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Casefic Exchange is an exchange where the gift must feature a case that is investigated and eventually solved.
The pinch hit is due on Friday 8 August at 11:59pm Eastern time.
Pinch hits must meet the minimum assignment requirements of a completed work of a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction, a minimum of 10 panels for a comic, or a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags. Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested.
The requested mediums and characters/relationships are as follows.
Mediums: Medium - Comic, Medium - Fanfic, Medium - Podfic
Relationships:

Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe/Xiao Jingyan (琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV))
Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe & Mu Nihuang & Xiao Jingyan (琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV))
Lie Zhanying/Xiao Jingyan (琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV))
Lin Chen/Xiao Jingyan (琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV))
Lie Zhanying & Xiao Jingyan (琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV))
Lie Zhanying/Lin Chen (琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV))

You can find more information about the pinch hit here.

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Jul. 26th, 2025 10:46 pm
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Wow, it's all been quite the blur.

Blair got here on Wednesday morning. I fetched her from the airport, we did a little shopping for things we would need, got some boba, and drove all the way down South. Past San Diego, even, to a little town literally within walking distance of the Mexican border. This was where our con hotel was. We unpacked, went swimming in the hotel pool, and had the best Mexican food either one of us has ever had for dinner.

Thursday was our one and only day of San Diego Comic Con. Business as usual! Our cosplays got a lot of attention. We puttered around in the exhibit hall, took lots of pictures, holed up in the game room for awhile playing some fun games. Met up with a friend at the sky bar for some drinks before leaving.

Yesterday, Friday, was long. We left our hotel and messed about in a nearby shopping center for a bit before taking off up the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway). Traffic was awful. It took all day to get like four hours worth of driving done. We did get to have dinner at this incredible little hidden spot right on the beach in Malibu, so being held back that way was worth it. What followed was a lot of night driving. We got to Lompoc, where our next hotel was, at almost midnight.

Today we left the hotel, skipped breakfast, and ended up having an early lunch at a tiny Thai spot where I, no joke, nearly choked to death on a glob of rice that would not go down nor come back up, and it was very scary. Fortunately everything ended up fine (obviously) and we were on our way to this place where you can see Elephant Seals basking on the beach. We watched them for awhile and then went for a walk, wading in the water a little and hunting for pretty shells and rocks. On the way to our next hotel, we popped into a winery called The Four Lanterns and bought a bottle of wine to drink when we get to our new home.

Now we're at our hotel for the night, have visited the laundromat, had dinner and just finished re-orienting all our stuff in bags and boxes.

I'll try to keep updates going but it's really a LOT of driving and not a lot of time spent on my phone. I do post some highlights each night on my Instagram, which is urbanfoxproblem if anyone is interested in following me on social media.

Hope everyone's doing great!
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It has not been a good week for sleep in the sense that I have managed about three to four hours out of every twenty-four and generally not when it's night out, but it has been an excellent week for ocean. After contemplating the question and decisively answering that she would rather be a dragon than a cat, my niece who was part of this afternoon's excursion with out-of-town family to Castle Island showed her fire by the sea.

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Jul. 27th, 2025 12:06 am
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I drank too much caffeine so I'm up past midnight adding lyrics to mp3s before loading them on my phone. Found a Depeche Mode fansite still online with a cool retro layout and is straight to the point, the lyrics and album info is all there.

Tentative belated schedule

Jul. 27th, 2025 05:02 pm
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Hello all! Sorry to be extra-dormant in between rounds. This year's schedule is slightly compressed but I hope you will still find it workable.

Tentative schedule:

Nominations 16-26 August
Sign-ups 28 August - 7 September
Assignments out by 13 September
Initial swaps/letter completion 21 September
Check-in 23-30 November
Deadline 24 January
Works revealed 28 February
Creators revealed 14 March.

I will post rules updates by 8 August and will probably put a promo post up earlier in the schedule this year, before nominations start.

I recommend you also check out Fic in a Box | [community profile] ficinabox, our sibling exchange for fic and many other fanwork media, where nominations pre-gaming has already begun!
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Really? You really don't see it at all?



(The comment is a few years old and gave a few more details in the thread that read to me like they were a teen or young adult when they wrote it, so to protect their identity I'm linking to a different lyrics video of the same song. But seriously, there's a level of stupidity that can't be entirely excused by youth.)

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Read more... )
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Title: Bad Moon Rising
Character: Peter Hale
TV Series: Teen Wolf
Music: Bad Moon Rising cover Mourning Ritual feat. Peter Dreimanis
Download: fanvid large (3:29 minutes, 384MB) and fanvid small (3:29 minutes, 42MB)
Also at: Tumblr



I see a bad moon rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

I see a bad moon rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a-blowin'
I know the end is comin' soon
I feel rivers overflowin'
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
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Who's that? #Purrcy being adorable? I was walking by and I had to ask ...
#cats #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby, lying on his back with his paws in the air, turns his head to look over his shoulder and behind him. He looks vaguely embarrassed.




Under the breakfast table, up against the sunny window, keeping an eye on the human while cleaning his paws -- it's a good life if you're a cat. And you get to rest your head on a metal window crank, which is apparently choice.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies on his side on a broad, sunny windowsill. He's licking his front paw with maximum tongue while side-eyeing the photographer.




We've now finished the online WSFS Business Meetings, it's just a question of how much Business Meeting stuff will get down in-person at Worldcon. But at least this time, unlike Glasgow, I can plan to spend most of my Worldcon time *at Worldcon*, which should be much more fun.

One of the things the Business Meeting did was vote for a Trial Committee to decide what to do about those accused of mis- and malfeasance around the 2023 Chengdu Hugo Awards, and ... I'm on it. So I guess I'm officially a BNF now 👀! That'll be an adventure, all right.

One of the things I'm looking forward to at Worldcon is that Martha Wells is the Guest of Honor, so there will be *lots* of Murderbot content, it'll be more or less the first Murderbot con. I'm not really *in* Murderbot fandom, yet, I read some of the fic but I don't really have time/brain cells for fannish immersion right now. But it's just so nice to have something that makes both halves of my fannish life, the SFF half & the fanfic/AO3 half, so *happy*. And when we all know Wells is a good person who's worked really hard for her success, and who's had to deal with a lot of crap in the last few years and now a ship full of money has come in for her.
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Show: SGA

Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairings: John/Rodney
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Author’s Website: [archiveofourown.org profile] candle_beck
Link: Fundamentals of Shipwreck Prevention

Why This Must Be Read: John acquires a head injury after falling down a well off-world and Rodney and the team have to get him home. Really good voices for the characters and I found the prose style unique and interesting.

First paragraph to get you started )

Twenty Interesting Drink Names

Jul. 26th, 2025 10:58 pm
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Twenty Interesting Drink Names for August 2025
as compiled by Hellebore.

Twenty Interesting Drink Names )

31 Ozzy Songs for August 2025

Jul. 26th, 2025 10:53 pm
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31 Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath song titles for August 2025!

31 Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath song titles for August 2025! )

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Jul. 26th, 2025 09:25 pm
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Today Austin and I had an ADVENTURE!

We've been planning something for a while, because it's literally the one weekend this summer where we're both around and in town and not busy with other life things or partners or what-have-you, but our plans hadn't really coalesced until this week. Initial plan: Let's take the train to Salem (or Ipswich, whichever would be nicer) and bike to Crane Beach!

And then this morning we checked the weather and the air quality was _abundantly_ shit and it didn't really feel like a "spend the entire day outside" sort of day. So we punted and replanned and decided to take the train to Lowell instead, and explore the museums there! And we even decided in time to go to bells.

At bells, we were explaining we needed to leave early so we could catch our train to Lowell, and someone very reasonably said "oh, so you can go to the folk festival?" Cue us being all "??" and indeed, the Lowell Folk Festival was this weekend. uh, sure! We can add that to our general plan of "take a train a place and then bike around the place or maybe walk some and go inside or hang outside and kinda play it all by ear."

It turned out to be a really great plan and a really great adventure! Here's some of what we did that I remember:

*Right off the bat, we went and got lunch from this random banh mi place that was highly rated on google maps, and by _god_ was it good. Every bite of that sandwich was _excellent_, the veggies were perfectly pickled, it was absolutely delicious. Do recommend!

*I had seen on the website that one of their art vendors was a company I'd backed on pintopia last year who I was _really_ happy with, and so we went and looked at all the art vendors first. When I told the girl I really loved her pins she was SO HAPPY to hear it, and also I got a sick new Medusa pin ("Silence those who fail to silence you").

*I also got an absolutely *gorgeous* weird oil painting from a strange little artist who was incredibly excitable and kept trying to negotiate her art cheaper entirely unprompted by me. It's a stag beetle with an eye in its back, and Veronica is nodding along immediately, because she's maybe one of the only people here who knew me well enough both in high school and now to see how that's the perfect piece of art for me. I'm so excited to add it to the wall of weird art!

*Later we wandered the streets and wound up spending like 10-15 minutes at the booth for the Kinetic Sculpture Race they have in September, and it sounds ENTIRELY DOPE! The dudes running the booth were all in on enthusiasm and goofiness and the human instinct to do very stupid things because we can. I am incredibly excited to go see this event (September 20th!) because it sounds fun as hell, and they said audience is welcome/encouraged to bike alongside the track to watch!

*We stopped in a weird little witchy shop that would've been one hundred percent at home in Salem (except that it was more spacious than the best Salem witchy shops, which tend to feel crammed in the best way possible). I did not buy a hundred crystals (despite them being quite reasonably priced). Austin did quite possibly buy me a chrimbo present that I've been wanting for _fucking ages_. We'll see when I get that!

*We made it to the very end of Solas's Irish set, which was delightful tunes. Later we were off to try and catch the bluegrass, and instead encountered Cecilia, a Quebequois band that absolutely slayed. Austin and I waltzed on the sidewalk and polkaed in the street and I couldn't really keep from dancing. (I did also get to polka with Laura a bit when we ran into her, which was grand!)

*There was also lots of other really good ambient music just everywhere as we wandered around, and that was really lovely! Street festivals with good music or different music or interesting music are a delight!

*We found a train car cum museum maintained by the Boston & Maine rail society, and Austin especially had a wonderful time poking around the inside and looking at everything they had. They had a telegraph playing on a loop, which was a reminder of how utterly impressive people who are _good_ at Morse are (I could get 2-3 letters and then absolutely couldn't differentiate fast enough to find the spaces). As we were leaving, and examining the rest of it, we heard a passerby say "that's how you can tell the real train nerds, they're the ones looking UNDER the train!" which was very charming.

*Also in absolutely primo stranger relations, while hanging near the booth of a bookshop, a man decided I was the correct person to ask "do you know which pride flag this is?" about one of the many pins on display, and I did! (It was the aromantic one, and yes, I am very proud of myself for looking sufficiently queer that I was judged "the right one to ask")

*I did the biking parts of our journey (about 11 miles, all told) on my Brompton folding bike that I got a year ago as part of cleaning out Grandpa Perks's things, and hadn't actually touched since receiving it. She rode very well, and it meant that when we parked our bikes in Lowell, we were able to join two other bikes at a rack that was clearly meant for Red Bikes Only. I even folded her to take her upstairs to Old North, which was nice to be able to do. She needs something to join her a little better when she is in folded mode (the clicky-together-bits don't quite work) but other than that, she's a beaut.

It was a real great adventure day and I am sleepy and sticky from sunscreen and sweat but very satisfied.

~Sor

MOOP!

Write Every Day: Day 26

Jul. 26th, 2025 06:03 pm
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Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15

My check-in: Some editing on the monstrous project of doom. What possessed us to write so much?? (Other than that we were having fun, that is…)

Day 26: [personal profile] glinda, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 25: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] callmesandyk, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] glinda, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] ysilme

more days )

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