[ SECRET POST #6712 ]

May. 22nd, 2025 06:38 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6712 ⌋

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was a lot of fun! But a bit long, they could have cut a few scenes at the beginning of the movie.

I loved the butch in the submarine. Now that I'm back home, I've looked her up. She's called Kodiak and she's played by Katy O'Brian, who is a lesbian. <3
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Hello on Thursday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)

    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing

How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?

    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes

In five words or less, how do you feel about that?

Community Recs Post!

May. 22nd, 2025 10:09 am
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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fancrafts/fanvids/fanart/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
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We remain thoroughly confused:

Zerobaseone
Good Night: 5 votes
Insomnia: 6 votes

TXT
New Rules: 6 votes
No Rules: 6 votes

Red Velvet
In My Dreams: 6 votes
Nightmare: 5 votes
Sweet Dreams: 1 vote

This was beautifully inconclusive, congratulations to us all!

Volunteers for June

May. 22nd, 2025 12:57 pm
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I'm on holiday during weeks four and five so won't be available for taking check ins.

Week 1: 1st to 7th
Week 2: 8th to 14th
Week 3: 15th to 21st
Week 4: 22nd to 28th
Week 5: 29th to 5th

June sign up

May. 22nd, 2025 12:57 pm
lilly_c: Harley Quinn smiling and holding Arkham Asylum headed paper with sane stamped in red (Default)
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It's time to sign up for the June WIP challenge! Some people join the challenge mid month, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways. For those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.

Sign-ups will be open until the end of June.


    Level of challenge: 1 chapter, 1000 words, 1 fic finished, whatever you like
    Fandom(s) involved: if you know at this point
    What you're looking for from the challenge: this could be as vague or specific as you like: someone to be accountable to, someone to remind you to write, someone to bounce ideas off, etc.
    What you could offer other participants yourself: ditto!
    How people should contact you: DW message, e-mail, IM etc.
    Time zone: useful for seeing who might be up for a writing session at a time convenient to you


Copypaste below:



The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.

If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.

Rec Lists for SNK, XMFC, The Untamed

May. 22nd, 2025 12:36 pm
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Over time I've made a few rec lists for friends and never thought to share them with the wider fandom, so I thought it would be nice to do that and post it here!

An SNK (specifically Levi/Eren) rec list from Aug. 13 2022 with 40 recs, split into CANON, CANON DIVERGENCE, REINCARNATION and ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

Example recs:

Grown To Be Wild by graves
| T, 4k | Hanahaki. Eren wakes hours before dawn with his hands tearing at his throat.

Pinecones by ShamelesslyPoetic | G, 5k | While Eren is wandering in the forest, he meets a short, dark, handsome soldier and immediately falls in love.

Example recs:

Kiss and Tell by pearl_o | T, 2k | It's been a long time since Charles and Raven were able to sit down and really talk to each other, but the awkwardness of the occasion is lessened by a lot of red wine and comparing notes on something they have in common - namely, what Erik was like in bed.

Kintsugi by xtinethepirate | E, 49k | When Charles had told Hank there would be a time when they would all be together again, he hadn't meant immediately. In Charles’s mind, that indeterminate time was something more along the lines of “in a few months or a year, once Erik realized what a colossal ass he had been and Charles had stopped wanting to punch him again.”

An MDZS Fic Sampler with 16 fics, with a subsection of fics specifically where the Wen Remnants survive, posted on Apr. 22, 2020.

Example recs: 

Seldom All They Seem by fahye | 24k, E | He bows to Wei Wuxian, sword in hand, sleeves falling properly. Wei Wuxian bows in return, and the sect leaders begin the opening courtesies, and for all of ten minutes Lan Wangji is under the impression that he is betrothed to a boy who is perfectly normal and acceptable apart from an unfortunate tendency to fidget with his clothes. That impression does not last.

Operation Old Men by chiharu | 17k | An ill-fated parent teacher conference reunites Jin Ling's wayward uncle with Sizhui's father. AKA: A matchmaking disaster as told by Jin Ling, Sizhui, and Jingyi.

Jaws ficlet

May. 21st, 2025 07:14 pm
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I was swamped the entire writing and treating period for this round of [community profile] seasonsofdrabbles, and only barely managed the one fic I did write. Glad I finished something, though.

respects a triple drabble for Jaws. Brody/Hooper, post-canon, featuring a ghost.

Now to finally get back to my H/C Ex fic...

[ SECRET POST #6711 ]

May. 21st, 2025 07:10 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6711 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 16 secrets from Secret Submission Post #959..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Media update

May. 21st, 2025 01:20 pm
omens: "You really are the biggest, sweetest idiot in the whole nine realms." (JIM - sweetest idiot)
[personal profile] omens
I guess it's Wednesday! All the days are turning into a slurry, it's Miscday every day :O

TV: I have been watching Miss Night and Day with my bestie and it has been pretty fun! A magical cat has worked some magic and Lee Mijin is now in her 50s in the daytime and in her normal late 20s at night. The main lead is not as much of an initial butthole as some we've had recently! There is a serial killer plot line that connects the leads' pasts, but you can't win em all. UGH :P murder shit. We're through 7 episodes so far, fingers crossed it keeps being entertaining. I enjoy all of the characters aside from the obviously evil one.

Other than that, all my video time has gone back to language stuff - the pre-travel stress dead zone has passed! \o/

Books: I now have 3 books on the go, lol. A memoir about an Irish guy's family that isn't as entertaining as it should be, Gretchen McCulloch's Because Internet which is also not clicking with me as much as I expected (love her, v much enjoy the Lingthusiasm podcast), and Hammajang Luck which I've just started but seems v interesting so far!

Games: dipping back into Stardew to finish up year 2. Not as absorbing now that it's not early game. I saw the Ghost Detective mobile game (thru Netflix) has an update and now I regret deleting it. Might be fun to start over but idk idk.

Writing and other wips: I have been doing YARD STUFF. Cleaning out my front garden, planting herbs, bought some hangers to hang planters. Mowed the lawn for the first time ever at 44 (applause) ....but no writing, lol. I have been reading my wips like o_o come back to me, my loves ;_; but too much other shit on the go right now.

Otoh, look at my excellent [community profile] genprompt_bingo card:

Mind and Body Hallucinations / Visions Chaos and Order Quarantine Tools of the Trade
Science and Magic Birth / Beginnings The Rumour Mill Winners and Losers Truth serums, Truth spells, and Truth drugs
Artifacts (Alien and Otherwise) Jewellery Wild Card Decay A Strange Friend
The Company of Strangers Left Brain / Right Brain Junk Dreams and Nightmares Exploration
Exile / Stranded Books are the Best Weapons Worst case scenario The Ties that Bind Revelations and Concealments


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Hello on Wednesday! Sorry I missed yesterday's post, hope you all had a good day of writing. As for today, how are things going in the world of fic?

Did you write?

   - Yes!
   - No!
   - Not yet!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in?  How do you feel about it?
If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits?  What will you do differently tomorrow to get more writing done?
If not yet, because the day hasn't gotten going yet, what kind of writing activity are you planning (or hoping) to accomplish?
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Doctor Mordrid (1992). A researcher for the NYPD discovers her neighbor (Jeffrey Combs) is a sorcerer whose nemesis has just arrived to destroy the Earth. The credits say this is "Based on an idea by Charles Band" which is a very funny way of saying "This was supposed to be a Doctor Strange adaptation but the rights expired during pre-production" (lol).

This is very short, a tight 74 minutes, and extremely cheesy. Nobody gets much development or depth. I saw someone describe this as feeling like the pilot to a 90s procedural, and yeah, that feels about right. The main appeal is of course Jeffrey Combs, who honestly feels fairly awkward in the role of hero main character. To be fair, none of the direction or anything else is doing him any favors.

All that said, this DOES have a stopmotion battle between a T-rex skeleton and a triceratops skeleton, and that's pretty great, honestly. I'd say that probably was worth the price of admission all by itself.

The villain looked vaguely familiar, and I looked him up and found the actor went on to play Luke in the Buffy pilot and then the Judge in S2. Neat.

--

The Passenger (2023). A shy, awkward fast food worker in his early 20s (Johnny Berchtold) gets kidnapped by his cowoker (Kyle Gallner), who vacillates between gunning people down with a shotgun and providing his own fucked-up version of therapy in hopes of teaching our main guy to stand up for himself.

I somehow had osmosed a very different premise for this movie; I was maybe conflating it with He Went That Way, or some other carjacking movie? Some kind of "violent sadist terrorizes innocent person" story, which is extremely not my jam. This, however, is weirder and more complicated than that, and overall I enjoyed it a lot, especially considering it clearly didn't cost much to make. The dynamic between the two guys is interesting (I can totally see why there's a few hundred fics on AO3), and there are some genuinely very nice shots. I especially liked the opening sequence of driving through town just before dawn, and how the movie comes to a climax at nightfall. I also appreciate the movie's commitment to an extremely late 80s aesthetic for its fast food joint. Overall, a pleasant watch.

I do find it funny that I've seen Kyle Gallner in exactly two things (not counting his SPN appearance as a kid), both recently, both opening with him trying to kill people with a shotgun. He does have a real stereotypical redneck look about him, especially with the mustache.

--

Bring Her Back (2025). Directed by the Philippou brothers, who made Talk to Me, this is about a teenage kid and his younger, visually impaired stepsister who, after their dad dies, go to stay with a foster mother (Sally Hawkins, ie Elisa from The Shape of Water) and her extremely creepy other foster child.

This is in fact not out yet, but I got to see it at the Monday Mystery Movie showing last night. It also is not the sequel to Talk to Me (even though I swear the title is a line that appears in Talk to Me). There is a sequel to that movie greenlit, it's just not this movie. Just to clear all that up!

Anyway, I liked it a lot. The two main kids are great, and especially the kid playing the older brother puts in a great performance supported by some pretty nuanced writing as he tries to navigate this escalating situation that is so much worse and weirder than he realizes. Sally Hawkins is fantastic, and what's going on with her character is satisfyingly horrible, I feel, with some glints of pretty fun black humor. I also appreciated that the story arcs here don't map directly onto real life issues the way the demons in Talk to Me were basically a one-for-one swap with drug use. This story is too weird to allow that kind of straightforward interpretation.

The star of the show here has got to be the creepy other foster kid, Ollie, who starts out mute, staring, and occasionally banging on things, and then gets a lot weirder from there. The entire concept of his character is executed really well, just very effective and fresh with images that will stick with you. I love the angle this story takes on the trope.

FYI the foster mom's cat experiences some harm (although not super obviously, I missed it and someone had to tell me after), but as far as we know it survives the movie.

[ SECRET POST #6710 ]

May. 20th, 2025 06:53 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6710 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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