Icarus Drowning

Dec. 6th, 2025 02:27 am
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noun: perihelion

  1. the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun.

A ship designed to cherish and protect. A SecUnit built to throw its life away. In retrospect, it was inevitable: ART and its SecUnit experimented with a new form of intimacy, and took the experiment too far.

Now, Murderbot is adrift without its body in the ocean of ART's mind. ART, frantic, tears through its own mind, searching. A small piece of it stays behind to keep its SecUnit's brain from falling apart in its hands, but it may already be too late.

You would never crush me, ART. You would never hurt me. Still, I am drowning in you.

Words: 1231, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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Dec. 6th, 2025 02:27 am

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Thank you everyone for your patience while we work through Tagset Cleanup. There is still one outstanding query for The Witcher - AMT, if this is a fandom you would like to offer or request, please see this post for more potential details and get back to us!

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Dec. 5th, 2025 09:02 pm
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That's right - next month More Joy Day is back for the 19th year in a row!

What's More Joy Day? In short it's this:

Every year since 2008, in the interest of spreading more joy, I’ve proposed that on a designated day in early January we each engage in one act, either online or physical space (or both!), which brings joy to another person, in the hopes that that person will spread that joy further, and exponentially onward.

This act can be as simple as leaving a comment on a fanwork to as complicated as planting a tree or flower in someone's honor and sharing a photo of it and why you chose that person. If you want the longer version (and more suggestions) you can check out this tumblr post from 2024 which provides both.

In 2026, More Joy Day will be Thursday, January 8! 

(The first MJ Days were on Thursdays, and then I moved them to Fridays, but I'm going back to Thursday this year because I think a regular work day could use more joy than a Friday. Let's see how it goes.)

On More Joy Day, I'll post here and you can share your MJ Day activity so other people can feel the radiating waves of joy just from reading about it. :) I hope to see you there!



LB’s expanded hours at MICE!

Dec. 5th, 2025 05:25 pm
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On Saturday December 6, 10:30-2 and 4-6 PM, Sunday December 7, 11-2, we are tabling with the Boston comics Roundtable at table 32 at MICE! Sorry for the double post, but we got an extra shift!

Station Security

Dec. 6th, 2025 12:52 am
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Indah was rattled. Maybe it was just being from Preservation, but she couldn’t understand why anyone would attack someone trying to save their life. She wondered if it was just because it was a SecUnit (that the refugee had figured out it was a SecUnit), or if any other member of Station Security would have been attacked, too.
--
Indah's perspective of that one scene in Fugitive Telemetry.
(For Prompt #3: Station Security)

Words: 502, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Daily Check In.

Dec. 5th, 2025 06:59 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #33924 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 8

How are you doing?

I am okay
5 (62.5%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
3 (37.5%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
3 (37.5%)

One other person
3 (37.5%)

More than one other person
2 (25.0%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Bandcamp Friday

Dec. 5th, 2025 07:25 pm
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 There are a few hours left in Bandcamp Friday. Instead of using Spotify, why not buy some music there? Coincidentally Grace Petrie has a new EP out.

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Dec. 5th, 2025 07:01 pm
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Okay, tomorrow around 2pm US Eastern time I will be streaming the game "Jedi: Fallen Order" on my YouTube channel if anybody would like to come hang out in text chat? (The replay will also be available afterwards if you're interested but can't make it at that time.)

Warm

Dec. 5th, 2025 11:15 pm
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Mark lights some candles and Falcon feels warm.

Words: 700, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 7 of 31 Days of Jimmas 2025, Part 3 of 700 Word Challenge

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Dec. 5th, 2025 06:32 pm
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This evening we went to the town lighting of the Christmas tree at the town centre/center. The temperature was around -3C/26F so we all dressed very warmly. I was wearing heavy wool socks, parka, gloves, wool scarf, and warm hat, and had the hood of the parka up as well, and while most of me stayed warm enough, my toes and my nose got very cold, and my gloves weren't quite thick enough and my fingers were cold as well. We were standing around outside for about an hour listening to recorded music as well as to the local middle school brass band playing Christmas songs, and my daughter and I were just wishing they would hurry up and get to the tree lighting part because we were so cold. When they did eventually flip the switch to light the tree it was very dramatic of course. After the tree was lit one of the local fire trucks arrived fully decorated with Christmas lights and carrying Santa Claus. The girls had fun with various school friends but they were happy to come home after an hour. Now I'm at home trying to get the blood flowing to my toes again. The floor in this basement has heating but it seems to run in a fairly narrow band across the middle of the floor, so I have to sit in a particular spot so that my feet are on the warm part. It feels good but my toes are still very cold and still look blue.
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Rec-cember Day 5: Hockey romance

Dec. 5th, 2025 11:39 pm
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So, today was my day off and I watched the first three episodes of the Heated Rivalry tv series just because I've seen some gifs around Tumblr. I read the whole Game Changers series years ago, I'm a big m/m romance reader, unsurprisingly, and I enjoy a good sports romance tremendously. I am Italian, I know nothing about hockey and this has not prevented from enjoying the hell out of a fair bit of m/m hockey romance and fanfic. 

  1. Wild Ice by [archiveofourown.org profile] makeit_takeit. 46K words. Men's Hockey RPF, Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick. As with all hockey RPF, I have no idea what these two guys look like or even what team they played for, but it's all irrelevant. This is an AU where one of the two  is himself, I guess, retired after hockey, while the other is not a hockey player.  This is just such a gorgeous love story, with, complex layered characterisation and the natural beauty of Canadian winter landscape as its backdrop. It's a sort of grump/sunshine pairing, I guess. The tags give you a good idea of what to expect. 

  2. Front Runner by   [archiveofourown.org profile] makeit_takeit. 60K words. Men's Hockey RPF, Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin. This is another AU, a high school one, where the characters play football in Texas. Picture Friday Night lights only gayer? :D This is another great story. Again, I know nothing about American football, but I'm a sucker for coming-of-age story mixed in with romance. And this has such a strong sense of place, which makes it all the better. Not that I know the first thing about Texas high school football culture, but I am a big fan of Friday Night Lights, trust me when I say I didn't throw the comparison lightly. 

  3. and i spit out the seed by [archiveofourown.org profile] linearity. Heated Rivalry AU, of the canon divergence kind. Basically Ilya and Shane get outed much earlier than in canon. Amazing characterisation and dialogue. 

The Pitt

Since we're talking sports romance, I cannot help but reccing the best sports AU in this fandom: Love Game by [archiveofourown.org profile] homespun. Mel/Frank, ofc, still a WIP but it's going to be complete soon, in, like, a 4 days? And I can already tell this is going to be an all-time favourite. Ah, it's a tennis pro AU. And it's P-E-R-F-E-C-T. 

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