Snowflake challenge, day 2

Jan. 4th, 2026 10:55 am
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Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!


I don't have any pets, so you get a top 5 of some of my fave fandom pets!

1) Mogget (Sabriel). It's a cat who will give you occasional advice, who is very much, probably, an Eldritch horror, but who also very much acts like a cat, I'm deeply in love with him.

2) Old Lace (Runaways). Because "I have no super-powers but also my pet is a Deinonychus" is an incredible concept :D


3) Rio (Arcane). Wasn't a pet, was a subject of experiments, but should have been. If I can list non-canon ships in my ship lists, I can list non-canon pets.
I made a plushie of her!


4) Tetto (Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa). Just for superficial reasons, I love the design of pets that aren't species that actually exist, and it has one of the cutest I have seen.


5) Argos (The Odyssey). His death scene has made people cry for millenia. I'm just one of the people in a very long line.

You know I was heroic and didn't talk about petplay at all
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[personal profile] marginaliana posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Rating: Mature
Length: 11,604
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] nevertheless_turtle
Theme: crack treated seriously

Summary: In Which Obi-Wan Kenobi is Shown Holofootage of His 12-Year Old Padawan in a Seedy Nightclub With The Chancellor of the Republic And Has A Proportionate Response.

Reccer's Notes: What I love about this fic is the way that Obi-Wan does put in a certain amount of forethought into his actions, but it just happens to be the wrong forethought. You can see where he's coming from and why it seems like the right idea at the time, and yet it still goes completely off the rails. :D Truly delightful.

Content note for discussion of child sexual assault but no actual sexual assault.

Fanwork Links: Just Go Kill Palpatine

New Comm

Jan. 3rd, 2026 05:14 pm
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[community profile] cultivativity is a new kind of comm for cultivating your creativity. Posts are member locked, but we have begun exploring.

This is the welcome and FAQ post

Various Links 12/28 - 1/3

Jan. 3rd, 2026 05:03 pm
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Okay so my kids were here ALL week, and I am shocked I know what today is.

~Gregory Peck in Spellbound - gif set
~Children of Blood and Bone - link to wiki about the upcoming film
~I am a Librarian - Evie Carnahan art

~Stephanie Brown Art - Picture
~Better than Waffles - Six of Crows art
~Crochet Ghost Crew - photo

~Moments of Whimsy - Screencaps of text posts
~Het to Yaoi to Yuri - text and pics of an animation couple
~Sneaky Engagement - video, sapphic

~Zelazny's Amber A-Z poem - text
~The end of MTV - Link to the reddit post, video for a song, text
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[personal profile] nuh_s posting in [community profile] pinchhits
Event: Platonic Rare Pair Flash

Event link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/platonic_rare_pair_flash/profile

Pinch hit link: https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/platonic_rare_pair_flash/user/redgear

Due date: Urgent - Tonight January 3, 2026 at 11pm MST.

Assignment Requirements: 300 words for fic, a sketch for art (varies by request)
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[personal profile] sasheneskywalker posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Darth Maul & Darth Plagueis, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Maul
Rating: Mature
Length: 19,072 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] zuzeca
Theme: crack treated seriously, enemies to lovers, angst with a happy ending

Summary: In which Darth Maul applies for a loan, discovers a forgotten heirloom, experiments with space drugs, complains about his nemesis to a captive audience, and learns the value of bank fraud. Also love and friendship, but mostly bank fraud.

Reccer's Notes: A delightful story that starts with a cracky premise and takes it in an interesting direction. There’s a lovely exploration of Maul’s character and his relationship with Obi-Wan. It’s very funny with a heartwarming ending <3

Fanwork Links: Will Save the Galaxy for Better Credit Ratings
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You must have all heard the news. Today the US executed a direct military operation against Venezuela, striking key targets, capturing president Maduro and his wife, and announcing their transfer to the US to face criminal charges, including alleged narco-terrorism and drug trafficking offenses. The rapidly unfolding events mark the most significant US military intervention in Latin America since Panama in 1989. The US government has framed this action as a response to alleged criminality and illegitimacy, but global reactions underline deep concerns about violations of sovereignty and international law. Overwhelming condemnation has come from the UN, China, Russia, and numerous Latin American governments, with calls for respect for the UN Charter and regional stability:
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/world/971543/trump-says-venezuela-s-maduro-deposed-captured-after-us-strikes/story/

To understand these developments, it is useful to recall John Perkins's Economic Hit Man framework, which posits that US foreign policy often disguises economic and geopolitical objectives - access to resources, debt leverage, and strategic realignment - as benevolent interventions. Perkins describes a range of methods: economic pressure via loans and conditional aid, covert manipulation of political elites, engineered crises to justify external influence, and, in extreme cases, overt regime change. Whether or not one accepts every detail in Perkins narrative, its core thesis - that the US systematically prioritizes its corporate and strategic interests, often at the expense of local sovereignty - provides a lens through which to view the US behavior across decades.

Read more... )
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Photograph of a young Asian girl using a manual typewriter in an office and looking very serious as she stares straight into the camera. Her black hair is slicked into a low ponytail and her round glasses are so big they extend past her face. She's wearing a shirt and tie and an adult-sized yellow blazer that fits her like a dress, almost as if she has been shrunk. Text, in a typewriter font: Crack Treated Seriously, at Fancake.
[community profile] fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules.

This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!

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Jan. 3rd, 2026 02:25 pm
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+ Before I forget: My (lackluster) StoryGraph 2025 Reading Wrap-Up:Read more... )

+ Snowflake Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom
Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!


Working at sea, I can't have any pets and that is the saddest thing, woe me. However, in delightful news, my dad has turned into a complete dog dad. He's wheeling them around in a stroller when they go to the mall!

Here's their official 2025 Christmas pic!
two small dogs with their tongues out, wearing scarves and santa hats.

And then my brother has two big floofs, but I could only find a picture of one. This is Luke (Leia is missing in action):
an orange cat is laying on the table in front of a Christmas tree and next to a holiday themed metal popcorn bucket.

+ My new memory foam pillow felt way too hard and high when I went to bed last night, but this morning I woke up to a soft, fluffy cloud. I may just have to wedge it under my back for a couple of minutes to warm it up in the evening (my bedroom is an icebox and I like it that way).

+ Did my Mystery Box challenge for [community profile] retro_icontest, the color being orange, and obviously that means Scully and her royal mantle of hair!




H E R E at [community profile] spankulert <3

It's not quite Friday anymore, but have some X-Files fanart recs anyways. )

Stargate Fic

Jan. 3rd, 2026 02:47 pm
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[personal profile] renfys

Title: In A Name

Fandom: Stargate SG-1

Pairing: Sam/Jack

Rating: G

Summary: Jack still calls her Carter sometimes.

Notes: Established relationship. Fluff. 1132 words

Link To A03 / Link To My Site


Three things make a post

Jan. 3rd, 2026 07:48 am
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1. Looking for new friends? [community profile] friending_memes is hosting a "new year, new friend" friending meme!

newyearsfriendzy
Click the banner to join us and make some new friends!



2. Of course, [community profile] snowflake_challenge started as well :D Never too late to jump in if you'd like to, it's a chill challenge like that! I knew I wasn't going to do it this year either, but thought "maybe next year"..... however it's January 3rd and I'm already fighting to keep up with my reading page because I met SO MANY OF YOU COOL PEOPLE through the challenge, and you're participating again haha :D It's really a great way to get to know people a little bit before the friending meme that usually happens at the end of it. I can't recommend it enough if you'd like your reading page to be more lively.

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.



3. I'm going to link again to this AO3 PSA from a while back. It's titled "Protect Your Contact Information From Scammers" but it's interesting in that it describes the format that spam comments take nowadays: first a paragraph that seems genuinely related to your story (thanks and fuck you, genAI), then an invitation to reach out to them because they want to make a comic from it, or help you give more impact to your story, or whatever cue to take you off-site.

The post also offers a step-by-step template for reporting registered accounts that do it, and I gotta say it's effective as the account I reported yesterday was removed in less than 24 hours. (Also, those comments are annoying always, but they sting extra on fics that you know from the start won't have much/any audience. Curses on your potatoes, spammers!!)

(Having said that I don't think the spambots have figured out the "Uncategorized Fandoms" section yet as I haven't gotten any of these on K-9 fic -- if you hate spam comments you should totally join us there XD)

Candy Hearts 2026

Jan. 2nd, 2026 07:36 pm
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Under Construction
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[personal profile] sasheneskywalker posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Disco Elysium, Death Note
Pairings/Characters: L/Yagami Light, Harry Du Bois & Kim Kitsuragi
Rating: Mature
Length: 36,039 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] brawltogethernow
Theme: crack treated seriously, crossover, casefic, unconventional format

Summary: Harry hits Light Yagami with his car. (Based on a joke post, taken extremely seriously.)

Reccer's Notes: Murder mystery where Harry Du Bois investigates a murder he himself committed, putting him right in the middle of the Kira case. Very funny! The dialogue is perfectly in character, the art is fantastic, and I love how the entire fic is told in the style of the game.

Content Notes: major character death (Light Yagami is dead), graphic description of corpses similar to that of Disco Elysium canon

Fanwork Links: THE HIT AND RUN

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