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The new year has started and I almost forgot about monthly recs already.
To start with, three Hermitcraft fanworks, 1 animation and two fics: fusions with Slay the Spire, Uma Musume, and Pokémon (knowledge of other fandoms not required.)

Slay the Citadel by

cocoabats
Animation, Hermitcraft s10/Slay the Spire
Summary: i spent way too much time on this but hey! decked out 2 in the style of slay the spire!
slay the citadel?
Why I love it: This is so cool! I know nothing about Slay the Spire but all the Hermitcraft parts are so fitting and look so cool and the atmosphere is so great.

( and two fics )

jesse_the_k posting in

fancake

Fandom: Sherlock (BBC TV 2010)

Pairings/Characters: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, John Watson

Rating: Explicit

Length: 4400 words

Theme: Crack Treated Seriously

Summary: Sherlock and John swap bodies. John doesn't want to talk about it.

Creator Links: Rhuia

Reccer’s Notes Sex pollen on Earth requires some shenanigans, but add in body swap and we’ve got a deep dive into how this combo would affect these two’s self-knowledge and desire. Very explicit, very steamy, very funny.

Fanwork Link Once, Twice

yhlee

handspun silk yarn, fountain pen for scale

Silk handspun destined for

ilyena_sylph!

There's a lot of need for emotional support right now. :]

Back to book edits (CODE AND CODEX).

cimorene

Duke’s certainly did not rely for its popularity on external display. It was approached by three flights of narrow and rickety stairs, and the visitors had to satisfy two rather seedy-looking janitors, not in uniform, at top and bottom. And, when they entered the Club itself, Ellery had a still greater surprise. The famous Duke’s consisted of one very long low room—or rather of three long, low attics which had been amateurishly knocked into one. The decorations were old and faded, and the places where the partitions had been were still marked by patches of new paper pasted on to hide the rents in the old. The ventilation was abominable, and what windows there were did not seem to have been cleaned for months. The furniture—a few seedy divans and a large number of common Windsor chairs and kitchen tables—seemed to have been picked up at secondhand from some very inferior dealer. Tables and floor were stained with countless spillings of food and drink, and a thick cloud of tobacco smoke made it quite impossible to see any distance along the room. There was only one redeeming feature, and Ellery’s eye fell upon it almost as soon as he entered the place. Near the door was a magnificent grand piano, on which someone was playing really well an arrangement from Borodine’s Prince Igor.

—GDH Cole, The Brooklyn Murders (1923)

chickenfeet

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/01/29/stellar-singing-in-rigoletto-revival/

aurumcalendula

Escapade 36 = February 20 - 22 (vid deadline = Feb 14)
VidUKon = June 5 - 7
World Wide Slash (DC-Slash's new name) = July 17 - 19
Escapade 36.5 (online) = August 7 - 9
Confabulation = October 22 - 25

I think Wiscon (May 21- 25) might have a vidshow, but I haven't seen anything confirmed yet.

pronker posting in

fancake

Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Pairings/Characters:

Celeborn/Haldir of Lothlórien, Celeborn/Galadriel | Artanis, Orophin/Rúmil of Lothlórien, Boromir/Théodred, Aragorn | Estel/Elrond Peredhel, Arwen Undómiel/Éowyn, Frodo Baggins/Sam Gamgee, Elladan/Elrohir/Erestor (Tolkien), Gandalf | Mithrandir/Saruman | Curunír, Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf, Sauron | Mairon/Witch-King Of Angmar, Éomer Éadig/Faramir (Son of Denethor II), Gollum/Gríma Wormtongue, Elrond Peredhel/Glorfindel, Denethor II/Théoden Ednew

Rating: Mature

Length: 7,126 words

Creator Links: AO3 Profile

Theme: Crack Treated Seriously

Summary: Théoden and Denethor hunt the elusive Slash Fairy after she makes them ... do things. Over and over. Featuring the horses of Middle Earth, with music by Fountains of Wayne, Celine Dion and Kenny Loggins.

Reccer's Notes: This month's theme is "ideas that are very, very bonkers, but approached with the utmost dedication to making it work within whatever passes for reality in that fandom." Author's dedication is key in this humorous tale of slash spreading like a glorious spready thing in the LOTR world and you'll believe that Denethor and Théoden-King need each other whether they realize it or not. The fairy is merely the mechanism. Just check out the other pairings and revel the night away! I especially liked that femmeslash was included, and also horses.

Fanwork Links: The Slash Fairy Cometh

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: sofa
Current Music: whoosh of properly functioning heater

aurumcalendula

I'm kinda tempted to make a Wikipedia account so I can update Mary Lambert's discography - her page is missing the singles Tempest from last year and Minneapolis from last week.

imho they're both really good songs.

troyswann

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Current Mood: head down, onward

chickenfeet

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/01/28/juno-awards-2026/

sabotabby

Just finished: Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, edited by Dianna Gunn. There are enough good stories in here that I'd recommend it, but the general problems—earnestness, literalness—persist throughout many of the stories. Ah, author-led anthologies.

Neosynthesis, edited by Bryan Chaffin. Speaking of! This almost had the opposite problem, which is a bunch of stories where I actually didn't know what was going on at all and couldn't orient myself. But it's rescued by quite a few standouts—Rohan O'Duill's Cold-verse short stories, especially "The Lore of Seven," "Nova Domus," which is about a spaceship becoming a person, and "The Nexpat," which is about life extension and virtual existence.

I also flipped through the winter edition of "The Colored Lens," though I ended up just skipping ahead to J.S. Carroll's "Romeo Popinjay vs Iron Hans in the Beauty and the Beast Match You Won't Want To Miss," which was what I bought the anthology for, and which is 1000% worth the cover price. I want an entire novel of this short story. It's about an alternate universe where other hominids survive into more or less the present era, and feature in sideshows and pro-wrestling. Two heels—one human, one a wildman—end up forming a strange and touching friendship and rebel against their promoter. It's so so good.

Currently reading: I think next up is going to either be the rest of the aforementioned anthology or Changelog by Rich Larson, since that's what's sitting on the top of my TBR pile.

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agonyaunt

supplier said not to do business with them if we disagree politically ( Read more... )

aurumcalendula

January 27 - 'What are your vidding ambitions for 2026?' for

serrico:

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(there are still slots open for the January Talking Meme here)

cyphomandra

I dropped the difficulty on Alan Wake II (just in time to get attacked by some exceedingly fast-moving wolves that I would have totally failed to deal with otherwise) and played for a bit more, long enough to switch POV character to Alan himself. This meant a shift from small rural town to big grimy city, and also brings into play the writing mechanic, where once you discover a piece of information you can rewrite an earlier scene and open up new possibilities. It had some neat moments, but it still wasn’t enough to keep me interested. It doesn’t help that I don’t like having to use a gun as my sole weapon (I do now have a crossbow, but with only three bolts and only in Saga’s POV) and I’m not thrilled by playing as an FBI agent, which is Saga’s job. I have therefore abandoned it for now.

As per last update I had started playing LEGO Horizons with my son, and I’m sure it will come as no surprise that after playing through two levels of that (Cauldrons! Thunderjaws! Varl!) I loaded Horizon Forbidden West back on to the Playstation. Originally I’d intended to only play the DLC, Burning Shores, but my only save was right before the final mission arc (on the beach at Singularity, where you’re about to call everyone in) and it felt wrong to start there, plus I would be completely out of practice with all the weapons. So obviously the only logical answer was to replay all of HFW, which, ahem, I have now done. I am now on to Burning Shores, and zipping round the half-drowned and occasionally erupting remnants of Los Angeles.

I think as a game in and of itself HZD still has the edge, but there’s a lot I love about HFW as well, including some amazing new characters, expanded weapons (I have finally gotten the hang of the shredder gauntlet, woo hoo), and new mounts. And I do like what they do with the story - the Far Zeniths, and especially Tilda, are good antagonists. I do not like Machine Strike (I have played the tutorial and the two games required to get the trophy, and no more) and I never bother with the face paint, although I do like that they’ve stuck a Pride option in to annoy all those gamer gate types complaining about having to play as a queer woman.

troyswann

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silveradept

snowflake_challenge would like us to recommend to others a way in to finding a place in a fandom that we're already part of.

Challenge #14

Create a promo and/or rec list for someone new to a fandom.

The two of those things are quite different, I might note. The promo is about trying to get people into a fandom based on the strength of the canonical materials (whether the smart writing, the intricate plot, or the hotness of the actors), and the rec list is about getting people into a fandom (or at least the transformative fandom part) based on the fanworks that are available to someone. Neither of these methods are inherently wrong, but depending on your approach, someone might get into the fandom with radically different ideas of what the source material or the fandom is about. (This is not necessarily a bad thing, but approaching something from the fannish side might make you suspect there's more nuance and depth to the source material than there actually is.)

Anyway, since I am both not very good at collecting new fandoms and not very good at getting and remembering works in the fandoms I have, this would normally leave me in a pickle about what to do, except I have plenty of older fandoms and recommendations for you that will make up for my utter lack of newish fandoms for you to experience.

( Pern, RWBY, Into the Woods, In Other Lands, Long Live Evil )

Current Mood: rejuvenated
Current Music: "Weird" Al - Your Horoscope For Today

wishfulfilled posting in

style_system

So I'm trying to add the Previous/Next links to my Navlinks Module using a code that was previously posted here, but I'm having issues with the Previous link showing up regardless of whether or not there's previous entries (I'm testing on this journal with public entries for reference).

The code I'm using in my theme layer is this:

# code by ninetydegrees/foxfirefey
function print_module_navlinks() {
 
  var Page p = get_page();
  var string prev_link;
  var string next_link;
  
  if ( $p isa EntryPage ) {
      var EntryPage ep = get_page() as EntryPage;
      var Entry e = $ep.entry;
      var Link prev = $e->get_link("nav_prev");
      $prev_link = """<a href="$prev.url">$prev.caption</a>""";
      var Link next = $e->get_link("nav_next");
      $next_link = """<a href="$next.url">$next.caption</a>""";
  } elseif ( $p isa DayPage ) {
      var DayPage dp = get_page() as DayPage;
      $prev_link = """<a href="$dp.prev_url">$*text_day_prev</a>""";
      $next_link = """<a href="$dp.next_url">$*text_day_next</a>""";
  } elseif ( $p isa RecentPage ) {
      var RecentPage rp = get_page() as RecentPage;
      if ( $rp.nav.backward_count > 0 ) { 
          $prev_link = """<a href="$rp.nav.backward_url">""" + get_plural_phrase( $rp.nav.backward_count, "text_skiplinks_back" ) + "</a>"; 
      }
      if ( $rp.nav.forward_count > 0 ) { 
          $next_link = """<a href="$rp.nav.forward_url">""" + get_plural_phrase( $rp.nav.forward_count, "text_skiplinks_forward" ) + "</a>"; 
      }
  } elseif ( $p isa MonthPage ) {
      var MonthPage mp = get_page() as MonthPage;
  	if ($mp.prev_url != "") { $prev_link = "<a href='$mp.prev_url'>Previous</a>"; }
  	if ($mp.next_url != "") { $next_link = "<a href='$mp.next_url'>Next</a>"; }
  }

var string[] navlinks_order = [];
  var string{} navlinks_urls = {};
  var string{} navlinks_text = {};
 
  $navlinks_order =
    [
        "entries",
        "archive",
        "read",
        "profile",
    ];
 
 $navlinks_urls =
    {   "profile" => "$p.base_url/profile",
        "entries" => "$p.base_url",  
        "archive" => "$p.base_url/archive",
        "read" => "$p.base_url/read",

};
 
 $navlinks_text =
    {   "profile" => "Profile",
        "archive" => "Archive",        
        "read" => "Read",        
        "entries" => "Recent",      
        
    };

open_module("navlinks", "", "");
    var string[] links = [];
    
    if ( $prev_link ) {
        $links[size $links] = $prev_link;
    }    
    
    foreach var string k ($navlinks_order) {
        if ($navlinks_urls{$k} != "") {
            var string css = """ class="$k" """;
            if ($p.view == $k) { $css = """ class="current $k" """; }
            $links[size $links] = """<a href="$navlinks_urls{$k}"$css>$navlinks_text{$k}</a>""";
        }
    }
    
    if ( $next_link ) {
        $links[size $links] = $next_link;
    }
     
    
    print_module_list($links);
    close_module();
}

chickenfeet

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/01/27/lise-davidsen-at-the-met/

larryhammer

I’ve had this quote in my scratch file for a few years, waiting for me to find something to say about it. Except, I’ve got nothing that it doesn’t say itself, and better:

“Imaginative fiction trains people to be aware that there are other ways to do things, other ways to be; that there is not just one civilization, and it is good, and it is the way we have to be.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

---L.

Subject quote from Rocket Man, Elton John.

cimorene

The thing about the changes made in the new miniseries of The Seven Dials Mystery is that they seem motivated by a couple of motives that strike me as unwise and illegitimate:

to make a rollicking comedy-adventure-farce way more serious and solemn and sad

to make sure the main heroine is not motivated by spunk, excitement, or sheer desire to solve crimes, but by revenge for the man she loooooooooved

to make the heroine just the MOST speshul, not because of what she achieves or her choices and actions, but because of who she innately is

You see what I'm saying? ( Read more... )

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schneefink - January recs: Hermitcraft fusions
jesse_the_k in fancake - SHERLOCK BBC: Once, Twice by Rhuia
yhlee - emotional support spinning
cimorene - A fascinating 1920s portrait of a seedy London nightclub
chickenfeet - Stellar singing in Rigoletto revival at the COC
aurumcalendula - Upcoming Vidshows in 2026
pronker in fancake - Lord of the Rings: The Slash Fairy Cometh by Cyberwulf
aurumcalendula - (no subject)
troyswann - Water Water everywhere
chickenfeet - Juno award nominees
sabotabby - Reading Wednesday
minoanmiss in agonyaunt - Ask a Manager: Business and Politics
aurumcalendula - January Talking Meme - What are your vidding ambitions for 2026?
cyphomandra - Gaming Update
troyswann - Sure. Okay. Why not this now?
silveradept - Snowflake Challenge 0206 #14: Primers and Recommendations
wishfulfilled in style_system - Navlinks Issue With Custom Override
chickenfeet - Lise Davidsen "Live at the Met"
larryhammer - “mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids/in fact it’s cold as hell and there’s no one there”
cimorene - The thing about the adaptational changes made to The Seven Dials Mystery

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January recs: Hermitcraft fusions

SHERLOCK BBC: Once, Twice by Rhuia

emotional support spinning

A fascinating 1920s portrait of a seedy London nightclub

Stellar singing in Rigoletto revival at the COC

Upcoming Vidshows in 2026

Lord of the Rings: The Slash Fairy Cometh by Cyberwulf

(no subject)

Water Water everywhere

Juno award nominees

Reading Wednesday

Ask a Manager: Business and Politics

January Talking Meme - What are your vidding ambitions for 2026?

Gaming Update

Sure. Okay. Why not this now?

Snowflake Challenge 0206 #14: Primers and Recommendations

Navlinks Issue With Custom Override

Lise Davidsen "Live at the Met"

“mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids/in fact it’s cold as hell and there’s no one there”

The thing about the adaptational changes made to The Seven Dials Mystery

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