Spooky season fannish events!

Oct. 6th, 2025 09:36 pm
scintilla10: Illustration of black cat with wide eyes, surrounded by phases of the moon (Stock - Halloween - cat & moons)
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Two current spooky season fandom events!

Hotties Haunting the Narrative: a festive femslash ficathon, hosted by [personal profile] elasticella
Leave prompts and create fills for femslash pairings, featuring literal and/or figurative ghosts!

At [community profile] ficortreat, you can offer treats (fic, doodles, recs, cat photos, or anything you like!) to visitors (or a selection of visitors, such as your followers). You can also wander around the neighbourhood to see what others are offering. You can participate however you feel comfortable.

Fic or Treat!

Oct. 6th, 2025 07:13 pm
scintilla10: Illustration of black cat with wide eyes, surrounded by phases of the moon (Stock - Halloween - cat & moons)
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Fic or Treat

[community profile] ficortreat | Browse the Fic or Treat neighbourhood


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Hi, and thanks for dropping in! Leave a comment on this post with your request (or you can say "surprise me!"). No guarantees, but I will try my best to give something to anyone who visits. <3

Light is on for: fic or treaters, anyone subscribed to me

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Have some music

Oct. 5th, 2025 12:49 pm
lyssie: Auntie Vi and Dee from The Equalizer Plotting on the Internet (Auntie Vi and Dee Plot)
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Since the first is something I deeply enjoyed, I gave her some company.

1. Ella Red. Youtube algorithmed me with He Asked For It, I wasn't sure at first (that phrase has certain connotations, after all). But the sheer over-the-top smashing of this excuse for rape is gorgeous and perfect. The styling, the setting, the angles and shots, everything about this video is near-perfect, and Ella Red's bland serial killer in a frothy pink number is perfect.

If I had one quibble it's that her titular 'He' is an unattractive dude. Most rapists are not unattractive. That's a myth that people seem to enjoy perpetuating and it's one of the reasons so many men get away with it. "He could get any woman, why would he need to rape her? Clearly, she wanted it."

Genre: introspective angry girl pop

Some other tracks:
- Parasite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jr3J1HExS8 - it's an 80s-infused horror flick, with some introspection.
- Ball and Chain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyV7uI9AWU - Bedazzling the ball and chain is a great line.
- I Like You Best - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcHbc4Z2ths - an ode to choking, with some menacing vibes wrapped in pink and mansions. (I actually found this one a bit blah, I wanted her to stab someone at the end :/)
- Aphrodite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rruQeuaUFYY - a prayer to a goddess


2. London Grammar. I picked up London Grammar's album 'If You Wait' probably in one of those Amazon five dollar album sales. That's what my memory says, anyway. I liked it. It's moody and introspective and soft, a bit Portishead (though not Three, more like Sour Times). And then I recently picked up their more recent album 'The Greatest Love', and really loved it.

Metal & Dust, Nighcall (which I think was a single?), Wasting My Young Years, Santa Fe, House, Ordinary Life, and Into Gold are great tracks (I like both albums a lot and rarely skip a track).

3. Civil Twilight. Letters From the Sky was their big radio hit, but I've no idea if they've had more (I don't listen to radio often). But their albums have been consistently good, and 'Story of an Immigrant' is banger after banger. Albums I own: 'Civil Twilight', 'Holy Weather', and 'Story of an Immigrant'

Genre: introspective dude rock?

Standout tracks: Fire Escape, Holy Dove, Huan, Perfect Stranger, Highway of Fallen Kings, It's Over, Let It Go, The Other Side, River, Holy Weather... and Believe.

4. The Warning. If you listen to these three albums, 'Queen of the Murder Scene', 'Error', and 'Keep Me Fed' on top of each other, one after the next, you can hear the evolution of this band. Queen is very raw, grunge-infused and young. Error is a little more polished, but still angry and pointed. And Fed is the one that's been produced by someone else, and it's slick and stylish and very put together. I love all three, for various reasons, but I'm crossing my fingers that the production of their next album will be a little less... polished. I think adding too many pop elements and auto-tune is a terrible choice.

Angry girl rock at its finest, though. A lot of Hole, a little Tori Amos, and some Kesha for flavor.

That said, stand-out tracks from all of the albums: Crimson Queen, Red Hands Never Fade, Dust to Dust, The Sacrifice, Money, Choke, Disciple, Error, Six Feet Deep, Apologize, Burnout, Satisfied, Sharks (ok, lbr, I'd list every track).

5. Snow Patrol's recent album 'The Forest is the Path' is very Snow Patrol and kinda gooey, but it's a good listen. All, These Lies, What if Nothing Breaks?, Hold Me In the Fire, The Beginning... honestly, I could list all of the tracks. I really enjoyed it after it grew on me (it's very fluffy, ok).
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I will try and make a post again soon, but am now recovering from parental visit (due to me and the ME/CFS, not any fault of said parents). Yesterday, though, I got lucky at the BNA while searching for a newly-discovered address for an ancestor's siblings and found him accidentally involved in a plot to steal a painting by Petrus van Schendel. (London ancestors are v hard to find, especially when they have common names, but the joy of London is that every so often your relatives are briefly entangled with someone or something famous).

Anyway, the fraud was discovered, I was rewarded by a description of two rooms in a relative's house (29 St Mary-at-hill) and I thought some of you might enjoy the resulting magistrate's hearings:

A Cunning Plot )

Writing; Anime; Homestuck

Sep. 29th, 2025 10:42 am
hamimi_fk: Roxy from Homestuck, looking down (Lalonde)
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Still trying to get back into writing so I pulled the trigger and finished the half-completed fifth chapter to my Pokemon/Hunger Games/Cabin in the Woods fic. It read short and quick to me (and a bit incomplete), but it's somehow over a thousand words, idk how but I won't complain. It got a few hits but no new likes, which is fine. It's my pet passion project because sometimes you just have to scratch those odd ideas in your head.

With two other fics newly begun (one Pokemon - Gold/Silver fic and one Delicious in Dungeon - Marcille/Falin), I felt a bit embolden and just now decided to apply to scoop up a pinch hit for an exchange. I also decided not to stress myself too much with my ladiesbingo card and plan to aim for just 500-word stories to keep it low pressure. If I write more, cool. If not, also cool. I gradually hope to rebuild my writing ability because dammit if I don't miss it.

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Speaking on fandomy things - I started watching anime more regularly. I've been slacking pretty hard on them for years for literally no reason. But I've been paying for Crunchyroll the past couple of months because my son needed to see the rest of One Piece and Netflix shit the bed with the episodes they have (he recently passed the 1000 episode mark, and holy shit, I'm proud of him - dunno if I'll jump into the series with similar gusto any time soon). I finally realized, after several months, that I'm an idiot and should be using it too since I'm paying for it, lol.

Current anime watch list:

- Chainsaw Man (episode 4)
- My Hero Academia (season 6)
- Spy X Family (season 1)
- Am I Actually the Strongest? (episode 3)
- Delicious in Dungeon (episode 20)

It's tempting to jump into more series but I'm trying to restrain myself so I actually finish a show! Like, Chainsaw Man is currently on-hold while I finish at least one of the others on the list. My Hero Academia is also a bit on hold cuz I was watching it with my son but he's extremely focused on finishing One Piece and he can only watch one anime at a time (boo). He's been working on it for almost a year, to put our hiatus in perspective.

I'm also trying to get back into mangas. I've realized nothing beats holding a manga in hand so I'm alowly building a small "newer" collection (I have some books from back in my teen years, so they're "old" now). My Hero Vigilantes is the forefront of my collection so far. I haven't read it yet - gonna wait until I get caught up with anime again. Yes, I know I don't have to, but I want some content in the same universe to consume once I get caught up to the main series.

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Also, the pilot for Homestuck the Animation dropped recently and I'm pretty hyped. Some ppl were complaining it was too short and missed a lot of content but it was just a pilot, not the complete series, or even a snapshot of a season. Episodes could be longer which would help. There's also ppl complaining about the voices, but clearly they have no idea who voices the characters so their opinions can eat ass. I just hope the fandom doesn't get toxic again and fuck it up for the rest of us fans who are generally excited.

I hadn't considered it before, but I might end up writing HS fanfic again. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. O_O Probably not. But I mean... I did write a lot of it. ^-^;;

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