29 sci fi/fantasy trilogy books for $33!
Oct. 21st, 2025 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Storybundle is at it again. This series includes: The Monarchies of God 1-5 by Paul Kearney, The Gales 1-3 by Tanya Huff, Shadowkings 1-3 by Michael Cobley, Dark Delicacies 1-3 by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, Queens of Fate 1-3 by Natania Barron, Triggernometry 1-3 by Stark Holborn, Yolen's Short Fiction 1-3 (The Emerald Circus series) by Jane Yolen, Assassin's Code 1-3, and The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire 1-3 by Rod Duncan.
PHEW!
I can't imagine what the page count of all that is for $33! For me, the Triggernometry, the Tanya Huff, and the Jane Yolen series are the ones that I'm most interested in. Here's the description of Triggernometry: "Stark Holborn's Triggernometry series mixes the grit of the Western with a cast of mathematicians from across history to create a unique and explosive adventure." Wild/Weird West and dueling mathemeticians? Okay.... Just weird enough to really interest me!
You control the split between the authors and Storybundle, and can designate 10% of the proceeds to the Locus charity.
Like most of the Humble Bundles, these are DRM-free. You can get three books for $5, but you have to pay a minimum of $33 to get them all.
The deal is available for another 15 days and 22 hours as of my posting this.
https://storybundle.com/trilogies
PHEW!
I can't imagine what the page count of all that is for $33! For me, the Triggernometry, the Tanya Huff, and the Jane Yolen series are the ones that I'm most interested in. Here's the description of Triggernometry: "Stark Holborn's Triggernometry series mixes the grit of the Western with a cast of mathematicians from across history to create a unique and explosive adventure." Wild/Weird West and dueling mathemeticians? Okay.... Just weird enough to really interest me!
You control the split between the authors and Storybundle, and can designate 10% of the proceeds to the Locus charity.
Like most of the Humble Bundles, these are DRM-free. You can get three books for $5, but you have to pay a minimum of $33 to get them all.
The deal is available for another 15 days and 22 hours as of my posting this.
https://storybundle.com/trilogies
AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #199: Yoshino Miyu
Oct. 22nd, 2025 05:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hailing from Oita Prefecture, home of someone else we know, Yoshino Miyu debuted as part of Team 8 alongside
Abe Mei, Okabe Rin, Okubora Chinatsu, Oguri Yui, Oda Erina, Nagano Serika, Fujimura Natsuki, Onishi Momoka, Kuranoo Narumi, Shitao Miu, Cho Kurena, Hamamatsu Riona, Fukuchi Rena, Honda Hitomi, Yokomichi Yuri, the other Yokoyama Yui—and guys, we are not even close to having covered the original 2014 line-up of Team 8!
When we first met Miyu, she was a kid looking up to Sashihara Rino. Before joining AKB, she had already been active on stage in a number of “hip-hop” events which we are told she learnt the manner of at age 3. I’m not here to cast dispersions on Miyu’s talents, but things like that I always take with a pinch of salt as both Japan and Korea’s idea of what hip-hop means feels very different from what I think it needs and the respect it deserves considering its origins. That aside, Miyu was a talented child, and having that awareness of Sashihara and what had, by this point, made her a household name probably made the decision to audition an easy one. In her own words, Miyu says, ‘I wanted to dance at first, and I wanted to entertain the fans with a smile,’ so it feels very natural for her to have taken this path, this was the moment in which dance was really becoming a core focus of idol music, and Team 8 were certainly the team that brought that focus to AKB.
Shortly after joining, she was able to take part in the general election, and though maybe confident at first, she didn’t rank as she was still such an unknown quantity. What makes this particularly bittersweet however is that she didn’t rank at all during any of the elections during her time in AKB, which is both testament to how unworkable that system was even as late as 2014 with many of the original members having graduated.
She was thought of as the member whose strength in dance bound the Kyushu members together in terms of performance, and anyone who saw her in Kumamoto, Hiroshima, Okinawa, and Hyogo may well have been able to testify. If I ever become proficient in Japanese, one of my many AKB related ambitions, is to travel the country documenting their recollections of Team 8. Throughout the following year, Miyu kept working harder, turning 14 and celebrating with her peers at the theatre whom she also appeared alongside on the B sides of Kokoro no Placard through to High Tension.
After the second general election and her failure to place, a note of defeat enters her voice and there is the first suggestion of graduation. ‘I will graduate soon, and Takahashi Minami's efforts will surely be exhausted,’ she wrote in a 2015 blog. Whilst she again celebrated her birthday with friends, and ploughed forward with ambitions for 2016’s election, the failure must have sealed the deal for her as she sadly graduated in early 2017. Despite this, there is the hope to be remembered, the hope she made a mark. In 2025, I’m writing this, Miyu, to tell you that you did.
Abe Mei, Okabe Rin, Okubora Chinatsu, Oguri Yui, Oda Erina, Nagano Serika, Fujimura Natsuki, Onishi Momoka, Kuranoo Narumi, Shitao Miu, Cho Kurena, Hamamatsu Riona, Fukuchi Rena, Honda Hitomi, Yokomichi Yuri, the other Yokoyama Yui—and guys, we are not even close to having covered the original 2014 line-up of Team 8!

When we first met Miyu, she was a kid looking up to Sashihara Rino. Before joining AKB, she had already been active on stage in a number of “hip-hop” events which we are told she learnt the manner of at age 3. I’m not here to cast dispersions on Miyu’s talents, but things like that I always take with a pinch of salt as both Japan and Korea’s idea of what hip-hop means feels very different from what I think it needs and the respect it deserves considering its origins. That aside, Miyu was a talented child, and having that awareness of Sashihara and what had, by this point, made her a household name probably made the decision to audition an easy one. In her own words, Miyu says, ‘I wanted to dance at first, and I wanted to entertain the fans with a smile,’ so it feels very natural for her to have taken this path, this was the moment in which dance was really becoming a core focus of idol music, and Team 8 were certainly the team that brought that focus to AKB.
Shortly after joining, she was able to take part in the general election, and though maybe confident at first, she didn’t rank as she was still such an unknown quantity. What makes this particularly bittersweet however is that she didn’t rank at all during any of the elections during her time in AKB, which is both testament to how unworkable that system was even as late as 2014 with many of the original members having graduated.
She was thought of as the member whose strength in dance bound the Kyushu members together in terms of performance, and anyone who saw her in Kumamoto, Hiroshima, Okinawa, and Hyogo may well have been able to testify. If I ever become proficient in Japanese, one of my many AKB related ambitions, is to travel the country documenting their recollections of Team 8. Throughout the following year, Miyu kept working harder, turning 14 and celebrating with her peers at the theatre whom she also appeared alongside on the B sides of Kokoro no Placard through to High Tension.
After the second general election and her failure to place, a note of defeat enters her voice and there is the first suggestion of graduation. ‘I will graduate soon, and Takahashi Minami's efforts will surely be exhausted,’ she wrote in a 2015 blog. Whilst she again celebrated her birthday with friends, and ploughed forward with ambitions for 2016’s election, the failure must have sealed the deal for her as she sadly graduated in early 2017. Despite this, there is the hope to be remembered, the hope she made a mark. In 2025, I’m writing this, Miyu, to tell you that you did.
Write Every Day: Day 22
Oct. 22nd, 2025 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A problematic myth about writing is that it comes from novelty. If we want to write, we need to have new material, right? If we have a new experience, an adventure of some kind, then we’ll have a story to tell or new things to present. While travel encourages me to see with new eyes–a jarring dislocation usually heightens awareness–seeing anew can happen anywhere. I think about Thoreau, who walked almost every day for years in the same vicinity, and who wrote, “Two or three hours’ walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see.” You don’t need to be someplace new to see–or hear, or taste, or smell, or feel–something new.
– Maggie Smith, Dear Writer
My day 22: Finished my Yuletide sign-up. \o/ My sister's coming over this evening to watch Fringe and Bluey with me. \o/
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When you check in, please say what day(s) you’re checking in for. You can join in or take a break at any time; you’re always welcome back. And please let me know if I’ve missed you.
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Oct. 21st, 2025 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The Boy Bride by A.J. Demas:
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Unbroken by Jordan L. Hawk:
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I read Reading the Remnants earlier this year, but plan to revisit it now that Pale Mirror has finished editing their translation and has posted EPUBs and PDFs for it.
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Unbroken by Jordan L. Hawk:
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I read Reading the Remnants earlier this year, but plan to revisit it now that Pale Mirror has finished editing their translation and has posted EPUBs and PDFs for it.
Complementary creators needed!
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We have two works that so far have not received complementary claims for the due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang. I know our extended schedule is running up against holiday exchanges, which makes signing up for this more complicated, but we have some really lovely primary works this year and I'd like everyone to get a complementary work if possible - so please, go take a look and see if there's something there that makes you feel inspired!
The unclaimed creators are Creator 1 and Creator 6 in the complementary claims post; complementary works would be due November 21 (with a mandatory checkpoint on November 1).
The unclaimed creators are Creator 1 and Creator 6 in the complementary claims post; complementary works would be due November 21 (with a mandatory checkpoint on November 1).
Do you hear me screaming?
Oct. 21st, 2025 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Everything was on fire today. I was glad to get to lab. At least that didn't explode.
Books for next semester are due. Barnes & Nobles (our online book seller) doesn't think I exist. I go to fill in our book store's excel spread sheet (as I'm not alone in being erased) and our book store has sent it for THIS semester, not next. ARGH
I get a message from the chair 'there's problems with the schedule' yep there was. At least that's an easy fix but that's still a chunk of my day gone.
The greenhouse watering system is off so not only were the plants I dragged off the porch yesterday sad and stressed so were my greenhouse plants. My office is now a nursery for plants on the edge. Crosses fingers.
At least I got everything graded at long last. Midterms are due in tomorrow. Wanna see the line out my door of people panicking over the zeroes I put in for the stuff they didn't do. Oh wait? that matters?
Fannish 50
I am gonna ask a question in a sec but again fans do better! One creator let it slip that there is a ship they don't like (didn't say which one) and now a hunk of fans are yelling at them, calling them immature and mentally ill for even mentioning it. Good lord, fans, cool the fuck down (though at this point creators are probably going to want to keep their mouths shut about ships, fans are so toxic)
So my question, I'm thinking of doing a panel at the con next year and one thing I've noticed that as per usual there is an overemphasis on male characters. I was thinking of doing one on the strong women in animation. I could fill a quarter of that hour on Fullmetal Alchemist alone.
So the question is who would YOU add? I'm thinking any time period. I was not into Sailor Moon but sure probably deserves to be there. I see lists online and a lot of them I don't necessarily agree with, like Mikasa Ackerman from AoT who fizzled out along with Rukia from Bleach.
My only caveat is I wouldn't be including the ridiculously fan service ones like Shura from Blue Exorcist and if I could I'd be willing to put in non-anime, say the ladies of the Owl House. And it doesn't have to be physical strength I'm after. I'm thinking more the independent woman types.
Daily Happiness
Oct. 21st, 2025 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. I had meetings that were supposed to go till five today but we got done by around 3:30!
2. Carla bought some baking potatoes the other day and I realized it was the perfect way to use the package of Trader Joe's frozen birria that we've had taking up space for like a year and a half at least, if the expiration date is anything to go by lol. It was a good amount for two servings (half a potato each, piled high with beef and cheese and plenty of broth). Not quite as good as the birria baked potatoes we had at Disneyland, though I feel like some cilantro would have helped on that front (forgot to buy any when we bought the cheese). Still, very tasty and very happy to use up something from the freezer.
3. Molly loves sitting on my lap, but she has not figured out how not to be completely awkward about it.

2. Carla bought some baking potatoes the other day and I realized it was the perfect way to use the package of Trader Joe's frozen birria that we've had taking up space for like a year and a half at least, if the expiration date is anything to go by lol. It was a good amount for two servings (half a potato each, piled high with beef and cheese and plenty of broth). Not quite as good as the birria baked potatoes we had at Disneyland, though I feel like some cilantro would have helped on that front (forgot to buy any when we bought the cheese). Still, very tasty and very happy to use up something from the freezer.
3. Molly loves sitting on my lap, but she has not figured out how not to be completely awkward about it.

Boo! Less than three days until works are due!
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Works are due October 24, 23:59 UTC/7:59 EDT. Please take this opportunity to double-check assignment requirements and that you've actually posted the work instead of leaving it in drafts!
Please also remember there will be no extensions.
After the works deadline, there will be a week for pinch hitting and treating to get ready for work reveals on Halloween.
Speaking of which, our Community Challenge of Treating Every* Participant will kick officially into gear after the post-deadline pinch hits go out! There will be a treat sheet for tracking.
*some restrictions apply
**like opting out of treats, haha
Please also remember there will be no extensions.
After the works deadline, there will be a week for pinch hitting and treating to get ready for work reveals on Halloween.
Speaking of which, our Community Challenge of Treating Every* Participant will kick officially into gear after the post-deadline pinch hits go out! There will be a treat sheet for tracking.
*some restrictions apply
**like opting out of treats, haha
E is 20 and one day now!
Oct. 21st, 2025 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's wrong and bad and wrong and I don't like it. She was little just yesterday! Now she is not little, and her sibling is even less little, and I just don't understand how that happened.
Happy birthday to her, I guess.
Happy birthday to her, I guess.
report from the What's Next After No Kings livestream
Oct. 21st, 2025 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Just attended the livestream - recording can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/4v2p3NwsMg0
Lots of talking and encouragement, also a lot of stories and photos from Saturday. On the livestream:
Moderator: Ashlee-Woodard Henderson (activist)
Speakers: Ezra Levin (co-executive director of Indivisible), Hunter Dunn (LA Host, National Press Coordinator 50501), Lisa Gilbert (co-executive director, Public Citizen), Maribel Hernández-Rivera (National Director of Immigrant Community Strategies), Jiggy Geronimo (Narrative Strategist)
Final message: find your local community.
Resources linked:
- https://brandfolder.com/indivisibleproject/no-kings-know-your-rights (cards to print and distribute in English, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Tagalog, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Haitian Creole, French, and Arabic)
- Text SHUTDOWN to 30403 to get a script from the Working Families Party to leave a message with your Senator to encourage them to hold the line during the shutdown and keep fighting against Trump's health care cuts and price increases, followed by them calling you to connect.
- There's also a QR code in the video to connect you to the Stop the Healthcare Heist! Week of Action.
https://www.youtube.com/live/4v2p3NwsMg0
Lots of talking and encouragement, also a lot of stories and photos from Saturday. On the livestream:
Moderator: Ashlee-Woodard Henderson (activist)
Speakers: Ezra Levin (co-executive director of Indivisible), Hunter Dunn (LA Host, National Press Coordinator 50501), Lisa Gilbert (co-executive director, Public Citizen), Maribel Hernández-Rivera (National Director of Immigrant Community Strategies), Jiggy Geronimo (Narrative Strategist)
Final message: find your local community.
Resources linked:
- https://brandfolder.com/indivisibleproject/no-kings-know-your-rights (cards to print and distribute in English, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Tagalog, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Haitian Creole, French, and Arabic)
- Text SHUTDOWN to 30403 to get a script from the Working Families Party to leave a message with your Senator to encourage them to hold the line during the shutdown and keep fighting against Trump's health care cuts and price increases, followed by them calling you to connect.
- There's also a QR code in the video to connect you to the Stop the Healthcare Heist! Week of Action.
Doctor Who: "The Time Warrior"
Oct. 21st, 2025 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So today's "first" is Sontarans and Sarah Jane Smith.
They really went for competent, feisty, and full of gumption off the bat with Sarah, didn't they?
Linx was an interesting introduction to the Sontarans, actually.
Irongron is a pill of a brute of a villain, but I really liked Eleanor of the other castle.
This is the best line: "Is this Doctor a long shank rascal with a mighty nose?" and sums up the Third Doctor well.
They really went for competent, feisty, and full of gumption off the bat with Sarah, didn't they?
Linx was an interesting introduction to the Sontarans, actually.
Irongron is a pill of a brute of a villain, but I really liked Eleanor of the other castle.
This is the best line: "Is this Doctor a long shank rascal with a mighty nose?" and sums up the Third Doctor well.
IT'S OUR DAY!!!
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TODAY* IS INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCKS DAY!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CELEBRATE?
* GEOGRAPHICAL RESTRICTIONS APPLY.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CELEBRATE?
* GEOGRAPHICAL RESTRICTIONS APPLY.
Look at all my trials and tribulations
Oct. 21st, 2025 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sinking in a gentle pool of (checks label) créme brûlée craft cream liquor. After all, why not? Why not get rush tickets for Orfeo ed Euridice at the Canadian Uproars Co.'s Saturday matinee? Or even just order a ticket? Well, because rush seats are SRO at the back thus perfect for walker users. But if I can see where the seats are, might buy a full price one even with blocked sightlines. I know I've been at the Four Seasons Centre at least once-- s-i-l's partner flaked on her for I forget what opera a good eighteen years ago and she took me, so I know the acoustics are better than the quondem O'Keefe's. And if I'm to be chained to a walker for the rest of my life, it's time I learned to work around it.
Otherwise did little bursts of housework today so a couple of foot-dragging things got done, so go me, I suppose.
Otherwise did little bursts of housework today so a couple of foot-dragging things got done, so go me, I suppose.
Dear Yuletide Writer
Oct. 22nd, 2025 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Thank you so much for writing for me and, most of all, for sharing one of my tiny fandom loves!! I adore all these canons and am sure to enjoy whatever you come up with. I’m only including a few prompts in case you’re the kind of writer who likes them; please don’t feel bound by them. If you like, you can use them as jumping-off points for something quite different.
I’m
china_shop on AO3. Treats are enabled and welcome!
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And now, on to the prompts! I've patched these together in a bit of a hurry; more verbiage does not indicate preference!
What it is: a 6 x 20-minute-episode BL Kdrama about two high-school best friends pining for each other. It's gorgeously acted and shot, and the characters have a lot of interiority: Go Hotae has just lost his father and moved from Seoul back to his small hometown; he's an athlete, a terrible student, and very sweet. Kim Donghee, bright, artistic, and abused by his father for being gay, comes to live with Hotae and his mum. He tries hard to conceal his crush on Hotae. We get to see Hotae's growing awareness of Donghee. Here's episode 1, and the rest of the show is linked at the bottom of the page.
Prompts:
* I love the idea of Hotae tracking Donghee down in Seoul (after all, Hotae lived in Seoul for a couple of years, right? he can find his way around). Whether they actually run into each other or not, I feel like there's a lot of potential here. Maybe Hotae writes to Donghee saying to meet him, and Donghee stakes out the cafe, sees Hotae waiting, but can't bring himself to make contact (angst, angst). Or maybe Hotae follows Donghee to Itaewon or Jongno and watches him meet friends in a gay bar - and decides to make his presence known (or not). Or Hotae comes to the university dorms on Donghee's birthday and insists on celebrating with him, and revelations ensue. So many possibilities!!
* Another kiss during their school era days -- maybe when they wake up in the bookshop together -- and the complications that ensue.
* Magic realism fix-it to help them communicate: bodyswap, telepathy, etc.
* Angst - possibly involving Donghee's mother's expectations that he not be any trouble to Hotae's mother, or situational-appropriate internalised homophobia, or just misunderstandings.
I'm fine with an unhappy ending (even a fight) as long as it doesn't rule out the possibility of them getting together at some future date. Happy endings are of course very welcome!!!
What it is: a 10 x 33-44 min-episode BL Kdrama about four young adults in small-town Korean. The background couple, Donghee and Hotae, are a coffee shop proprietor and a high-school dropout who works at his mother's restaurant, respectively. There's a lot of history and tension between them.
Prompts:
I'm primarily interested in Go Hotae&/Kim Donghee, but I really enjoy Yoon Taejoon (and Ji Wonyoung) as a background pairing/supporting cast. I love their respective friendships with Donghee and Hotae, especially Kim Donghee & Yoon Taejoon.
* A get-together or established relationship moment for Hotae and Donghee at any point, including post-canon.
* Exploring what it is that's holding Donghee back - and resolving this to reach a get-together.
* Magic realism fix-it to help them communicate: bodyswap, telepathy, animal transformation, etc. Maybe Donghee receives a batch of coffee syrup that gives people unexpected powers?!
* Anything about Kim Donghee and Yoon Taejoon making friends, being friends, critiquing each other's love lives and choices, supporting each other's businesses and relationships. (That "Dongee & Taejoon commiserating in a bar" scene is pure delight! Anything like that. :D)
* Canon divergent AU where Go Hotae takes up swimming again, and somehow this changes how Kim Donghee sees him.
* Trope fic! All the tropes! (Here are my trope rankings, though this is a few years out of date.)
What it is: a 2020 New Zealand LGBT-related independent drama film. After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rūrangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn’t heard from him since before Caz transitioned. He reconnects with both his high-school best friend and his high-school boyfriend.
Prompts:
I'd love anything focused on Caz -- his guardedness and grudging vulnerability mashes my buttons! Caz/Jem, yes please! Caz & Anahera, for sure!
I really just want more of the world of the film and what comes after -- and all the complicated feelings and relationships therein.
Do they take on the town council about something else? Do they throw a tiny Pride event? Does Caz meet up with someone else in town with whom he has history? An old friend of his mother? Another trans person (maybe not out)? Happy ever afters/domestic fluff are also very welcome: Caz/Jem fight and make up? Adopt a cat? Have a dinner party?
For this one, if you're adding magic realism (eg, Caz's mother's ghost making an appearance?), please keep it gentle and grounded. Other characters and OCs welcome.
What it is: a light, secondary world, urban-historical m/m romance with guild politics and secrets, swordplay and skulduggery, and people being messed up by their rich guild-house families. The romance is "playful-enemies to lovers," ie, there are compelling reasons not to trust each other, but they like each other enough that they can't help teasing, admiring, and developing inconvenient loyalties, despite the suspicion. (I gushed about it here.)
Prompts:
Canon divergence where something goes wrong for one of them, and they have to turn to the other for help before it feels safe to do so. (It's been a few months since I listened, so I can't remember how much that overlaps with canon, but feel free to riff off it. I'm about to re-listen to the audiobook.) An alternate get-together. A missing scene. Outsider POV. Another heist (on top of the ones in canon). Adopting a stray cat or dog. Dealing with (or helping) a member of the supporting cast with a problem.
Reel free to add SF or fantasy elements/tropes, eg, time travel, bodyswaps, ghosts, telepathy.
Otherwise, how about an AU, if you lean that way. I adored the connection, the vibe, the banter, and it would be fun to see that in a different setting. Matti and Luca in space? As pirates? In the high-stakes world of publishing? Sounds delightful! (No vampires, werewolves, omegaverse, mobster AUs or anything dark or gritty, please. And no fusions with other canons.)
What it is: This is a 20-episode Korean office drama (available on VIKI) about corporate corruption, redemption, team as family, and enemies tolovers allies. It’s funny, dark at times, full of wordplay that doesn’t completely come across in the subs, and generally delightful. The ensemble is excellent. My mini-ship manifesto.
I ship Kim Seongryong/Seo Yul so hard. I love what a mess they are, separately and together, and how they’re deceptively similar: both used to being the smartest person in the room; both pushing everyone away, Seo Yul with arrogance and anger, Seongryong by being a glib, mischievous chaos monster; both burdened with consciences despite themselves. They start off genuinely antagonistic but quickly come to recognise each other as worthy opponents. And then all the teasing, stolen kisses, and reluctantly joining forces! For these two, my prompts are for post-canon hijinks/get-togethers, but if you want to set something during canon, go for it!
If you don’t ship them, bickering friendship fic or forced-working-together fic, with or without other members of Business Operations, would also be great. I really love the ensemble, especially Choo Namho and Yoon Hakyung.
Prompts (feel free to interpret as gen or shippy):
What this is: a fantasy novel (with m/m) about belonging and redemption and gods and (mostly human) monsters. Incredible storytelling, narrative voice, worldbuilding, everything. Somehow, despite its horror and grisly moments, this book has become a comfort listen for me. (The audiobook narration by Joel de la Fuente is *amazing*.)
Prompts:
Keema is my absolute favourite. I would love anything about his past, present or future, especially if it came with added worldbuilding. (I'm fine with some horror elements if necessary for the story, but I'd prefer them not to be the focus, and in particularly, not leaning into the live-cannibalism side of things. A generally hopeful tone would be great.)
If you're feeling shippy, I'd really love a future moment for these two, slice of life or another adventure. Maybe they encounter another spirit or challenge. Maybe it's the after-effects of godliness, or some aspect(s) of their being gods lasts longer than they thought. Maybe it's just about their life on the road -- or do they find a home somewhere, a place to belong?
Thank you again! I hope this is helpful and that you have a great Yuletide!
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And now, on to the prompts! I've patched these together in a bit of a hurry; more verbiage does not indicate preference!
Time of Fever: Go Hotae, Kim Donghee
(Feel free to use your preferred romanisation for their names!)What it is: a 6 x 20-minute-episode BL Kdrama about two high-school best friends pining for each other. It's gorgeously acted and shot, and the characters have a lot of interiority: Go Hotae has just lost his father and moved from Seoul back to his small hometown; he's an athlete, a terrible student, and very sweet. Kim Donghee, bright, artistic, and abused by his father for being gay, comes to live with Hotae and his mum. He tries hard to conceal his crush on Hotae. We get to see Hotae's growing awareness of Donghee. Here's episode 1, and the rest of the show is linked at the bottom of the page.
Prompts:
* I love the idea of Hotae tracking Donghee down in Seoul (after all, Hotae lived in Seoul for a couple of years, right? he can find his way around). Whether they actually run into each other or not, I feel like there's a lot of potential here. Maybe Hotae writes to Donghee saying to meet him, and Donghee stakes out the cafe, sees Hotae waiting, but can't bring himself to make contact (angst, angst). Or maybe Hotae follows Donghee to Itaewon or Jongno and watches him meet friends in a gay bar - and decides to make his presence known (or not). Or Hotae comes to the university dorms on Donghee's birthday and insists on celebrating with him, and revelations ensue. So many possibilities!!
* Another kiss during their school era days -- maybe when they wake up in the bookshop together -- and the complications that ensue.
* Magic realism fix-it to help them communicate: bodyswap, telepathy, etc.
* Angst - possibly involving Donghee's mother's expectations that he not be any trouble to Hotae's mother, or situational-appropriate internalised homophobia, or just misunderstandings.
I'm fine with an unhappy ending (even a fight) as long as it doesn't rule out the possibility of them getting together at some future date. Happy endings are of course very welcome!!!
Unintentional Love Story: Go Hotae, Kim Donghee, Yoon Taejoon
(Feel free to use your preferred romanisation for their names!)What it is: a 10 x 33-44 min-episode BL Kdrama about four young adults in small-town Korean. The background couple, Donghee and Hotae, are a coffee shop proprietor and a high-school dropout who works at his mother's restaurant, respectively. There's a lot of history and tension between them.
Prompts:
I'm primarily interested in Go Hotae&/Kim Donghee, but I really enjoy Yoon Taejoon (and Ji Wonyoung) as a background pairing/supporting cast. I love their respective friendships with Donghee and Hotae, especially Kim Donghee & Yoon Taejoon.
* A get-together or established relationship moment for Hotae and Donghee at any point, including post-canon.
* Exploring what it is that's holding Donghee back - and resolving this to reach a get-together.
* Magic realism fix-it to help them communicate: bodyswap, telepathy, animal transformation, etc. Maybe Donghee receives a batch of coffee syrup that gives people unexpected powers?!
* Anything about Kim Donghee and Yoon Taejoon making friends, being friends, critiquing each other's love lives and choices, supporting each other's businesses and relationships. (That "Dongee & Taejoon commiserating in a bar" scene is pure delight! Anything like that. :D)
* Canon divergent AU where Go Hotae takes up swimming again, and somehow this changes how Kim Donghee sees him.
* Trope fic! All the tropes! (Here are my trope rankings, though this is a few years out of date.)
Rūrangi (2020): Caz Davis, Jem, Anahera
What it is: a 2020 New Zealand LGBT-related independent drama film. After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rūrangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn’t heard from him since before Caz transitioned. He reconnects with both his high-school best friend and his high-school boyfriend.
Prompts:
I'd love anything focused on Caz -- his guardedness and grudging vulnerability mashes my buttons! Caz/Jem, yes please! Caz & Anahera, for sure!
I really just want more of the world of the film and what comes after -- and all the complicated feelings and relationships therein.
Do they take on the town council about something else? Do they throw a tiny Pride event? Does Caz meet up with someone else in town with whom he has history? An old friend of his mother? Another trans person (maybe not out)? Happy ever afters/domestic fluff are also very welcome: Caz/Jem fight and make up? Adopt a cat? Have a dinner party?
For this one, if you're adding magic realism (eg, Caz's mother's ghost making an appearance?), please keep it gentle and grounded. Other characters and OCs welcome.
Swordcrossed - Freya Marske: Mattinesh Jay, Lucastian Harte
What it is: a light, secondary world, urban-historical m/m romance with guild politics and secrets, swordplay and skulduggery, and people being messed up by their rich guild-house families. The romance is "playful-enemies to lovers," ie, there are compelling reasons not to trust each other, but they like each other enough that they can't help teasing, admiring, and developing inconvenient loyalties, despite the suspicion. (I gushed about it here.)
Prompts:
Canon divergence where something goes wrong for one of them, and they have to turn to the other for help before it feels safe to do so. (It's been a few months since I listened, so I can't remember how much that overlaps with canon, but feel free to riff off it. I'm about to re-listen to the audiobook.) An alternate get-together. A missing scene. Outsider POV. Another heist (on top of the ones in canon). Adopting a stray cat or dog. Dealing with (or helping) a member of the supporting cast with a problem.
Reel free to add SF or fantasy elements/tropes, eg, time travel, bodyswaps, ghosts, telepathy.
Otherwise, how about an AU, if you lean that way. I adored the connection, the vibe, the banter, and it would be fun to see that in a different setting. Matti and Luca in space? As pirates? In the high-stakes world of publishing? Sounds delightful! (No vampires, werewolves, omegaverse, mobster AUs or anything dark or gritty, please. And no fusions with other canons.)
김과장 | Good Manager (2017) (AKA Chief Kim): Kim Seongryong, Seo Yul
(Feel free to use your preferred romanisation for their names!)What it is: This is a 20-episode Korean office drama (available on VIKI) about corporate corruption, redemption, team as family, and enemies to
I ship Kim Seongryong/Seo Yul so hard. I love what a mess they are, separately and together, and how they’re deceptively similar: both used to being the smartest person in the room; both pushing everyone away, Seo Yul with arrogance and anger, Seongryong by being a glib, mischievous chaos monster; both burdened with consciences despite themselves. They start off genuinely antagonistic but quickly come to recognise each other as worthy opponents. And then all the teasing, stolen kisses, and reluctantly joining forces! For these two, my prompts are for post-canon hijinks/get-togethers, but if you want to set something during canon, go for it!
If you don’t ship them, bickering friendship fic or forced-working-together fic, with or without other members of Business Operations, would also be great. I really love the ensemble, especially Choo Namho and Yoon Hakyung.
Prompts (feel free to interpret as gen or shippy):
- Seo Yul gets dirty/drenched somehow and has to borrow (terrible, ugly) clothes from Kim Seongryong. Can he stand the teasing? Does he immediately disrobe again? How does it affect his day? How does Kim Seongryong feel about it?
- Kim Seongryong or Seo Yul gets three wishes from a magical entity.
- Coming out to each other – or Seo Yul comes out to Kim Seongryong, and Kim Seongryong is inappropriate in some way.
- Third-party h/c, where one of them sees the other being (seemingly uncharacteristically) kind and comforting to another character, and it makes the first person realise their feelings.
The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez: Jun Ossa, Keema of the Daware Tribe
What this is: a fantasy novel (with m/m) about belonging and redemption and gods and (mostly human) monsters. Incredible storytelling, narrative voice, worldbuilding, everything. Somehow, despite its horror and grisly moments, this book has become a comfort listen for me. (The audiobook narration by Joel de la Fuente is *amazing*.)
Prompts:
Keema is my absolute favourite. I would love anything about his past, present or future, especially if it came with added worldbuilding. (I'm fine with some horror elements if necessary for the story, but I'd prefer them not to be the focus, and in particularly, not leaning into the live-cannibalism side of things. A generally hopeful tone would be great.)
If you're feeling shippy, I'd really love a future moment for these two, slice of life or another adventure. Maybe they encounter another spirit or challenge. Maybe it's the after-effects of godliness, or some aspect(s) of their being gods lasts longer than they thought. Maybe it's just about their life on the road -- or do they find a home somewhere, a place to belong?
Thank you again! I hope this is helpful and that you have a great Yuletide!
Daily Check-in
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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 Tuesday, October 21, to midnight on Wednesday, October 22. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #33750 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 16
How are you doing?
I am OK.
10 (62.5%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
6 (37.5%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
5 (31.2%)
One other person.
8 (50.0%)
More than one other person.
3 (18.8%)
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.
Deep Space Nine Drabble
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Testing, Always or read at Ad Astra (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:
Julian did his best to ignore Garak with his unblinking stare, focusing on his own meal. Surely he could be patient enough to let Garak come to his conclusions and speak first.
It couldn't be that hard to ignore the pointed behavior.
Really.
"Alright, what is it? Denebian spots on my face today?" Julian demanded when he still had at least five bites left of the salad.
Garak smiled. "A new record for you, my dear doctor," he said, and Julian flushed as that made it another psychological test.
"Someday, I will make it a full meal."
Garak laughed skeptically.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:
Someday, Julian will avoid the test
Julian did his best to ignore Garak with his unblinking stare, focusing on his own meal. Surely he could be patient enough to let Garak come to his conclusions and speak first.
It couldn't be that hard to ignore the pointed behavior.
Really.
"Alright, what is it? Denebian spots on my face today?" Julian demanded when he still had at least five bites left of the salad.
Garak smiled. "A new record for you, my dear doctor," he said, and Julian flushed as that made it another psychological test.
"Someday, I will make it a full meal."
Garak laughed skeptically.
Update on the Weird Happenstance
Oct. 21st, 2025 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's been fixed. City Hall's website is back to normal now. Since I posted my complaint on Bluesky...
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