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Event: Casefic Exchange is a fanwork exchange focusing on investigations. These can be solving murders, retrieving stolen items, finding missing people, missions, and mysteries. As long as it has an investigation as its core theme, it fits with the exchange. We are an AO3 exchange; you must have an account and be 18+ to participate.

Minimum requirements: We allow three mediums: a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction, a minimum of 10 panels for a comic, or a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags. Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested.

Event link: [community profile] caseficexchange.
Pinch hit link: Current pinch hits.
Due date: Friday 8 August at 11:59pm EDT.

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Thank you for considering!
naraht: Moonrise over Earth (Default)
[personal profile] naraht
Picked this up because I kept seeing it being described as literary SF – with that classic complaint, "no plot, hated the protagonist," that often signals a novel that may interest me. It's the tale of a depressed, isolated telepath in New York City in the early 70s who's gradually losing his powers as he enters his forties.

A reviewer on Reddit dismissed the novel as a clumsy metaphor for impotence. Having read it, and read a little about Silverberg's career – he had been churning out multiple novels per year before temporarily deciding to retire from writing in 1975 – I'm now 95% convinced that it's in fact a slightly less clumsy metaphor for the retreat of literary inspiration. Which makes it somewhat more interesting. Isn't fiction really, in some ways, based on the ability to see into other people's minds?

Not a great novel, but it has its moments. Very much of its period and setting, in both the good ways and the bad ways.

Dream - video game

Jul. 24th, 2025 02:22 pm
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[personal profile] ysobel
I dreamed I was playing a very casual game where you went around harvesting things -- a few types of mushrooms, different berries, catnip plants, even clouds somehow -- and you would also encounter creatures that you could offer the items to. Critters would respond with 😍 (love), 😊 (like), 😐 (neutral), 😝 (dislike), or 🤮 (ew), and their attitude would adjust accordingly. Enough positive points got a ❤️ and they became huggable; enough negative points meant they'd run away from you, though you could still leave gifts. There was a 'notebook' where you could keep track of discovered rules ("hyrax doesn't like snozzberries" is one I remember from the dream) and sometimes a creature would have a floating thought bubble with what they were in the mood for.

...I kinda want this game to actually exist...

TUA S4 + BnHA S7

Jul. 22nd, 2025 12:25 am
seerofrage: Happy frog girl (Tsuyu)
[personal profile] seerofrage
I watched the final season of The Umbrella Academy last week! It's quite the wild ride, some thoughts under the cut!

Expandthe beating of our hearts is the only sound )

I stalled on the seventh season of BnHA while it was airing, but this past week I went back and finished it, and ooomg it's so good!! :D

Expandthe cutest in the world )

Small triumph

Jul. 19th, 2025 05:32 pm
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[personal profile] crantz
I bought my first Rainbow High doll the other day (big mistake, this is a gateway drug) and I didn't like her skirt (it matches her legs skin colour) so I bought an outfit pack to give her a new bottom but now I have a whole second outfit and shoes? So I thought 'there's a CHANCE there might be one at the thrift store' because sometimes there is! Very rarely though, as these are pricey motherfuckers.

But there was one! In a slip! So she had no new clothes that were going to give me problems!

I took photos of fun sculptures too, for a later post.

The two dolls I own now are Zooey Electric (bought new) and Ruby Anderson (needs a bit of tidying and brushing, but a perfect find).

In my heart I want Victoria Whitman but I'm being good and not buying her at the prices she is now.

READ MY MIND

Jul. 18th, 2025 04:40 am
crantz: Mycroft Holmes sits and solves your cases for you. He also likes a good meal. (crime solvin')
[personal profile] crantz
Best beloved Elly has requested we find some new shows to add to our viewing list that:

1) Less to very less white
2) Little to no cops
3) Still mysteries

Which left out Murder She Wrote and Miss Marple, unfortunately, at point number 1. Frankie Drake actually fit the bill pretty nicely but I'm using that as my dinner eating show and I don't want to share.

I thought about putting a call out for story recs except even when I specify *very clearly* the type of shows we're looking for in question (episodic only, no major arcs, on the light side of violence) we always get nc-17 five seasons with one mystery in its entirety recs. Every time!

Every damn time!

I guess I shouldn't be saying 'read my mind', I should be saying 'read my post' but this is the internet where people ask for women writers of colour and get recced Terry Pratchett and Brandon Sanderson.

Anyway, I'm getting my browse on with my many many many many streaming channels bought during a sale so I have 2 months to go through some shows, you know?

I tried out a concert on Stingray and was like 'oh hey Megadeath do I like Megadeth?' and the first song featured: Israel, Homeland, and Holy Wars and I went 'okay uhhh I wonder who Rory Gallagher is, he has a nice hat, let's watch his concert!'

Rory Gallagher was a nice treat and I'll check out more of his music.

Have I done anything else lately other than watch things? No, and I'm worried I have another jazz hands depression episode going on or something. Very low motivation. Very low exercise.

I do, however, have a lot of cheese in the fridge. Camembert, oka, some sort of thing with a friar on the front, smoked processed gouda, triple cream brie, fontina, the works. I'm waiting until tomorrow to dig into some of them because we're in a boil water advisory and I want to wait until we're off that before I wash the fruit I got with it for eating.

I am the costume police

Jul. 15th, 2025 12:16 am
crantz: Cthulhu stands in the water. (lovecraft)
[personal profile] crantz
I went to Winnipeg for a celebration of life of a cousin of mine for what would have been her fiftieth birthday and had pretty good conversations with my father's side of the family who I don't see much of because they view coming to my city two hours away as going to the godforsaken boonies where they will be picked off by forest people and eaten in stew but always expected us to drive to them at six am on fucking christmas morni--ANYWAY BACK ON TOPIC. It was a lovely celebration of life at one of my favourite places (a plant zoo called The Leaf) and I did not expect to show up in so many of the photos they were playing on the display.

So my relationship with this cousin was very much a 'and then we were adults and got along' but the fuller context is that I am the oldest of my siblings and the oldest of my local cousins and sometimes this cousin would come to stay with us for a week and she was ten years older than me and it was the closest experience I ever had to having an older sister or someone who pulled age authority on me and let's just say I didn't exactly handle the situation with grace.

Anyway, I miss her! She was great. I dream of her all the time.

The other thing we did in Winnipeg was go to the anime convention Ai-Kon under the initial idea of seeing a favourite voice actor of mine, SungWon Cho/ProzD before I remembered I have next to no interest in speaking to celebrities (no offence to Cho, he seems very cool but I have no idea what I'd say without a stronger pretext) so what we did instead was wander around in artist alley and go broke!

It was great! I got lots of nice art and stickers and some fun little plush toys.

Mom was determined to get a gift for my brother and all she knew that he liked was One Piece but she didn't know what anyone in that show looked like so she only zero'd in on the words 'One Piece' so I twice had to deter her. Once from buying a statue that was just Nico Robin in a very tight towel (she hadn't looked anywhere but the words One Piece) and the other time a knockoff Labubu of Luffy 'I don't think my brother would like that', I said. She did get a cat Luffy sticker and a One Piece cookbook because I had surrendered by then.

What I DIDN'T like about Ai-Kon was I was minding my own business trying to escape before I spent more money and this person walked right up to me in a fucking Harry Potter costume and much to my horror I made an audible 'UGH' noise that they heard and they looked genuinely hurt.

I'm working through my guilt by reminding myself that they were off topic anyway, as a British Book/Live Action Movie isn't exactly a Japanese Cartoon and I was ambushed. AMBUSHED where I thought I was safe to only have to wrestle with 'is Arcane an Anime? Are these all Genshins?' and a general 'read the room, jesus christ' as one of the things I noticed about Winnipeg is I couldn't turn a corner without seeing pride flags.

Turned out we knew some people with a booth there too! Did some visiting, saw other people we knew, la la la my province has 10 people in it.

Did I mention the other day that in the same breath I complained about Americans sometimes frustrating me about being overconfidently wrong/underinformed about my country (IT WAS ON TOPIC) an American called them Providences at me?

Turns out I can't wither someone to death with my tone, but I can try.

Late late fandoming

Jul. 12th, 2025 07:58 pm
seerofrage: Atsushi blushing (Atsushi blush)
[personal profile] seerofrage
I finished Midst a good while ago, and wow, what a finale that was! Weepe was, in fact, not exactly aiming to do any good and did just explode things further, and omgg, that final battle was so, so cool!! All the narrators' descriptions of the different tearrors and Weepe dying and the creature he became, it's all just kinda awesomely terrifying, super well done. And the moment when Phineas was dying and Lark saved him!! Love it so much, what a super cool story and experience!

The creators did a short roleplay series with some of the Critical Role cast called Moonward, and that is also a very very cool experience! The production is super cool, and Xen is a phenomenal guide, and the live music production was super neat as well! I loved the scene with Mother Trauma turning on Walden with his eyes glowing all red and going you are mine, so so cool omg. I'm a big fan of the Third Person narrators and what they do, and I know they've got a new series going on called Unend, I'm excited to check it out sometime!

I started watching some playthroughs of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley a good bit ago after hearing about it and seeing some art from it, and ohhh man is it right up my alley, haha. I love how super messed up both Andrew and Ashley are, in general and about each other, it's a very fun mess. It's also incredibly messed up how the creator was harassed because of the messed up horror content in a messed up horror game, and I'm glad they went hard on the incest in the first bit of chapter three we've gotten. All the routes in the third chapter are so wild! I'm excited to see where they go from there.

I've been keeping up with Helluva Boss! I enjoyed Mastermind and Sinsmas, the visuals and animation in both are cool, and I love all the music in Sinsmas. I also really enjoy where Blitzo and Stolas have ended up, with their power dynamic turned on its head even further and how genuine and earnest Blitzo is in caring for Stolas, and just everything with Stolas and Octavia, aw. The dance scene in the finale with them is super bittersweet, and I'm curious to see where things go from there.

I also read Watership Down by Richard Adams earlier this year and really enjoyed it! It's been a while since I've read any books that aren't manga, so that was really nice. <3

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