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Catégorie : Monster Mash (Halloween - Créature - Classique - Comédie - Danse)

Epoque moderne, aux enfers japonais, Hözuki est le bras droit du seigneur Emma, poli et efficace. Malheureusement pour lui, il est probablement la seule personne avec ces compétences de tous les enfers.

De la tranche de vie administrative pleine de références culturelles, des contes traditionnels à Sadako en passant par les parodies d'émissions télé, cela aurait dû me plaire ! Mais en fait, j'ai été déçue par l'humour qui ne m'a pas beaucoup fait rire. Hözuki a un bon mélange d'être sympathique pour son job et objectivement un oni infernal, malheureusement il n'y a aucun autre personnage assez intéressant, de mon point de vue, pour avoir des interactions qui me plaisent. Rajoutez à ça une blague vaguement transphobique (même si j'ai vu pire en manga, soyons honnêtes) et je n'ai pas été happée du tout.

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[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #978 ]

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fancake

Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Pairings/Characters: Sherlock/John
Rating: Mature
Length: 3044 words
Creator Links:

coloredink
Theme: Food and cooking

Summary: He just wanted John right down to the amino acids that made up his body, and he wanted them in his own body.

Content notes: Cannibalism. Sort of.

Reccer's Notes: This fic exemplifies what I loved about Sherlock fandom: the potential to explore rather uncommon ideas and concepts of love. Like Sherlock wanting to actually consume a physical part of John because he loves John so much. Coloredink is a fantastic writer on the sentence level, and they perfectly capture the energy of the Sherlock/John dynamic while also being funny as hell.

Fanwork Links: you are what you eat (and you know what that is)

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fanart_recs

Fandom: Red White and Royal Blue (RWRB)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Alex/Henry
Content Notes/Warnings: they're bare from the shoulders up
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: seanchaidh7 on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A lovely romantic piece - I especially like the sunlight slanting through the trees and David the dog running madly in the background.
Link: maybe next summer we could come back

malurette

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fancake

Fandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Rating: M
Length: 61264 word long series (first work with 20345 words, second with 40919)
Creator Links:

vexedquestion
Theme: food & cooking, bisexual/pansexual characters, polyamory, series

Summary:
part 1: you do not have to be good.
Come hell or high water, Eliot is going to figure this out.

part 2: your place in the family of things
He's here, he's queer, he's sort of getting used to it, or, Eliot realizes that he still has some work to do on understanding himself. With bonus new!team members.

Reccer's Notes:

Bisexual/pansexual Characters

This story features an Eliot Spencer who might have, in the back of his mind, known that he wasn't fully straight, but didn't let it sink in until he got close to having a relationship with Parker and Hardison. Growing up with the background homophobia of his childhood, and then the Don't Ask, Don't Tell of the military, he didn't think about it, didn't apply labels such as "bisexual" to himself. So realizing that he indeed wants a relationship with Parker and with Hardison leads to some serious reconsidering and soul-searching as he works through that. It is very much a "coming out later in life" story. The first part focuses on coming out to himself and his partners, and the second part focuses on finding his place in the wider queer community.

Food & Cooking

These stories feature a copious amount of food metaphors in the likes of "bretzels", actually co-owning a brewpub, and Eliot working through his feelings in late-night visits to the kitchen, and showing Parker and Hardison he loves them by cooking them food. The second part of the series especially is set in the brewpub as kind of a home base and develops the location as a legit place of business. For example Eliot creates longdrinks for the pub that convey his feelings, and they each are described at the end of chapter, it's delightful.

Polyamory

I like how the story portrays it as a multidimensional three-way-relationship: Each of the duos have their own relationship, and also the three of them function together in a way that's different than their two-way-relationships. Much like in canon, actually. Eliot is the POV character, and he has important scenes with Parker along, with Hardison alone, and with them both.
The first part is about figuring out how they work as a relationship together, about Eliot figuring out his queerness in relation to Parker and Hardison. The second part is about how that interacts with the outside world, portrayed through some very nicely flashed out side characters from the brewpub as well as another group of (rather young, very queer) criminals they're recruiting. In the second part especially, the focus is on their polyamory in that outsiders learn about it, and especially Eliot learns to show his love for his people.

Fanwork Links:
simple machines series link, ao3-locked
you do not have to be good. part one, ao3-locked
your place in the family of thingspart two, ao3-locked

eller

This... is PB71, a pigment that's typically not used in watercolor - and now I know why. XD

Living-Ice-kl

I mean, after a lot of hard work on finding a binder composition from which the pigment doesn't immediately unmix before drying, I somehow managed to produce something that passes as watercolor, but also, this thing granulates a lot, to the point it's essentially useless unless you enjoy painting snowy landscapes or obscure meteorological phenomena. (Which I don't. But, hey, this has to be the best paint for snowy watercolor landscapes... It's very lightfast, too.) Whatever. It sure was an interesting experience.

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⌈ Secret Post #6839 ⌋

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beatrice_otter

justmarriedexchange fics have revealed, and so I can tell you that I wrote a Trip/T'Pol fic! My recip,

lionessvalenti, had several suggestions for canon-divergent AUs, which happen to be one of my favorite types of story to write--pick a canon event, tweak it slightly, and see what happens from there. And also, I love Vulcans, and have Opinions on the way Star Trek: Enterprise handled them, and this fic gave me lots of opportunities to explore all of that. I really enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it!

Title: that I could call my very own
Author:

beatrice_otter
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Pairing: Trip/T'Pol
Written for:

lionessvalenti in Just Married Exchange 2025
Word count: 14k
Summary:

T'Pol figures out something is wrong with her mother before leaving for Vulcan. She and Trip decide how to face the problem together.

"Maybe we're coming at this from the wrong angle," Trip said. "We're worried about what's happening on Vulcan with your mother, and trying to figure out the best way to handle that. But what if you looked at this long-term? What do you want your life to be like, a decade from now? Two decades from now? Then work backwards and figure out what we should be doing now to work towards that."

AN: This is a very minor worldbuilding note, but in English, there are gendered terms for "people who dedicate themselves to a religious life"—monk for men and nun for women. That is not the case for all languages; in Greek, "monachos" is used for both men and women. I'm going to assume that Vulcan doesn't have different words for different genders, but uses the same word for both.

sixbeforelunch provided a lot of excellent brainstorming and beta help, as is usual for my Star Trek fics.

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"Ensign Sato, are there any remaining communications difficulties?"

The Human shook her head. "None that I'm aware of—I've got a lot of things coming through from Starfleet and the general Earth communications network, both stuff that's been waiting while we were out of range and congratulations for our triumphant return. Why?"

T'Pol debated. On the one hand, it was possible that neither her mother nor any other family member nor any former colleague had sent her a message while Enterprise was in the Expanse. Ensign Sato was very busy and had a great many tasks to perform before she could be debriefed by Starfleet and begin her well-deserved vacation. T'Pol had no desire to add to those tasks if there was nothing wrong. And it was certainly true that being out of contact had been a welcome reprieve; T'Pol was not in favor with the Vulcan High Command, nor with her family, and it had been a relief not to have to deal with anyone's disapproval.

( But she had always known that would be merely a temporary reprieve, unless she chose to abandon all claim to Vulcan entirely. )

On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Ad Astra. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.

flo_nelja

Catégorie : Je ne couperai pas mes cheveux, je ne parlerai pas moins fort (Mythologie - Chasseresse - Liberté - Emancipation - Féminisme)

Sous la direction de Marjane Satrapi, mais peu de pages sont d'elle. C'est une BD documentaire sur les émeutes en Iran qui ont suivi la mort de Mahsa Amini (tuée pour avoir "mal" porté son voile) ; cela parle, en général, de l'histoire de l'Iran et de son climat politique.

Des spécialistes d'histoire, de politique, et de nombreux auteurs de bande dessinée racontent chacun un angle particulier de la situation. C'est bien fait et frappant, souvent horrifiant, bien sûr, vu le sujet, et très instructif.

petra

Less exciting by a long shot than yesterday's Huntington treatment news, but I was feeling extremely icky today and then Genghis Khan by Miike Snow came on in the café where I stopped for lunch, and it made me chair dance.

I didn't link the official video. I linked a shot-for-shot remake from Phineas and Ferb, a tv show about which I know approximately nothing not found in the vid. And I ship it anyway.

Current Mood: a little bit genghis khan
Current Music: I don't want you to get it on with nobody else but me

malurette

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petra

BBC article.

Bring tissues if you, like me, are susceptible to Really Good News.

Current Mood: oh humans yay
Current Music: You gotta have heart and music

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⌈ Secret Post #6838 ⌋

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Fandom: À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Duc Jean des Essientes, Gray Mouser
Rating: General Audiences (although most of the beverages might be deemed Mature, depending on your country.)
Length: 542
Creator Links: Idlewild Designs (archived); I’ve not succeeded in recovering a name for the site owner.
Theme: Food & Cooking, Book Fandoms, Meta, Pre-AO3 Works, Research, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms

Summary: The two literary passages cited serve that purpose:

Dining off black-bordered plates, the company had enjoyed turtle soup, Russian rye bread, ripe olives from Turkey, caviare, mullet botargo, black puddings from Frankfurt, game served in sauces the color of liquorice and boot-polish, truffle jellies, chocolate creams, plum-puddings, nectarines, pears in grape-juice syrup, mulberries and black heart cherries. From dark-tinted glasses they had drunk the wines of Limagne and Roussillon, of Tenedos, Valdepeñas and Oporto. And after coffee and walnut cordial, they had rounded off the evening with kvass, porter and stout.

— a black feast held to mourn the loss of the Duc des Esseintes's virility in A Rebours, by Huysman

The collation on the little ebony table beyond the coffin consisted entirely of black foods. By sight and then by nibbling and sipping the Mouser discovered their nature: thin slices of a very dark rye bread crusted with poppy seeds and dripped with black butter; slivers of charcoal-seared steak; similarly broiled tiny thin slices of calf's liver sprinkled with dark spices and liberally pricked with capers; the darkest grape jellies; truffles cut paper thin and mushrooms fried black; pickled chestnuts; and of course, ripe olives and black fish eggs—caviar. The black drink, which foamed when he poured it, turned out to be stout laced with the bubbly wine of Ilthmar.

— Fritz Leiber, "Bazaar of the Bizarre"

Reccer's Notes: With Halloween impending, this seemed an apropos topic.

Idlewild Designs was a 2000’s Geocities purveyor of Gothic, fantasy, literary, occult, rustic, Art Nouveau, and otherwise Bohemian aesthetic living tips; here they expand and elaborate upon the two literary feasts described, with potential ingredients listed by category and outlinks to recipes. (The site was still very much under construction by the time Geocities shut down; I’m assuming the business, at least in that stage, is by now as dead as Bela Lugosi and that this post doesn’t violate the OTW’s advertising ban.)

( Literary_context. )

So what items might you add to the list? Some suggestions of my own:

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Fanwork Links: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs (archived.)

snowynight

It was on a Monday, April second—I was cruising in the vicinity of Betelgeuse—when a meteor no larger than a lima bean pierced the hull, shattered the drive regulator and part of the rudder, as a result of which the rocket lost all maneuverability.

From the Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem

flo_nelja

Catégorie : Chaudron, Foudre, et Clair de Lune (Fantastique - Magie - Sorcière - Potion - Infusion - Herboristerie - Amour - Famille)

Milieu du 20e siècle ; Yukinojô, un orphelin, fait un mariage arrangé avec la fille d'un agriculteur spécialisé dans la pomme. Au début, cela se passe bien, il travaille dur, s'intègre lentement, apprend... mais un jour, sa femme est malade, il va livrer des pommes seul, et il tombe sur un magnifique pommier sauvage. Il cueille des pommes, en offre une à sa femme alitée... et découvre qu'il l'a offerte, sans la savoir, au Dieu qui protège le village.

Les changements physiques se voient, elle devient plus petite, ses cheveux et ses ongles poussent très vite... cela fait longtemps qu'aucun sacrifice n'a été offert, il semble tabou d'en parler à Yukinojô, il ne sait pas comment sa femme va mourir... mais il est bien déterminé à l'éviter.

J'ai aimé le tome 1 et je suis très curieuse par rapport à la suite ! Il y a beaucoup de directions dans lesquelles cela peut partir !

malurette

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yhlee

Candle Arc #1, color version, at

candlearc just to keep it corralled. Note that it's viewer discretion advised on account of cuss words, violence, and hexarchate-typical awfulness.

UPDATED: Alternately: Candle Arc #1 on its own website at Candle Arc (candlearc.com).

I have the Ka-Blam setup in progress so fingers crossed I can make it available via print-on-demand at Indyplanet in the nebulous future, depending on how orchestration homework is going. /o\

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flo_nelja - Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Hôzuki le stoïque (Eguchi Natsumi)
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #6840 ]
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #978 ]
garryowen in fancake - Sherlock: you are what you eat (and you know what that is) by coloredink
mific in fanart_recs - maybe next summer we could come back by seanchaidh7 (semi-SFW)
malurette - [BD] Eclepsius
birdylion in fancake - Leverage: simple machines, by vexedquestion
eller - Weird Watercolor
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #6839 ]
beatrice_otter - Fic: that I could call my very own
flo_nelja - Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Femme, vie, liberté
petra - Small joy and a rec
malurette - [BD] Happy endings
petra - Science: Treatment developed for Huntington's Disease
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #6838 ]
full_metal_ox in fancake - À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs.
snowynight - First Line Friday
flo_nelja - Pumpkin Autumn Challenge : Les enfants du pommier 1 (Tanaka Ai)
malurette - [film] Flickorna
yhlee - Candle Arc #1: watercolor version (web)

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