carroll, this really isn't typical of his writing. Even his best novels feel a bit dated in addition to always imploding at the end, but I do still like Bones of the Moon, Land of Laughs, and the first half of Outside the Dog Museum. His short stories are worth reading and hold up better. I especially like "Friend's Best Man" and "The Sadness of Detail."
(bigfinish_news_feed Jan. 9th, 2026 12:00 am)
bigfinish_news_feed Jan. 9th, 2026 12:00 am)Revisit four classic Doctor Who audio dramas with The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard: Series One, a digital collected edition due for release on 22 January 2026.
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Trump administration unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE
Victim-blaming began almost as soon as Renee Nicole Good was killed – we examine the claims and the reality
Richard Luscombe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/white-house-minneapolis-ice-killing
Democrats threaten to withhold funding after ICE killing in Minneapolis
Lawmakers issue warning about homeland security budget after shooting death by federal agent of Renee Nicole Good
Lauren Gambino
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/democrats-homeland-security-renee-nicole-good ( Read more... )
Victim-blaming began almost as soon as Renee Nicole Good was killed – we examine the claims and the reality
Richard Luscombe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/white-house-minneapolis-ice-killing
Democrats threaten to withhold funding after ICE killing in Minneapolis
Lawmakers issue warning about homeland security budget after shooting death by federal agent of Renee Nicole Good
Lauren Gambino
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/democrats-homeland-security-renee-nicole-good ( Read more... )
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