I never thought I'd see the day
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spiralicious
I just assumed it would be in beta until the end of time. My account was created in 2011.
spiralicious I just assumed it would be in beta until the end of time. My account was created in 2011.
April Day 1
Apr. 5th, 2026 10:04 pmsgatazmyI only managed 8 days posting in March. Whoops. I think I’ll try for ten this month! Feel free to nudge me if you notice a lack of posts.
I posted a new McShep fic! This one os about John dealing with DADT and his established relationship woth Rodney. Short. Rodney POV.
Given Away
No, this was not the fic I am supposed to be finishing. The endless Whump that haunts my thoughts still lurks in my shadow. Oh, cruel WIP, why torment me so??
I have much to say about today but it must wait. I have work to do.
I posted a new McShep fic! This one os about John dealing with DADT and his established relationship woth Rodney. Short. Rodney POV.
Given Away
No, this was not the fic I am supposed to be finishing. The endless Whump that haunts my thoughts still lurks in my shadow. Oh, cruel WIP, why torment me so??
I have much to say about today but it must wait. I have work to do.
Wrote another fic
Apr. 6th, 2026 01:14 pmmificSome mildy porny, romantic fun, in which Shane gets tattooed for Ilya. There's even an Easter mention!
Words To Live By (Explicit, ~3600 words)
I should of course be writing my Hollanov Big Bang fic, but no, this one happened.
Happy hot cross buns to everyone.
Words To Live By (Explicit, ~3600 words)
I should of course be writing my Hollanov Big Bang fic, but no, this one happened.
Happy hot cross buns to everyone.
writing
Apr. 4th, 2026 02:43 pmmelaganI'm rereading a bunch of Terry Pratchett particularly the ones with Sam Vimes. I had to take note of this.
When Sam is asked about his views on writing...
Great advice, Sam, but what freaking order???!!!!
When Sam is asked about his views on writing...
Well it can't be a difficult job, given that all the words have probably been invented already, so there's savings in time right there, considering that you simply have to put them together in a different order.
Great advice, Sam, but what freaking order???!!!!
Fancake's Theme for April: Arranged Marriage
Apr. 4th, 2026 09:09 amrunpunkrun
Can I just tell you how many times I looked at the word "marriage" while making this banner and posting theme announcements and just being deeply unsure that's really how it's spelled? Like I'm still not sure. What is that "i" even doing there? What are we doing here?
Anyway,
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fancake's theme for April is arranged marriage, spelled some kind of way, and since this is a Flashback Round where we revisit a classic theme from the early years of the comm we've already got 41 recs in the archives in 31 fandoms if you want to browse through the tag.If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!
Three works
Apr. 3rd, 2026 04:42 pmmificA few things I recently posted to AO3:
And now, time for a nice cup of tea.
- a long SGA podfic for the Podfic Big Bang: Sihaya Black's And Hope (John/Rodney, AU, drama and romance, 03:35:12)
- an HR fanart for Easter Ilya's Easter Treat (featuring Shane in bunny ears) (not quite SFW: bare torsos)
- and just now, Ecology, a meta poem about the rise and complexities of HR as a speedrun megafandom, basically me processing my last post. Also it's National Poetry Month in the US.
And now, time for a nice cup of tea.
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Apr. 2nd, 2026 06:42 pmmelagan
It's that time of year again for
unconventionalcourtshipThis is one of my all time favorite challenges.
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Goddamn it
Apr. 2nd, 2026 04:24 pmmificI've been protected from HR fandom wank by only being active on DW and tumblr, but it's affecting AO3 as well now. As a megafandom doing a speedrun, I gather Heated Rivalry has attracted a fair number of idiots and trolls, and maybe just new fans ignorant of fandom etiquette, over on crap sites like twitter and instagram. I think hanging out in those places and on facebook can also turn you to the dark side teach you bad habits, maybe. Celestial_abyss who's podficcing OpalApparition's WIP Wolfbird, wrote an etiquette post about it.
So, a few BNF HR writers (OpalApparition being one) have I gather been trolled and harassed in those places (but honestly, why be on instagram or twitter at all!) and have reacted in a hurt/angry way by going on hiatus or, now, with Evilharlowe, a writer I enjoy, by deleting their entire AO3 profile and all works. Crap! I mean, their main WIP was a bit worrying as the projected chapter count kept climbing from 50 to 100 to 200 (they made it to just over 100), which seemed either unrealistic or not great for the writer's wellbeing, but still. They wrote a lot of other excellent stuff but are presumably too pissed off or unhappy to keep posting. The works haven't been made anon or orphaned, either, which feels like an angry reaction. Jesus, all that work, all those excellent fics, just gone from AO3. Fuck.
I have a lot of their fics saved as I usually read longer stuff as ebooks and EH almost never wrote short, but I don't have the latest updates on their two main WIPs. However, if you want a copy of any their completed works, hit me up in a message as I should have most of them, and can convert to any format you like.
But yeah, bummer.
(final)ETA: thanks totrillingstar pointing out that fichub had all of EH's fics saved with the latest updates, these are now all present/updated in this gdrive folder. 20 fics, with Step-Sibling Rivalry to ch107 and Heated Designation to ch15. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14Gh16_GJ7eN31XrkIzLKB0t4GaHIyBXC?usp=sharing
So, a few BNF HR writers (OpalApparition being one) have I gather been trolled and harassed in those places (but honestly, why be on instagram or twitter at all!) and have reacted in a hurt/angry way by going on hiatus or, now, with Evilharlowe, a writer I enjoy, by deleting their entire AO3 profile and all works. Crap! I mean, their main WIP was a bit worrying as the projected chapter count kept climbing from 50 to 100 to 200 (they made it to just over 100), which seemed either unrealistic or not great for the writer's wellbeing, but still. They wrote a lot of other excellent stuff but are presumably too pissed off or unhappy to keep posting. The works haven't been made anon or orphaned, either, which feels like an angry reaction. Jesus, all that work, all those excellent fics, just gone from AO3. Fuck.
I have a lot of their fics saved as I usually read longer stuff as ebooks and EH almost never wrote short, but I don't have the latest updates on their two main WIPs. However, if you want a copy of any their completed works, hit me up in a message as I should have most of them, and can convert to any format you like.
But yeah, bummer.
(final)ETA: thanks to
trillingstar pointing out that fichub had all of EH's fics saved with the latest updates, these are now all present/updated in this gdrive folder. 20 fics, with Step-Sibling Rivalry to ch107 and Heated Designation to ch15. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14Gh16_GJ7eN31XrkIzLKB0t4GaHIyBXC?usp=sharingArtemis II launch
Apr. 1st, 2026 08:16 pmmelagan To the Moon
I'm old enough to remember the Apollo missions. It makes me happy to see a revival to the moon missions and the excitement it brings to a new generation.
I'm old enough to remember the Apollo missions. It makes me happy to see a revival to the moon missions and the excitement it brings to a new generation.
Love triumphing in dystopia - music
Mar. 30th, 2026 04:18 pmmificCourtesy of the YouTube algorithm, which has clearly been corrupted by Heated Rivalry, and a good thing, too.
New music vid by Minute Taker featuring a gay love story in a Big Brother-like dystopia, but with a happy ending. The song's ok, but it's the storytelling that wins here.
Losing Self-Control
New music vid by Minute Taker featuring a gay love story in a Big Brother-like dystopia, but with a happy ending. The song's ok, but it's the storytelling that wins here.
Losing Self-Control
the rule was to choose not to know
Mar. 26th, 2026 02:06 pmsmilebackwardsIce by Anna Kavan. Apocalypse via gigantic moving walls of ice while an insane dude chases a girl around the world. This was trippy. None of the characters are named. There are abrupt and seemingly impossible POV shifts. It's very psychological horror to follow this obsessed misogynist and his thought processes. Gives similar psychological/climate horror vibes as J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World and the writing hits.
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In TV, I finished Starfleet Academy (season 1) and apparently they have already cancelled it, boo. Was it a little clunky, sure, but all the characters were really fun! I LOVE my Klingon med student Jay-Den and sunshine War College student Kyle and admiral's daughter Genesis and they all deserve more screen time. This show let me see a Vulcan use the phrase 'eat glass' and Paramount has the audacity to cancel it??
In good news though, I went to see Project Hail Mary and it was a great, hopeful space movie. Might go see it again <3 Also need to find if anyone has made any Rocky icons. He's my new best friend.
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In TV, I finished Starfleet Academy (season 1) and apparently they have already cancelled it, boo. Was it a little clunky, sure, but all the characters were really fun! I LOVE my Klingon med student Jay-Den and sunshine War College student Kyle and admiral's daughter Genesis and they all deserve more screen time. This show let me see a Vulcan use the phrase 'eat glass' and Paramount has the audacity to cancel it??
In good news though, I went to see Project Hail Mary and it was a great, hopeful space movie. Might go see it again <3 Also need to find if anyone has made any Rocky icons. He's my new best friend.
Simplicity, by Mattie Lubchansky
Mar. 26th, 2026 10:09 amrunpunkrunLOVED the art. Fun, colorful, cartoony, and expressive. Brings to mind Matt Groening and John Allison.
LOVED that there's more trans and genderqueer characters than you can shake a stick at.
LOVED the framing device with the kids in the museum.
LIKED the first half of the book with the Spiritual Association of Peers, a secretive community/cult that lives in the lawless exurbs outside the New York City Administrative and Security Territory and refuses to talk to the researcher sent to research them.
LIKED our hapless trans man Lucius Pasternak, researcher, who's just trying to do his job.
NOT KEEN on the second half of the book with the visions and the monster(s) as a metaphor for, idk, self-loathing or capitalism or whatever. It's not a trope I have a natural affinity for and this didn't sell me on it. I want real monsters or I want self-loathing, but don't outsource the problem. The romance also felt whatever. There was chemistry between them, but little else.
UNSATISFIED by the ending, which seems to be resolved in passing by two randos, but also raises a lot of big questions that go unanswered and left me skeptical.
IN SHORT, the first half is kind of a mystery where you're getting to know the players and the setting, and the second half is a kind of gory fairy tale where it's about types of people and social movements, big picture stuff, and I felt like it didn't really match up with the first half.
BUT I'm always glad to read something from Lubchansky and this was a fun way to spend some time.
CONTAINS: some misgendering, including from the robotic health care system; nudity; sex; animal harm (scraggly and aggressive wild bear); violence; cartoon blood and guts; cartoon cops and their cartoon blood and guts.
LOVED that there's more trans and genderqueer characters than you can shake a stick at.
LOVED the framing device with the kids in the museum.
LIKED the first half of the book with the Spiritual Association of Peers, a secretive community/cult that lives in the lawless exurbs outside the New York City Administrative and Security Territory and refuses to talk to the researcher sent to research them.
LIKED our hapless trans man Lucius Pasternak, researcher, who's just trying to do his job.
NOT KEEN on the second half of the book with the visions and the monster(s) as a metaphor for, idk, self-loathing or capitalism or whatever. It's not a trope I have a natural affinity for and this didn't sell me on it. I want real monsters or I want self-loathing, but don't outsource the problem. The romance also felt whatever. There was chemistry between them, but little else.
UNSATISFIED by the ending, which seems to be resolved in passing by two randos, but also raises a lot of big questions that go unanswered and left me skeptical.
IN SHORT, the first half is kind of a mystery where you're getting to know the players and the setting, and the second half is a kind of gory fairy tale where it's about types of people and social movements, big picture stuff, and I felt like it didn't really match up with the first half.
BUT I'm always glad to read something from Lubchansky and this was a fun way to spend some time.
CONTAINS: some misgendering, including from the robotic health care system; nudity; sex; animal harm (scraggly and aggressive wild bear); violence; cartoon blood and guts; cartoon cops and their cartoon blood and guts.
Quick catch-up
Mar. 26th, 2026 09:30 pmmificI've been quiet in terms of general journaling, mostly as I've been busy with projects. I've almost finished my SGA podfic for the podfic big bang, should be posting it in 2-3 days. Am now starting my first HR podfic, which will be interesting as I'm not going to be able to do Ilya's accent. But podficcers mostly don't attempt accents in podfics - except in HR, for Ilya, perhaps encouraged by Connor Storrie's virtuoso performance. A high bar.
I'm still reading lots of HR fanfic and not really interested in anything else, including profic. And writing. Have started my Hollanov big bang fic and have an AU WIP going as well. I can see that I'm going to lean pretty heavily towards writing AUs and fics that require bugger all knowledge of hockey, because I don't have any! But I'm writing, which feels really good.
It's early autumn here, a dry March until rain started yesterday, and now a much-needed soak. I should be tidying and mulching my garden beds, but my energy's mostly been directed to indoors creative stuff. Caught up with friends yesterday for a yummy Thai dinner, and it's hot cross bun time of year, so things have been excellent on the food front.
Not excellent at all elsewhere in the world, of course. I hope you're all okay and, for the northerners, enjoying spring. Hugs to you all.
I'm still reading lots of HR fanfic and not really interested in anything else, including profic. And writing. Have started my Hollanov big bang fic and have an AU WIP going as well. I can see that I'm going to lean pretty heavily towards writing AUs and fics that require bugger all knowledge of hockey, because I don't have any! But I'm writing, which feels really good.
It's early autumn here, a dry March until rain started yesterday, and now a much-needed soak. I should be tidying and mulching my garden beds, but my energy's mostly been directed to indoors creative stuff. Caught up with friends yesterday for a yummy Thai dinner, and it's hot cross bun time of year, so things have been excellent on the food front.
Not excellent at all elsewhere in the world, of course. I hope you're all okay and, for the northerners, enjoying spring. Hugs to you all.
An HR fic about Ilya and Irina
Mar. 26th, 2026 09:21 pmmificI wrote another HR fic, one I've been thinking about for a while, but it wanted to come out now. It's a therapy session with Galina, set a bit after the end of The Long Game, in which Ilya and Galina finally explore his tendency to idealize Irina. About 2100 words, background Shane/Ilya.
Sad and Funny and Beautiful
Sad and Funny and Beautiful