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Azul #10 [Starfall]
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rainbowficName: Fleeting Visit
Story: Starfall
Colors: Azul #10 (Guardian)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 636
Rating: G
Warnings:
Notes: 1313, Portcallan. Leion Valerno, Ivina Gerro, Viyony Eseray. Takes place the day after Loose Ends.
Summary: Leion gets the message he's been waiting for.
( Fleeting Visit )
Story: Starfall
Colors: Azul #10 (Guardian)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 636
Rating: G
Warnings:
Notes: 1313, Portcallan. Leion Valerno, Ivina Gerro, Viyony Eseray. Takes place the day after Loose Ends.
Summary: Leion gets the message he's been waiting for.
( Fleeting Visit )
(no subject)
Jan. 28th, 2026 02:37 pmaurumcalendulaI'm kinda tempted to make a Wikipedia account so I can update Mary Lambert's discography - her page is missing the singles Tempest from last year and Minneapolis from last week.
imho they're both really good songs.
imho they're both really good songs.
WIP Wednesday
Jan. 28th, 2026 06:01 pmbedes posting in dunmeshiIt's WIP Wednesday! If you have any Dungeon Meshi fanworks being made, share a bit of your progress in the comments here! Whether it's a fanart sketch, a fanfic snippet you're particularly proud of, or a graphic you haven't quite nailed the colors of yet, we'd love to see it.
For the sake of not making the comments section multiple miles long, please put your WIP under a cut, and provide a description of what is underneath said cut! (Ships, characters, what type of fanwork, trigger warnings if applicable...) We all have preferences for subjects we'd like to see, and things we'd like to avoid.
Don't be afraid to ask for help, as well! If something isn't quite right about your piece, but you can't quite put your finger on what, getting fresh eyes on it can help narrow the problem down in record time! Just be sure to specify you are looking for help, and what area you need help with. (Example: "I need help with this Falin fanart. Could someone help me make the colors more cohesive?") You can also ask for resources, and anything else you may need help with!
And remember, once your WIP is no longer a WIP, to consider posting it here for the whole community to enjoy!
For the sake of not making the comments section multiple miles long, please put your WIP under a cut, and provide a description of what is underneath said cut! (Ships, characters, what type of fanwork, trigger warnings if applicable...) We all have preferences for subjects we'd like to see, and things we'd like to avoid.
Don't be afraid to ask for help, as well! If something isn't quite right about your piece, but you can't quite put your finger on what, getting fresh eyes on it can help narrow the problem down in record time! Just be sure to specify you are looking for help, and what area you need help with. (Example: "I need help with this Falin fanart. Could someone help me make the colors more cohesive?") You can also ask for resources, and anything else you may need help with!
And remember, once your WIP is no longer a WIP, to consider posting it here for the whole community to enjoy!
Ember and Ice???
Jan. 28th, 2026 10:24 amseleneheartWho was going to tell me that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie have an audio play about two feuding fae princes?
Honestly, "Fae Prince" is exactly the energy the two of them give off, separately or together.
Blurb:
Honestly, "Fae Prince" is exactly the energy the two of them give off, separately or together.
Blurb:
Ember & Ice follows two fae princes, Dane and Finn, from rival kingdoms, Solari and Lunare. It becomes clear that the two are more than just adversaries, though, as listeners become “an intimate observer to every moment of tension, longing, and intimacy between Dane and Finn.”
Set in a richly imagined fantasy world shaped by history, duty, and forbidden desire, Ember & Ice follows Dane and Finn, two fae princes from the rival Solari and Lunare kingdoms. At its core, Ember & Ice is a story about choosing love in defiance of expectation.”
fic: of wild honey
Jan. 28th, 2026 09:56 amlirazelBecause I never brought it over here! Here's the Yuletide fic I wrote!!!
Can you believe it took me 39 years of life to write The Blue Castle fic? I'm very proud of this--it's a love letter to the book and the characters, and I'm so glad that Yuletide gave me the nudge to write it. Yuletide!!!!
of wild honey (7940 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling, Cecilia "Cissy" Gay, Abel Gay
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Yuletide 2025, 5 Things
Summary:
Can you believe it took me 39 years of life to write The Blue Castle fic? I'm very proud of this--it's a love letter to the book and the characters, and I'm so glad that Yuletide gave me the nudge to write it. Yuletide!!!!
of wild honey (7940 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling, Cecilia "Cissy" Gay, Abel Gay
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Yuletide 2025, 5 Things
Summary:
Abel held up his hands, helpless. “She’s sitting in my house holding Cissy’s hand this very minute! She gave me her valise before I left the house, and I thought sure she’d send an errand boy to fetch it back tomorrow. But no, not an hour ago she walked right up to my door, determined as you please, and I do believe she intends to stay despite how the whole damned ruck of Stirlings must be throwing a tantrum as we speak. The spunk of the girl! The ways of Providence are strange.”
Life was full of surprises, but in Barney’s experience, people generally weren’t. Oh, people had surprised him before, in his callow youth, but that was because he hadn’t understood who they really were. Once you got down to someone’s true character, you could see that they’d been who they were all along. People mostly kept doing just what they’d been doing their whole lives, what they’d been brought up to do. Of course he’d met a handful of those who bucked tradition and struck out on their own, but he hadn’t expected to find one in Deerwood.
“Is it Providence?” he asked. “That seems as clear a demonstration of free will as anything I’ve ever heard.”
Five times Valancy Stirling surprises Barney Snaith.
mirepoix
Jan. 28th, 2026 07:32 amprettygoodwordmirepoix (mir-PWAH) - n., a mixture of diced vegetables, such as carrots, celery, and onions, plus herbs, and sometimes ham or bacon cooked at low heat in oil or butter.
Mirepoix is the flavor base for many dishes in French cooking (much as sauteed or stir-fried onions are in mine). It is named after Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis-Lomagne, duc de Mirepoix (1699–1757), whose name is often shortened to Gaston de Lévis, duc de Mirepoix, an ambassador of Louis XV, but exactly what his connection is, dictionaries don't mention, and I'm too tired this morning to dig further.
---L.
Mirepoix is the flavor base for many dishes in French cooking (much as sauteed or stir-fried onions are in mine). It is named after Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis-Lomagne, duc de Mirepoix (1699–1757), whose name is often shortened to Gaston de Lévis, duc de Mirepoix, an ambassador of Louis XV, but exactly what his connection is, dictionaries don't mention, and I'm too tired this morning to dig further.
---L.
Just One Thing (28 January 2026)
Jan. 28th, 2026 08:34 amnanila posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Terminology [curr ev]
Jan. 28th, 2026 03:33 amsidereaOverheard on Reddit, u/Itsyademonboi:
Sorry, Nazis are from Germany under Adolf Hitler, what we have here is Sparkling Fascists.
Reading and laughing
Jan. 28th, 2026 08:27 amvriddyI went to bed at a reasonable time yesterday evening and started a new book with delighted anticipation. "Reading time! I'll get to fall asleep peacefully with my brain tummy full of stories <3" I thought. The way my tbr pile works is that I add recs to my library queue and most of the time by the time the book gets to me 1) I've completely forgotten what it was about and 2) there's a good chance I'll enjoy it because I did add it based on a rec that intrigued me to start with.
To set the scene further: in winter, the cat often climbs onto my stomach while I read because the blankets are thicker and fluffier.
ALAS! The book I started was Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie!!! I'm only about 70 pages in AND I LAUGHED SO HARD!! SO HARD!!!! Poor cat quickly abandoned me since it must have felt like a rodeo machine thing up there, but I was nearly crying and my non-existent abs were aching by the time I stopped reading.
Not the most restful way to fall asleep, I'll be honest. But oh my god. As much as I sometimes wince with some of her specific choices, Skye's internal voice is just. Just. Incredible. I'm not finished yet so no spoilers please :D But I'm fairly sure I picked up the rec from someone here so thank you to whoever mentioned it on their journal :D Wow. Like I laugh and cry and gasp often when reading, but I can't remember the last time I was non-stop guffawing like this from a book.
Edit: Finished the book and I stand by my rec! (The cat had to endure another round of stomach rodeo but I'm sure given time she will find it in her generous (?) heart to forgive me.) The book jacket says the story is about the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community. Definitely! It felt like a love letter to Philadelphia as well (I've never been). Impeccable narrator voice. Black queer woman protag. Many excellent relationships between women. And did I mention how much I laughed? I did. Though it doesn't mean the story isn't poignant or painful, sometimes even while laughing.
To set the scene further: in winter, the cat often climbs onto my stomach while I read because the blankets are thicker and fluffier.
ALAS! The book I started was Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie!!! I'm only about 70 pages in AND I LAUGHED SO HARD!! SO HARD!!!! Poor cat quickly abandoned me since it must have felt like a rodeo machine thing up there, but I was nearly crying and my non-existent abs were aching by the time I stopped reading.
Not the most restful way to fall asleep, I'll be honest. But oh my god. As much as I sometimes wince with some of her specific choices, Skye's internal voice is just. Just. Incredible. I'm not finished yet so no spoilers please :D But I'm fairly sure I picked up the rec from someone here so thank you to whoever mentioned it on their journal :D Wow. Like I laugh and cry and gasp often when reading, but I can't remember the last time I was non-stop guffawing like this from a book.
Edit: Finished the book and I stand by my rec! (The cat had to endure another round of stomach rodeo but I'm sure given time she will find it in her generous (?) heart to forgive me.) The book jacket says the story is about the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community. Definitely! It felt like a love letter to Philadelphia as well (I've never been). Impeccable narrator voice. Black queer woman protag. Many excellent relationships between women. And did I mention how much I laughed? I did. Though it doesn't mean the story isn't poignant or painful, sometimes even while laughing.
January Talking Meme - What are your vidding ambitions for 2026?
Jan. 27th, 2026 08:12 pmaurumcalendulaJanuary 27 - 'What are your vidding ambitions for 2026?' for serrico:
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Humble Bundle craft books
Jan. 28th, 2026 06:06 ammerrileemakes posting in everykindofcraftI just snagged the Humble Bundle quilting and embroidery bundle, 17 books on quilting (mostly with precuts), crazy quilting, sashiko and embroidery. I bought it because I wanted Purr-fect Patchwork, which is worth more than the whole bundle itself, but I'm excited to check out most of the titles.
The bundle is about $US20 (I see it in my own currency) and is available for the next 17 days.
Humble have also just released a knitting bundle, $US20 for 17 knitting books available for the next 10 days.
The bundle is about $US20 (I see it in my own currency) and is available for the next 17 days.
Humble have also just released a knitting bundle, $US20 for 17 knitting books available for the next 10 days.
TV Tuesday: Viewing Resources
Jan. 27th, 2026 10:32 amyourlibrarian posting in tv_talk
Do you miss printed show episode guides that summed up plots and provided episode facts or are wikis and other online sources equal or better options? What makes you try out new shows? Take the poll ✅
If you have specific resources to recommend or want to detail what you use, please share in a comment!
Poll #34122 TV Resources
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27
What resources do you use for TV show selection or scheduling?
View Answers
Printed guides
2 (7.4%)
Website lists
16 (59.3%)
Your own notes
11 (40.7%)
Social media
14 (51.9%)
Fandom rec lists
10 (37.0%)
Something else
7 (25.9%)
What factors are involved when you choose a new show to watch?
View Answers
Cast
17 (63.0%)
Overall theme
20 (74.1%)
Genre
20 (74.1%)
Recommendation from someone you know
13 (48.1%)
Reviews
6 (22.2%)
Recommendation from other viewers
8 (29.6%)
Streaming service "for you" lists
7 (25.9%)
Personal mood
18 (66.7%)
Rating Sites (i.e., Rotten Tomatoes)
4 (14.8%)
Wanting a mix of different types of shows
4 (14.8%)
Showrunners/writers
6 (22.2%)
Ties to other shows (spinoffs, reboots, sister shows)
17 (63.0%)
Fandom for the show/fan-created guides
11 (40.7%)
Something else
1 (3.7%)
Are there resources you use while you're viewing an episode?
View Answers
No
3 (11.1%)
Yes, info on the cast/looking up a familiar face
23 (85.2%)
Yes, info on the plot/refresher of a season
3 (11.1%)
Yes, info on particular episodes
8 (29.6%)
Yes, fan reactions to the episode/particular developments
2 (7.4%)
Yes, info about showrunners/writers
3 (11.1%)
Yes, looking for spoilers
4 (14.8%)
Yes, something else
1 (3.7%)
Fandom Snowflake Challenge #14
Jan. 27th, 2026 10:02 amreeby10 posting in snowflake_challengeIntroduction Post *
Meet the Mods Post *
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Challenge #4 * Challenge #5 * Challenge #6 * Challenge #7 * Challenge #8 * Challenge #9 * Challenge #10 * Challenge #11 * Challenge #12
Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.
( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #14 )
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on. You might just find your newest obsession!
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.
( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #14 )
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on. You might just find your newest obsession!
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
chiffonade
Jan. 27th, 2026 07:44 amprettygoodwordchiffonade (shif-uh-NAYD, shif-uh-NAHD) - n., leafy vegetables or herbs cut into fine, curly strips.
Generally used as a garnish, but also sometimes as the bed for a dish. Created by rolling leaves then slicing perpendicular to the roll, thus the curl. From French, from either chiffonner, to crumple, from chiffon, scrap/rag, or directly from chiffon, which in turn is from Middle French chiffe, from Old French chipe, rag, from Middle English chippe, chip/shard/fragment, from Old English ċipp, chip/splinter/shaving, from Germanic roots, ultimately from PIE *ǵeyb-, to split/sprout. Making this one of those rare cases where a word went from Middle English to Old French instead of the other way around.
---L.
Generally used as a garnish, but also sometimes as the bed for a dish. Created by rolling leaves then slicing perpendicular to the roll, thus the curl. From French, from either chiffonner, to crumple, from chiffon, scrap/rag, or directly from chiffon, which in turn is from Middle French chiffe, from Old French chipe, rag, from Middle English chippe, chip/shard/fragment, from Old English ċipp, chip/splinter/shaving, from Germanic roots, ultimately from PIE *ǵeyb-, to split/sprout. Making this one of those rare cases where a word went from Middle English to Old French instead of the other way around.
---L.
Just one thing: 27 January 2026
Jan. 26th, 2026 09:34 pmjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Multi fandom icons
Jan. 27th, 2026 02:17 pmmulhollands posting in fandom_icons
Movies: A Home at The End of The World, My Policeman, Wake Up Dead Man:A Knives Out Mystery, All of Us Strangers, Sense and Sensibility, The Avengers, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness
TV:Schitts Creek, Kath and Kim, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Andor, Supernatural, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Anime/Disney: Tuexdo Mask (Sailor Moon), The Little Mermaid, Alice In Wonderland, Turning Red
Music:Tori Amos
Sports: Josh Allen (Buffalo Bills)
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