Glitter (Like Blood) Gets Everywhere - Lestat Crossover Prompt Meme
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petraGlitter (Like Blood) Gets Everywhere - Lestat Crossover Prompt Meme
Open as of right now. Prompt Rock Star (or otherwise Vampiric) Lestat getting glitter and/or blood on the canon of your choice. See what other people have prompted. Fill prompts with fanworks of any length. Leave comments. Have fun!
Open as of right now. Prompt Rock Star (or otherwise Vampiric) Lestat getting glitter and/or blood on the canon of your choice. See what other people have prompted. Fill prompts with fanworks of any length. Leave comments. Have fun!
Yuletide 2025 recs
Dec. 27th, 2025 08:15 pmalchemiseStarting with my amazing gift! OMG, I honestly thought no one would ever choose my prompt for in-universe documents about the mall in Possibly in Michigan (1983). I didn't know what that would even look like, just that I wanted it. But my author did and it's amazing!
Two, Seven, Eight (1817 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Possibly in Michigan (1983)
Characters: Sharon (Possibly in Michigan), Janice (Possibly in Michigan), Worldbuilding (Possibly in Michigan), Prince Charming (Possibly in Michigan), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Cannibalism, Workplace Comedy, Documentation, Epistolary, the major character death is off-page but a guy getting killed and eaten is sure what happens in this movie
Summary: The Beachwood Place Mall is not a great work environment.
Other stories I've loved so far:
Madalena's Ballad of Vast Success (1264 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Galavant (TV)
Characters: Madalena (Galavant), Brief ensemble Galavant cast appearance
Additional Tags: Character Study, Inspired by the song What Am I Feeling (Galavant), Original music composition, Post-Canon
Summary: Madalena stood on her balcony, in her castle perched high on a cliffside overlooking her vast and endless empire. "This is the best life has ever been. Everything I wanted is now mine... Yet sometimes it seems that there's something out there that eludes me, something I can neither buy nor take. But that's crazy! Who would dare deny me? Deceive or defy me? None at all! Well, almost none!"
Busman’s Holiday (1294 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Knives Out (Movies)
Characters: Benoit Blanc (Knives Out), Phillip (Knives Out), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Murder Mystery, Archaeology, Benoit Blanc can’t leave well enough alone, Murder, Detectives
Summary: While on holiday in Crete, Benoit Blanc stumbles across a murder in a sleepy coastal village. He probably shouldn’t get involved — he is, after all, on holiday. Oh, who is he kidding.
No Time To Dial (1813 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Knives Out (Movies)
Relationships: Benoit Blanc/Phillip (Knives Out)
Additional Tags: Wake Up Dead Man - Freeform, Phone Conversations, They're In Love Your Honor, Spies & Secret Agents, flirting with your husband, Outrageously, Faux Jealously (Mostly Faux), Father Jud Is Adorable And Everyone Knows It, Offscreen Violence and Derring-Do
Summary: Benoit Blanc catches his long-suffering husband up on the murder mystery with the adorable twinky priest.
The Last of the Gentleman Sleuths (3465 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Knives Out (Movies)
Characters: Benoit Blanc (Knives Out), Phillip (Knives Out)
Summary: A case is closed.
ma knew best (1330 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sinners (2025)
Relationships: Bo Chow/Grace Chow, Annie/Elijah "Smoke" Moore, Mary/Elias "Stack" Moore, Annie & Grace Chow
Additional Tags: Origin Story, Past/Present/Future, period/canon appropriate racism (segregation), school days, Mary is mentioned but does not appear, canonical MCD acknowledged
Summary: Everything Lisa Chow knows about her parents and their friends, she learned from her mother.
the (un)magnificent lives of adults (3329 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sense8 (TV)
Relationships: Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary: Kala and her cluster wrestle with what their new normal means.
Two, Seven, Eight (1817 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Possibly in Michigan (1983)
Characters: Sharon (Possibly in Michigan), Janice (Possibly in Michigan), Worldbuilding (Possibly in Michigan), Prince Charming (Possibly in Michigan), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Cannibalism, Workplace Comedy, Documentation, Epistolary, the major character death is off-page but a guy getting killed and eaten is sure what happens in this movie
Summary: The Beachwood Place Mall is not a great work environment.
Other stories I've loved so far:
Madalena's Ballad of Vast Success (1264 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Galavant (TV)
Characters: Madalena (Galavant), Brief ensemble Galavant cast appearance
Additional Tags: Character Study, Inspired by the song What Am I Feeling (Galavant), Original music composition, Post-Canon
Summary: Madalena stood on her balcony, in her castle perched high on a cliffside overlooking her vast and endless empire. "This is the best life has ever been. Everything I wanted is now mine... Yet sometimes it seems that there's something out there that eludes me, something I can neither buy nor take. But that's crazy! Who would dare deny me? Deceive or defy me? None at all! Well, almost none!"
Busman’s Holiday (1294 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Knives Out (Movies)
Characters: Benoit Blanc (Knives Out), Phillip (Knives Out), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Murder Mystery, Archaeology, Benoit Blanc can’t leave well enough alone, Murder, Detectives
Summary: While on holiday in Crete, Benoit Blanc stumbles across a murder in a sleepy coastal village. He probably shouldn’t get involved — he is, after all, on holiday. Oh, who is he kidding.
No Time To Dial (1813 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Knives Out (Movies)
Relationships: Benoit Blanc/Phillip (Knives Out)
Additional Tags: Wake Up Dead Man - Freeform, Phone Conversations, They're In Love Your Honor, Spies & Secret Agents, flirting with your husband, Outrageously, Faux Jealously (Mostly Faux), Father Jud Is Adorable And Everyone Knows It, Offscreen Violence and Derring-Do
Summary: Benoit Blanc catches his long-suffering husband up on the murder mystery with the adorable twinky priest.
The Last of the Gentleman Sleuths (3465 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Knives Out (Movies)
Characters: Benoit Blanc (Knives Out), Phillip (Knives Out)
Summary: A case is closed.
ma knew best (1330 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sinners (2025)
Relationships: Bo Chow/Grace Chow, Annie/Elijah "Smoke" Moore, Mary/Elias "Stack" Moore, Annie & Grace Chow
Additional Tags: Origin Story, Past/Present/Future, period/canon appropriate racism (segregation), school days, Mary is mentioned but does not appear, canonical MCD acknowledged
Summary: Everything Lisa Chow knows about her parents and their friends, she learned from her mother.
the (un)magnificent lives of adults (3329 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sense8 (TV)
Relationships: Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary: Kala and her cluster wrestle with what their new normal means.
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Dec. 28th, 2025 03:05 amgoodbyebirdMy favorite thing about birthdays is emotional blackmail, so my birthday wish is you watch the pilot for Interview With The Vampire.
If you already have, my wish is you post about your Christmas tree if you have one. I'd love to hear about your favorite decoration - especially if it's old or you made it as a kid! - see a picture even.
Love y'all ❤️
If you already have, my wish is you post about your Christmas tree if you have one. I'd love to hear about your favorite decoration - especially if it's old or you made it as a kid! - see a picture even.
Love y'all ❤️
a handful of Yuletide recs
Dec. 27th, 2025 06:06 pmisisDecember has been busy-busy for me between Yuletide preparation (as a mod) and Yuletide preparation (as a participant who also took on a pinch hit), but now, ahh, everything is done and I can reap the rewards!
My awesome gift (5-minute fandom: British Airways "May We Haveth One's Attention" Safety Video):
A British Original: Discovering Haddersford House and Its Residents (2248 words, gen)
Summary: A magazine article from the world where characters in costume drama occasionally come to life of their own--and stick around after the cameras stop rolling and the crews have gone home.
I really had no idea what to expect from this request (just that I had to have something about this marvelous video!) and I love how it's played with an absolutely straight face. Also, there's a nod to Planet Vancouver, hee!
Speaking of the ridiculous played straight, this is understandable (and hilarious) with only osmosis knowledge of The Godfather:
An Offer You Can’t Refuse (Unless You’re Lactose Intolerant) (1008 words, Godfather movies, gen)
Summary: On the day of his daughter’s guinea pig’s wedding, Don Vito Corleone received a request he could not immediately refuse.
Absolutely the best Godfather fic ever.
The rest of my recs really do require canon knowledge, but I know many of you know these canons:
Memories Are Made of This (4002 words, Northern Exposure, Ed Chigliak-centered ensemble gen)
Summary: “So this is Cicely,” Ed said, gazing wide-eyed up and down Main Street. “Where’s the rest of it?”
This is wonderful - like an episode of the show, warm and funny and a little bit off-kilter.
Hoar and Hound (2236 words, Cadfael Chronicles, Brother Cadfael-centered gen)
Summary: On a frigidly cold December night, Cadfael follows a trail through the abbey grounds.
A lovely, thoughtful portrait of the abbey and of Cadfael. The way he quietly assesses the needs of the people (and creatures) around him is perfectly in tune with canon.
Dis Manibus (1364 words, Frontier Wolf, Alexios/Cunorix, Alexios/Hilarion, G)
Summary: Alexios goes out to make an offering to the shades of the dead, but he does not go alone.
This is lovely and tender and measured, and has something of Sutcliff in the descriptions. For me Alexios/Hilarion only works if it honors the close friendship between Alexios and Cunorix, before things went bad - and this is perfect.
We Greet the Peoples of the Tower (1717 words but heavily illustrated; Chants of Sennaar, gen)
Summary: There are some oddly regular scratch marks on a wall in the Alchemists' level...
Basically this is a fangame (though the game part is optional; the first set of chapters are illustrations with glyphs as in the game, and the second half holds the translations), a whole new level in which the Monster goes seeking the other peoples to assert he is a human and their brother. It's a moving story that fits with the game themes, and it's just very cool!
Actually, if you've played Chants of Sennaar, I recommend all the Yuletide works for the game as the fandom has clearly brought its A-game, they're all great. (The one above is just extraordinarily so!) And there are two Madness works I haven't even looked at yet!
My awesome gift (5-minute fandom: British Airways "May We Haveth One's Attention" Safety Video):
A British Original: Discovering Haddersford House and Its Residents (2248 words, gen)
Summary: A magazine article from the world where characters in costume drama occasionally come to life of their own--and stick around after the cameras stop rolling and the crews have gone home.
I really had no idea what to expect from this request (just that I had to have something about this marvelous video!) and I love how it's played with an absolutely straight face. Also, there's a nod to Planet Vancouver, hee!
Speaking of the ridiculous played straight, this is understandable (and hilarious) with only osmosis knowledge of The Godfather:
An Offer You Can’t Refuse (Unless You’re Lactose Intolerant) (1008 words, Godfather movies, gen)
Summary: On the day of his daughter’s guinea pig’s wedding, Don Vito Corleone received a request he could not immediately refuse.
Absolutely the best Godfather fic ever.
The rest of my recs really do require canon knowledge, but I know many of you know these canons:
Memories Are Made of This (4002 words, Northern Exposure, Ed Chigliak-centered ensemble gen)
Summary: “So this is Cicely,” Ed said, gazing wide-eyed up and down Main Street. “Where’s the rest of it?”
This is wonderful - like an episode of the show, warm and funny and a little bit off-kilter.
Hoar and Hound (2236 words, Cadfael Chronicles, Brother Cadfael-centered gen)
Summary: On a frigidly cold December night, Cadfael follows a trail through the abbey grounds.
A lovely, thoughtful portrait of the abbey and of Cadfael. The way he quietly assesses the needs of the people (and creatures) around him is perfectly in tune with canon.
Dis Manibus (1364 words, Frontier Wolf, Alexios/Cunorix, Alexios/Hilarion, G)
Summary: Alexios goes out to make an offering to the shades of the dead, but he does not go alone.
This is lovely and tender and measured, and has something of Sutcliff in the descriptions. For me Alexios/Hilarion only works if it honors the close friendship between Alexios and Cunorix, before things went bad - and this is perfect.
We Greet the Peoples of the Tower (1717 words but heavily illustrated; Chants of Sennaar, gen)
Summary: There are some oddly regular scratch marks on a wall in the Alchemists' level...
Basically this is a fangame (though the game part is optional; the first set of chapters are illustrations with glyphs as in the game, and the second half holds the translations), a whole new level in which the Monster goes seeking the other peoples to assert he is a human and their brother. It's a moving story that fits with the game themes, and it's just very cool!
Actually, if you've played Chants of Sennaar, I recommend all the Yuletide works for the game as the fandom has clearly brought its A-game, they're all great. (The one above is just extraordinarily so!) And there are two Madness works I haven't even looked at yet!
Weekly Reading
Dec. 27th, 2025 05:04 pmtorachanRecently Finished
Either Side of Midnight
Sequel to Trust Me When I Lie. This was good, but I do enjoy the Ernest Cunningham series better.
Murder Under Her Skin
Second in the Pentecost and Parker series. Just okay. I'll read more in this series, but it's not a priority.
Damn Straight
Another second book in a murder mystery series. This one the Lillian Byrd series. Same as above, I liked it well enough that I'll continue the series, but I'm not rushing out to read the next one.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact
There's a new series of Lower Decks comics! In fact, there's enough issues for a second volume, too, though it's not coming out until next year. My issue with these is the same with every comic based on a cartoon, which is that they're never quite as good as the show. They're enjoyable enough, though.
My Home Hero vol. 20-22
Either Side of Midnight
Sequel to Trust Me When I Lie. This was good, but I do enjoy the Ernest Cunningham series better.
Murder Under Her Skin
Second in the Pentecost and Parker series. Just okay. I'll read more in this series, but it's not a priority.
Damn Straight
Another second book in a murder mystery series. This one the Lillian Byrd series. Same as above, I liked it well enough that I'll continue the series, but I'm not rushing out to read the next one.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact
There's a new series of Lower Decks comics! In fact, there's enough issues for a second volume, too, though it's not coming out until next year. My issue with these is the same with every comic based on a cartoon, which is that they're never quite as good as the show. They're enjoyable enough, though.
My Home Hero vol. 20-22
2025 Knott's Trip #4 (12/27/25)
Dec. 27th, 2025 04:44 pmtorachanIt was a busy day at the park, being a holiday weekend plus the first sunny day in a while. The park opens at nine and we got down there around 9:45 and the line for parking was super backed up, but thankfully the ADA lot still had a ton of spaces left, so once we finally got to it, it was easy to get a spot. The lines for the front gates were probably the longest I've seen, but still moved pretty smoothly.
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I think this will be our last amusement park visit of the year. We're planning on Disneyland on the 1st, but it's supposed to rain again, so we'll see.
This year my totals are 79 at Disneyland (including 4 at Tokyo Disney), 4 at Knott's, and 2 at Universal Studios. That's a lot! O_o
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I think this will be our last amusement park visit of the year. We're planning on Disneyland on the 1st, but it's supposed to rain again, so we'll see.
This year my totals are 79 at Disneyland (including 4 at Tokyo Disney), 4 at Knott's, and 2 at Universal Studios. That's a lot! O_o
*yawn*
Dec. 27th, 2025 07:43 pmwaterswordYuletide very pleasant; usually I get a comment on an old fic or two in a fandom someone has rediscovered through Yuletide and gone on a deep dive for, but not this year!
About three or four inches of snow (7-10cm) fell overnight and I shoveled my front sidewalk and steps, because the snow removal guys had done next door but not us (?), and then tromped down to my assigned house in the neighborhood, where I shoveled the longest driveway in Rhode Island and enough sidewalk for two houses and what felt like two flights of front steps. Thank goodness it was light and powdery, and almost all of the above was in good repair so I didn't have to fight the asphalt like last year, but I earned every bite of the steak and eggs and homefries (not nearly as good as last time) at the diner.
And then C. and her kid and I went to the ZOO and saw CREATURES. Macaws! Ibis! Elephants! A two-year-old giraffe who is already trying to fuck the other giraffes in the enclosure (this is a good thing, they want genetically-diverse babies from him) but he's not tall enough yet! An anaconda 99.8% percent in the water in its tank, I wanted to boop its snout SO MUCH. Red pandas that were so fluffy they looked fake. The river otters were having so much fun in the snow and splashing in their pool. The docents were super friendly and the French fries were delicious. Would 100% zoo again.
Then a hot bath and a nap. Bliss.
Look into that smoldering building's bombed-out fog until it finally lifts
Dec. 27th, 2025 04:49 pmsovayI spent so much of Boxing Day curled on the couch with my books, I failed to notice it was snowing until well after dark when it glittered down through the streetlight in one of those soundstage tinsel veils. One of my goals for this afternoon was to get out into its Arctic wonderland, whose streets were spidered with ice and drift-blue with chemical salt instead of glacial age. I walked further than I had intended and had to come back across the snow of the imaginatively designated Veterans Memorial Park between the iron freeze of the Mystic River and the less elemental red lights of Route 16.
( Look quick, is that something you missed? )
I have been sick for so long, I feel that I have once again come unplugged from any of the places where I live. I don't know that I will be any less sick in the immediately foreseeable future, but I have to try to socket myself back into these streets, this light, the inside of my own head. I remain so tired the latter feels emptier than I would like, but at least I am trying not to punt every idea that crosses it as pointlessly exhausting. In the meantime I am enjoying Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (ed. Edward Parnell, 2024) and Russell Hoban's The Bat Tattoo (2002).
( Look quick, is that something you missed? )
I have been sick for so long, I feel that I have once again come unplugged from any of the places where I live. I don't know that I will be any less sick in the immediately foreseeable future, but I have to try to socket myself back into these streets, this light, the inside of my own head. I remain so tired the latter feels emptier than I would like, but at least I am trying not to punt every idea that crosses it as pointlessly exhausting. In the meantime I am enjoying Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (ed. Edward Parnell, 2024) and Russell Hoban's The Bat Tattoo (2002).
i love my family but now i need to hibernate
Dec. 27th, 2025 10:52 pmwychwoodChristmas was good but also SO MUCH. By the end of Boxing Day lunch I was trying to work out how much longer I had to stay in company, but I ended up in my mother's living room where she was silently playing a game on her new tablet and my sister's fiance was silently playing a game on his phone, and I just sat there silently reading on my phone for an hour and felt much better.
Family updates:
Both my parents stayed home from the Boxing Day walk this year, which meant that for the first time in years I was not solely responsible for the cooking, and was surprisingly stressful (Dad: "Oh yes we can cook all six of those things in the last half hour before lunch!" Me, silently: YOU CAN FIT A MAXIMUM OF TWO THINGS INTO THE OVEN, AND I DON'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO TIME TRAVEL). However my mildly panicked promptings did cause enough things to happen early that it wasn't a disaster (three or four things were cooked while we were eating and brought up as additional items, but that's fine). They didn't want to cook things early and let them get cold waiting around, which is very reasonable, but also if you are trying to cook:
Mum was pretty down about food things because - well, ok, she has pretty much spent six months during her chemo eating the exact same meals every day at the exact same times, which has been working for her, but means she does not yet have any real idea how to calculate the appropriate medication for meals with different food in them, or how to arrange them around eating at different times, or how to schedule everything so that she can still eat her before-bed weetabix to prevent any overnight hypos. I'm fairly sure this is a one-time problem, because by next year she'll have varied her diet and activity sufficiently to be able to work it out better. But right now she's feeling very confronted by how not-"normal" her life is, and it's been no fun for her.
But everyone had enough to eat and there were left-overs, so it was a success. Then I came home and did nothing and talked to no one and hopefully tomorrow I will have energy to start on my to-do list backlog.
Family updates:
- my sister is engaged! this came as a surprise to me and the brother who doesn't live near her, although mostly because we thought they were already engaged (there have been casual discussions about weddings going back some years)
- my sister's endometriosis op in the autumn revealed that she does not in fact have endometriosis, but she did have a nasty tumour-y thing which was not cancer but apparently also not not cancer and now she is down one ovary and fallopian tube, which is particularly upsetting for her because all of this was part of the fertility investigations they've been working on
- my middle nephew is dating a boy! He is definitely the least surprising candidate for this out of my niblings. Apparently he is not presently interested in labels, only in dating the person he likes, which seems perfectly reasonable to me, particularly since he's fourteen
Both my parents stayed home from the Boxing Day walk this year, which meant that for the first time in years I was not solely responsible for the cooking, and was surprisingly stressful (Dad: "Oh yes we can cook all six of those things in the last half hour before lunch!" Me, silently: YOU CAN FIT A MAXIMUM OF TWO THINGS INTO THE OVEN, AND I DON'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO TIME TRAVEL). However my mildly panicked promptings did cause enough things to happen early that it wasn't a disaster (three or four things were cooked while we were eating and brought up as additional items, but that's fine). They didn't want to cook things early and let them get cold waiting around, which is very reasonable, but also if you are trying to cook:
- three trays of sausage rolls (vegetarian spanakopita; sage and onion; cheese; chorizo; black pudding; "Chinese takeaway" (with five-spice, hoisin and soy sauces); homemade by my sister's fiance and apparently all very delicious - obviously I only had the spanakopita ones)
- two trays of cheese potatoes
- two sticks of garlic bread
- a tray of pigs in blankets
- three small trays of brie and cranberry parcels
- a pack of chicken goujons
- a small tray of beef and stuffing Yorkshire puddings(?!?)
- a Greek omelette / fritatta thing
Mum was pretty down about food things because - well, ok, she has pretty much spent six months during her chemo eating the exact same meals every day at the exact same times, which has been working for her, but means she does not yet have any real idea how to calculate the appropriate medication for meals with different food in them, or how to arrange them around eating at different times, or how to schedule everything so that she can still eat her before-bed weetabix to prevent any overnight hypos. I'm fairly sure this is a one-time problem, because by next year she'll have varied her diet and activity sufficiently to be able to work it out better. But right now she's feeling very confronted by how not-"normal" her life is, and it's been no fun for her.
But everyone had enough to eat and there were left-overs, so it was a success. Then I came home and did nothing and talked to no one and hopefully tomorrow I will have energy to start on my to-do list backlog.
Write every day: Day 27
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:34 pmluzulaPlease check in here! It is late and I had a little alcohol, so I am too tired to write a proper post. Did not write. Will edit in the tally later. As for my farm news, we drank my homemade cherry wine, which came out great.
reruns
Dec. 27th, 2025 03:50 pmpocketmouseI've been meaning to post for about a month now and just keep not getting around to it. That initial impetus was getting some alarming news about an ex-coworker, about a year after the fact (I'd been told at the time I didn't want to know, and on the one hand that's true, but on the other hand, I probably said some charitable things about him that I wouldn't have if I'd been on the same page as everyone else). But it's not worth going over, so here we are.
I watched the new Knives Out movie, and I've seen a fair amount of good commentary on how the movie handles religion, but I haven't seen anybody talking about the obvious plothole of ( imagery-related spoilers )
I didn't come out of it wanting to read fic about it, either, which isn't too surprising, but what is surprising is that I came out of it wanting to reread the Donald Strachey mysteries, so that's what I've been rereading, alongside a bunch of old fic. There's still just no current fandoms that have got me wanting to write anything, so it's been Merlin, and Magnificent Seven and even Voyager and I've been desperate enough to drag out some old Torchwood wips -- one was about 95% complete, the other was barely-strung-together fragments that included Jack being stuck with an alien device that had him looking female without actually being a sex-swap fic. On top of it being a time travel fic. I have no idea if I had a reason for doing that, or where I was going with it. Unsurprising that that one never got finished, but the other one was so close to done, I don't know what it was missing that I didn't finish it off. Possibly just the fact that it was going to have to have a lackluster ending, being a fic centered on Tosh and Owen. They're legally obliged to not have a happy ending without a hell of a lot more work than 20k.
I probably won't have time to miss still not creating any fanworks, though. I'm heading up an exhibit the weaving guild is doing this summer, and work on that is going to ramp up in the next few months. I just got piece number one (point five, I have a backup-maybe-unfinished project I did last fall) on the loom right now, with a 70%-completed draft for a doubleweave scarf after that that's going to involve a heinous amount of pickup work, which is why it's piece number two. But if I do it right it'll be much prettier than plain old overshot, so. I expect that'll take up a lot of focus once March hits. Hopefully I'll post again before then.
I watched the new Knives Out movie, and I've seen a fair amount of good commentary on how the movie handles religion, but I haven't seen anybody talking about the obvious plothole of ( imagery-related spoilers )
I didn't come out of it wanting to read fic about it, either, which isn't too surprising, but what is surprising is that I came out of it wanting to reread the Donald Strachey mysteries, so that's what I've been rereading, alongside a bunch of old fic. There's still just no current fandoms that have got me wanting to write anything, so it's been Merlin, and Magnificent Seven and even Voyager and I've been desperate enough to drag out some old Torchwood wips -- one was about 95% complete, the other was barely-strung-together fragments that included Jack being stuck with an alien device that had him looking female without actually being a sex-swap fic. On top of it being a time travel fic. I have no idea if I had a reason for doing that, or where I was going with it. Unsurprising that that one never got finished, but the other one was so close to done, I don't know what it was missing that I didn't finish it off. Possibly just the fact that it was going to have to have a lackluster ending, being a fic centered on Tosh and Owen. They're legally obliged to not have a happy ending without a hell of a lot more work than 20k.
I probably won't have time to miss still not creating any fanworks, though. I'm heading up an exhibit the weaving guild is doing this summer, and work on that is going to ramp up in the next few months. I just got piece number one (point five, I have a backup-maybe-unfinished project I did last fall) on the loom right now, with a 70%-completed draft for a doubleweave scarf after that that's going to involve a heinous amount of pickup work, which is why it's piece number two. But if I do it right it'll be much prettier than plain old overshot, so. I expect that'll take up a lot of focus once March hits. Hopefully I'll post again before then.
2025 Movie Round-Up
Dec. 27th, 2025 04:24 pmosprey_archerI’ve barely posted about movies this year, so I decided to do a quick movie round-up - very quick, as I’ve watched barely any movies this year! Some years are just not movie years, I guess…
The Balloonatic: a remix of a Buster Keaton movie set to the music of… okay I should have taken notes, I can’t remember the band, suffice it to say that it was a recentish band to which you would perhaps not expect Buster Keaton to be set. Smashing Pumpkins maybe? Lots of interesting cutting of the film which I don’t really have the technical vocabulary to describe, but just like - cutting what was clearly once one long shot into multiple shots? Kind of synced to the music?
I dragged the Brunch Bunch along to this showing, and we agreed that we’d see another if another came to town. But as we were just about the only people in the theater it is perhaps unsurprising that the theater has not booked another. Even an arthouse cinema has to have an audience.
Interview with a Vampire: I posted a bit of comparison to the book, but did not take time to note that this movie is an A++ example of complete commitment to an aesthetic, the aesthetic in this case being “decadent opulence spattered in blood.” This is an occasional aesthetic for me rather than one I would like to live in, but I admire the commitment.
The Shape of Water: This was a big disappointment, to be honest. Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth is one of my all-time favorites, so I went into this movie with high hopes, but honestly it just draaaaaaagged for me. Also highly doubt the ability of the fish-man from the Amazon to survive in the icy coastal waters of the Atlantic.
Kiki’s Delivery Service. A rewatch! Still one of my favorite movies, probably my top two Studio Ghibli with My Neighbor Totoro (but now I feel bad leaving out Spirited Away...) Love Kiki, love Jiji, love the richly detailed setting (which we dubbed “Francemany,” as it is clearly a mash-up of various European localities), love Miyazaki’s love of flying machines. This is an aesthetic I WOULD like to live in.
Also a couple of documentaries. Take Joy! The Magical World of Tasha Tudor is about Tudor’s life at Corgi Cottage, built and largely run in the style of a 19th century farmhouse, where Tudor lives with her goats, her doves, her corgyn (Tudor’s plural of corgi), her one-eyed cat Minou, and seven looms. (These are not all Tudor’s looms. Sometimes she gives house-space to a friend’s loom, if the friend doesn’t have loom room, a loom being a large contraption.) An inspiring example of building your own little world and living in it.
This theme is further developed in Take Peace: A Corgi Cottage Christmas with Tasha Tudor, an enchanting documentary perfect for anyone who has ever enjoyed Tasha Tudor’s Christmas illustrations, as the illustrations apparently draw extensively on Tasha Tudor’s own Christmas traditions or possibly vice versa, in a virtuous cycle of candlelit charm.
If you can’t find the documentary, the photo book Forever Christmas appears to have been made in conjunction, and includes some material not included in the film. Can’t believe they left out the sleigh ride!
The Balloonatic: a remix of a Buster Keaton movie set to the music of… okay I should have taken notes, I can’t remember the band, suffice it to say that it was a recentish band to which you would perhaps not expect Buster Keaton to be set. Smashing Pumpkins maybe? Lots of interesting cutting of the film which I don’t really have the technical vocabulary to describe, but just like - cutting what was clearly once one long shot into multiple shots? Kind of synced to the music?
I dragged the Brunch Bunch along to this showing, and we agreed that we’d see another if another came to town. But as we were just about the only people in the theater it is perhaps unsurprising that the theater has not booked another. Even an arthouse cinema has to have an audience.
Interview with a Vampire: I posted a bit of comparison to the book, but did not take time to note that this movie is an A++ example of complete commitment to an aesthetic, the aesthetic in this case being “decadent opulence spattered in blood.” This is an occasional aesthetic for me rather than one I would like to live in, but I admire the commitment.
The Shape of Water: This was a big disappointment, to be honest. Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth is one of my all-time favorites, so I went into this movie with high hopes, but honestly it just draaaaaaagged for me. Also highly doubt the ability of the fish-man from the Amazon to survive in the icy coastal waters of the Atlantic.
Kiki’s Delivery Service. A rewatch! Still one of my favorite movies, probably my top two Studio Ghibli with My Neighbor Totoro (but now I feel bad leaving out Spirited Away...) Love Kiki, love Jiji, love the richly detailed setting (which we dubbed “Francemany,” as it is clearly a mash-up of various European localities), love Miyazaki’s love of flying machines. This is an aesthetic I WOULD like to live in.
Also a couple of documentaries. Take Joy! The Magical World of Tasha Tudor is about Tudor’s life at Corgi Cottage, built and largely run in the style of a 19th century farmhouse, where Tudor lives with her goats, her doves, her corgyn (Tudor’s plural of corgi), her one-eyed cat Minou, and seven looms. (These are not all Tudor’s looms. Sometimes she gives house-space to a friend’s loom, if the friend doesn’t have loom room, a loom being a large contraption.) An inspiring example of building your own little world and living in it.
This theme is further developed in Take Peace: A Corgi Cottage Christmas with Tasha Tudor, an enchanting documentary perfect for anyone who has ever enjoyed Tasha Tudor’s Christmas illustrations, as the illustrations apparently draw extensively on Tasha Tudor’s own Christmas traditions or possibly vice versa, in a virtuous cycle of candlelit charm.
If you can’t find the documentary, the photo book Forever Christmas appears to have been made in conjunction, and includes some material not included in the film. Can’t believe they left out the sleigh ride!
Happy liminal spacemas, couches!
Dec. 27th, 2025 03:40 pmpetraI am going through my traditional "How many fests and challenges can I imagine in a week?"
I don't think I'm doing Psychic Wolves this year.
On the other hand, Té suggested a fest of blorbos touching the Rockstar Lestat and now I want it.
hannah points out that, if we want to know what Tom Cruise's Rockstar Lestat would have looked like, we have but to consult this video of Cruise in a jukebox musical singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
...it's been a really long time since I was sexually attracted to Tom Cruise, but apparentlyhannah has the secret sauce.
Also, I now want vampires:
+ the New Burbage Festival (OMG DARREN NICHOLS) (Slings & Arrows)
+ on G-ERTI (they can only fly at night) (Cabin Pressure)
+ working for Oracle (Birds of Prey and a half)
+ visiting Chicago in the era of the Mountie (experimental hair for all who will) (due South)
+ what-ho'ing Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
+ in the world of the Five Gods (hello, is this The Bastard, I have your king shit devoté on hold) (Chalion)
+ dealing with the Light and the Dark, and falling somewhere between (Dark is Rising)
+ eating hockey players
+ being in the future and baffling Aral Vorkosigan with being a) not soldiers and b) hot AT THE SAME TIME (Vorkosigan Saga)
+ and Muppets (Lestat as lone "human"?)
+ in Narnia (Aslan would shit a lit. brick)
+ becoming Black Ribboners (time for a sing-song around the harmonium! NOT LIKE THAT, LESTAT) (Discworld)
+ in Night Vale (it's Tuesday)
+ mad, in a coma, AND back in time -- the Life on Mars trifecta -- let's see Lestat trying to eat Gene Hunt
+ calling Car Talk
+ hiring Neal Caffrey to do a spot of forgery (White Collar)
+ with war horses who correspond with Copenhagen and Marengo, gaily (Warhorses of Letters)
+ fit as a fiddle and ready for love (would they love or loathe Lockwood and Lamont?) (Singin' in the Rain)
+ come on Darth Vader gold glitter looks Great on you
+ choosing the lesser of two weevils (Aubreyad)
+ ...okay i just died a little over quentin coldwater fanboying the vampire lestat (The Magicians)
+ side-eyeing and being side-eyed by Magneto (X-Men)
+ and I had a good belly laugh at Lestat meeting Felix Harrowgate: battle of the asshole first-person narrators who think they are special
+ Zaphod! Beeblebrox! would so get it on with Lestat! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with thalergy? Let's Find Out (The Locked Tomb)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with constructs? Send Lestat to Preservation! (Murderbot)
+ okay hear me out Grantaire is weak for opinionated blonds but what if he met The Wrong One (Les Misérables)
+ it's already a doctor who episode innit but let's get some harkness up in this joint
+ Awful Sykes has a crush and so does Torquil (Archer's Goon)
+ RIVERS OF LONDON which body of water can we blame everyone on
+ Last Week Tonight: Our main story concerns The "Vampire" Lestat (of course John does quote fingers)
+ Jacky Faber met our hero at some point in her meanderings. I bet they shared a stage.
+ James Flint. BWAHAHAHA. WOULD HIT THAT. (Black Sails)
+ Falsettos: writes. itself. Louis IS the gay plague.
+ did you ever want to see Lestat fuck a muppet wearing leather? I DO I DO (Farscape)
+ truly Julian Bashir needs his not-boyfriend to run interference or he's gonna get eaten (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
+ and then I hit Battlestar Galactica (reboot) which seems like a Terrible place to be a vampire but they'd have fun eating Gaius
+ Pern! is in the future! it can have Vampires if it wants 'em! Weirdest Harper Ever.
+ What happens with MCU? I couldn't begin to tell you. But there must be a clever answer.
+ Community: the study group goes to a concert and they all crush, each in their own way. Annie gets... scary.
+ I very much want Ray Person singing The Vampire Lestat across Iraq, but given the givens it makes me want to cry right now. (Generation: Kill, RIP James Ransone)
+ Scott & Bailey -- the teenage girls and Aunt Rachel bond over their crushes
+ Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has immortals. I want to see them emoting at Rice's.
+ And our wailing wonder, Lestat de Lioncourt. // Why, thank you, Sandi. (QI, the other guests are Phill Jupitus and Sue Perkins, because it's a Musical Episode)
+ ST: TOS -- Chekov and Sulu both have posters.
+ Does Venom want one? And how!
I don't think I'm doing Psychic Wolves this year.
On the other hand, Té suggested a fest of blorbos touching the Rockstar Lestat and now I want it.
hannah points out that, if we want to know what Tom Cruise's Rockstar Lestat would have looked like, we have but to consult this video of Cruise in a jukebox musical singing "Pour Some Sugar On Me."...it's been a really long time since I was sexually attracted to Tom Cruise, but apparently
hannah has the secret sauce.Also, I now want vampires:
+ the New Burbage Festival (OMG DARREN NICHOLS) (Slings & Arrows)
+ on G-ERTI (they can only fly at night) (Cabin Pressure)
+ working for Oracle (Birds of Prey and a half)
+ visiting Chicago in the era of the Mountie (experimental hair for all who will) (due South)
+ what-ho'ing Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
+ in the world of the Five Gods (hello, is this The Bastard, I have your king shit devoté on hold) (Chalion)
+ dealing with the Light and the Dark, and falling somewhere between (Dark is Rising)
+ being in the future and baffling Aral Vorkosigan with being a) not soldiers and b) hot AT THE SAME TIME (Vorkosigan Saga)
+ and Muppets (Lestat as lone "human"?)
+ in Narnia (Aslan would shit a lit. brick)
+ becoming Black Ribboners (time for a sing-song around the harmonium! NOT LIKE THAT, LESTAT) (Discworld)
+ in Night Vale (it's Tuesday)
+ mad, in a coma, AND back in time -- the Life on Mars trifecta -- let's see Lestat trying to eat Gene Hunt
+ calling Car Talk
+ hiring Neal Caffrey to do a spot of forgery (White Collar)
+ with war horses who correspond with Copenhagen and Marengo, gaily (Warhorses of Letters)
+ fit as a fiddle and ready for love (would they love or loathe Lockwood and Lamont?) (Singin' in the Rain)
+ come on Darth Vader gold glitter looks Great on you
+ choosing the lesser of two weevils (Aubreyad)
+ ...okay i just died a little over quentin coldwater fanboying the vampire lestat (The Magicians)
+ side-eyeing and being side-eyed by Magneto (X-Men)
+ and I had a good belly laugh at Lestat meeting Felix Harrowgate: battle of the asshole first-person narrators who think they are special
+ Zaphod! Beeblebrox! would so get it on with Lestat! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with thalergy? Let's Find Out (The Locked Tomb)
+ How do you reckon vampires get on with constructs? Send Lestat to Preservation! (Murderbot)
+ okay hear me out Grantaire is weak for opinionated blonds but what if he met The Wrong One (Les Misérables)
+ it's already a doctor who episode innit but let's get some harkness up in this joint
+ Awful Sykes has a crush and so does Torquil (Archer's Goon)
+ RIVERS OF LONDON which body of water can we blame everyone on
+ Last Week Tonight: Our main story concerns The "Vampire" Lestat (of course John does quote fingers)
+ Jacky Faber met our hero at some point in her meanderings. I bet they shared a stage.
+ James Flint. BWAHAHAHA. WOULD HIT THAT. (Black Sails)
+ Falsettos: writes. itself. Louis IS the gay plague.
+ did you ever want to see Lestat fuck a muppet wearing leather? I DO I DO (Farscape)
+ truly Julian Bashir needs his not-boyfriend to run interference or he's gonna get eaten (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
+ and then I hit Battlestar Galactica (reboot) which seems like a Terrible place to be a vampire but they'd have fun eating Gaius
+ Pern! is in the future! it can have Vampires if it wants 'em! Weirdest Harper Ever.
+ What happens with MCU? I couldn't begin to tell you. But there must be a clever answer.
+ Community: the study group goes to a concert and they all crush, each in their own way. Annie gets... scary.
+ I very much want Ray Person singing The Vampire Lestat across Iraq, but given the givens it makes me want to cry right now. (Generation: Kill, RIP James Ransone)
+ Scott & Bailey -- the teenage girls and Aunt Rachel bond over their crushes
+ Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has immortals. I want to see them emoting at Rice's.
+ And our wailing wonder, Lestat de Lioncourt. // Why, thank you, Sandi. (QI, the other guests are Phill Jupitus and Sue Perkins, because it's a Musical Episode)
+ ST: TOS -- Chekov and Sulu both have posters.
+ Does Venom want one? And how!
Finally saw Zootopia 2!
Dec. 27th, 2025 04:00 pmconulyBefore I say anything, A would like you to know how extremely annoying it is that they played those "Arabian Nights" riffs every time the snake (Barry) appeared, and it would be annoying even if the plot ( Read more... )
They wouldn't shut up about it, so there we go. They're not wrong.
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They wouldn't shut up about it, so there we go. They're not wrong.
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A Guardian Meme
Dec. 28th, 2025 09:41 amchina_shop(Feel free to snag and/or adapt for other fandoms! Also, being me, I made rules ("pick one", "favourite") and then immediately broken them. *g*)
1. A fanwork you've read/looked at more than three times
- [Vid] Open Ocean by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
sakana17 (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan - so gorgeous)
- [Vid] Lost It All bysalamandras (Zhao Xinci & Zhao Yunlan - a vexercise! I particularly love the first version)
- [Art] Getting Comfortable [Explicit] byfacethestrange (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan art, a glorious gift for me, did I mention explicit?)
2. A resource you've used lately (or "lately")
- Dramatis Personae (with cast list) byextrapenguin
- SID Timeline byrheasilvia
- Guardian timeline byextrapenguin
3. A rarepair you would read
I'm fairly easy for trying out rarepairs. There are some characters I generally avoid "/" pairings for (in particular, Da Qing, Zhu Jiu, and Ye Zun come to mind), but I did read some delightful Lin Jing/Ye Zun fics over![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
guardian_wishlist, so clearly even that isn't a hard line. (Da Qing might be, though.)
A rarepair that I'd actively like to read more of is Chu Shuzhi &/ Zhao Xinci.nnozomi wrote me one delightful fic for them [Mature], and it only whetted my appetite. *g*
( Continued behind the cut. )
1. A fanwork you've read/looked at more than three times
- [Vid] Open Ocean by
- [Vid] Lost It All by
- [Art] Getting Comfortable [Explicit] by
2. A resource you've used lately (or "lately")
- Dramatis Personae (with cast list) by
extrapenguin- SID Timeline by
rheasilvia- Guardian timeline by
extrapenguin3. A rarepair you would read
I'm fairly easy for trying out rarepairs. There are some characters I generally avoid "/" pairings for (in particular, Da Qing, Zhu Jiu, and Ye Zun come to mind), but I did read some delightful Lin Jing/Ye Zun fics over
guardian_wishlist, so clearly even that isn't a hard line. (Da Qing might be, though.) A rarepair that I'd actively like to read more of is Chu Shuzhi &/ Zhao Xinci.
nnozomi wrote me one delightful fic for them [Mature], and it only whetted my appetite. *g*( Continued behind the cut. )
not being extremely into D&D, I still stand by this *firm nod*
Dec. 27th, 2025 09:33 pmgoodbyebirdNot to be pedantic, but I wouldn't say Will is a wizard or a sorcerer; surely this is warlock territory.
Also, sitting on a shiny new icon that a) I can't upload because it's for an icontest, and b) I'll have to delete another before uploading, well. *sullenly kicks rocks*
( spoilery for 5x06 )
I wasn't a big fan of the first four episodes, but these two have been very entertaining indeed. Cool visuals! Emotional payoffs! Two thumbs up.
Also, sitting on a shiny new icon that a) I can't upload because it's for an icontest, and b) I'll have to delete another before uploading, well. *sullenly kicks rocks*
( spoilery for 5x06 )
I wasn't a big fan of the first four episodes, but these two have been very entertaining indeed. Cool visuals! Emotional payoffs! Two thumbs up.
7 Recs
Dec. 27th, 2025 01:04 pmkaranguni posting in yuletideI bring a quick 7 recs in 6 fandoms at my journal for
- The Bedlam Stacks (backstory! Keita! Merrick!)
- The Way of the Househusband (domesticity! But also porn!)
- Antique Bakery (Ono and Tachibana in the mountains!)
- Wimbledon (Peter is an idiot! But sort of okay at tennis!)
- Cthulhu Mythos (Dream Cycle Randolph brings horrors to the yard!)
- Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence/Rivers of London (no more need said!)