monthly word count - jan + feb

Mar. 1st, 2026 10:35 pm
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TOTAL: 2500 words

POSTED: nuthin.

IN PROGRESS
-cherry wine (madatobiizu ABO) (1070 words, of which i might well discard all of them. attempted a new start for the chapter and it didn't work either.)
-BNHA - post war dabihawks silliness (224 words, barely the intro and even then it's too clunky)
-bleach suburban ot4 (103 words. hgbvksjbvtstvsbts.)
-SVSSS cosplay fic (1036 words)
-bleach bloodsport (67 words)

wrote so little in january i forgot to track it. barely better in february tbh. all i did was edits and snippets that died as soon as i started them. i also still haven't done my yearly wordcount but honestly i dun wanna. just... not a good season.

teasers )

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Mar. 1st, 2026 11:11 pm
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I have gone back and fixed the typos in my last post which were not due to anything but tiredness last night but they were driving me crazy /o\

Today was much better than yesterday, after middle sis arrived and I could see she really was okay. )

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Mar. 1st, 2026 02:42 pm
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What Moves the Dead

3/5. Historical fantasy horror novella about a nonbinary former soldier going to the literally moldering home of old friends, and getting caught up in a whole fungus horror situation. (This is the Fall of the House of Usher one, if unclear).

We all know I am somewhat dead inside, so perhaps it is not surprising that I found this only mildly creepy, after having been told it is absolutely terrifying. Take that as you will. I enjoyed this, but it’s not really my sort of thing and I feel no need to carry on with the series. I do wonder whose decision it was to use “they” on the jacket copy re our protagonist rather than the textual neopronoun used in the book. I say ‘hmm’ about that. The background to the whole pronoun situation, and the historical context in this fictional tiny European country, is kind of great, though.

Content notes: Fungus horror, dead bodies moving horror, body horror, animals being creepy.
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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Mycroft & Sherlock
Rating: G
Length: 523 words
Creator Links: Blistering_Typhoons
Theme: Siblings

Summary: The Sherlock Holmes that sits in front of him may as well be dead.

Reccer's Notes: A little story of Mycroft meeting with Sherlock during the years he was on the run post-Reichenbach.  Poor Sherlock is not doing well, and Mycroft tries to care for him in his own way.

Fanwork Links: AO3

Round 184: Siblings

Mar. 1st, 2026 08:59 am
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Photograph of two adorable Vietnamese toddlers in identical denim overalls and dinosaur sweaters, text: Siblings, at Fancake.
Our theme for March is siblings—whether assigned or chosen.

The tag for this round is: theme: siblings

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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So March! The full moon is in two days, which means the lantern festival and the year of the horse starts for real. This is definitely going to be the year I practice speaking!

I took the SuperChinese placement test, and here is how I interpreted my results.
Pronunciation: good
Vocabulary: okay
Reading speed: okay
Grammar: poor, very poor

A basic level of grammar is necessary to make sentences that communicate meaning, and I think I got that far and then stopped paying attention, or focused on other things, like comprehension. If I can use SuperChinese to improve my grammar, I'm in. I want to share abstract stories, not only communicate about tangible experiences.

It's funny that speaking practice is both so encouraging and so humbling: my sentences are certainly understandable (yay!) but they aren't correct (...yeah).

the world is vast and I am small

Mar. 1st, 2026 12:05 am
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We took Daphne to the bay today.

She seemed thoughtful.

pictures )

here we go again

Mar. 1st, 2026 01:00 am
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My plan for today was to go see some flowers since we're at the very tail end of winter flower season, catch up with middle sis who returned from a few weeks abroad, and do a virtual escape room with friends in the evening.

How the day went )
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The Pitt

The Long Goodbye by [archiveofourown.org profile] Siria
Dana has something to tell Robby. Oh Robby. Oh my heart...

dangerous to the naked eye

Feb. 28th, 2026 03:56 pm
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Heated Rivalry

a breastplate made of silver linings by Anonymous
Yuna learns about Ilya's past bit by bit over the years. Lovely!

First, but not only by [archiveofourown.org profile] Legless_fish_on_rollerskates
Ilya Rozanov comes out to Scott Hunter at the MLH Awards. Lovely missing scene.

meet my friend by Anonymous
In the first story, Shane meets Svetlana and still isn't sure how it went; in the second, Ilya meets Rose Landry and makes things awkward. <333

saving myself for marriage by [archiveofourown.org profile] celli
Super cute woke up married fic!

Wrap It Up by [archiveofourown.org profile] alchemystique
The Olympic Village runs out of condoms on day three. Luckily for Olympians, Shane Hollander took note of exactly how often this has happened previously. Hilarious!



Crossover

Heated Rivalry/Sesame Street

Perseverence by [archiveofourown.org profile] samalander
When his mother comes to him in the summer after he wins his second Cup with a new partnership proposal from the fucking Sesame Workshop, Shane can't say yes fast enough. ADORABLE

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

Feb. 28th, 2026 02:46 pm
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Chilling Effect

3/5. Adventure scifi featuring a Latina space captain trying to go straight with her ragtag crew, until the space mob kidnaps her sister.

I enjoyed the first half of this – repetitive but in a rompy way, messy family dynamics, great crew of women and aliens, unapologetic about the Spanish sprinkled in and not spoon-feeding translations of everything, did I mention Latina space captain. But it overstayed its welcome by a good 40,000 words and the last third is a hot mess. For real, if you find yourself as an author doing a “character is secretly a [redacted!]” okay, fine, but then if you do the exact same plot twist with literally the exact same redacted on a different character 30 pages later, you’ve just got to stop yourself and cool it, you know?

Points for cute interspecies romance (though I’m me, so I have questions about how the fade-to-black sex worked, exactly).

Content notes: Violence.
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It appears that tomorrow is the last day of February. What were my goals this month? Am I still working on goals for the year? (The fact that I don't know seems to indicate either I am not yet successful, or I am already so successful I don't even think about it.) (I'm sure it's the latter, right?)

I haven't finished my Grade 1 Chinese textbooks, but in my defense I added math, so it's four textbooks per grade instead of two. They're really fun. I remember that reading them the first time is how I learned the word for "equals". (In that I still remember it, rather than just seeing it and forgetting it, which is apparently what I did with "greater than" and "less than".)

I've been in the 75fluent discord a bit, and a lot of people are using the SuperChinese app. I looked back through the scores of Chinese learning apps I've tried, and that's not one of them, so I feel like I should check it out. (My Chinese learning app knowledge is now, after just a few years, completely outdated. That's pretty neat.)

2024 was the year it got easier to listen, and 2025 was the year it got easier to write. Dare I decide that 2026 will be the year it gets easier to speak?

Last night I saw a video about how, when reading a book, the first chapter is the hardest and it gets immediately easier after that. So I started reading the first Chinese book I found in my kindle library that was A) new to me, and B) not a graded reader. (I love graded readers, but after you've read hundreds of them, they're a bit repetitive. By design, of course.) It seems to be about good study habits for high schoolers. I don't remember how this is in my library, but the first chapter was pretty interesting, so I assume that's why.)

I did not diamond paint except to start the irises, but I did photograph a bunch of legos, make some graphics, and handwrite some cool zines for [community profile] beagoldfish. Plus wrote stories for [community profile] chenqing_100!

I also sowed a bunch of seeds in containers now covered by snow, and looked at enough of my tubers to determine that 1) the dahlias look largely viable, and 2) there was probably some layering of cold in my canna storage, because the ones in the top box are trying to sprout while the ones in the bottom box are soundly asleep. (That's reasonable; they were by the back door where the floor is pretty cold, but the pipes above the floor run warm for the dog's comfort.)
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Fandom: Megamind
Pairings/Characters: Megamind/Roxanne Ritchi, Minion, Metro Man
Rating: M
Length: 168,535 words
Creator Links: impatientseamstress
Theme: Inept in Love

Summary: Roxanne Ritchi just wanted her shoes replaced.
Marrying her Supervillain in a surprise Vegas elopement was not part of the plan. It wasn't part of Megamind's plan either... Unfortunately, all of Metro City is way too excited to finally see them together for them to admit the truth. But they can solve this...somehow

Reccer's Notes: Oh, Megamind and Roxanne were being SO STUPID about each other, in the "I love her/him, but she/he couldn't possibly love me back" way. They managed to argue themselves into getting married, for crying out loud! (Didn't help that EVERYONE IN METRO CITY was shipping them...) There's also some fun worldbuilding done for what a world with superheroes, supervillains, and damsels would look like.

Fanwork Links: Rings (locked to AO3 users)

SGA: Do Over by crysothemis

Feb. 27th, 2026 12:37 am
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 18,910
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: crysothemis on AO3, nny (villainny) on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Inept in love, Friends to lovers, First time, Humor, Pining

Summary: John never sleeps with anyone twice.

Reccer's Notes: Rodney (who's attracted to John) bumps into a few women, and then Ronon, leaving John's quarters. He clumsily asks John about these goings on, and mostly accidentally challenges John to have sex with him (because why not with Rodney if everyone else gets to?). It doesn't go swimmingly so Rodney demands a do-over, then another do-over, and another, because there's always something wrong with their encounters. This is partly as Rodney's bisexual and he mistakenly thinks John must be as well, and Rodney also manufactures "mistakes", until they're both entirely hooked and John's joining in with the pretense enthusiastically. It's hot, funny, and clever - a great read.

Fanwork Links: Do Over
And there's a podfic by nny

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zines!

♥ winter sow round 1 week 1:

picture )

♥ fuchsia!

picture )

♥ Daphne is bored with the snow, so we are taking her to quiet parking lots to run around.

pictures )

She does better without sleeves. I wonder if I can remove them from her Spark Paws sweatshirt without destroying it.

Week 20

Feb. 25th, 2026 11:47 pm
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Nature continues to progress! New developments from the past two-ish weeks include shortly )

OTHERWISE:
-Winter Olympics were amazing, why do we only get them once every few years, how are snow and ice sports so beautiful and fascinating and aesthetically pleasing.

-I would like to read fic but honestly I have just fallen down the rabbit hole of m/m sports romance novels, starting with everything Rachel Reid has to offer, then KD Casey, now Ari Baran, and who knows what's next, with a slight detour into warm and cozy Kind by Hannah Leigh. I feel like at SOME POINT I should stop. If you ask me to tell apart all the different couples I've read about in the past 2 weeks I would be hard pressed to explain all the different characters and plots. And yet.

-Enjoying the new season of The Pitt and a few other show's I'm following, but nothing makes me as happy (and heartbroken, but mostly happy) entertainment-wise as watching a new episode of Shrinking every week. Just, how is that show so good.

-Nature! It's one of the warmest winters I can recall, less rain and warmer weather and a shorter green period, but there are still winter flowers, and I do my best to hike and picnic on the weekends as much as I can. This past weekend I went up to the Golan with a friend, just 2 days of walking around the peace and quiet of the green green north, which was incredibly lovely. The weather makes it constantly feel like Passover is just around the corner, which is disorienting and kind of nice and kind of not.

On Saturday I went to an incredible production of Cabaret. It's one of my favorite musicals to see in live theater, and this production really was incredibly, 360-stage Kit Kat Club and all, and I might have written more if I weren't falling asleep but I very much am, alas.
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♥ zines for [community profile] beagoldfish: started

♥ video for RPM: started, kind of, in that I figured out how to do it probably

♥ winter sowing: finished! all 22 containers are out and covered with snow thanks to the blizzard so it's an authentic experience for them

also I finished Liu Cixin's To Hold Up The Sky anthology, thank goodness because the last story was particularly positive and relatable, but it did make me laugh that he says he's often asked, "what makes it Chinese science fiction?" and literally after the first story I was like, "have you read it."

Sunward by William Alexander

Feb. 24th, 2026 08:03 pm
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Sunward

4/5. Slim scifi novel about a woman from the moon running currier jobs, while on the side she raises up baby Ais, who require care like extraordinarily precocious children.

I’m hard to charm so far this year, but this book managed it. It’s sweet in the right places, thorny in others, and does a fun/interesting tour of parts of this futuristic solar system. This pleased and distracted me during a difficult week with its space parrot and road trip.

I will say that it has odd pacing, which suddenly clicked into place for me when I looked up the author and discovered he’s previously written middle grade. Ding ding ding. This is a novel concerning mostly adult topics, but paced like middle grade. It may be less jarring if you go in knowing that.

Content notes: Violence, robots treated like property while obviously being people (not by the protagonist)

reading in 2025

Feb. 24th, 2026 11:36 pm
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In the spirit of Lunar New Year, it's time to tidy up 2025 with the annual reading list.

words read, and some thoughts )

And to finish off, every year, I hope that things get better for the world and unfortunately, for the last few years, they have not. The chaos (horrors) persists. But so does the world. And maybe that's the best we can hope for, in the end.
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Maybe I could make a handwritten Chinese zine that I record myself reading aloud to a bunch of seeds.

This is gonna be my day. Or I'll take a nap. Still hard to say which way it will go.

Also I can't believe I haven't posted any pictures of Daphne in a year. I just spent an hour looking at photos, so I can't make up for it now short of sharing my entire library. But here's a particularly funny sequence from last spring, when her friends came to the back door looking for her.

Daphne and friends )

Right now everything is covered in snow and ice, except the back patio, so that's nice. I still go out and sit in my rocking chair and look out over where the gardens will be in the spring, and admire the sparkly beauty of a frozen river.

Luckily the dogs love the frozen river, so now the play groups look more like this.

Daphne and snow )

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