River: Sherlock (BBC): Fanfic: Action on the Thames
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fan_flashworksTitle: Action on the Thames
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: G
Length: 1,017 words
Summary: Inspector Stanley Hopkins of Thames River Police is in charge of an operation
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: G
Length: 1,017 words
Summary: Inspector Stanley Hopkins of Thames River Police is in charge of an operation
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Just One Thing (26 March 2026)
Mar. 26th, 2026 08:35 amnanila posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
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Mo Dao Zu Shi: Here is Safe, by Zdenka.
Mar. 25th, 2026 01:28 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 100
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, stern martial culture, the implicit angst of their situation.
Creator Tags: Drabble, Fluff
Creator Links: (AO3)![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Zdenka; (Dreamwidth) zdenka
Theme: Siblings, Comfortfic, Cuddling Snuggling & Bed-Sharing, Drabbles, Family, Fluff, Kidfic (as kids)
Summary: Nie Mingjue tries to be stern with his younger brother and fails. (The Nie brothers as children.)
Author’s Notes: Translation into Русский available: (AO3-locked): Здесь безопасно byTiokDragon.
Written for 100words amnesty week for the prompt "indulgent".
Reccer's Notes: The Nie life expectancy means that poor Mingjue is already having to contemplate succeeding his father as Clan Leader. And grooming his little brother as his own successor in turn; it’s like those aphids so short-lived and desperate to survive that they’re born already pregnant.
Which makes this moment when a child allows himself to treat a child like a child all the more poignant.
Fanwork Links: Here is Safe, byZdenka:
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59174212
Dreamwidth: https://100words.dreamwidth.org/690464.html
Collections: 100 Words.
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 100
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, stern martial culture, the implicit angst of their situation.
Creator Tags: Drabble, Fluff
Creator Links: (AO3)
zdenkaTheme: Siblings, Comfortfic, Cuddling Snuggling & Bed-Sharing, Drabbles, Family, Fluff, Kidfic (as kids)
Summary: Nie Mingjue tries to be stern with his younger brother and fails. (The Nie brothers as children.)
Author’s Notes: Translation into Русский available: (AO3-locked): Здесь безопасно by
Written for 100words amnesty week for the prompt "indulgent".
Reccer's Notes: The Nie life expectancy means that poor Mingjue is already having to contemplate succeeding his father as Clan Leader. And grooming his little brother as his own successor in turn; it’s like those aphids so short-lived and desperate to survive that they’re born already pregnant.
Which makes this moment when a child allows himself to treat a child like a child all the more poignant.
Fanwork Links: Here is Safe, by
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59174212
Dreamwidth: https://100words.dreamwidth.org/690464.html
Collections: 100 Words.
9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Willing
Mar. 25th, 2026 07:43 amdarkjediqueen posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Willing
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard
Tags: Fantasy AU, Tommy is a God
Summary: Evan was more than willing.
Word Count: 4,084
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard
Tags: Fantasy AU, Tommy is a God
Summary: Evan was more than willing.
Word Count: 4,084
( Willing )
Just One Thing (25 March 2026)
Mar. 25th, 2026 08:34 amnanila posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
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Where Wolves Don't Die, by Anton Treuer
Mar. 24th, 2026 03:01 pmrachelmanija
Ezra, an Ojibwe teenager, has to flee Minneapolis when the home of the racist teenager who bullied him burns down, and he becomes the prime suspect. He goes to Canada to run traplines with his grandfather.
Where Wolves Don't Die is mostly a coming of age story; the thriller/mystery element is present but minor. It was recommended to me "Like an Ojibwe Hatchet," which definitely captures a lot of the vibe though it's about learning in community and family rather than isolation. Ezra goes from boy to man while he learns the old ways with his grandfather, who he loves. It's engrossing and moving. I liked that Ezra actively wants to stay with and learn from his grandfather rather than resisting it and having to come around.
Content notes: Hunting and trapping is central to the story.
Torchwood: Fanfic: The River Running
Mar. 24th, 2026 02:13 pmbadly_knitted posting in fan_flashworksTitle: The River Running
Fandom: Torchwood
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1020
Summary: Jack has brought his husband to see something spectacular, but so far, Ianto isn’t impressed.
Spoilers: Nada. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
Warnings: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 510: River.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.
Just one thing: 24 March 2026
Mar. 24th, 2026 06:38 amjazzyjj posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: Haiku: Chemical Hot Springs
Mar. 23rd, 2026 11:35 pminfinitum_noctem posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Chemical Hot Springs
Fandom: Mass Effect: Andromeda
Rating: G
Summary: There will be no soaking in the water on Kadara.
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Fandom: Mass Effect: Andromeda
Rating: G
Summary: There will be no soaking in the water on Kadara.
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Culture Club: Fanfic: A Fixed Point
Mar. 23rd, 2026 04:32 pmmidnight_heavenly_bodies posting in fan_flashworksTitle: A Fixed Point
Fandom: Culture Club
Pairing: Boy George/Jon Moss
Rating: G
Length: 1191
Content notes: Content warnings for anxiety/panic attack, discussion of near-drowning, implied past trauma.
Author notes: Inspired by Jon Moss having an actual phobia of deep water and boats due to nearly drowning as a child, and the fact the video for Karma Chameleon takes place on deep water, on a boat. OOF.
Written for: Challenge 510 - River
Summary: It's just a video shoot. The river looks calm... Jon doesn't.
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Fandom: Culture Club
Pairing: Boy George/Jon Moss
Rating: G
Length: 1191
Content notes: Content warnings for anxiety/panic attack, discussion of near-drowning, implied past trauma.
Author notes: Inspired by Jon Moss having an actual phobia of deep water and boats due to nearly drowning as a child, and the fact the video for Karma Chameleon takes place on deep water, on a boat. OOF.
Written for: Challenge 510 - River
Summary: It's just a video shoot. The river looks calm... Jon doesn't.
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Address Unknown, by Kathrine Kressman Taylor
Mar. 23rd, 2026 01:18 pmrachelmanija
An epistolatory novel about the friendship between an American Jew, Max, and a German, Martin. As Hitler rises to power, their relationship sours, in some expected ways and some less expected, as their characters are revealed.
Very short, very powerful, very technically skilled, a quick easy read with an unexpected and unforgettable outcome. Seriously, don't click on spoilers if there's any chance you'll read the book. That being said, I read it because Naomi Kritzer told me the whole story and it was still great. Thanks for the rec!
The book was published in 1939 under a male-sounding pseudonym, but the style feels almost modern and the themes feel incredibly modern. There's an afterword about what inspired the book, which which is worth reading. Taylor had some German friends who seemed like kind, wonderful people, who became fervent Nazis and abandoned their Jewish friends. In a question so many of us are asking now, she wondered, What changed their hearts so? What steps brought them to such cruelty?
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On Labels
Mar. 23rd, 2026 11:45 amlb_leeRogan: I guess, if I had to summarize my feelings about labels, any kind of identity label, it’d be this: labels are created for people; people are not created to fit them.
A label describes, but it shouldn’t define. If it strangles you, ditch it. Even if you can’t avoid other people slapping it on you, you don’t have to make THEIR mistake part of YOUR identity. (Sadly, uprooting nasty brainweeds like that is rarely as simple as just saying no. You may end up having to know your enemy, do way more research, and think way more about it than you’d like, just to pull up all them runners. It’s worth it, though, to be free!)
Whatever label you choose, hold it loosely. Don’t death-grip it, or you’re priming yourself for a total identity collapse if/when you change... and change is the only constant. Let yourself grow. Let yourself be playful about what you call yourself and why; we call ourself a “multivarious cyborg” and it’s a typo! We named ourself Loony-brain thinking this was just an embarrassing stage we were going through, and now we own it! We went from soulbonder to natural multiple to DID to “yes and” multi. Maybe one day, we’ll even be singlet again, or something else entirely!
Knowing your label is not the same as knowing yourSELF. There’s no linguistic shortcut for that work. Nobody can do it for you, and that’s good news: it puts the power in YOUR hands.
Use it well, and don’t hang on so hard.
A label describes, but it shouldn’t define. If it strangles you, ditch it. Even if you can’t avoid other people slapping it on you, you don’t have to make THEIR mistake part of YOUR identity. (Sadly, uprooting nasty brainweeds like that is rarely as simple as just saying no. You may end up having to know your enemy, do way more research, and think way more about it than you’d like, just to pull up all them runners. It’s worth it, though, to be free!)
Whatever label you choose, hold it loosely. Don’t death-grip it, or you’re priming yourself for a total identity collapse if/when you change... and change is the only constant. Let yourself grow. Let yourself be playful about what you call yourself and why; we call ourself a “multivarious cyborg” and it’s a typo! We named ourself Loony-brain thinking this was just an embarrassing stage we were going through, and now we own it! We went from soulbonder to natural multiple to DID to “yes and” multi. Maybe one day, we’ll even be singlet again, or something else entirely!
Knowing your label is not the same as knowing yourSELF. There’s no linguistic shortcut for that work. Nobody can do it for you, and that’s good news: it puts the power in YOUR hands.
Use it well, and don’t hang on so hard.
