∫ You need a hand to hold.
♫♪ Crazy Circles ♪♫
Life is like a carousel,
you aim for heaven and you wind up in hell.
To all the world you're livin like a king,
but you're just a puppet on a broken string.
June 2008
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Tuesday, 29th July 2025
A+ Library is my bit where I review books with asexual and aromantic characters. Went on a weekend trip with the squad this weekend and we had to stop at the local Barnes and Noble (It's been a while since I was in one that big! Ours in my town is now in the mall, so it's quite small.) where I spent too much and picked up some things on my TBR plus my own copy of Our Wives Under the Sea. We had some downtime on the trip and I managed to finish the first of the new books while we were there. This was Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell. I wanted so much to like this book, and not just because I was charmed by the purple-themed Barnes and Noble-exclusive cover and edging. It landed on my TBR for being an asexual romance (sapphic, if you take Shesheshen for female, which you don't have to do), and I enjoyed the plot concept. Unfortunately, I did not like the book. If I had not paid for it I probably would not have finished it. The following review is not to say it's a bad book—it has an average rating of 4.05 stars on StoryGraph based on over 6,000 reviews, so obviously people like it—but to say that it specifically had a number of things that made it a big thumbs down for me. The Character(s): Shesheshen, asexual; Homily, asexual Verdict: Thumbs down Previous read: To be Taught, if Fortunate( Full review below )
Tuesday, 29th July 2025
The School Reader, Fifth Book: Designed As A Sequel To Sanders' Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders
An 1859 book presenting texts for elocution classes. Probably mostly of interest for the selections, chosen for the edification of the young as well as the elocution -- and to keep them interested. Often has several selections on the same topic. For instance, at one point, the condor. Eulogies on Thomas Jefferson and John Adams -- both, considering their common death date -- and on John Quincy Adams. Among many other topics.
Tuesday, 29th July 2025
Title: The cost
Fandom: The Last Kingdom
Characters: Hild, nondescript dead Northman
Rating: M
Warnings: Depiction of blood and of a dead body, violence.
Notes: Made with Chinese ink pens, graphite, gouache.
Summary: Hild tells herself every dead Dane is another Saxon victory. Yet perhaps what stirs within her is more a thirst for revenge than it is for justice and that has a weight upon her conscience as well as upon her faith...
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Tuesday, 29th July 2025
Title:A Watertight Revenge
Author:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) lucy_roman
Rating:Teen and over
Summary:Bodie is taking revenge on Doyle
Pairing:Bodie/Doyle
Word Count:200
( A Watertight Revenge )
Monday, 28th July 2025
Some books you read not for the experience of reading them, but for the information within. Such is the case with Gulbahar Haitiwaji's memoir, How I Survived a Chinese "Reeducation" Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story. As the title suggests, this is a first-person account of Haitiwaji's experience in Xinjiang, where she was subjected to "reeducation" on suspicion of terroristic activity. This book was written with the help of Rozenn Morgat and Haitiwaji's daughter Gulhumar, and translated from French by Edward Gauvin. To quickly summarize for anyone unaware, the Uyghurs (also spelled "Uighur") are an ethnic minority in China, inhabiting the northwestern region of Xinjiang, which is quite large. They are predominantly Muslim, and speak Uyghur, a Turkic language, and frequently have more culturally in common with neighboring Kazakhstan and Tajikistan than with the Han in eastern China. For many decades, the Chinese government has viewed Uyghurs with suspicion and since the 1950s has continually ramped up levels of surveillance against Xinjiang. I wrote a paper on this situation in graduate school several years ago concluding that China is enacting a slow genocide against Uyghurs, with the intent of fully wiping out their culture. Uyghurs are subjected to relentless video surveillance, intrusive police home visits, regularly summoned to the police station for interrogation without any suspicion of a real crime, forcibly sterilized. and punished for any excessive displays of religiosity such as wearing a hijab or visiting mosque too frequently. Some years ago, "reeducation schools" entered the picture. ( Read more... )
Tuesday, 29th July 2025
Title: Pointless
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,104 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 486 - Revenge
Summary: Ianto is stuck in a world of hurt, made worse by the fact that he can’t be there beside Jack when he needs him most.
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Sunday, 27th July 2025
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 10 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Saturday, 26th July 2025
Title: To the Edge and the After
Fandom: The Dragonriders of Pern
Characters: Lessa
Rating: G
Length: 56 words
Summary: 3 sentence fic. Lessa didn't plan her next steps after taking her revenge.
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Saturday, 26th July 2025
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The original. An epistolary novel starting with a young man going on a lawyer's behalf to Transylvania and discovering much trouble there, followed by increasing horrors.
Saturday, 26th July 2025
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Teyla Emmagan, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex
Rating: Gen
Length: 1934
Creator Links: Punk on AO3, DesireeArmfeldt on AO3, DesireeArmfeldt on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Working together, Teams, Friendship
Summary: The sun is high overhead, the sky a brilliant, cloudless blue.
Reccer's Notes: This is told from Teyla's POV, on a somewhat frustrating off-world mission where John and Rodney are being particularly dense and snarky. Luckily, Ronon's there to unexpectedly save the day! I especially love the strong sense of place and of the natural world in the story.
Fanwork Links: A Hundred Hundred Bolts of Satin on AO3, and the podfic read by DesireeArmfeldt
Friday, 25th July 2025
Title: Self Portrait
Fandom: ORIGINAL
Rating: G
Length: NA
Content notes: Self portrait?
Author notes: NA
Summary: Revenge is when you move on and get a glow up.
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Friday, 25th July 2025
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 9 by Kanehito Yamada
Adventures continue. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Thursday, 24th July 2025
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 8 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Thursday, 24th July 2025
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Genfic. John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Evan Lorne, Ronon Dex, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagan, Original characters
Rating: Teen
Length: 79,623
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Grim at times, as it depicts an aspect of WWII.
Creator Links: kristen999 on AO3, everybetty on LJ
Themes: Working together, Action/adventure, Teamwork, Friendship, Genfic, AU: historical, Novel-length
Summary: WWII-based AU. The Team as we know it has been transplanted to the South Pacific.
Reccer's Notes:
This tour de force is a novel-length story by kristen999, assisted by everybetty, an historical AU set in Papua-New Guinea, in WWII. It's pretty male-centric because of that, but does include Teyla as a local liaison with intel about the enemy. It's got lots of plot, great action and adventure, and an excellent sense of place - you can almost feel the tropical heat making you sweat and hear the mosquitoes whine. The story is illustrated throughout with lots of period photos from the time. It's told from all of the team's POVs, particularly John's (he's a pilot, of course, with Rodney and Ronon on his flight crew). Naturally, John gets thoroughly whumped, in the best genfic tradition. There's tons of atmosphere, friendship and teamwork, and it's a really great read.
Fanwork Links: Long Ago (and Far Away)
Tags: fandom: stargate atlantis, length: 60.000 - 80.000 words, theme: action/adventure, theme: au, theme: au: complete au, theme: au: complete au: historical, theme: friendship, theme: gen, theme: novel-length fic, theme: teams, theme: working together
Wednesday, 23rd July 2025
We're back to the "Women in Translation" rec list, with book #10: Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora, translated from French by Natasha Lehrer. This autobiographical novel is the story of Springora's sexual abuse as a young teenager at the hands of Gabriel Matzneff, a well-regarded and prolific French writer, who was in his late forties when he entered a romantic and sexual relationship with Springora (called "V" in the book). The rest of this review is under the cut, given the nature of the content. ( Read more... )
Wednesday, 23rd July 2025
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 7 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Wednesday, 23rd July 2025
Title: Doggies will be Doggies
Fandom: Spooks (MI5) [Werewolf!Lucas 'verse]
Rating: G
Length: 289 words
Summary: Please don't tease the werewolf
Wednesday, 23rd July 2025
Title: Vengeance
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Varian.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: An Act of Love.
Summary: Varian is a pacifist, but right now all he wants is revenge against whatever is responsible for Gwenith’s death, and he will not stop until he gets it.
Word Count: 500
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 486: Revenge.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Mods, please tag with f: tv (category)
Tuesday, 22nd July 2025
Title: Best Served Sexy
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Plot What Plot
Summary: Molly was going to get him back in a sexy way.
Word Count: 5,652
Tuesday, 22nd July 2025
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 6 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers ahead for the earlier works.
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Monday, 21st July 2025
Rating: G
Content notes: the animation is low effort haha
Artist notes: 'revenge' is what it's called in artfight when you draw art of someone's characters as a response to them drawing art of yours!!! and that's also what i've been doing haha.
Monday, 21st July 2025
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 5 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers ahead for the earlier works.
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Monday, 21st July 2025
Our new challenge is:
REVENGEAs always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you. Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Friday, 1 August. No sign-up required. Mods will tag your work with fandom and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name. All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post. Also, keep an eye out for the next ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)
Monday, 21st July 2025
Title: Behind another face
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: G-rated
Length: 100 words
Tags: Body-sharing, Complications, Secrets
Summary: Zhang Shi meets Shen Xi.
( Behind another face )
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