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starting tomorrow I have three-ish weeks of break that I'm gonna (HOPEFULLY!!!) spend at home sleeping as much as I can, so hey! let me try this.

community for anyone interested:

sunshine_revival (I never actually post to the communities when I do these things, sorry, much love to the mods, I just can't.)

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
( sure, 'goals' )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: arise - i-dle

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POLL. The polls for January, February, March and April are still open.

You can make your case for your faves in the comments and if we missed something, you can do a write-in vote in the comments. We'll run a poll for each month through June, and then do a run-off poll in July.

Poll #33320 May 2025

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

View Respondents

What are your favourite releases of May 2025?

View Answers

2Z - Cross Road
0 (0.0%)

ablume - Echo
2 (9.5%)

Baekhyun - Chocolate / Elevator
1 (4.8%)

Bibi - Apocalypse
2 (9.5%)

Blackswan - I Like It Hot
0 (0.0%)

BOYNEXTDOOR - I Feel Good
2 (9.5%)

Chenle - Lucid
1 (4.8%)

DAY6 - Maybe Tomorrow
1 (4.8%)

E'LAST - Crazy Train
1 (4.8%)

EPEX, joan - so nice
0 (0.0%)

i-dle - Girlfriend / Good Thing
0 (0.0%)

Irene and Seulgi - Tilt
9 (42.9%)

IU - Never Ending Story / A beautiful person
2 (9.5%)

Jaechan - Poster Boy
0 (0.0%)

Jang Haneum - Shine
0 (0.0%)

Jeong Sewoon - goodbye
0 (0.0%)

Jin - Don't say you love me
3 (14.3%)

KickFlip - Freeze
1 (4.8%)

KIIRAS - Kill Ma Bo$$
0 (0.0%)

Kim Jaejoong - Rock Star
2 (9.5%)

Kiss of Life - Live, Love, Laugh
0 (0.0%)

Koi Kat - Wake Up Call
0 (0.0%)

Lee Changsub - 꽃이 되어줄게
0 (0.0%)

Lim Sejun - Summer
2 (9.5%)

MEOVV - Drop Top
4 (19.0%)

N.Flying - Everlasting
1 (4.8%)

P1Harmony - DUH!
3 (14.3%)

RIIZE - Bag Bad Back / Fly Up
3 (14.3%)

SAAY - Mood
0 (0.0%)

Seventeen - Thunder
4 (19.0%)

Shinee - Poet | Artist
8 (38.1%)

Tablo, RM - Stop the Rain
7 (33.3%)

Trendz - 카멜레온
0 (0.0%)

tripleS - Are You Alive
2 (9.5%)

TXT - Love Language
3 (14.3%)

UAU - 2 Months
2 (9.5%)

UmYull - 절망 속에서 춤을 추어라
0 (0.0%)

VVS - D.I.M.M
0 (0.0%)

The Wind - 안녕 내일
1 (4.8%)

XG - Million Places
1 (4.8%)

Xion - Camellia
0 (0.0%)

Yook Sungjae - Lie
0 (0.0%)

Yoonjisung - Voyage
0 (0.0%)

Yuta - Twisted Paradise
4 (19.0%)

Yuto - Blue Spring
0 (0.0%)

summerstorm

Betrayed by fandom osmosis: I thought all the episodes of the last series of Taskmaster were out. Imagine my disappointment when I went looking for episode 10 and realized episode 9 had a timestamp of 5 days ago.

I started watching season 3 of the Australian version, but I kind of don't like anyone in the line-up. Maybe if I give it some time.

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I haven't seen the last two episodes yet, but I am greatly enjoying Cloudward, Ho on Dropout.

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Seven months after I stopped playing with my Sunday group (and roughly three after they moved to 7 PM EST and I was fully freed from thinking about rejoining them), I've come to realize how much I dreaded that game, felt judged for my choices, and did not trust the DM with a character I was deeply invested in. I still struggle with my ADHD and general social faux pas (plural) and have moments where I beat myself up or wanna crawl into a hole because I feel I was super annoying/took over too much, but I trust my DMs, I have fun, I look forward to every session. It's much freer.

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General chat is for anything you want to talk about, k-pop related or not. These will go up at the beginning of every month, so feel free to check back in or comment at any point throughout the month. The post is stickied to the top of the comm along with the admin post.

Optional discussion question: how's the weather where you are?

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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged both Books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Length: 2743 words
Creator Links: RatTale
Theme: working together

Summary: After a long day of seeing patients, Doctor Watson is on his way home when he gets pulled into an alleyway to help one more patient for the night.

Reccer's Notes: When Watson has an unexpected patient, in an unexpected place, Holmes gets roped into helping. They have to work together for the benefit of the patient. It's very nice to read a story where Watson is the competent medical professional and is the one in charge instead of Holmes.

Fanwork Links: AO3

moriendum

I meant to post a fic for my bday + pride month but of course that didn't happen... all I managed was to write a pointless eric/seongmin pwp because watching them on idol radio was fascinating lol eric looked so awkward sitting next to him, I'm incredibly amused. happy belated pride month to those two! I hope they exchanged numbers! (video of where it started.) (yes that bsky account is mine, I didn't have a chance to say that before the world ended.)

#15 - a song that you hear often on the radio

Watch on YouTube

for some reason the radio I listen to in the car has been playing this song every few days for months now.

Current Mood: drained

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Our theme for July is working together!

This round is for fanworks that feature characters working together to achieve a common goal or—and this is not necessarily the same thing—fanworks set in the workplace.

The tag for this round is: theme: working together

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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TOTAL: 1 718...
... uuuuuuuuuuuugh. i mean for 10 days of that i was on vacation in greece but i had so much free time AND air conditioning and the rest of the month was also dead, so what gives, self. maybe it's the heat... :/

upside, i posted quite a bit! nice, nice.

POSTED !!! :
-cosplaying in another dimension with my tamagotchi! Chapter 2 (svsss, shen yuan/original luo binghe, adventure, OCs. (42 words XD)
-in This Economy chapters 9 and 10 ( bleach suburban ot4), seriously self post them slower BUT i managed to edit/fluff up the biggest issues i had with chapter 10, so it does in fact count like i wrote it this month.

IN PROGRESS
-cosplaying in another dimension with my tamagotchi! Chapter 3 (481 words)
-bleach suburban ot4 chapter 21 (946 words)
-naruto - cherry wine - madatobiizu ABO (180 words, very cool bit buuuut it contradicts early canon so hrthghgmmghghgh if can't fix then might not keep. not gonna post it.)

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( teaserssss )

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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

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Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Characters/Pairings: Harriet Vane & Mary Wimsey
Rating: Gen
Length: 1951
Creator Links: Beatrice_Otter on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Female friendship, Female characters

Summary: "I was complaining to my brother about how few friends I had, and he suggested that you might be an interesting person to know."

After Harriet is exonerated, she and Mary Wimsey meet for tea.

Reccer's Notes: A lovely, quietly perceptive story about two slightly lonely women finding commonalities and starting to become friends - one of Lord Peter's more successful machinations. It's beautifully written and the author's note at the end is interesting if you're a fan of the Wimsey books.

Fanwork Links: Tea For Two

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The regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.

Oneus - X
TWS - はじめまして (Japan)
Ejel - 의리소녀 (feat. Lee Seoyeon)
KIK - Timer (debut)
Baekho - Rush
Han Seungwoo - Stop It
Jayn Lee - 2/2
NouerA - n (number of cases)
Babymonster - Hot Sauce
AHOF - Rendezvous (debut)
One Pact - One Pack (pre-release)
Shin Soohyun - Love Letter (pre-release)
MYNAME - Bad Bad Higher (Japan)
Rescene - Deja Vu
KARD - Touch
ICHILLIN' - Glass Heart (pre-release)
Jung Yong Hwa - Shooting Star
DPNS - 무지개
1VERSE - Multiverse (pre-debut, pre-release)
Yu Dayeon - Oh My

New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 23 June

Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.

[ Rec Something Wednesday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]

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Fandom: Deadloch
Characters/Pairings: Dulcie Collins/Eddie Redcliffe/Cath York
Rating: Explicit
Length: 5010
Content Notes: not kidding about the rating
Creator Links: kirazi on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Femslash, Polyamory, Friends to lovers

Summary: “This is not a good idea, love,” Dulcie says, keeping her tone level. “I know I said I’d try to be more open to change, and I hear and respect your opinion, I truly do, but this is — it’s like the hobby farm. It’s really not going to work.”

“I just think,” Cath says, bright-eyed and earnest, “that it would be a healing experience for me. For us both! To share that kind of intimacy. I am committed to working through my anxiety about you fucking your partner and I’m sure that would be so much more manageable for me if we fucked her first. Together.”

(Eddie needs a gruck. Dulcie and Cath offer to help her out.)

Reccer's Notes: This is a polyamory fic where Cath decides she and Dulcie should have sex with Eddie so as to manage her anxiety that Dulcie might be unfaithful with Eddie (as happened in the past with a former partner at work). There's some nice psychological and historical exploration as Dulcie tries to work out what's going on, and the eventual sex is hot and well-written. What I like most is the character voices and dialogue for the three of them, which are spot on. It's also very funny, as are Eddie's creative takes on the English language.

Fanwork Links: Keep On Gruckin'

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Fandom: Midsommar
Characters: Dani Ardor, Hanna, Siv
Rating: T
Length: 4,212
Creator Links:

Selkit
Theme: female relationships

Summary: In her dreams, dark smudges crowd the edges of the world. One looms larger than the rest, twisting into impossible shapes, morphing into a figure with many faces, all of them howling with rage.

When she jolts awake, the dream-figure lingers. She tries to ignore it. She’s no stranger to nightmares. Her whole life has been one ever since her family’s deaths.

But things are different now. This is a new life. A new family.

Right?

Reccer's Notes: I love seeing what happens with Dani after the events of Midsommar, and this is such a good look at the continued ritual of being the May Queen! I am a known ho for ritual, but especially building off of the existing worldbuilding in such a believable way. I really enjoyed seeing more of Dani interacting with the other women of the Hårga as she learns to be part of her new family and culture. Plus the parts with Maja’s (and Christian’s) daughter were just perfect.

Fanwork Links: on AO3

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Fandom: original work
Characters/Pairings: powerful mage/warrior bonded to her
Rating: G
Length: n/a
Creator Links: creators have been revealed but the artist chose to make the work anon.
Themes: Female relationships, Femslash, Female characters, Characters of color, Magic

Summary: none provided

Reccer's Notes: Another gorgeous work from the recent Everything is Femslash exchange. It's in a fantasy setting, featuring a mage and her warrior. I love the warm earthy colours, and how, the mage being a little shorter, their faces and bodies fit together perfectly, and the way they're linked by the swirl of the magical bond. Beautiful. (Note that the post is locked to AO3.)

Fanwork Links: Always with you

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You can sign up as a participant here or as a pinch-hitter here. We can't wait to see you all there!

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Fandom: DC Comics
Pairings/Characters: Pamela Isely/Harleen Quinzel, Bruce Wayne
Rating: Teen
Length: 1,882 words
Creator Links: Unpretty on AO3
Theme: Female relationships, Canon lgbtq+ characters, humour, superpowers

Summary:
Bruce Wayne deals with supervillains almost as much as Batman does.

Reccer's Notes:
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy break into Bruce Wayne's office to stop Wayne Enterprises from doing evil corporate stuff. Or kill him. Bruce plays dumb. It's glorious.
I love Harley and Ivy's relationship in this. They're so true in how they love and support each other but are definitely super-villains who will definitely kill and/or main whoever gets in their way. Also Bruce's line about how Pamela probably wants to kill him because Harley finds him hot :D Bruce being smart by playing dumb is one of my favourite things.

Fanwork Links: Office Meeting
Also has a podfic!

moriendum

( personal opinion with a side of venting )

fandom: tbz
pairing: younghoon/haknyeon/sunwoo
rating: E
content warning: blood, blood drinking, suicidal ideation, allusions to depression, self-harm (self-imposed starvation), temporary major character death, not super descriptive smut.
wordcount: 7800
tags: drink it-inspired vampire au, human!younghoon and vampire!sunhak, "exes" to lovers sunhak, angst, vaguely historical.
a/n: one last goodbye to two of my favorite ships... I think I started this in 2023, definitely finished in 2024 after IWTV S02, and never posted it because it's bad and stupid and not very well written. the idea of bbangsunhak vampires had been on my mind since the drink it mv and I just couldn't get over it. (clearly.) big vampire leader juyeon is a byproduct of the mv btw, as funny as it is to write him like that, just like some lines of dialogue came from the song lyrics. I wanna post it now just to idk, begin the process of letting go by saying goodbye to this au for good. (I am aware how ironic some of the plot and wording is here.)

( Being the natural predator of humans doesn’t mean there are no rules. )

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: drink it - THE BOYZ

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The half-year continues! The polls for January, February and March are still open.

You can make your case for your faves in the comments and if we missed something, you can do a write-in vote in the comments. We'll run a poll for each month through June, and then do a run-off poll in July.

Poll #33292 April 2025

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

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What are your favourite releases of April 2025?

View Answers

&TEAM - Go in Blind
6 (24.0%)

82Major - Takeover
0 (0.0%)

Ace (VAV) - Minha Razao
0 (0.0%)

Aimers - Starry Night
1 (4.0%)

Ampers&one - Kick Start
2 (8.0%)

ANODE - 그대로 해줘 (feat. Moon Sua (Billlie))
0 (0.0%)

Apink - Tap Clap
1 (4.0%)

ARTMS - Burn
2 (8.0%)

Astro - Moon
2 (8.0%)

BEAST (Highlight) - Chains / Endless Ending
0 (0.0%)

Big Ocean - Attention
5 (20.0%)

Burvey - 아에이오우
0 (0.0%)

Cheeze - 집 데이트 / 그렇게 됐어 (feat. Young K (DAY6))
0 (0.0%)

Chen - Broken Party
0 (0.0%)

Chenle - Tear Bridge
0 (0.0%)

Chuu - Only Cry in the Rain
3 (12.0%)

Close Your Eyes - All My Poetry (내 안의 모든 시와 소설은)
0 (0.0%)

Daesung - Universe
0 (0.0%)

Dokyun - Light on Me
0 (0.0%)

Enhypen - Loose
3 (12.0%)

Fifty Fifty - Perfect Crime / Pookie
1 (4.0%)

from20 - Eye Candy
0 (0.0%)

Ha Hyunsang - 고양이
0 (0.0%)

Han Seungwoo - Positive Vibes
0 (0.0%)

Hebi - Onward
0 (0.0%)

Hi-Fi Un!corn - Beat It Beat It
0 (0.0%)

HITGS - Sourpatch
1 (4.0%)

ifeye - Nerdy
3 (12.0%)

Ilhoon - Michaelangelo
1 (4.0%)

Jang Hyunseung - Orbit
0 (0.0%)

Jannabi - 사랑의이름으로! (feat. Karina (aespa))
0 (0.0%)

Kai - Adult Swim / Walls Don't Talk / Wait On Me
6 (24.0%)

Kang Daniel - Mess
0 (0.0%)

Katseye - Gnarly
9 (36.0%)

Keonhee - I Just Want Love
0 (0.0%)

Kep1er - Yum
4 (16.0%)

Kik5o and AleXa - Vital Check
1 (4.0%)

Kim Sungjoong - DNDN (Day n Day n Night)
0 (0.0%)

Kisu - Face&Pace
0 (0.0%)

Kwon Eunbi - Hello Stranger
0 (0.0%)

Kwon Jieun - I'm in Love
0 (0.0%)

Kwon Jinah - 재회 / 놓아줘 / Love & Hate
1 (4.0%)

Kwon Soonkwan - Our Memories (with Jongho (Ateez))
0 (0.0%)

Loveone - Drama Queen
0 (0.0%)

Lucy - 잠깨 / 하마
2 (8.0%)

Mark - 1999
6 (24.0%)

ME:i - Muse/Ready Go
0 (0.0%)

MEOVV - Hands Up
7 (28.0%)

Moon Sua x Siyoon - Snap (feat. sokodomo)
2 (8.0%)

Navi - No Matter How Hard I Try (별짓 다 해봐도)
0 (0.0%)

NCHIVE - Never Give Up
0 (0.0%)

NCT Wish - poppop
1 (4.0%)

NEXZ - O-RLY?
0 (0.0%)

Niel - She
0 (0.0%)

Odd Youth - I Like You
0 (0.0%)

Oh My Girl - Oh My
0 (0.0%)

Oneus - Time Machine
1 (4.0%)

Onew - Mad
1 (4.0%)

Park Woojin - Cool & Hot (feat. Ha Sungwoon)
0 (0.0%)

Polarix - Dreamless
0 (0.0%)

Seo Jaeyong - Naro/On The Trail
0 (0.0%)

Shin Eujin - Anthem For You (이별찬가) (離別讚歌)
0 (0.0%)

Solar - Want
3 (12.0%)

Super Junior-L.S.S. - Pon Pon
0 (0.0%)

Sweet:ch - Candy House
0 (0.0%)

Ten - Silence
1 (4.0%)

TIOT - Flex Line
0 (0.0%)

tripleS - Girls Never Die/Rising
4 (16.0%)

TWS - 마음 따라 뛰는 건 멋지지 않아? (Countdown!)
3 (12.0%)

UDTT - Really Really
0 (0.0%)

Unis - Swicy
0 (0.0%)

VVS - Tea
0 (0.0%)

Whib - Bang Out
0 (0.0%)

Xikers - Breathe
2 (8.0%)

Yeonjeong - I'll Love the Evening
0 (0.0%)

Yoo Heedo - NADU
0 (0.0%)

You Daeyeon - Talk
0 (0.0%)

Younite - Rock Steady
0 (0.0%)

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Fandom: Star Trek: Reboot
Characters/Pairings: James Kirk/Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
Rating: G
Length: n/a
Creator Links: storietellers on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Domestic, Femslash

Summary: "Having fun, Bones?"
"Just working out the tension. You really keep it all in your wrists. Keep reading, darlin'. I wanna know what happens next."

Reccer's Notes:
The 'Everything is Femslash' exchange has just revealed creators, and this is a gorgeous artwork of Rule 63 (always a girl) Kirk and McCoy chilling out. The lighting is warm and their likenesses are really well done. It's relaxing just to look at.

Fanwork Links: Relaxing

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Sherlock Holmes: A lesson to live by RatTale

30 songs challenge #15

#15 - a song that you hear often on the radio

Round 176: Working Together

monthly word count - june

Rebuilding journal search again

Lord Peter Wimsey: Tea For Two by Beatrice_Otter

New Music Monday - 30 June 2025

Deadloch: Keep On Gruckin' by kirazi

Midsommar: a queen for all seasons by Selkit

Original Work: Always with you by Anonymous

Last weekend to sign up for K-Pop Ficmix 2025!

DCU: Office Meeting by Unpretty

fic: for the first and last (bbangsunhak, drink it au)

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