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Anime Check-in:🏐 "Haikyuu!!" S1E6-7

Episode 6: Poor Hinata, everyone's just making his nerves worse. 😭😅

omggg Hinata knocked the referee off his chair!! And then he hit Kageyama in the back of the head!!! I spit my coffee out on my desk. 😭

Yamaguchi's eye catch was cute.

The slow walk up to Hinata, lordy... I should not be drinking at all this is killing meee.

Of course Tanaka's speech would work on Hinata, they're both simple in ways. 😂 Not that Tanaka was wrong about relying on your teammates.

Lmao at Tsukishima and Kageyama fighting over blocking.

Oikawa...that name sounds familiar, probably saw it in fandom.

Episode 7: So it was Oikawa who asked to play against Kageyama, he's the captain of Seijou and Kageyama's old senpai.

Yamaguchi freaking out for Tsukki. :')

Hinata and Kageyama's last move was badass!

Tanaka catching the bar with his teeth. 😂

Haha, how cute. :')

Oh, I recognize that little guy at the end!! From either official art or fanart I'm guessing. He's shorter than Hinata!!! Man, Hinata is still taller than me. I'm the same height as the new char though...

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2026,
challenge 07

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #7

Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Challenge #1 * Challenge #2 * Challenge #3 * Challenge #4 * Challenge #5 * Challenge #6 *

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #7 )

And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

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I wish news stories would consistently include the name and number associated with legislation when talking about how [x] has been blocked or voted on.

Write Every day 2026: January, Day 13

In yesterday's poll, writing linearly is in the lead with 36%, but 23% of respondents are like me and write bits and snippets all over the place, then stitch them together. Here's how I put it back in 2008:

Backwards and forwards. Roundabout. A paragraph here, a sentence there, a half-scene, a turn of phrase somewhere out of joint. That's how it goes: like a puzzle, one of those with 10,000 pieces, but without much of an idea what the final picture will even look like. You have a few corner pieces, something solid, something to build on, but they may remain unconnected for the longest time. A bit of the picture somewhere in the middle - only it may turn out that it's actually in the upper left corner, once you see how things go together. And yet it does come together; in the end, it all fits, as a puzzle should.

That is the most amazing part: because unlike the puzzle, of course, those random bits of words and themes and structure aren't prefabricated to make sense. And yet they do.

I love writing. :D

Today's writing

Progress across three

fandomtrees treats! (I think those are the ones I can realistically finish, unless there's another delay. Or at least I hope I can!)

(I'm running late, so no question today.)

Tally

( Days 1-10 )

Day 11:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

daegaer,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 12:

badly_knitted,

china_shop,

carenejeans,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 13:

china_shop,

trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

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End-of-year wrap-up meme for 2025

After the Waiting (10,195 words, Guardian, outsider POV on the SID & on Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan's new relationship, post-canon)

The Best Thing for Everyone (8,726 words, Time of Fever/Unintentional Love Story, Go Hotae/Kim Donghee, bridging the gap between the two canons, angsty ending with hope for the future)

Breakage and Repair (5,247 words, Guardian, Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, post-canon, angst --> get-together)

( My 2025 fanworks and modding )

( The Meme (for 2025) )

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2026,
announcement

The Challenge is Coming...

I promise!

Our volunteers are from all over the world and have lots of different schedules so we can't always guarantee to have it at the same time each time. I know the last one was really late and that has made everyone (me included) nervous, but it is going up today within the next two hours. Thank you for reaching out. ❤️❤️

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Animation Check-in: "Danny Phantom" ep. 4-7

1x04

At least Jazz has standards.

Telling Danny to sell his comics because they're junk. 😭 My mom still regrets not being able to keep hers.

Danny selling his father's junk for money. *smh*

Oooh Sam's rich, that's why she was going to help Danny (if he'd listened to her even once).

Danny got turned into Spock!

Tucker straight up asking Tracey if she's a prostitute......

I wonder what software this was supposed to be shading?

Danny still doesn't know about Sam's theater/bowling alley.

1x05

Man in a dress joke on top of sexist joke...

Danny learns that getting revenge on your bully isn't the same as confronting them or fighting back.

Weird to think there's a ghost version of the school stuck in time.

What's wrong with 'band nerds' 😭

1x06

It just hit me that this is like Miraculous Ladybug's 'who gets akumatized today' but worse.

What is all that stuff running down the sick people's face supposed to portray?? I'd get it if it was coming out of their nose...

Because anime was mentioned, I looked up what anime came out in the same year as Danny Phantom (2004) and now I feel old.

Wait was it supposed to be a cold sweat?

1x07

I'm kinda surprised no ghost busters have shown up in town with all these ghost sightings.

I felt bad for Vlad until it showed him hitting on Maddie. *rolls eyes*

Jack called his Asian colleague Harriet Chin 'Harry Chin'...... I love Harriet's clapback to Maddie apologizing - "Sweetie, you married him, you should be."

So Vlad sent some of those ghosts to test Jack but Danny always took care of them. Vlad was the first ghost-hybrid Jack caused.

I'm surprised Vlad was willing to debase himself life that in the end even if it was in ghost form.

Danny's parents are so terrible. *smh* At least Danny has the excuse of being young.

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TV Tuesday: Is This Us?

Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk

A Financial Times article discussed a cultural change during the holidays in Britain, as smart TVs and non-TV viewing by a younger generation means that there is much less viewing of holiday specials, which had been a national tradition. Instead "data shows children as young as four spend longer watching YouTube each day than all PSB services combined", and that ratio is even worse with young teens. The article notes the situation is equally dire for other European broadcasters.

In the article, the concern is that younger viewers are turning away from content that is authentic to and about their own country. In the U.S., too, public television is under threat. Are there TV traditions that are disappearing due to the shift in viewing? What might be gone in another generation or two?

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consent

Posted by Zach Weinersmith

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consent

Click here to go see the bonus panel!

Hovertext:
Wonder Woman is the only superhero comfortable enough to incorporate her kinks into the costume.

Today's News:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consent

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heated rivalry

Hockey bros discover romance, tape at 11

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rant

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Tuesday @ 7:50 pm

People watching and this grandparent-core Boomer couple walk past, walking their little dog, totally normie except for the fact that dude is wearing a freaking Slipknot t-shirt???

Like I dunno what the story is there but I am sure it is fascinating.

Bear necessities

Posted by brojorlas

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77603396

by brojorlas

"I wish you would write a fic where Shen Wei's extensive knowledge about bears is actually needed."

Words: 332, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: short and sweet, Fluff, Humour, from a tumblr ask game, no beta we die like my brain after work

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77603396

Sailing Rigs

https://xkcd.com/3193/

I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.

https://xkcd.com/3193/

Eager

Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77503236

by Anonymous

This was not the plan.

This is so much better than the plan.

Words: 816, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: First Time, Just the Tip, Anal Sex, First Time Bottoming, Dirty Talk, Coming early, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77503236

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Manga Check-in: Dr. Stone v24 ch206-214

Spoilers if you're watching the anime ↘

Chapter 206:

Aww Suika and the boar and doggyyy---wait what is Tsukasa doing 🤣🤣🤣

The American team is revived! Ukyou's cute little face aw.

Yuzuriha and Taiju reunion!!

Chapter 207: Sai trying to get out of going with them, understandable with a brother like Ryuusui though;; I mean, he went to India to get away from him in the first place. X'D

...Sometimes Chelsea's blunt and rude manner is the best method to get information after all. 🤣

Wait were Ryuusui and Sai born from a mistress?? And they're not allowed in family photos. Daamn. Sai was forced to study math and Ryuusui couldn't be controlled. "Ryuusui only thought about how to exploit other people" I get the feeling Ryuusui was just trying to connect with Sai. Poor Ryuusui when he realized Sai ran away... Gen pointing out the truth ahhh. Ryuusui putting his hand over Sai's and saying he'd be lonely on the sea without him. My heart. 😭 I can't wait to see this animated.

Chapter 208: It was pretty interesting learning how they were going to make a computer from the ground up. A LOT goes into it no matter what level you're on. They also made a bank and I love how there was even candy on the teller desk. xD

Chapter 209: 'Basket weave Excalibur' Gennn.

Ukyou stop being cute for one minute challenge failed.

I forgot there are people who haven't seen that Suika's older now!!

They don't have time to make a return vessel, so whoever gets on the rocket is signing up for a suicide mission... OH I see now, the team would petrify themselves on the Moon and wait for rescue, however long it took. 😱

Chapter 210: Love how Senkuu combined Chrome and Gen's speech quirks to make 'crazy baad asty nay'. 😂

Chapter 211:

Cuuute.

Everyone crying over the rice, Senkuu thinking of Byakuya... 🤧

Chapter 212:

Japan group revived again! Lmao at Ruri swinging Kohaku around and everyone's reaction. Guess Ruri's sickness was the only thing holding her back from being a gorilla too.

Chrome said 'we're the same age now' to Ruri, was there an age gap? I know in Japan the slightest age gap can switch dynamics around.

OMG the dog and boar are alive and are still there!! Apparently their names are Chalk and Sagara.

Gen said only humans are affected by the petrification but then why did the birds get petrified? Unless the birds were a test and the beam was adjusted for humans after.

Oh my gosh Chalk and Sagara have a family now...but where did Chalk find another dog, aren't they more rare than boars?

The image of everyone flying into a drooling madness over sushi is so scary ahaha.

Chapter 213: The first TV system was made in Japan apparently.

Aw, Sai made the first game and he looks so happy. :')

The problem with introducing games is that there will be those with certain traits who won't want to stop playing them (speaking from experience). It's a great tool as a stress reliever though considering how much work they have to do in this stone world.

I literally said WTF when You and Gen got blown up. 😱 I can only imagine how magazine readers must've felt waiting for the next chapter.

Chapter 214: Lol Kaseki is always excited to help make something new even if he doesn't know what it is. They're making a satellite to find where Whyman is on the Moon so that when they go there, they won't have to find a needle in a haystack.

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Heated Rivalry rec

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Convivial tools.

We have been asked to build the same B2B SaaS website with the same featureset n^∞ times, and our answers for the optimal way to do that are increasingly limited. We’ve penned all of our markup into JavaScript templates just in case a product manager needs the wrapper component to post JSON somewhere down the line, and we’ve whittled away at style code until it’s just a mechanism for deploying one of two border-radius-drop-shadow combos to divs. It’s an industrial, production-minded way of approaching a discipline that has all the hallmarks of being a great craft, and that’s understandably uninspiring to many of us.

Henry Desroches on craft vs. industry.

TFW you get halfway down an online essay, see one single image, and your creepypasta-rotted brain immediately goes, “Wait. Wut.”

Write Every day 2026: January, Day 12

In yesterday's poll, third person limited was the most popular POV for writing by far - 89% of respondents like it, whereas only 32% like to write in first person and/or third person omniscient. For reading, there's much less of a gap - 79% like to read third person limited, 68% third person omniscient, and 53% first person. In both polls, second person is by far the least popular with only 16%.

Interestingly, most people have the same POV preferences for fanfic and original fic when reading (63%) or writing (53%)!

And 89% of respondents would like a story from a tickybox's POV. :D

For me, I'm not fond of second person in reading - I've come across no more than a handful of stories I actually liked, and I can't put my finger on what made those ones work for me when others didn't. So I've never tried to write it myself.

With first person, I like it much more in original fiction than in fanfic - unless it's epistolary fic or something like that, or the canon is already in first person. IMO it's already difficult to write first person well in general, to get a character's voice that consistently right in such a close way that it really feels like the character's voice telling the story. But in fanfic, to me first person makes it much more obvious when the author's view of the character's interiority differs from mine, so it often doesn't work for me for that reason.

I've written a bunch of first person stories, almost all for Sherlock Holmes and adjacent fandoms (out of 10 works, seven are in first person) - though not BBC Sherlock; as a TV canon, that's firmly in third person territory for me. *g* And I've tried omniscient POV once (The Finality Problem, Study in Emerald), which was a lot of fun. But the vast majority of what I read and write is limited third person. I really should experiment with POV more!

Today's writing

Progress on a

fandomtrees treat!

WED Question of the Day

Poll #34074

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

View Respondents

Are you a linear writer?

View Answers

yes, I start at the beginning and write until the end of the story
9 (34.6%)

yes, unless the story itself isn't linear
6 (23.1%)

no, I write bits and pieces all over the place and then stitch them together
8 (30.8%)

something else (see comments)
3 (11.5%)

tickyboxes are ...

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neatly lined up one after the other
7 (31.8%)

out of order
5 (22.7%)

beyond such human concerns
17 (77.3%)

Tally

( Days 1-10 )

Day 11:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

daegaer,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 12:

trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

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chat corner

Chat corner 2026-02, with some unexpected stats

Hi,

welcome to the weekly chat corner. Have anything SW-related to talk about? Here's your chance!

~ ~ ~

I've been thinking about Star Wars fanfic today, or writing thereof. I have a lot of WIPs (oh gods, so many), but I do like it when I get more than two people and a shoelace to read my fic and I realized... what do The Kids even read, these days?

So I went and looked. (On AO3, where else.)

Quick, can you guess?

In the "Star Wars - All Media Types" tag on AO3, there are 25,988 fics with update date between 2025-01-01 and today.

Ship categories

F/M (9918)
Gen (7677)
M/M (6971)
F/F (1791)
Multi (1671)
Other (932)

Oh whow. I did not expect so much F/M. Is that all Reylo?

Fandoms

Star Wars - All Media Types (17881)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types (7274)
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (4809)
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (2835)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) (2302)
Star Wars Original Trilogy (2019)
Andor (TV) (1555)
Star Wars: Rebels (1408)
Star Wars Legends - All Media Types (1229)
The Mandalorian (TV) (1136)

The Bad Batch surprised me here!

Characters

Obi-Wan Kenobi (6401)
Anakin Skywalker (4851)
Ahsoka Tano (2911)
Luke Skywalker (2641)
CT-7567 | Rex (2576)
Leia Organa (2480)
Padmé Amidala (2368)
CC-2224 | Cody (2324)
Rey (Star Wars) (1989)
Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (1898)

I'm... surprised by how unsurprising this is? I think this is the same top 10 I'd get if I removed the time filter, which feels odd.

Relationships

Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker (1568)
Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (1375)
Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker (1256)
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (1252)
CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi (997)
Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (707)
Rey/Ben Solo (558)
Leia Organa/Han Solo (532)
Kylo Ren/Rey (462)
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze (367)

And finally,

...yeah, that tracks.

Some details and notes

The F/M ships

Are this:

Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (1310)
Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker (1151)
Rey/Ben Solo (538)
Kylo Ren/Rey (446)
Leia Organa/Han Solo (420)
Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker (377)
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze (295)
Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso (287)
Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (270)
Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla

...so, big on Reylo but not only, or even mostly Reylo? I wish AO3 had a way to mark main ships vs background ones, that would be so useful for this.

Fic included

AO3 doesn't have a way to differentiate between "updated" and "first-posted", which means these numbers might be skewed by long-running WIPs. Just out of curiosity, I filtered only completed fics with one chapter (i.e. one-shots) and got 989 works in these fandoms:

Star Wars - All Media Types (685)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types (293)
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (159)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) (101)
Star Wars Original Trilogy (72)
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (68)
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (TV) (46)
The Mandalorian (TV) (40)
Star Wars: Rebels (38)
Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games) (32)

The Bad Batch higher, some Skeleton Crew, some JFO, but generally very similar. I guess we're pretty set on the Prequel era, huh.

...um. This got a bit more involved than an interesting bit of stats I wanted to entertain you with. Enjoy, I guess!

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The F/M ships

Fic included