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the friday five

Late Friday Five

Usually, if I miss the questions on Friday, I just don't bother with it or I completely forget. I saw the questions last night and just noped out for the moment because I was too tired and not able to get my brain to wake up, but why not now? I have things to say!

1. How long ago did you join LJ (or DW)?

I don't know for sure for LJ since I have long since deleted it, but I know it was around 2005 or 2006. I definitely remember having it by 2006 because I distinctly remember participating in FMA and other anime-related communities. I had known about LJ for quite a while before I joined it, though. I am pretty sure that I also had a private journal on one of the more obscure LJ clones... Ujournal, I think? Does anyone remember that?

For DW, I joined in 2013 when I was starting college and just trying to get back into fandom and stop lurking around so much. It helped get me into Welcome to Night Vale back in the day.

2. How did you find out about LJ (or DW)?

For LJ, Various anime websites that linked to it. I am thinking of LELOLA, in particular. For DW, I just followed everyone else here.

3. If someone introduced you to LJ (or DW), is s/he still on your friends list?

I learned about it because of

lelola, but we were never mutuals.

4. Have you introduced anyone to LJ (or DW)?

No, it's my own little oasis away from people I know in the real world. I haven't led any fannish people here that I know of.

5. Is your LJ (or DW) public or friends only, and why?

Public because I try to keep my personal details vague and don't think anyone I know in real life could find their way here. I have thought about changing my stance for some entries just to be safe, though.

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Yuletide Letter

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi there! I am so happy that we matched for this Yuletide. I am

AngelsAtTheRitz. This is my very first time participating, and I am excited to see what you come up with for me. As you can see from my requested fandoms, my taste is somewhat eclectic, and that goes for fic as well. Odds are that whatever you choose to write will work for me because I want to see your own creativity and unique take on things shine. Please be mindful of my DNWs and try to write something that is generally in line with the spirit of the work that inspired it unless otherwise noted. Other than that, I aim to be flexible and am eager to see what you create for me.

General DNWs: scat, watersports, character bashing, non-con (dub con is fine), humiliation, infidelity, non-canonical character death, modern Aus for historical canons

General Likes: Humor, romance, witty banter, canon divergent Aus, character studies, missing scenes, hurt/comfort, soulmates, reincarnation, angst, mutual pining, post canon, first times, fluff, fake dating, epistolary, holiday and winter themes, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, established relationships, time travel, world-building, magic/supernatural elements

For more specific details about each individual fandom, please see below. Treats are very much welcomed and appreciated. :)

Weekend Update (SNL)
Any

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The Little Mermaid (2023)
Ariel, Eric

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The Life of a Showgirl – Taylor Swift

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Akhnaten

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🎄🎁 Yuletide 2025 🎁🎄

10/18/2025: Letter is a WIP.

Dear Yulegoat,

Welcome! I'm

giallos and I can also be found at

giallos. I'm very excited we matched up for this challenge! I'm sure I'll be thrilled with whatever you decide to write, and I hope something here pings your interest! Gifts are enabled if anyone wishes to leave extra treats.

I like gen, het, slash, femslash, poly-ships (poly-v too), etc. You're welcome to interpret my character noms as any, rather than all, though you're free to include all characters in a fic if you want! I'm also okay with not including all of the nominated characters. Also, if you want to include unnominated characters, I'm okay with that too! I selected "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form" but I can be flexible.

I have used parts of previous letters to compose the body of this letter. If anything is confusing, or you have any questions or need clarification, you can reach me through the mods or you can anonymously message me via tumblr!

( Table of Contents )

( What I Love/DNWs/etc. )

The following prompts are meant as suggestions. I'll be perfectly happy with any combination of Stuff I Like, if none of the ideas I've offered grab your attention. I also probably won't have prompts/ideas for every iteration of the characters I've nominated, but if you would prefer to focus on an individual character rather than a friendship or romantic pairing that's fine too!

Holiday themed fics are totally awesome (and some of my prompts may involve holiday themes) but you don't have to write one centered around the holidays if you don't want to! If you do, I celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah.

( Cincinnati Reds RPF )

( Creep (Movies 2014 2017) )

( The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix )

( Found (TV 2023) )

( Monstress (Comics) )

( Those About to Die (TV) )

( Mini Challenges )

Once again, I'd like to emphasize that these prompts/ideas are only suggestions! Please don't feel constrained by them! Mix and match my favs/likes/prompts/etc. as you please, or come up with something completely on your own. Optional details are optional!

If you have any questions don't be afraid to contact the mods! Thank you and happy writing!

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Dear Yuletide 2025

Dear Yuletide Writer,

I have written Lots of Words this year. Feel free to ignore these ideas and use your own — I love seeing how other people think about my favorite fandoms, and I love seeing interpretations that are different from mine (some of my favorite fics are the ones that made me look at things in a new way). Also, please don't read anything into the amount of stuff I have written for each fandom, which has more to do with how much free time I had when I wrote the various sections than anything else; I would be extremely pleased to receive anything for any of these, otherwise I would not have requested them. :D

I am happy to receive treats!

( General (things I love, DNWs) )

( Sieben Jahre - Tanja Kinkel (Any) )

( Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh (Lin, Avi) )

( Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - Tiptree )

( The Secret Garden - Simon/Norman (Worldbuilding, Neville) )

( Dune - Frank Herbert (Irulan, Chani, Jessica, Margot - any two) )

( The Tillerman Cycle - Cynthia Voigt (any) )

( Where to find canon: )

I cannot possibly be sitting down harder than I have been sitting down for several hours already

I figured out how to hack simchas torah and the needing to eat lunch at a reasonable time problem: pack a lunch and eat it during, after, and on the way home.

Anyway anyone want anything? Drabble, dvd commentary, meta, etc?

These posts don't expire.

I also just typed "these posts don't exist", so good night, night vale, good night.

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2025 Yuletide Letter

( All Souls (TV), Vampire Gastelbrau (2011), 看見愛 | See Your Love (TV),雪迷宫 | The First Shot (TV) )

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i read things

Three picture books and a Sanderson

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (2023): DNF. Not unenjoyable but also not gripping. His prose here was more engaging than the last Sanderson I tried to read, which actually isn't saying much. Also it was short enough that it didn't physically hurt to try to read it, which is another point in its favor. It had a strange tone, not quite funny, not quite satirical. Despite having nothing in common with Princess Bride The Book, it strangely felt like it was trying to be Princess Bride The Book.

Then after DNFing, I flipped to the end to see that, yes, it was trying to riff on the tone of Princess Bride The Book, so I guess it did it well enough that I could be like "...is this trying to be Princess Bride without understanding what makes Princess Bride funny/satirical?" But hey, the intention came through.

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket (2007): Excellent, hilarious book about a latke that jumps out of the pan while being fried and deals with the fact that that family are the only Jews in the picturesque village full of people celebrating Christmas. Then the latke is eaten. A++, no notes.

I Am Anne Frank by Brad Meltzer (2020): internets, I read this book for content for a 4 year old. I don't even believe in doing that, but here I am. The 4 year old is a big fan of this series, and Somehow, both me and his parents, when getting books from this series out of the library for him, and seeing all the books that there are in the catalog, have not gotten him this one. Then one day he went to the library and picked it out himself. And a lot of the time, he treats getting out books as the joy is just getting them out, not reading them, so I was going to just return this one unread on the logic that he wouldn't remember, and let this problem be his parents problem, but okay, fine, let's read this book and see how bad this would be to read this to him.

I went in fully expecting this to be a Saint Anne book and I was 100% correct. But it's worse than that. Now, this book series, it focuses a lot on the famous person as a kid (because of the target audience), then goes into them doing what makes them famous, and stops before death, and ends with a lovely heartwarming moral lesson for the target audience. This is a problem with Anne Frank, who never did anything notable in her life, because she never had the opportunity, because she was Jewish. There is no "and then I grew up and did the thing that made me famous". There is no "and then I did anything". She has no accomplishments. This already doesn't fit in at all with the other books in the series: those books are about triumphing over adversity, about working hard and accomplishing great things. Anne Frank did not do any of that.

So what can Anne Frank do? Well, you see, she dies and thus teaches you a moral lesson. That's how these books end: they have the person do what makes them famous and then it has a moral lesson for the target audience. The moral lesson of a dead Jewish girl is, *checks notes*, help other people and be kind. The last line of the book is "I am Anne Frank and I believe that people are truly good at heart." Okay. Well, I suspect if you go back in time and ask her in the concentration camp, you may get a different answer. But no one wants to hear that. They want to know that a tragic victim forgave them for it even as she died. No hard feelings!

I've made a metric I call "do they expect any X to read this book/attend this training/watch this video about X". Applicable to many things! Does this book about disability expect anyone with this disability to read it? Does this presentation about mental health problems expect anyone in the audience to have any mental health problems? Does this book about a Jew expect any Jews to read it?

This book is a bit meh on that. (I know the author is Jewish. That's irrelevant to the intended audience.)

But, hey, I had no great expectations anyway.

Anne Frank by Clémentine V. Baron, translated by Catherine Nolan (2018): Gotten out by an older kid at the same time, so the reading for content was less severe, although months ago this kid DNFed the I Survived the Nazi Invasion book really early on because it was too sad (which we were glad of; when she picked it up, we were all like, uh, let us know if you want to talk about it, and then she read for a bit and asked if something really happened, we said yes, and she put the book down), and has complained of nightmares from certain things, so, like, there was some checking the content, but I skimmed it more. On the whole, better than the above book. I think it did a much better job of not flinching at the end. I'd rather read this book to the 4 year old.

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dear yuletide letter

Dear Yuletide Writer 2025

( Beneath the cut, you will find my Dear Yuletide 2025 letter. Fandoms are: Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing (2021), Count Dracula (1970), Count Dracula (1977), Dracula (TV 1968), Fright Night (Movies 1985-1988), Legend (1985), Mr. Boogedy (Movies 1986-1987), and Nosferatu (2024). )

Fic Rec: Half a Liquor, Half a Mistake by GalaxyOx

Fandom: Genshin Impact

Pairing: Varka/Flins

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Word Count: 17,799

Summary: It ended with a night in a tavern, for somewhat reason Flins challenged Varka to a drinking match. He lost—or maybe he didn’t, because hours later, Varka found himself in the weight of him, pinned down like vengeance wrapped in silk and heat.

It wasn’t just of the alcohol.

It was half liquor, half mistake—and neither of them is ready to admit which half they liked more.

Link: AO3

This fic was straight up PWP and I loved it!

It was written prior to the release of 6.0/Luna I, and Varka is still technically unreleased (he's been unseen in a few quests and then the Luna I trailer), but even with only knowing as little as we did of the two of them, the characterizations were very believable!

And the porn is straight up hot. It's drunk sex, just in case that's not your thing, and I really enjoyed the way it was done. And the after care final chapter is just *chef's kiss*

Amperslash Exchange Letter

I love love love the concept for this exchange: blurring the lines between relationships and letting things just hang (temporarily or permanently) in this ill-defined middle is one of my very favourite things to do to my ships!! <3

Here’s a list of some takes on this dynamic that I really love to see:

( I'm so excited!!! I've been waiting months since I found out about this exchange <3 )

And here's my general fandom exchange letter for general likes/dislikes! <3

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babble and recs

I haven't had a ton of free time lately but have been trying to get started on my yuletide letter. Other than All Souls (which will be my 7th time requesting) all my requests will be new which is exciting! New fandoms! Except that means coming up with the prompts from scratch which is not easy. Usually I am repeating 2 or 3 fandoms so I can reuse and reword things.

Also, I'm kicking myself because I totally forgot to take pictures of my most recent craft project- I had been working on a rug (back to knotted kind, from a set of old blue sheets) and my parents asked for it but they'd need it before they headed out of state (they snowbird every year now) so I rushed to finish it before we headed to their house for break-the-fast after Yom Kippur and finished with a half hour to spare and documenting it totally slipped my mind. Oh well. They loved it which is the important thing.

I don't know if anyone's followed the SciShow vs the knitting community controversy but...

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For those unaware about a month ago on SciShow Hank Green did a video called "Physicists Don't Understand Why Knitting Works" that was... well, not great (and the info provided didn't match the clickbaity title at all). There was some true science presented in it, including some recent studies that were quite interesting, but it was presented in a way that, well, kind of implied actual crafters didn't know or even think about much about the hows or whys it's done the way it's done and if that's not enough it did so in a kind of pat-on-the-head dismissiveness of women's work kind of way. It also was just riddled with errors (from mistaking nalbinding for knitting, to not seeming to realize the difference between woven garments and knitted ones, to even misspelling the word 'stitch' numerous times, etc etc)

There were some great videos posted in response to it though, Kristine Vike did a great Scientist and Knitter reacts to SciShow's knitting video and JillianEve started a new channel, Evie Unraveling, to do her own I Remade the SciShow Knitting Video (with accurate SCIENCE) (there are numerous other good reaction vids, these were the two by people I followed already).

Previously, SciShow pinned a not very good correction/we hear you had issues with out content comment to the vid in response to backlash but I noticed a few days ago that SciShow actually pulled their vid and put up an apology youtube community comment which was pretty decent. Long story short (too late) I thought the whole controversy was interesting and that some of you might find it so as well. (As a note, I've still unsubscribed, I'd noticed a few errors/bad takes/odd ways they'd presented things in previous videos but hadn't really known enough about most subjects to question their ability to teach me things but I learned long ago that if I'd been following someone to learn from what they present and they do a topic I know something about and notice issues with what they present then it means it's likely there's been plenty of things I hadn't noticed so I can't rely on them anymore.)

And last but not least, here's 2 weeks of

recthething recs! (MDZS/Untamed fic and Batman, Clue, Doctor Who, MDZS, Merlin, and Supernatural tumblr art):

The fic:
the cat distribution system by ScarlettStorm (38k)
Summary Snippet: Wei Wuxian gets a cat, and then a boyfriend, both of which are a surprise. (great fic with great art from the 2025 MDZS Reverse Big Bang, also 2 podfics have been done of this fic, linked in the endnotes)

the tumblr art:

Batman/DCU
- Nightwing written in Nightwing (very cool effect)

Clue (the movie)
- “Okay, Chief, take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.” (excellent art of the cast)

Doctor Who (Classic)
- Delgado!Master doodle (love this)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Dadji and his pride and joy (Adorable LWJ and a-yuan and bunnies)

Merlin
- Tenderness (perfect title for this terribly tender Merther moment)

Supernatural
- Dean Winchester <333 (excellent rendition)