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fancake

Fandom: Original Work, Christmas Tales & Traditions, Barbie
Pairings/Characters: OCs; a child & her faithful dolls.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 612
Content Notes: No Content Warnings Apply
Creator Tags: Barbie Dolls, Christmas, Christmas Tree

Creator Links: (AO3)

Rubynye; (Dreamwidth)

minoanmiss; (Tumblr)

rubynye

Theme: Amnesty, Female Relationships, Action/Adventure, Comfort Fic, Female Friendships, Folklore & Fairytales, Teams

Summary: All around her spread the magnificent brilliance of the shining tree, its decorations alight and glittering.

Author’s Notes: Merry Christmas to my dear friend Amaebi!

Reccer's Notes: A little girl’s Barbie dolls come to life to keep her company on Christmas Eve. The author maintains a keenly lived-in sense of scale; acting as a team in the fashion of the Madagascar Penguins, the dolls scale the California redwood heights and marvel in the celestial lighting of the Christmas tree (while remaining vigilant against the approach of the Parents—or, worse, the Kitty!)

A nostalgic snapshot of the fierce Velveteen Rabbit Reality of our imaginary friends.

Fanwork Links: How to View a Christmas Tree, by

Rubynye for

amaebi.
Part 18 of How To Indulge Your Writerly Soul.

full_metal_ox posting in

fancake

Fandom: Chen Qing Ling; A Christmas Carol
Pairings/Characters: Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Jin Guangshan, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Wen Ruohan, Background & Cameo Characters
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 7,500
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, (although Jin Guangshan is his own content warning.)
Creator Tags: Minor Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Inspired by A Christmas Carol, Crack, Christmas Crack, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Jin Guangyao is gonna soften his dad's heart if it kills him, Jiang Cheng wasn't even supposed to be here today, Lan Wangji is only here for the snacks, (Wei Ying is the snack), Daddy Issues: The Play, It's WangXian but that's not the focus here

Creator Links: (AO3)

Mikkeneko; (Tumblr)

mikkeneko

Theme: Amnesty, Uncommon Settings, Crack, Crossovers/Fusions, Humor, Research, Trope Subversion & Inversion

Summary: It's Christmas Eve in the Jianghu, and Jin Guangyao is determined to show his father the meaning of charity and generosity and the brotherhood of man if it kills him.

(It will.)

Author’s Notes: You know, throughout this fandom I've seen fans extend grace towards all sorts of morally grey characters. There are Xue Yang stans, Su She truthers, Wen Ruohan fuckers and Meng Yao apologists, I've even seen Jin Zixun have something like a redemption arc! But the one thing I've never, ever seen is a redemption story for Jin Guangshan.

This fic isn't one either.

… Thanks for reading! I'm so sorry.

I referenced this copy of Charles Dickens' ACC while writing this fic. How come nobody told me Dickens was such a fuckin' comedian? The adaptations only ever quote the dramatic lines.

Reccer's Notes: This is one of the most meticulous, erudite, and considered pieces of crack I’ve ever read; the characters themselves are constantly lampshading the incompatibility of the crossover. Mikkeneko manages, somehow, to keep everyone in character while shoehorned into the Christmas Carol roles and to transpose this Christian morality play into the context of a Xianxia China unbothered by missionaries—demonstrating a thorough understanding of both the canons she’s Frankenstitched together. There’s a smidgen of Shakespeare in there too; the Christmas Carol scenario is a stage play, presented by Jin Guangyao in a Hamletesque ploy to lay a ruler’s sins bare.

Fanwork Links: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35699251

Current Music: “We’re Despicable”.

paperghost

TODO:

- ~~SPAG check / edit remaining four pages~~
- ~~Upload new graphics~~
- ~~Redraw old mascot~~ <- I am not doing this.
- Draft email and Discord messages (This shouldn't be hard, I can do it at work tomorrow)
- ~~Draft [redacted] message~~ (I need to retool it, but it works.)
- Find and replace old usernames
- Change URL
- Upload new stuff (??? I don't know what I meant by this)
- Squat old username and upload new splash

My attention span has been really bad. I've been doomscrolling. Doomscrolling Twitter, even, despite my account being locked. I needed to rest this Christmas but I may be back to "work" on this starting tomorrow or the 26th.

ysabetwordsmith

These are the notes for "Technique, Timing, and Leverage."

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Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the June 4, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from

siliconshaman and

wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "Family" square in my 6-1-24 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Big One and Kraken threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Current Mood: busy

zenigotchas

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senmut

ysabetwordsmith

16 Cats Cozying Up Next To The Fireplace

And by cozying up I mean literally getting as close to it as they can — without self-combusting.

Current Mood: amused

full_metal_ox posting in

fancake

Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairings/Characters: F/M; Emily Prentiss/Spencer Reid, Aaron Hotchner/Jennifer "JJ" Jareau; Aaron Hotchner, David Rossi, Emily Prentiss, Penelope Garcia, Jennifer "JJ" Jareau, Henry LaMontagne, Derek Morgan, Spencer Reid
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 50,833
Content Notes: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, bittersweet ending, canon-typical violence, colorism, period-characteristic prevalence of smoking, period-characteristic attitudes toward mental illness, PTSD, war-typical gore
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Everybody's Looking Sharp, Get Some Benny Goodman on the Radio, Originally Posted on FanFiction.Net, Author is a Research Nerd, And Not Ashamed of It Either, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Sexism, Alternate Universe - 1940s
Creator Links: (AO3)

mosylu, (Dreamwidth)

mosylu, (FF.net)

mosylu, (Tumblr)

mosylufanfic

Theme: Amnesty, Mystery & Suspense, Uncommon Settings, Casefic, Characters of Color, FANCAKE IS FIFTEEN, Fandom Classics, Historical AUs, Research, Women Being Awesome

Summary: Historical AU. In 1947 New York, a motley group of strangers are about to come face-to-face with the idea that you can catch a criminal from within his own mind.

Author’s Notes: Honestly, this came about because of Garcia's hair. Yes, Garcia's hair. Follow me here. There was an episode where she was wearing it in this marvelous retro-40's do, and I started picturing how she'd look in a whole 40's ensemble. And then I started picturing the entire cast in 40's styles. (Boy howdy, would it suit Reid, and Morgan would rock a fedora like nobody's business.) Then I started thinking about how different their lives would have been sixty years ago, and then the social and cultural upheaval of an entire nation coming back from WWII, and . . . well . . . enjoy.

Historical Note: Shell shock was the World War I term, and battle fatigue the WWII term, for what we now call PTSD.

Reccer's Notes: A post-WWII noir mystery AU in which an oddly assorted bunch of cops, academics, veterans, and civilians, coordinated by their friendly neighborhood reference librarian and gossip networker, band together to solve some violent local crimes—and proceed to pioneer criminal profiling in the process.

(When this fic debuted in October 2010, the mystery of Reid’s chronic migraines was an ongoing canon subplot; this setting provides a ruthlessly plausible explanation. That’s all I’m going to say.)

Fanwork Links:
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/3161369
Fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6391786/1/War-Crimes

sarajayechan

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Current Mood: tired

urban_feed

http://security-blanket.urbanup.com/8973635

A security blanket is a blanket that young kids have for security.
It originates from a [character] in the [comic strip] Peanuts, named Linus van Pelt who always had a security blanket [with him].

http://security-blanket.urbanup.com/8973635

urban_feed

http://grinched.urbanup.com/8014760

When you [come home], and all of your [belongings] are gone, even [the light] bulbs.

http://grinched.urbanup.com/8014760

urban_feed

http://sexit-strategy.urbanup.com/5269103

Plan to escape or extract one's self from an [uncomfortable], boring, or otherwise unpleasant situation by means of [bootie call], premediated date, [prostitute], or other means of generally available/easily arranged coitus. Etymology of term derived from business term "exit strategy" making this term especially popular with venture capitalists, attorneys, yuppies, and anyone else who abuses business jargon.

http://sexit-strategy.urbanup.com/5269103

urban_feed

http://kitchencel.urbanup.com/18515074

An [incel] that copes by [cooking] [meals] for himself.

http://kitchencel.urbanup.com/18515074

urban_feed

http://sad-beige-mom.urbanup.com/18210605

A sad beige Mom is a woman (usually [millennial]) who does not let her kids have color, *for the sake of an aesthetic.* There are variations of the sad beige mom, there are sad white moms and grey moms too. Basically [everything] in their house from clothes to furniture and walls are shades of beige (or white and grey) simply because they [like the look of] it. The kids are literally experiencing sensory depravation in their own homes. All for the sake of someone’s house looking like a pintrest board.

http://sad-beige-mom.urbanup.com/18210605

grimmrow

1. Read 25 books.
2. Write 200,000 words.
3. Write two novels.
4. Write 3 fanfics, short or long.
5. Walk again by August.
6. Pass the G.E.D by December.
7. Become pescatarian again. (I'll eat fish and ocean products)
8. Learn to crochet.
9. Open up in therapy more often.
10. Study every monday through thursday with tutors.
11. Use Brilliant.org and actually pay for it.
12. Watch more movies, at least 30.
12. Watch more tv shows, at least 11.
13. Watch other networks other than TLC and the Food Network lmao
14. Exercise more often, at least once every other day. Go hard.
15. Finally get a girlfriend (trans or cis) or trans boyfriend.

If I read all 25 books, then I"ll add more to the list. I plan on getting these things doen this year despite the limit of money. I need a go fund me. ~.~

stonepicnicking_okapi

1. learn to hem pants
2. go to a new grocery store
3. attend a jhope concert in Brooklyn
4. make an essential oil spray
5. submit an application for a job
6. interview for a job
7. participate in a fic exchange
8. read a manga
9. go to Costco
10. work!
11. eat at a new restaurant
12. explore a trail at a new state park
13. try a new craft
14. play new board games
15. try new recipe
16. play a sport
17. accept a new client
18. try a new bathroom appliance
19. go to someone's house for dinner
20. try a new fruit
21. attend a puzzle swap
22. use a cricut
23. accompany a client to a wedding
24. read a new detective series (*)
25. drink a new cocktail

* The new cozy detective series is the Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt. There are 30+ titles. Andy Carpenter is a wealthy defense lawyer who lives with his wife (former police chief) and child and quirky friends, staff, and acquaintances in Patterson, New Jersey. He also owns part of a dog shelter and the titles are puns about dogs. Grover Gardner narrates the audiobooks and they give the impression of episodes of a TV show like Psych or Monk. Carpenter has a case and there's always a dog involved. I'm currently listening to my 5th book in the series. I've listened to: The Twelve Dogs of Christmas, Deck the Hounds, Dachshund through the Snow, Silent Bite, and this is Santa's Little Yelpers. They're okay. Not too dark.

And...I'm done! Whew!

stonepicnicking_okapi

This series of entries is commentary on my lifelong quest to read all of Agatha Christie's works in UK publication order. It was begun in January 2021.

Passenger to Frankfurt [1970] is a completely forgettable thriller. Sir Stafford Nye (the main character's name is the highlight of the whole book) returns home and gets confronted by a mysterious woman in an airport. There's a lot of vague spy stuff, world conspiracy, Hilter and his son surviving WWII, lots of woo-woo. And of course, the most unhealthy relationship dynamics possible.

So, there are only 5 books left! Nemesis, Elephants can remember, Postern of Fate, Curtain and Sleeping Murder, I will try to stretch it out and end January 2027.

stonepicnicking_okapi

I made the boys and their father work on this with me. I ended up finishing it later this afternoon. This is one of two I got at the library swap.

500 pieces. Cobble Hill.

I made a Christmas cake (per Minisculus request) and a cocktail called Dancing Sugarplum (vodka, Grand Marnier, lime juice, cranberry juice).

And here's a compilation of cats destroying Christmas trees.

Watch on YouTube

ysabetwordsmith

silwritersguild has posted about a free copy of "The Fëanorian Zine" which you can download as a PDF.

Current Mood: busy

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Original Work; Barbie: How to View a Christmas Tree, by Rubynye

Chen Qing Ling; A Christmas Carol: An Accurate (Anachronic) Jianghu Christmas Carol, by Mikkeneko

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Notes for "Technique, Timing, and Leverage"

Poem: "Technique, Timing, and Leverage"

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Yuletide (Main) Recs

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Criminal Minds: War Crimes, by mosylu.

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security blanket

Grinched

sexit strategy

kitchencel

Sad beige mom

Goals for 2026

25 in 2025: Complete

All of Agatha: Passenger to Frankfurt

Puzzle: Santa's Little Helpers

Read "The Fëanorian Zine"