the clear moral of this episode is never try to compose a romantic couplet with wei wuxian
Feb. 19th, 2026 11:01 pm
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aurumcalendulaThe good news is The Unseen definitely has enough shippy footage for me to make a femslashy fanvid! The bad news is now I need a song (and nothing's quite clicking at the moment).
Dear Pride's Solace Creator(s),
Feb. 19th, 2026 11:06 pmsettiai
First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥
( More details under the cut. )
( More details under the cut. )
#84 Ferry Folly (part 2 of 2, complete)
Feb. 19th, 2026 10:31 pmdialecticdreamer
Ferry Folly
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1019
[Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7 am]
:: At the ferry terminal, things get complicated for Garegin, almost before he can catch his breath.Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::
Back to Ferry Folly
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to
Aidan watched Ed pick up the last three sticks of deep fried sweet potato, fit them between his fingers, and drag them through the remnants of the puddle of catsup in the bottom of the paper boat dotted with grease stains despite the waxed surface. “You have an impressive ability to consume roughly your own body weight per meal,” the auburn-haired man teased, in a voice as dry as a sirocco.
Ed giggled. “Thanks. It’s a natural talent.” The boy’s giggle cut off under the weight of the shadows in his eyes, but he offered a lopsided smile. He set two of the three fries against the edge of the paper boat, and took a bite out of the third piece.
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By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1019
[Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7 am]
:: At the ferry terminal, things get complicated for Garegin, almost before he can catch his breath.Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::
Back to Ferry Folly
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to
Aidan watched Ed pick up the last three sticks of deep fried sweet potato, fit them between his fingers, and drag them through the remnants of the puddle of catsup in the bottom of the paper boat dotted with grease stains despite the waxed surface. “You have an impressive ability to consume roughly your own body weight per meal,” the auburn-haired man teased, in a voice as dry as a sirocco.
Ed giggled. “Thanks. It’s a natural talent.” The boy’s giggle cut off under the weight of the shadows in his eyes, but he offered a lopsided smile. He set two of the three fries against the edge of the paper boat, and took a bite out of the third piece.
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All works are in!
Feb. 19th, 2026 07:15 pmrfemod posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
rarefemslashexchangeThe collection will open on February 20th, 10PM PST (UTC-8). [Countdown] [In Your Timezone]
Thank you to our wonderful pinch hitters! If you are a pinch hitter who didn't sign up for the exchange or someone who would like to treat a pinch hitter, there is a Pinch Hitter's Prompts Post.
To all the participants: please make sure any and all edits are completed and if you're an artist that your embedded image links are still working.
The exchange welcomes and encourages treats, even after the collection is open. You can check out the AO3 app to find the fandoms and ships that have been requested for this round.
If you have any other questions/comments, you can leave them here (anon is on, screening isn't) or email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com.
Looking forward to revealing the collection and these amazing works! :D
Thank you to our wonderful pinch hitters! If you are a pinch hitter who didn't sign up for the exchange or someone who would like to treat a pinch hitter, there is a Pinch Hitter's Prompts Post.
To all the participants: please make sure any and all edits are completed and if you're an artist that your embedded image links are still working.
The exchange welcomes and encourages treats, even after the collection is open. You can check out the AO3 app to find the fandoms and ships that have been requested for this round.
If you have any other questions/comments, you can leave them here (anon is on, screening isn't) or email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com.
Looking forward to revealing the collection and these amazing works! :D
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Feb. 19th, 2026 09:31 pmwaterswordI seem to be Canadian now, which is very exciting. (My paternal grandfather was born in Ontario.) I need to pull together a relatively short stack of documents to prove it (3 birth certificates, 2 marriage certificates, 2 name change records), and fingers crossed Canada (home and native laaaaaand) will welcome me home.
It is supposed to snow AGAIN this weekend. I keep reminding myself that this is how winter is supposed to be.
My to-do list has three MUST DOs on it:
- write up notes for therapist before Monday session
- read & comment on manuscript for crit group Tuesday
- pollinator garden email
If you see me doing anything else except, like, keeping body and soul together for the next few days (if it snows more than half an inch, I'll have to take care of my neighbors, and a friend is coming over with her kid to encourage me to clean and have dinner, but other than that — !), yell at me until I go back to my aforementioned tasks.
I spent this week in slide deck hell and the week before in spreadsheet hell. There is still more slide deck hell to come, but I think I can pace it out a little more now. But spreadsheet hell will not end until May, thanks to HHS (pdf link). I like accessibility work, but I also like digital paleography and information architecture and wireframing and right now accessibility is expanding to fill all the available time and then some. Fortunately, one of the slide decks from hell actually requires me to work on a writing project, so I can cling to some vestige of being a creative person who doesn't live in slide deck or speadsheet hell. Maybe someday I will actually be one! Maybe someday I can contribute to CanLit!
Nominations Clarification 1
Feb. 19th, 2026 09:00 pmlettersmod posting in unsent_letters_exchangeClarifications
Character &/Reader nominations will not be accepted. Please nominate only canonical characters or broadly defined original characters. Feel free to re-nominate as Character &/ Any, or Character &/ Original Character.
Please nominate under Crossover Fandom or they will be rejected:
Inception
Arthur (Inception)/Tommy Conlon
John Blake/Eames (Inception)
Dune Movies
Paul Atreides/Anakin Skywalker
Bullet Train (2022)
Tangerine (Bullet Train)/Sergei Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)
Tangerine (Bullet Train)/Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy)
The Fall Guy (2024)
Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy)/Nikolai Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)
Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy)/Sergei Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)
Insta-rec
Feb. 19th, 2026 08:39 pmkassI just finished Basingstoke's gorgeous HR fic and it rocked my socks so much. And made me laugh. And occasionally made me teary. But mostly it just brought me joy.
Lovers, or, English is a damn funny language (77847 words) by Basingstoke
Chapters: 24/24
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Yuna Hollander, David Hollander, Svetlana Vetrova
Additional Tags: no beta we die like Shane's attempts at heterosexuality, Post-Episode: s01e06 The Cottage (Heated Rivalry), Coming Out, Disordered Eating, Dirty Talk, Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - CPTSD, Suicidal Ideation, Past Domestic Violence, Toxic Family Dynamics, Outing, Found Family, Pittsburgh, look I just think Ilya would really vibe with pittsburgh, Soft Dom Ilya Rozanov, do not take legal advice from this fic, Handwaving, English is this authors's first language and I'm mad about it, threesome teasing but no threesomes, Original Character(s)
Summary:
Lovers, or, English is a damn funny language (77847 words) by Basingstoke
Chapters: 24/24
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Yuna Hollander, David Hollander, Svetlana Vetrova
Additional Tags: no beta we die like Shane's attempts at heterosexuality, Post-Episode: s01e06 The Cottage (Heated Rivalry), Coming Out, Disordered Eating, Dirty Talk, Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - CPTSD, Suicidal Ideation, Past Domestic Violence, Toxic Family Dynamics, Outing, Found Family, Pittsburgh, look I just think Ilya would really vibe with pittsburgh, Soft Dom Ilya Rozanov, do not take legal advice from this fic, Handwaving, English is this authors's first language and I'm mad about it, threesome teasing but no threesomes, Original Character(s)
Summary:
Ilya asked Shane’s father while Shane and his mother were talking outside: “Is boyfriends correct? Lovers is incorrect, but I am not sure what is correct.”
“Well,” Mr. Hollander said. “‘Lovers’ is usually used for, hm, a mistress or an affair. Something kind of sordid. Though--you would say Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers,” he said. He paused his knife on the chopping board. “Somehow that’s right and using it for real people isn’t right. English is a damn funny language, Ilya."
“Yes,” Ilya said from the bottom of his heart.
Reason for Secrecy - Stargate Atlantis (PG)
Feb. 19th, 2026 08:41 pmgoddess47 posting in romancingmcshep
Title: Reason for Secrecy
Author:
goddess47Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 165 words
Warnings: none
Notes:
For
mcsheplets prompt #134 - magicFor
romancingmcshep 2026For Fluffbruary 2026 prompt day 19 - dazzling
Summary:
Rodney lets John in on a big secret.
Reason for Secrecy on AO3
Fanfiction: Cast and Crew (The Goes Wrong Show)
Feb. 19th, 2026 11:12 pmrionaleonhartI keep thinking 'okay, I must be out of Goes Wrong ideas now' and then writing more! After seeing The Play That Goes Wrong, I'm really curious about how awkward things were between Annie and the rest of the drama society afterwards.
Title: Cast and Crew
Fandom: The Play That Goes Wrong
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1,800
Summary: In The Murder at Haversham Manor, Annie finds her calling; she wants to be an actress. After the events of the play, though, her relationship with the drama society might be a little strained.
( Cast and Crew )
Title: Cast and Crew
Fandom: The Play That Goes Wrong
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1,800
Summary: In The Murder at Haversham Manor, Annie finds her calling; she wants to be an actress. After the events of the play, though, her relationship with the drama society might be a little strained.
( Cast and Crew )
[food] the kale thing
Feb. 19th, 2026 10:35 pmkaberettI have introduced my mother to this, I have introduced the Child's household to this, I am writing it down because clearly It Is Time for me to do so.
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the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat
Feb. 19th, 2026 05:25 pmmusesfool
In what is likely the only time I will be all "USA USA" about these Olympics (or basically anything these days), the US Women's hockey team won gold in OT over Canada! 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
Hilary Knight with the game-tying goal with 2 minutes left and the goalie pulled - she became the all time leading US scorer at the Olympics! GOATed! (She also got engaged yeserday{? I think it was yesterday? to a lady speed-skater} so she's having a time in Milan!) And then Megan Keller won it in OT - right through the 5-hole on Desbiens (who I do feel bad for - she had herself a game today after getting pulled in the previous US-Canada game)! What a sick goal!
(I don't think the overtime in a GOLD MEDAL GAME should be 3-on-3, but at least they were scheduled to play a full period - no shootout in the gold medal game.)
Of course, I was supposed to be working so people kept emailing me and calling me and I couldn't be like, "Don't you know the US women's hockey team is in OT against Canada in the gold medal game!??!" so ugh. work.
In other news, last night I was struck with a mighty strong craving for an Orange Julius, and i had an unopened 11 oz bottle of OJ in the fridge so I stuck it in the freezer, and then this morning I pulled out the blender to make it, and I think the part that defrosted enough to get scraped into the blender was all water, because it had only the vaguest of orangey taste. But I have the other half of the bottle left, so I will try again tomorrow. I'm sure nostalgia is playing a part, but there was something so amazingly good about an Orange Julius at the mall when I was in high school.
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Hilary Knight with the game-tying goal with 2 minutes left and the goalie pulled - she became the all time leading US scorer at the Olympics! GOATed! (She also got engaged yeserday{? I think it was yesterday? to a lady speed-skater} so she's having a time in Milan!) And then Megan Keller won it in OT - right through the 5-hole on Desbiens (who I do feel bad for - she had herself a game today after getting pulled in the previous US-Canada game)! What a sick goal!
(I don't think the overtime in a GOLD MEDAL GAME should be 3-on-3, but at least they were scheduled to play a full period - no shootout in the gold medal game.)
Of course, I was supposed to be working so people kept emailing me and calling me and I couldn't be like, "Don't you know the US women's hockey team is in OT against Canada in the gold medal game!??!" so ugh. work.
In other news, last night I was struck with a mighty strong craving for an Orange Julius, and i had an unopened 11 oz bottle of OJ in the fridge so I stuck it in the freezer, and then this morning I pulled out the blender to make it, and I think the part that defrosted enough to get scraped into the blender was all water, because it had only the vaguest of orangey taste. But I have the other half of the bottle left, so I will try again tomorrow. I'm sure nostalgia is playing a part, but there was something so amazingly good about an Orange Julius at the mall when I was in high school.
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The Oh Noes and the Hell Yes's!
Feb. 19th, 2026 09:57 pmruricI realise it's only mid month but February has been a MONTH.
( The Oh Noes cut for those who'd rather avoid them- not personal ones cos I'm OK )
7. It has been grey and wet here in London for ever - at least from the start of the year with maybe 2 days of blue skies and sunshine and it's taking a toll.
8. Went to Wales last week and only took one of the two cats. The other hid and so stayed home with a pile of food. Athena - the usually quiet reserved cat - came with me and we had some bonding time without her sister getting in the way. Artemis, the little fiend who stayed home, has been making up for the fact that she was cruelly abandoned - in a warm flat with plenty of food and water and oodles of toys - ever since!
9. Relatedly having spent the week in the cosy, tidy cottage I'm even more determined to subdue and sort out the utter chaos of my living situation in London where I have tried to effectively cram the. Contents of a 3 bed house into what is essentially a two room flat.
10. I've not been able to get to the allotment or do any gardening because WET. Not amused.
The Hell Yes's
1. I spent last week working remotely from the cottage which also included a lot of naps, TV, good food and a ridiculous amount of crocheting. And though it took me 2 days to get the cottage warm - it was Wales and the mountains looked fancy with a good dusting of snow. I beached myself on the couch and barely moved from Monday to Saturday (it was grey, wet and cold there too). Of course coming home on Saturday the weather did change and for a few precious hours there were blue skies and sunshine.
2. I gave myself a pass this week and lived on ready meals while trying to bring some order to 3 work related email inboxes and 2 personal ones. I'm getting there.
3. Work has at least been productive if not enjoyable. But tomorrow I'm going to a Park colleague's community planting day for a couple of hours, next week I'm spending a day handing out free trees and the week after we are having our borough wide seed swap - all of which should be fun things.
4. Crocheting has been super productive - at the beginning of the month I finished a blanket I started the week before Xmas, I've got about half a hexi cardigan finished (even though I have to frog some back), I've almost finished the granny squares for two project bags (just need to stitch them together, line them and make handles), and I'm just over halfway through some Wednesday evening classes to crochet an Easter/Spring wreath. Crochet club every Friday from 1 to 2:30pm is the non-negotiable in my diary. Time to be creative, learn new stuff, have a chat and hang out with 5-7 other fun women.
5. The ex is at the cottage this week which means I get to use his washing machine tomorrow before and after work (2-3 loads of washing) and do some more if needed early Saturday morning.
6. On that note I'm taking myself off to bed with a giant mug of Horlicks and a couple of eps of Starfleet Academy!
( The Oh Noes cut for those who'd rather avoid them- not personal ones cos I'm OK )
7. It has been grey and wet here in London for ever - at least from the start of the year with maybe 2 days of blue skies and sunshine and it's taking a toll.
8. Went to Wales last week and only took one of the two cats. The other hid and so stayed home with a pile of food. Athena - the usually quiet reserved cat - came with me and we had some bonding time without her sister getting in the way. Artemis, the little fiend who stayed home, has been making up for the fact that she was cruelly abandoned - in a warm flat with plenty of food and water and oodles of toys - ever since!
9. Relatedly having spent the week in the cosy, tidy cottage I'm even more determined to subdue and sort out the utter chaos of my living situation in London where I have tried to effectively cram the. Contents of a 3 bed house into what is essentially a two room flat.
10. I've not been able to get to the allotment or do any gardening because WET. Not amused.
The Hell Yes's
1. I spent last week working remotely from the cottage which also included a lot of naps, TV, good food and a ridiculous amount of crocheting. And though it took me 2 days to get the cottage warm - it was Wales and the mountains looked fancy with a good dusting of snow. I beached myself on the couch and barely moved from Monday to Saturday (it was grey, wet and cold there too). Of course coming home on Saturday the weather did change and for a few precious hours there were blue skies and sunshine.
2. I gave myself a pass this week and lived on ready meals while trying to bring some order to 3 work related email inboxes and 2 personal ones. I'm getting there.
3. Work has at least been productive if not enjoyable. But tomorrow I'm going to a Park colleague's community planting day for a couple of hours, next week I'm spending a day handing out free trees and the week after we are having our borough wide seed swap - all of which should be fun things.
4. Crocheting has been super productive - at the beginning of the month I finished a blanket I started the week before Xmas, I've got about half a hexi cardigan finished (even though I have to frog some back), I've almost finished the granny squares for two project bags (just need to stitch them together, line them and make handles), and I'm just over halfway through some Wednesday evening classes to crochet an Easter/Spring wreath. Crochet club every Friday from 1 to 2:30pm is the non-negotiable in my diary. Time to be creative, learn new stuff, have a chat and hang out with 5-7 other fun women.
5. The ex is at the cottage this week which means I get to use his washing machine tomorrow before and after work (2-3 loads of washing) and do some more if needed early Saturday morning.
6. On that note I'm taking myself off to bed with a giant mug of Horlicks and a couple of eps of Starfleet Academy!
Peter Ibbetson, 1891 vs. 1935
Feb. 19th, 2026 03:29 pmlb_lee
Rogan: I’ve gotten obsessed with a 130-year-old novel and its 90-year-old movie, and much like Dracula 2020, I’m gonna make it all y’all’s problem now!
( I hope y’all like Gary Cooper and great-grandma-aged SPOILERS! )
( I hope y’all like Gary Cooper and great-grandma-aged SPOILERS! )
February LOVE-fest: Day 19: two poems about friendship
Feb. 19th, 2026 03:30 pmstonepicnicking_okapiCome Let Us Be Friends by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming
Come, let us be friends, you and I,
E’en though the world doth hate at this hour;
Let’s bask in the sunlight of a love so high
That war cannot dim it with all its armed power.
Come, let us be friends, you and I,
The world hath her surplus of hatred today;
She needeth more love, see, she droops with a sigh,
Where her axis doth slant in the sky far away.
Come, let us be friends, you and I,
And love each other so deep and so well,
That the world may grow steady and forward fly,
Lest she wander towards chaos and drop into hell.
To a Friend who sent me some Roses by John Keats
As late I rambled in the happy fields,
What time the sky-lark shakes the tremulous dew
From his lush clover covert;—when anew
Adventurous knights take up their dinted shields:
I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk-rose; ’twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew
As is the wand that queen Titania wields.
And, as I feasted on its fragrance,
I thought the garden-rose it far excell’d:
But when, O Wells! thy roses came to me
My sense with their deliciousness was spell’d:
Soft voices had they, that with tender plea
Whisper’d of peace, and truth, and friendliness unquell’d.
Come, let us be friends, you and I,
E’en though the world doth hate at this hour;
Let’s bask in the sunlight of a love so high
That war cannot dim it with all its armed power.
Come, let us be friends, you and I,
The world hath her surplus of hatred today;
She needeth more love, see, she droops with a sigh,
Where her axis doth slant in the sky far away.
Come, let us be friends, you and I,
And love each other so deep and so well,
That the world may grow steady and forward fly,
Lest she wander towards chaos and drop into hell.
To a Friend who sent me some Roses by John Keats
As late I rambled in the happy fields,
What time the sky-lark shakes the tremulous dew
From his lush clover covert;—when anew
Adventurous knights take up their dinted shields:
I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk-rose; ’twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew
As is the wand that queen Titania wields.
And, as I feasted on its fragrance,
I thought the garden-rose it far excell’d:
But when, O Wells! thy roses came to me
My sense with their deliciousness was spell’d:
Soft voices had they, that with tender plea
Whisper’d of peace, and truth, and friendliness unquell’d.
Specimen by C. Quince
Feb. 19th, 2026 09:30 pmprofiterole_readsSpecimen by C. Quince was so much fun! David, who's been experimented on, joins Sonny, another super soldier, as part of a secret division of British Intelligence.
I fell in love with the cover art, which reminded me of Bucky, then with the actual characters of the novel. The plot is sci-fi sprinkled with urban fantasy. I can't wait for Book 2, but the author has released unrelated novellas instead (they're on my to-read list anyway ^^).
ETA: Jingle Jingle Kill is actually set in the same 'verse with some of the same supporting cast.
David is bisexual and half-Mexican, half-White. Sonny is gay and half-Iranian, half-White. The other agents include an enby, a woman using a wheelchair and many POC.
I fell in love with the cover art, which reminded me of Bucky, then with the actual characters of the novel. The plot is sci-fi sprinkled with urban fantasy. I can't wait for Book 2, but the author has released unrelated novellas instead (they're on my to-read list anyway ^^).
ETA: Jingle Jingle Kill is actually set in the same 'verse with some of the same supporting cast.
David is bisexual and half-Mexican, half-White. Sonny is gay and half-Iranian, half-White. The other agents include an enby, a woman using a wheelchair and many POC.