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Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu
Rating: T
Length: 4,491
Creator Links: [profile] boomchick
Theme: Amnesty, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Magic, Mythical Creatures: Demons, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Spells & Curses, Trauma and Recovery

Summary: Luo Binghe's healing powers falter in the shape of the wounds Xiu Ya once gave him. He does the only logical thing--HIDES IT.
Shen Qingqiu knows something is wrong with his husband, but finding out what is going to hurt...

A sweet little post-canon fic about healing, plotted with and illustrated by the incredible Falcities for the SVSSS Gotcha for Gaza

Reccer's Notes: This is such a sweet, thoughtful fic! Binghe always tries so hard to be strong, and never really quite escapes the trauma reaction that he doesn't deserve help or that suffering is just something to be endured. In this post-canon fic, his husband gets the opportunity to tell him otherwise and show him just how much he loves all parts of him, including the demonic parts!

It also has quite possibly my favourite (and very appropriate to the themes!) no beta tag ever: No beta but we live regardless

Fanwork Links: blood, leave no stain
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Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu
Rating: T
Length: 3,248
Creator Links: [personal profile] marquisguyun
Theme: Amnesty, Character Development, Domestic, Happy Endings, Hurt/Comfort, Time Travel

Summary: Luo Binghe had suffered through numerous life-changing revelations since waking up on the floor of the woodshed. First he had thought he was dead and a ghost, then he'd been informed he was in the future, then they'd tried to tell him that he was a demon. But still, the most unbelievable thing this strange future version of his shijie had tried to convince him of was that he was married to their shizun.

Reccer's Notes: This was written for the prompt 'Time Travel - Character discovers future self is apparently happy in the MOST unlikely relationship', and truly I cannot think of a better canon ship for that than this pair πŸ˜„ This is so sweet, and baby Binghe's POV is so perfectly young and hurt and yearning and protective-instincts-inciting...! And then the canon couple themselves are just so very sweet and perfect... <33 Such love!!!

Fanwork Links: the future is a foreign country

Happy Christmas!

Dec. 25th, 2025 08:38 am
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Happy Christmas to everyone, however and with whoever you celebrate it. Take care, stay safe, and the compliments of the season.
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Today is Isaac Newton's Birthday, so I'd like to start by wishing you all a very Heavy Newtonmas. I am thankful for...

  • Friction, and in particular socks with grippy bottoms for wearing around the house.
  • Gravity, without which those socks wouldn't work. (Neither would a lot of other things, of course. I'm also looking for a little levity, and not finding nearly enough.)
  • The reason for the season -- axial tilt. Also, having just about the right amount of it. (Uranus has way too much!)
  • Calculus -- integral, differential, and lambda.
  • Number systems in which infinitesimals are, um..., well-defined. I guess you can't say "real", can you?
  • Choice.
  • Having slightly less mass than I did last year. (Very slightly, but I'll take what I can get.) Good drugs.

Merry Christmas!

Dec. 25th, 2025 08:02 am
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Merry Christmas to all celebrating! I hope you have a lovely day.

Life Day!!

Dec. 25th, 2025 07:59 am
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Special Night

Happy Life Day everyone!! πŸŽ„πŸŽ‰πŸŽπŸ’πŸ°

We crawled back in the car last night in the dead of night, and every inch of the way, I was convinced it was going to breakdown and we were going to be forced to push it back all the way to my mother's house. I was so angry with my work yester-day, so frustrated with everything, but to-day is going to be better; this is the one time of year, regardless of religion, that it feels like people try to be better, and I want to both join them in doing that and celebrate that with them too.

And to you also, friends, I hope you have a lovely, lovely day! πŸ’

Yuletide!

Dec. 25th, 2025 08:39 am
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What a great thing to wake up to in my part of the world - the Yuletide archive is open! (Usually here in Germany it's noon before that happens.) Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and peaceful holidays for everyone. I will do my annual pic spam later, but for now, here are the two lovely Foundation stories I got, both Demerzel-centric, the former from her pov, the second from Cleon XXIV's - last season's Day, in other words - , and both superb in their characterisations.

Remembrance (3416 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Foundation (TV 2021)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
Characters: Demerzel (Foundation TV 2021), Hari Seldon, Cleon XXIV
Additional Tags: Angst, Canon-Typical Violence, mix of book and tv series canon
Summary:

Demerzel wanted to scream back at him, to explain how this was all his fault, Cleon the First damning them all to this nightmare fate that none of them could escape.

But she said nothing, and walked away. Like she always did.





standard deviation (4805 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Foundation (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cleon XXIV & Demerzel (Foundation TV 2021)
Characters: Cleon XXIV (Foundation TV 2021), Demerzel (Foundation TV 2021)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Artificial Intelligence, Complicated Relationships, Mother-Son Relationship, Loyalty, Yuletide 2025, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

He can’t get a rise out of her, and can never push hard enough that she pushes back. Human mothers eventually raise their voices, yell back, get upset. You can fling hurtful words at a human mother. But as far as he can tell, it never lands with Demerzel; there’s no heart there to twist the knife into.

(Relationship study for what slowly went wrong between Cleon XXIV and Demerzel. Spoilers for all of season 3.)

Pass It On 6

Dec. 24th, 2025 07:16 pm
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https://res.cloudinary.com/dc2cefbey/image/upload/v1766632589/qt43_zxceep.jpg


Next picture: Spock (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
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I used to be michaelmyers, could I get a username change please?

Review: A Chorus, Divergent anthology

Dec. 25th, 2025 01:45 pm
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A Chorus, Divergent anthology by Reckoning Press

A special issue featuring reprints by neurodivergent creators from Reckoning’s first decade.

Essays, poetry, fiction, and art by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, E.C. Barrett, Kaye Boesme, Offor Chidera, Jacob Coffin, Kelsey Day, Tania Fordwalker, Abbie Goldberg, A.P. Golub, Ruth Joffre, Taylor Jones, Laura McKnight, Kat Murray, Micah Nemerever, Mari Ness, Ellis Nye, Maria S. Picone, T.K. Rex, Ariadne Starling, and Adam Stemple, with new cover artwork by Abi Stevens.


I read quite a few anthologies this year and this was one of the best. It has some real stellar stories that I'll be thinking about for a long time, and some new writers that I definitely want to see more from. The stories are all speculative fiction and many dance with the climate apocalypse in its many forms and stages.

The real knock-out of the whole book was SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER. I am a sucker for animal communication stories, and dolphins, and climate disasters and finding glimmers of hope amongst the rubble. There was so many cleaver plot threads dropped in here and there, the story felt like a much longer and fleshed out novel. (I've already preordered their upcoming anthology!)

Also shout out to The Blackthorn Door and Fixing the System in Tilt Town, both with really interesting worldbuilding. And a nod to Icediver, which started off strong but I feel like the wheels fell off halfway through.

I didn't dip into the poetry but if it's of the same quality of the fiction than it's pretty good too.

The entire anthology is free to read online or follow the links to support through an indie bookseller.

Pass It On 6

Dec. 24th, 2025 09:53 pm
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Link: https://i.imgur.com/sGQT4L9.jpg

Next (Thumbnail) - TRON (1982)

Flynn and Yori TRON 1982

I hope I did this right. Click twice on thumbnail for a really BIG picture.

'Tis the season.

Dec. 24th, 2025 06:38 pm
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β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β†β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β…β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β†β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β…β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β†β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β…β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š
πŸŽ„ Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays πŸŽ„
β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β…β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β†β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β…β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β†β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β…β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š β‚ŠΛšο½‘β‹†β†β‹†ο½‘Λšβ‚Š


Wishing everyone a wonderful and peaceful time this holiday season, and even if you don't celebrate I hope you have a good day regardless. ❀

bits and pieces

Dec. 24th, 2025 08:23 pm
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Random notes:

In Duolingo French we're talking about pets. This means I now know the French words for bark, doghouse, kibble, and 'to poop.'

My Netflix (disc) queue: far too much film noir, I'm not going to watch them in queue order. Grim! Not just film noir, but movies like On the Waterfront. Heavy.

"I saw your red hat!" (picking up meals... he saw me coming)

I watched the 1951 Alistair Sim Scrooge/A Christmas Carol tonight. I hadn't realized Michael Hordern played Marley - he was excellent. I can't figure out where I first saw Hordern, in a movie or on television.

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Yuletide Reading Bingo 2025

Dec. 25th, 2025 03:04 am
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The 2025 Yuletide collection is revealed (and I managed to finish this with a slight delay), and many of us love to read more than just our own gifts and treats. If gamification is your thing, why not enhance your Yuletide reading experience with a fun challenge?
Yuletide Reading Bingo
Yuletide Reading Bingo 2025 (Permanent link to the 2025 version)

Yuletide Reading Bingo 2023 (Permanent link to the 2023 version)
Yuletide Reading Bingo 2024 (Permanent link to the 2024 version)

With this bingo card generator, you can generate your own Yuletide Reading Bingo Card and try to finish it over a timespan of your choice. If you like, you can challenge yourself to not only reading the fics, but also commenting on them. Last year, I saw people making reclists based on their bingo cards, which is such a cool idea to keep track of the fics they read for each square.

There are no fanfic/fandom/Yuletide-negative or bashing items in the lists. This bingo card is meant to be a positive experience and celebrate fanfiction and fanworks in general and Yuletide in specific.

Screenshot of the Desktop Version
example screenshot of the desktop version bingo card

Screenshot of the Mobile Version
example screenshot of the mobile version bingo card

How to Play
Generate a new bingo card until you're (mostly) happy with the results. If some fields are duplicates or contain items you don't want to have in your card, you can then re-roll every single bingo field separately by clicking/tapping on it.
Once you have a card that fits your reading habits (or that takes you out of your comfort zone, if you want to challenge yourself), take a screenshot of the card to keep it.

Closing the page and reloading it will reset the card.

Cross off the bingo fields on your screenshot as you read (or read and comment on) fics that you think count for a field.

Items like "Fandom with over 500 works" mean works in the fandom tag, not in the collection. There are specific versions for the number of works in the collection.
Items like "Fandom with over 1,000 works" doesn't mean qualifying works. There are specific versions for the number of qualifying works.
Items like "Highest number of hits in fandom" or similar however mean in this collection, not in the fandom tag.

If a work you read has a tag that's similar but not identical to a tag on your card, let it count. There were some almost-duplicates that I trimmed.

The Lists
  • Canon (options like canon released this year, book fandom, etc)
  • Category (the AO3 categories and their platonic versions: F/F, F & F Gen, etc)
  • Challenge (the unofficial mini-challenges like Yuleporn, Crueltide, Wrapping Paper, etc)
  • Creator (only if you checked the "After Reveals" box; options like favourite author, mutuals, etc)
  • Discovery (various ways you could've found a fic)
  • Fandom (options like previously ineligible fandom, uncategorised fandom)
  • Length (wordcounts from drabble to 30k)
  • Meta (a fic's front-end and stats, also "citrus scale for rating" xD
  • Protagonist (and side-characters, and POV; new list in 2025 that adds items like "female/non-binary/gender-neutral/male protagonist", various POVs and such)
  • Reader (your relationship with the fic; is it your comfort fic, or your first fic in a fandom?)
  • Style (chatfic, iambic pentameter, custom workskin, stuff like that)
  • Tag (roughly 1,800 tags from the 2024 main collection; more than 100 additional tags Madness)
  • Trope (roughly 100 tropes)


What do the Checkboxes Mean?
  • NSFW is basically what it says on the tin. If you tick this box, the NSFW tropes will be added to the mix. If you also ticked the Tags box, NSFW tags will be added.
  • Tags is also what it says on the tin. It's a list with currently roughly 1,800 tags from the Yuletide 2025 main collection. Around 300 of them are currently marked NSFW and can only be generated if you ticked both the NSFW box and the Tags box.
  • After Reveals includes items that only make sense after creator reveals, such as "work by last year's recipient" or "creator is your Tumblr mutual".
Leaving the NSFW checkbox unchecked should remove all NSFW tags and tropes, but you could still come across content you find objectionable. Leaving the Tags checkbox unchecked removes all tags, but you could still come across tropes you find objectionable.

This bingo generator can be used to generate totally safe-for-work or family-friendly bingo cards, but it was created by an adult with an adult audience in mind.

If you run into any issues or come across any bugs, please let me know.
If you find something that should be in the NSFW category, but isn't, please also let me know. It's possible that I missed a few tags when I worked through the list of over 2,000 tags in the 2025 main collection. Please don't ask me to remove content you find objectionable.
If there's anything unclear, feel free to ask! I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible, but please understand if it takes a while; it's a busy time for all of us. :D

Just FYI, the platform I'm using, Perchance, added AI options for their generators two years ago. This is a regrettable decision that I don't condone, and I'd like to emphasise that this generator is 100% handcrafted chaos.

This generator is based on my Fanfiction Reading Bingo I made as a little practice piece. It's responsive, which means it should work on desktop and mobile. The mobile layout isn't ideal yet; I'm trying my best to make it better (but I'd also still consider myself a newbie and I'm learning by doing).

The background image is an edited version of this photo by Stijn Verplancke on Unsplash.

I hope you'll find as much fun in using this generator as I found in making it! <3

Have a lovely Yuletide!

Saint Norwegian Cod Day

Dec. 24th, 2025 05:55 pm
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Ugh, I am so busy! I owe Yuletide comments, among other things.

But since this is mostly copy-pasting, I thought I'd do it...

Remember a couple years ago when I explained how my wife and I celebrate St. Salmon's Day on December 24 by eating salmon?

Furthermore, since my wife likes some of the Christmas trappings more than I do (tree, decorations, gift exchange, ritual meal), but is also an atheist who does not celebrate actual Christmas, we decided to call December 24 Salmon Day, because that is the day she makes our annual salmon (Brazilians celebrate Christmas on Dec 24). We were wishing each other a happy Salmon Day yesterday, and then today I wished her a happy "Day after Salmon Day," and she joked, "We are devotees of St. Salmon," and now Dec 25 is "Day after St. Salmon's Day" by sheer accretion of inside jokes. :D

This year, since she's living in Brazil again, she's visiting family for Xmas dinner, and we had this exchange on WhatsApp yesterday:

Her: i hope saint salmon doesn't get mad at me, I'm eating a different fish tomorrow
Me: We have made many offerings to St. Salmon, I'm sure you will be forgiven!


Then today:

Me: Happy Saint Other Fish's Day! 🀭
Her: happy saint fish's day to you too!
Me: You'll have to let me know what saint this is the day of.
Her: it is Norwegian cod day!
Her: in souffle format
Her: it is very holy
Her: πŸ‘€
Me: Happy Saint Norwegian Cod Day!


And later, after the dinner:
Her: damn, the cod souffle was amazing

I laughed a lot. Now back to work for me!

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Dec. 24th, 2025 08:41 pm
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What if there’s no ethical way to have unlimited access to every book, film, and record ever created? And moreover, what if that’s not something we should want?

What if we simply decided to consume less media, allowing us to have a deeper appreciation for the art we choose to spend our time with? What if, instead of having an on-demand consumer mindset that requires us to systematically strip art of all its human context, we developed better relationships with creators and built new structures to support them? What if we developed a politics of refusal β€” the ability to say enough is enough β€” and recognized that we aren’t powerless to the whims of rich tech CEOs who force this dystopian garbage down our throats while claiming it’s β€œinevitable?”

Tapes and other physical media aren’t a magic miracle cure for late-stage capitalism. But they can help us slow down and remember what makes us human. Tapes make music-listening into an intentional practice that encourages us to spend time connecting with the art, instead of frantically vibe-surfing for something that suits our mood from moment-to-moment. They reject the idea that the point of discovering and listening to music is finding the optimal collection of stimuli to produce good brain chemicals.


Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes by Janus Rose

The joy of not setting an alarm.

Dec. 24th, 2025 08:18 pm
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This hasn't been a week of tremendous productivity. I haven't minded. I finished a couple of fics and went back to editing an original work, I've been going to the gym, and I've done a fair bit of cooking - following recipes closely, modifying recipes slightly, sweeping the kitchen to follow a basic template. It's one of those weeks the world shrinks down somewhat, but given what's out there, I don't mind staying within narrow confines. Come Friday, I can go outside without much worry, but for tonight and tomorrow, I'd rather avoid what I can.

It's true I'll need to head out to buy flour, and it's also true there's a grocery store in my neighborhood that doesn't play music. As such, I'll happily give them my business throughout the year, and especially during December.

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