Bluebird (7087 words) by waldorph

Feb. 14th, 2026 06:05 pm
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Bluebird (7087 words) by waldorph
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock
Additional Tags: Star Trek Beyond, Don't copy to another site, Getting Together, Crew as Family, Everyone Needs A Hug
Series: Part 12 of Author's Favorites
Summary:

“Jim Kirk.”
Jim whipped around so fast most of his drink ended up on Spock, who was reaching for the phaser that wasn’t there. The Enterprise crew was parting like the biblical seas before Moses, and Jim could feel the temperature dropping.
“Mom,” Jim croaked.

A few things

Feb. 15th, 2026 11:14 am
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  1. My second finished & posted fic of the year, another late [community profile] fandomtrees gift, is Guardian:
    Title: Emergency Contact (6050 words) by china_shop [Teen and Up]
    Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
    Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
    Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, (For one of them), Mild Hurt/Comfort, Zhao Xinci's A+ parenting, Inexperienced Zhao Yunlan, Internalized Homophobia, Feelings about being closeted, Non-Linear Narrative
    Summary:

    Zhao Yunlan lists Shen Wei as his emergency contact. The fact they've never met is but a minor detail.

  2. Having a lot of fun with the smudgers. Here is my not-quite-convincing sketch of Amina from We Are Lady Parts. I did one of Zhao Yunlan, too, but while it came out okay in terms of shading, it doesn't look enough like him that I can bring myself to upload it, and my Saira and Bisma... well, it's good to practice. Baby steps.

  3. [personal profile] out_there posted Noah Kahan's The Great Divide a while ago, and it's really stuck with me.



    I also keep listening to Amina's cover of The Reason:


  4. In Kdramas, I'm watching One Spring Night for its wonderful cast, but I'm in the market for something more fun (preferably light/swoony romance), if anyone has any recs.

  5. Milestone: as of yesterday, Andrew is self-propelling (driving again). No more driving him home in the evenings! Of course, this meant I stayed up past midnight making (slightly disappointing; needs scallions and/or garlic chives, neither of which I had) salsa. But anyway, now Andrew has independence (and I have the possibility of earlier nights). Woot!

  6. We're rewatching LotR after many many years. Halfway through Fellowship. Oh, this soundtrack!


For future reference: I replaced my downstairs smoke alarms yesterday.

for this was on seynt Valentynes day

Feb. 14th, 2026 01:41 pm
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Nenya's summary of an early account of St Valentine's Day as a romantic festival: "So it was RPF written during lockdown, which contained endless jousting sprinkled with #relatable? Whomst among us?"

Wild tonal shift to follow:

It's also the day that Frederick Douglass chose as his birthday, which is very sweetly illustrated here: What, to a Country, Is a Child’s Birthday? | Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson (video: 3 minutes).

Yesterday, we went to a No More Stolen Sisters march, which was very touching, especially given how many women were their with pictures of missing and murdered relatives. A lot of red cloaks and traditional woven cedar hats.

It was organised by the student union, and I appreciated how much care they put into cultural safety and looking out for family members.

We listened to the DNTO podcast "The Story She Carries: Lorelei Williams and her fight for justice" for class, and my professor said she'd gone to residential school with Williams' mother. It's all very close here.
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Posted by Elintiriel

For anyone who’s missed our earlier posts, you can find all of our activities for this year’s International Fanworks Day in our “What We’re Doing For #IFD2026” post.

The OTW’s chatrooms and games session is a 30-hour party that lasts from February 14th, 21:00 UTC until February 16th, 03:00 UTC. The game times listed below are all in UTC, but you can click the links to find out how that converts to your own timezone.

The games will be hosted on our dedicated Discord server and moderated by OTW volunteers throughout the day. Every two hours you will be able to participate in a different fandom-themed game! The timetable and game descriptions are posted below; join us on Discord for the games you’d like to play!

NOTE: The games will be played and moderated in English.

Games Schedule:

February 14th

February 15th

February 16th

Game Guidelines

5 Things

How to Play: During this game, the host will name a topic and players in the room will call out examples from their favorite fandoms. This will repeat for at least 5 rounds. Be prepared to explain why your answer counts (maybe you’ll recruit someone new to your fandom!)

20 Questions

How to Play: During this game, the host will think of a person, place, or object. Players have exactly 20 yes-or-no questions they can ask the host to determine what the correct answer is.

Storytime

How to Play: The host will paste a starting sentence into the chat. Players take turns coming up with the next sentence–the host calling out whose turn it is–until everyone has gone once, and the story is complete!

List Builder

How to Play: List Builder is a collaborative game in which players work together to come up with a list of fandom characters or items belonging to a particular genre, starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Start at A and work your way through to Z (you can be as flexible as required on the difficult letters!)

Lyrics Round Robin

How to Play: During this game, we’ll collectively write FANDOM lyrics to replace those of a familiar song. The host will choose the song and type out an alternate first two lines. Then those in the room will write the next lines until the song is finished.

Poetry Round Robin

How to Play: During this game, we’ll collectively write FANDOM poetry! The host posts a poem as an example of a specific poetic form (like sonnet, haiku, etc.), as well as a title. The players then write one (or more) original poems of that form together, one line at a time.

OTW Trivia

How to Play: Like most trivia games, the host will ask a question and the first person to answer correctly wins that round. Because we’re online and you’re free to do searches we’re going to add another factor, which is time — you must answer within 2 minutes. But you can call out your answer as soon as you think you know. If you’re the first to have the correct answer, the host will type your name and award you a point. At the end of the game, whoever has gotten the most points will be named the winner!

Two Truths and a Lie

How to Play: The host will paste into the chat 3 statements. Because we’re online and you’re free to do searches we’re going to add another factor, which is time — you must answer within 30 seconds after the third statement!

We also want to hear from you about other celebrations taking place today. Leave us a comment here to tell us about what your fandom communities are doing!

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Today was a very exciting landmark: I went to the TIP. Miss H agreed to take me, because she is a wonderful person. We are now I think fourteen months into our bin strike, and while various people have very kindly taken my recycling for me during that period, my usual volunteer has been busy lately and I've accumulated rather a lot (mostly cardboard - the packaging for the new IKEA bookcase was particularly bulky) since mid-November. I also keep a box of "things to take to the tip" that aren't the standard recycling - electrical cables, lightbulbs, hard plastic, etc, which are a bit unfair to dump on other people, so that was a year or more of accumulation. My spare room is so nice now!!

One of my university friends used to celebrate "Bins Clear Eve", which was the day before the first rubbish collection after New Year, and it feels rather like that.

Otherwise there seems to be rather a lot of terrible things happening to my acquaintances; in the last week, deaths include one friend's brother, a second friend's stepmother, and the very unexpected death of an distant internet acquaintance. Also a swimming friend has had a bad prognosis for a while but now sounds to be likely in his last few weeks. I would like it if someone I know had a sudden and unexpected nice thing happen next week, please.

I keep trying to play computer games and then getting bored and wandering off. On the other hand, I have read a lot of books (most of them very frivolous). Partly it may be because it's so much nicer in bed than anywhere else, what with the cold spells so far this year. I did manage twenty minutes of Dave the Diver today; [personal profile] isis, I don't know if you ever did play it after you recced it to me, but so far it's both quite fun and making me feeling very concerned that he's being exploited by his "friend" Cobra *g* (the set-up is that he's on holiday when his friend calls him up with promises of fancy sushi that turn out to be an "opportunity" for him to spend his days diving for fish to turn into sushi and nights serving the sushi to customers... his "profits" go into repairing the bar, which appears to be co-owned by Cobra and the sushi chef). However, I am only one day in, so it could all change.

This has been a fantastically expensive month so far. Aside from purely frivolous expenditures (my 99p ebook habit does add up!! but not all that quickly) I renewed my passport on Thursday (they already sent me two emails to tell me to send the old one in! cool your beans, people, it was less than 24 hours! I posted it on Friday anyway!) and then bought a bunch of clothes today - hopefully replacements for things which are getting rather tatty. I wanted to get a hoodie from the Florence gig but I couldn't try it on and I wasn't sure it would fit, and £85 was too much to gamble on! So now I have ordered a less cool one from M&S but on the other hand it wasn't nearly as expensive. And if it's too small, I can return it.

Oh, but what is nice: I've been given the keys to my new garage! I should go and check I can actually open it (after first looking up the deeds to check which one it is, now I can't identify it by the combination of hardware around the lock...) before I get swept up in next week's choir-all-the-time and next weekend's exciting visit from [personal profile] shreena and [profile] quizcustodet. Today would have been a good time to do it, since it's actually not raining for once, but, well.

Fellowship (2025)

Feb. 14th, 2026 03:13 pm
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[personal profile] pauraque
In this co-op ARPG, you and three friends battle your way through timed dungeon runs, collecting gear and gaining new abilities. As your power grows, you unlock higher difficulties that put new twists on what you've seen before. Enemies learn new attacks, bosses hit like trucks, and new mechanics like falling meteors and exploding ice will require you to adapt your strategies. The game doesn't end, it just keeps scaling up forever until you either reach the limit of your skills, get bored, or the game season resets and everyone goes back to square one.

four characters in combat with sentient plants in a colorful fantasy world with magic spell effects going off as a timer ticks down in the corner
Wraithtide Vault, aka Freehold If You Squint

In other words, this is the Mythic+ game mode from World of Warcraft, without the rest of the MMO. I think for people to whom that means something, the reaction tends to be pretty polarized, either "That sounds terrible" or "This is the game I've been wanting for ten years, TAKE MY MONEY!!" I definitely fall into the latter camp, and having now played the first season of early access, I am pleased to say that I'm having a great time.

If the look and feel of the game were any closer to WoW, Blizzard would sue. )

Fellowship is on Steam for $24.99 USD. The second season of early access starts on February 19th, so that would be a convenient time to jump in since we'll all be starting from scratch again.

Day 14: Fic - My Hero Academia - Momo

Feb. 14th, 2026 03:40 pm
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[personal profile] alchemicink posting in [community profile] halfamoon
I decided that instead of writing something new, I'm going to share something I wrote last year because it fits the "letting go" prompt well and has a nice optimistic vibe. It was originally written for [community profile] femslashfete, but I never got around to crossposting it to ao3 until now. Enjoy!

Title: To forsake
Fandom: My Hero Academia
Character: Yaoyorozu Momo (plus Jirou Kyouka is briefly here too)
Rating: G
Length: 401 words
Summary: Momo decides to forsake her duties as a knight
Link: here originally on the femslashfete comm, here on ao3, or you can read it under the cut below

Read more... )

Day 7 - Fic - Warrior Nun - Yasmine

Feb. 14th, 2026 09:01 pm
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[personal profile] jacquelee posting in [community profile] halfamoon
Title: Finding Yourself in a New World – Chapter 7: The Lover
Day/Prompt: Day 7 / The Lover
Fandom: Warrior Nun (TV)
Character/Pairing: Yasmine/Camila
Rating/Warning(s): M / None
Word Count: 5033
Summary: When Tronan kisses her during their mission on Kasar but Yasmine feels nothing, she realizes that she has feelings for Camila. Blurting out her feelings, Yasmine is first mortified, but Camila does reciprocate her feelings and they share an intimate moment.
Author's Notes: I upped the rating for this fic, mostly out of ample precaution. It is mostly fade to black, there isn't any actual smut, but still. Also, I will finish this fic, despite my little (much needed) hiatus. I'm not sure whether I'll be able to write the 4 chapters I'm still missing today and tomorrow and then post all the remaining chapters tomorrow by Halfamoon's deadline, but I'll try.

Here on AO3
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Title: Comfort
Fandom: Starfleet Academy
Character: Chancellor Nahla Ake
Rating: G
Word Count: 109
Summary: There are benefits to being comfortable.

Comfort )

Roses are red, violets are blue

Feb. 14th, 2026 02:54 pm
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 Good morning, afternoon, whatever time it is for you when you find this post!

In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought we might talk about writing relationships. A few questions:


  • Is there anything you find challenging about writing relationships?
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  • What do you love about writing relationships?
  •  

  • Have you ever tried writing for a ship (or even just a trope) you normally don't? What was the outcome?*
  •  

  • Favorite tropes/tags/themes to write?
  •  

  • Any other observations?
  •  

*In case it needs to be said, this isn't about yucking anyone else's yum. It's about our own experiences trying to write particular things, without judgment towards others. 

I've provided my own answers in the comments.
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Title: Melting Moments
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 7 photos
Summary: I baked 24 melting moments

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Of Monsters and Mainframes

3.5/5. The one about the ship AI and medical AI who are frenemies but stuck on the same ship together, and how they and a werewolf and a mummy and a vampire and a bunch of spider drones go on a revenge mission against Dracula.

If that sounds wacky zany and like a whole bunch of things got thrown in a blender, correct.

I enjoyed this, even including the sometimes odd mix of humor and horror. (This book doesn’t really have humans, except as occasional set dressing, generally as corpses). The AI POV here is particularly good. The ship AI has vastly more processing power than the medical AI but no “human interaction protocols,” so yeah, that’s how that goes. I actually laughed out loud, which is rare for me.

Marking down only for the structure, which is simultaneously messy and repetitive. Quite the trick. I was willing to roll along with it for a lot of this book, because I was enjoying myself, but at a certain point I could have used a tad less spaghetti on the wall, you know?

Content notes: Mass death by vampire, werewolf, etc. AI equivalent of mind control.

Not a good kind of PSA, I'm afraid

Feb. 14th, 2026 02:43 pm
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In the comments of [personal profile] spikedluv's final post, which she made on Feb. 2, there's info saying that she died unexpectedly later that day, with a link to her obituary. :( No cause of death given.

Thank you, [personal profile] shipperslist, for the heads-up.

(Note: I'm taking the info in good faith as posted; I don't know the person who shared it, and while [personal profile] spikedluv and I were mutuals for a long time, I never knew her wallet name. But the obit info matches what I did know and she was an extremely regular poster, so even a day or two of silence was worrying.)
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This was originally posted to Facebook. I decided I had a better chance of getting a wider variety of responses here.

Facebook, I have a serious question for you, that comes with a little bit of backstory: Last night, while waiting for dinner to do its thing. Donnie, Matthew and I were listening to music on YouTube, each taking a turn to pick a song. And it was good, at first. But, and it's a big one, a lot of what Matthew listens to now very often contains extreme profanity, references to sex acts, drug/alcohol use, regular use of the N word.

I'm not dissing his music, though it kind of feels that way to him, and I did hurt his feelings (I didn't mean to, and I apologized). I had a similar, reverse, thing happen with Doug. And I know that music is intensely personal: even if you like the same music as someone else, chances are it means something different to the two of you.

But so here's my question: After a song in which the N word was used three times within 30 seconds, I stopped the song. Because I just can't. Everything I've heard and taken in through life in general, and particularly in the past couple decades or so, has been YOU DO NOT USE THE N WORD. You don't throw it around in general speech (or you're not supposed to). You're not supposed to accept that word as appropriate for any situation. Don't use it, period.
Except...why is it okay if it's dropped 23048230 times into a "song"? How is that any different from normal, every day speech?

And then Donnie blew my mind by telling me that I'm the first person she's ever heard ask/say that out loud. Surely I can't be the only person who has ever wondered that? Can anyone explain this to me?

And sidebar question(s): for anyone who has adult children, or nearing adulthood children (or family members, etc): what are they listening to? What's in those songs? Do you share musical interests with said young people?

Thanks 🙂

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links

Feb. 14th, 2026 10:03 am
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Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections by Andy Craig. A nice summary of Trump's possible angles of attack and their plausibility. Worth sharing with folks who think Trump is going to cancel the midterm election.

Stop Bullying J Cole (YouTube) by FD Signifier. I basically only know J Cole as the guy who stepped into the Drake vs Kendrick beef and then hurriedly stepped back out, but this made me feel a little defensive of him. I appreciate the uncool earnestness.
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Title/Link: The Closet and How it was Cleaned
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] osmalic
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Helga Pataki
Rating: G
Prompt: Letting Go
Summary: And in that closet: A Secret. Helga cleans her room before going off to college.

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