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Titre : D'amour et de poison
Auteur : Nelja
Fandom : Demon Slayer
Persos/Couples : Shinobu/Tamayo
Genre : UST et angst
Résumé : Shinobu s'était promis de ne pas laisser sa haine sur les démons affecter son professionalisme, quand elle prémare un poison avec Tamayo. C'est plus compliqué quand d'autres sentiments s'en mêlent.
Rating : PG-13
Disclaimer : Rien ne m'appartient !
Nombre de mots : ~1500
Avertissements : Des mentions de mort à venir, et des spoilers.
Notes : Ecrit pour ladiesbingo sur le thème "Icy Politenesse" et sur une liste femslash february sur le thème "Plongeons ensemble"

( Lien vers AO3 )

Community Thursday

Feb. 12th, 2026 05:04 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on [community profile] bnha_fans.

Commented on [community profile] common_nature. A lot. What a lovely comm.

Commented on [community profile] getyourwordsout.

Commented on [community profile] booknook.
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What I’ve Read
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein – I think I get why people love this book so much. Rowan the steerswoman feels like a very centered and clear kind of person. Her calling has a purity to it – to find and share knowledge – and that seems like the kind of philosophical and moral outlook that could be catnip to the right reader. And here I am! Just, the final chapters of this book are just a conversation where she tells someone the truth, and it changes the world. Moral dilemmas, sneakiness, and a rising suspicion that we are living not in a fantasy world, but a science fiction one where some people are keeping secrets.  
Her books are a bit hard to get a hold of but you can buy them via the links on her website, here https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/

Fanfic round up -  Cover of Knight by ErinPtah is just part of an ongoing story of the Disney/Marvel Moon Knight tv show spinning off to cover how our superhero community would handle someone who has multiple personalities. This is part of a long and ongoing series of fics that cover Marc Spector figuring himself and his alters out. It's fun and charming and I think I will read more. 

What I’m Reading Now
City by Clifford Simak – This is a book that came up in last year’s Arisia’s discussion about old classics. The short stories in this ‘fixup’ novel are linked together by interstitial reflections from an academic dog, who is reflecting on the stories as the surviving literature of a post-human earth where dogs are served by self-building robots, but no one can confirm that humans ever existed except as a literary trope. The stories are weirdly prophetic and some are didactic, but, they are making interesting points about the knock-on effects of future technology in small bites, which charmed me. The first story posits a world where the trend towards suburban living, already changing cities in Simak's lifetime, pushed to the point where everyone in the US lives on 20 acre private wilderness retreats and commutes to work by private plane. 
(I have a habit of starting a book on vacation, loving it, and then immediately forgetting I started it when I get home. Trying to break that cycle.)

Latchkey by goldkirk – Tim Drake is semi adopted by the Bats pre-death of Jason Todd, and it’s episodic and charming and indulgent.

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfish – The library had this, and so far, I am enjoying the oddness of the thing greatly. It is however a little too spooky for bedtime reading. It was on my To Read list for last week, tho, so we are trending in the correct direction. 

What I’ll Read Next
Monks Hood – Ellis Peters
Master of Poisons – Andrea Hairston
Frankenstein
The Brightness Between Us -Eliot Screfer
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun – Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (I picked this up after seeing that it was beloved by a fic author whose work I recently enjoyed but I have no idea what I am looking at here)
The Craft of Lace Knitting by Barbara Walker
Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
Viriconium by John M Harrison

I also bought some books! 
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers (who I follow on Tumblr) 

The Glass Pearls
To Ride a Rising Storm 
Elisha Barber

Necromancy book club picked The Scholomance Series to read - Naomi Novik 


Other things!

I have decided to try Sock Madness year 20 with a friend. It's a speed knitting competition - you get free patterns for socks, and you must knit two socks according to spec. It's a good balance of technical challenge and friendly competition - I'm nowhere fast enough to get in the running for the actual prize, but merely participating gets you access to all the patterns for free after the actual race is over. It's been a good stretch of my skills in the past - I had viewed it as leveling up! And maybe I don't actually use the socks that much, but I can give them out to people who are sock worthy. 
https://www.ravelry.com/groups/sock-madness-forever

I watched If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, which is a anxiety-inducing character study of a woman who is figuring out, under fairly harrowing conditions, that she is really fucking things up in her life. It's like watching a coyote decide to chew its leg off to get out of a trap, only the trap is a child with complex medical needs and also your own personality flaws. Really good - Rose Byrne deserves the Oscar but I know she won't get it. 


Starfall Stories 52

Feb. 11th, 2026 08:31 pm
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Still catching up on crossposting some [community profile] rainbowfic:

Name: Sweet Interlude
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #11 (Marriage)
Supplies and Styles: Silhouette
Word Count: 2343
Rating: PG
Warnings: None?
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno/Viyony Eseray. (A rather slight linking piece).
Summary: Leion and Viyony attend a wedding.

FIC: Stadium (Tempestuous Tours)

Feb. 10th, 2026 04:26 pm
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I wish I could be more complimentary about Emor's stadium.

As a feat of architecture and engineering, it is on par with the Chara's palace. As a place of entertainment, it is appalling.

Out of all the dismal spectacles that take place here, I can only recommend the chariot races. These can be quite as bloody as the other acts that take place here, but at least they do not involve beasts and prisoners. Charioteers are highly esteemed and highly paid for their skillful work, and they care for their horses tenderly. The chariots – works of art unto themselves – achieve speeds that are said to rival that of royal messengers. I'd recommend keeping your small children and sensitive women away; crashing chariots often result in mangled bodies. But a chariot race is certainly worth witnessing, at least once.


[Translator's note: A chariot race will appear in an upcoming novel, Motley Mayhem.]

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1) It's surprising to me that it's been a month since I last posted...here. I have been posting every week in communities, but simply haven't completed some write ups and reviews I wanted to make.

However speaking of communities, [community profile] marchmetamatterschallenge will be starting up again on March 1. If you've written meta, join in and copy your meta over to an additional location for both discovery and safekeeping! More details at the community link.

2) We were watching Colbert and his wife Evie was on. For Valentine's Day they read through her 12 year old writings about what she considered the perfect guy for her. Among her notes was that he should be "all man." This made my partner remember an event in hockey where a player was placed in the penalty box because his team had too many players on the ice. The TV caption however, as they showed him sitting there was "Too much man." I found this hilarious.

3) I daresay the article Stop Meeting Students Where They Are is relevant to various readers here. They key to me is that (a) younger online users are starting to intentionally reduce their time there, and Read more... )

4) Love how the same people scolding audiences for preferring to watch movies at home, don't go to the cinema even when it's free. "The Academy has long hosted screenings of Oscar-hopefuls for its members throughout the year in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, New York and London, and then again after the announcement of the Oscar nominations.

But in recent years — particularly over the seven years since the Academy introduced its members-only streaming service, the Academy Screening Room, through which members can watch films at home — attendance at all of these screenings has markedly declined.... “an average of five members attended these screenings in the last two years,” ...which reportedly cost the organization thousands of dollars a pop. So the Academy decided to save resources by eliminating them altogether." Aside from the Academy members can view movies on the big screen at the many showings hosted by the nominating studios. They just choose not to, just like most other viewers.

5) We finished watching Bodkin, which I will agree was an interesting view, though I had trouble getting into it, primarily because I was not fond of any of the main characters. A few episodes in the mystery was developing and I was fairly satisfied with how that unfolded and its complexity.

My big problem was that Netflix had labeled this "Comedy." Read more... )

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Make a Top Ten list for your favourite series and tell people exactly why you love it. This can be in any format - tv series, book series, radio plays, movie sequels, something else not mentioned here. Your series can be as short as two vaguely linked pieces of media and as long as... well, the sky is your limit. Whatever you like!

Alright! I wondered a bit if I should restrict by genre or by theme, and then remembered that on another website I'm celebrating femslash february, so
Top 10 of serial media where I ship the main(-ish) canon(-ish) f/f romance :D

Details under the cut )

1,000,072 words

Feb. 9th, 2026 08:39 am
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And I passed the 1M words written (not all of them edited!!) (yet!) this morning. It was so strange to add my daily couple of paragraphs to the Leopard/Tree fic knowing this was coming lol. Wow. Glad I had my little crisis about it last year so I can just nod at it today while I step above it (crisis: ✅). I think when I started writing again in 2020 and firmly settled on the "one million bad words before you can get to the good ones" mindset, I expected I'd feel at least competent when I reached the milestone. Alas. Maybe because of the crappy first half of last year, I feel like I lost 2/3 of what I knew and still have to relearn so much about my own process and how to (hopefully) write well -- I've done it once or twice before, surely I can again ;) Anyway, that's done! \o/ Next milestone, one million edited words??? Though I guess I'm not really measuring that in any way that's easy to track, haha. It'll work out ;D This is cool. Maybe I should bake a word count celebratory cake like I used to during the lockdowns. Though I'll have to write the digits on top very small with so many of them now XD (Edit: OR MAKE A BIGGER CAKE I GUESS!!!!)

I miss sitting down with the concept for a novel and having a long first draft to lose myself into ahead of me, but mentally I can't do that while I have two other on-going novels, especially with the Soul Thief still a first draft itself. I think maybe when the structural edits are completed, that may free up the mental slot for "Big First Draft." I started the prep work on that, spending some time thinking about why I wrote it and what I want to leave readers with before actually starting the edits, this time. Like, who is the actual audience, also.

Rambles on who to share one's writing with... )

Anyway, reaching a big milestone you've been working toward for years is kind of incredible actually. I'm awed. I'm happy. If nothing else, I've proven to myself that I can stick with it. I've learnt a ton. I've made connections with people, both on the reader side and on the writer side. Met all of you here! And I'm so excited to learn even more in the coming 5-to-10 years, which is the time period I'd given myself for that original milestone, haha. ONWARD!! :D

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Feb. 8th, 2026 01:40 pm
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I haven't been making a lot of public posts of late, but with how things are going in the U.S., I figured people might be interested in this idea, which is basically to unsubscribe from whichever services you can that are supportive of ICE or overly involved with the Trump regime. Probably a lot of you have already done as much, but I found Scott Galloway's layout of it helpful, so I unsubscribed from what I could. I don't really have that many subscriptions in the first place, but it was still nice to do something proactive.

I removed comments from this post just because I don't want to get into too much conversation on politics or what does and doesn't work. I'm more about keeping it light on the Internet, but I think it's fair to say things are not going great, and there's no way to completely avoid talking about the reality we're in, so I figured I'd share this as an option.
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Video under the cut... )
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To celebrate volume 4 coming out, the official K-9 account over at [twitter.com profile] k_9comic published a manga preview trailer (x.com) with Oboro and Ren's voices.

Ren's voice: Ise Mariya
Oboro's voice: Miyano Mamoru

You may picture me half-dead in a corner. Oboro sounds even creepier than I imagined him, in all the best ways. Ren is *swoons*


In addition, the extras for volume 4 involve a couple of 4-koma strips and therefore it is now officially confirmed that

do I even need a spoiler tag for this? It's not plot-relevant. Not yet. It's relevant to my blood pressureKagari and Fujimaru do live together, and Kagari does borrow Fujimaru's clothes as he pleases.

I'll share proper(ish) translations soon. Just. Need to go curl up in a corner for a while first.

Volume 4 is seriously awesome and packs in so many of my favourite OT4 scenes, including the one that sold me on them, and then so many interactions after that! And it ends on the chapter that introduces the two little guys I was talking about the other day, with that hand-over-mouth panel too. What a beautiful day. My heart can only take so much, though.
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I was planning to type up some older ficlets I'd found in my notebook, including one for [community profile] no_true_pair, and when I opened the doc, found an all but complete one already typed up! So here's one I had mostly prepared much earlier but apparently gave up on for some reason.

For the Sept 2024 round of No True Pair, and also for [community profile] 51pluscrossoverfandoms, [community profile] 100fandoms & [community profile] allbingo Crime Classics.

Subdivisions (1073 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, The Chronicles of St Mary's - Jodi Taylor
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Death (Discworld) & Madeleine "Lucy" Maxwell
Characters: Death (Discworld), Madeleine "Lucy" Maxwell, Leon Farrell
Additional Tags: Crossover, Alcohol, Drunkenness, Community: no_true_pair, Community: 51pluscrossoverfandoms, Community: 100fandoms, Community: allbingo, Max would like it to be known that none of this would happen if Peterson could drive straight, Death just wants to talk
Summary: Max continues trying to cheat Death, even when Death just wants to buy her a pint.
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A new challenge for February! ow pressure, one top 10 every week.
For the first week

Make a Top Ten list for your favourite standalone media and tell people exactly why you love it. This can be in any format - movies, one shot dramas, novels, short stories, plays, something else not mentioned here. Whatever you like!

Top 10 of short stories that stayed with me )

Absolutely none of these stories are realistic, they all have some kind of supernatural or sci-fi element, which wasn't part of the selection, it's just how my tastes work :D

current fandom events

Feb. 5th, 2026 10:41 pm
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[community profile] pinchhitbingo is a meta event where you fill bingo squares by claiming and filling pinch hits for other fan events

[community profile] fandomocweekly is a weekly prompt community for original characters based off existing fandoms

[tumblr.com profile] badthingshappenbingo is a bingo challenge where the prompts are based on bad things of all varieties that could happen to your characters/ship

[community profile] allbingo is running a Valentine's Day Bingo Fest for the month of February. There are pre made cards or you can create your own based off the existing prompts.

[community profile] threeisnotacrowd, a multifandom exchange for relationships between three people, is open for sign-ups until February 7th, 11:59PM GMT-3. Nominations are also still open and will close an hour before sign-ups do.

[community profile] fourormore, a community for ships with at least four people, is running a Four Or More 2026 Valentine's Special, where you have until February 14th to complete the 3x3 bingo card created for the event.

[community profile] smallfandomfest is running another round of Pimp Your Small Fandom.

[personal profile] likealighthouse is running fall out boy femslash febrary ficathon, an event for leaving and filling fall out boy lyric prompts for all your favorite femslash ships.

[personal profile] elasticella is running femslash salad bar, where you select two or more prompt tables and one prompt from each table will make up your final prompts for a fill

[community profile] snowflake_challenge has a friending meme!

Snowflake Challenge Friending Meme promotional banner featuring a cup of frothy coffee or hot chocolate on a plate with a piece of greenery and a cozy comforter with a sprig of baby’s breath. Text: Snowflake Challenge Friending Meme.

[community profile] fancake's theme of the month is: inept in love. Click on the banner below to find out more.

Photograph of two kingfishers perched on a branch. One is surrounded by a cloud of pink love hearts and the other has a single question mark over its head. Text: Inept in Love, at Fancake.
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