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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-12-13 02:43 pm

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #989 ]

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #989 ]




The first secret from this batch will be posted on December 20th.



RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret.

Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!

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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] pinchhits2025-12-13 12:46 pm

Yuletide Pinch Hits Due 12/19/25 UTC

Event: Yuletide is a rare fandom fic exchange for stories of at least 1,000 words.
Event link: [community profile] yuletide_admin
Pinch hit link: yuletide_pinch_hits
Due date: Friday December 19 at 9pm UTC

PH #121: SMPLive, Roughhouse SMP, Mirai SMP - XYouly, Highcraft (Web Series)
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-13 03:44 pm
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Write every day: Day 13

200 words of longfic again! How about you?

Tally:
Read more... )
Day 12: [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] chestnut_pod

Bonus farm news: I was applying my new-won knowledge of proper lifting technique today when I was stacking firewood, and did every instance of picking up wood very mindfully, and lo, it works! \o/ It didn't make my back tired, and it feels like my butt got a workout. : D I'm really trying to ingrain this, and using it even when just picking up a sock from the floor, but it does take some time to make it automatic.
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azdak ([personal profile] azdak) wrote2025-12-13 07:40 pm
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Passing observation

I'm binge-watching M*A*S*H and I have to say one of the things I love about Hawkeye is how completely unstoic he is. If he's in any kind of pain, or even just discomfort, he pouts and whinges and bitches and shrieks. You could never write in-character fanfic where he heroically keeps silent about his injury before passing out. If Hawkeye was bleeding out, the whole of Korea would know about it.
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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2025-12-13 01:20 pm

"You can hug it out, or you can pick up a bat."

Fascinating read here: Whose League Is It Anyway? on Defector. The comments are mostly worth reading too - I especially liked this one: "One of the reasons that collective bargaining exists is that it channels labor into a well-controlled process of negotiating and grieving within a framework that still respects the legitimacy of capital and is willing to enforce its prerogatives with violence."

I also added both books discussed in the post to my to read list: Every Day Is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut by Ken Belson, and Lords of the Realm (about baseball) by John Helyar.

Also, I don't know who Maggie Nelson is (I am old), but I thought this was a really good piece of criticism of her new book: Maggie Nelson Sputters And Stalls In ‘The Slicks’, which is apparently a (hamhanded and faily) attempt to parallel Taylor Swift with Sylvia Plath. I mean, I'm not going to lie, I enjoy many of TSwift's songs and I'm not a huge fan of Plath's work, but come the fuck on!

Anyway, I continue to find my subscription to Defector worth it, even if I don't read it as often as I'd like.

In other news, I was up early this morning, because the super said he was going to stop by to install my new apartment doorbell (when they put in this app-based front door system, it for some reason caused the bells at the apartment doors to stop working), but he hasn't shown up yet, and I'd be very surprised if he does at all. Oh well, I will try again when I'm off next week. Maybe 3rd time is the charm!

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wintermod ([personal profile] wintermod) wrote in [community profile] pinchhits2025-12-13 01:11 pm

Wintertime Woes Pinch Hit Due Jan 11

Event:[community profile] wintertime_woes_exchange, an exchange for unhappy endings
Requirements: 500 words, or a sketch on unlined paper
Pinch hit link: https://wintertime-woes-exchange.dreamwidth.org/2592.html
Due date: January 11, 11:59PM UTC

PH 3 - art, fic - The Dark Half - Stephen King, Breaking Bad, Carrie - Stephen King
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/wintertimewoes2025/user/SegaBarrett

PH 4 - fic - Rai-Kirah - Carol Berg, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/wintertimewoes2025/user/Sinvulkt

Canon promo: Clair Obscur is a narratively led video game and can be consumed as a 4-hour video here.

To claim, please comment at the pinch hit post linked above, or email wintertime.woes.exchange@gmail.com. Thank you very much!
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] drabble_zone2025-12-13 05:14 pm

Challenge #480: Amnesty 48


This week's challenge is:


Amnesty 48


This is our forty-eighth Amnesty challenge - every tenth challenge will be an Amnesty. Every tenth Amnesty will last two weeks!


What does this mean? Simply put, all previous challenges are now re-opened; write for any of them you want, and as many as you want.


Here's the list: New, Under the Influence, Wind, An Unreasonable Expectation, Pebbles, Heroic Failures, Whisper, Trouble In Mind, Halloween, Tough Choices, Relax, Fight or Flight, Seal, In The Doghouse, Decorations, Christmas Eve, Hope, Thank-You Notes, Cat, Peace Of Mind, Candlelight, Love Is In The Air, Alone, Just Friends, Mascot, Some Assembly Required, Arch, A Change In The Weather, Spring, Easter Eggs, Allergies, The Sky's The Limit, Birds, It Could Be Worse, Dabble, What Are You Complaining About Now?, Fruit, Sweet Summer Lovin', Twinkle, When The Sun Goes Down, Carnival, When There's Nobody Around, Holiday/Vacation, Growing Older But Not Up, Laughter, Free As The Wind, Awkward, If I Were You, Schedule, After All This Time, Nightfall, Love Is Blind, Travel, Fun And Games, Things That Go Bump In The Night, Jump, The Best Laid Plans..., Unbelievable, Long Way Back, Faith, How Did We Get Here?, Blue, Only Human, David Bowie Song Titles, Starstruck, Laying The Blame, Clear, Herbs And Spices, Waiting, There's Always Tomorrow, Anticipation, Mind Over Matter, Wonder, Do The Right Thing, Sneeze, One Of These Days, Early, Better Luck Next Time, Glass, Every Once In A While, Nervous, Old Enough To Know Better, Underwater, All Or Nothing, Hungry, Look Out, Space, A Chance Encounter, Nostalgia, In A Week Or Two, Coast, In The Moonlight, Shameless, Caught In The Act, Vain, Over The Hill, Torn, Nothing To See, Autumn / Fall, Imaginary Friends, Cold, Scene Of The Crime, Loud, Make Up Your Mind, Silver, What Are You Doing?, More, A Better Idea, Fireworks, Seeking Shelter, Numbers, Deep Down, Familiar, Just The Way You Are, Romance, Slip Of The Tongue, Tired, Right Or Wrong, Slinky, I've Got You, Elephant, Are You Ready?, Murder, On The Other Hand, Sleepy, A Long Time Ago, Memory, Where There's A Will, Fast, One More Day, Bake, End Of The Road, Gesture, Love Or Lust, Poke, Speak Of The Devil, Welcome, Not A Hero, Guilty, Late In The Day, Storm, Lie To Me, Dance, Thought I'd Seen Everything, Invisible, Friends And Neighbours, Spooky, In The Aftermath, Vibrate, Because You Love Me, Grey, Back To Front, Ride, Christmas Songs, Magic, Work Like A Dog, Exuberant, Long Lost Friend, Real, The State I'm In, Chemistry, You're The One, Hamper, Silence Is Golden, River, Good Advice, Warm, Out Of My Mind, Garden, Winding Down, Sound, Count On Me, Touch, Under These Conditions, Need, Hole In The Ground, Paradise, A Good Reason, Grope, Climbing The Walls, Visitor, Weather Warning, Believe, Having A Blast, Rash, The Last To Know, Park, Watch Your Step, Velvet, Dramatic Pause, Eyes, You Owe Me, Jelly / Jello, Trick Or Treat, Flirt, Push The Button, Tears, Nobody Gets Hurt, Freeze, Bad Habits, Needles, Making A Fresh Start, Weekend, In The Jungle, Shake, Cabin Fever, Darkness, Another Lonely Night, Speed, Just Getting Started, Restless, The Wrong Key, Precarious, Do Something!, Knot, Walking On Eggshells, Quiet, Try To Remember, Haywire, No Strings Attached, Jukebox, Far From Home, Whistle, Living It Up, Headache, Used To Be Mine, Last, Hot Summer Night, Yawn, Once In A While, Book, Too Many, Hide, Where Were You?, Pocket, Down The Road, Slide, Two Of A Kind, Genius, Dark And Stormy Night, Haunt/Haunted, Take It Off, Light, Good News, Ocean, The Holiday Season, Winter, Christmas Day, Celebration, In Another Life, Snuggle, Up To Something, Fine, In The Post, Birthday, Under The Weather, Catch, Kiss And Tell, Useful, Practice Makes Perfect, Apology, Kindness Of Strangers, Roll / Rolling, Soap And Water, Idiot, The Hard Way, Cling, Staying Home, Umbrella, Breaking The Rules, Key, Demons And Angels, Heatwave, Fun In The Sun, Someday, You Know Me, Plant, Into The Unknown, Fire, Out Of Sight, Squirrel, Nothing To Do, Alibi, Shattered Glass, Twist, Fright Night, Pumpkin, Dream Of You, Wood, Get Behind Me, Undone, Long Time Gone, Cosy, Warning Labels, Listen, Things Change, Explore, It's About Time, Order, Same Old Story, Chocolate, Wrapped Up In..., Kneel, In Too Deep, Run, Close Your Eyes, Homegrown, Take This With You, Ferret, Quality Time, Historic, Days Like This, Tail, Pass It On, Sweet, Love Who You Love, Parade, In The Shelter, Explode, Leave That Alone, Thunder, Take A Chance, Hand, Don't You Know?, Thread, Burning Bridges, Island, Come Monday, Survive, I Can Explain, Rain, Almost Home, Moon, Tell The Truth, Grind, That's Not Mine, Inspire, Nothing To Lose, Shopping, Have We Got Everything?, Feast, Turn It Up, Sleepless, I'm Alright, Massage, Driving Home, Wall / Walls, Taken By Surprise, Bone, Hard Times, Radio, Is It Just Me?, Buns, Under The Table, Detour, Because Of You, Swing, Here We Go Again, Change, Out Of Control, Single, On The Loose, Down, I'm Trying, Rock, Hold On, Revenge, Out Of Order, Worthless, Give Me Time, Leather, Use Your Imagination, Fancy, The Other Side, Overtime, I Can't Dance, Burn, Money Isn't Everything, Candy, Shame About That, Drop, Not That Different, Wild, See If I Care, Pretend, I Was There, Party, Travelling Light, Water, Someone Like You, Bright, Everyone's A Critic, Mud, The Walk Back, Admit, Up All Night, Mine, It's My Job, Quarrel, Long Way Down, Fantastic, No Big Deal, Gone, In The Dark, Ready, Up To You, Ripple, Over You, Liberty, Stay With Me, Flower, Tangled Up, Waltz, Going To Pot, Shuffle, Where Was I, Control, Have Mercy, Away, Painting The Town, Time, One Step Closer, Rough, I Know That, Lonely, Rocky Road, Hurt, On My Mind, Sunset, Lock And Key, Smoke, To The End,


Reminder of Rules

Entries should be 100 or 200 words exactly, excluding titles and headers. Triple drabbles are now also allowed.
Please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your drabble, though you can if you like.
Each challenge ends when the new challenge is posted.

Have fun!



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oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote2025-12-13 04:32 pm
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What, to absolutely EVERYONE???

I think this is an absolutely terrible idea, and that they should be giving book tokens, and, okay, maybe recommendations, but letting people choose their books:

30 authors on the books they give to everyone

I am in particular stunned by the choices of Some People, e.g. Colm Tóibín's Christmas Downer:

There is a book I buy as a present that never goes out of fashion. It is The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.... the extraordinary plot creeps up and bites you before you know where you are. The narrative curls and twists; the narrator knows too much or too little. But at some point the appalling and ingenious nature of the treachery – what is called “cheating” nowadays – becomes apparent and you feel that you have been let in on some intriguing and explosive secret. It is perfect, thus, for Christmas.

I am also beswozzled by what Tessa Hadley considers comfort reading: Rumer Godden??? Okay, some of her works fall into that category, but on the whole I would not consider the ones she does name - The River in particular - exactly comforting.

Much as I love them, I would not press into anyone's hands Middlemarch, The Fountain Overflows, Cold Comfort Farm or The Pursuit of Love, urging that they they must read this.

I am reminded of GB Shaw's rewrite of the Golden Rule, about not doing to others as you would be done by, as tastes differ.

Take it away, Sly and the Family Stone!

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skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote2025-12-13 10:41 am

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Sometimes I think that if I ever gain full comprehension of the various upheavals and rapid-fire political rotations that followed in the hundred years after the French Revolution, my mind will at that point be big and powerful enough to understand any other bit of history that anyone can throw at me. Prior to reading Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, I knew that in the 1870s there had briefly been a Paris Commune, and also a siege, and hot air balloons and Victor Hugo were involved in these events somehow but I had not actually understood that these were actually Two Separate Events and that properly speaking there were two Sieges of Paris, because everyone in Paris was so angry about the disaster that was the first Siege (besiegers: Prussia) that they immediately seceded from the government, declared a commune, and got besieged again (besiegers: the rest of France, or more specifically the patched-together French government that had just signed a peace treaty with Prussia but had not yet fully decided whether to be a monarchy again, a constitutional monarchy again, or a Republic again.)

As a book, Paris in Ruins has a bit of a tricky task. Its argument is that the miserable events in Paris of 1870-71 -- double siege, brutal political violence, leftists and political reformers who'd hoped for the end of the Glittering and Civilized but Ultimately Authoritarian Napoleon III Empire getting their wish in the most monkey's paw fashion imaginable -- had a lasting psychological impact on the artists who would end up forming the Impressionist movement that expressed itself through their art. Certainly true! Hard to imagine it wouldn't! But in order to tell this story it has to spend half the book just explaining the Siege and the Commune, and the problem is that although the Siege and the Commune certainly impacted the artists, the artists didn't really have much impact on the Siege and the Commune ... so reading the 25-50% section of the book is like, 'okay! so, you have to remember, the vast majority of the people in Paris right now were working class and starving and experiencing miserable conditions, which really sets the stage for what comes next! and what about Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet, our protagonists? well, they were not working class. but they were in Paris, and not having a good time, and depressed!' and then the 50-75% section is like 'well, now the working class in Paris were furious, and here's all the things that happened about that! and what about Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet, our protagonists? well, they were not in Paris any more at this point. But they were still not having a good time and still depressed!'

Sieges and plagues are the parts of history that scare me the most and so of course I am always finding myself compelled to read about them; also, I really appreciate history that engages with the relationship between art and the surrounding political and cultural phenomena that shapes and is shaped by it. So I appreciated this book very much even though I don't think it quite succeeds at this task, in large part because there is just so much to say in explaining The Siege and The Commune that it struggles sometimes to keep it focused through its chosen lens. But I did learn a lot, if sometimes somewhat separately, about both the Impressionists and the sociopolitical environment of France in the back half of the 19th century, and I am glad to have done so. I feel like I have a moderate understanding of dramatic French upheavals of the 1860s-80s now, to add to my moderate understanding of French upheavals in the 1780s-90s (the Revolution era) and my moderate understanding of French upheavals in the 1830s-40s (the Les Mis era) which only leaves me about six or seven more decades in between to try and comprehend.
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språkspion ([personal profile] falena) wrote2025-12-13 05:02 pm

Rec-cember Day 11: The Doomsday Books series by KJ Charles

So, I've already told you, as far as I'm concerned, KJ Charles is the queen of queer historical romance. My second-favourite book series of hers is the Doomsday Books Series, and in particular the first instalment, * The Secret Lives of Country Gentlmen*. Set in Georgian England, in the remote area known for smuggling called Romney Marsh, it focuses on the improbable love affair between a baronet and the head of a famous local smuggling family. Except my description doesn't do it justice at all. The synopsis on GoodReads is not bad. This has a tremendous sense of place, two flawed main characters who experience actual emotional growth, real high-stakes and problems, and lots of plot. Also, as someone who loves the English language with all her heart, I found the use of the local Kent dialect so interesting (no worries, if I got it all as a non-native speaker, anyone will). The sequel, A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing A Scoundrel, set in the same place, 15 years later and is about a minor character of the first book who gets to have his own romance with an earl and solves a mystery that was left unresolved in the first book. It's a lovely book too, I just love the two MCs for the previous book more.

Hearts Alive! by [archiveofourown.org profile] SpaceJackalope. 2.3K. Gen. Set two years after the first book. Fifteen-year-old Luke Doomsday asks Joss for advice about feelings and guys, because he's fallen hopelessly, embarrassingly in love for the first time...with Gareth. This is adorable and so in character. Poor Luke. Being fifteen sucks. There's also a podfic available!

Hearts Alive by [archiveofourown.org profile] innie. I haven't accidentally copied the same link twice, it's a different story, this is just a very popular Kentish exclamation in the books. :D 1.3K. Joss/Gareth, explicit. Joss gets his hands on Gareth The language and the character voices are perfect, it totally reads as a vignette from canon.

Jonathan's Regards by [archiveofourown.org profile] L_Monster. 8K words. Luke/Lord Corvin, explicit. This could totally be a short story bridging a gap in the canon we know of (i.e. when Luke was worked as a secreterary for Lord Corvin). Terrifically in character and hot.

The Pitt

IIRC, last time I recced a Mel/Frank story where Frank had issues and didn't treat Mel well. More in that vein, is this story be a better boyfriend than you by [archiveofourown.org profile] KH_Rogers. Mel/Shen. 31 K words. That’s what they’ll say, in the end: Dr. John Shen swooped Mel up, out of Langdon’s grasp. Good for him. Good for her, finally fucking higher on the food chain. Or, John asks Mel out on a date mid-Langdon turmoil. Mel/Shen wasn't even on my radar, before this fic, but I gave the story a chance because the author is that good...and man, I'm glad I did. KH_Rogers hasa fully fleshed-out version of Shen and he is adorable. Not to mention he doesn't come with all the baggage Langdon has. So, in this story Langdon is a bit of a bastard, if this interpretation sounds like something you can't bear, steer clear, please. However, you should keep an open mind and just read this.

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paranoidangel ([personal profile] paranoidangel) wrote in [community profile] tardis_library2025-12-13 03:41 pm

Rec [fic]: The Annoyances of the Future being Reliant on the Doctor's Pet by ThoughtsCascade

Title: The Annoyances of the Future being Reliant on the Doctor's Pet
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] ThoughtsCascade
Rating: Not Rated
Word Count/Length/Size: 1981 words
Creator's Summary:
Missy heaved a sigh, rolling her eyes. "Time Lady. I can sense time loops. Time travel tastes different." She blinked innocently. "I could pull a Doctor and lick you to check, but really, the smell alone is enough. Would put me off my lunch, if I wasn't an unrepentant murder. Isn't much worse than blood. So. How long, and what was the inciting incident?"

Or, Missy is trapped in a time loop with one Clara Oswald, and neither are particularly pleased with this fact.
Characters/Pairings: Missy, Clara Oswald
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a really interesting time loop - much longer than you generally get when you think of the trope - which makes it fun. And it's also Missy being Missy and being annoyed with Clara, which is fun.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74627976
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candyheartsex ([personal profile] candyheartsex) wrote2025-12-13 10:02 am

Nominations Opening Soon!

The pinned post at the top of the journal now shows the schedule for 2025/2026!

The nomination window will be a little longer this year because approvals will be slower on some days, so nominations will open December 17, 12:01 AM EST.
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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-12-13 08:35 am

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What an incredibly busy week! The year end slide is absolutely in full force. But I have gotten things ordered, gotten things sent, etc.

Yesterday was a day of shoveling the 'rents out a bit, mailing packages, ordering a holiday pie, and picking up my first 3D printed request from the library. It will need some trimming (okay a lot of trimming!) before I even know if it'll work, but it's a conversion head for an HG GINN, to make it into Elijah's GINN. I did in fact tell boycritter that we needed to run to the bookie joint so I could get a little head. It was also their book sale weekend and I ended up with a couple of books, a few CDs, and a half-sized binder of clear-pages that will work great for model decal storage.

The weather was awful midweek. Just absolute snowpocalypse for a couple of days, and the worst was that it warmed up and then the temperature dropped like a rock, so everything is now frozen hell. It's supposed to warm up again next week but idk how much that'll help. I think I burned a lot of my ability to can just driving from place to place. (Also did some untoward things to my shoulders while working under the dash of an old Mustang.)

Really the only interesting thing from my week was a small brightly colored tank, lol. I did have a couple more of my Black Friday purchases finally roll in and I think I've officially crossed the space-to-store-stuff rubicon. ^^; Time to get building.

Also time to catch up on my inbox.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-12-13 09:39 am

Huh

So, I asked on Bluesky:

Aside from Larry Correia, are there any big name Baen authors who debuted at Baen, after Jim Baen's death?

(So, Tim Powers wouldn't count because he debuted not at Baen and also long before JB died)


I got three names: Chuck Gannon, Jason Cordova and Mike Kupari. Gannon actually debuted at Baen in 1994 but only two (I think) short pieces, after which there was a long delay until his novels began appearing. I don't know the other two but SF is huge and it's perfectly possible for me to overlook BNAs. Still, granting all three, with LC that makes four... and in 2028, Toni Weisskopf will have been running Baen for as long as Jim Baen did.

This could, of course, be the natural consequence of the Del Monte approach.

[added later]

Del Monte
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Phaeton ([personal profile] dancing_serpent) wrote in [community profile] c_ent2025-12-13 01:57 pm
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Weekly Chat

The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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