switchbladeeyes

CANON: Project Hail Mary (2026).
CHARACTERS: Ryland Grace.
ADDITIONAL INFO: 100 icons in total.
CREDIT TO:

chocolatefrogs @

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To the best of my knowledge... we did it! Thank you, pinch hitters, original creators, treat makers, everyone who is gearing up to read and view, and everyone who has been patient during our longest delay yet. These things happen. But now, thanks to much hard work, more exciting things are happening!

FFFX round 6 will reveal at 5pm EDT, Saturday 4 April.

Please get your final edits in!

Please make plans to comment on your gifts (and any other works that please you) during the anonymous period: April 4-18. You can comment indefinitely after (and post works indefinitely after) but I really appreciate it if you can do your best to comment soon; your creators will appreciate it too.

Yay!

sovay

The moon looks like a Constable watercolor in black and olive and cratered parchment. I have seen the latest pictures of Earth. I can't turn off the part of my brain that brings around you may leave here for four days in space, but I worried so much about that launch.

This morning was marked by the municipal pruning of trees on our street. When the racket moved far enough around the block to become merely obnoxious, I went back to listening to byways of Flanders and Swann. In the afternoon Hestia saw a cardinal in the yew and almost went through the glass.

I recognize that midlife m/m amid the mussel beds of North Wales is the single most stereotypical choice I could make out of this year's lineup for Wicked Queer, but I am still seriously considering On the Sea (2025). It would be a sure bet if I didn't have to think about parking at the MFA.

I would like the next week to involve much less talking to doctors. None would be an ideal.

Current Music: Bren Joy, "Headline"

conuly

I forgot to mention that Young Sherlock went to Constantinople. Naturally, I was legally mandated to recite all the words.

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So sorry, I should've posted this when we finished watching the first season.

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Signups are open here! Go forth and request fanworks! They will close on 11 April.

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In the meantime, there's still some tagset cleanup in progress--please double-check all your tags, and see if I have questions about your nominations here.

I have cleared all existing nominations and reopened the tagset. You may nominate an additional 3 fandoms with 4 relationships for each fandom, but I'd ask that you please only do so for tags that you are planning to offer or request.

Please note that this year I am allowing you to repeat fandoms in multiple requests and offers, but you must still have at least 3 unique fandoms in your requests and 4 unique offers. AO3 doesn't support those exact requirements, so it's up to you to make sure you have enough unique fandoms. I'll be checking regularly and getting in touch with anyone who needs to add fandoms, but at the point that signups close, you'll have a limited time to fix the problem, so please make sure you only submit your signup once it meets the minimum!

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Signups are about to open! As previously announced, I'll be clearing all nominations to allow everyone to nominate an additional 3 fandoms with up to 4 relationships each.

I have saved off details of all pending nominations where I have questions below. I'll add those to the tagset myself once I've clarified with the nominator.

Please also use this post to let me know if anything in the tagset looks incorrect, especially if you see duplicates.

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All Media Types:

I'm generally happy to approve this type of fandom if the various adaptations or spinoffs are in continuity with one another. However, there are cases where adaptations are different enough that it could lead to disappointment if a creator familiar with one version gets matched to recipient interested the other. To the best of my knowledge, that applies to the following fandoms--if you're the nominator, please pick a version or explain why this doesn't apply:

The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
Teen Titans - All Media Types
Transformers - All Media Types

16th Century CE RPF
Along with the 19th and 20th Century US Politics RPF nominations, I have decided I am not prepared to handle the implied real-life subject matter in an exchange context and will not approve this fandom. (ETA due to questions--RPF is generally fine! Historical RPF subjects I will not approve include people known primarily for committing things like war crimes, genocide, or slavery. Please feel free to ask if you're not sure.)

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
It doesn't look like these characters are part of the main ASoIaF series. Are you looking for Fire and Blood - George R. R. Martin or House of the Dragon (TV)?

Alicent Hightower/Mysaria | Lady Misery/Rhaenyra Targaryen (ASoIaF)
Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen (ASoIaF)
Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen//Rhaenys Targaryen Velaryon (ASoIaF)
Alys Rivers of House Strong/Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen (AsoIaF)

Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
I've moved these tags under Crossover Fandom, Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005), and Torchwood. Please let me know if any look incorrect.

Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
We do have Star Trek: The Original Series (TV) already in the tagset. I don't think I've ever seen the original films nominated separately--can the nominator please comment so we can discuss what you're looking for?

resonant

To The Words
by W.S. Merwin

When it happens you are not there

oh you beyond numbers
beyond recollection
passed on from breath to breath
given again
from day to day from age
to age
charged with knowledge
knowing nothing

indifferent elders
indispensable and sleepless

keepers of our names
before ever we came
to be called by them

you that were
formed to begin with
you that were cried out
you that were spoken
to begin with
to say what could not be said

ancient precious
and helpless ones

say it

starandrea

The dahlias at the front of the shelf hadn't reached the light, but it turns out the ones in the back had. So I put the lights on top of the shelf instead of underneath it, which should work for, idk, the weekend.

(Are these dahlias stashed in a closet because I ran out of room on actual plant shelves? Yes they are. Luckily we used the same kind of shelves. Unluckily, all the things that were on those shelves are now on the floor. Hmm.)

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Unlike the dahlias, the inch plant is definitely getting too much light.

( pink plant )

Outdoors, more sprouts in the winter seed sowing containers: poppies, Iceland poppies, blue aster, gay feather, and butterfly weed.

( just the poppies )

And the mini daffodils are getting ready to open!

( picture )

Finally, Daphne's DNA kit went in the mail today...

( DNA dog )

And then she helped me disassemble the kicksled for storage. (So we have more room for plants on the patio, Marci says.)

( sled adventure )

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34441 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 23

How are you doing?

I am okay
13 (56.5%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
10 (43.5%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
10 (43.5%)

one other person
8 (34.8%)

More than one other person
5 (21.7%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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CANON: Fire Emblem Tellius (Radiance & Radiant Dawn)
CHARACTERS: Lethe
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CREDIT TO:

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25 icons @

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luthien

The Secret Marriage (5631 words) by Luthien
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander, Yuna Hollander
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Marriage, Secret Marriage, Wedding Planning, Blow Jobs, Tea
Series: Part 2 of The Secret Marriage
Summary:

Shane Hollander marries Ilya Rozanov on a Friday at his cottage by the lake.

The wedding is happening. Follows on from 'Out of the Closet'.

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⌈ Secret Post #7028 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1003.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

muccamukk

(n.b. I'm getting my librarians to sort out the access issue, so this is just a vent.)

I'm going along doing some research, and I think, "oh, it'd be good to have a few articles on the Coast Salish relationship with Camas, especially on Vancouver Island."

So I poke around in my university library, and soon find: "Camas Nullius? How Beacon Hill Park Came to Be Imposed on a Pillar of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples' Food and Inter-National Trade Economy" by Jacquelyn Miller.

Perfect. I click through.

It goes to ProQuest, which is dog shit to read, but usually legible. The article starts with a note that says: ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.

"But what does that mean?" I don't think at all, until I hit the sentence: the significance of the lands on which I live to the Indigenous Peoples of this place, the ... Peoples, known today as the Songhees and ... (Esquimalt) Nations, who have lived and governed here for millennia.

So what that means is that it's stripped out every word not written in English. In a paper about Indigenous culture vs. colonialism, it has unnamed the people! cool cool cool

It's literally unreadable:

Over generations now, this appropriation of this major ... "breadbasket" for a public park, and the loss of other important ... ... production sites as a result of settlement and agriculture, have dramatically reduced the abundance of ... and impacted the ... Peoples' ability to avail themselves of this vital source of their rightful food security and wealth. This injustice is even more glaring in light of the treaty promises to, at a minimum, reserve for the ... their enclosed or cultivated fields, which the article contends ... was upon the arrival of Europeans.

I tried to download it as a PDF, because sometimes those are just straight up scans of the articles, all original formatting intact. But no! It's just the same thing as a PDF!

EBSCOhost said it also had the article, but then just didn't.

Then I clicked over to the journal itself, which is paywalled, of course (open access in 28 October 2026 🙃). But do look at this very pretty cover art. Worth every penny of whatever they paid the artist.

Then I emailed the library.

Here's a very pretty popular science piece about Garry oak ecosystems. If you just want to look at camas.

musesfool

So my big plan to make gyoza this weekend was almost derailed earlier when I received someone else's grocery order in total, and zero percent of my grocery order. My fridge is now filled with THREE DOZEN EXTRA EGGS I did not order, along with some ground beef, some ridiculously expensive stew beef (which I will have to figure out how to cook so it is not well done, because well-done beef gives me the yucks - marinating and roasting might be the way), an enormous container of Fair Life lactose-free milk, some lovely fruit I would not have ordered yet (not in season, but I will use it) and some KERRY GOLD BUTTER (another thing I would never order because I'm not MADE OF MONEY). But no scallions, cabbage, or ground pork.

So I got on the phone with Stop and Shop and the CSR was very good and got my order re-ordered, and it was just delivered, so it looks like ~~meat~~ gyoza are back on the menu, boys! Though I do not have room to make the chocolate frosted vanilla cupcakes I was planning to make since there's no room in the fridge for anything else right now. I just used up 8 eggs I already had to make a frittata since I need the space (so I have a total of FOUR DOZEN EGGS right now, which would be fantastic if I were boiling and coloring them for Easter, but I am not. or if I needed them to make Swiss meringue frosting, which I also do not).

I'm very glad i didn't do the extra Instacart order from Key Food I thought about last night, because Stop and Shop doesn't have gyoza wrappers and Key Food does, but they look pretty easy to make, so I will spend time tomorrow doing all that. And maybe I will make those egg rollups on Monday for the week so I can use up more eggs. I guess we'll see!

Today's poem is very far removed from *gestures* all of that!

Wilderness
by Lorine Niedecker

You are the man
You are my other country
and I find it hard going

You are the prickly pear
You are the sudden violent storm

the torrent to raise the river
to float the wounded doe

* * *

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: I Don't Wanna Know - Fleetwood Mac

fawatson

FRANK SIDNEY WATSON

Born in 1911, he died in 1999, just short of his 88th birthday. Unremembered now by anyone except family; most of his contemporaries died before him and all the rest have died since. He was an exceptional person, who knew many other exceptional people, all better known than he was.

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Release: April 16

Every couple meets their match. BEEF returns with a new cast and a new “beef.” A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner. Starring Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Cailee Spaeny, Charles Melton and guest starring Youn Yuh-jung and Song Kang-ho.

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Title: At The Beach
Fandom: Kamen Rider Gotchard
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: Femslash, Slice of Life
Summary: Kyoka takes Lachesis to the beach.
Author's Notes: Something for Sunset's Femslash Refresh! Prompt was: your femslash otp at the beach.

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