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
I really love where this show is going with Norm. Right now, I find his storyline the most exiting. He is clever and practical and manipulative when he has to. But I don't think he is as inconsiderate of people as his father is. But there are parallels between them, for sure.
I still don't have a handle on Maximus. Maybe he's just easily shaped by other people, maybe he just doesn't know himself yet. Both would make sense considering his upbringing.
( Ramblings under the cut )
I still don't have a handle on Maximus. Maybe he's just easily shaped by other people, maybe he just doesn't know himself yet. Both would make sense considering his upbringing.
( Ramblings under the cut )
So, participating in Yuletide this year has really confused my usual fic rec posting interval. (I have some recs I've been holding in reserve because it feels like de-anoning to rec them, which is probably me taking anonymity too seriously, but whatever.) Anyway, a Yuletide rec post will go up after author reveals! This month while I was maximally sleep-deprived and procrastinating on my Yuletide assignment, I somehow ended up getting sucked into reading a bunch of DC comics batfam fic fandom-blind, which amuses me as a person who wrote an entire post about not getting fandom-blind reading less than a year ago. But hey - *slaps the comics multiverse on the back* - you can fit so much angst in these guys!
That which we are by Sky_King
Canon divergence: the Espada find a family in each other behind Aizen's back. Pretty chill for taking place right before and during the Winter War. Found family with casual violence and background power struggles.
( and more for literally just the batfam )
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That which we are by Sky_King
Canon divergence: the Espada find a family in each other behind Aizen's back. Pretty chill for taking place right before and during the Winter War. Found family with casual violence and background power struggles.
( and more for literally just the batfam )
I'm so out of the whole exchange scene, I forgot Yuletide fics are online. Not sure how I feel about that.
FIC: Things Wondrous and Divine (Our Flag Means Death, Frencie/Izzy Hands)
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I finally bought Handora thanks to that sweet Steam discount! I’d been wanting to play it for about half a year because it looked interesting and fun, so I decided to get Handora as my Christmas present.
Now I want to share my impressions after 30 hours and 55 days in-game, so here we go!
( SPOILER BEWARE!! )
Fic: The Voyage of the Unicorn (Our Flag Means Death, All Deck on Hands)
Dec. 26th, 2025 06:58 pmdelphiFIC: Late at My Singing (Let This One Be a Devil, Henry Naughton/The Leeds Devil)
Dec. 26th, 2025 06:18 pmdelphithis year's holiday break pick to watch with my mom! tbh i just checked what was murdery and available on hoopla (free streaming through my library account). relatively lighthearted, and it was a hit with my mom, so phew. (she was kind of like "why is no one normal", but i get the impression that the eccentricity is an intentional part of the casts of characters. she also objects to how sarcastic dci barnaby gets with sergeant troy.) i was taken aback by how cavalier the main characters are about barging into people's houses without warrants, in a way that i think i wouldn't have been if they were non-police detectives. i did enjoy the variously wacky characters, although the handful of queer side characters went over interestingly with my mom. anyway, we liked the pilot (the killings at badger's drift), faithful unto death, and death in disguise.
Happy Friday! Here's some links-- deliberately focused on positive things, to give some end-of-year cheer.
Media of Various Types
- LibraryThing has a Winter Holiday Hunt game running through January 6th
- The Daily Spell is a (free, indie) word puzzle game with weekly stories and daily installments
- Public Domain Day is coming up on January 1st! Another Lord Peter Wimsey book is going PD which is exciting
- Here's some Hugo nomination ideas from
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ladybusiness - DEMO FEST 2025 is out and there's some great punk songs here you can listen to for free. I put some of my recs here, if you need a place to start
Food & Crafts & Art
- These amazing cookies designed as ancient artifacts!
- Echo Zines has a great list of craftivism Youtube video recs as well as some of their own knitting projects
- MyTeaDB -- so you can track your tea collection! If you go to the New page you can see examples of how it works
- Little Golden Notebook has some amazing fiber art pieces
Social Media
- Green Grimoire (Youtube) is a Druid couple who make videos about homestead-y things and van travel, with a pagan bent
- Ruth Mottram (Pixelfed) is a glaciologist and posts photos of her work! She's currently in Antarctica now! She also has a blog; here's a recent post about heading down to Antarctica earlier this month
- And an event: Fediverse Punk Month (January 2026) -- a call for punks (and other subcultures) to leave Meta platforms and build communities in the Fediverse instead
RSS Feeds
- mixed color (RSS) a great blog about embroidery, sewing, dying, etc!
- Winnie Lim (RSS) writes very enjoyable blog posts about life and the things that happen therein
- sortition social is a community RSS feed reader! It selects a random feed from their (user-submitted?) database and added to the timeline for 7 days
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.
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
- On fandom's misuse of the term "abuse" by @rneliflua.
- In depth thoughts on Louis & Claudia's relationship by @diasdelfuego.
- About the saying "dragons plan no trees" by @branwinged.
- On Éowyn's ending by @lesbiansforboromir.
- How the tweaks in Cassian Andor's backstory affected the character by @chamerionwrites. And some thoughts by her on the eternal "Let people enjoy things!!" phrase.
- On Sam Vimes as a cop by @hussyknee.
- What sets Buffy apart as a protagonist by @comradesummers.
I hope you'll enjoy some of these!
I might appear again on the 31st with a surprise...
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Welcome back to another Community Thursday! Original Community Thursday info here, if you're interested and want to participate, too.
Posted/Commented
- Put a Star Wars fic rec in recthething
- Voted on the 2026 theme poll in fancake
- Shared The Muffs' Sad Tomorrow on onesongaday
- Shared a Youtube video essay about knitting on youtuberecs
New-to-me Comms
- ysabetwordsmith posted a list of comms focusing on language and linguistics and one of them led me to the_magick_circle, which I joined
- inkingitout is a low-stress writing comm, with the goal to write 75k words in a year. Sign-ups close January 3rd!
Interesting Comm Posts
- icons is hosting a friending meme!
- Amazing set of cloud photos from yourlibrarian in common_nature