Purimgifts 2026: Banner Countdown

Dec. 28th, 2025 05:17 pm
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Five days left until Purimgifts 2026 signups open, which means today's countdown banner comes from 2021! Background only today, to avoid causing any date confusion, but it's still one of my favorites from our collection of past banners.

SIGNUPS & NOMINATIONS 2-9 Jan (anywhere in the world)
DEADLINE 23 Feb (anywhere in the world)
REVEALS 2-4 March

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Memories of a Shanghai Summer (沪夏往事, pinyin: hu xia wangshi) came to my notice the same way it (probably) came to the notice of about 90% of the Chinese-language baihe readership: it was licensed, in quick succession, for a full-cast audiobook, a (separate) audio drama, and then a simplified Chinese print edition. This was all the more striking because of the author's relatively low profile: she's not even contracted to JJWXC. She's also primarily a yanqing author: as of the date of writing, Memories of a Shanghai Summer is her only baihe novel. So that piqued my interest. The only other thing I knew about the novel is that it's set in the Republican Era and has a tragic ending (again, given the common trope about Republican Era stories, the second bit hardly needs saying).

The story is set, predictably, in a turbulent Shanghai. The central romance is between Xie Wanjun, a shrewd businesswoman straining every bit of ingenuity to compete in a male-dominated field, and Qin Shuining, a seamstress whose skills (particularly in making fancy qipao) are sought after by rich women. The two of them are refugees from the north, having evacuated to Shanghai just before the Japanese army invaded, and actually made a large part of the perilous journey together. Despite that shared life-or-death experience, however, their relationship at the start of the novel is (or at least seems) seems to be a mostly professional one: Xie Wanjun is one of Qin Shuining's many regular customers. Xie Wanjun does enjoy needling (see what I did there) Qin Shuining every now and then, but Qin Shuining usually handles it with complete equanimity and full professionalism.

read more; some spoilers )

I read the Chinese original of the novel here on JJWXC. The mainland print edition of the novel contains a new post-ending extra set several years in the future, where Qin Shuining has reopened her dressmaking business and has an apprentice and adopted daughter.
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Happy Snowflake Season to all! As we prepare to kick off the 2026 challenge, please feel free to promo this event within your own circles. You are welcome to use any of these new banners and icons that I've created to include with your post. You can copy the code from the text box below the banner to use it where you like!

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Dec. 28th, 2025 12:07 pm
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Sign-up update: no unmatchables

Dec. 27th, 2025 10:17 pm
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There are no unmatchables. Assignments will go out in the next few days.

Sign-ups are closed!

Dec. 27th, 2025 10:09 pm
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Sign-ups are now closed. Matching will be run and there will be an update once the emails to the unmatchables (if there are any) are sent out.

Yuletide recs (part 1)

Dec. 27th, 2025 09:26 pm
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Seven recs at my journal for:

True Detective: Night Country
Kyle Murchison Booth Stories
Companion
Kraken
My Sister and the Prince
Dragonriders of Pern (2x)
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I'm hoping these are straightforward questions, but I couldn't find a way to word the first to get any relevant results in web searches, and the second got weird on me.

The context is a civilian with extensive field-medic-style training providing off-the-books, in-home medical/supportive care to a preteen who is ill with a viral* fever-inducing illness. (* Viral seems easier; but bacterial is possible if necessary.) The setting is the modern-day (or at least vaguely post-2010) United States.

1. Is it feasible to administer intravenous (IV) saline without an infusion pump? (I've been assuming it is but want to double-check.)

cut for IV details )

2. Is there a point at which a childhood (viral) fever is dangerous?

Read more... )

Many thanks!
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[personal profile] beepbird told us about this! Thanks, [personal profile] beepbird!
"There is a man who loves me, as I am. MYSELF. Whether other people see me as I am or not. I am here."
Blurb: a bigender cartoonist talks about self/s-love.

Why is it worth your time?: It's short and sweet and awesome!

Plural Tags: abuse intermediate-focus (transphobia), closeting, creator speaks from experience

Content Warnings: transphobia, threats of lovelessness

Access Notes: This five-page comic appears in The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics, which is available in paperback and ebook.

Misc Notes: In the "about the author" blurb, he says, "Two souls accidentally got placed into my body. I'm bigender."

Purimgifts 2026: Banner Countdown

Dec. 27th, 2025 04:36 pm
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Today's countdown banner comes to us from 2020, which, believe it or not, was almost six years ago! I have no idea where that time went, but it means we're only six days out from Purimgifts 2026 signups.

SIGNUPS & NOMINATIONS 2-9 Jan (anywhere in the world)
DEADLINE 23 Feb (anywhere in the world)
REVEALS 2-4 March

Find us on Dreamwidth, Livejournal, tumblr, and the Archive of Our Own.
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A graphic with black text over stripes in the color of the aromantic pride flag. The text reads, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2026 will be from February 15 to 21! To celebrate, we are thrilled to announce an itch.io bundle of works starring aromantic characters. Who is contributing? Maybe YOU! Visit our sign-up form to read all the details and rules and to submit your works with aromantic main characters for inclusion in the bundle!

Are you a creator who sells works on itch.io? Have you created and now sell a work starring one or more characters on the aromantic spectrum?

Then we want YOU! to submit your works to a bundle of itch.io works (books! comics! games! zines!) starring aromantic spectrum characters that we will run during Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week in February, 2026! Duck Prints Press is run by an aroace agender person, unforth/Claire Houck, and we work with many aromantic creators and have published multiple works featuring aromantic characters. We’re looking to celebrate Aromantic Spectrum Awareness week by (among other things) organizing, running, and promoting a bundle of stories featuring aromantic characters on itch.io!

Sign-ups are open until either January 14th or until we hit 50 sign-ups, so check it out now if you’re interested and don’t wait! Visit our sign-up form to read all the details and rules.

We hope you’ll join the bundle and help us get lots of works starring aromantic characters into the hands of readers, players, and viewers!

Rules, for perusal by folks who don’t feel like clicking through:

  1. The bundle will run the duration of Arospec Week, from February 15th to the 21st.
  2. This bundle is open to books, stories, comics, graphic novels, games, art, and any other work on itch.io that meets the requirements that follow.
  3. Works must feature one or more aromantic main characters.
  4. Creators do not need to be aromantic, but it’s definitely be a plus!
  5. One work per creator, please (if, like me, you run a single itch.io account that includes the work of multiple creators, you may submit multiple works, but still only one per creator!).
  6. NSFW works welcome, as long as they are within itch.io’s Terms of Service.
  7. Absolutely no generative AI creations are allowed.
  8. The final cost of the bundle and the proceed share per creator will depend how many works are submitted; I will aim for a cost no lower than $1 per work in the bundle, with revenue shared equally per itch.io account (as in – even if someplace like Duck Prints Press submits multiple works, those places will not get a larger share). If shares cannot be divided evenly, I will use random.org to randomly select who will be at the higher share and who at the lower; all shares will be within 1% of each other.
  9. This sign-up form will be open either until January 14 2026 or until I hit 50 sign-ups, whichever comes first.
  10. All contributors must post at least one promotion post on their own social media account(s) during the week when the bundle is available. Anyone who doesn’t do so will be banned from joining into future itch.io bundles that Duck Prints Press makes.
  11. By joining, you consent to me using the e-mail address you provide to contact you on matters related to the bundle.
  12. We will put together and send out promotional graphics using covers that participants provide. You are also welcome and encouraged to make your own graphics.

7 Recs

Dec. 27th, 2025 01:04 pm
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I 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!)

Yuletide 2025

Dec. 27th, 2025 12:56 pm
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In a rather cursed year, Yuletide has been a nice end of season bright spot. I received a delightful Bedlam Stacks fic – The Question of the Chicken and the Egg - that dives into Merrick and Keita's relationship over time. It's perhaps my favourite thing about Bedlam/Watchmaker, and the fic covers some very beautiful moments between these two amoral Company boys.

Some other recs from my limited readthrough:

The Way of the Househusband is striking it out of the park this year, with both delightful loyalty porn ("as you are") alongside :fire: burning hot three-way porn ("I Want to Be With You Night and Day "), with Tatsu watching from the side included :eyes:

Antique Bakery is back in Yuletide, my friends, and this fic serves up Ono and Tachibana off on a trip to Hokkaido ("Obscura")

Wimbledon: Peter is too idiotic to realise his best friend is into him, because of course ("The Best Part of 1996"

Cthulhu Mythos/Dream Cycle: Randolph Carter is going to bring all the horrors to the yard ("Onwards the rite "), and damn right, he's a better dreamer than yours

Then, a now-perennial Yuletide classic, Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence crossed over with Rivers of London. You know where this one is going, and you know you're going to click on this fic.

NiF Exchange works and treats

Dec. 27th, 2025 08:57 pm
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Check out the collection here.

Here‘s what you can still do (apart from leaving comments and kudos on the lovely fanworks):

Treats: Dec 10 to 31

Anyone, signed-up or not, can create something (no minimum requirements) based on any of the prompts that inspire them. See past Prompt Lists here.

You may view the Prompt List - Treats version" for those who wish to make treats.

  • Treats are independent of the main event's deadlines.

  • In case your treat happens to belong to a prompt set that got abandoned, Mod will contact you and request for permission to bump it up into a gift.

  • Post treats to the Exchange Collection with the tag "NIFTREAT2025" to differentiate them from the main gifts.

  • As a rule, you should give credit where it's due, drawing inspiration from prompts included. However, please note that not all prompters want to be tagged directly (aka, Gifted), so please take that into consideration when posting treats. This will be noted in the public Prompts List.

Yuletide Recs!

Dec. 27th, 2025 11:52 am
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Recs in Chalion/World of the Five Gods - Lois McMaster Bujold, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, The Long Walk - Stephen King, "The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson; New Yorker RPF, Lyra series/Caught in Crystal - Patricia Wrede, Mushishi, Some Like It Hot, Watership Down - Richard Adams.

At my DW, with commentary.

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