This time last year we were enjoying family time and presents, and I was looking forward to DAV and Doctor Who.

Today was a kind of rinse and repeat because it was family time again. My ad hoc sausage rolls went down well but I left it too late to start them (husband did warn me!), so that impacted the party nibbles, which impacted how much time I had to spend with folk for the first hour. But I think more got eaten than usual. We didn't overload the table as much, which perhaps made it less overwhelming...?

Husband has a plan for tidying up the shelves in the cupboard the toys are kept in. I think we should make that a priority!

I played a bit more of of Blue Prince. I can see how people could get lost in it - literally and metaphorically! But 'success' depends too much on the drawing the right rooms with the right connections. I might poke at it a bit more after GoY.

Tomorrow, I will plan food more carefully.

Now I'm watching Inside Out. Such a good film. All our emotions are important. I particularly love the parents' emotions - although there's definitely some gender stereotyping.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: bedroom

It's hard for me to figure out how to even start this post, because I was just presented with this picture:

A man with fluffy hair with bloodied face holding the cheek of a smoking woman with a bloodied face, text in English

...and I didn't really ask any more questions before reading the manga. Bonus impact for stumbling on it in Japanese because the "kept pet" implied in the verb is delicious, and obviously plays with the K-9/"police dog" title.

Anyway, meet Oboro on the left - he's great - and Ren on the right - she's great. The art is beautiful, and everyone is very pretty.

About the world

Some people have special abilities, most of which are not well understood. Only one thing is known for sure: these abilities manifest after someone commits a crime. For example, the criminal from the first chapter is an arsonist and can control/become fire. (Somewhat unrelated, but this is pretty fun coming in from the BNHA world because it's like a universe in which only bad guys get a quirk.) Here, these abilities are called "sins," haha. In the Japanese, it's simply the kanji for crime with "sin" written in katakana beside it.

This seems pretty simplistic at first glance, but that slowly changes as we drill deeper into the worldbuilding and learn the nuances of these abilities and how they manifest. The implications are deeply fucked up, with often devastating consequences that I'm totally here for as my heart gets shattered again and again.

The story premise

Our plucky detective Ren is selected to join Division 9, a newly created division that pairs a detective with a sin user in order to fight fire with fire -- what could possibly go wrong?! I love her. She kicks so much ass.

Woman with a leg up kicking some dude in the face mid-stride

So, who's our main cast?

( Short character profiles )

Four characters looking way too cool as they step through a broken wall

TOGETHER THEY FIGHT CRIME! More specifically, crime related to sin users. But they also get their asses kicked and handed over to them quite a bit, haha.

( A bit more on the story and on them )

Where to read? How many chapters are out?

( 37 chapters, 3 volumes. You, too, could catch up in a reasonable amount of time! 🫵 )

Bonus scythe, for fellow appreciators of the Rule of Cool

Cross-posted to

fanifesto,

anime_manga,

fourormore (with additional but potentially spoilery OT4 screenshots), also linked to from

polyamships :D

I think I'm starting to get it out of my system. Maybe. Not at all eyeing the manga volumes for a reread. This will be fine. I'm fine. We're cool.

Oversight | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.4k words | rated T

Summary: Ren has never questioned where Oboro lives, until now.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

This time last year, I wrote a rather whimsical entry about a trip to Broadgreen, cleaning, watching telly with the boys, and failing to beat Ultimecia.

Today also started slowly. After breakfast, I gave the living room a good clean. There is a real satisfaction in a clean, tidy space - even if you know it'll all need doing again soon enough.

I iced the Christmas cake and arranged the little trees and dopey-looking reindeer. An excellent job if I do say so myself.

This afternoon I popped up to Tesco for 'a few bits'. £50 later... And I really didn't buy all that much. Cost of living crisis, anyone? But now, if there's anything we don't have for the next few days, we don't have it and we'll live without it.

LHA is done-done. Teersa's final level crept up on me - and suddenly the final trophy and the plat popped when I thought I was going to have to go on another expedition. I downloaded Blue Prince so I would have that to fill any odd hours today and tomorrow. Since I finished LHA so quickly, I did 'day one' of BP. It's basically a puzzle game. I don't expect to get the plat :D

Now I'm watching War of the Rohirrim. They've kept a lot of the details from the LOTR films - and some things are direct copies. Having Eowyn narrate is a nice touch.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: bedroom

If I get all the ideas out of my head, then I'll be able to write a mini-promo post for the fandom that doesn't just consist of a couple of screenshots with me pointing and screeching, right?

...Right?! 😨

Looking great | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.6k words | rated T

Summary: After an incident, it's decided that it would be better for the four of them to stay in Akihabara during the investigation.

Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.

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

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

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

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

I was going back through my 'meme' tag and found this old one. It's always been a bit of fun, so lets whip it out again. Don't be shy!

Link me to a fic you've written, and I'll tell you something I like about it! c:

All fandoms and original fic welcome - though if you're going to link me to your 300,000 word magnum opus, a nominated chapter would be nice.

Actually published a few fanfics this year, so resurrecting this old AO3 meme:

1. How many words have you written this year?

9,459 words were published to AO3 in 2025, and some 12,000 more in active WIPs are hanging around. I've had better years, but also much worse.

2. How many works did you publish this year?

I'm going to count the chapters of the oneshot collection as separate works, in which case it's 13 fics and one fanmix published.

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

Go Marching In, which addressed a very long-standing itch about how TMNT 2k3 handled the ethical conundrum in 'Rogue in the House' (answer: not super well).

( 4-22 below )

A year ago, I was trying to call my mother, hoping the garden would be finished (hollow laugh), cleaning the house and cleaning up on GFs, watching stuff on Tivo and Netflix, and reading Emma.

Today started with the shopping arriving on time. 'No more frozen food' is always more of a guideline :D Then I went up to the pharmacy for husband's prescription and my 'flu jab. I'm wearing a blouse with tight sleeves that wouldn't push up my arm, so I had to slip it off. Note to self - plan ahead!

For dinner, I had one of my favourites - crumpets with fried eggs. There were three crumpets left in the pack, so I toasted all of them - only had 2 eggs, though. Then it struck me; a new pack of 9 crumpets came with the shopping - if I'd kept one back, there'd have been an even number.

This afternoon, we headed over to the Royal for husband's diabetic podiatry appointment. From my pov, a perfect appointment. It was local, it began (about!) on time, it lasted a reasonable amount of time, and we got everything done. The podiatrist took new casts of husband's feet for new insoles. There was a diabetes nurse there, too. They had a heavy foreign accent, spoke very quietly, and the podiatrist kept speaking at the same time, so it was a bit of a struggle to hear them!

I've made progress with LHA - the only thing left to do is get Teersa to L20. This will not take me two days.

Now I'm watching the latest Knives Out film. Mr Elton/Prince Charles makes a good priest :D Great line about the Christian 'story' touching something deep within us. Do morticians really eat in the morgue? they seem to do it in every film/telly programme. I have no idea who the killer is, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: bedroom

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This time last year we spent a fortune on two cratesful of food, presents arrived, we were planning Christmas viewing, and I was making progress with FFVIII.

I wonder if Dave will get round to FFVIII...?

Today started with a bath. I'm making slow progress through Mort - Death doesn't so much want an apprentice as a son-in-law :D I love Pratchett's description of how history works.

There was a Nativity service at St Michael's. I didn't dress up but I joined in - and stopped one of the vicar's kids from setting fire to the place!

I've decided to go for 100% completion with LHA, as well as the plat. There isn't time to start or make progress with anything else and I refuse to not game at all when I'm on holiday! That's what my holidays are FOR.

The kitchen is cleaned and the turkey is defrosting in the fridge. And the boys sorted out the excess of coats and jackets in the hall - without any request for me to help! Adult men adulting - what a concept.

Now I'm watching some more of One Day. It was described as a 'slow burn' but I'm finding it annoying. They are obviously attracted to each other, they must both know how the other one feels - how is this 14 episodes? Maybe I just skip to the end...

Current Mood: confused
Current Location: bedroom

Me in the previous post, sharing my current Scrivener setup with screenshots:

A few folders with fandom names, and folders and text files below each

Enabling friend a couple of hours later, sliding into my DMs with a screenshot and 👀👀👀:

A list of folder and files, some of which are circled in red with painted question marks besides

(Shared with permission ;))

I'm still laughing about it. These are the projects I hadn't really mentioned yet, or not in a while. I'm having such a fun and joyful fandom time lately. I feel so lucky. I know these things ebb and flow, and people drift apart, life gets in the way, and so on. But I've posted about the lows before, and it feels only fair to record the highs, too :D Wishing everyone many many creative and joyful times.

Current Mood: happy, still!!!!!!!!!!

In a fit of unrealistic optimism I signed up for

ficinabox, because, sure, after having not written any fic in a year I could definitely write 10k in quick succession.

(Narrator: she couldn't.)

I ended up having to drop a bunch of that wordcount because I suck and have forgotten how to make words happen, but I did enjoy writing again.

(Narrator: she didn't. It was like pulling teeth.)

And I'm pretty proud of what I did manage to write.

(Narrator: Actually, kind of, yeah.)

Bella Ciao (ciao ciao ciao) (Andor; Vel/Kleya; post-series; 5k)

“I’ve never–” Kleya panted.

“With a woman, you mean.”

“With anyone.”

“What?” Vel pushed herself up, and Kleya slid off her lap to one side.

Vel had lost her virginity to an older cousin of Perrin’s who'd fingered her in an empty shuttle at Mon’s wedding, and who afterwards had cried and begged Vel not to tell anyone or it would ruin her life.

“I’ve been busy,” Kleya said archly.

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (The Marvels; Carol/Valkyrie; 2k)

“What does Asgardian divorce look like, anyway?”

“Oh, it’s quite easy,” said Val cheerfully, “I’d just have to publicly denounce you for sexual inadequacy and then punch you in the face.”

“...How publicly, exactly?”

Or,

Four times Carol and Val don’t get divorced.

In continued unrealistic fits of optimism I am both considering signing up for

rarefemslashexchange, and trying to write a Pluribus fic before the finale airs on Wednesday, because, Jaysus, I have so many feelings about that show.

Unofficial Pirate Day!

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

BLACK SAILS

FANFIC

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

FANART

MISCELLANEOUS

FANFIC

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

FANART

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

META

That's it for today!

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Miles Caton - I Lied to You (Sinners OST)

I mentioned earlier in the year that I migrated to Scrivener for my fic projects as well. I've been finding my feet more and more with it, and slowly customising the interface in ways that tickle my brain just right. Thus I thought I'd record and share a snapshot of my current system!

I'm still using a single project for all fandoms. Sometimes I think about switching to a Scrivener project per fandom, especially when I start writing a multi-chap, then I go meh again... I dunno. I have a couple of fandoms I write a lot for, but more that will only ever have a couple of fics. And it's not necessarily clear from the start which will be which either. I think I'll continue this way until it feels too unwieldy. Or maybe if I start something that I know will be novel-length........... but even then?! Haha. Who knows.

This first organisational tidbit isn't particularly exciting. I renamed "Manuscript" into "Fic" and have a subfolder per fandom. Multi-chapter fics get their own subfolder, often with more under: one for the Story files, and then other files and/or subfolders for notes. Otherwise it's usually just a file under.

Scrivener has a concept of a "Research" folder which is the only folder where you can include images and the like. I renamed that into Ideas and inspiration, and store screenshots and other inspiring pictures there.

A folder called "Ideas & More" with a few files and subfolders for fandom-specific inspiration

Then I can look at the thumbnails and remember why I love a particular ship, or feel inspired all over again by a particular scene XD >:D >:D

Note: Friends who I am DESPERATELY trying to drag down into the K-9 hole with me, hopefully to go nuts about that OT4 together, don't zoom in if you don't want spoilers ;)

A screenshot of a directory called "K-9 Inspiration" with 4 thumbnails below

( And this is where things get fun )

I'm sure I'll continue to tweak and improve, but this system is working well for me at the moment, and also it makes me happy.

Current Mood: happy

This time last year was my last day in work and I was looking forward to two 'free' weeks off work, turning off my alarm, and making plans to 'do better' in 2025.

Today I gave the bathroom a good clean, and played a LOT of LHA. I've 'finished' the game - the ending was surprisingly emotional, at least I found it so. Now I'm working towards getting all 4 PCs levelled to 20 so I can get the plat. I have 4 days.

Liverpool managed a win - just.

Now I'm watching 'One Day'. A rom com with a difference, apparently. We shall see.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: bedroom

I had a long plane flight yesterday (holiday travel) and decided to try to clear out a little more of my Tumblr prompt backlog before the end of the year.

1. Friendly fire: Algy and EvS

200 wds - Also on Tumblr

( Under the cut, with prompt )

2. Drug that mimics death - Erich & Biggles

700 wds - Also on Tumblr.

( Under the cut, with prompt )

This time last year I was sort of enjoying our Christmas meal, hoping the garden would be done by Christmas Eve, learning about Power BI, and feeling ready for the festive season.

Today I started by getting my hair cut at a new place. I might go back. Then I popped into Aldi for a turkey and then into Oxfam, where I picked up a very nice dress.

Back home, we had dinner and then I settled to some work. I tidied up the records for the closed projects and shared the final set of minutes for one of them. Playstation Access did their third live stream of the week - a LEGO party game. No Friday Feature :( And I won't watch any more of FFXmas until I'm back at work.

Had one of husband's 'interesting' conversations after tea, not helped by son's interjections. But we managed to not fall out, so that's something.

I played a couple of hours of LHA. I'm renovating Mother's Heart - there are lots of decorations to enjoy. Still focussing on the story but I may have time to go for the Plat.

Finishing the day with HIGNFY - a quick (and irreverent) round up of the year's news.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: bedroom

I woke up antsy, which after a couple of hours morphed into a fuzzy, overwhelming anger I could barely repress despite having no specific target for or place to direct it, or really any useful action to take from it.

So that made me think about Dabi/Hawks, and want to write them, and to push hard on the angst, maybe post-canon, probably ending in MCD for at least one of them. Possibly both.

Then I remembered the sheep farming AU. Which I started in early, pre-vaccine covid days. In which Dabi and Hawks run away from it all and just live quietly, happily together, raising their sheep.

Maybe soft could be good, too. Time for a new entry in that AU! Also good for relearning to occasionally write short and to yeet more easily. Writing more short things can only work if I don't just add them to the towering pile of "stuff to edit at some point"!!!

We'll prescribe you a sheep | Dabi/Hawks | 800 words | rated T

Summary: Dabi's sick and misses the sheep. Hawks tries to help.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

Current Mood: fidgety

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rosa_heartlily - It's all about the timing...
vriddy - Fandom primer: K-9: Public Security Bureau – Division 9 – Special Abilities Countermeasure
vriddy - New K-9 fic: Oversight (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
rosa_heartlily - Just a few bits...
vriddy - New K-9 fic: Looking great (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
queenslayerbee - Gifts for me
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sideways - AO3 Wrapped 2025
rosa_heartlily - Well, I didn't really think that through... or that...
vriddy - New K-9 fic: Inevitable (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
delphi - Six Sentence Sunday
rosa_heartlily - I'm NOT a completionist, but...
vriddy - This is how an enabler thinks
netgirl_y2k - I Did Some Words (it's a Christmas miracle!)
queenslayerbee - rec-cember #3 - black sails & more
vriddy - Scrivener for fanfic, continued
rosa_heartlily - Beginnings... and endings...
sholio - A couple of Biggles promptfics
rosa_heartlily - Ending the year right
vriddy - New BNHA fic: We'll prescribe you a sheep (Dabi/Hawks)

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