Lake Lewisia #1363

Jan. 30th, 2026 04:50 pm
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With his work going well and a suddenly more comfortable existence, his friends began to ask if he wouldn’t like to buy a newer house, one more attractive and easy to maintain. He just laughed, though, hands brushing fondly over the strange flowering bush by the front steps or the odd blotches staining the front door. “I just love the neighborhood too much to ever leave,” he professed, eyes gazing toward the storm drain opposite his house with an affection no one else understood.

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LL#1363

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Jan. 30th, 2026 06:09 pm
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Snowflake Challenge 2026: Prompt 15

Jan. 30th, 2026 12:22 pm
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Snowflake Challenge: A mug of coffee or hot chocolate with a snowflake shaped gingerbread cookie perched on the rim sits nestled amidst a softly bunched blanket. A few dried orange slices sit next to it.

Challenge #15: How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go?

You know, all things considered, I think it went pretty darn well! January has been a really tough month on a lot of fronts, personal and political - protests, vigils, the cold, protests and vigils in the cold and all the emotions that go with them, and a pair of sick cats on top of it all (they're fine, but after five years of kitty health crises it's prodding me right in the anxiety). But Snowflake has been a bright spot of fun things to do and talk about, and I've had a great time. Last year I didn't manage to do many of the challenges; this year I got all 15! I stretched myself a little bit with moodboards (I'm still proud of that one) and other times happily reinterpreted prompts to avoid stretching myself too much :D And while I didn't leave as many comments as I wanted to, I did get to have some nice conversations, and I'm looking forward to the friending meme tomorrow.

Thanks for a lovely 15 challenges, mods!

Snowflake Challenge 2026: Prompt 14

Jan. 29th, 2026 11:39 pm
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Snowflake Challenge: A mug of coffee or hot chocolate with a snowflake shaped gingerbread cookie perched on the rim sits nestled amidst a softly bunched blanket. A few dried orange slices sit next to it.

Challenge #14: In your own space, create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom.

So, last year, I wrote up my first promo for a beloved ship (and had a fantastic time). This year's prompt is a little bit more geared toward canons, but I ran into some difficulties with that. Have you ever wanted to get into Transformers? Well, I'm told the new movie is actually a great way to get into it, but I didn't see it, so have you considered a cartoon from 2007... So instead, I'm going to give you a quick ship promo and rec list for another beloved ship of mine: Ema Skye/Franziska von Karma from Ace Attorney!

(I don't have a thing for rarepairs that share one character with a much more popular ship at all, haha.)

So, no, Ema and Franziska don't have a lot of screentime together (they do interact briefly in Ace Attorney Investigations). But I first got interested in the ship based on the parallels. They're both intelligent, talented women with complicated relationships to their jobs - Franziska struggling with not being the "perfect" prosecutor, while Ema ends up stuck as a detective instead of forensics like she wanted. Both of them have a close relative, a respected prosecutor, who had a long-term impact on their choice of career and also ends up in jail for serious crimes including evidence forgery; Lana is going to get out of jail someday and Manfred isn't, but it's still a point for them to connect over.

They're a lot of fun to bounce off each other, too. They're both abrasive and blunt, even on a good day; Franziska has no patience for incompetence and Ema is not interested in sugarcoating things to make people feel better, and I don't get the impression any of that would change in a romantic relationship. But Ema says she prefers her prosecutors "simmerous" (as opposed to "glimmerous") - yeah, yeah, I know what canon meant, but as far as I'm concerned that's a great description for Franziska. It's a ship with a lot of potential spice! There's room for comfort and fluff, too, but I do have a weakness for ships that argue. (Also, while there's not much fic for the ship, the fic that is there is extremely hot. One might say...simmering.)

So, if all of that sounds promising and you wanted to get into this ship, where should you start? I have a few suggestions, based on what you're interested in! (Some of which are self-recs, for which I will not apologize. It's a rarepair. :D)

Open to WIPs and interested in long, plotty fic? I've been having a great time following flaws (upon your sleeve) (beneath the ground), described as "A catastrophic doomed-to-fail toxic-yuri we-can-make-each-other-worse romance workbuddies fic." It's extremely fun and you should check it out.

Here for some hurt/comfort and the actual getting-together process? How To Avoid The Holidays, written for AA Holiday Rarepair Week at the end of last year: Franziska and Ema bond over disliking Christmas. (This one's mine!)

Looking for comedy and into chatfic? Try Instructions Unclear, Bi Panicked from the kink meme, featuring Maya and some excellent Ema&Maya BFFs alongside the FranEma.

Hey Riella, you said this ship has extremely hot fic, where's that? Three choices for this one! The Music Our Collisions Make (rough sex, it's-complicated relationship), which I recced earlier in Snowflake but will always happily bring up again, Far Gone (premature ejaculation, light teasing) from the kink meme, or Her Summer Blouse (post-office-party PWP), also from the kink meme.

Vid Recs: Heated Rivalry

Jan. 29th, 2026 10:47 pm
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Seven vid recs for Heated Rivalry. (I cant figure out how to make a public post to my own journal, so I'm copying these here).

RUN BOY RUN [VID] Queerness Makes Queerness Possible by nordreys
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings:
Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Kip Grady/Scott Hunter, Shane Hollander & Scott Hunter, Scott Hunter & Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander & Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter (Game Changers), Kip Grady, Rose Landry, Svetlana Vetrova, Yuna Hollander, David Hollander
Additional Tags: queer syntax is infinite, queerness makes queerness possible, Hockey, Romance, the closet, Social Media, Representation, Love, Accidental Outing, Driving Into The Sunset
Series: Part 6 of vids
Summary:

queer syntax is infinite. queerness makes queerness possible.

being gay and being a hockey player and the years in between until something helps you realize change is possible.



Naked In Manhattan by sisabet
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov
Additional Tags: POV Shane Hollander, First Time, Fanvids, Video Format: Streaming
Summary:

Shane experiences a series of firsts.



[vid] Blow by bingeling
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Additional Tags: POV Shane Hollander, Sub Shane Hollander, Closeted Characters, Physical Triggers, Embedded Video, Captions Available, Download Available, Fanvids, Video Format: MP4, Video Format: Streaming
Summary:

You taste like cigarettes



[VID] 11:11 (16 words) by Nestra
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov
Additional Tags: Video, Embedded Video, Download Available, Subtitles Available, Canon-Typical Everything
Series: Part 20 of Vids by Nestra, Part 31 of Creator's Favorites
Summary:

I knew from the beginning.



Fine Not Fine [Vid] by jennavids
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:

and I've never been myself, I just follow orders

[A Hollanov video set to Fine Not Fine by Spector]



[Vid/Edit] Pilot With a Fear of Heights by technicallyverycowboy
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov
Additional Tags: Fanvids, shane "brave little toaster" hollander
Summary:

I've been thinking 'bout you all night
Like a pilot with a fear of heights



is it ever gonna be enough? [vid] by copperiisulfate
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Video, Embedded Video
Summary:

a relationship study of sorts through the first season of the series

WIPs poll

Jan. 29th, 2026 09:03 pm
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I got tagged into this on Tumblr but might as well give you lot a chance too.

Here's a list of all the WIPS I've touched in the last three years, listed by working title. The deal is that I write 100 words for every vote (no deadline.)

No, you don't get to ask for any more info, though I have talked about some of them before. The oldest one is about twenty-five; the newest was started for yuletide this year. There are 25 different fandoms involved, which is definitely part of the problem, yes.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47


Which WIP?

View Answers

A novel example of three-factor, one locus sex determination in a Terrestrial chordate
1 (2.1%)

a shadow on snow
0 (0.0%)

All Men Raising
0 (0.0%)

Arha the Ninth
3 (6.4%)

Chappa'ai
2 (4.3%)

Cheris the First
3 (6.4%)

Children of Barrayar
6 (12.8%)

Clark Knows Better
1 (2.1%)

The #@%$^$ Coffeeshop Fic Fine
2 (4.3%)

Dyson Swarm
1 (2.1%)

The First Sedoretu of Ankh-Morpork
13 (27.7%)

The Hanahaki Protocols
1 (2.1%)

Hello My Name Is
1 (2.1%)

Hikarigakure
0 (0.0%)

I <3 Boobies ch 2
1 (2.1%)

If A Body Meet A Body
1 (2.1%)

I Was The Yiling Laozu's Concubine And All I Got Was This Gauzy Robe
5 (10.6%)

Kobayashi Gusu
0 (0.0%)

Necro-Gothic
0 (0.0%)

One Is One And All Alone
1 (2.1%)

Paris Lui-Meme Imite
1 (2.1%)

Peace love & Quebecois
1 (2.1%)

The Second Master of Yiling
1 (2.1%)

Slow Like Honey
1 (2.1%)

Something Rotten
1 (2.1%)

Tiger Burning Bright
0 (0.0%)

Untitled Shous Game
0 (0.0%)

The White Dynasty Does An Activism
0 (0.0%)

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Jan. 29th, 2026 05:10 pm
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Small Stuff

Jan. 29th, 2026 01:14 pm
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I seem to be the respository for old papers in various lines of descent. None of them worth a damn, except their voices are such a joy to "hear". But on recent visit my daughter asked for the little iron box containing her great-grandfather's letters from WW I.

Jack Murray was a typical nineteen year old and it comes across so clearly. He joined the army early on, and was shipped from CA to Florida to base camp. There, they went around asking if anyone was familiar with automobiles. He said he fooled around with them, as many Los Angeles boys did.

They yanked him out of infantry and put him in the nascent motor pool, before shipping them off to France. The ship journey, their arrival in France, and the rapid development of Motor Transport is fascinating to read from his ground-level perspective. After the war, he was one of the last to leave France, as he was vital for the transport system.

My daughter commended on how very, very earnest he was about his longing to marry Great Granny (then seventeen or eighteen) RIGHT NOW. Also, she commented on the slang of the day. Everything was a peach. A peach of a car, a peach of a trip, a peach of a meal. She was a peach of a girl!

Next Ihope she wants to read the letters of a great-great grandfather through her grandfather's line--these beautifully written copperplate letters from California right after the gold rush, through a quake, and a riot . . .

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Jan. 28th, 2026 06:32 pm
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Snowflake Challenge 2026: Prompt 13

Jan. 28th, 2026 11:10 am
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Snowflake Challenge: A mug of coffee or hot chocolate with a snowflake shaped gingerbread cookie perched on the rim sits nestled amidst a softly bunched blanket. A few dried orange slices sit next to it.

Challenge #13: TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

This one took me a while - not because I couldn't think of a community, but because I had too many in mind! I bounce around a lot across Tumblr, Discord, and Dreamwidth, because there's fun stuff for my fandoms scattered everywhere and I've never been good at consolidating it all to one single site. And then, as I was making my list, it occurred to me that half my usual hangouts are anonymous, and at that point I started wondering, well, do anonymous kink memes count as fannish community?

I think they do, actually! They've kind of fallen out of favor these days (partly because a lot of the newer sites fandom has migrated to don't really have support for fully anonymous spaces), but I got my start in fandom lurking on anonymous Livejournal kink memes. It's a fun low-pressure way to start writing fic for a new fandom, because hey, if the fic doesn't turn out good, you can just move on and get better at writing it! So, here's a shout-out to [community profile] pw_kink_meme, for being lovely and welcoming when I unexpectedly got into a new-to-me fandom after years of being only into Transformers where I knew how everything worked. (And also for being old enough to drive and almost old enough to drink in the US, which is very cool.) If you're into Ace Attorney, come check it out - there's still new prompts and fills coming in!

(And I am absolutely not using this as motivation to finally finish the one I've been working on for weeks, shh, if a suspiciously Riella's-interests-relevant fill pops up over there tonight it definitely wasn't me. Plausible Deniability.)

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