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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!

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( 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

View Respondents

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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Here is where you can drop your recs or ask for recs for fanworks or any kind of media or content.

Based on a Movie

crossovers, fusions, AUs, or just movie-based fic/stories

Reminder: you can self-rec and promote your works in this comm too.

If you're leaving a rec for a fanwork, you can include some/all of the following info:

[ New Music Monday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]

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Local radio station triple J is doing a Hottest 100 of Australian Songs, and I thought it would be fun to make a playlist of Australian songs, in roughly descending order of how much I like them, and then compile my ten votes from there. My actual vote included less white dudes/took into account what was already in the system etc. And I am sure if I made this list on a different day it'd have been different songs!

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Fandom: Neuromancer | Sprawl Trilogy - William Gibson
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Sally Shears | Molly Millions & Yanaka Kumiko
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 1,225
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply (but a character’s dark backstory is hinted at.)
Creator Tags: Cyberpunk, razor girl, Friendship, Mentors, Mentor & Protégé, Yakuza, Missing Scene, Female Friendship, Backstory, Fanon
Creator Links: (AO3)

LizzyChrome; (BlueSky):

lizzychrome; (DeviantArt)

lizzychrome; (Facebook)

LizzyChrome; (Instagram)

lizzy_chrome
Theme: Female Relationships, Backstory, Book Fandoms, Female Friendship, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Older Characters, Worldbuilding

Summary: How do Molly's claws and lenses actually work? Kumiko pries. (Missing scene from "Mona Lisa Overdrive.")

Author’s Notes: If you havne't read MLO yet, I won't spoil anything. I'll just set the scene, without giving anyway any important story elements: Molly is now middle-aged, goes by "Sally Shears," and is working as a body guard for a Japanese girl named Kumiko.

I do not own "Mona Lisa Overdrive."

This oldie was written probably over ten years ago. I originally posted it to Fanfiction.net, then took it down, feeling it was pointless. But in light of the new "Neuromancer" show coming out, I want to preserve this little ficlet, to see how my fanon explanation for how Molly's claws work compares to what (if anything) the show gives us regarding that explanation. After a quick re-read, I decided that no edit was needed. What you see here is what I originally posted ten or eleven years ago.

Reccer's Notes: This vignette expands upon an exchange in Mona Lisa Overdrive between aging cyborg mercenary Sally Shears (AKA Molly Millions, Cat Mother, Steppin’ Razor, Rose Kolodny, and Misty Steele—this lady’s got more names than a Wuxia hero) and her charge Yanaka Kumiko; Sally confides measured bits of her backstory to the crushstruck Kumiko, including stripping to bare a torso-long scar (from a near-fatal cagefighting injury, kept “to remind her of being stupid.”)

It’s a precious moment of trust, an elusive commodity in both women’s lives; LizzyChrome elaborates upon this to let Sally hold forth on how her prosthetics work—a question that Gibson chose to bury under Rule of Cool, and that’s challenged two generations’ worth of illustrators and cosplayers.

With the upcoming Neuromancer series on Apple+TV, Molly finally leaves the roster of visually iconic SFF characters not yet defined in the popular imagination by a screen adaptation (1). The Molly in my head admittedly didn’t resemble Briana Middleton, but I look forward to seeing her interpretation of the role (as well as how faithful to the spirit of the book the script gets to be, now that Hollywood has gotten their hands on

(A) a Beloved Property™,

(B) whose cyberpunk dystopia is feeling uncomfortably real in a number of respects—thanks in no small part to megacorporations like Apple.)

(1) Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination and Elric of Melniboné also come to mind.

Fanwork Links: Shears, by

LizzyChrome.

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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.

Cravity - Set Net G0?!
Allday Project - Famous (debut)
Baby DONT Cry - F Girl (debut)
Jang Wooyoung - Simple Dance
Le Sserafim - Different (Japan)
X-Unit - To. U
fromis_9 - Like You Better
H1-KEY - 여름이었다 (It was summer)
Catch the Young - Ideal Type
Katseye - Gabriela / Gameboy
POW - Being Tender
aespa - Dirty Work
Wonho - Better Than Me
Alex Warren, Rose - On My Mind
Wish - Palm Tree
Enhypen - Outside
Jessi - Newsflash

New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 16 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: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: (attraction only) Teyla Emmagan/Sora, Teyla Emmagan/Elizabeth Weir, Laura Cadman/Teyla Emmagan, Teyla Emmagan/Kate Heightmeyer, Sam Carter/Teyla Emmagan
Rating: G
Length: 2928
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: tielan on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Female characters, Friendship, Ambiguous relationships

Summary: Desire is a fine line. Five women in Pegasus walk it with care.

Reccer's Notes: This is a well-written exploration of how five women on the Atlantis expedition or elsewhere in Pegasus feel about Teyla. As a twist on the title, they all do or did want Teyla, even if they can't pursue that attraction for a number of reasons. It's also unclear if Teyla reciprocates any of their feelings. Excellent character pieces that ring true.

Fanwork Links: Five Women Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagan

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DCU: Office Meeting by Unpretty

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

POLL: favourite releases of April 2025

Star Trek Reboot: Relaxing by storietellers

Rec Something Wednesday - Based on a Movie

Based on a Movie

Australian Songs I like

Neuromancer; Sprawl Trilogy (William Gibson): Shears, by LizzyChrome.

New Music Monday - 23 June 2025

SGA: Five Women Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagan by tielan

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