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character asks

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:46:16 GMT

I answered some questions I got on an ask game I posted here.

Cassandra Cain

How I feel about this character. She's one of my favourite DC characters, and one I consider amongst the best yet tragically most underused in the franchise. Her original run was superb (even if it declined in quality overtime, its final arc and her character development remains better and shows more promise than most of what DC's done outside its flagship heroes.
All the people I ship romantically with this character. So many women LMAO. I'm not kidding. Way too many. I have a WIP called "Five women Cassandra Cain slept with after breaking up with the love of her life" and containing myself or even picking just five was a struggle. Kate Kane, Barbara Gordon (in an unrequited love way tbf), Stephanie Brown, Rose Wilson, Diana, Onyx, Brenda Miller… Name me a female character I can see as at least a little bit queer and there's at least a 50/50 chance I can picture them together.
My non-romantic OTP for this character. In canon, Barbara. In my own imagines where I can totally see them becoming best friends, Mia Dearden. Oh, and Tai'Darshan.
My unpopular opinion about this character. Bruce is no better with her than with his other charges, and certainly no "girl dad." And I see Stephcass as doomed and incompatible, in the end.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. In my wildest dreams, her corruption(-then-return) arc would've like. Actually good lmao.

Frodo

How I feel about this character. I've only read LOTR once, a few years ago (in newsletter format, when Dracula Daily and its imitators were all the rage). I can't say I have in-depth thoughts about him (or about much about the saga), but I liked him, more than I expected. I once talked about seeing similarities between him and my first original protagonist, actually.
All the people I ship romantically with this character. I don't strictly ship it myself (to me shipping requires actively seeking out the ship, fanworks, etc.), but it's easy to see why people like Frodo/Sam. Though if I were incline to shipping something with Frodo, I think Frodo/Gollum is where it's at lol. I love a good dark-mirror pairing.
My non-romantic OTP for this character. Golum, for the same reason.
My unpopular opinion about this character. Well, the LOTR fans I've met in person have all gone on about how Frodo isn't All That Great and Samwise is The REAL (Sole) Hero of LOTR, or a much better and character, and I disagree with that. Sam is admirable in many fronts, but I find Frodo very aspirational and, frankly, more interesting.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. I can't think of anything. The one change I always want to do to LOTR is basically "hey what about putting more, and more relevant, women in here?", so I guess that's what I would've done with his companions lol. Or with Frodo himself. Bring in Frodelia.

Willow Rosenberg

How I feel about this character. Willow is a character I sometimes saw myself reflected in a bit too much for my liking, in ways that maybe aren't obvious at first sight, which could be uncomfortable sometimes LOL. That said, with every rewatch I've done since I first watched the show, I've found myself loving her more and more. I'd consider her one of my top favourite characters in the entire 'verse. This could mean I'm winning the self-esteem war xD
All the people I ship romantically with this character. Tara, Faith, Kennedy, Kendra, Buffy, Amy, Anya… I'd probably add more women to the list if I had the show more recent LOL.
My non-romantic OTP for this character. Buffy. And although I'm saying this a bit begrudgingly because I do have my issues with the guy (though not as many/not the same as other people's), Xander LOL. Their scene in the season 6 finale always made me sob.
My unpopular opinion about this character. I don't even know where to begin LOL. I feel Willow, like many others in this 'verse, is a very polarising character, so every opinion seems fair game. I think liking Killow/Wennedy (?) is relatively unpopular, though.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. I have seen people say they wish the show had done more with her Jewish faith. On the one hand, I think it could've been interesting to explore something like that vis a vis paganism, but honestly she never felt all that observant to me and I don't know that I'd believe any ~crisis of faith stuff with her, on that front. But that could've been interesting too, showing her reject cultural and religious practices, etc.

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exodus

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:04:54 GMT

We've all heard about tumblr right? LOL. If nothing else, I do hope this means more people (especially those I already know and like from there!) consider joining dreamwidth. It'd be a good outcome. And even if they end up reverting the update (I'm not holding my breath) I still want to use this journal more. At the moment I'm crossposting old fics here every two days, so in the meantime, I hope I'll keep the momentum and post other things on days in-between. Today, I thought I'd start with telling you guys about some of the things I've been reading and watching lately (a lot of them last week, because I got sick and I took shameless advantage of that).

tellshannon815 mentioned "56 Days" by Catherine Ryan Howard in a recent-ish post. A few days later I finished it LOL. As of now I've read three more thrillers by this author ("The Trap", "The Liar's Girl", and "The Nothing Man"). With some nitpicks here and there, I've really enjoyed them, especially the last one. The author is really good at landing twists and her character work is quite good. I really appreciate how... real, I find her female characters, and her voice when she's writing from the POVs of the killers is particularly perturbing in its mundane evilness.

I also read a few comics. Caught up with Absolute Wonder Woman (it's fine, but at the moment I think my interest has waned, sadly), and I read Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring (with the original comic, I loved #1 and thought the last issue landed really well, even if the middle wasn't as good. With this one, I think what failed to landed properly is the ending, but I really enjoyed the rest) and The Night Eaters, the other comic by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. I definitely recommend that one, it's a very engaging and inspiring read.

Although these will be long-term projects LOL, I've finally gotten around to start both the Vorkosigan saga and the Earthsea cycle. In the latter case I've only read "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names", two sort stories that ~planted seeds for what the larger series would be, but I hope to start the first novel... soon-ish (I own the complete illustrated collection, which is very pretty and all, but not something you can carry around without breaking your back xD, and next week I might have to travel). Meanwhile, I did read "Shards of Honor", and loved it. I found the couple really charming in their absolutely charmless way LOL, and the book did a really good job convincing me that they were the perfect partner for each other and that Cordelia made the right choice when [redacted].

After my third attempt, I completed the Psych series, films included (minus additional material I have no interest in). It's a really fun romp with lovable characters, and I really appreciate that the lead couple made the choice to be childfree. For now, at least, I don't trust tv writers on this lol. Which is why I wouldn't be at all heartbroken if there were no more movies, tbqh.

There are many other shows I should've caught up with instead, but alas. Right now, other than the above, I'm only watching the weekly episodes of Grey's Anatomy and The Pitt. I have little to say about the first one (and might stop watching it until the season is over and I have time to catch up), and plenty about the latter LOL, though most of that I've reserved it for conversations with other people on tumblr. The second season hasn't been as good as the first, and unfortunately I think a lot of it is how much Collins's absence is felt: without her, the female characters as a whole feel unmoored, while she connected them all. The show's misogynistic and racist biases pop up more, in ways that can't be attributed to "characters showing flaws." But a lot of it continues to be really engaging, and I am more and more interested in the female characters week after week. I wish I could know everything about them LOL, but I'll be content with the crumbs this format allows!! Santos continues to be my dearest darling, but I'm also really enjoying others like Al-Hashimi or Javadi or García. Or Mohan, though her storyline has left a lot to be desired.

And now, for an ask game:

GIVE A CHARACTER
and I’ll break their ass down:

How I feel about this character
All the people I ship romantically with this character
My non-romantic OTP for this character
My unpopular opinion about this character
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

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dialogue ask game

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:25:30 GMT

I saw kitarella_imagines do this game (that she created herself) a few days ago. I'm sick and bored at home, and thought it would be fu

Look at your last 10** fics.
Make a list of their first lines of dialogue, with any necessary description. No cheating, I mean don't go through your fic looking for the best line of dialogue.
Post them and we'll see if we can guess what the story will be about from the dialogue.

I had to go back 27 fics, because many of my more recent fics have no dialogue at all LMAO (only the first three of these lists are part of my "last 10 fics").

"You and I should go to the Rivers Casino," Santos told her, blasé as ever. "Bet you're really good at counting cards."
"Pick another movie."
"Oh, sweetie —I promise, I'm going to take such good care of you."
"Well, that's much nicer than—" Diana raised her index fingers to each side of her head, in mockery of bat ears, and in perfect imitation said "—get out of my city."
"Hey," he says, raising a hand, awkward, charmingly boyish. Looking directly at him can often hit her with a way of nostalgia for her own lost youth, so she keeps her gaze in the mirror.
"You're really enjoying yourself."
"You let them beat you up?"
"Did you come to pick a fight?" she asked, circling Dinah like a predator, sliding the tip of one finger through her shoulder blades. Dinah, subconsciously, corrected her posture.
"I miss her," she whispered.
"I thought you'd have bigger and better things than coming to give me a lift home."

Now let's see how many of these you guess!

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first lines

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:33:29 GMT

I took this challenge from ravensilversea here. I thought it would be fun!

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 14 (posted) fics and see if there’s a pattern!

I picked 14 because that's how many fics I've published, as of now, in 2026. They have all being crossposted here on dreamwidth (and since the start of this month I've begun doing the same with older ones).

Now, in reverse order of publication:

"You and I should go to the Rivers Casino," Santos told her, blasé as ever. "Bet you're really good at counting cards." ace in the hole. The Pitt, Javadi/Santos.

Kyle would think he must be dreaming —except for how he's never felt so present in his body, so keenly aware of the nerve endings in each of his fingertips. So exultant, and at once, fearful. carnal idolatry. Terminator, Kyle/Sarah.

As it did every so often, Laura's mind drifted towards poor, ill-fated Bertha. hating me through death and after. Carmilla (J. Sheridan Le Fanu's novella), Carmilla/Laura.

It's everything she could have dreamed, as if her world has expanded —not just around her, the world she can touch and hear and affect and be affected by, but on the inside; she's finally faced with a challenge, and for the first time she feels like she is all but stumbling, scrambling and struggling to catch up, under-educated and plainly naïve and oblivious. true thirst. Bridgerton, Eloise x academia.

Tara is a bitch; she doesn't swallow her tongue or her pain like a good dainty woman —a model heroine, turning the other cheek with a smile for those who harmed her; she lacks that saintly forgiving heart. hearsay. DC comics, Tara Markov.

"Pick another movie." bat-man and robins. Stranger Things, Dusteve pre-slash.

The little girl didn't look much like Mia, for where she shared their father's features —compact but athletic build, hair like hay, chocolate-brown eyes, easily-tanned skin, sharp jaw—, the kid had grown to resemble her own ailing mother: lanky, porcelain-pale, with tight black curls and a moon-shaped face; but in her half-sister's eyes, if the wrong shade of brown, Mia spotted the same haunted quality that she'd seen in the mirror, over fifteen years ago. better than being the prey. DC comics, Mia Dearden.

Her new body's palms are rough, something as extravagant as moisturizer undeniably foreign to them; bathrobe fallen on the ground, Josephine uses coarse fingertips to examine its imperfections —idle, she picks at the unevenly tanned skin; lingering, she rubs them against the leather rash in the inner tights; vicious, she nudges the tender bruise on the belly. pillage. The 100, Clarke/Josephine.

The wool fell off Maika's eyes long ago; she knew Tuya intimately, the way you're bound to when someone cracked open your chest cavity and burrowed a place for themselves within your very bones, blood, and viscera. bloodless, Monstress (Image Comics), Maika/Tuya.

Nona practices in the mirror. mimicry. The Locked Tomb, Nona x Camilla.

When Helena startles awake, the last thing her eyes caught on were the elevator doors closing on their way to the severed floor, and the first thing they see now are the tiles on her father's kitchen floor; the second, him, gasping, desperate, choking on his own blood, the offending device in his hand; the third, the knife in her own blood-soaked hands. clean hands. Severance, Helena & Helly R.

The dreams are all the more unsettling, eerie, because nothing wrong happens in them; Henry Creel comes to her as Mr. Whatsit —as a protector, as a friend, with a pleasant face and a gentle voice and a pair of warm hands, tucking her into bed and plying her with gifts and promises of safety and freedom and adventure. her arms, a fortress. Stranger Things, Holly & Nancy.

It takes a village to raise Diana: grown warriors, scholars, pioneers, who see her as the child they once indulged —yet her body changes and her desire grows, itching under her skin with melancholic jealousy, barred from the women's games and rituals. replica. DC comics, Diana/Donna.

We want you open —like a flower whose petals desperately seek the warmth of the sun; like the loud pop of a yogurt's lid, then licked clean; like a patient's skull drilled into after the skin has been carefully split apart with a scalpel. communion. Pluribus, The Hive x Carol.

Well, one thing across the board is that I can string a long (but hopefully understandable) sentence lmao, but to be fair, all but four of these were for the three sentence ficathon. It's a feature, not a bug xD. You MUST do terrible things to punctuation. And on top of being strict about the just-three-sentence rule, I give myself an extra one by keeping the ficlets at precisely 100/200/etc. words.

Something else I've always noticed is that in fics that are meant to be humorous I do tend to start mid-dialogue. Snappy banter is the perfect tool for that.

Also, these are all very short ficlets (the longest one is Carmilla's, a triple drabble sequence of 900 words, and all the others have 300, 200, and mostly 100 words). So they're very to-the-point fics, as well as character-centric ones, where I immediately (or nearly so) dive into the character's state of mind. In many other stories I prefer to start setting-first, or action-first, to ground them in whatever I feel should get the focus to set the story, and in some of these you can see the barest bit of context like that, but short-form limits you. And yet, working within those limits to imbue each sentence with all the relevant information, trying to find the right spin on a description, is incredibly fun.

It could be interesting to do this again later on in the year, maybe when I have posted longer fics that aren't limited to drabble form (except one, which I kept 300 words long just for fun, all of these where either for the three sentence ficathon, or seasons of drabbles). I think there could be a lot of shorter first lines, stuff that's meant to paint a vivid but immediate picture on the reader's mind without so many twists and turns. I like to target the senses, too (smell, etc.) in order to achieve it, maybe using a bit of "shocking" imagery to get the point across.

So I'm definitely keeping this meme in mind to go back to it later on ^-^

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FANFIC: better than being the prey (DC / Green Arrow comics)

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:25:18 GMT

This is a premise I've thought about a lot. Maybe one day I'll write it to its full potential, but as usual, I love to use short-form writing to dip my toe in longer, more ambitious stories.

Title: better than being the prey.
Fandom: DC comics (post-crisis / Green Arrow).
Character/Pairing: Mia Dearden.
Summary: written for the prompt: "Any, Any, Heart of a hunter" in the Three Sentence Ficathon.
Word count: 200.

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The little girl didn't look much like Mia, for where she shared their father's features —compact but athletic build, hair like hay, chocolate-brown eyes, easily-tanned skin, sharp jaw—, the kid had grown to resemble her own ailing mother: lanky, porcelain-pale, with tight black curls and a moon-shaped face; but in her half-sister's eyes, if the wrong shade of brown, Mia spotted the same haunted quality that she'd seen in the mirror, over fifteen years ago.

Hardened heart, that night she wasn't a hero, someone who believed wrongs could be righted, the right way; she was the child who learned they couldn't be, when complicity and apathy and power came together as an impenetrable shield.

It proved to be a flawed design, perfect to protect only reputations, against the swift arm of righteous justice; Mia chose to incarnate something altogether different, ancient, primordial —and in the morning, as the world arose to the shock of their apostle on the ground, gunshot to the throat, suffocated in his own blood, a casualty to petty thief… Mia drove away, frigid heart and dry eyes; the heroic cape she once wrapped herself in, at once proud flag and safety blanket, now barred from her.

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Author's note: I won't lie, I'm very happy I got to write two parricide stories in this event xD

And I'm taking the chance to do a little promo for the DCU Femslash February Comment Fest I'm running on my DC F/F community during this month! Come and participate :P

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a WIP meme

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:53:29 GMT

I'm grabbing this tag game from tumblr, where I was tagged by a couple of friends ^-^

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Tag as many people as you have WIPs. People can send an ask with the title(s) that most intrigue them, then you post a snippet or tell them about it!

I used this as an excuse to pare-down my WIP list, something I've meant to do since the beginning of the year. It's err. Still sizeable lol, so here I've made a shorter selection featuring stories I do have more material for and/or hope to be able to finish in 2026. Though honestly, this year I'll be more about drabbles/short form/prompts and inspiration as it comes than about WIPs.

8 + 11 - 🇨🇳
Amnesiac Jason
Damon & Elena, Marriage of Doom
Desperate Housewives/Supernatural crossover
Dusteve & co in the 00s
Echoven in the Ark
Five women Cassandra Cain slept with after breaking up with The Love of Her Life
Jaymia ft. wiggly knife
No Death in the Family pt. I
SilverMax Russian Doll AU

Feel free to 1) ask me about any of these, and/or 2) make a WIP list yourself and let me know about it in the comments!

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snowflake 2k26 #14-15

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:41:25 GMT

Challenge #14
In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I compiled recs for a few of my fandoms for challenge #4, but I wanted to do something slightly different.

My main fandom right now is, and has been for a while, DC comics. The world of DC is vast and pretty much everyone knows one corner or another within it, but a lot of people find comics specifically hard to get into. So I thought I'd make a list of some runs or story arcs I enjoyed!

These aren't comprehensive, or a How To Get Into Comics primer. I'm not an expert, and I have read more of certain group of characters (Bats) than others, even if I want to expand. Here I've mostly tried to make a lists of comics you can read on their own without getting too turned around.

I keep recommending Wonder Woman: Historia, but it's for good reason. It has only three issues (there were supposed to be more, and there might be at some point, but as it is, the story stands on its own). It tells the story of the Amazons, how they came to be, how Hippolyta became their queen, and how Themyscira was born. It does a lot of interesting thing with the concept of narratives (who they serve, how they're twisted), with a solid feminist stance that often feels missing from Wonder Woman comics, especially recent ones.

The above rec stands on its own, as I said, but I personally think my experience was enhanced by reading Wonder Woman (1987) #1, another Amazons-origin story that clearly inspired. And although I hesitate to recommend ongoing stories, and I don't trust that the universe this one is set in won't become its own mess sooner rather than later lol, Absolute Wonder Woman is pretty good and feels like it's in conversation with Historia. If you like the miniseries, you might want to check it out.

Another Wonder Woman comic I'd recommend, since I'm here, it's Wonder Woman: The Once And Future Story by Trina Robbins. It's a one-shot that deals with domestic violence, and it's very 80s at times, but solid, and impactful.

Webtoons are a very accessible way to get into comics, and maybe I should've started with these xDD. A lot of people know Wayne Family Adventures, but it's not my favourite, and in recent years it's abandoned their vignette structure in favour of year-long plots in a way I feel does it no favours. The ones I REALLY liked were Zatanna & The Ripper and Vixen: NYC. They have a plot tying them together but they're complete, and they are about less-known characters and include some secondary ones that really shine. In the first one, Zatanna is thrown into the 19th century and has to fight the mysterious, famous serial killer, and in the second one, Mari moves to NYC for college and discovers a lot about her heritage and her powers. The first one includes Constantine, and the second one has Anissa Pierce and Grace Choi as supporting cast (they might sound familiar if you watched Black Lightning), as well as Beast Boy, for example.

Far Sector (#1-12) by N.K. Jemisin is another good rec. I feel I know just the basics of Green Lantern lore, but this comic works at being self-explanatory, putting us in a new world and showing us its specific rules. It does some interesting things with its sci-fi setting and with its lead character, who I hope I read more about sooner rather than later. Sojourner "Jo" Mullein, the lead, is the Green Lantern in the Absolute universe, as far as I know, but I have my misgivings about that 'verse outside of Wonder Woman and I haven't jumped into it.

Greg Rucka is one of the most solid comic authors out there, and one that's easier to recommend than my other faves because it feels like SOME of his work is more approachable/self-explanatory lol. There are a lot of things I could rec but for this purpose, I'll go with Gotham Central. It's longer than the recs above (40 issues), and sometimes it touches on events surrounding it at the time, but I think it can be read on its own because the whole point of it is that Batman is in the background, a looming thread or suspicious ally, and not a central figure. It focuses on the police force, with all it entails, but it's good writing and it has some amazing story arcs, especially for Renee Montoya.

Oracle: Year One (in Batman Chronicles #5). If you never read a Bat-related story other than this one in your life, that'd be fine by me lol. This should be longer than one (1) story, not even full-length, in an anthology series, but alas, DC is DC. Still. An absolute must-read, with Barbara coming out of the other end of the Joker's attack. As we all know what happens in The Killing Joke (and that barely focuses on Barbara, lbr), it's unnecessary to revisit it in order to read OY1.

Barda by Ngozi Ukazu. It's a YA comic, auto-conclusive. I have not read much (yet) about New Gods, Apokolips and so on, and yet that never detracted from it. It feels like a good way to dip your toe into that side of the comics, which sometimes feels intimidating, and it has a very moving storyline featuring both love and resistance, with a couple that has caught my eye before due to how they seem to defying the usual gender roles.

Green Lantern/Green Arrow (#1-7). This is the "Hard Traveling Heroes" arc some people might've heard about, where the two characters embark on a road trip across the USA and deal with The Issues plaguing it at the time. It is VERY 70s, in many ways, but I appreciate its candor and its gumption. It includes the introduction of John Stewart, which would be pretty fucking revolutionary today (as comics now are very defanged about racial issues in particular, IMO), and Roy Harper's addiction backstory.

Devin Grayson is one of my favourite comic authors, but I'm bad at sussing out how accessible she is, as her stories are deeply entrenched in What I Know Best lol. I feel like her Gotham Knights series might be a better fit for this list, but I haven't read it as a run, instead picking specific issues that crossed with one story arc or another. So I will instead recommend her Catwoman run, which stands on its own and indulges in my favourite version of the character --not the more heroic one, but the weirdo misanthrope thief with commitment issues who thrived when challenged LOL. The specific issues you'd have to read are from Catwoman (1993), #54-71. She also wrote the Annual #4 (before issue #54) and #1000000 (before #63), but those are separate from that run and its plots. One thing I really appreciate from this run is how largely absent Batman is from it, allowing Selina to develop outside of that romance.

Black Lightning: Year One. Only six-issues long, it show us the origins of Jefferson Pierce. It's a light, enjoyable read, and I'd recommend it on its own (+ it has a good portrayal of Talia al Ghul absent in most other comics of its time, which I appreciate!). But I admit I have an agenda when I recommend it... it's because I think it'll make the next installment on the list more understandable for beginners xDD

The Other History of the DC Universe. This 5-issues mini-series is not a really good fit on this list, but it's one of the best and bravest comics written in this decade and I must recommend it because of it. It expands on important events in the main continuity of comics, specifically those of the post-crisis era (1987-2011), aka my preferred continuity. But with a big difference: it centers the perspective of heroes of colour, giving them voices (and quite critical at that!) and portraying them as complex, full people, with their own shades of grey. It makes a lot of people uncomfortable for it, and for how it doesn't shy away from criticising fan-favourite white heroes, but that's precisely why I love it: it's not trying to appease people or to flatten events and characterisation. The first issue is narrated by Jefferson Pierce, aka Black Lightning, and the last issue by Anissa Pierce, his lesbian daughter. #4 is about Renee Montoya. As you see, some of the previous rec will make you more familiar with them, but I only know the other characters (Mal and Karen in #2, and Tatsu in #3) more superficially and I still found those issues impactful, so YMMV.

And because I am who I am, I must close this list recommending something about Jason Todd. One day I will make a list featuring ALL the Jason comics I think are worth reading, in the order I'd personally think best, full of asterisks and amendments. But for now, I'll settle for what I think ought to be the first thing one should read about him: Batman #408-411. AKA, his origin story in the post-crisis continuity. Everything else ought to come after that. And it's a good starting point not only for him, but for the Batman mythos at large, as it sets the tone for that new continuity and gives us information about backstories/where the characters are at now.

Challenge #15
How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go? Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Well, the part of me that struggles to be Organised, something that doesn't come easily LOL, is a bit miffed that this year I didn't manage to post every entry on its "correct" date xD, but I'm trying not to listen to that part! I did complete the challenge, and I got to talk to a lot of people and add new friends thanks to it. I'm not asking for anything more. Hopefully, even if it won't be as active after the challenge, I'll still find those things in DW!

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three sentence ficathon - second batch

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:09:12 GMT

(first batch)

Here are the drabbles I wrote for the second post of the 3SF.

-Monstress, Maika/Tuya, "bloodless" (any, any, i may think of you softly from time to time but i'll cut off my hand before i ever reach for you again). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-The 100, Clarke/Josephine, "pillage" (Any, any, who left the blue veins of your throat unkissed?). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-DC comics, Mia Dearden, "better than being the prey" (Any, Any, Heart of a hunter). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-DC comics, Tara Markov, "hearsay" (Teen Titans (Any Media Type), Tara Markov, and they’d all be so disappointed / ‘cause who am I, if not exploited?). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

While not for the 3SF, I've also written a triple drabble, bat-man and robins, featuring Dustin & Steve from Stranger Things ft. some talk about DC characters. Because why not mix two current interests.

Also these are the prompts I left, in case they inspire anyone :P

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snowflake 2k26 #13

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:48:35 GMT

Challenge #13.
TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

In my last entry I got a bit into why I like dreamwidth, and wish to use it more / have more people around.

Storygraph is another site I want to use more this year, taking full advantage of it & all its amenities. Once I get back to reading problem in... a month or so, hopefully, after I've crossed some bridges IRL that are taking most of my time at the moment xD

Goodreads is thee book review site, and I still visit sometimes (or plan use it to boost some stuff, indie writers and the like), but there are a lot of reasons why it never quite worked for me and every other week there seems to be some huge drama on that front, sometimes resembling a social media site more than a book review archive. I use storygraph for what it's meant to be used and it's a much more relaxed environment, which again, I appreciate. And I like all the options it offers -more exacting star rates, tags, a set of options to help describe the book's characteristics and help others find it (i.e. is it character centric? Plot-focused? etc.). It's quite useful and intuitive.

If you guys have storygraph, feel free to let me know your username and befriend me there! If not... I recommend getting one and playing around with it ^-^

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snowflake 2k26 #12

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:42:25 GMT

Challenge #12
Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song... whatever moves you!

A lot of My Fandom People are disseminated in other sites, most prominently tumblr and discord. Though I do try to get them into dreamwidth, trust me xD. The environment here is one I prefer, frankly: it's slower, and feels calmer, less prone to the kind of drama that plagues those others. In some cases we follow and talk to each other across all platforms, taking advantage of the benefits of each (curse discord as I might in many areas, in terms of direct messages, it's definitely the best one, for example).

I don't think of myself as a gregarious person; I get exhausted quickly by large crowds, especially. In fandom it's much of the same: I feel more comfortable in small fandoms, and whenever I join a larger one, I set to find a small corner of it where I'm in my element.

My preferences often make this easier, because they're rarely in alignment with fandom majorities. Thanks to that I've found My People in numerous corners, from the chill group I gathered while The 100 (a large, wank-prone fandom) was airing, to the buddies I've made in the DC fandom (Even Worse xD), to the ones I met in the tiny environment of writeblr, when I was still around those parts, or that I'm meeting now with Pluribus, for example. My oldest fandom friends, I met in the Shadowhunters fandom, my first active one. A trainwreck, but again, I met a lot of people there that I'm still friends with today :D

In many cases we've followed each other through several fandoms, sometimes meeting, sometimes diverging for a while. Sometimes following each other beyond fandom, taking interests in each other's professional pursuits, in each other's personal lives. Some of the people I've met here know things about me that I wouldn't tell those I personally know off-line, and with their mere presence, support, and engagement, have helped me through Some Shit.

I'll always be glad that I took the leap from lurker to active fandom participant (and creator). I genuinely don't know how I would've stayed sane through my early twenties without the people I met around here. Some of them, I no longer talk with; some just follow me on tumblr and we only sporadically like each other's posts. But others have become lasting friendships that sustain me to this day, And I'm extremely grateful for that!

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snowflake 2k26 #11

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:21:14 GMT

Challenge #11
In your own space, grant someone's wish from Challenge #5. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it and include a link to your own post with the wishes you granted if you feel comfortable doing so.

I had already done this once here, and today I went through a few links and also did it in a few others (x, x, x, x, x). These are all recommendations, things I could fulfill quickly, ranging from music to books to TV shows, one recipe... Maybe there's something in one of them you'll enjoy :D

In my own wish list I asked for collaboration with a new community I created, dcfemslashevents, where I promote and organise events focused on femslash of the DC fandom. And I got that, with several people asking to be members! Now, as an extension of that, I would love if people could participate, or at least spread the word, of the first event: a comment fest where we'll encourage people to leave comments on DC f/f creations of all kinds during Femslash February.

In that list I also talked about femslash ships I would like to see more fanfic of, and I ended up requesting some of them for seasonsofdrabbles (and for the three sentence ficathon), where I specifically asked for stuff from the DCU (with some focus on Wonder Woman/Amazons), Pluribus, Foundation, Black Sails, The 100, Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, and Stranger Things. It's a really fun event, and I'd recommend to check up the sign-up and requests summaries to see if there's any fandom/prompt you might want to write a treat for. Mine can be seen here on tumblr :D

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snowflake 2k26 #10

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:29:29 GMT

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board).
CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I love putting on music to set the mood while I'm writing. Among other things, but I get a bit more involved with Writing Playlists than with Studying Playlists or Workout Playlists (where I often just download a instrumental blues/trap youtube playlists respectively and call it a day LOL). I download my music instead of using spotify or similar services, so I can always drag the few chosen songs I want for a while, switch it up, add and remove songs, have them on repeat if that's what's working at the moment... And I always use instrumental music, because it's great for building an atmosphere without distracting me.

I thought I'd share the songs I've been putting on to write lately! Although other than some outlining/looking over WIPs, these days I've mostly just done a handful of threesentenceficathon prompts lol (you can see them here, alongside my own prompts in the first post of the event. #selfpromo).

Dave Porter - A Carol for Carol. The entirety of Pluribus's soundtrack is in rotation, but this one is my favourite.
Bear McCreary - Wondrous Love. Black Sails's soundtrack (and Bear McCreary in general) is another recurrent visit around here LOL.
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for violin, strings, and basso continuo in A minor RV356 No. 6 Op.3 "L'estro Armonico."
Christophe Beck - Close Your Eyes.
Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna. Usually I pick songs he did for Black Swan but this one is getting to me more, lately.
Ara Malikian - Bachelorette (Björk cover).
Lolita Ritmanis - Catwoman: Chase Me.
Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL - Beautiful Lie. Another A+ soundtrack IMO.
Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer's Theme.
Kerenza Peacock - Dancing Folk: I. First Movement.
Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark.
Bioshock soundtrack - Welcome to Rapture. I can't concentrate enough to play videogames but I sure love their OSTs.
Jed Kurzel - The Covenant. The Alien prequels' soundtrack also goes in and out a lot lol.

I would love to hear your favourite instrumental songs, albums, film or videogame soundtracks... More to add to the list :P

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three sentence ficathon - first batch (of hopefully more!)

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:02:56 GMT

The threesentenceficathon is live and already has over 40 pages of prompts, bless xD. I wrote a few!

-Pluribus, Carol/The Hivemind, "communion" (any, any F/F, i want to fucking tear you apart). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-DC comics, Diana/Donna, "replica" (Any, Any F/F selfcest, i just touch myself and say / "i'll make my own damn way."), dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-Stranger Things, Holly & Nancy + Holly & Henry, "her arms, a fortress" (Stranger Things, Holly & Nancy Wheeler, nightmares). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-Severance, Helena & Helly & Jame Eagan, "clean hands" (any, any female character, every woman is allowed to commit patricide). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-The Locked Tomb, Nona & Camilla, "mimicry" (The Locked Tomb, Nona, Like Humans Do). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

I also prompted quite a few things:

Edited with one last fill + 3 more prompts, as the first post of the ficathon just closed.

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snowflake 2k26 #9

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:56:14 GMT

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'm one of those people whose mind goes momentarily blank when asked "what are your favourite X?", so normally it'd take me a little while to think of this LOL. Luckily, because I signed up for a few challenges this year (most recently seasonsofdrabbles , still open for sign-ups for one more day), I had a list of tropes ready to be copypasted and, why not, expanded upon!

-Amnesia. I am a sucker for a good memory loss plot. Especially when you add angst and manipulation to it. I.e. what if someone did it purposefully? What if someone takes advantage of a character's lack of recalling of XYZ event that would've otherwise make them less trusting? And so on. I have a WIP in the works (so like, maybe for 2028 lol) that centers around such a premise, specifically in the DC fandom, with Jason and the bats. It starts with a Jason who, after being on the wrong end of a psychic attack, had Bruce heal his mind... and take some creative licenses while he was at it. Shortly after I first started developing the idea, Gotham War came out. My story would work very differently, but for a moment there, the coincidence was hilarious.

-Time travel/loop. Especially when it doesn't fix anything, when it offers you a view of a past you can't fix, or that you can't keep. Unsurprisingly I do have some ideas involving that trope in DC, most notably one inspired by a post about Damian traveling in time and meeting a younger, carefree Talia (the time travel would be part of a larger story where I would reimagine and rework a lot of what canon does with the al Ghuls and that I don't care much for, but still).

And, well, time loops just have GREAT potential for character exploration. You can really get deep inside a character's fears with one!

-Exploration of canon historical settings, lore, worldbuilding, etc. I love it when fics explore what real events in a particular era would've been like in canon, when they get deep into the intricacies of the setting's world, etc. It really enriches the experience, and I hope my future fics can do that, at some point.

-Canon divergence. In general, I love reading and writing stories that explore "what if" scenarios, sticking close to canon up to that point so that we get to see what would diverge... and what wouldn't. When those steps are done with care and forethought, it can be incredible.

-Adapting to disability. I joke about how I love hitting characters with the stick of disability, and I do LOL. I have WIPs in the works (also, again, mostly with DC xD) where I blind characters, paralyze them, cut off their limbs, give them chronic illnesses, terminal illnesses... Or explores the ones canon gave them, too. I love stories that are... less about whump (though that too, sometimes; it's just that I feel it's not a balanced phenomenon, tbh), and more about how the character deals (or doesn't deal) with the changes

-Angst. I'm here to suffer. I want to read stories that leave me melancholic, despondent, shaking, crying. There's nothing like a well-written bittersweet or tragic ending.

-Unusual forms of fics (epistolary, outsider POV, interactive, etc.). It's incredibly fun what people can do with it! I still think about the minesweeper Murderbot fic...

-Adventures, heists, escapes, etc. It's just FUN. And it's plot. I love a navel-gazing character study as much as the next gal but sometimes I want to read and write A Story Featuring My Blorbos.

-Lovers to enemies. Incredibly underrated trope because nothing hits like this, IMO. Again, I obviously like to get my heart broken by fiction xD

-Betrayal. Another angsty trope that hits just right. I love especially to see the aftermath of it: how do the characters move forward? Can they move forward? Should they move forward? It's easy to see why Black Sails is one of my favourite shows lol; I've never seen it used so extensively and yet so differently and so well every. single. time. And I don't watch Doctor Who (I've tried, multiple times, it just doesn't stick), but every once in a while I think about this scene between Twelfth and Clara I've only seen out of context (used masterfully in a Silverflint gifset here btw).

-Mourning. Loss is a terrible and I want more stories that deal with the full scope of it, that truly make you feel it. Pluribus has certainly done it well, in depth, and in all manner of ways, and it's one of the reasons the show stole my heart as quickly as it did.

-Mind control. And specifically characters fighting it, navigating it, having to deal with the consequences of it. In general, stories about compromised agency and how the characters deal with it are my favourite thing in the world.

-Abuse aftermath. The above relates to this: characters with compromised, diminished, and stolen agency and how they fight, fawn, confront, deny, heal, stunt... all of that is catnip to me.

-Role reversal. A particular form of "what if" that can be fascinating if done right! If everything was the same except with this two characters swapping places... what would happen? What would change? What wouldn't? I don't have plans to write it, but I have thought about a role reversal AU for Jason Todd and Mia Dearden (Jason becomes the second Speedy; Mia becomes the second Robin) a lot, ever since a mutual talked to me about his (as yet unrealised, sadly) version of the idea. Even explored it a little bit here.

I could continue, but I feel that the list is more than long enough :P

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snowflake 2k26: #7-8

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:57:02 GMT

Challenge #7.
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

I am good at improvising, at coming up with solutions and at dealing with sudden unexpected turns.
I value the fact that I'm honest and straightforward with people, and I value when others are the same way. I rather someone deal with the awkwardness of telling me an uncomfortable truth than try to appease me or protect my ego, and I try to be as honest (yet never cruel) with both others and myself. Sometimes it's not worth it and you might wash your hands off it, sure, but if you want to maintain a relationship, in any form, with a person in the long-term, it's necessary.
I have a good ear for music.
I am a creative, imaginative and competitive writer, and while I think there are many aspects of writing where I definitely have room for improvement, I'm willing to put in the work and confident in my ability to get better.
I'm really fucking funny, if I can say so myself.
I have a good memory and I write a really good essay. This, along #1, greatly helped in university LOL.

Challenge #8.
Talk about your creative process.

This is something I've tried to fight, but it's high time I came to terms with the fact that I'm not a long-term planner LOL. Not an outline writer, at all, in either fiction or non-fiction (essays, as I said). There's a reason why I love writing drabbles[1] and short-form in general: I'm great at those burst of creativity, getting the story out in one sitting, and then going through it and refining it, changing it if needed, until it's exactly in the shape I want it to be.

Of course, this is a bit more challenging with long-form stories, of which I have many in my folders. I'm still learning, through trial and error, what works for me and what doesn't on that front. But trying to overplan and decide on things ahead to stick closely to a plan was never it. I need that room for sudden, in-the-moment inspiration to take me away and see where it leads. Only when a draft is complete through this method, instead of getting caught up in it or trying to stick to a schedule, can I then approach it as my harshest, first alpha reader LOL. Seeing it as a whole, kill my darlings when needed, tightened the loose threads, tweak and reinforce what works.

[1]Speaking of! Sign-ups for Season of Drabbles (and nominations for the tag set) are open until this Sunday. Be sure to check it out, if you're interested!

Also, fandomtrees is almost ready, with (at the time I write this, it's changing quickly) only three gifts left to complete it before reveals (tomorrow, if that goes well). Take a look, and see if they might be of a fandom you're in!.

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snowflake 2k26: #3 + #5-6

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:01:16 GMT

Challenge #3
Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

There is a lot of things about fandom that deserve praise, as much as it can get frustrating sometimes. For this particular post, though, I want to give a bit of a shout-out to a small, often overlooked part of fandom: the femslash corners of it <3

In some particular fandoms those corners are pretty huge and active, which is delightful to see, but in general f/f has a smaller presence than other categories. However, the creativity that buzzes in said corners is always beautiful to see. The people who feel passion for it are truly dedicated and put their all into their creations.

I love writing it myself. I'm looking forward to the next instances of the threesentenceficathon or seasonsofdrabbles for that very purpose, because I know those kinds of events are great sources of inspiration for myself (and hey, maybe if I'm lucky, I'll receive some small f/f gifts myself :P). I'm also going to keep an eye on 100femslash and see if I can complete the challenge myself.

And... I was simply going to mention my plans, but I went ahead and dived into the deep end of the pool and created dcfemslashevents , exactly what it says on the tin: a community to host and organise (and boost) femslash events for DC characters! As the sticky post says, there are some plans for this year underway, and I'll likely talk more about it during the Snowflake Challenge, if I get the chance.

Challenge #5
In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

Let's keep it to the theme!

Give me your best femslash recs! In fic or any other form. Those that you think are truly good, that stayed with you, that you want everyone else to experience.

Tell me about your favourite femslash ships, the first ones you liked, the F/F books, shows, films etc. you're obsessed with, the ones you write about yourself... Anything femslash!

I would welcome someone who'd want to help with the DC Femslash Events community, but no pressure :P

Challenge #6
Top 10 Challenge.

For this, I'll post 10(ish) femslash ships I wish to see more of, in general.

Maxanor, aka Eleanor Guthrie and Max, from Black Sails. Do not get me wrong: I love Maxanne, the clear fandom favourite, but I'm hungry for more Maxanor. Fics exploring their doomed romance, what-if scenarios, things about how they begun... anything!
Rosewaves, aka Rosita Bustillos and Waverly Earp, from Wynonna Earp. Oh, that ship absolutely ensnared me way back when! I'd love to see more creations focused on it (and only it, because the canon f/f ship was just... fine, to me LOL).
I made that community for a reason, so, yeah, more DC rareships. I'm particularly charmed by the idea of Cass Cain/Kate Kane, though I know it's difficult for it to match what I want for the ship LOL :P. Same for Stephanie Brown/Selina Kyle, another ship I feel has a lot of potential.
The Buffyverse fandom definitely has a lot of femslash going around! But I would really appreciate more of it including Kendra Young. Buffy/Kendra or Faith/Kendra, of course, but also Willow/Kendra... and some fucked up Drusilla/Kendra, especially in AUs where she turned her.
The 100 is another fandom where I'd love to see some rareships that get less attention, and I will continue to prompt them LOL. Octavia/Diyoza, Echo/Clarke, Clarke/Josephine (those are the only two Clarke ships I like LOL), Echo/Gaia, Raven/Indra...
Last year I reread Emma, by Jane Austen, and well. I will always root for Emma/Jane Fairfax, in my heart :P
Legacies also had some great ships, and Hizzie reigns in my heart, but Lizzie/Aurora, Lizzie/Ablah, Lizzie/Jen, Lizzie/Alyssa... all ships I'd love to see more of.
More femslash in Reign, my old beloved fandom. Especially among/featuring the ladies in waiting: Greer, Lola, Kenna. Either between them, or with other characters.
Femslash fic in Foundation! I know they're bio mother and daughter, but welp, Gaal and Salvor technically share a kiss on screen and their dynamic is unusual, to say the least. We all know if these were two white men it would've sparked a juggernaut ship lol. And the female characters in this show are all fascinating, I'd love to read more about them, for the fandom to have more fics!
June and Athena's dynamic was the most fascinating part of R.F. Kuang's Yellowface, and I'd love to see a bit more of it.

I'd like to put my money where my mouth is and post (some more, in a few cases) fics for at least some of these ships on 2026!

Aaaaand that's all. I'm all caught up now :P

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snowflake 2k26: #2 + #4

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:16:10 GMT

I haven't had a lot of time for the Snowflake Challenge (or little else) since the year begun, but I wanted to dedicate a moment to it this weekend, at least. Skipping over #3 for now...

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom.
Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

I've had too many pets growing up to post them here without forgetting some, likely. Mainly dogs, and ferrets, but also birds, wild rabbits rescued and released back, cats we took care of due to various circumstances but couldn't keep because my father is allergic... Some wounded birds we also kept until they healed. A few days ago while I was at my parents' I thought I might end up adding another one to the list LOL, but after a couple hours the little thing managed to fly again (it had crashed against my window LOL).

Dogs have always been my favourite pet to have though. The fun you can have with them is unparalleled. And my two favourite fictional pets are dogs, as well: Ace in Batman Beyond, and Bear in Person of Interest. And I suppose they have quite a bit in common: older dogs with a harsh past taken in by a gruff man LOL. If you haven't watched it, I especially recommend the episode "Ace in the Hole" from Batman Beyond, if you want to get some of those Dog Film Feelings in under 30 minutes.

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page
Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

I am going to be lazy, and link back to all I recommended for rec-cember last month :P

I posted four master lists (+ a bonus mini-list on the last day of December). Each included fanfiction, fanart, and meta analysis, with one fandom being the focus but with plenty of random recs of each category for other fandoms. I truly recommend checking them out!

Recs for The Murderbot Diaries. The bonus include a Barbie/Dracula crossover you won't regret taking a look at. Crack taken seriously at its finest.
Recs for The Locked Tomb. Speaking as someone who's really not into modern AUs, please do check out the abortion story.
Recs for Black Sails. It was great to have an excuse revisit this fandom and catch up on my to-read list for it :P. Make sure to check the fanart!
Recs for the DCU. It's a huge fandom, which means so times you have to really dig to find some gems, so I saved you the trouble :P. The extras include one of my favourite fics read last year, a sickening post-Endgame one-shot focused on Steve and Peggy.

The last mini-list was basically focused on fanvids (half of them from Black Sails), with a few extra recs (one Murderbot fanart, a couple Yuletide fics from Carmilla and Hitchcock's Rope) that didn't make it to the other lists due to timing.

I think between the fic/art/meta etc. and the variety of fandoms there'll be something for everyone in them.

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snowflake 2k26: #1

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:39:15 GMT

Challenge #1 - The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I guess I might as well make a new pinned post!

As of now, I'm a 29yo Spaniard, law & politics graduate, and amateur writer. I write both fanfic and original fiction, though the latter is (largely) unavailable to be read at the moment. I hope to change that in the coming years.

I've done this challenge a few times (one in a past journal). I always think of it as a way to meet new people, and to be more active on dreamwidth, something I more or less managed last year. Here I mostly post fandom stuff, and my entries will be public.

I want to keep this intro post short and sweet, so I'll just offer a few links of other places where you can find me.

My ao3 account, for any and all my fanfics. I keep it locked and screen comments, but this year I intend to edit some old fics, and I've been thinking about crossposting them over here.
My storygraph account, where I post reviews (sometimes just the stars, sometimes something more throughout) of the books and comics I read.
My tumblr account, where I am most active.

Another thing about me is that I love owls, so when I saw this banner, I instantly knew it was going to be the only one I'd use for the event LOL. I love its creepy eyes xD

And be sure to visit my new community, dcfemslashevents!

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Year in Fandom 2025!

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:45:31 GMT

1. Your main fandom of the year?
Detective Comics Comics remains king.

2. Your favorite film you watched this year?
Sinners, and it's not even remotely close. I have seen other films I've liked this year (Rope, La virgen roja, May December, Farewell My Concubine, American Fiction), but Sinners truly made me fall in love with every aspect of it.

3. Your favorite book read this year?
Harrow the Ninth, in terms of novels. City of Corpses for non-fiction. And Wonder Woman: Historia for comic books.

4. Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
Rosalía's LUX. Another not-at-all-close case, even if I've listened and liked many other albums this year. Honourable mention to Miley Cyrus's "Something Beautiful," I really loved it.

5. Your favorite TV show of the year?
Pluribus, no contest <- saaaaaaame. Foundation will probably be a close second, but I just finished season 1. And Twin Peaks might win, if I had actually finished it lol. 2026 task.

6. Your favorite podcast of the year?
innerFrench. Highly recommend it if you want to get started on learning/improving the language.

7. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Calling it a discovery is a bit exaggerated, but it's the first time I participate in Yuletide and I'm SO impressed by that event, its organisation, etc. I wish I'd had time and especially energy to write more than one gift. Definitely a 2026 task lol.

8. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
The shit that went down with Gretchen Felker-Martin's Red Hood run. Especially how some fellow fans reacted. Vile.

9. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Jason Todd remains my top guy for the third year in a row LOL. Shout-out to A-Train from The Boys, because I was pleasantly impressed by his storyline. And Manousos, obviously.

9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
Carol Sturka my FUCKING beloved. And shout-out to Demerzel (Foundation) and Sofia Falcone in The Penguin. I have yet to finish that one too, but you guys don't know what I would do to for that woman...

11. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
The Pluribus season finale. I was GIDDY with joy during Carol and Manousos's interactions and I am incredibly excited to see more of them. So much that even missing the show, I'm not mad about having to wait. It'll happen when it happens.

12. The most missed of your old fandoms?
I'm flirting with Black Sails again lately...

13.Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
What if I said Yuletide LOL. Well, that too, but I've been thinking a lot about organising some time of smut event (likely a ficathon or a gift box) for rare femslash ships in the DC fandom, maybe during the summer. I'll have to see if people are interested, but even if it's only a few handfuls, I'll be willing to put the work for it.
And the three-sentence ficathon, of course!

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FANVIDS DAY

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:27:58 GMT

I've loved many fanvids, and unfortunately saved very few of them :/. But I encountered a few when I was going through my Black Sails tag to hunt for recommendations, and I decided to share those, and a few others, to close rec-cember.

Black Sails

Others

Buffy/Faith + "Feelin' Kinda Naughty" (the "I want to wear your skin" song in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) by @amelia.
Phoebe Halliwell & Sam Winchester + "What's New" (Megan Thee Stallion) by @claudiabian.
Polyphemus (the Odyssey) + "Nobody" (Mitski, again) by @barrbodiedberry
Spacekru (The 100) + "Home II" (Dotan) by @bombshellsandbluebells

ALSO I discovered this too late to recommend it in the Murderbot Diaries's post, but: here's some (way too sexy) Murderbot art 😔

And at last, a couple of Yuletide recommendations!

Knife, a Rope (1948) fic. 4.9k, M. It shows a bit of how Brandon and Phillip came to be... whatever they are in the film, to each other. Superb characterisation.
night-trap, a Carmilla (novella) fic. 7.6k, M. Years after the novella, the two women meet again. GREAT "becoming the monster" take, with very vivid prose.

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needy trees

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:51:17 GMT

There are some giftboxes that need to be filled over fandom trees, including my own! So take a look at the spreadsheet and see if there's any prompt that catches your eye :P

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rec-cember #4 - detective comics comics & more

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:23:51 GMT

I got this week's rec list ready early, to my surprise! So here it is

DCU

FANFIC

Two Minutes by Aingeal98. 1.9k, T. Cass does something terrible for Steph. Heartbreaking and perfectly in character.
mindscape by torigates. 2k, T. This one is set in the Young Justice cartoon, instead of the comics, like the rest. It's immediately set post-Failsafe (thee episode from season 1), and focuses on Supermartian. I read it way back when, as a lurker, and on reread it got me all nostalgic.
Aftermathmares by Mist-managed (Greyspaces13). 3k, T. Mia's survivor's guilt after Lian's death in Cry For Justice. I liked seeing a fic that sits with this moment in time for the Arrowfam (mainly Mia and Oliver only, here). It's difficult, and it certainly wasn't well-written in canon, but I do think there could be a lot to explore with it.
In Which Jason Goes to a Convention by TeleportingAspen. 3.3k, T. What if Jade Nguyen was Jason's poison trainer? The fic expands across Lost Days and post-UTRH, and it's a satisfying portrayal of his character during the time.
Oracle, Re: Birth by KamalasFanfiction. 8.1k, T. This fic mixes preboot and reboot canon in a very interesting way: what if the Batgirl of Burnside was an impostor, and oracle!Barbara had to deal with that? If you're like me and still kind of bitter about the reboot, and especially on what it did to her character, go ahead and read this.
Left Behind, Or Forgotten by cleromancy. 30.8k, T. This one is marked incomplete, but it ends at a good, narratively satisfying point so don't let that deter you. Features the bat clan a few years down the line (pre-reboot continuity, of course), with their complex dynamics, The Bruce Problem... it has background Jaytim and Dickroy, too, and a lot of humour mixed with The Horrors. I'd also recommend reading the three vignettes preceding it in the series, but I personally read them after reading the longer, more plot-relevant LBOF, and I think it's preferable that way.

FANART

Beautiful comic expanding on and re-imagining the complex Superman-Lois-Clark-Lana quadrangle by @jesncin. I really recommend checking out their comics! There is plenty of Superfam stuff that does a lot to add to their characters, and also a lot of cute Martian stuff and heartbreaking (in the best way) Hellblazer art.
Bruce, Barbara, Jason and Duke, as cards on a deck by @ocularmacdown.
Incredibly sexy Talia cover by @attacusmoth.
Steph as Robin, and legacies by @wickedcircle.
Cool Anita Fite design by @decapod-appreciator.
Barbara and Cass as ballerinas by @ghostpainters.
Batman the terrible and his son Jason by @me0nji. Compiling this I also realised they're the artist of one of my favourite fanarts, the dead Robin inside a dead robin.
The Birds of Prey as an Old Hollywood movie poster by @thehappysorceress.
Bart Allen and sunflowers by @yuelos.
Starfire with a delightfully classic sci-fi outfit by @crowkip.
Butch Wonder Girl by @grayfoj.
Pre-reboot Jayroy UST by @zed-sabre.
Kid!Bruce from the Gotham show by @ny-sar (deactivated account).
Smallville's Lana Lang by @mikemaihack.
Facial recognition software vs Superman by @brakken.

META

@jescin, the artists (twins, btw) mentioned above, have a lot of great meta on DC in general, especially tackling racism, re-imagined racebendings, etc. For example, like this one about Asian Lois Lane, or this one about the problems in Superboy's run. Or this review of Superman 2025 (very much earned, imo, negativity ahead) and the Barbie movie.
Dick Grayson as a law-enforcer by @vfx-batman.
Lesbian Cass meta by @aingeal98. Another great post of theirs is this one about how Jason and Cass see their kid selves.
On Amanda Waller, the original Suicide Squad, and DC's current problem with civilian characters by @maxwell-grant.
Superman, Stars, and Religion by @clarkcvnt. I do recommend checking their Superman meta in general, such as this one about Superman and assimilationist narratives.
Barbara Gordon wasn't fridged by @tawked.
Comparative analysis between new earth and prime earth Jason Todd by @convictsinterim.
Debunking the idea that Dick Grayson is the most sexualised character in comics by @a-bad-case-of-the-stephs.
Mia Dearden and Jason Todd as foils by @cleromancy. He has a lot of good meta on this topic, on both characters (such as this Jason and Willis post), and on DC in general, btw!
Seeing Red analysis by @rmbunnie. She's another great meta writer. She's also behind what's probably my favourite Jaybin meta. This one is good too.
Diana and killing by @beccatoria. She had some great Wonder Woman meta, such as this one.
A criticism of Tom King's Wonder Woman run by Robert Jones Jr. Yes, he's a professional author, but he's also Wonder Boy, so I figure that's meta enough.
Jason's speech at the end of UTRH by @littledead-ridinghood. They have some beautiful long metas there.
"Murder is Werewolves" on Batman's No Kill Rule by @redhoodinternaldialectical.
Old school Dickbabs dynamic by @lazaruspiss.
What if Lian Harper chose not to become a superhero by @ambrozians (deactivated account).

MISCELLANEOUS

FANFIC

Bella Donna by bitterred. 300 words, T. A triple drabble about Carol and Helen from Pluribus, and the Georgia O'Keeffe museum.
Steve Rogers is a Time Travelling Asshole, Purple by K_Popsicle. 2.9k, T. Post-Endgame Steggy fic that will make you sick to your stomach.
One More Day Forever by The_Fanfic_Bolshevik. 12.8, T. Paper Girls. It will break your heart.

FANART

Marisa Coulter and her daemon (show version) by @crab-milk.
"and there was no border between sky and sea" by @sanctus-ingenium.
Bug Lady by @fluffffpillow.
Rebecca de Winter's shadow by @haimeart.
Ellen Ripley and the alien by Paolo Rivera.
Éowyn, ready for battle by @annajolras.
A wolf-woman by @wolfskulljack-art.
Frankenstein's creature based on the Fallen Angel by @rozenmarchen.

META

I hope you'll enjoy some of these!

I might appear again on the 31st with a surprise...

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Gifts for me

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:23:46 GMT

I received a podcast of one of my fics for holiday_wishes!

It's a Supernatural fic where I eventually added a second chapter in reply to a prompt here on tumblr ("rewrite something in a different character's POV"; the first chapter was from Sam's POV, the second from Castiel's) and the people making the podcast did something creative with it, first doing the fic as it is and then combining both chapters into a third one.

That event is still open to leave gifts, as are sapphic stocking stuffers and fandomtrees. Feel free to peruse other people comments (in the first case) and tags (in the second) to see if you want to leave someone a present!

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rec-cember #3 - black sails & more

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:16:54 GMT

Unofficial Pirate Day!

Headsup: some of these fics might require an ao3 account to be read.

BLACK SAILS

FANFIC

A Death Full of Light to Consume Me by angryhausfrau. 1k, E. Maxanne, post-canon. A lovely fic written for a prompt of mine: "I have lost myself in the sea many times with my ear full of freshly cut flowers, with my tongue full of love and agony."
The Power of a Story by medusine. 3.2k, E. Have you ever wanted to read a hilarious yet poignant and metatextually relevant story where Flint tells a dirty story to his crew? Well, here it is. Implied Flint/Miranda and explicit Flint/Silver.
el cuentacuento by straddling_the_atmosphere. 4.6k, not rated. This one seems pretty popular already, but I'll still recommend it because it's a very interesting view at Silver's past and how he uses narrative and stories to obscure it, insinuate about it, obfuscate it, etc.
A Long Dark Throat by greenforsnow. 4.9, E. Silvermadi with... a very complex Silverfilntmadi situation. Silver and Madi, fantasizing about Flint together, all paired with Silver's... personality. Some of the best, most harrowing smut I've read, as well as a perfect Silver voice.
i'm a black ocean leaping and wide by loosedindecember. 6k, M. Post-series, Madi-centric (includes both Madi/Eme and Madi/Silver, but it's mainly about her). An interesting, and idealistic view at the possibilities after canon.
No Monuments by ballantine. 11.1k, not rated. Solaris AU, Silverflint. GREAT fic, one of those perfect examples of what an AU should be. I love the way each character has been "translated" into this setting, Max and Silver especially.

FANART

MISCELLANEOUS

FANFIC

Cat and Mouse (The Centre edition) by Terapsina. ~600 words. A Root/Shawn AU of The Pretender. Quite interesting premise.
What if Rincewind was a witch by @discworldtour. ~950 words, not rated. Just a fun Discworld premise.
The Worst Day of the Rest of Your Life by Marzi. 14.1k, T. Debbie Grayson, from Invincible, is stuck in a time loop of the s1 finale. The show itself might've been a letdown for me, but those s1 family dynamics and this fic were great payoff for watching it for a while.

FANART

Original F/F art of two medieval nuns by @sillygobbo.
Darius and Laila from The Essence of the Equinox by jjflorentina. I encourage everyone to read the series! This other post also features an illustration of Serafina, a key character in the saga, by Rachel Bostick. AND another one of Darius in his skeleton throne by @rhigu.
Faith Lehane and her knife by @thehauntedrocket. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, some cute art of Buffy featuring some of her outfits by @phoebeebies.
Sammie Moore from Pluribus playing his guitar by @faitokie.

META

That's it for today!

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rec-cember #2 - the locked tomb & more

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:29:48 GMT

Today, is Ninth House time.

Headsup: a lot of the fics in today's list require an ao3 account to be read.

THE LOCKED TOMB

FANFIC

varsouviana by cristabeloct. 1.6k, T. A short, pre-lyctorhood Cytherea/Loveday fic. Mandatory if you want to read some REALLY good pining.
and they were roommates by HerenorThereNearnorFar. 2.7k, T. Pre-Apocalypse (I) Mercymorn/Cristabel that does a great job of exploring who their characters could've been. I love Mercy's righteous fury, in particular.
settle up in heaven by liesmyth. 3k, T. Some Kiriona/Harrow corpse action. A+ stuff.
Incident Report by notheragain. 4.5, E. Pre-series Corona/Judith. It's described as "Judith files an official report to admit to Cohort Intelligence that she, despite all her best efforts, got laid." and it is exactly what that should be.
we're kings among runaways (on the bus mall) by NotAFicWriter. 11.2k, T. Also known as the Abortion Fic (there should be more abortion fics!!). I'm not usually into modern AUs, but every once in a while there are some that are undeniably absolute gems. Gideon's voice in particular is perfect here.
as long as it is day by liesmyth. 18.3k, T. Time-loop fic!! Set right near the end of HtN!!! With a great Gideon and great Gideon-John and Gideon-Wake scenes!!! The WORST family reunion ever, indeed. And an incredible read.

FANART

Ianthe, the Saint of Awe by @cowboythethird.
Alecto stabbing Jod by @sidelys. Please look at it, very creative collage style.
Cytherea vs Camilla scene by @rosenkranz-does-things. I love how they illustrates scenes, such as this one of Camilla and Nona on the beach.
Lyctor Harrow by @jannerk-art.
Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead by @deirdressart.
Gideon with a mullet by @maezanilla.

MISCELLANEOUS

FANFIC

idle hands by ElasticElla. 1.1k, E. Short Magnus/Camille fic, set in the Shadowhunters tv show, my first active fandom. Perfect showcase of the inherent moral ambiguity of immortal lovers too caught up in themselves <3
Anthropology by Riona. 3.2k, T. A conversation between Mark and Helena written after 2x04 of Severance aired.
The Blues Run the Game by coyotesuspect. 7,4k, M. Post-canon Hustlers fic that dives into what the immediate aftermath of the article could've been like for Destiny. And gives some much needed joy to her and Ramona.

FANART

WLW vampire art by @adalheidis. Not officially Carmilla but it has that vibe lol.
Lady Stoneheart by @polysucks.
Buffy/Faith + Pom Pom Squad by @softest-butch.
Helly R and Helena Eagan by @office-anomaly. The Helly-Helena art in this fandom goes hard, like this one by @arrgh-whatever.
Also in Severance, there's some great Gemma Scout art, like this one from @poofyfysh or this one by @rosenkranz-does-things.
Natasha Romanov as a ballerina by @birthdaytoast.
IWTV Claudia as the vampire with a pearl earring by @zamanassad.

META

I hope there's something here for everyone. Enjoy!

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