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mific) wrote in sga_noticeboard2025-07-20 02:14 pmSignalboost: fan_writers comm - for meta about writing
fan_writers is now open for business. It's a multifandom comm for meta about writing. Please post or link your writing theory, tips, techniques, and other writing meta here. As the name suggests, our primary context is fanfiction, but original-fiction writers are also very welcome. We're just here to geek out about writing!Join, subscribe, say hi on the Introduction post, and comment with Tumblrs, podcasts, Substacks, and any other writing resources you'd recommend on the Resources post. But most of all, post or link to your meta about writing, and join in the discussions. (Or lurk. Lurkers are absolutely welcome, too.)
Hope to see you over at
fan_writers!
juniperphoenix (juniperphoenix) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-19 06:17 pm
juniperphoenix) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-19 06:17 pmEntry tags:
Narsil by leftenwright (SFW)
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Narsil and the One Ring
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: stained glass, mirrors, acrylic paint
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: leftenwright on Reddit
Why this piece is awesome: Absolutely gorgeous piece. The simple, elegant lines of the sword and ring are great subjects for stained glass. The broken end is still sharp.
Link: Narsil
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Narsil and the One Ring
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: stained glass, mirrors, acrylic paint
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: leftenwright on Reddit
Why this piece is awesome: Absolutely gorgeous piece. The simple, elegant lines of the sword and ring are great subjects for stained glass. The broken end is still sharp.
Link: Narsil
mific (mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-19 01:21 pm
mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-19 01:21 pmEntry tags:
Mary by seanpgilroy (SFW)
Fandom: Sinners
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Mary
Content Notes/Warnings: lots of blood!
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: seanpgilroy on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: This one is very much in the horror genre - Mary after she's been turned, grinning, with bloody teeth, blood all down her front. The drawing is very accomplished, and it packs a dramatic punch, especially as it's grayscale apart from the blood.
Link: Mary
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Mary
Content Notes/Warnings: lots of blood!
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: seanpgilroy on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: This one is very much in the horror genre - Mary after she's been turned, grinning, with bloody teeth, blood all down her front. The drawing is very accomplished, and it packs a dramatic punch, especially as it's grayscale apart from the blood.
Link: Mary
juniperphoenix (juniperphoenix) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-18 07:59 pm
juniperphoenix) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-18 07:59 pmEntry tags:
Mr. Eko character poster by Left-Profession-1865 (SFW)
Fandom: LOST
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Mr. Eko
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital painting
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: Left-Profession-1865 on Reddit
Why this piece is awesome: Eko sits in the gloom of the jungle, looking up at the Beechcraft that played such a crucial role in his story. It's a very atmospheric piece with great use of light and shadow.
Link: Mr. Eko character poster
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Mr. Eko
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital painting
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: Left-Profession-1865 on Reddit
Why this piece is awesome: Eko sits in the gloom of the jungle, looking up at the Beechcraft that played such a crucial role in his story. It's a very atmospheric piece with great use of light and shadow.
Link: Mr. Eko character poster
rivkat (rivkat) wrote2025-07-17 02:38 pm
rivkat) wrote2025-07-17 02:38 pmNonfiction
James C. Scott, ( James Scott, resisting dominance )
Agustin Fuentes, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary: ( not as detailed as I wanted )
Deborah Valenze, The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History: ( Malthus and corn (and corn laws) )
Jane Marie, Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans: ( The bad kind of MLM )
Becca Rothfeld, All Things Are Too Small: ( in praise of excess )
Douglas Brinkley, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion: ( a big day and its commemoration )
Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War: ( shockingly, it's complicated )
Guru Madhavan, Applied Minds: How Engineers Think: ( they try things )
Theatre Fandom: Engaged Audiences in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Kirsty Sedgman, Francesca Coppa, & Matt Hills: ( live theater as a fandom source )
Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves: ( he's not wrong or exempt )
Tony Judt, When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010: ( foresight that didn't help )
KC Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing: ( functionality is all )
Agustin Fuentes, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary: ( not as detailed as I wanted )
Deborah Valenze, The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History: ( Malthus and corn (and corn laws) )
Jane Marie, Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans: ( The bad kind of MLM )
Becca Rothfeld, All Things Are Too Small: ( in praise of excess )
Douglas Brinkley, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion: ( a big day and its commemoration )
Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War: ( shockingly, it's complicated )
Guru Madhavan, Applied Minds: How Engineers Think: ( they try things )
Theatre Fandom: Engaged Audiences in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Kirsty Sedgman, Francesca Coppa, & Matt Hills: ( live theater as a fandom source )
Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves: ( he's not wrong or exempt )
Tony Judt, When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010: ( foresight that didn't help )
KC Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing: ( functionality is all )
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-17 09:31 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-17 09:31 amRec: RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid], by pollyrepeat
I was like, can I make this work for fancake's "Working Together" theme? And I decided I could not.
So I'm going to slap it in here for now because it's too good not to share immediately:
RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid] (30 words) by pollyrepeat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot Diaries), Fanvids, Video Format: Streaming, Embedded Video
Summary:
No spoilers for Murderbot, and all the spoilers, I guess, for The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
fancake's "Working Together" theme? And I decided I could not.So I'm going to slap it in here for now because it's too good not to share immediately:
RADIOACTIVE by Murderbot [vid] (30 words) by pollyrepeat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot Diaries), Fanvids, Video Format: Streaming, Embedded Video
Summary:
A vid or fanvid is a video edit, often set to music, produced by fans, known as "vidders."
No spoilers for Murderbot, and all the spoilers, I guess, for The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-17 07:34 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-17 07:34 amEntry tags:
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy, by Martha Wells
Perihelion's people notice it's been acting strangely since it returned from its last solo mission. A short story set after Artificial Condition.
My favorite thing about this series is Murderbot and ART and their favorite humans. My least favorite thing is all the descriptions of walking around. This has both. I would have liked it a lot better if it had spent half as much time describing the path they took through the spaceport facility and twice as much time exploring Iris and Peri's relationship because that's the important stuff, right? I wanted to learn more about their relationship and the ways Peri changed after meeting Murderbot and what Iris thinks about those changes. Here I was thinking ART was always like this, but it seems Murderbot might have had more of an effect on ART then it could have known.
Instead: Transit schedules. :(
Read it for free at Reactor.
My favorite thing about this series is Murderbot and ART and their favorite humans. My least favorite thing is all the descriptions of walking around. This has both. I would have liked it a lot better if it had spent half as much time describing the path they took through the spaceport facility and twice as much time exploring Iris and Peri's relationship because that's the important stuff, right? I wanted to learn more about their relationship and the ways Peri changed after meeting Murderbot and what Iris thinks about those changes. Here I was thinking ART was always like this, but it seems Murderbot might have had more of an effect on ART then it could have known.
Instead: Transit schedules. :(
Read it for free at Reactor.
juniperphoenix (juniperphoenix) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-16 06:05 pm
juniperphoenix) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-16 06:05 pmEntry tags:
Dreamlike Reunion by thedesertedtraveler (SFW)
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Stede Bonnet/Edward Teach
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: linocut
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
thedesertedtraveller
Why this piece is awesome: A romantic moment between Ed and Stede. Linocut is a terrific medium to emphasize the light/dark contrast of this pairing.
Link: Dreamlike Reunion
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Stede Bonnet/Edward Teach
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: linocut
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: A romantic moment between Ed and Stede. Linocut is a terrific medium to emphasize the light/dark contrast of this pairing.
Link: Dreamlike Reunion
felis (felis) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-16 02:13 pm
felis) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-16 02:13 pmEntry tags:
113 times a second by Elenstar (SFW)
Fandom: The Expanse (Book Series)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The Investigator (proto!Miller)
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:elenstar
Why this piece is awesome: I really love eeriness, the shadowed face, and the colours here! The protomolecule swirling around him, creating his outline, the shining eyes out of the black shadow... Very cool.
Link: https://elenstar.tumblr.com/post/174670709712/113-times-a-second-a-drawing-for-wtf-fandom
Bonus: The same artist also drew a set of six drawings for the final book in the series, Leviathan Falls, which look almost like they could be movie posters. But while the Investigator also appears in the show and is more or less safe to view even if you don't want spoilers, two of these six are indeed quite spoiler-y. If you don't care about that or have already read the book, I definitely recommend checking these out as well. There's an atmosphere of space travel and eery alienness in all of them, the colour schemes are fantastic, and I really like the inclusion of the different spaceships as well. Just awesome all around.
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The Investigator (proto!Miller)
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: I really love eeriness, the shadowed face, and the colours here! The protomolecule swirling around him, creating his outline, the shining eyes out of the black shadow... Very cool.
Link: https://elenstar.tumblr.com/post/174670709712/113-times-a-second-a-drawing-for-wtf-fandom
Bonus: The same artist also drew a set of six drawings for the final book in the series, Leviathan Falls, which look almost like they could be movie posters. But while the Investigator also appears in the show and is more or less safe to view even if you don't want spoilers, two of these six are indeed quite spoiler-y. If you don't care about that or have already read the book, I definitely recommend checking these out as well. There's an atmosphere of space travel and eery alienness in all of them, the colour schemes are fantastic, and I really like the inclusion of the different spaceships as well. Just awesome all around.
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-13 09:05 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-13 09:05 amEntry tags:
all of these can be solved with leeches
Fam, I have been so wiped out lately that I feel like I have a Victorian wasting disease. All I can really do is just sit on the couch and read or work on my virtual farm. On the other hand this has given me plenty of time to make up Fake Victorian Wasting Diseases:
- nervous frippery
- whispering spleen
- hysterical ennui
- chimney wheeze
- evening vapors
- wastrel's scrod
mific (mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-13 04:45 pm
mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-13 04:45 pmEntry tags:
"for a few hours, we were free" by doodlesnoff (SFW)
Fandom: Sinners
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Smoke, Stack, Sammie (Preacherboy), Annie, Mary, Bo Chow, Grace Chow, Delta Slim, Pearline
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: doodlesnoff on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A great montage of them all dancing at the Juke, before everything goes to hell. I love the warm colours and the joy.
Link: "for a few hours, we were free"
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Smoke, Stack, Sammie (Preacherboy), Annie, Mary, Bo Chow, Grace Chow, Delta Slim, Pearline
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: doodlesnoff on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A great montage of them all dancing at the Juke, before everything goes to hell. I love the warm colours and the joy.
Link: "for a few hours, we were free"
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-10 11:30 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-10 11:30 amEntry tags:
Dexter (2006-2013)
Once upon a time, I watched the first five seasons of Dexter and then stopped for whatever reason. Recently I saw it was on Netflix and thought I should finally finish the series and I might as well start at the beginning so as to maximize the amount of time I could spend not having to think about anything else in the world except for what a selfish asshole Dexter is and how much I love Deb.
Previously on Dexter...
( Spoilers for the series )
Previously on Dexter...
( Spoilers for the series )
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-09 09:38 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-09 09:38 amEntry tags:
The Deep Dark, by Molly Knox Ostertag
In paperback, this makes a thick graphic novel worthy of the name. The greyscale art is simple but expressive, and you quickly get a feel for Mags and her Abuela and their small desert town near Joshua Tree. Mag's childhood friend is back in town with her cowboy boots and pinhole camera and stirring up feelings that Mags can't let herself have because she's tied to her home and the secret in the basement that's bleeding her dry.
A tender story about learning to love yourself so you can accept the love others have for you. The art's limited use of color highlights childhood memories and photographs, but comes out in full force for the happy ending.
Contains: butch/transfem romance; death of a grandparent; and, separate from the romance: infidelity, stalking, emotional manipulation, threats of suicide, gun violence.
A tender story about learning to love yourself so you can accept the love others have for you. The art's limited use of color highlights childhood memories and photographs, but comes out in full force for the happy ending.
Contains: butch/transfem romance; death of a grandparent; and, separate from the romance: infidelity, stalking, emotional manipulation, threats of suicide, gun violence.
mific (mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-09 12:56 pm
mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-09 12:56 pmEntry tags:
the smokestack twins by devilswalkingstick (SFW)
Fandom: Sinners
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Stack & Smoke
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: devilswalkingstick on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Another take on this favourite scene for artists. I like the simplicity of the planes of colour, and how their signature colours are emphasised - red for Stack, blue for Smoke.
Link: the smokestack twins
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Stack & Smoke
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: devilswalkingstick on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Another take on this favourite scene for artists. I like the simplicity of the planes of colour, and how their signature colours are emphasised - red for Stack, blue for Smoke.
Link: the smokestack twins
mific (mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-08 12:27 pm
mific) wrote in fanart_recs2025-07-08 12:27 pmEntry tags:
Nah, we cousins by crunchycerealisgood (SFW)
Fandom: Sinners
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Smoke & Stack (the smokestack twins)
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: crunchycerealisgood on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: I just watched the movie Sinners, which has inspired an avalanche of excellent fanart. This scene of the smokestack brothers is a favorite for artists - here's one version, which includes a WIP gif. Stack is in the red hat, Smoke the blue cap (both played by Michael B. Jordan). I like the strength of the painting, and WIP vids are always fun.
Link: Nah, we cousins
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Smoke & Stack (the smokestack twins)
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: crunchycerealisgood on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: I just watched the movie Sinners, which has inspired an avalanche of excellent fanart. This scene of the smokestack brothers is a favorite for artists - here's one version, which includes a WIP gif. Stack is in the red hat, Smoke the blue cap (both played by Michael B. Jordan). I like the strength of the painting, and WIP vids are always fun.
Link: Nah, we cousins