Two things

Sep. 2nd, 2025 08:15 pm
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I'm not recovered from going out last week, but hopefully I will be soon, or at least before I have to go out again next week. Anyway, two fannish things:


1. People may remember a few Yuletides ago, I wrote We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It, aka the first Harold/William the Conqueror fic on the archive (how???)* because a) Irresistable Request and b) childhood obsession with all things 1066.

Anyway, the BBC have made a big epic about William and Harold! I have tried 10 minutes and so far it seems decent and though it did the standard opening with Grimness, just to show it was that kind of thing, it was all right & I liked everything else so far, so yay. As far as I know, the last time the BBC did a thing about William the Conqueror, it was the 60s and it had Julian Glover in so never in my lifetime, omg. Don't let us down...

(I was wary and slow to start it because ill and also the preview made it look a lot like The Last Kingdom, which was too much for me, although tbf to TLK, I hear it got more interesting as it went, but I was there for Matthew Macfadyen and then they killed him in the first episode and I was too ill for all the Vikings. Matthew Macfadyen led me to Spooks after being great in v different ways in a small role in Enigma and as Felix in The Way We Live Now, but he has worked hard to stop me ever since Tom Quinn walked into the sea, damn him.)

The BBC have apparently paid attention to historical detail like the size of the ponies but somehow missed the fact that the one thing we can all see in the Bayeaux Tapestry is that the Anglo-Saxons have epic moustaches and the Normans are clean-shaven by deciding to give all the Normans moustaches and have the Anglo-Saxons clean-shaven, but you can't have the French wandering around without a proper goatee to show they're French, sacre bleu etc.



Matilda and William just mentioned Emma of Normandy in a way that suggests she should be Significant, so I got v excited. I await her actual appearance with anticipation. \o/

(Someone has already dropped a fresh kudos on my fic, because there are still only 3 William/Harold works in the world. I look forward to it becoming a tiresome large-sized vessel soon, as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is playing William, so that should bring some people in, right?)



2. I just found that [personal profile] daibhidc wrote a really great Miss Marple ficlet based on my Miss Marple is a goddess fic (talking of Yuletide hits of yore), which brightened up the week no end:

Nemesis the Virgin (614 words) by DaibhidC
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple
Additional Tags: Historical, Anglo-Saxon, Miss Marple is a Goddess
Summary: An Anglo-Saxon priest has a strange encounter with a parishoner.

(We are TECHNICALLY on Ro3 for Goddess Jane Marple now, except one of those is a translation of my work so it doesn't really count. Hmm...)


I shall stop typing now because I am still not really up to it, but lo a post, a positive post. With 1066-ness and Miss Marple in it!


* and it was a Modern AU, what a terrible person I am. ;-p
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Avoda Zara was great! A lot of good stuff, a lot of really practical things.

There was some stuff in this masechta and this perek that I could have excerpted but didn't (I really probably should go back to the earlier perek that had the Jew and the goy sitting and drinking wine together and the goy being careful not to touch the wine because The Overwhelming Concern About Wine Libations When You Least Expect It but the Jew was like "no, it's cool, it's mevushal"), but just a general overall sense of living as a minority in an environment where you're working side by side, having work partnerships, living in the same buildings and in the same courtyards, etc, and the ensuing entanglements and how to navigate those in the real world. But also, wow. What on earth was going on with all those wine libations. Prevention of intermarriage, I understand, but no, even though that is an excuse, it's not the excuse for everything, a lot of the fear really does seem to be that ovdei avoda zara have an irresistible urge to do a wine libation every time they touch wine.

Next up: two weeks of What Happens When The Court Makes A Mistake, and then we're DONE WITH DAMAGES. :(

The rest of my Avoda Zara notes behind cut:

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I (finally!) got a chance to play John Company (2022 edition) with some friends last week :3

For those not familiar: Cole Wehrle is a very interesting board game designer who I've blathered about before; he tends to make board games with asymmetric gameplay and complex mechanics... but the complexity of the mechanics usually feel less in service to Making Stuff Hard and more in service of Providing A Nuanced And Detailed Experience. (The way Bird Guy described it was, "I feel less like I'm playing a board game and more like I'm engaging with some sort of... interactive art-piece-slash-simulation? in which I'm roleplaying something dictated by my position in the game?" And, yeah. That really is the best description of the Wehrle board game experience. This one included!)

ANYWAY. Jotting down some brief thoughts for posterity and/or anyone else curious about this game:

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piano update

Aug. 31st, 2025 02:21 pm
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on the one hand: last time i publicposted about piano here i got such fun & lovely comments

on the other hand: surely further navel-gazy blathering on that theme would only be boring though

on the other other hand: but i am writing that kind of thing down anyway, for like, My Own Purposes, so like, idk maybe someone else would be curious to see

on the other other other hand: this is all probably incredibly cringe to watch i'm so mediocre at piano for someone who took lessons for so long sigh

synthesis: okay, this post is public rn, but i reserve the write to access-lock it at any time out of shyness/self-consciousness haha. it will probably not be interesting unless you want to hear What I Learned About Piano Today-type stuff~

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anyway yeah. that sure was two thousand words about Picking Piano Back Up As An Adult, please and thank you

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Aug. 31st, 2025 08:26 pm
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I forgot I hadn't quite brought my [community profile] rainbowfic posting up to date, so here's the last one I wrote before summer:

Name: Singled Out
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #29 (Pleasure); Beet Red #29 (Wear it well)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 3726
Rating: PG
Warnings: Minor injury.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno, Kadia Barra, Seahra Jadinor, Kettah Jadinor.
Summary: Leion is being frivolous, Viyony has a question, and Kadia is behaving strangely yet again...

August slipped away

Aug. 30th, 2025 06:41 pm
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August is nearly over. It was not the fun and exciting month that I thought it would be. Instead, I got some rather crushing news about someone who was very important to me. I fear that I was not nearly as important to him. In fact, it was quite like the Taylor Swift song of the same name--except it never even got that far.

Choir started up again so I have that to look forward to. It's been really hot lately, but I did manage to go out for some yummy hand rolls. I think I've only tried them once before.

Meanwhile I'm really enjoying Sabrina Carpenter's new album! ♥ I've decided that the controversy over the album cover is just ridiculous. Then again, I grew up in and around fandom so it hardly seems kinky to me.

For September, I'd really like to focus on my writing again.

Circle Updates

Aug. 27th, 2025 05:56 pm
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Just evening up a bit of subscription/access issues. Drop a (screened) comment if I removed you by accident.

Fic: Revisions (A Fatal Inversion)

Aug. 27th, 2025 09:31 pm
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I was feeling a bit better yesterday and typed up this, which I've had in my notebook since spring, for A Fatal Inversion. It of course ended up less shippier than planned and maybe even darker than canon warrants, idk. But it was where my brain went when I rewatched it. (The first time around it's a sort of reverse murder mystery; the second it's an intense character study of the fallout in those involved.)

For [community profile] genprompt_bingo, [community profile] allbingo, [community profile] 100fandoms & [community profile] 100ships, because if I'm going to write super obscure fic that probably won't make sense if you don't know canon, I might as well make it count!


Revisions (1529 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Fatal Inversion (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rufus Fletcher/Adam Verne-Smith
Characters: Adam Verne-Smith, Rufus Fletcher (A Fatal Inversion)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Dark, references to murder, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Flashbacks, Community: 100fandoms, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: allbingo, Community: 100ships, Pre-Canon, Past Trauma
Summary: Adam and Rufus try to resume their friendship where they left off. It's not the best idea.


Tomorrow I go to have my eye test, so no doubt I'll be around a bit less again, although I'll try to post the last AU_gust bits still if I can - they add up to a bingo line for [community profile] allbingo and it would be a first if I actually got it completed within the month, lol. (We'll see).

Ficlet: Green For Danger (B7)

Aug. 26th, 2025 09:49 pm
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I managed to post one of the other AU-gust ficlets I did - this one for the prompt "Dragons" for B7. (Also for [community profile] 100_women prompt #68 fire & [community profile] allbingo Crime Classics square "Green For Danger.")

Green For Danger (751 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jenna Stannis, Roj Blake, Kerr Avon, Liberator (Blake's 7), Zen (Blake's 7)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Dragons, Ficlet, AU-gust | August Writing Challenge, Community: allbingo, Episode: s01e02 Space Fall, Community: 100_women, Liberator/Zen is a dragon, Alternate Universe - Fantasy
Summary: There's freedom or death waiting at the end of this tunnel...

Original Works Opportunity 2025

Aug. 25th, 2025 04:43 pm
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Apparently I forgot to link my letter in my signup.

Dear Writer, if you wander in, check out my general preferences!
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Dear Fic-In-A-Box Writer,

You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.

Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any of the available shapes and sizes in any mix and match of fandoms. I think last time I entered this exchange in 2023, I completed 3-4 gifts for my assignment of different types and lengths, so if you feel led to run amok in a way other than a 10k fanfic, you definitely have free range to do so if you wish! I know this letter is ridiculously long as it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for – I think my reading muse’s ADHD is hitting HARD y’all LOLSOB. But again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing since holy crap you signed up to write a LOT of words (or create a prize equivalent to a lot of words LOL) for me! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.

The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.

DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.  

For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.

Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, soul mark verses, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, X Reader fics esp in fandoms with few femme love interests and/or solo requested characters, and 5 and 1 style fics.

For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consummation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.

Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!

Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings. I know some of these are VERY different, but others I think could definitely lend themselves to some interesting combinations if that inspires you!

MEDIUM OPT-INS: Just FYI, I opted-in to the Medium Opt-Ins below for each of my fandom requests. I have no preference and will be thrilled to see any of them, but please note, I’m totally game for the standard fanfiction sign up offer, as well. Don’t feel like these are a requirement – consider them more of a bonus option:

Medium Opt-In: Writing - Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip's Works In This Fandom
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Remix - Fic Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Sequel To Previous Gift To Me By The Same Author
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Epistolary
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules – Cross Stitch Pattern
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Scientific Documents
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tapestry
Medium Opt-In: Art - Tarot Card
Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Stained Glass
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
Medium Opt-In: Art - Book Cover
Medium Opt-In: Art – Medieval Illumination-Style Art
Medium Opt-In: Art – Remix – Art Remix of my Fic
Medium Opt-In: Audio – Fanmix/FST (Fan Soundtrack)


Crossover Fandom:

Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)/Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice)
Jane Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)/Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
Charlotte Lucas (Pride & Prejudice)/Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice) & Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)

I really REALLY love crossovers for Jane Austen stories. Especially for the rare pairs and side characters above. Something about Colonel Brandon and Colonel Fitzwilliam just appeals to me on both fronts, and the quiet sisters of both canons, Jane, and Elinor, seem to me to have deserved better than the fates they were given by the text, as does the other “less” desirable miss, Charlotte Lucas. So, if the canon doesn’t supply a proper pairing – find another canon! Seriously, here I’m just all about mutual respect and “hearth like” loves instead of “raging fire” passions and competency kinks abounding! I don’t have a lot of specific prompts for these requests, but if you like the style, I would particularly love me an epistolary love story or even society/gossip pages about how the couples fall in love ala Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown for an added crossover detail LOL!

Richard B. Riddick (Chronicles of Riddick Series)/River Tam (Firefly)
Oof, this is legit a mashup of two of my fave SF fandoms. Pitch Black is a STUNNING movie fight me! And honestly I even like Chronicles and Riddick (though the latter almost felt a little too much like Pitch Black – I really would have liked to see Furya. Oh well). And Firefly (and Serenity) had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, though yes in retrospect, it had a fair number of Whedon-esque issues (oof the sex work slurs left and right). Still, both are some of my happy places, and putting them together, and in particular these two characters together? So much yes please! I don’t know how to articulate what it is that is so fantastic about these two, but man, it just WORKS for me. I do want River to be of adult age, just FYI, but beyond that, feel free to run wild! Does Riddick escape the Necros and end up getting a ride aboard Serenity? Does River somehow end up crash-landed with the others aboard the Hunter-Gratzner? Are we pre or post Big Damn Movie? Honestly, any of these will make me thrilled. Seriously! BTW, this one is my one exception to my DNW of no sexual blood play, but only when it comes to biting/marking. I still am not game for blades against skin or any kind of dubcon/non-con; I just appreciate Riddick being a bit possessive with his River!

聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime) 
Albert Hawke/Takanashi Sei
This sweet little monster-filled anime was recommended in a blog from Ilona Andrews randomly enough – one featuring “comfort” animes to watch given The Everything. And this really was SUCH a comfort of a story. There are of course given it’s an isekai monsters to fight and chauvinistic elements to the world building (the prince is an ASS and arranged marriages are very much a thing and not always a great one) which is sort of a fantasy Regency vibe – but still all told - my jam LOL. Sei was a delight of a main character, and I loved that it got close to that typical “every handsome man in the vicinity falls desperately in love with her” shojo trope but JUST sidestepped it enough that it’s “every handsome man in the vicinity absolutely ships her and her love interest, Captain Hawke and does their best to get him to just MAKE A MOVE ALREADY.” I will say the slow pace of the anime got a bit overdone at times (2 seasons and a marriage proposal and they NEVER KISSED ON SCREEN), so I would not be opposed to romantic letters getting spicy between them on the road to marriage! Also, I loved all of Sei’s research and experimentation in everything from cooking to healing to monster-slaying, so books or articles from her featuring her academic mind would be a delight, as well. Really I just want these two sweetly shy, ridiculously brave kiddos to get to be romantic with each other.

The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest 
Solo: Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden & Emma Borden
Lizzie Borden/Nance O’Neill

This is one of those fandoms that I’m honestly SHOCKED doesn’t have any fics for. It’s based on an infamous historical murder AND the Innsmouth story ala Lovecraft. Oh and THEN, it’s written completely in epistolary/found document style with letters, diary entries, snippets of the doctor’s findings, reports of an investigation… It’s so PERFECT for fandom y’all. Oh yeah, and it features women fighting monsters and chronic illness and a chronically ill woman masquerading as a male academic on paper and a self-taught scientist with an ax and a sapphic sunshine grump couple between Lizzie and her actress girlfriend, and and and. I just loved this concept so so much, and the first book did not disappoint! I would like any gift to be set around the Ravenscroft timeline as opposed to the second book Chapelwood as sadly the massive decades long time skip lost so much of the characters and location I loved so much from the first book! Prompt-wise, you honestly can go wild as long as it’s featuring these ladies, especially if you can manage some of the style of the book! Between their complicated relationships and the crazy circumstances, there really is SO MUCH potential!

Burn Notice
Victor Stecker-Epps
This show overall is such a blast, and I always enjoy the hell out of most of the ensemble cast, but my fave character – bonus played by one of my fave SG1 actors - only appeared on screen in 3 episodes before dying. WHAT. A. WASTE. There’s just so much that’s so damned tragic about Victor – in a single day he goes from what we can only assume is a skilled and successful spy with a loving family at the top of his game to losing that family in an explosion, being burned and blamed for it, and recruited by Karla, only to years later figure out Karla (and the entire organization) actually caused all of the destruction of his life. Is it any surprise it broke him? I mean really? Not to say he’s not a murderous bastard – ‘broken’ has definitely turned him into a murder happy Mad Hatter type of man who is unpredictable as hell in a delightfully attractive way (along with him being charming and ridiculously physically attractive). But there was clearly a good man in there for him to have been so dedicated to his job and family originally. He's like a shattered mirror of what Michael might have been had his own burn notice taken casualties with him. So, what do I want for this request? Just save Victor – keep him alive, of course, but also let Michael and the team start saving him little by little with the good they do despite some of the terrible ways they often get the good things accomplished. Throwing another wild card into the mix (as lord knows Fi already plays that role) could be SUCH fun. Oddly, I don’t actually ship Victor with anyone canon on the show or alternately, I’d have to ship him with EVERYONE indiscriminately, I think if that makes sense? So if you do want to write something shippy for him, I’d think I’d prefer either his canon wife or an OC lady – whether it's discovering his wife and child didn’t die after all but thought he died instead, or a client for Michael’s team keeps catching Victor’s attention though DAMN if he can figure out why, or he’s stuck playing babysitter to a client needing a close bodyguard until the job is finished and Victor’s pissed he’s missing all the fun (read violence) until things go very wrong and he gets to get very violent indeed. Hell, go full tropey with it and set them in the apocalypse or have Victor up and find a soul mark and that poor woman have NO IDEA what they’re in for when it comes to his entire luggage train worth of emotional baggage LOL. Just yeah, give me more of Victor among the living, please k thanks! 

Note for the next few requests: OK so if you have followed my fandomness at all, you know I tend to fixate on actors. Apparently that applies to voice actors as well… that or one particular English voice actor is just PAINFULLY typecast to play characters that are stupidly my type. BC yes, yes all three of the dude characters in the requests below are voiced by the same person. Whoops? Sorry not sorry? 

Akatsuki no Yona | Yona of the Dawn
Son Hak/Yona
Anyone who knew me when I started reading manga wayyyyyyyyyyy back when would recognize this one as SO my type. I had flashbacks to Fushigi Yuugi and Ceres Celestial Legend and SO MANY of the older Shojo Beat specials of my college days. I somehow missed the manga version of Yona appearing back then, but MAN am I thrilled I stumbled on the anime on Crunchie. And yes, yes Hak does, in fact, have my fave voice actor. Yes, I apparently have a shojo anime hero type rather similar to my shonen anime hero type. Whoops? Anyway, I do love this show and this pairing in particular, especially on the side of Hak and his absolute devotion to Yona, up to the point that he’d convinced himself he was perfectly happy to protect her AND her supposed future husband while never acting on his own feelings. I just, I can’t even with that type of dynamic, especially with the slight edge of “gah she annoys me so much wait where is she I cannot lose sight of her for an instant or my world collapses ok now I need to hold her and it definitely is still annoying I swear” vibe he’s got going on. Again I’ve only seen S1 of the anime, so I don’t know what’s to come, but anything on their journey in that season from canon AUs to missing scenes will make me super thrilled. 

Black Clover - Tabata Yuki (Anime & Manga)
Yami Sukehiro
I recently marathoned this anime with my husbeast and MAN I enjoyed the hell out of this character. Part of it admittedly was the English voice actor, who was a delight, but part of it was just Yami in all his ridiculous contradictions. Harsh with his team but also secretly a damn teddy bear with a heart for the underdog; crude as hell but as a Captain probably considered the next thing to nobility. Considered a foreigner, but so expert with the magic and culture that he can mentor Asta. Just, yeah, I was super sucked into this character and want all the fic with him! Prompts: 1) Yami and his pet beasts. I’m a sucker for a big gruff guy adopting baby animals (even if he was forced to defeat their mother), ESPECIALLY when they turn out to be big and fierce but super loving to their adopter. Just all the cuddly and/or battle moments with Yami and his pets. 2) Shippy! I am not into M/M lately but I would love to see Yami either with an OC lady or with Captain Charlotte Roselei. I don’t have specific prompts for this but feel free to run wild as long as Yami gets his love life on (and yes smut is DEFINITELY welcome LOL). 3) Isekai/Portal fantasy AU Yami! I have only seen the anime of this and was hugely intrigued by the fact that (at least prior to the current season being aired) they basically only mention Yami’s past as him washing up on the shore as a “foreigner,” wielding the only Japanese style sword in the show, and then being chosen by a grimoire with pretty damned rare magic. He just SCREAMS isekai hero to me, and I’d love a look at his story from that perspective. I’d also love to see this prompt and the shippy OC prompt combined – is another person transported to the Clover kingdom from our world? How does he recognize her as such? Is she someone he knew there? Again, just lots of fun potential! 4) Finally, I’m all about the gen found family/adopted BDE (Big Dad Energy… tho uh the other BDE version also applies LOL) vibe Yami gives off with his team. Anything domestic and family like would be great.

나 혼자만 레벨업 | Solo Leveling (Webcomic)
Solo: Baek Yoon-Ho (Solo Leveling) 
Finally, I think I can best sum up my feelings regarding this fandom and this side character when I say that every time I mention any of it to my friends, I inevitably start with either “so this asshole…” or “so I was watching for the plot when…” Yeah, of the 3 characters this voice actor portrays, this is the one that was probably the most bulletproof guaranteed to make me obsessed, and that’s even aside from the amount of fan service that proves the art director was THIRSTY for this character given how many more shirtless moments he has compared to literally ANY other character lol, which I respect them for. But seriously, y’all, Baek Yoon-Ho is that dedicated, heroic – he literally was a freaking firefighter BEFORE he became an S rank Hunter – painfully responsible, terribly loyal and protective to his people, heartthrob of a side character that part of me is already depressed because I KNOW the series will end up shifting attention away from him after S2 of the anime. And that just makes me sad damn it! So give me all the Yoon-Ho content please, whether is gen with him as Guildmaster leading and mentoring the other Hunters of the White Tiger Guild or doing a dungeon raid (since we actually don’t get to witness much of his freaking white tiger shifter transformation magic on screen as it were) or him awakening to his abilities and rank or being bros with Eun-Seok and Byung-Gyu to super shippy tropey delight with him having an OC soulmate or a X Reader fic even (if you don’t go for one of the canon characters I ship him with below which there of course are NO fics for him for either badass lady yet lolsob). I just want to see this man get good things and be a competent badass. That’s it. BTW, I do headcanon him and Choi being exes of the not-remotely-friends with benefits type and thus Yoon-Ho being bisexual, but while that can be backstory, I do prefer Choi not to be a focus in my gift please. 

Baek Yoon-Ho/Cha Hae-In
Hello mutual competency kink! Not me yet again taking a blink and you miss it moment and starting to build a ship around it. Especially not yet another tol and smol ship (not that Hae-In is necessarily small – Yoon-Ho is just stupidly large in the best of ways). But honestly, I really have been sucked in by That Chest Glance moment during the sparring episode when (again bless that thirsty art director) Yoon-Ho steps up beside Hae-In and all of her eye level is Yoon-Ho’s pecs and then crossed arms. I know they were talking about Jin-Woo but SERIOUSLY who wouldn’t be distracted from the subject at eyeline? And then, if that moment wasn’t fanserviced enough, Yoon-Ho freaking WINKS AT HER. Your honors, I rest my shipping case. OTPs have definitely been based on far less evidence. And again, that’s even without considering how clearly he respects her as an S rank Hunter in their battle on Jeju Island. So yeah, slightly older man/younger woman, competency kink, tol and smol, it’s just so so many of my fave tropes and I wants it precious. Do with that what you will LOL. 

Baek Yoon-Ho/Park Hee-Jin
My mental vibe for these two definitely has some of the similarities to the above ship as far as tropes, but with a side of boss/subordinate, Guildmaster/Guild member that I really think I could enjoy, especially with how respectful Yoon-Ho appears to be of his people from the little bit we get in the show. Hee-Jin would see a very different side of him in his Guild than even Hae-In might as a fellow S rank, and I think that push and pull between Yoon-Ho and Hee-Jin’s levels both power wise, profession, and age wise could be really interesting. Hee-Jin definitely seems to have her head on straight in the couple episodes we see, and I’d love to see her featured more and get with the handsome love interest. This one also could have all the logistical details I often love from the inner workings of the guild to how her training might have gone to even whether or not they somehow had crossed paths before she awakened. Is that part of why she joined the White Tigers in the first place? In canon, all the S ranks are celebrities, is there a chance for her being starstruck and having to change her expectations of him? Is she one of those folks who hates the tabloids and anyone they focus on just one principle and thus has to see him as a real person in that respect instead? Just give me these two lovelies being lovely together please k thanks. 

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Aug. 25th, 2025 03:44 pm
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Beinoni by Mari Lowe (2025)

Aug. 24th, 2025 09:45 pm
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Summary: Ezra Safran, age 12, is supposed to fight the manifestation of evil in the world when he turns 13. Unfortunately, evil is manifesting in the world and it's not even his bar mitzvah yet. And is fighting the manifestation of evil and vanquishing it really the right thing to do? A mid-grade book.

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Aug. 23rd, 2025 08:05 pm
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I've not been posting or even keeping up with people so much because I've largely been wiped out for one reason or another or prioritising something else with the reduced summer PC time - sorry. This will continue for a little while yet, until it is eventually replaced by my usual slightly less flakeyness.


* The other week I managed some flash fic/scribblets for AU_gust (AU August) on tumblr. I've only managed to tidy up and post one of them since, & there are 2 others to follow once I tweak them a bit, as well as 1 more that I don't know if is worth proper posting & a drabble I still need to type up. But this used up my posting energy for now, so they can wait.

Anyway, in a shocking attempt at pandering to what might pass as popular demand among my works, I committed another Miss Marple + supernatural fic(let):

Tea on Sunday (572 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Griselda Clement
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Alternate Universe, Witchcraft, AU-gust | August Writing Challenge, Community: allbingo, Community: 100_women, Community: 100fandoms, Miss Marple is a witch
Summary: Miss Marple's secret is out.


* In other writing, before summer got underway, I typed up the bulk of the longest continuous sequence I'm doing for the current arc at [community profile] rainbowfic, and then ever since have been scraping away at finishing it and editing it, and I am nearly there, although I suspect it'll still take another week or two before I have the first section ready to post. (I knew this would happen, so I also started two shorter pieces, but one of them, which is more or less done, has just been even harder to edit because tiredness etc. and the other one is still stuck at only two paragraphs, so that plan went well. Summer brain is not up to much. That was why I had to silly no-pressure AU ficlets my way back to life and even then summer rudely and immediately interrupted all over again). But there has been writing of sorts even so.

(The long sequence was one of the very first bits of this arc that I drew up, which is very funny because I essentially set up a sort of grand house murder mystery affair except that then everything changed so much that now my main characters aren't bothering taking part in the murder bit so am not sure if it will read ok (hopefully when edited) or if I committed Worst Murder Mystery ever as a result. I think probably I will also write a note on the header when we get there saying that One Day I Will Come Back, yes, one day I will come back, until then all 2 or 3 of you should go forward in all your beliefs about how people shouldn't wave a murder mystery at you and then literally run away from it, and I will eventually demonstrate that what is going on is in fact an Apocalyptic Overarching Plot, so there. And edit, of course.)


* I am currently listening to: a 1989 BBC Radio adaptation of Wilkie Collins's No Name I was delighted to find, starring Sophie Thompson as Magdalen, Jack May (as Captain Wragge), Eleanor Bron (as Mrs Lecount) & Robin Ellis (as Captain Kirke). I'm going slowly, but have just started part 3. It's very good and they're making excellent use of the epistolary bits, which is where radio has an advantage over TV. Mrs Lecount and her sinister toad have just turned up and Eleanor Bron is obviously a v good choice.


* I have watched some things, which, aside from what I've already mentioned, and a ridiculous amount of TV detectives, includes these:

The Tribe (1998), The Halfway House (1944), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Admirable Crichton (1957), Creation (2009), Cause Celebre (1988) & Eye in the Sky (2015), all of which were either v good or worth talking about anyway. (Creation and Eye in the Sky have brought me very nearly to the end of my Jeremy Northam's viable CV, so I'm a little bit in mourning now; I suppose a new blorbo will come along in time. Talking of which, I found that the iPlayer had the BBC 1970s All Creatures on it, so finally got around to seeing Suzanne Neve's episode of it, which would be the one thing I would certainly have watched with her when I was a child to see if I had shadowy feelings and indeed, as soon as she appeared, before even I saw her, the set was suddenly Significant in the back of my head, so yeah. I think I can prove childhood imprinting on all my top faves and that's what the thing is about, and why even when I'm so ill they reach me in ways that other people, no matter how much I enjoy them in things, don't unfortunately.)

(Hopefully I will get to talk about some of them properly, but I am happy to attempt such talk in comments if wanted, although sense is not guaranteed, and it is true that at least one or two I watched in a fugue state that all I can say is, well, it was good and I watched it very slowly in bits and there we are, but, yes it was good /o\)


* Also random funny thing. My old housemate N lent me a DVD (!!) of The Residence (was not joking about the sheer amount of detectives watched this summer), which I enjoyed so much I recced it to my Dad. A couple of weeks later we had this conversation:

Dad: I've been watching that medical drama you recommended, but it's not that great, really, so I've stopped.

Me: ... Medical drama??

(It turned out he'd found The Resident on one of the back Freeview channels, so I emailed him a trailer of the 2025 Netflix detective show that I magically got lent on DVD as if it was 2015 or something. He found a pirate source and then lost it again, but he definitely liked what he watched so far a lot better than the Resident).
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