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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-10-04 09:30 am

Fancake's Theme for October: Uncommon Settings

Photograph of the full moon encircled with added text: Uncommon Settings, at Fancake.
[community profile] fancake's theme for October is Uncommon Settings! These are places you don't often see represented in fanworks, either in a specific fandom or fandom in general. They could be concrete locations like the moon or your hometown, or more nebulous areas like Slack or the underworld.

If you're a font nerd like I am, you might be interested to know this font is called Cubao and is inspired by the signboards hung on jeepneys, SUVs, buses, and other transport vehicles within and outside the Metro Manila in the Philippines. I picked it because it looked awesome, only afterward learning that it also represents an uncommon fannish setting.

Also, also, I don't know if this'll work for you, but I accidentally discovered if I stare at this image and kind of Magic Eye it (stare through it) the moon appears to jiggle around inside its circle of text, like a hologram. Spooky.

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, or fonts, come talk to me!
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kitewithfish ([personal profile] kitewithfish) wrote2025-10-01 09:26 pm
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Wednesday Reading Meme for Oct 1 2025

I am v tired so my descriptions are a bit thin tonight.

What I’ve Read

Strong Poison – Dorothy Sayers – Our heroine is finally introduced! It’s so good, but it’s also meaningfully unfinished in terms of their relationship.
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin – This book moved me – I had read it last in high school and what stayed with me was etched deep. But, there was a lot that I honestly forgot and the ending hit me like a truck.

What I’m Reading

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club – Dorothy Sayers
The Mismeasure of Man – Stephen Jay Gould
Mimesis – Erich Auerbach

What I’ll Read Next

Witness for the Dead Katherine Addison
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mossy_bench ([personal profile] mossy_bench) wrote2025-09-30 07:23 pm
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My stupid as hell Schlocktober plans

Depending on where you are, happy October! The month of a gazillion prompts and challenges--which I shall be participating in. (Note: from here on out this post gets pretty NSFW).

I've mentioned before on this journal how small the fandom is for Hello From the Magic Tavern (an improvised comedic fantasy podcast). It has 28 fics on AO3, most of which were posted pre-pandemic. Consequently, I've been trying to post more about it on Tumblr, whether sharing specific clips from the show or rambling about the characters. And I'm determined to contribute more fic. I was vaguely considering Kinktober, though I knew that the smut would maybe be more cracky than titillating, considering the source material.

And then! I saw Schlocktober, which seems to have started as a joke but got a lot of interest and is now an actual challenge. Under the cut is an image of the prompts:

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I was SO excited, because in case I haven't already made it abundantly clear, this podcast is stupid as hell. By which I mean, the people who make the show are brilliant and clever and have spun up a beautiful, enormous structure that holds endless possibilities, but the structure also resembles a cartoon bouncy-house castle decorated with dicks. In other words, its typical tone and content seamlessly fit in with the Schlocktober prompts.

I've got the shape of about 3 different fics pretty clearly in my head, which I think will check off several prompts. They are as follows:
  • Otok Barleyfoot/Blemish, for the prompt Genital Swap. Otok is the half-elf proprietor of the titular tavern; Blemish is his creepy half-dwarf servant-slash-employee who both loathes and loves him. Blemish's dick is, canonically, a cat. You see where this is going, maybe.

  • Soulwalker/Cowboy!AU!Soulwalker, for the prompts Quadruple Fisting, Autocannibalism, and 96ing if I can figure out WTF I want that last one to mean. The Cowboy!AU!Soulwalker (a shambling corpse full of the souls of the dead) canonically seeks out AU versions of himself to fuck. There was a podcast episode that basically faded-to-black these two, with mentions of tentacles. So I'm gonna try to un-fade that black. It's gonna be a bit challenging to capture both of their voices--the Wild West patter and the more lyrical fantasy nonsense. I'll try my best!

  • Baron Ragoon/Tomblain Belaroth, for the prompt Shallow Throating. Prince Tomblain, a noted actor, goes undercover to spy on the evil Baron and ends up seducing him while in disguise as a woman named Lady Eliza Parts. In canon, he flees before they can consummate their relationship because he's worried about the Baron finding out his identity. I have long wanted to write a fic where the Baron learns that Lady Parts has a dick and does not fucking care and they go at it like rabbits. With some ambiguity of how much of it is Tom just acting vs him genuinely getting into it.

If I can post those three fics, honestly, I'm happy! But maybe I'll also see about tossing off some drabbles for some of the other prompts too. There are so many other possibilities that I've jotted down but have kept secondary for now.

The Mysterious Man is perfect for the CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Torture) prompt, and I would love to write some Dripfang/Baron for the prompt Fuck or Die Trying. Usidore and Jyn'Leeviah have so much questionable magical sex in canon where they transform themselves into various foodstuffs, that they would fit right in as well. And then Chunt and Arnie (the ship between two of the main hosts) should really get something too, but they have the most fic on AO3 so far and I've already written 2 fics about them, so putting them on the backburner. I could go on and on...

So, my goal this month is to post three fics, prob to a sock account. To be perfectly honest, they feel like such low-hanging fruit--if the podcast had a thriving transformative fandom, I feel like these premises would have already been written to death. That's part of why I'm so determined for them to exist.
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𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙚. ([personal profile] splatstick) wrote in [community profile] icons2025-09-29 05:59 pm
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75 icons of superman 2025


75 icons

( 12 ) lex luther ( 8 ) eve teschmacher ( 8 ) jimmy olsen ( 21 ) mr terrific ( 15 ) guy gardner ( 6 ) hawkgirl ( 5 ) supergirl

HERE @ [community profile] sousaphone
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-09-28 09:14 am

fall vibes

I went to Trader Joe's yesterday and in addition to the things I was meant to purchase, I also got apple cider scented foaming hand soap, maple & sea salt kettle corn, ultra moisturizing pumpkin hand cream, and a little white and orange pumpkin to go with the big heirloom pumpkin I also impulse purchased earlier this week. Because it's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers.

While we're on the subject of gourds, let me also recommend this recipe for gluten-free pumpkin bars from Texanerin. Though, really, it's more of a pumpkin cake, tall and fluffy and full of fall spices. I wrote up the details over on [community profile] gluten_free.
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-09-26 08:32 am
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mask up

Yesterday, I was upset to learn that at some point in the last five months Masklab (Wayback link) decided not to sell masks anymore. They were the brand that fit me the best and they came in so many colors and patterns they made wearing a mask feel a little less dire.

Here's the stats for comparison:

  • Made in Hong Kong in an ISO-certified Class 7 clean room
  • Highest surgical mask standard ASTM F2100 Level 3 certified by STC:Test Report
  • PFE>99.9%, BFE>99.9%
  • EU PPE Standard EN149 FFP2:Test Report
  • Printed with non-toxic, azo-free dyes certified by STC:Test Report
  • High breathability
  • Fluid resistant up to 160mmHg
  • Individually-wrapped
  • Size: 190mm x 85mm

The good news is that other companies also make this style of mask. So does anyone have recommendations for PPF2/KF94 Korean-style respirators? I'd love it if they came in fun colors, but it's more important that they're trustworthy and reasonably priced.

The folks in r/Masks4All recommend Savewo (Family Masks in the US site), Breatheteq, WellBefore, and Vida as substitutes.

Anyone familiar with any of these?

Or just tell me what you're wearing these days.

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kitewithfish ([personal profile] kitewithfish) wrote2025-09-24 04:22 pm
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Weekly Reading Meme for Sept 24, 2025

What I’ve Read
Lent by Jo Walton – “A novel of many returns” – I read this for the first time about three months ago and avoided spoilers – I recommend this book and I also recommend going in without an idea of you’re getting into it. That said, I think some spoilers would help people make up their minds, so I will put them under a cut.

After I finished the book, I went looking for any interview where Jo Walton talked about the book, and found nothing – But! She did have this to say in an interview, about the pleasures of re-reading - ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAbUmD3Xs2c )

Whose Body by Dorothy Sayers – # 1 in series - Fun to read, really gives Lord Peter’s backstory some oomph, but it’s also a bit convoluted and very very English. I can see the promise of the future but if this were the first book I’d read, I am not sure I would have bothered with the rest of the series .

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy Sayers - #2 in Series – Wow, this book is just a careful examination, via murder mystery, of all the ways women are trapped in this society in this era. It introduces Peter Wimsey’s noble family, and his brother and sister are both moderately miserable to be caught in a murder investigation. It’s very 1920s England but also does a great job of characterizing a lot of ways a person could be flawed, and how women end up having to make the best of some fairly awful situations.

In news unrelated to reading, I’ve been trying for some time to get off the short form video content sites (mostly TikTok) and spend more time with people whose work feels thoughtful and interesting – so, here’s Technology Connections - https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections Go learn about how pinball machines do math.

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton – The library has returned this lovely audiobook to me! I am really enjoying, as a counterpoint to Lent, the ways the book really looks at how the specific circumstances and personalities impact the decisions leading up to the breakdown of the French monarchy. I am sure this is all old hat to people who studied this period of French history in any detail, but I was not among them. Even my interest in the History of Napoleon podcast didn’t cover this period in such a pragmatic, on-the-ground, “who knew what when” approach. The little details matter – I had not know that, as the Estates General was meeting to try and figure out how France was to go on, King Louis XVI left for a day to go sit with his dying seven year old son. Like, it’s not the most important detail of the book, but it just sticks with me that all this uproar and confusion and politics, his kid was dying. I finished the book late last night – highly recommend.


What I’m Reading

Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
Mimesis – Auerbach -Just started this while I was trapped in a long meeting and it was available. Said’s forward is good!

What I’ll Read Next
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin for book club 
Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-09-24 09:19 am
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A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2), by Robert Jackson Bennett

Another Ana and Din mystery. It was fine! But, like the first book, it lacked charisma. I'd put it down fully intending to pick it back up again once I'd eaten dinner or brushed my teeth or ensured the kitten wasn't quietly unravelling the fabric of the universe, but once I got back I'd do literally anything but pick it up again, sometimes leaving the actual book open next to me while I played hours of picross, watched trashy documentaries on Netflix, or read articles I'd had languishing in open tabs for months.

The world is interesting, but the main characters still aren't doing it for me. Like the first book, I was more intrigued by the secondary characters. Here, the warden Malo with her brash confidence, traumatic past, and uncertain future, and in the last book, the investigator who was better with a sword than a notebook and whom I'd inadvertently—and with absolutely no encouragement from the text—pictured as Gimli from The Lord of The Rings movies. Din, in many ways, reads as a means to an end, a recording device more than a fully developed person with his own voice and thoughts, and Ana, well, I figured out what she was before Din, but that's not saying much.

Contains: smoking (especially as a form of self-medication); hereditary enslavement; descriptions of violence and dead bodies; body horror.
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Rainlover ([personal profile] magicrubbish) wrote in [community profile] icons2025-09-24 06:07 am

Wednesday Icons

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Rainlover ([personal profile] magicrubbish) wrote in [community profile] fandom_icons2025-09-24 06:06 am
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Wednesday Icons

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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote2025-09-21 09:22 am
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Duolingo Japanese Vocabulary, Vol 4

Like many things this year, my Japanese study has been greatly reduced by time and circumstance. In January I stopped doing my daily work on WaniKani (where I'd reached Level 9) and KaniWani but kept up with my lessons on Duolingo. Much of my vocabulary has slipped away from me, but the grammar persists, and the vocabulary's easy to look up, so I'm not that bad off, and I can pick WaniKani back up whenever I want because I have a lifetime subscription. I'm just gonna be SUPER BEHIND when I do. ウヘッ。


Volume 4

Describe a wedding | Make plans to go out

Vol 4 )