Becoming Someone I Like

Feb. 26th, 2026 10:42 pm
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Rogan: You know, it's funny. I was looking back through some of the old entries in this blog, about my ridiculous experiences at the 2019 Straight Pride protest and the 2025 Clown March, how I ended up writing my own future with Send In the Clowns. and it just dawned on me: I've become someone I really like and respect.

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An array of 9 wrap-around journal covers featuring floral prints by William Morris. They are numbered 1 to 9, and each shows a colored stripe meant to represent the elastic band that would keep the book closed, when it's made as a journal.
 

We are in the process of planning a series of lined blank journals. Each features public domain artwork by William Morris, with the selection curated by the artist Aceriee, and we intend to put a brief literary quote on each cover.

Which literary quotes?

That’s where you come in! All our backers on Patreon are invited to nominate a quote, and to pair it with a specific cover, should they so wish. For example, by request, we’ll be adding the quote If we walk far enough, we shall sometime come to someplace from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

Is there a cover calling to you? Is there a literary quote you’d love to see us feature? Back our Patreon at any level, and tell us your choice!

Our backers get a say in lots of things! For example, earlier this week, based on their voting, we settled on a theme for our next Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology, and Patrons who choose to join our Discord are able to participate in making our recommendation lists, suggesting prompts for our prompt-a-day events May Trope Mayhem and Kinks-Your-Tober, requesting topics for our monthly panels, and more! Become a backer today.



Community Recs Post!

Feb. 26th, 2026 09:15 am
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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fanvids/fanart/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

Feb. 26th, 2026 11:34 am
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This is your weekly read-in-progress post~

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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all “this character-who-is-canonically-presented-as-male is actually a closeted transgender woman” headcanons/theories/truthing exist on a spectrum from “that’s… probably transphobic” to “whatever the hell is going on with shu itsuki enstars”

(no subject)

Feb. 25th, 2026 07:16 pm
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Sometimes, I like to go through Ao3 tag landing pages for general concepts (like “Trans Woman” or “Borderline Personality Disorder”) to see precisely what characters have gotten “X is Y”-style tagged enough for those tags to be canonized. It’s so delightful.

The Importance of History

Feb. 25th, 2026 11:57 am
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Rogan: we grabbed Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder Harry Hay from the library because Hay said some things that caught my eye in the 1987 anthology Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning in his piece “A Separate People Whose Time Has Come”:

Read more... )

(LOL I totally wrote a similar post about this last year: https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/1396350.html)
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ETA: Code Tour: 2024-12-01 to 2026-02-25. Some longed for fixes in there. Hopefully we get a code push soon.


Fun Art & Stuff!
[youtube.com profile] PBSVoices: How Navajo Weavers Keep an Ancient Art Alive (Video: 10 minutes).
This short film follows two Navajo weavers whose work preserves memory, identity, and ancestral knowledge.
Very cool! I don't know anything about Navajo weaving, and would love to watch a longer project about it.

[community profile] spankulert: Icon post #122.
Including The X-Files, Star Treks: Starfleet Academy, Voyager + Discovery, Fallout and more.
Really nice to see the ST:SA icons!

[youtube.com profile] NationalTheatre: Take Your Seats | Announcement | National Theatre at Home (Video: 30 seconds).
On Thursday 12 March (7pm GMT), lose yourself in the hit production of The Importance of Being Earnest at our free YouTube premiere. Can’t make it? The stream will remain accessible on demand, for free, for one week only.
FINALLY! I believe it will go up on the NT's subscription streaming site after that.

The Tyee: They Lit the Path for Women Photographers.
A couple of exhibit reviews for shows I can't see. LOLSOB.

Nanaimo News Now: Nanaimo’s Maffeo Sutton Park shines during ‘Lighting a Path’ public art exhibit.
Really cool way to do an art show!

Dead Language Society: How far back in time can you understand English?
I made it to like the fourteen hundreds. I'm sure most of you can get further back.

[tumblr.com profile] ecc-poetry/Elisa Chavez: What You Need to Be Warned (Or: Inventory and Appraisement of Neil Gaiman, Hereafter "Decedent").
I'm going to nominate this for a poetry Hugo. I'm haunted by the line: Even at your worst, you are replaceable.


Technology Bullshit:
The Conversation: This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn't exist – it's AI Blakface.
Fantastic. Just what Indigenous communities need: computer-generated Pretendians.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
Advice for how to proceed with age verifications, since that's going to be part of our fucking lives now.

The Tyee: AI Is the Elephant in the Newsroom. How Are Journalists Reacting?
Ask yourself, why are you using the tool to do this? Do I have nine other things to do, and this will make my life faster? Or am I trying not to pay a journalist?

404 Media: This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby.
You might have to get a free account to see this? Anyway, nice that people are trying to code around other people's appalling privacy violations? Even if you don't get the app (which I haven't), good info about the stupid smart glasses.


Gender Bullshit (mostly men, tbh):
Comics Beat: Multiple women accuse Spider-Gwen co-creator Jason Latour of misconduct.
This is actually a few years old, but I'd missed it at the time (or forgotten it entirely). FFS.

Maureen Ryan on BlueSky: 'll just add, as someone who's been doing investigative reporting for decades, all publications doing real journalism (i.e., not a sockpuppet or Some Guy on the Internet)--they have MANY layers of editorial & legal review.
Thread about how real journalism is supposed to work. In this section due to the inciting incident.

The Politics of Dancing: Abuse is still rife in dance music: Here's how we break the cycle.
Great essay about structural problems.

The Tyee: SOGI Is Under Attack. Educators Say It’s Never Been More Needed.
It's a municipal and school board election year in B.C., and I think we're in for a fucking fight. PROTECT OUR KIDS!

Drama Rec: 暗处 | The Unseen (2026)

Feb. 25th, 2026 10:52 am
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poster for the cdrama The Unseen


(24 × ~20 minute episodes)

The Unseen takes place in the present day in a fictional Southeast Asian country and follows blogger Shen Man as she teams up with detective Jiang Li to investigate a murder that appears linked to Shen Man's sister's suicide.

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content warnings )

It's available on WeTV.

Did You Make a Thing?

Feb. 25th, 2026 04:47 pm
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This month is almost over, so, let's hear it. *g* How did it go with your fannish creativity?

Did you manage to make a thing?

Created fanart or made vids? Wrote fic or meta? How about picspams, link collections, character mood boards, themed playlists, promo posts, or whatever else you create for fannish enjoyment?

Here's the place to share it with us! Leave a link in the comments, or elaborate on it as much as you want.
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poster for the cdrama Duet of Shadows


(31 × ~19 minute episodes)

Duet of Shadows is set during the 1920s in Shanghai's French Concession and follows detective Lin Lan and forensic doctor Qin Xin (and their collegues) as they investigate five mysteries.

Read more... )

content warnings )

It's available on iQIYI (albeit with AI subtitles, last I checked).

(no subject)

Feb. 25th, 2026 09:44 am
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Experiencing a reverse “English is the porn language” where I’ve discovered that I absolutely can not do selfship Y/N yumejo stuff in English but am perfectly fine doing it in Japanese.

WWW Wednesday

Feb. 25th, 2026 08:31 am
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1. What are you currently reading?

  • Don't You Like Me vol. 1 by Lv Tian Yi: it's fine but it's on hold because...
  • The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter vol. 3 by Yatsuki Wakatsu: yeah, volume 3. I might be mainlining this light novel juuuuust a little. 
  • 盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔

2. What have you recently finished reading?

  • Into the Split by Tris Lawrence: I don't usually count work reading for these but I just reread the entire novel in 3 days to do my final "clean-up" edit and damn it, I'm counting that. (reread)
  • The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter vol. 1 and 2 by Yatsuki Wakatsu: yeah I read two novels in four days, which is a lot for me. Vol. 1 is already covered by what I'd seen of the anime, vol. 2 focuses on the church stuff, and there's nothing deep going on here but, much like the anime, I'm just enjoying it. It's like eating candy, if by candy we mean mlm fuck-or-die fantasy isekai.
  • Apple and Honey vol. 1 by Hideyoshico: I'd accidentally already read vol. 2 a while ago and I liked it so here we are. It was fine, I liked the parts about the same characters, the side story was okay but more bittersweet than I was in the mood for.
  • Vampeerz vol. 1 by Akili: wlw with an interesting premise, but a lot's unanswered in this volume, and idk, the vibes felt off but I can't put my finger on why.
  • My New Boss is Goofy vol. 1 by Dan Ichikawa: I'd heard people talk about this as BL-adjacent so I wanted to check it out. I'd also seen a chunk of the anime (including everything in this vol. 1). And yeah, it's cute, with definite BL vibes without actually being BL.
  • The Way of the Househusband vol. 15 by Kousuke Oono
  • Kiss the Abyss by Mu Huo Ran: I wanted to reread this so I mainlined the entire series while on the way home from visiting my mom in NYC (we took the train home) (reread)
  • Moriarty the Patriot vol. 1 - 3 by Ryosuke Takeuchi: so while I was in NYC, mom decided to go with me to Kinokuniya, and she spotted this on the shelf, heard I'd liked it, and decided she wanted to read it, so she bought the first three volumes. It's been 2 years since I read them, so I reread 'um real quick before we left. It's really interesting to reread for me, because I really didn't like them the first time and was very skeptical, I didn't warm to the series until like vol. 5 or 6. But this time I loved them, now that I know what's going on. (reread)
  • Murderous Lewellyn's Candelit Dinner vol. 1 - 6 by Sumnagi: mom gave me a budget of $100 at Kinokuniya. I spent half of it on the first three volumes of this, promptly reread them, then finished the rest of the series. (reread)
  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 8 by Fuse

3. What will you read next?

Novels: I got the next volume of Apothecary Diaries on Libby, so that'll be in the mix somewhere, otherwise mostly finishing my reads-in-progress.

Graphic Novels (Physical): I still haven't read any more of my borrows from the library, oops.

Graphic Novels (Libby): I did give up on Firefly Wedding, I just couldn't muster the interest to read the second volume. Stuff due before next Wednesday is next - Northranger by Rey Terciero and How Do We Relationship? volume 2 by Tamifull


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Title: Where Love Goes
Fandom: ClaireBell
Music: Where Love Goes by Kai Mata
Summary: 'this could be the start of something special'
Notes: Premiered at Escapade 36!

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Title: Where Love Goes
Fandom: ClaireBell
Music: Where Love Goes by Kai Mata
Summary: 'this could be the start of something special'
Notes: Premiered at Escapade 36!

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