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Fandom: Pride and Prejudice
Pairings/Characters: Darcy/Elizabeth, Georgiana, Jane/Bingley
Rating: Teen
Length: 75k
Creator Links:

anghraine
Theme: siblings, old fandoms, book fandoms, novel length, AU, family,

Summary: Without Lady Catherine's interference, a family catastrophe throws Darcy and Elizabeth down wildly different paths.

Reccer's Notes: This series is very much Darcy/Elizabeth, but they spend a lot of it going down separate paths. And on those separate paths, their closest relationships are with their siblings--Darcy and Georgiana, Jane and Elizabeth. I love the care that is taken with all of the different relationships in this story.

Fanwork Links: The Rich Are Always Respectable

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Fandom: Marvel
Pairings/Characters: Steve/Bucky
Rating: Gen
Length: 4k
Creator Links:

what_alchemy
Theme: siblings, AU, family

Summary: Bucky was the eldest of four.

Reccer's Notes: Bucky has four younger siblings, and in 2015 they are elderly, crotchety, and determined to go see Steve Rogers. Getting there is an ordeal, and what they find there is a surprise. I love the way the characters are so well-drawn and realistic, and I love the humor.

Fanwork Links: Geriatric Road Trip, 2015

Content notes: racist and homophobic language

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Fandom: Vorkosigan
Pairings/Characters: Kareen Vorbarra, Alys Vorpatril, Gregor Vorbarra, Ivan Vorpatril
Rating: Gen
Length: 13k
Creator Links:

lannamichaels
Theme: siblings, family, secret identity reveal, female characters, old fandoms, book fandoms, AU, female friendship,

Summary: Kareen protects her children.

Reccer's Notes: This is such a fascinating AU about Kareen, Alys, Gregor, Ivan, and what might have happened.

Fanwork Links: The Emperor's Brother

stonepicnicking_okapi

1. Good things first: I updated my soap opera today. I got a lovely Saint Patrick's Day card from

dine.

2. I went running today at the lake, but it was FREEZING and my time was as slow as the first of the year. :( On Sunday, I picked up Minor's prescriptions, three of them were $5 each and the epi pen was...$560! I didn't get it. I asked the doctor to send it to another pharmacy and will use a Good Rx coupon to try to get down to something more reasonable. Epi pen. Like the thing that prevents ANAPHYLAXIS. American healthcare, ladies and gentlemen.

And the boys' father changed our insurance. So we used to pay $50 for specialist visits, but now Minor's 20-minute visit to the allergist was...$311. I feel like I need a lie down and a cold compress and smelling salts every time I get a healthcare bill these days.

3. I had an awkward conversation at dinner last night and I came to realize that I have no idea how Minor's brain works, and after a long, long discussion trying to understand, many questions trying to tease out his logic, I still don't understand him. And he said some hurtful things among other things, I am 'a character' to him. :( I wish I were a character in my own fanfic! What a wonderful world that would be.

4. I have a new lady client on Thursday and Friday. We'll see how it goes.

5. Diet isn't working. I am trying to track my calories but failing. I got a year subscription to My Fitness Pal app so I can just scan the barcodes but I am not doing a good job of keeping up with it. The good thing about the diet is I have access to a web portal with Monday, Wednesday, Friday new 20 minute workouts with the Australian/New Zealand young lady screeching at you (not the British lady with the beautiful wife who runs the programme) and it is strangely motivating to do it and finish so she can rest her voice.

6. I got the Netflix (for BTS comback!) and watched Kpop Demon Hunters. It was okay. It was a bit too close to home at the portrayal of kpop fans for me. I feel SEEN and I don't want to be SEEN. But I didn't mind them poking fun at the 6-pack abs phenomenon among kpop idols.

My favorite Irish YTer:

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I blatantly stole this from

dine:

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April will be a Flashback round where we revisit a classic theme from the early years of the comm.

Poll #34378 round 185 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 69

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Arranged Marriage
33 (47.8%)

Forced Proximity
17 (24.6%)

Threesome
19 (27.5%)

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stonepicnicking_okapi

May the luck of the Irish be with everyone today! Thank you to

dine for the fun card.

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Fandom: Vorkosigan
Pairings/Characters: Gregor Vorbarra, Ivan Vorpatril
Rating: Gen
Length: 7k
Creator Links:

callmecasandra
Theme: siblings, AU, fork in the road, family, gen, old fandoms, book fandoms

Summary: Gregor need not have worried.

Reccer's Notes: Gregor Vorbarra is Emperor of Barrayar, and he has monsters in his family tree. His father Serg was a rapist and a murderer who died when he was a small child (and Serg's own father Emperor Ezar arranged his death), and his great uncle was Mad Emperor Yuri who was paranoid and homicidal and awful. Gregor understandably has issues about his family.

But what if Ezar had seen the sort of person Serg was, and how many monsters are in the family tree, and not only made sure Serg died before inheriting the throne, but also ... made sure that Serg would not father the next emperor of Barrayar?

This is a short but compelling AU. The series is marked incomplete, but there are no dangling plot threads and it hasn't been updated in over a decade.

Fanwork Links: The Cuckoo

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Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Leia Organa
Rating: Gen
Length: 2k
Creator Links:

Darkmagyk
Theme: siblings, gen, family,

Summary: “We were very close.” Sola says, and Leia smiles her politician's smile in response.

This woman is convinced she and her sister were the best of friends. And she’s telling the secret daughter, from a secret marriage, all about it.

Leia doesn't need the force to know it wasn't true.

Reccer's Notes: This is about Padmé and her sister Sola, but it's also about Luke and Leia, and about family, and about memory.

Fanwork Links: Lonely In Your Company

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Fandom: Captain America
Characters/Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: G
Length: 16,400 words
Creator Links:

odsbodkins
Theme: Outside POV, siblings, female characters, gen,

Summary: Becca Barnes is eight years old, and her big brother can do no wrong. The events of the two Captain America movies, from the perspective of one of the sisters Bucky leaves behind.

Reccer's Notes: This story has an excellent child's perspective, and a deep and abiding love between Becca and Bucky. It's lovely and it makes me cry.

Fanwork Links: My Brother, the Hero

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Jeannie Miller, Jack O'Neill
Rating: Explicit
Length: 23,191, 02:40:45
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply.

spoilery content note

Rodney and John weren't raised as brothers, but they discover they are. After having fucked. This causes some angst for a while, and Rodney's rationalisations are amusing.

Creator Links: speranza on AO3, speranza's own site

Themes: Siblings, Action/adventure, Family, AU, AU - fork in the road

Summary: "Jean isn't your sister," Rodney said, speaking to John as if he was a small child. "Jean is my sister."
John's whole face changed. "What?"

Reccer's Notes: Written as a slightly cracky Harlequin fic, this is a favourite story of mine, full of action, adventure, and family complications. John and Rodney meet at Patrick Sheppard's funeral and afterwards happen on an alien artifact at his apartment. A wild ride ensues as they try to get it to Area 51. Rodney's a physicist and John's air force, but at the start, neither of them know about the Stargate program. There's lots of excellent drama, romance, and snark as they gradually discover all the secrets their parents hid from them.

Fanwork Links: Last Will and Testament on speranza's site, and on AO3
And I podficced the story

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jesse_the_k

While he was quite surprised to walk out for his morning on-leash ablutions into heavy snow above his knees, he's really starting to relax.

This morning I reached down to stroke his back and he didn't flinch.

Just now I was resting on the floor by his bed, petting his back. I started to scritch the scruff of his neck, and he relaxed even more, his dark eyes shining up at MyGuy behind the camera. (I'm reclining on my tripled-up exercise pad just behind him, shockingly without glasses.)

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Only 28 days of enforced rest to go!

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Fandoms: 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, 1923, A Discovery of Witches, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Echo, Elite, Fallout, Heated Rivalry, Stargirl, The Order, Yellowjackets

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The Snake Prince and Other Stories: Burmese Folk Tales by Edna Ledgard

A varied collection. I think a little overwritten, but the tales are a new slice, fitting a new culture. Fairy tales, including a kind and unkind girls featuring a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and a unique take on burning the skin of the shape-shifted: the Naga prince is not killed but he is rendered mortal to live and grow old and die with his bride.

Also tales of fools and clever men, and animal tales.

Most are recognizable types, but not close to other variants.

stonepicnicking_okapi

The boys have a 3 hour early dismissal today for possible tornados and thunderstorms so this seems apt. March is in its lion phase at the moment here.

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This is a two-part mix I assembled for my friend Jeremy. I might be misremembering, but I think he heard "numbah crunch, second edition" and liked the way the first two tracks went, with the rain and the slowly building beat, and he asked for something that would start that way and keep going.

We both loved the "Throne Of Drones" anthology, so I picked my favorites from that, then spliced in quieter pieces from Pink Floyd, Coil, Download, and my other musical obsessions in 1998. I wasn't entirely happy with the result but Jeremy must have enjoyed it, because almost 30 years later he unearthed an mp3 version of the mix from his library and sent me a copy. (I'd only saved a chunk of the first part, and lost the second part entirely. Bad filing clerk! No donut! Or stapler, or whatever.)

The mix posted here is what I think I would have built, if my library was just a bit bigger in 1998. The first part is about the same, but the second part has a new back half. I was aware of all these artists, but believe it or not, music piracy in 1998 just wasn't quite good enough for me to find what I wanted, and I was already blowing a hundred dollars a month in music stores up in Berkeley. If the adults in my life (age 22 is definitely not adulthood!) had known I spent my money this way, they would have rightly called me an idiot. Which of course is exactly why I never told them!

Lossless-encoded version:

DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_1-ALAC.m4a
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_2-ALAC.m4a

AAC-encoded version:

DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_1-AAC.m4a
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_2-AAC.m4a

The cover art is a photo taken by my father in the 1970's. One summer he drove a truck up through Canada into Alaska, and one day he walked into a tiny church that was converted into a museum, housing artifacts brought there by Russian settlers before Alaska was purchased by the United States. The situation of these weird, mostly forgotten silver-and-glass portraits hanging in a wooden church deep in the wilderness feels appropriately unexpected.

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.Fandom: Original Work
Pairings: Gen
Characters:: OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 1 panel
Content Notes: Nudity, although no breasts or genitals are visible.

Creator Tags: I kind of love the reverse mermaid, mermaids, my art, mermay 2021, I am ridiculous

Creator Links: (AO3)

Rubynye; (Dreamwidth)

minoanmiss; (Tumblr)

rubynye

Theme: Siblings, Non-Fic Recs: Fanart, Mythical Creatures: Mermaids, Non-AO3 Work, Original Work, Tumblr Work, Worldbuilding, Xeno/Alien Biology

Summary: Three mermaids of vastly different conformations sunning themselves together on a rock.

Reccer's Notes: An example of

minoanmiss’s exuberant, joyous, and cartoony artwork, informed by Minoan artifacts and Afro-Caribbean art. The picture is a spur to speculation, raising the question of the exact nature of the three mermaids’ sisterhood (and, if they’re direct birth siblings, exactly how the razzlefrazz the biology played out): a worldbuilding prompt asking to happen.

Fanwork Links: Three Sisters. For Mermay., by

rubynye.

Current Mood: bittersweet

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It has begun, therefore it will end. Probably.

The question now is, when does it end?

Let's meet our choices:

A) less than 6 months - This would require a quick victory, or a quick realization that victory isn't possible without pushing multiple economies around the world off a cliff, and maybe not even then. Say our objectives have been met, make nice with whatever leader the Iranian people or the irgc or mossad has
chosen to lead, and return to normalcy.

B) 6 months to 1 year - This puts us at midterms - up until then boots on the ground seems unlikely, anything goes after that though. This is probably the last chance to hang the mission accomplished banner and bow out with the tab under a trillion.

C) 1 to 3 years - At this point some might be doubting the reports that Iran's military is totally tremendously incredibly decimated obliterated. This is already unpopular and unless there's an attack on the homeland with direct proven connections to Iran I don't foresee public support growing (but then again, it isn't necessary)

D) 3+ years - This puts us post-Trump - which means Trumps ego didn't find a way to end it. It also means the war either wasn't unpopular enough to stop Vance, or democrats won with a candidate with intentions to keep it going.

I'm going with B, early November if you have a pool going. Sooner would be better.

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beatrice_otter in fancake - Pride and Prejudice: The Rich Are Always Respectable by Elizabeth (anghraine)
beatrice_otter in fancake - Marvel: Geriatric Road Trip, 2015 by what_alchemy
beatrice_otter in fancake - Vorkosiverse: The Emperor's Brother by Lanna Michaels (lannamichaels)
stonepicnicking_okapi - Views & News Day: Luck o' the Irish edition
spiralicious in endings - (no subject)
runpunkrun in fancake - Round 185 Theme Poll
shipperslist - The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg
stonepicnicking_okapi - Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
beatrice_otter in fancake - Vorkosiverse: The Cukoo, by callmecasandra
beatrice_otter in fancake - Star Wars: Lonely In Your Company by Darkmagyk
beatrice_otter in fancake - Captain Americs: My Brother, The Hero by Odsbodkins
mific in fancake - SGA: Last Will and Testament by speranza
shipperslist - netflix works as a podcast, too (surprise!)
jesse_the_k - Day 21: Shadow Continues to Mellow
wickedgame in iconic - multifandom icons.
marycatelli in books - The Snake Prince and Other Stories
stonepicnicking_okapi - Music Monday: Bad Moon Rising by Credence Coldwater Revival
garote - Quiet Mix For Jeremy, Reconstruction
full_metal_ox in fancake - Original Work: Three Sisters. For Mermay., by Rubynye.
oportet in talkpolitics - Outcome Iran

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