Murderbot TV vid: I Lived

Jul. 15th, 2025 07:58 am
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Title: I Lived
Character/Relationship: Team as family, Team + Murderbot
TV Series: Murderbot TV
Music: I Lived by OneRepublic
Length: 3:57

AO3 | DW | Tumblr | Youtube

Contains some sci-fi violence as per the show (but generally not the most graphic scenes), flickering/flashing lights in a couple of scenes; also has the canon pairings in the background, but it's mostly focused on the team + Murderbot being Intrepid Galactic Explorers. Spoilers for all of season one.

2025 Grief Semi-Flash Exchange

Jul. 15th, 2025 07:45 am
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This is a low-pressure multifandom flash exchange with a Grief/Mourning theme. That does not mean this is a flash specifically about characters dying (but of course, characters dying is on the menu!). Mourning can be the loss of: a loved one, a pet, an object, a character's sense of self, of time, of their past, and more. Grief isn't exclusively or necessarily expressed as sadness, it can be anger, numbness, risk taking, survivors living life to its fullest, etc.

AO3 Collection | Tagset

Work Minimums:
  • 300 words (ship or gen)
  • art is a competed line sketch
  • podfic is of a 300 word fic
  • fanvis is 30 seconds

Schedule
☆ All Deadlines 11:59PM EDT | 8:59PM PDT ☆
- Sign-ups & Noms run concurrently: OPEN
- Sign-ups close: Monday, July 21, 2025
- Works Due: Monday, August 4, 2025
- Works Revealed 24 Hours Later: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
- Creators Revealed: Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Given the exchange theme, and fandom matching, we're relying on good faith from everyone. As a recipient, please make your requests in a spirit of openness, bearing in mind that for this exchange you are opting into someone else's interpretation of grief/mourning. As a creator, the aim is to create something you think your recipient might enjoy. Additional details are optional. Respect DNWs. Have fun. Take risks. Be gracious.

Initial Pinch Hits #1-#15

Jul. 13th, 2025 11:12 pm
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The Pinch Hits are due the same time as regular assignments. The deadline is set for Saturday 16 August at 20:00 UTC. You can view a countdown here.

To claim: please reply to this post with your AO3 username and the name and number of the pinch hit you want to claim. Comments are screened. You can also email tentaclemod@gmail.com.

Anon commenting is fine but bear in mind that I cannot reply if you comment anon!

You don't have to be signed up to the exchange to claim a pinch hit, but you do need an AO3 account.

All pinch hits must comply with the rules here. The minimum is a completed work of fanfiction of at least 1000 words or a completed piece of fanart or 500 words of podfic (depending on what the recipient has requested).





CLAIMED! PH 1 - The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, 莲花楼 | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (TV), The Time Master Series - Louise Cooper, The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)



CLAIMED! PH 2 - The Persuaders! (TV 1971), The Limehouse Golem (2016), Critical Role (Web Series) RPF, British Comedy RPF



CLAIMED! PH 3 - Red One (2024), Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013), Spacelords (Video Game), Original Work



CLAIMED! PH 4 - 英雄伝説 創の軌跡 | Hajimari no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game), 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Series (Video Games), Star Trek: Enterprise, Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey, Final Fantasy XV, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Sweet Valley High - Francine Pascal, Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper, Another Eden (Video Game), SK8 the Infinity (Anime)



PH 5 - [Fanfic + Fanart, Podfic] 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, Crossover Fandom, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) )


PH 6 - [Fanfic + Fanart] NoPixel (Web Series), 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 吸血鬼すぐ死ぬ | Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu | The Vampire Dies in No Time (Anime), Runescape (Video Games) )


PH 7 - [All Fanfic] Formula 1 RPF, There Is Another Sun (1951), The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955), The Glass Key (1942), Dial M for Murder (1954), Briarpatch (TV), Cripple Creek (1952), Pit Stop (1969) )


PH 8 - [All Fanfic] Bandom, Cool Runnings, due South, Good Omens, Zootopia, Real Genius-  )


PH 9 - [All Fanfic] Dishonored (Video Games), BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games), Revenge (1990) )



CLAIMED! PH 10 - Wind Breaker (Anime), The Owl House (Cartoon), Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, The Dragon Prince (Cartoon), Demon Lord 2099 (Anime)



PH 11 - [All Fanfic] X-Men: The Animated Series (Cartoon 1992), World of Warcraft, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV 2000), Hellboy (Comics) )



CLAIMED! PH 12 - Free!, Discworld - Terry Pratchett, The Batman (Movie 2022), Mystery Skulls Animated, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game), Our Flag Means Death (TV), Crossover Fandom



PH 13 - [All Fanfic] 翔んで埼玉 | Fly Me to the Saitama (2019), Pluto (Anime), 毒恋~毒もすぎれば恋となる~| Doku Koi: Doku mo Sugireba Koi to Naru | Love Is a Poison (TV), Hikounin Sentai Akibaranger )


PH 14 - [Fanfic + Fanart] Bleach (Anime & Manga), Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, フェルマーの料理 | Fermat no Ryouri (TV) )


PH 15 - [All Fanfic] 赤ちゃんと僕 | Aka-chan to Boku | Baby and Me, 銀と金 - 福本伸行 | Gin to Kin - Fukumoto Nobuyuki, 忍たま乱太郎 | Nintama Rantarou )

Assignments Are Out!

Jul. 13th, 2025 11:11 pm
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Signups have closed, matching has run, assignments are going out now!

The deadline is set for Saturday 16 August at 20:00 UTC. You can view a countdown here.

If your assignment does not contain a ship you offered, please get in touch as soon as possible at tentaclemod@gmail.com with your AO3 name and a description of the issue. Assignments cannot be changed for any other reason.

Info about posting, defaulting, treats, etc. is in the rules post here.

If you're interested in treating: you can view the requests summary here or the nice shiny automagic app here.

Locked/placeholder letters: Some locked letters and placeholders are absolutely to be expected at this stage. However, if you linked to a letter in your signup and it's currently locked and/or is a placeholder, it would be much appreciated if you could complete and/or unlock it as soon as you're able!

Recipient questions: Remember, if you need to ask your recipient a question related to your assignment, please email your question to me at tentaclemod@gmail.com and I'll send it on your behalf. Do not contact them directly. This is in order to maintain your anonymity and keep the fandom in which you're creating your gift a surprise!

Any issues, please email me at tentaclemod@gmail.com. Pinchhits will be out in a bit.

Recent reading

Jul. 13th, 2025 04:54 pm
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Right, let's get this reading post done before the excitement of [community profile] raremaleslashex assignments takes over :D

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans (2010). I read this as background/research for potential Étoile fic writing, and it has been very informative. It covers the history of ballet from its emergence in the court dances of seventeenth-century France, through its development in various places through time, trends and arguments, the influence of other dance styles, its success and declines, etc. etc. Lots of interesting and useful little titbits, both generally and fannishly (I especially like the influential eighteenth-century French ballerina Marie Sallé, who—in a period when female dancers were more or less expected also to be courtesans and mistresses—developed a reputation for universally rejecting male attentions, and on her retirement 'lived quietly with an Englishwoman, Rebecca Wick, to whom she left her modest worldly belongings'; on the fannish side of things, I think I see why Maya Plisetskaya is Cheyenne's fave); I also enjoyed the discussion of how ballet has developed and been reinterpreted in widely diverse cultural and political contexts (the court of Louis XIV; post-Revolutionary Paris; the Romantic nineteenth century; the twentieth-century US and USSR). Homans, a former ballet dancer turned historian, is ideally placed to write a book like this; she writes very much from a perspective informed by direct practical experience of dance, and doesn't hesitate to express her artistic and professional opinions, especially in the final chapters on the flourishing of ballet in twentieth-century America. At the end she argues that ballet, having fallen from those heights, has entered a decline which is probably terminal, perhaps due to its incompatibility with modern culture. I don't know what to make of that; at least I'm sure the characters and presumably the creators of Étoile would not agree! I have seen very little actual ballet in my life—I must go and remedy that soon—and I'm sure someone more familiar with it would have got more out of this book than I did, but still a very worthwhile read.

Re-read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020), gradually over the last eight weeks with the JSMN fandom read-along Discord that [personal profile] pretty_plant kindly invited me to. I love this book as much as ever and, as ever, what I love most about it is how kind and gentle it is in the face of incomprehensibly horrible things happening, and the understanding that both the narrator and Sarah Raphael ultimately reach of their experiences and the world they live in. I was less caught by the academic backstory this time; perhaps I wasn't in the right mood. I do think this book benefits from being read quickly all in one go and getting properly mentally absorbed in it; reading only one part a week with other obsessions going on at the same time made less of it.

Dr Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope (1881). Having finished the Barsetshire series last year, I wanted to keep up my tradition of reading a Trollope each summer but was dithering over where to go next; I didn't want to launch into the Palliser books, his other famous series, because from the sound of it they have less of the elements I enjoyed most about Barsetshire (church politics and rural society) and more of the elements I was less interested in (London and the nobility). In the end I picked a title from his bibliography on Wikipedia on the basis of, that sounds interesting, I'd like to see what he does with a school setting. Well, it is about a school setting in a sense, though it's not what you'd call a school story; Dr Wortle is a very Barsetshire-ish country clergyman who also runs a small preparatory school, so I managed to pick well for myself there. But if this book is half Barsetshire, the other half turns out to be a Wilkie Collins novel: the main plot turns on a reveal entertainingly similar to the inciting reveal in No Name (but made in hilariously non-sensation novel fashion: early on in the book Trollope spends several paragraphs telling the reader 'now, authors usually draw this sort of thing out for the drama and suspense, but I'm not going to do that, I'm just going to tell you the big twist now; perhaps some readers will find this boring and fun-ruining, in which case I suggest they put the book down'). It is an interesting example of how different authors with different priorities tackle a similar scenario: besides Trollope not being a sensation novelist, this story kind of returns to the themes of The Warden in being very much about the social consequences of scandal and the practical importance they have, whereas No Name is all about the legal consequences and the social effects that follow as a result. I liked it! I especially liked the character of Dr Wortle, who is principled and determined on following his conscience in the face of social pressure and serious threatened consequences, but who is also dictatorial, prone to poor judgement and not always actuated by purely charitable motives; I think Trollope is too sympathetic to his failings, but I nevertheless liked how he portrays his protagonist's complexity. The book is let down by a particularly annoying Victorian love subplot which increasingly eclipses the main story towards the end, but aside from that it was worth reading.

Derek Hale Fan Video - Titanium

Jul. 12th, 2025 09:32 pm
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Title: Titanium
Character: Derek Hale
TV Series: Teen Wolf
Music: Titanium by Sia
Length: 3:55
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr

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Jul. 12th, 2025 08:52 pm
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End of Jukebox 2025

Jul. 13th, 2025 06:03 am
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Creator names are now revealed at the collection. Jukebox 2025 is over.

Thanks to everyone who took part, particularly pinch hitters! We hope you continue to view and enjoy the works and let the creators know of your enjoyment.

Hurt/Comfort Exchange creator reveals

Jul. 12th, 2025 05:12 pm
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My lovely Kidnapped gift was by [personal profile] sweetsorcery—thank you! :)

I, meanwhile, was pleased to match on The Warm Hands of Ghosts and Laura/Pim again. It's a good pairing for the angsty kind of hurt/comfort where the hurt (of both characters) is bigger and more complicated than the comfort can fix, but it still matters...

A Relapse and a Respite (2411 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Iven/Penelope "Pim" Shaw
Characters: Penelope "Pim" Shaw, Laura Iven
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Unresolved Feelings, Wrapped in blankets while hurt/sick
Summary:

The flu isn’t quite done with Laura, after all; Pim takes care of her, but she has other things on her mind too.

Two more new BtVS vids!

Jul. 12th, 2025 09:29 am
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[personal profile] periru3 and I have posted two more vids in our ongoing vid album Jagged Little Slayer, a mashup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alanis Morissette:


Title:
 You Oughta Know
Character/Pairing: Buffy/Faith, S4
Summary: I'm not gonna fade as soon as you close your eyes.

AO3 | DWTumblr


Title:
 Ironic
Character/Pairing: Minor characters suffering mishaps
Summary: Isn't it ironic, dontcha think?

AO3
| DW | Tumblr

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June postal mail from fen brought me a beautiful card from [personal profile] elayna. It's colored by hand and she indicated that it was done in pencil -- must be some very special kind of pencil -- there's a depth of color and a shine to it that doesn't look like other pencil-work I've seen. And she pointed out that with one of the images being a compass and one of the images being a wolf or wolf-dog it made her think of due South. Also, she put a wolf sticker on it and used a maple-leaf postage stamp. I <3 everything about this card very much!

Fandom5K Pinch Hit due 25 July

Jul. 11th, 2025 11:18 pm
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Event: Fandom5K is an exchange for fic of 5,000 words or more and comics of 5 pages or more.
Event link: [community profile] fandom5k
Pinch hit link: On DW
Due date: 25 July

PDPH 10 - The West Wing, Neko no Ongaeshi | The Cat Returns, Severance (TV)
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So, I am looking for a fanvid made for festivids for “Snow White: a Tale of Terror” called “Bare your Teeth” using Lady Gaga’s teeth by vidder e- transitions back in 2010.  

I seem to remember having accessed it either through YouTube or Vimeo at some point but all of the old links I have found link to a download on the vidder’s personal website, which no longer exists.  

I’m hoping for a link or if someone had downloaded it at some point and still has it, I would be forever grateful.  

The Friday Five for 11 July 2025

Jul. 11th, 2025 12:59 am
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This week's questions were suggested by [livejournal.com profile] silent_r_infork

1. What was the most sick that you've ever been?

2. What disease are you afraid of getting?

3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?

4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?

5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

posting to show activity in the comm

Jul. 10th, 2025 10:17 pm
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Hi everyone!

We'd like to get your input on a suggestion we received after the previous round.

Our current rules allow participants to request/offer any combination of the seven permitted drabble types. This means that a participant could theoretically opt out of requesting or offering single drabbles (i.e., a drabble of exactly 100 words). In other words, participants could exclusively request longer drabble types if they wished.

We received feedback that it may be more in the spirit of the exchange if participants could not opt out of single drabbles. We think this makes sense, and have drafted the following rule change:

Potential rule change: Participants cannot opt out of receiving or writing single drabbles. Rather, single drabbles are a default drabble type in any request or offer—and participants can add other drabble types if they'd like.

Under this new rule, you would still be able to request/offer the full range of drabble types we permit in this exchange—you would just not be able to opt out of single drabbles, specifically.

Your input: Here is a StrawPoll where you can express whether you support this change. While we think this rule change would be a net positive, we'd love to hear whether you support it or not—and why, if you'd like to share.

If you feel there are additional factors or perspectives we should consider, please do leave a comment below, email us, or leave a comment on the Mod Contact Post (where it will be automatically screened).

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