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Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry (s1, e1-6)

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Title: Looking Forward To Most
Rating: R
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Donny gets poisoned.
Word Count: 2,873

( Looking Forward To Most )

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It looks like there were two bills regarding Venezuela introduced yesterday:

H.Con.Res.68 - To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/68

and

S.3595 - A bill to prohibit the use of funds for the deployment of United States military or intelligence personnel in Venezuela for certain purposes.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3595

(I saw the AP mention that a war powers resolution to limit further attacks on Venezuela advanced in the Senate, but I'm unclear if that referred to either of these)

ETA (1/9/2026): I think this is the resolution mentioned by the AP:

S.J.Res.98 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/98/

regshoe

Trying something a bit different for the annual Sutcliff this time.

We Lived in Drumfyvie (1975) is a series of short stories about the history of a fictional Scottish town (nothing to do with the real Fyvie in Aberdeenshire, setting of my favourite ballad), from its creation as a burgh by David I in the twelfth century to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee at the end of the nineteenth.

( God, it's exhausting being Scottish, in't it? )

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Title: Life’s a Beach
Fandoms: Friends, Lucifer, Revenge
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Chandler, Monica, Joey (Friends); Emily/Amanda, Nolan (Revenge); Lucifer, Chloe (Lucifer)
Rating: PG
Content: 9 icons with beach scenes from 3 TV shows.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #502 - Sand

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andrewducker

1. The sugar industry deliberately shifted the heart disease focus to saturated fat: (tags:sugar diet fat OhForFucksSake history )
2. We've run out of words, so every new service sounds like an alien: (tags:language funny )

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cimorene

I've been feeling a bit bored lately, but I started reading some more 1920s detective novels that I haven't read before (the works of Freeman Wills Crofts) and am having a lot of fun.

His plots are elaborate, not to say convoluted, and there are lots of details about the investigations as well as usually a bit of international travel and some colorful descriptions of scenery, but at the same time his narrative voice is rather dry and quite formal, sort of like a Data or Spock character was given a lively passage in another language and translated it as directly as possible into their own typical voice.

Also sometimes his character names are very funny: Pierce Whymper (The Starvel Hollow Tragedy), William Service (The Sea Mystery), Cosgrove Ponson (The Ponson Case).

paulkincaid

My thoughts on the books of the year at Strange Horizons will surely come as no surprise to anyone who has read my summation of the year (https://ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/another-year-and/) on my blog. But I was honoured to find Dan Hartland singling out Colourfields. https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/2025-in-review-part-two/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPMZlNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEezWZ1XPBPKiQJ9PL28DIYp5wv4EIgpRZUpj9rjbIX2no704xStyCoTK5ZIAo_aem_ljWtnL4cAiR7xNfzYbuHIQ

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silveradept

snowflake_challenge posted their fourth prompt, and I had to look at it a couple times before I started getting close to an understanding of what was being asked for.

On many of the fannish websites we use, our history is easily compileable into "pages". When we look back through those pages, sometimes we stumble upon things that we think are rather cool.

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

( Here's where I admit I don't use fannish websites all that much. )

Current Mood: refreshed
Current Music: Infinte Rivals - Dive to Heart (Third Inception)

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260107.html

Its popular nickname is the Spaghetti Nebula.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260107.html

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Title: Sand
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of sand, sand dunes, sandy beaches

( Sand )

tielan

Challenge #1

The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I need to get posting back on here again. It's been a rough year, a lot more intense with work, a lot more emotional energy required to navigate the world than before, and fewer people interacting over here.

So I'm looking to expand my horizons this year. Maybe that involves new people, maybe that involves new fandoms, maybe that involves things I haven't yet conceptualised yet. We'll work it out as it comes.

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My profile on other social media reads "modern quilter, permaculture gardener, unrepentant foodie, cat servant, Jesus freak". I would add to that "hockey player (field, not fishbowl)".

Mostly, those are the labels I give out to non-fannish people.

Fannishly, I haven't really been fannish in a number of years. it's slowly been draining out of me as I stopped watching shows or franchises, and switched over to writing more original fiction instead of fanfiction.

However, fannishly, I tend to like the "second string" female character - the one that gets the "oh, and I like her, too" response by the kinds of fans who actually like female characters in male-dominated megafandoms. I write fanfic (but these days mostly exchanges), and a lot of it's romance or 'contains romantic themes'. I used to do meta, but I don't really have the energy or space for it anymore.

I think quite a bit about politics, which includes religion, race, sexuality, gender, history, culture, and all the other things that are human and therefore are political by virtue of how we think of them and regulate them.

Right now, I'm editing the first book of a series, and trying to write the second book. I was hoping to write the 2nd book last year, but hoo boy did my creativity drain away in 2025! It took me five years to get the first book done, hopefully it doesn't take another five to write the second! Although at that rate, I'll still probably be going faster than GRRM...

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Giles: If the two of you could remain civil long enough to—
Buffy: It's just so sudden. I don't know what to say.
Spike: Just say yes, and make me the happiest man on earth.
Buffy: Oh, Spike! Of course it's yes!

~~Something Blue~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

I Spy... (Buffy, Angel, Drusilla, PG) by badly_knitted

Bloody Babysitter (Spike, Giles, FRT) by nondenomifan
Better Things (Spike, Riley, Robin, FRT) by nondenomifan

Chasing Redemption (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by EnchantedWillow
Gingerbread (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxine Eden

William Ward, Grad Student (Buffy/Spike, R) by EnchantedWillow
Buffy Summers, Time-Traveling College Student (Buffy/Spike, R) by EnchantedWillow
Rupert Giles, Watcher in Re(Training) (Buffy/Spike, R) by EnchantedWillow

[Chaptered Fiction]

Bound, Chapter 67 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by RavenLove12
Gods and Monsters, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxine Eden
Buffy and the Slayer - Season 3, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Sunnydale Sentinel
Can't Remember to Forget You, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, R) by LadyInQuest
Playing With Fire, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, G) by stellugh
A Second Chance- Their Story, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Loup Noir
Just Two Lost Souls, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Holly