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ITPE 2025 (we're on tumblr this year!)
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reena_jenkins Hello there, friend!
I'm in a bit of a fandom lull right now, so I'm only asking for a few fandoms this year - but I'm sure whatever you make will make me smile. I’m @reena-jenkins.bsky.social on BlueSky, reena_jenkins on AO3, @reena_jenkins@mastodon.social on mastodon, and reena-jenkins on tumblr. Here's what I'm asking for as listed in semi-order of preference (AKA what I’d love the very, very, very most to the things I'd also love the very most, except I really really would like something Stranger Things or Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood this year if you have it in you):
Fullmetal Alchemist (:Brotherhood, or All Media Types)
- I have not read the manga, I have not seen the live-action, and I haven't watched the 2003 OG anime in any significant way since I was a high school babysitter and the family I sat for had Cartoon Network's Adult Swim mumbleteen years ago. I have not seen Conquerer of Shamballa but I know the broad strokes. I don't particularly care about spoilers, and I'm totally fine googling anything I'm unfamiliar with in fic if necessary.
- I very recently watched the whole of FMA:B in consecutive order with deliberate intention, and it awakened long-dormant (ie, pre-my time in fandom-on-the-internet) feelings about the Brothers Elric. I will take Ed/Roy, I will take Ed/Winry, I will take Ed/Ling, I will take 500 scoops of Al/Mei with sprinkles of Xiao-Mei, Panda In The Big City on top. Riza/Roy is delicious, Rebecca Catalina/Havoc/Breda is my crackship for the ages based entirely on just that single photo in the end credits of FMA:B, and I live for every possible futurefic permutation of arm/no arm/alchemy/no alchemy. Pretty much the only thing I'm not down for is fic that disregards Al's importance to Ed, or otherwise minimizes his impact on the story - if it gives vibes of Al as a Sexy Lamp, I'm not likely to enjoy the story, no matter how engaging the rest of the fic concept is.
- I once told my roommate, "In the FMA Stargate AU, Fort Briggs is the Atlantis post and Olivier is John Sheppard." We both agreed I was 10000% correct in this assessment.
STARGATE: ATLANTIS
I love this show, I love this team of misfit goober loser geniuses, and I want to chew on the walls of every season's unresolved plot threads. I'm reviving my love of SGA after a ~10 year hiatus from actively creating podfic in the fandom, and everything hurts (in the good way, I swear!) just as much now as it did then. Back in 2012, I did the thing I do for a lot of my fandoms, where I watch most of the show but not all of it......and finally, just before the 20th anniversary of the whole freaking show, I have successfully completed watching my way through the back half of season five and NOW I HAVE SEEN 'VEGAS' WITH MY OWN TWO EYES.
I will read whatever permutation of John/Rodney you can come up with (Modern AUs, Roleswap AUs, any one of a hundred different point-of-divergence AUs, Rodney falls first but John falls faster, John stays a bug and Rodney loves him anyway, Serial Killer/Psychopath On A Leash AUs, THE ONE WHERE THEY'RE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, Genderswap AUs, literally anything). I have a deep and throbbing heartboner for John/Ronon fic (John gives Ronon a safe place to rest and Ronon gives John a home to build together), a lovely and persistent comfortzone of Team OT4 in every permutation, and I can be easily swayed to just about any other Atlantis-based pairing if you try hard enough.
- The only thing I'm not down for is John/Todd, because I don't CARE how much weird wraith sexual chemistry they give John in an interrogation room - it just doesn't do it for me.
Fayjay's podfic of "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" has re-written my brain chemistry over the course of 14 years - literally, there are parts of that podfic I'll listen to specifically to knock myself out/fall asleep on airplanes - so if that helps you with a starting point, I'd say check out the works pages of auburn, telesilla, smilebackwards, or squaresarenotcircles on AO3. SGA has so many BP authors and it's been a joy lately to roll around in the fics I sorta-kinda-remember and then be surprised by new waves of fondness.
Star Wars: (the non-KOTOR stuff)
- Original Trilogy Era A New Hope through New Republic Reconstruction, including s1-3 of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett (excluding the Ahsoka show, bc I'm still working through my Sabine Wren feels)
- Prequel Trilogy movies and Clone Wars cartoons
- Star Wars: Rebels
I'm interested in stories about team missions, Jedi Master/Padawan bonding, Time Travel AUs, Kanan Doesn't Die AUs, slice-of-life stories, Sabine-centric Mandalorian Culture stories, and anything that has a crossover with Original Trilogy characters in either direction of their personal timelines. I love Time Travel Fix-Its, mission fic set during the Empire's reign, getting together stories, Force Sensitive Leia Organa, anything with Mara Jade. Stories from the time between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, about Leia and Han and political intrigue and building a government, are totally my jam. Also, crossover with Rebels or Solo (ex: Luke being chased by an Inquisitor, Leia getting intel from Ahsoka, ENFYS NEST AND QI'RA DOING ANYTHING) would be deeply appreciated. I will chew on the walls for Clone culture! Mandalorian culture! Tatooine slave culture! Jedi temple padawan shenanigans!
I'm partial to Obi-Wan-centric stories, Mandalore is my favorite planetary destination (they have a culture of adoption! they're a warrior culture that nearly took over the galaxy! they're pacifists who don't really know how to be peaceful! there's political intrigue left, right, and center! they have badass space-iron armor!), and if you can find anything where Quinlan Vos is a major character I'll love you forever. If you find me a story involving Seventh Sister, I will straight-up swoon all over you. (Also, I have this REALLY COOL photo of Seventh Sister from a Star Wars Nights event in MGM a few years back, and I'd be more than happy to give it to you for use as coverart if you want. Feel free to pass that request through the mods, and I will die happy.)
I'm here for:
I don't love Zeb/Kallus as much as the pairings listed above, but I'm happy to read about them as a side-pairing. No Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, please.
I'm in a bit of a fandom lull right now, so I'm only asking for a few fandoms this year - but I'm sure whatever you make will make me smile. I’m @reena-jenkins.bsky.social on BlueSky, reena_jenkins on AO3, @reena_jenkins@mastodon.social on mastodon, and reena-jenkins on tumblr. Here's what I'm asking for as listed in semi-order of preference (AKA what I’d love the very, very, very most to the things I'd also love the very most, except I really really would like something Stranger Things or Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood this year if you have it in you):
STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
Specifically, the first video game (aka "KOTOR") featuring Revan.
Specifically specifically, female Revan-centric stories.
Further specifically, the interaction between:
- Revan and HK-47 (murder buddies!)
- Revan and Mission (mentoring! crime family bonding! Mission never knew Revan before the amnesia so it's a whole "You love me for ME" thing)
- Revan and Bastilla (you fucked with my head but we have a soul-deep connection. Does delving into that connection make me as bad as you?)
- Revan and Malak (pre-canon DEEP EMOTIONAL FORCE CONNECTION WHILE STANDING UP FOR A CAUSE AND LEADING SOLDIERS AND BREAKING AWAY FROM ALL WE'VE EVER KNOWN ONLY TO SHATTER INTO BROKEN VERSIONS OF OURSELVES PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER).
I don't know why the heartfelt amnesiac with a traumatic backstory just gets me every time, but.....this particular story is So Good For Me like that. I am in love with the Pending Doom and trauma of the Mandalorian Wars era, the Sith War era, and the KOTOR 1 timeline. (I know very little about Revan's storyline in SWTOR, and I don't really care to.)
I would also happily accept Mando Wars era stories that deal with KOTOR II characters, like Meetra, Kreia, and Bao-Dur. I don't know the full story of the KOTOR II game, though, so pre-canon is preferable.
(If you’re looking for fic and stymied by how short the BP Authors list is for this fandom, you could hit up revanchxst, nymja, or basketofnovas on AO3 - they’re all podfic-friendly/blanket permission people. OR you could repod one of the KOTOR fics I’ve already recorded, and I would be a very happy clam.)
STRANGER THINGS
I have been in Stranger Things fandom since just before ITPE 2022, and I've seen everything except Season 1 (I started my Stranger Things journey with Season 4 and worked backwards, but Season 3 is absolutely my fave of them all). I have strong Steve Harrington feelings (don't we all), and the t-shirt to match. Things I would love to hear about:
- gen fic centered on Steve & Dustin or Steve & The Party, because I am personally targeted by Reluctant Babysitter Adopts All The Children
- Steve & Robin sharing the brain cell and getting into Shenanigans (possibly life after high school? possibly dealing with their co-trauma? )
- Eddie/Chrissy (WHYYYYYY AM I LIKE THIS? WHY IS MY FIRST SHIP IN 36 HOURS THE TWO KIDS WHO ONLY TALK FOR 6 MINUTES IN THE WHOLE SHOW? AND THEN THEY BOTH DIEEEEEEEEEEE. AU Where Chrissy Lives And Is A Self-Rescuing Cheerleader and I will give you a crisp high-five, please)
- Steve/Eddie (Eddie has a type, and that type falls into the Prep category.)
- Eddie/Chrissy/Steve
- the Stranger Things equivalent of Case Fic/Monster of the Week
- Max Mayfield
- fic where any of the Party has powers/is secretly a Number
- I will tentatively accept Steve/Billy if it's along the lines of "oh Fuck the Upside Down got me fucked up and now i have to re-organize my entire life in the aftermath and This Is How You Grow As A Person" or if it's murder husbands.
- TIME LOOOOOPS
Fullmetal Alchemist (:Brotherhood, or All Media Types)
- I have not read the manga, I have not seen the live-action, and I haven't watched the 2003 OG anime in any significant way since I was a high school babysitter and the family I sat for had Cartoon Network's Adult Swim mumbleteen years ago. I have not seen Conquerer of Shamballa but I know the broad strokes. I don't particularly care about spoilers, and I'm totally fine googling anything I'm unfamiliar with in fic if necessary.
- I very recently watched the whole of FMA:B in consecutive order with deliberate intention, and it awakened long-dormant (ie, pre-my time in fandom-on-the-internet) feelings about the Brothers Elric. I will take Ed/Roy, I will take Ed/Winry, I will take Ed/Ling, I will take 500 scoops of Al/Mei with sprinkles of Xiao-Mei, Panda In The Big City on top. Riza/Roy is delicious, Rebecca Catalina/Havoc/Breda is my crackship for the ages based entirely on just that single photo in the end credits of FMA:B, and I live for every possible futurefic permutation of arm/no arm/alchemy/no alchemy. Pretty much the only thing I'm not down for is fic that disregards Al's importance to Ed, or otherwise minimizes his impact on the story - if it gives vibes of Al as a Sexy Lamp, I'm not likely to enjoy the story, no matter how engaging the rest of the fic concept is.
- I once told my roommate, "In the FMA Stargate AU, Fort Briggs is the Atlantis post and Olivier is John Sheppard." We both agreed I was 10000% correct in this assessment.
STARGATE: ATLANTIS
I love this show, I love this team of misfit goober loser geniuses, and I want to chew on the walls of every season's unresolved plot threads. I'm reviving my love of SGA after a ~10 year hiatus from actively creating podfic in the fandom, and everything hurts (in the good way, I swear!) just as much now as it did then. Back in 2012, I did the thing I do for a lot of my fandoms, where I watch most of the show but not all of it......and finally, just before the 20th anniversary of the whole freaking show, I have successfully completed watching my way through the back half of season five and NOW I HAVE SEEN 'VEGAS' WITH MY OWN TWO EYES.
I will read whatever permutation of John/Rodney you can come up with (Modern AUs, Roleswap AUs, any one of a hundred different point-of-divergence AUs, Rodney falls first but John falls faster, John stays a bug and Rodney loves him anyway, Serial Killer/Psychopath On A Leash AUs, THE ONE WHERE THEY'RE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, Genderswap AUs, literally anything). I have a deep and throbbing heartboner for John/Ronon fic (John gives Ronon a safe place to rest and Ronon gives John a home to build together), a lovely and persistent comfortzone of Team OT4 in every permutation, and I can be easily swayed to just about any other Atlantis-based pairing if you try hard enough.
- The only thing I'm not down for is John/Todd, because I don't CARE how much weird wraith sexual chemistry they give John in an interrogation room - it just doesn't do it for me.
Fayjay's podfic of "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" has re-written my brain chemistry over the course of 14 years - literally, there are parts of that podfic I'll listen to specifically to knock myself out/fall asleep on airplanes - so if that helps you with a starting point, I'd say check out the works pages of auburn, telesilla, smilebackwards, or squaresarenotcircles on AO3. SGA has so many BP authors and it's been a joy lately to roll around in the fics I sorta-kinda-remember and then be surprised by new waves of fondness.
DCU: Cartoons and Comics
The Batfamily, The Arrow Clan, the Teen Titans/Young Justice crew
Pairings I enjoy include:
Tim Drake/Jason Todd
Tim Drake/Kon-El (aka Conner Kent)
Tim Drake/Roy Harper
Tim Drake/Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain
Artemis Crock/Wally West
Jason Todd/Roy Harper
Jason Todd/Roy Harper/Koriand'r
Roy Harper/Jade Nguyen
Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy
I have been blaming #ITPE for the way I spiraled into DCU for the last 7ish years, and I'm not going down quietly this time - I'm dragging everyone else into this mess of feelings along with me. I'm interested in the 'next gen' characters, the sidekicks - basically, if they show up in Teen Titans (comics & cartoon) or Young Justice (comics & cartoon), I'm happy. There's also the original gang in Red Hood and the Outlaws comics (Roy, Kori, and Jason - I'm not caught up on the Jason-Artemis-Bizarro run, so please ignore those fics), a host of general Batfam and Gothamites, and the Arrow Clan - I'm happy with mostly anything shippy or gen, just no Bruce/any of his kids, Ra's/Tim, or Dick/Damian, please. (Also, I still haven't seen the live tv show Titans yet.)
Star Wars: (the non-KOTOR stuff)
- Original Trilogy Era A New Hope through New Republic Reconstruction, including s1-3 of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett (excluding the Ahsoka show, bc I'm still working through my Sabine Wren feels)
- Prequel Trilogy movies and Clone Wars cartoons
- Star Wars: Rebels
I'm interested in stories about team missions, Jedi Master/Padawan bonding, Time Travel AUs, Kanan Doesn't Die AUs, slice-of-life stories, Sabine-centric Mandalorian Culture stories, and anything that has a crossover with Original Trilogy characters in either direction of their personal timelines. I love Time Travel Fix-Its, mission fic set during the Empire's reign, getting together stories, Force Sensitive Leia Organa, anything with Mara Jade. Stories from the time between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, about Leia and Han and political intrigue and building a government, are totally my jam. Also, crossover with Rebels or Solo (ex: Luke being chased by an Inquisitor, Leia getting intel from Ahsoka, ENFYS NEST AND QI'RA DOING ANYTHING) would be deeply appreciated. I will chew on the walls for Clone culture! Mandalorian culture! Tatooine slave culture! Jedi temple padawan shenanigans!
I'm partial to Obi-Wan-centric stories, Mandalore is my favorite planetary destination (they have a culture of adoption! they're a warrior culture that nearly took over the galaxy! they're pacifists who don't really know how to be peaceful! there's political intrigue left, right, and center! they have badass space-iron armor!), and if you can find anything where Quinlan Vos is a major character I'll love you forever. If you find me a story involving Seventh Sister, I will straight-up swoon all over you. (Also, I have this REALLY COOL photo of Seventh Sister from a Star Wars Nights event in MGM a few years back, and I'd be more than happy to give it to you for use as coverart if you want. Feel free to pass that request through the mods, and I will die happy.)
I'm here for:
Leia Organa/Boba Fett
Leia Organa/Han Solo
Leia Organa/Han Solo/Luke Skywalker
Kanan/Hera
Sabine/Leia
Space Family as Found Family
Kanan & Ezra Jedi Bonding
Ahsoka & Kanan & Ezra Jedi Bonding
I'll take any and all of the below:
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Padme Amidala
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Padme Amidala/Anakin Skywalker
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze
Ahsoka Tano/Barriss Offee
Ahsoka+Clones gen
Jango Fett+Boba Fett+Clones family bonding
Quinlan Vos/ANYONE I'LL TAKE ANYTHING ESPECIALLY OBI-WAN OR ASAJJ VENTRISS
I don't love Zeb/Kallus as much as the pairings listed above, but I'm happy to read about them as a side-pairing. No Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, please.
(Because I'm feeling kinda lazy, I'm going to copy/paste a couple lists from last year's #ITPE letter.)
Things That Make Me Love This Story
-crossovers
-happy endings
-twisty or creepy endings
-dark and twisted AUs where are the good guys are serial killers or psychopaths or career criminals but you root for them anyway
-Stargate Atlantis AUs
-Sith AUs
-not!fic
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer AUs
-snappy banter
-found families
-Time Travel Fix-It fics
-vampires
-AUs where Character X never died, and then you get to see how canon gets warped by their presence
-situationally-induced cuddling
-fluff
-X-Men AUs
-High-School-Into-College AUs
-epistolary stories
-stories where Character X is a demon/Special Kid/uses their Gift for devious or scandalous affairs
-Accidental Boyfriends
-Pretend Dating
-scheming
-stories that leave you thinking and pondering and contemplating, even after it's all over
-threesomes, foursomes, moresomes (where the relationship is a Thing, not just an orgy of Guest Starring Limbs)
-werewolves
Things I Do Not Dig
-unwarned-for character death (I don't mind if you have to kill off a character in the course of your storytelling duty, but warn me ahead of time, please)
-cross-generational incest (I'm alright with incest - see all the Wincest I've recorded - but parent/child is not my thing)
-angels having any kind of sex (it throws up all kinds of Catholic Guilt flags. Interestingly, however, I have no problems at all with demons having sex)
-I can't remember the exact term, but stories where altar-boy!X (or demon!X, or doubting-his-faith!X) seduces Father Y (let's just leave the clergy out of this altogether, okay? Let's make it easy for everyone, and skip over Catholic School AUs for now, too)
-angst (I'm in this for the escapism; unless under very specific circumstances, if I wanted to be depressed I'd take my headphones off and pay attention to crappy reality)
-bestiality (of the there-is-actually-an-animal-involved-with-my-genitalia kind, not the sometimes-I'm-a-werewolf kind)
-stories that lack internal consistency (I'll spend the whole time picking apart the logic holes, instead of appreciating your performance)
-First Person POVs (though oddly enough, Second Person POVs really work for me...)
-people eating people (don't care if they're alive or dead, cannibalism squicks me out)
-stories where the Joker is "not that bad", or romanticizing the Joker/Harley relationship
Also, most authors I podfic these days have Blanket Permission - and if I've podficced more than one of their stories, chances are, I'd love to hear you read me another one. As for my podfic-listening habits, my work commute is around 45 minutes from door to desk - if you wanted to make me something that would last me an entire morning trek, I'd be super psyched. I enjoy music in podfics, as well as sound effects, if that's something you'd like to play around with. I feel comfortable listening to anything from PG to NC-17, so feel free to record whatever inspires you.
I can't wait to hear from you, new friend! I swear, I'm gonna be better this year about the community-interaction portion of #itpe.... but in case I don't respond to your podfic in a timely manner, please consider this a heartfelt and pre-emptive THANK YOU for making me a present - I just know it's gonna be awesome.
Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up: Hilda Shelters in Place, by ellen_fremedon for Topaz_Eyes.
Sep. 29th, 2025 03:32 pmfull_metal_ox posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fancakeFandom: Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda, Hilda’s animals, Hilda’s viewers, Hilda’s kindasorta personified sourdough strains.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,947
Content Notes: Author Tract (COVID hygiene); canon-typical near-nudism; COVID-19 quarantine and the stresses thereof; Food Porn; music and instrument care nerdery; social media; some of Hilda’s chickens are for meat; sourdough nerdery; vintage textile nerdery.
Creator Tags: Epistolary, Pandemics, Recipes, Yuletide, Yuletide 2020
Creator Links: (AO3)![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
ellen_fremedon, (Bluesky) ![[bsky.social profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_other.png)
ellenfremedon, (Dreamwidth) ellen_fremedon, (Tumblr) ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
fremedon
Theme: Food & Cooking, Epistolary, Gen, Modern AU, Old Fandoms, (Secret) Hobbies, Small Fandoms
Summary: Welcome to Off the Grid at Chez Hilda, updated every Friday or whenever I feel like it. My artwork is at the Patreon link, and I don't need to remind lovely folks like you to like and subscribe, now do I?
Reccer's Notes: Hilda in 2020 is a rural lifestyle vlogger, addressing her audience from COVID quarantine and coping with lockdown in her characteristic down-home resourceful fashion (chaining canon illustrations into a storyline.)
The modernized context turns her repurposable-as-clothing floursacks into a vintage estate artifact, rhyming two historical periods of struggle and make-do as she renders them into masks. In the course of her expositions on things like feral cat rescue and wafflemaking, she casually drops evidence of an impressive and wide-ranging education; this is a woman who, in her witty conversational folksiness, gladly learns and gladly teaches. (Wonder if she and Manly Wade Wellman’s John the Balladeer ever met?)
This Hilda lives in a community, though; as the quarantine grinds wearily on, she grows increasingly fretful in her seclusion, mounting the soapbox to rant about neighbors who refuse to mask or isolate (this is 2020, before vaccines became available), and the parasocial companionship of her audience becomes increasingly precious.
Oh, and Hilda shares a recipe for her hybrid sourdough/baking powder waffles, complete with considerate substitution suggestions for various dietary limitations. (“This batter keeps in the fridge for a couple days, allegedly. I’ve never managed to test it.”)
Fanwork Links: Hilda Shelters in Place, byellen_fremedon for Topaz_Eyes, for Yuletide 2020.
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda, Hilda’s animals, Hilda’s viewers, Hilda’s kindasorta personified sourdough strains.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,947
Content Notes: Author Tract (COVID hygiene); canon-typical near-nudism; COVID-19 quarantine and the stresses thereof; Food Porn; music and instrument care nerdery; social media; some of Hilda’s chickens are for meat; sourdough nerdery; vintage textile nerdery.
Creator Tags: Epistolary, Pandemics, Recipes, Yuletide, Yuletide 2020
Creator Links: (AO3)
ellenfremedon, (Dreamwidth) ellen_fremedon, (Tumblr) Theme: Food & Cooking, Epistolary, Gen, Modern AU, Old Fandoms, (Secret) Hobbies, Small Fandoms
Summary: Welcome to Off the Grid at Chez Hilda, updated every Friday or whenever I feel like it. My artwork is at the Patreon link, and I don't need to remind lovely folks like you to like and subscribe, now do I?
Reccer's Notes: Hilda in 2020 is a rural lifestyle vlogger, addressing her audience from COVID quarantine and coping with lockdown in her characteristic down-home resourceful fashion (chaining canon illustrations into a storyline.)
The modernized context turns her repurposable-as-clothing floursacks into a vintage estate artifact, rhyming two historical periods of struggle and make-do as she renders them into masks. In the course of her expositions on things like feral cat rescue and wafflemaking, she casually drops evidence of an impressive and wide-ranging education; this is a woman who, in her witty conversational folksiness, gladly learns and gladly teaches. (Wonder if she and Manly Wade Wellman’s John the Balladeer ever met?)
This Hilda lives in a community, though; as the quarantine grinds wearily on, she grows increasingly fretful in her seclusion, mounting the soapbox to rant about neighbors who refuse to mask or isolate (this is 2020, before vaccines became available), and the parasocial companionship of her audience becomes increasingly precious.
Oh, and Hilda shares a recipe for her hybrid sourdough/baking powder waffles, complete with considerate substitution suggestions for various dietary limitations. (“This batter keeps in the fridge for a couple days, allegedly. I’ve never managed to test it.”)
Fanwork Links: Hilda Shelters in Place, by
75 icons of superman 2025
Sep. 29th, 2025 05:59 pmsplatstick posting in icons 75 icons ( 12 ) lex luther ( 8 ) eve teschmacher ( 8 ) jimmy olsen ( 21 ) mr terrific ( 15 ) guy gardner ( 6 ) hawkgirl ( 5 ) supergirl HERE @ sousaphone |
Marvel: To The Heart by kyburg
Sep. 29th, 2025 01:08 pmbeatrice_otter posting in fancakeFandom: Marvel Comics, MCU
Pairings/Characters: Kamala Khan, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson,
Rating: Not rated
Length: 5k
Creator Links:kyburg
Theme: food, trauma, team, characters of color
Summary:
It's a service day at the Masjid. Lentils, rice and everything nice.
What isn't nice are some the memories.
Good people make you their friend. Good friends know how to get to the heart of the matter.
Reccer's Notes: This is about the Avengers meeting Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel. But it's also about friendship, and trauma, and memory, and moving on.
Fanwork Links: To The Heart
Pairings/Characters: Kamala Khan, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson,
Rating: Not rated
Length: 5k
Creator Links:
Theme: food, trauma, team, characters of color
Summary:
It's a service day at the Masjid. Lentils, rice and everything nice.
What isn't nice are some the memories.
Good people make you their friend. Good friends know how to get to the heart of the matter.
Reccer's Notes: This is about the Avengers meeting Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel. But it's also about friendship, and trauma, and memory, and moving on.
Fanwork Links: To The Heart
Master Set Thoughts
Sep. 29th, 2025 08:24 pmpeasinaI just realised I can make polls on here! :O
As my Magnemite master set (a collection of all the Magnemite Pokemon TCG cards) nears completion, I've been thinking about how to share it. I have a lot to say—such as talking about my favourite illustrations, where I found particular cards, facts about them, etc.—and I'm unsure how best to compile all those thoughts. I'm considering either a long post with lots of pics/scans or a video where I flip through my binder and talk about the cards out loud. Which of these sounds more interesting to you?
Thank you for sharing your opinion! If you have no preference, you can select both options ^^
As my Magnemite master set (a collection of all the Magnemite Pokemon TCG cards) nears completion, I've been thinking about how to share it. I have a lot to say—such as talking about my favourite illustrations, where I found particular cards, facts about them, etc.—and I'm unsure how best to compile all those thoughts. I'm considering either a long post with lots of pics/scans or a video where I flip through my binder and talk about the cards out loud. Which of these sounds more interesting to you?
Poll #33673 Magnemite Collection
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6
How would you like to see my Magnemite card collection?
Thank you for sharing your opinion! If you have no preference, you can select both options ^^
SGA: Devil's Food by trophic
Sep. 30th, 2025 12:22 ammific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 2696
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: trophic on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Established relationship, Humor, Just plain fun
Summary: John wants a cupcake. Rodney wants a blowjob.
Reccer's Notes: This story focuses on UST between John and a cupcake which Rodney uses in a light dom/sub scene to wind John up. It's funny, very hot, and features a nicely pouty, turned-on John, a deviously masterful Rodney, and a delicious cupcake.
Fanwork Links: Devil's Food on AO3
and there's a podfic: Devil's Food [podfic]
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 2696
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: trophic on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Established relationship, Humor, Just plain fun
Summary: John wants a cupcake. Rodney wants a blowjob.
Reccer's Notes: This story focuses on UST between John and a cupcake which Rodney uses in a light dom/sub scene to wind John up. It's funny, very hot, and features a nicely pouty, turned-on John, a deviously masterful Rodney, and a delicious cupcake.
Fanwork Links: Devil's Food on AO3
and there's a podfic: Devil's Food [podfic]
due South: Dinner and a Movie by Seascribble
Sep. 29th, 2025 11:16 pmmific posting in fancakeFandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio/Benton Fraser
Rating: Mature
Length: 1878
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: seascribble on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Polyamory, Domestic, Friends to Lovers
Summary: Benton has no reason to think anything in Chicago has changed during his absence.
Reccer's Notes: There's not a lot of food in this, but the Rays do make Benton dinner - even if it turns out that Ben's the main course. Some excellent Ray/Ray banter, a sensible discussion, UST finally requited, and a very hopeful ending. Fun, hot, and heartwarming - and the food sounded tasty, too!
Fanwork Links: Dinner and a Movie
Characters/Pairings: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio/Benton Fraser
Rating: Mature
Length: 1878
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: seascribble on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Polyamory, Domestic, Friends to Lovers
Summary: Benton has no reason to think anything in Chicago has changed during his absence.
Reccer's Notes: There's not a lot of food in this, but the Rays do make Benton dinner - even if it turns out that Ben's the main course. Some excellent Ray/Ray banter, a sensible discussion, UST finally requited, and a very hopeful ending. Fun, hot, and heartwarming - and the food sounded tasty, too!
Fanwork Links: Dinner and a Movie
Post-Swaps PHs #2, 4, 8, 13, 18, 20-26
Sep. 29th, 2025 08:05 pmmodzilla posting in fffxThanks for your swaps requests!
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( Pinch hit #2 - fic - Fright Night (2011), Our Flag Means Death (TV), Riptide (TV), Star Trek: The Price of the Phoenix - Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, Strange Angel (TV), Evil (TV 2019) )
( Pinch hit #4 - art, fic [varies by request] - 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, Thor (Movies), Hannibal (TV) )
( Pinch hit #8 - fic - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Big Country (1958), Home Before Dark (1958) )
Canon promo post: Dial M for Murder
( Pinch hit #13 - art, fic - World Wrestling Entertainment, The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game), はたらく細胞 | Hataraku Saibou | Cells at Work! (Anime), Original Work )
( Pinch hit #18 - fic - Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling, Crossover Fandom x2 [Grimm TV/Guardian TV, Grimm TV/Christabel - Coleridge], 长公主在上 | Zhǎng Gōng Zhǔ Zài Shàng (Web Series), 绅探 | Detective L (TV) )
( Pinch hit #20 - fic - Tales of Berseria, Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games), Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball, Bleach (Anime & Manga) )
( Pinch hit #21 - art, fic [varies by request] - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series, BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles (Video Game), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) )
( Pinch hit #22 - art, fic - 大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV), The Pitt (TV), The Bear (TV), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, KPop Demon Hunters (2025) )
( Pinch hit #23 - art, fic [varies by request] - Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, LitenVerse - Nino Cipri, Stellar Harvest series - Eleanor Arnason, Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Queen's Gambit TV/Man Who Fell To Earth 1976], The Breakfast Club (1985) )
( Pinch hit #24 - fic - Angel: the Series, Black Widow (Movie 2021), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Crossover Fandom [various] x2, DCU (Comics), Gothika (2003), The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Original Work, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025) )
( Pinch hit #25 - art, fic [varies by request] - Original Work x2, Tenet (2020), Crossover Fandom [various], Murderbot (TV) x2 )
( Pinch hit #26 - art, fic [varies by request] - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games), Watch Dogs (Video Games) )
Canon promo post: Watch Dogs
Thanks for your interest! Please also let me know if I've missed any canon promo posts.
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Minimum requirements: An art gift must be a completed comic at least 10 pages or 40 panels long; a fic gift must be a story at least 10,000 words long. You can also fulfil a pinch hit by giving two complete half-length works, if your recipient has opted into that for the fandom(s) you are creating in. Any work must be for a fandom your recipient has requested and one character/relationship/worldbuilding tag requested in that fandom, and must avoid their DNWs.
( Pinch hit #2 - fic - Fright Night (2011), Our Flag Means Death (TV), Riptide (TV), Star Trek: The Price of the Phoenix - Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, Strange Angel (TV), Evil (TV 2019) )
( Pinch hit #4 - art, fic [varies by request] - 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, Thor (Movies), Hannibal (TV) )
( Pinch hit #8 - fic - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Big Country (1958), Home Before Dark (1958) )
Canon promo post: Dial M for Murder
( Pinch hit #13 - art, fic - World Wrestling Entertainment, The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game), はたらく細胞 | Hataraku Saibou | Cells at Work! (Anime), Original Work )
( Pinch hit #18 - fic - Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling, Crossover Fandom x2 [Grimm TV/Guardian TV, Grimm TV/Christabel - Coleridge], 长公主在上 | Zhǎng Gōng Zhǔ Zài Shàng (Web Series), 绅探 | Detective L (TV) )
( Pinch hit #20 - fic - Tales of Berseria, Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games), Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball, Bleach (Anime & Manga) )
( Pinch hit #21 - art, fic [varies by request] - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series, BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles (Video Game), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) )
( Pinch hit #22 - art, fic - 大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV), The Pitt (TV), The Bear (TV), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, KPop Demon Hunters (2025) )
( Pinch hit #23 - art, fic [varies by request] - Shadow of the Leviathan - Robert Jackson Bennett, LitenVerse - Nino Cipri, Stellar Harvest series - Eleanor Arnason, Original Work, Crossover Fandom [Queen's Gambit TV/Man Who Fell To Earth 1976], The Breakfast Club (1985) )
( Pinch hit #24 - fic - Angel: the Series, Black Widow (Movie 2021), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Crossover Fandom [various] x2, DCU (Comics), Gothika (2003), The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Original Work, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025) )
( Pinch hit #25 - art, fic [varies by request] - Original Work x2, Tenet (2020), Crossover Fandom [various], Murderbot (TV) x2 )
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Canon promo post: Watch Dogs
Thanks for your interest! Please also let me know if I've missed any canon promo posts.
Nominations Queries Post 1
Sep. 28th, 2025 07:38 pmyuletidemods posting in yuletide_adminWe are 24 hours into tag approving! We began with 6078 individual fandom nominations to sort (where if two people submitted the same fandom, that would count twice towards the total). We have 3687 fandom nominations still to sort. Please review the questions below to help us sort them quickly and correctly!
Aliens (1986) - These characters are also nominated under the broader fandom Alien (Original Movies 1979-1997), so we would like to merge your nominations in with the rest of the original movies.
Bibi Blocksberg (2002) - Nominator, do you specifically only want the first movie, or may we approve this as the canonical Bibi Blocksberg (Movies 2002 2004)? Please link your nominations page when you reply.
Book of Night - Holly Black - We also have evidence for this fandom as the Charlatan Duology, and another participant has nominated it under that name. We’d like to combine your nominations, but please get us in touch if there’s a reason that won’t work. Please link your nominations page when you reply.
Clocktaur War Series - T. Kingfisher, Swordheart - T. Kingfisher, Temple of the White Rat Universe - T. Kingfisher, The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher - We have some overlap in these nominations. The fandom as a whole is eligible, so we could combine them under Temple of the White Rat Universe, or the Temple of the White Rat Universe nominator could have their characters split into the other fandoms if you are willing to do that. Please comment with a link to your nominations to help us sort this out!
Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac - Nominator, you may see some oddities as we get this set up separately from La Comédie Humaine. Pardon our dust, and hopefully you’re used to it by now! Let us know if anything looks wrong when the final tagset is released.
Designing Women - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).
Dragonfly - Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin - Our understanding is that these are all in the same continuity. We are planning to combine Earthsea and Tombs of Atuan, especially as there is character overlap in those nominations. Dragonfly nominator, do you have concerns with folding that nomination into Earthsea as well? If so, we would appreciate help understanding exactly what you’re looking for and how to differentiate the larger Earthsea universe.
Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede - We won’t approve the character nomination Morwen's Cats (Enchanted Forest) as they are all individually named. Nominators, could you please each choose a cat? (Scorn has already been nominated.) Please link your nominations page when you reply.
MAIJO Otaro - Works - We don’t approve fandoms consisting of all of a creator’s works, and the nominated characters appear to come from at least 2 novels. Nominator, could you pick one of Maijō’s works to nominate, along with the associated characters? Please link your nominations page when you reply.
夢中さ きみに。| Muchuu sa Kimi ni (Manga) - We also have a nomination for the Anime; the nominator of that fandom says they have not read the manga but believes these could be combined if needed. Does the Manga nominator have a preference? Please link your nominations page when you reply. ETA: sorry, we have 3 manga nominators and have heard from 2, so it would be great to hear from the third!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).
Nescafe Advertisment - While this is a canonical fandom on AO3, it’s under review to be renamed, so we’ll approve this as Nescafe "Arctica" | "Polar Explorers" Advertisments (Russia) which is the likely new name. However, we’d like more information on the characters. We’re not sure which of the men is “First Polar” and which is “Second Polar”; some works in the fandom use Ivanov and Petrov. Also, we haven’t seen a polar bear in the 3 ads we’ve found - can you link us to the one that has the polar bear, please?
老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV) - Nominator, for the character Jin Bong, are you looking for Chin Pong? We’ve checked several sources and want to confirm whether this is a romanization issue or something else.
Outcast (Video Game series) - this has been nominated with character 'Any' and no other characters. If you mean you are interested in any characters, we will approve this without characters, but we wanted to check just in case there is a character actually named Any. Please link your nominations page when you reply.
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).
Prophet - Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald - could we please get more information about 'Prophet' as a character (aside from being the title)?
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer)
Tennis RPF - We have separate nominations for 2020's Men's Tennis RPF (characters: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz, Terence Atmane) and 2025 Grand Slam Season (Tennis) RPF (characters: Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner) - may we combine these under the former fandom name? Please link your nominations page when you reply.
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If we've processed any of your nominations and something doesn't look right, please comment (with your nominations page) to tell us about the problem and how you think it should be corrected. Questions are welcome.
Aliens (1986) - These characters are also nominated under the broader fandom Alien (Original Movies 1979-1997), so we would like to merge your nominations in with the rest of the original movies.
Bibi Blocksberg (2002) - Nominator, do you specifically only want the first movie, or may we approve this as the canonical Bibi Blocksberg (Movies 2002 2004)? Please link your nominations page when you reply.
Book of Night - Holly Black - We also have evidence for this fandom as the Charlatan Duology, and another participant has nominated it under that name. We’d like to combine your nominations, but please get us in touch if there’s a reason that won’t work. Please link your nominations page when you reply.
Clocktaur War Series - T. Kingfisher, Swordheart - T. Kingfisher, Temple of the White Rat Universe - T. Kingfisher, The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher - We have some overlap in these nominations. The fandom as a whole is eligible, so we could combine them under Temple of the White Rat Universe, or the Temple of the White Rat Universe nominator could have their characters split into the other fandoms if you are willing to do that. Please comment with a link to your nominations to help us sort this out!
Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac - Nominator, you may see some oddities as we get this set up separately from La Comédie Humaine. Pardon our dust, and hopefully you’re used to it by now! Let us know if anything looks wrong when the final tagset is released.
Designing Women - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).
Dragonfly - Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin - Our understanding is that these are all in the same continuity. We are planning to combine Earthsea and Tombs of Atuan, especially as there is character overlap in those nominations. Dragonfly nominator, do you have concerns with folding that nomination into Earthsea as well? If so, we would appreciate help understanding exactly what you’re looking for and how to differentiate the larger Earthsea universe.
Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede - We won’t approve the character nomination Morwen's Cats (Enchanted Forest) as they are all individually named. Nominators, could you please each choose a cat? (Scorn has already been nominated.) Please link your nominations page when you reply.
MAIJO Otaro - Works - We don’t approve fandoms consisting of all of a creator’s works, and the nominated characters appear to come from at least 2 novels. Nominator, could you pick one of Maijō’s works to nominate, along with the associated characters? Please link your nominations page when you reply.
夢中さ きみに。| Muchuu sa Kimi ni (Manga) - We also have a nomination for the Anime; the nominator of that fandom says they have not read the manga but believes these could be combined if needed. Does the Manga nominator have a preference? Please link your nominations page when you reply. ETA: sorry, we have 3 manga nominators and have heard from 2, so it would be great to hear from the third!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).
Nescafe Advertisment - While this is a canonical fandom on AO3, it’s under review to be renamed, so we’ll approve this as Nescafe "Arctica" | "Polar Explorers" Advertisments (Russia) which is the likely new name. However, we’d like more information on the characters. We’re not sure which of the men is “First Polar” and which is “Second Polar”; some works in the fandom use Ivanov and Petrov. Also, we haven’t seen a polar bear in the 3 ads we’ve found - can you link us to the one that has the polar bear, please?
老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV) - Nominator, for the character Jin Bong, are you looking for Chin Pong? We’ve checked several sources and want to confirm whether this is a romanization issue or something else.
Outcast (Video Game series) - this has been nominated with character 'Any' and no other characters. If you mean you are interested in any characters, we will approve this without characters, but we wanted to check just in case there is a character actually named Any. Please link your nominations page when you reply.
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).
Prophet - Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald - could we please get more information about 'Prophet' as a character (aside from being the title)?
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer)
Tennis RPF - We have separate nominations for 2020's Men's Tennis RPF (characters: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz, Terence Atmane) and 2025 Grand Slam Season (Tennis) RPF (characters: Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner) - may we combine these under the former fandom name? Please link your nominations page when you reply.
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Short Story
Sep. 28th, 2025 07:11 pmmarthawellsThe audio version of “Data Ghost” my short story from the recent Storyteller: the Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is now online at Pseudopod!
https://pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/pseudopod-995-data-ghost/
Also, Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, will be out on October 7, in ebook, hardcover, and audiobook narrated by Eric Mok.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/queen-demon-martha-wells/b7abd63577bd30a5?ean=9781250826916&next=t
https://pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/pseudopod-995-data-ghost/
Also, Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, will be out on October 7, in ebook, hardcover, and audiobook narrated by Eric Mok.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/queen-demon-martha-wells/b7abd63577bd30a5?ean=9781250826916&next=t
2542 / Fic - IWTV
Sep. 28th, 2025 03:19 pmsiriaThe Boys of Summer
Interview with the Vampire | Armand/Daniel | ~1000 words | Fortrinityofone, with thanks to sheafrotherdon for betaing.
(Also on AO3)
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Interview with the Vampire | Armand/Daniel | ~1000 words | For
sheafrotherdon for betaing.(Also on AO3)
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Fannish 50 S3 Post 41: CDramas I've DNF'd part 1
Sep. 28th, 2025 12:03 pmglitteryvUnder the Moonlight (YouTube)
A 2025, 36-episode historical drama.
The premise
It's the story of Luo Shu (played by Hu Bingqing) who was abt to debut as a courtesan. Due to ~plotty reasons, she got a job with Han Munzi (He Peng), the new local magistrate, as a kind of consultant detective of sorts. (I know, I know. Just go along with this.) Then, Qi Menglin (played by Zhai Zilu), the governor's son, showed up and SOMEHOW ended up tagging along in the investigations.
I'd heard some rumblings abt this drama and was confused as to why it wasn't more popular.
Hu Bingqing as Luo Shu gave a solid performance: her pragmatic view of things and cleverness w/r/t the way ppl behave. As for the rest of the cast, the majority of them were good. Especially the actors for the secondary characters.
The mysteries (well, I only watched the first two out of the 10) were actually cool. They were complicated enough to warrant a few episodes per case. The solutions were logical too. NGL, the mysteries are a big part of the reason why I stuck with the show (even as I had soured on other things.)
Do I have any criticisms?
Well...😬
My ability to suspend my disbelief was nearly broken. I understood that the premise was pretty ridic to begin with. But then, for reasons, Luo Shu (once she stared consulting) did a crummy job in disguising herself as a man. Which included her fake persona being given the rank of captain which EVERYONE IN THE MAGISTRATE OFFICE (down the lowest ranked officer) was A-OK with... 🙃
What makes this so OTT was that the crimes were V. SRS BIZNESS (including sexual assault and grusome murders). At times, I had to ignore the fact that Luo Shu (despite her good powers of observation) had received ZERO training for this kind of job, but OK, drama. XD
THEN, there's the casting of Hu Bingqing as Luo Shu. OTOH, she could convey a character who's ultimately optimistic, focused, smart, and dedicated. OTOH, however, the show made it v. clear that her character was EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD. This was brought up many times during the first 2-3 eps.
Unfortunately, though, Hu Bingqing looked (at best) to be around 10 yrs older. FTR, she was around 31-32 when they'd filmed this drama. In an ideal world, the character would've been aged up OR the production team could've cast someone closer to the character's age.
After all, Zhai Zilu as Qi Menglin was 21 when the drama was filmed (the character's supposed to be 24, IIRC.) This meant that, when the characters are together, Hu Bingqing looked like an older relative of his or someone who is deffo older than him.
Again, Hu Bingqing acted the fuck out of that character, BUT she carrieed herself as someone who is way more mature than the character was supposed to be (given the whole 'SHE'S 18!" thing.)
And then, there's my SECOND issue: Qi Menglin. He's handsome and had some charisma. That said, his personality in this drama was so childish that it put me off. I think this character would've fit better in another type of drama (a romcom one) vs. plotlines that go IN abt how someone killed someone else. So, seeing him bumble his way and act all jokey rubbed me the wrongest of ways. .
AND FINALLY, I didn't believe the CP at all. At first, Qi Menglin was v. rude and bratty toward Luo Shu cuz he thought she's a guy. Once he discovered the truth, he decided to court her cuz why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn't like how hard the show tried to make the CP happen. ALSO BASED ON
Which NO, THANK YOU. I'M NOT HERE FOR THAT. As I understand it, the romance was supposed to be a slow burn. Unfortch, there's ZERO chemistry cuz there's NO attraction between them, LOLsob. Instead, they had sibling energy. IJS
What's the FMC's plot armor level?
Fairly strong. Bad things have happened to her (such as being sold to a brothel when she was young, almost getting sexually assaulted onscreen, etc), but all of the terrible things happened to other characters and not her in the end.
How does the show handle the inevitable "Oh noes, the emperor's in danger of losing his throne!" storyline?
NO IDEA! I bounced before any of this was brought into the story. BUT, I'm sure there's some dramarama afoot in the latter half?
Do I recommend it?
No. It's not a terrible drama, but all of the things I complained abt added up to a big "let me stop here and move on." I only watched 6 out of the 36 eps. The series is available on YouTube.
Queerness level
There's a ~vibe between the Magistrate and his second in command that's sort of explained as the two of them being lifelong friends? Though they deffo have MARRIEDS vibe, IMO.. FTR, the show makes it v. clear that neither character is queer (but when has that stopped anyone, LOL?)
Le trailer
I could only find this version of the trailer. It has Portuguese subtitles. Trigger/Content Warning: The first 25 seconds show people getting murdered by different methods. It's graphic enough (there's blood (no gore, tho) and violence) for me to give a heads up.
A 2025, 36-episode historical drama.
The premise
It's the story of Luo Shu (played by Hu Bingqing) who was abt to debut as a courtesan. Due to ~plotty reasons, she got a job with Han Munzi (He Peng), the new local magistrate, as a kind of consultant detective of sorts. (I know, I know. Just go along with this.) Then, Qi Menglin (played by Zhai Zilu), the governor's son, showed up and SOMEHOW ended up tagging along in the investigations.
I'd heard some rumblings abt this drama and was confused as to why it wasn't more popular.
Hu Bingqing as Luo Shu gave a solid performance: her pragmatic view of things and cleverness w/r/t the way ppl behave. As for the rest of the cast, the majority of them were good. Especially the actors for the secondary characters.
The mysteries (well, I only watched the first two out of the 10) were actually cool. They were complicated enough to warrant a few episodes per case. The solutions were logical too. NGL, the mysteries are a big part of the reason why I stuck with the show (even as I had soured on other things.)
Do I have any criticisms?
Well...😬
My ability to suspend my disbelief was nearly broken. I understood that the premise was pretty ridic to begin with. But then, for reasons, Luo Shu (once she stared consulting) did a crummy job in disguising herself as a man. Which included her fake persona being given the rank of captain which EVERYONE IN THE MAGISTRATE OFFICE (down the lowest ranked officer) was A-OK with... 🙃
What makes this so OTT was that the crimes were V. SRS BIZNESS (including sexual assault and grusome murders). At times, I had to ignore the fact that Luo Shu (despite her good powers of observation) had received ZERO training for this kind of job, but OK, drama. XD
THEN, there's the casting of Hu Bingqing as Luo Shu. OTOH, she could convey a character who's ultimately optimistic, focused, smart, and dedicated. OTOH, however, the show made it v. clear that her character was EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD. This was brought up many times during the first 2-3 eps.
Unfortunately, though, Hu Bingqing looked (at best) to be around 10 yrs older. FTR, she was around 31-32 when they'd filmed this drama. In an ideal world, the character would've been aged up OR the production team could've cast someone closer to the character's age.
After all, Zhai Zilu as Qi Menglin was 21 when the drama was filmed (the character's supposed to be 24, IIRC.) This meant that, when the characters are together, Hu Bingqing looked like an older relative of his or someone who is deffo older than him.
Again, Hu Bingqing acted the fuck out of that character, BUT she carrieed herself as someone who is way more mature than the character was supposed to be (given the whole 'SHE'S 18!" thing.)
And then, there's my SECOND issue: Qi Menglin. He's handsome and had some charisma. That said, his personality in this drama was so childish that it put me off. I think this character would've fit better in another type of drama (a romcom one) vs. plotlines that go IN abt how someone killed someone else. So, seeing him bumble his way and act all jokey rubbed me the wrongest of ways. .
AND FINALLY, I didn't believe the CP at all. At first, Qi Menglin was v. rude and bratty toward Luo Shu cuz he thought she's a guy. Once he discovered the truth, he decided to court her cuz why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn't like how hard the show tried to make the CP happen. ALSO BASED ON
SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING
he never really grew out of that jokey/prankster mode? And eventually they get married, but not cuz she fell in love with him. Instead, it's more like he wore down her resolveWhat's the FMC's plot armor level?
Fairly strong. Bad things have happened to her (such as being sold to a brothel when she was young, almost getting sexually assaulted onscreen, etc), but all of the terrible things happened to other characters and not her in the end.
How does the show handle the inevitable "Oh noes, the emperor's in danger of losing his throne!" storyline?
NO IDEA! I bounced before any of this was brought into the story. BUT, I'm sure there's some dramarama afoot in the latter half?
Do I recommend it?
No. It's not a terrible drama, but all of the things I complained abt added up to a big "let me stop here and move on." I only watched 6 out of the 36 eps. The series is available on YouTube.
Queerness level
There's a ~vibe between the Magistrate and his second in command that's sort of explained as the two of them being lifelong friends? Though they deffo have MARRIEDS vibe, IMO.. FTR, the show makes it v. clear that neither character is queer (but when has that stopped anyone, LOL?)
Le trailer
I could only find this version of the trailer. It has Portuguese subtitles. Trigger/Content Warning: The first 25 seconds show people getting murdered by different methods. It's graphic enough (there's blood (no gore, tho) and violence) for me to give a heads up.
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Sep. 28th, 2025 04:51 pmturpsSadly Bluey has had her first bump.
Driving down a road in town that's terrible for people illegally parking on both sides so they can easily get to the nearby Greggs, we were driving behind a lady, who stopped, and then reversed, when a car going up didn't stop, taking up all the available space in the middle of the road. How she didn't see our car behind hers I don't know, but apparently she didn't.
Thankfully, the damage is cosmetic only with a few scratches, and if it wasn't a mobility car we'd probably just leave it or try and get some matching car paint. But, that's not an option, so an insurance job it is.
Pauline's 80th birthday party went really well yesterday. We picked Corey up at 2, and were at the venue for 2:30, Pauline wanted a late afternoon/early evening party so she'd get home in good time, and it worked out nicely. All her family was there, and my aunt and uncle came too, the first time I'd seen them for over a year.
The catering wasn't the best as the chef at the pub we were at had walked out a few weeks ago, and they'd had to arrange outside catering, and instead of the big buffet that was paid for, there were only platters of sandwiches, crisps and cut up cheese. So, Pauline had to buy extras herself, arranging for people to bring 5 large cakes, sausage rolls, cheese rolls and quiches. But, at least the hot beef sandwiches were provided as ordered, and while there wasn't a huge variety the cobbled together buffet was tasty. Plus, we got to bring leftovers home, and is it even a family party buffet if you can't do that and eat slightly stale leftovers on the night/next morning?
If you're interested I posted a couple of photos of us and the kidlet on my instagram here
Unsurprisingly, my brother didn't turn up. He did send a beautiful bouquet but I wish he'd realise Pauline would always appreciate seeing him more than an actual gift.
It was great spending time with Corey, and he was telling me he and his girlfriend have managed to get MCR tickets which made me so happy for them. If I can't go, at least I know they are and will have a great time.
By the time we'd taken him back to Gateshead and got home it was getting toward eight, and it took me about five seconds to get in my pjs, get under the heated blanket with the cats and watch Strictly. After all, it's what Saturday evenings are made for.
Driving down a road in town that's terrible for people illegally parking on both sides so they can easily get to the nearby Greggs, we were driving behind a lady, who stopped, and then reversed, when a car going up didn't stop, taking up all the available space in the middle of the road. How she didn't see our car behind hers I don't know, but apparently she didn't.
Thankfully, the damage is cosmetic only with a few scratches, and if it wasn't a mobility car we'd probably just leave it or try and get some matching car paint. But, that's not an option, so an insurance job it is.
Pauline's 80th birthday party went really well yesterday. We picked Corey up at 2, and were at the venue for 2:30, Pauline wanted a late afternoon/early evening party so she'd get home in good time, and it worked out nicely. All her family was there, and my aunt and uncle came too, the first time I'd seen them for over a year.
The catering wasn't the best as the chef at the pub we were at had walked out a few weeks ago, and they'd had to arrange outside catering, and instead of the big buffet that was paid for, there were only platters of sandwiches, crisps and cut up cheese. So, Pauline had to buy extras herself, arranging for people to bring 5 large cakes, sausage rolls, cheese rolls and quiches. But, at least the hot beef sandwiches were provided as ordered, and while there wasn't a huge variety the cobbled together buffet was tasty. Plus, we got to bring leftovers home, and is it even a family party buffet if you can't do that and eat slightly stale leftovers on the night/next morning?
If you're interested I posted a couple of photos of us and the kidlet on my instagram here
Unsurprisingly, my brother didn't turn up. He did send a beautiful bouquet but I wish he'd realise Pauline would always appreciate seeing him more than an actual gift.
It was great spending time with Corey, and he was telling me he and his girlfriend have managed to get MCR tickets which made me so happy for them. If I can't go, at least I know they are and will have a great time.
By the time we'd taken him back to Gateshead and got home it was getting toward eight, and it took me about five seconds to get in my pjs, get under the heated blanket with the cats and watch Strictly. After all, it's what Saturday evenings are made for.