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We have great nominations in our tagset already! If you're interested in nominating, please review our nomination guidelines. There's an opportunity to transfer accepted tags from the 2025 tagset to the 2026 tagset.

I'm seeking clarifications on the following nominations. If I could hear back about these in the next 24 hours, that would be appreciated so we can keep our nomination approvals moving.

All Media Types + Related Fandoms
Can the nominator(s) please amend their nominations? We do not accept "All Media Types" and "Related Fandoms" without a case being made.

Star Wars - All Media Types

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Midsomer Murders - All Media Types

Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types

Crossover Fandom

Crossover Fandom
Peter Parker (MCU) & Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson)

I wanted to flag with the nominator that this nomination is a bit too ambiguous, unless you're fine with receiving any version of these characters. If I accept this as is, I will not be enforcing any DNWs dictating which Peter Parker or Percy Jackson version you want.

If the nominator is after a specific version for Percy Jackson, please amend your disambiguation (i.e. "Percy Jackson (PJO Books)" for the book version). If you're happy to receive the book, TV show or movie version, please let me know and I will accept this as is.

And I apologise for being nitpicky, but as we've had three Peter Parkers in the MCU (Holland, Garfield and Maguire), please amend your nomination if you're after a specific version. "Peter Parker [Holland] (MCU)" is an acceptable way to format it.

Sorted!

Fandom renaming/fixing

Ocean's movies
Danny Ocean & Debbie Ocean (Ocean's)
Danny Ocean & Ocean's 8 (Ocean's)
Lou Miller/Debbie Ocean (Ocean's)

Google tells me Ocean's 8 and Ocean's 11 exist in the same universe, so I wanted to amend the fandom title. Is the nominator against the fandom being renamed to "Ocean's 11 Movie Universe"? Happy for alternate suggestions.

Sorted!

If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Series)

Supergirl (TV 2015)

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Please let me know on any nominations post if you see any duplicates or errors in the tagset. Happy nominating!

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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 Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34093 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 28

How are you doing?

I am okay
17 (63.0%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
10 (37.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
11 (39.3%)

One other person
10 (35.7%)

More than one other person
7 (25.0%)

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.

lebateleur

Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

I don't know if there's already a trope and/or term for this, but I'm a huge sucker for what I'm going to call ( house voyeurism. )

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring an image of a wrapped giftbox with a snowflake on the gift tag. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

これで以上です。

kaberett

The context for yesterday's frivolous low-stakes question was of course indexing for Eat Your Books, where I've been stalled on my current cookbook for... a while... for ...reasons... including but not limited to needing to ask for a bunch of new ingredients to be added, and then having a social anxiety about ever touching the work-in-progress again.

And then I did touch it again! And a recipe where I'd requested the new ingredient "mixed leaf salad" had instead... been given the ingredient "mixed greens", synonymous with the base ingredient "mixed lettuces".

The cookbook in question is The National Trust Cookbook; The recipe is Goat's cheese tartlets with pickled cucumber; the headnote to the recipe includes

Serve with a home-grown asparagus, pea and broad bean salad mixed with baby salad leaves.

The ingredients for the salad, helpfully listed under the subheading "To serve", are:

12 spears of English asparagus, woody ends trimmed off 55g/2oz podded broad beans 85g/3oz fresh or frozen peas 70g/2½oz mixed leaf salad with rocket leaves 3 tbsp extra virgin rapeseed or olive oil 1 tsp runny honey

So I am reassured that the breakdown of opinions falls almost entirely along side-of-the-pond lines, suggesting that the reason I'm going "this is neither of these two things??? if EYB told me I needed mixed greens for a recipe and turned out to mean mixed leaf salad I'd be extremely annoyed??? if a recipe told me I needed mixed greens for a recipe and turned out to mean lettuces--" because, yes, I think "mixed greens" are a thing that need cooking (probably referring to brassica but I only roll my eyes a little at pre-packaged bowls that decide that various forms of pea, broccoli, and leek also count), and "mixed lettuces" is a strictly narrower category than "mixed leaf salad".

I had absolutely no idea that this might be a point of US/UK confusion, and thank you all for providing me with Data!

celli

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lebateleur

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done, they’re done.” — Kurt Vonnegut

I am a hopeless basher.

Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Let's do something a little different and talk about my ( favorite recordings of the slip jig Elizabeth Kelly's Delight. )

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

これで以上です。

wychwood

( 135. Voyage of the Damned - Frances White ) I have actually seen some positive comments about this book, and I'm still baffled by that fact.

( 136. The Cloud Roads - Martha Wells ) This was fun! I'm hoping to read the sequels.

( 137. Death in the Spires - KJ Charles ) Definitely not a romance - but I like mysteries more than I like capital-r Romances, so that worked for me.

( 138. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch ) This is still a cracking series opener. What a banger.

( 139. That Stick - Charlotte Yonge ) A lesser Yonge, but still relatively entertaining.

( 140. The Wicked + The Divine vol 1 - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie ) I didn't love this, but it started a number of interesting plot threads; I'll have to see where it goes.

( 141. Meddling and Murder - Ovidia Yu ) A decent conclusion (at least so far) to the series! I'm sure she could write sequels if she wanted, but this changes the status quo enough that it feels like a good place to stop.

( 142. Augustine the African - Catherine Conybeare ) This was fascinating; I lent it to our parish priest (who is sort of mentioned in it! as part of the group of Augustinian friars Conybeare meets when visiting Annaba (the city formerly known as Hippo) and he's already told me he's buying his own copy.

( 143. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Samin Nosrat ) I had high expectations for this book, so it's probably partly my own fault that I wasn't blown away; it did have some good stuff in it, but I spent a lot more time arguing with the author than I expected.

( 144. Princess Puck - Una Silberrad ) A delightful tale.

( 145. Death of a Dormouse - Reginald Hill ) A really fun character arc; I enjoyed this.

( 146. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie ) Just fabulous.

( 147. Mona Maclean, Medical Student - Graham Travers ) Not as medical as the title implies, but very charming.

( 148. Blue Machine - Helen Czerski ) An interestingly different perspective on the oceans compared to my usual more animal-focused natural history versions.

( 149. The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo ) A satisfying read, and interesting as a historical as well as fantasy.

( 150. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 3 - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ) The story is moving right along now!

( 151. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L Sayers ) Excellent reading of a good book.

( 152. Deeds of Wisdom - Elizabeth Moon ) These short-story collections are always enjoyable, even though they don't usually go much beyond that.

( 153. Alien Clay - Adrian Tchaikovsky ) A decent idea, reasonably well done, but Tchaikovsky just fundamentally doesn't do it for me.

( 154. Night Sky Mine - Melissa Scott ) I'm very glad I discovered this in my collection! Scott is always a good time.

( 155. The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold ) An absolute classic which I will re-read many more times yet, if I get the chance.

( 156. The Hero and the Crown and 157. Beauty - Robin McKinley ) THatC is still just such a weird book, and Beauty is so conventional! McKinley what are you even doing.

( 158. The Summer War - Naomi Novik ) Terribly short novella but it still manages to pack a lot in! Excellent siblings.

( 159. Still Life - Sarah Winman ) Endlessly charming even when it gets implausible; I really enjoy this book.

( 160. The Sisters Avramapul - Victoria Goddard ) Goddard is such a compulsive writer! I enjoyed these.

( 161. Heated Rivalry and 162. Tough Guy - Rachel Reid ) Decently-entertaining hockey romances.

princessofgeeks

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staranise

What a week, up and down the whole time. I hope I don't have the flu because I'm supposed to be starting painting classes tomorrow.

I unfortunately have to ask for money again; here's the gofundme campaign.

trobadora

fandomtrees reveals have happened! I received two excellent sets of cooking/food icons from

holyscream and

peasina and a Zhubai ficlet from

facethestrange. :D

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to finish things myself ...

Today's writing

I wrote a little this afternoon (new, much better beginning for one of the fics), then had a vertigo attack and had to take a break. (Seriously, what's wrong with this week?! I would like a refund!) Planning to write a little more later today, and tomorrow hopefully I'll actually finish something ...

WED Question of the Day

In honour of my icon:

Poll #34092

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

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My first complete draft is usually ...

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very close to the final draft
6 (30.0%)

a bit sparse, but otherwise close to the final draft
4 (20.0%)

a bit wordy, but otherwise close to the final draft
5 (25.0%)

structurally messy, but otherwise close to the final draft
1 (5.0%)

messy overall, but with the important pieces in place
3 (15.0%)

so different it bears little resemblance to the final draft
0 (0.0%)

something else entirely (see comments)
1 (5.0%)

My first complete draft is sometimes ...

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very close to the final draft
12 (57.1%)

a bit sparse, but otherwise close to the final draft
8 (38.1%)

a bit wordy, but otherwise close to the final draft
5 (23.8%)

structurally messy, but otherwise close to the final draft
7 (33.3%)

messy overall, but with the important pieces in place
6 (28.6%)

so different it bears little resemblance to the final draft
2 (9.5%)

something else entirely (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Tickyboxes ...

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need no hindsight
7 (41.2%)

make it easy to change your mind fifty times
9 (52.9%)

know no such thing as overkill
12 (70.6%)

Tally

( Days 1-15 )

Day 16:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 17:

trobadora,

ysilme

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

luzula

OMG. I have FINISHED my current longfic! About a third of this was written after November 2024, which is when my writing slowed down a lot because of, well, emotional competition from other things in my life. I am VERY proud nevertheless to have finished it, and honestly I can't tell the difference in quality between my writing before and after (my beta said the same). It just took a longer time. And speaking of beta reading, I am very grateful to

garonne, as always. <3

Far Frae the Bonny Hills and Dales (108912 words) by Luzula
Chapters: 22/22
Fandom: Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron/Alison Grant
Characters: Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron, Alison Grant (Jacobite Trilogy), Lachlan MacMartin, Margaret Cameron, Lord Aveling (Jacobite Trilogy), Earl of Stowe (Jacobite Trilogy)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Character Death Fix, Grief/Mourning, Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Penal Transportation, Slow Burn
Summary: Ewen is brought to trial in Carlisle and convicted, but sentenced to another fate than the scaffold.

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jazzfish

Just finished Lord of the Rings. This may well have been the first time I read the Appendices all the way through (though I did skim the ones on the calendars and the alphabets).

Two takeaways from RotK:

First, the Scouring of the Shire hits different when you're under occupation. It's also perhaps the most fantastical part of the book, since it posits that the citizenry were nearly all ready to rise up and just needed a push, as opposed to a third of them cheering on Otho and Sharkey and a third of them just hunkering down and hoping it would all pass them by.

Second, the meme take on Denethor as 'doomscrolling in the Palantir to Sauron's algorithm' is ... remarkably apt.

Now ebooks for a couple of days, and then once I'm home the Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. UT is, as I recall, mostly-complete fragments with some commentary. The twelve-volume History of Middle-Earth reverses the proportions, and is thus less interesting to me. UT also contains a version of the Quest of Erebor ("The Hobbit") as told from Gandalf's perspective, which should be neat.

All quiet on bus stop patrol. Tuesday had a couple of plateless SUVs and a couple of blocks-away whistle choruses; Thursday and yesterday were quiet. It's nice to be out in the snow in my black wool coat and hat, though, and nice to get some smiles from folks driving past.

moon_custafer

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77509026/chapters/203932646#workskin

pauraque

Presenting my first lifer of 2026: Harlequin Duck!

two dark blue ducks with elaborate red and white markings float together on rough water

They usually winter on the sea coast and are rare in landlocked Vermont, but occasionally one will stop off on Lake Champlain for a while and all the birders come running. The lake is at least an hour drive for me so I can't always just drop everything and go when there are interesting waterfowl, especially if it's off some remote point and you can barely see the bird through a scope anyway.

Then last year there were these two male Harlequins who decided it would be fun to hang out at a lakefront park in a little cove right by the parking area, posing and diving about ten feet away from people. Wonderful! Except! This happened immediately after I had major abdominal surgery and could not get out of bed, let alone drive to the lake. I did look for the ducks several times when I was recovered enough, but I never saw them.

But this week... guess who's back?? It's assumed that these are the same birds since they're so rare and even more notable to have a pair of males, right at the exact same spot.

( more photos and rambling about ducks )

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umadoshi

I finished Chuck Wendig's Wanderers (which according to the acknowledgements clocks in around 800 pages in hard copy) and wound up in that all-too-familiar place of "that was interesting, but I don't think I'm going to bother with the sequel". (Although by definition, I imagine the sequel must be telling a very different kind of story.) No idea why it is that I can often tell only partway through a book that I probably won't pick up its sequel and yet still want to finish the current one.

I also just read Inside Threat, the sixth of K.B. Spangler's Rachel Peng [see icon] novels. There's one more planned, and then that's it for this novel series; I think she's still intending to write a third Hope Blackwell novel (some of the events of that probably-someday book directly influenced what happened in this one, but the whole 'verse is a very twisty pretzel in terms of chronological vs. publication order). And this reminds me--I don't think I ever mentioned here that Act III of the A Girl and Her Fed comic, the core of the whole thing, wrapped up a few months ago, ending the series. (IIRC, Spangler does have ideas that could eventually turn into a fourth act of the webcomic, but has no current plans to pursue doing it. It sounds like AGAHF and the associated works understandably got harder and more exhausting to do over the last decade as the real-world US political situation got worse and worse and worse.)

There isn't a whole lot I can say about a sixth novel in a series, but Spangler's descriptions of the series when she's doing promo on Bluesky always entertain me. Yesterday she posted "It's book launch week! Spend the weekend catching up with my bargain basement cyborg hivemind. Murder, mystery, and a detective who just wants to be left alone with her poetry and bad romance novels"; here's her "what's this series about?" Bluesky thread from a few days ago.

So once again: highly recommended, and it's entirely possible to just read this set of novels without reading/knowing the comic. It means not knowing a lot of things about the world overall, but they're things that Rachel herself doesn't know at this point (and doesn't learn about until Act II of the comic, which starts after her books have wrapped up). I enjoy the comic and other material very much, but the Rachel books are by far my favorite.

And that bit got long, so just quickly:

--I'm a few more chapters into Braiding Sweetgrass and haven't picked up a next novel yet.

--

scruloose and I are current on the new season of The Pitt and four episodes into Pluribus, and just watched the season 2 premiere of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. (Now to just hope this season covers past vol. 10 of the manga, since after we finished season 1 in 2024, I read volumes 7-10 before deciding to stop reading ahead and stick with the anime. It'd be nice to get at least a bit of new-to-me material this season, given that. Anyone know offhand how many episodes S2 will be?)

--And I've technically started a new (!) video game, in the form of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (on Switch), but am not very far at all yet.

Current Mood: blank

vriddy

dolorosa_12 wrote a post about the Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure which includes helpful suggestions for concrete action.

brithistorian

I am reminded of a statement by the former mayor of Bogotá, Antanas Mockus, a politician who employed artistic strategies in his office: "When an artist goes to prison, they take a piece of chalk and draw a line some centimetres from the wall to define their space, so they can have a bit more restrictions (sic). But by making those restrictions they in fact liberate themselves." A line can be a border and simultaneously an assertion of freedom. Being able to decide on your own limits, your strengths and weaknesses, is always empowering, offering a certain degree of sovereignty even in the direst situation.

Joanna Warsza, "Open Mic: Joanna Warsza on the Art of Open Group," *Artforum," October 2025, p. 110.

I've been thinking about this since I read it an hour or so ago. I think the quote from Mockus helped Warsza to set up for presenting her idea, but I don't think Mockus (at least as presented in this quote or — as I think is likely — in this translation of his quote) appears to quite understand what was going on in those prison cells. I don't think the artists wanted to "have a bit more restrictions (sic)," but instead, as Warsza put it, to "decide on [their] own limits."

When I was younger and studying poetry in school[^1], I never really understood why someone would choose to write poetry once prose had been invented, which seemed to me to be a superior method for conveying ideas. It's only later, as I learned more and started producing art of my own, that I learned the potential value of working within a set of restrictions, whether self-imposed or those of a traditional form. And looking back, I wonder if this value of restriction is something that my teachers could have explained to me, or if it's something that I had to figure out on my own in order to understand it.

[^1] Confession: I never really liked or (apparently) understood poetry.

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casemod in caseficexchange - Nomination queries #1.
adafrog in fandom_checkin - Daily Check In.
lebateleur - Snowflake Challenge #9: Tropes
kaberett - [eyb] you continue magnificently helpful!
celli - what? MORE podfics? (KPDH and Good Manager)
lebateleur - Snowflake Challenge: #6 & #8 - Creative Process & Top Ten List
wychwood - november "i read too many books" booklog
princessofgeeks - pretentious hairflip of entitlement
staranise - (no subject)
trobadora - Write Every day 2026: January, Day 17
luzula - Fic: Far Frae the Bonny Hills and Dales (Flight of the Heron)
writtenwordsaloud in fandomcalendar - HAZBIN HOTEL: DiVEEnation - A Vees-Centric Tarot Zine
jazzfish - scouring, etc
moon_custafer - Meadowville Ch 3
pauraque - Harlequin Ducks are special enough to get their own post
3sfmod in threesentenceficathon - 2026 Three Sentence Ficathon - Post #!
umadoshi - Weekly proof of life: mainly media again
vriddy - Signal boost: Ukraine
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