On this day in 2011 I got my first LiveJournal account. I consider my LJversary to also be my fanniversary since it marks the time I found online fandom community. LJ has been and continues to be one of only two social media platforms where I am consistently active (the other one being Dreamwidth here).
Thank you kindly to the wonderful ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kass for sharing the link to this Purim Spiel! "Heated Rabbi-ry" vid on Instagram. לאַפינג אויס הויך
kass for sharing the link to this Purim Spiel! "Heated Rabbi-ry" vid on Instagram. לאַפינג אויס הויךcmcmck has posted a new article about DNA testing on the remains of some of the ill-fated sailors of Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition. Click here for that post on DW.There Are Content Warnings For This Fic! Content warnings for mental illness, bear-trap injury, bad parenting!
Also note: ends on a cliff-hanger.
Written for the Valentine Edition of the Firewhiskey Fic Challenge, a 48-hour period during which fanworks creators drink "adult beverages" or "do the 420" and create their fanworks "under the influence" with no editing allowed. Participants then view all the fanworks and vote on them in the categories of Most Coherent Entry, Least Coherent Entry, Funniest Entry, Favorite Entry, Best Use of Prompt, and Best Smut. I was awarded Most Coherent Entry (and not for just the first time: I do have a high tolerance level).
This was also written for the SNFU Fanworks Challenge (12SNFU) for writing fic where the title of the fic is taken from the title of one of the songs by Canadian punk rock band SNFU.
This was also written for the 2026 Edition of Be The First. That challenge is to write a fic for a fandom that had not yet been represented in AO3.
Title: I’m Real Scared (or: What Can Happen If a Psychopath Rescues You During a Manitoba Blizzard)
Fandoms: Cold Comfort; Canadian Six Degrees
Characters: Stephen Miller, Floyd Lucas, Dolores Lucas
Length: 551 words
Summary: What can happen if a psychopath rescues you during a Manitoba blizzard.
Fic on AO3.
Also note: ends on a cliff-hanger.
Written for the Valentine Edition of the Firewhiskey Fic Challenge, a 48-hour period during which fanworks creators drink "adult beverages" or "do the 420" and create their fanworks "under the influence" with no editing allowed. Participants then view all the fanworks and vote on them in the categories of Most Coherent Entry, Least Coherent Entry, Funniest Entry, Favorite Entry, Best Use of Prompt, and Best Smut. I was awarded Most Coherent Entry (and not for just the first time: I do have a high tolerance level).
This was also written for the SNFU Fanworks Challenge (12SNFU) for writing fic where the title of the fic is taken from the title of one of the songs by Canadian punk rock band SNFU.
This was also written for the 2026 Edition of Be The First. That challenge is to write a fic for a fandom that had not yet been represented in AO3.
Title: I’m Real Scared (or: What Can Happen If a Psychopath Rescues You During a Manitoba Blizzard)
Fandoms: Cold Comfort; Canadian Six Degrees
Characters: Stephen Miller, Floyd Lucas, Dolores Lucas
Length: 551 words
Summary: What can happen if a psychopath rescues you during a Manitoba blizzard.
Fic on AO3.
Those of you who are very active in MFU fandom already know this, but for those who don't know about this and might find it interesting: the winner of the 2026 Preakness Stakes on May 16th was a horse named "Napoleon Solo". Furthermore, there is fic referencing this: A Horse Named Napoleon Solo by st_crispins.
(If you read the fic and leave comments, feel free to comment "here on a rec fromride_4ever".)
st_crispins.(If you read the fic and leave comments, feel free to comment "here on a rec from
ride_4ever".)May 25th is celebrated annually as Towel Day to honor the memory of Douglas Adams by carrying a towel in reference to his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where it says "A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."
May 25th is also the annual Wear the Lilac Day to honor the memory of Terry Pratchett by wearing a lilac in reference to his Discworld where characters wear a sprig of lilac to commemorate the fallen revolutionaries of "The Glorious Revolution" in Ankh-Morpork.
GNU Terry Pratchett. GNU Douglas Adams.
May 25th is also the annual Wear the Lilac Day to honor the memory of Terry Pratchett by wearing a lilac in reference to his Discworld where characters wear a sprig of lilac to commemorate the fallen revolutionaries of "The Glorious Revolution" in Ankh-Morpork.
GNU Terry Pratchett. GNU Douglas Adams.
GNU Rubynye AKA Minoanmiss
Apr. 21st, 2026 01:23 pmPart memorial tribute to Ny and part public health PSA, this by werpiper posted on AO3: COVID: Speaking Out About Rubynye. These are the notes for what werpiper said at Ny's memorial.
werpiper posted on AO3: COVID: Speaking Out About Rubynye. These are the notes for what werpiper said at Ny's memorial.that poem Sonya wrote about Ny in 2022
Mar. 4th, 2026 11:33 pmMost of you -- or perhaps all of you -- will understand why I am currently fixated on the last three lines of the Sonya Taaffe poem "The House Snakes: For Nyani Martin":
...our earth will always shake,
our restless scales unfurling to enfold
your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.
The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".
...our earth will always shake,
our restless scales unfurling to enfold
your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.
The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".
Via a post from goss: tragic, shocking news about minoanmiss AKA Rubynye on AO3.
My icon says "sad" but this is way beyond that. I am utterly shocked and crushed.minoanmiss and I met once at a con and I hoped to meet up again...and now never will. We communicated regularly on DW and often sent each other postal mail...and now never will again.
May her memory be a blessing...and an inspiration.
goss: tragic, shocking news about minoanmiss AKA Rubynye on AO3.My icon says "sad" but this is way beyond that. I am utterly shocked and crushed.
minoanmiss and I met once at a con and I hoped to meet up again...and now never will. We communicated regularly on DW and often sent each other postal mail...and now never will again. May her memory be a blessing...and an inspiration.
Here's what happens when fandom and amigurumi collide: Crochet Your Celebrity Crush by Lee Sartori, ISBN 9780760393659.
Firewhiskey Fic will be running its Valentine Edition inebriated fanworks-a-thon this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Prompts are now posted in the comm. You can see the prompts and details about this no-signup, no-stress, no-sobriety event at the Firewhiskey Fic comm on DW.
Thank you kindly to the following fen who sent me postal mail in January: a letter from oldtoadwoman, a handmade needlepoint card from smallhobbit, and handmade "the god of feathers" art from mific. I am blessed to be the recipient of these lovely words and crafts and arts. <3
oldtoadwoman, a handmade needlepoint card from smallhobbit, and handmade "the god of feathers" art from mific. I am blessed to be the recipient of these lovely words and crafts and arts. <3No deadline, no stress, multifandom prompt table challenge for creating fanworks in the Soulmates trope. If you are into this trope...or want to get into this trope...check out the 5 Soulmates Challenge. This link will take you to all the info and FAQs about how the prompts and the claims work for this challenge.
Oh noes! I thought that I did a Fannish Fifty 2025 post about stargore's SNFU Fanworks Challenge, but I haven't been able to find that post and now I'm wondering if what I'm recalling is that I intended to post about it...but got sidetracked somewhere along the way and didn't post. So now it's 2026 and here I am to pimp the SNFU Fanworks Challenge from 2025...but no worries that we're into the next year now...it's an open-ended challenge with no deadline.
The inspo for this challenge comes from Hard Core Logo and from the C6D (Canadian Six Degrees) fandoms, but there are no restrictions on what fandom you can choose for the challenge. See details on stargore's Dreamwidth and stargore's neocities website.
stargore's SNFU Fanworks Challenge, but I haven't been able to find that post and now I'm wondering if what I'm recalling is that I intended to post about it...but got sidetracked somewhere along the way and didn't post. So now it's 2026 and here I am to pimp the SNFU Fanworks Challenge from 2025...but no worries that we're into the next year now...it's an open-ended challenge with no deadline.The inspo for this challenge comes from Hard Core Logo and from the C6D (Canadian Six Degrees) fandoms, but there are no restrictions on what fandom you can choose for the challenge. See details on stargore's Dreamwidth and stargore's neocities website.
random post is random: banned books
Jan. 22nd, 2026 02:17 pmI'm putting together a program at the public library where I work as an Acquisitions and Collection Management Librarian. It's a program about books that have been challenged or banned in the recent onslaught against the freedom to read in the U.S. Some of the reasons...I can't even! I don't know whether to engage in bitter laughter or to just plain cry...or both...yeah, both.
Just a few moments ago I encountered this one about a book I read recently: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been banned in some parts of the U.S. because Dunbar-Ortiz puts Indigenous Native Americans at the center of her telling of U.S. history "causing the book to gain detractors who prefer that history be told from the colonizer perspective". To paraphrase Shakespeare in Hamlet: "If all history books were to be judged on preferred perspective 'who should scape whipping'."
Just a few moments ago I encountered this one about a book I read recently: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been banned in some parts of the U.S. because Dunbar-Ortiz puts Indigenous Native Americans at the center of her telling of U.S. history "causing the book to gain detractors who prefer that history be told from the colonizer perspective". To paraphrase Shakespeare in Hamlet: "If all history books were to be judged on preferred perspective 'who should scape whipping'."
The next Firewhiskey Fic event for the altered-states creation of fanworks along with lots of sociability amongst fellow participants will take place from Friday, February 13th to Sunday, February 15th. If you'd like to spend some time creating fanworks while either imbibing or doing the 420 in an environment of online partying with the FWF fen, join the comm at Firewhiskey Fic on Dreamwidth. No signups, no stress, no sobriety.
More info will be posted the week before the event.
More info will be posted the week before the event.
