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22 works reviewed. 12 by women (55%), 10 by men (45%), 0 by non-binary authors (0%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 9 by POC (41%), one of which was my 1000th work by a POC. Also, I was nominated for two awards.

April 2026 in Review

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A gaming adept is used as a weapon against a malevolent empire.

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

anneapocalypse

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Haurchefant Greystone/Warrior of Light, Alphinaud Leveilleur & Warrior of Light, Unrequited Minfilia Warde/Warrior of Light, Unrequited Aymeric de Borel/Warrior of Light, Pre-Urianger Augurelt/Warrior of Light, Alisaie Leveilleur & Warrior of Light, Warrior of Light & Thancred Waters, Y'shtola Rhul & Warrior of Light, Midgardsormr & Warrior of Light, Hydaelyn & Warrior of Light, Urianger Augurelt & Warrior of Light, Minfilia Warde & Warrior of Light, Ardbert & Warrior of Light
Characters: Warrior of Light, Haurchefant Greystone, Alphinaud Leveilleur, Urianger Augurelt, Y'shtola Rhul, Thancred Waters, Emmanellain de Fortemps, Artoirel de Fortemps, Edmont de Fortemps, Alisaie Leveilleur, Minfilia Warde, Midgardsormr (Final Fantasy XIV), Tataru Taru, Ardbert (Final Fantasy XIV), Warriors of Darkness (Final Fantasy XIV), Scions of the Seventh Dawn, Unukalhai (Final Fantasy XIV)
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Survivor Guilt, Elezen Warrior of Light, Female Warrior of Light, Healer Warrior of Ligh, Angst, Suicidal Thoughts, Religious Angst, Depression, Patch 3.0: Heavensward Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Patch 3.4: Soul Surrender Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Canon-Typical Violence
Series: With Lilies and With Laurel
Length: 68,323/ 82,000
Chapter: 13/15

Summary:

A heartbroken Warrior of Light struggles to come to terms with loss, and the world she has been left to save.

Notes:

An early chapter this week since I'm traveling over the weekend!

If you're new here, please start with Chapter 1!

Final Fantasy XIV is owned by Square Enix. This is a non-commercial work of fanfiction.

( Read on AO3 )

( ...or below! )

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Title: Growing Cress
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: Collage of 9 photos
Summary: Cress from sowing to consumption

( Growing cress )

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https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/oklahoma-energy-affordability-agreement/

A new agreement between Google and OG&E to protect energy affordability in Oklahoma.A new agreement between Google and OG&E to protect energy affordability in Oklahoma.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/oklahoma-energy-affordability-agreement/

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Title: Fascinating Mystery
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Willaway.
Rating: PG
Setting: During and after the series.
Summary: The island is a mystery that even Willaway can’t fathom.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85, using Challenge 475: Mystery.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

( Fascinating Mystery... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Posted by Daily Otter

https://dailyotter.org/posts/2026/4/30/steph-who-lebron-who

Via Oregon Zoo, which writes, “Positive-reinforcement training like this basketball practice plays a critical role in animal well-being, and helps keep the sea otters healthy and active as they age. Rip (Tide) City!”

https://dailyotter.org/posts/2026/4/30/steph-who-lebron-who

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36 Stargate SG-1 icons from 3x18 Shades of Grey

Check out the rest here. <3

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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3weeks4dreamwidth

Community culture used to be big back in the day, but as fics drifted over to AO3, fanart and graphics to tumblr, and random thoughts/reviews sprinkled in just about everywhere, the communities have been somewhat left behind. But they're such a wonderful hub for potential new folks to stumble across!

This is your opportunity to tell others about wonderful communities you enjoy, and those you wish to breathe life back into.

• the pledge • tag requests •
• weekly challenge 1 • friending meme • event icons • journal memes • point gifting •

Current Music: Qveen Herby - Sensational

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sovay

tl;dr my body is chewed up by medical conditions and their treatment and I have not slept more than two or three hours in five nights, but this afternoon I had to walk into Davis for a prescription and I photographed some flowering things along the way. The cherries are still blooming.

( One step over the line. )

I am still watching almost nothing in the way of movies, but

spatch and I are enjoying the introductory riffs on weird New England in Widow's Bay (2026–). The series so far feels more like a collection of strange stories than a puzzle-box, off-kilter without tipping as far as spoof. I hope it can hold. I'd had no idea I should have been following Matthew Rhys for his powers of +10 mortal fear. In other art, I had missed the gloriously angular revival of the Pylon Reenactment Society's Magnet Factory (2024). I believe

moon_custafer that this musician is doing his impressive best in the absence of his natural frog form. The doom-folk of Jim Ghedi's "Wasteland" (2025) once again suggests a Cloudish cinema.

Current Music: Pylon Reenactment Society, "Fix It (feat. Kate Pierson)"

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260429.html

No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260429.html

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: drained

delphi

I won't have a chance to tuck in until tomorrow, but this year's

bethefirst collection is open!

This challenge involves writing the first fic for a fandom, and this time out there are 37 fics with 37 newly minted fandom tags, ranging from early 20th century contemporary novels to fantasy webcomics, horror podcasts, and art films.

The Collection on AO3

The Fic List on DW (since most fandoms aren't wrangled on AO3 yet)

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Reading

Just fic this week. Been reading a lot of JunDylan after stalling out on some VegasPete fics.

Watching

The roommate and I watched an episode of Running Man Thailand. So fucking funny, as usual.
The roommate and I finished rewatching We Are. Love this show so much!! PondPhuwin are everything, and Pond especially is adorable in this role. Kind of funny compared to his current role as Thee tbh.
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of Only Friends: Dream On. The reactions to the ArnoldDean video were kind of overblown, but I think it'll all shake out pretty quickly so it's whatever. RomeRaffy having some cute moments, but I'm worried for the next ep...
The roommate, best friend, and I watched the latest episode of Love Upon a Time. Love that we're getting bits of Klao's past but also it's not quite fitting together yet.
The roommate, best friend, and I started watching Magic Move. It's cute so far! Very curious how the fake-childhood-besties-to-lovers storyline will go.
The roommate, best friend, and I started watching Love of Silom. Enjoying it a lot so far even if it's different than I was thinking it would be from the trailer! Poom as Wayu is soooo pretty, wow.
The roommate, best friend, and I started watching Shine. It's fine so far? Idk, Be on Cloud productions are a super mixed bag for me, so we'll see. I would appreciate them getting some lighting though.
The roommate and I went to see The Silence of the Lambs in theaters for the 20th anniversary. It was fun! I've only seen it once before and didn't remember much, so it was cool to see on the big screen.

Listening

I've been getting more into ATLAS lately, so I've been watching a lot of their music videos. Still a lot of PERSES and LYKN happening as well. There's been a lot of new music out lately!

Writing

I finally finished the ArmTae fic I've been working on for the past two months!! Almost 10k, which is pretty wow for me. Very happy to have finished it though :)

Learning

Nothing.

cornerofmadness

I know I'm not. But with every passing year it's getting harder and harder to teach these kids anything. I never used to give words banks for the organ test because I figured you fucking had to know how to spell lung, heart, liver etc. They don't. Not any more.

( discussion of my dissecting lab test )

Watching S6 of Inspector Gently. Mom too. She called me to tell me unfortunately John lived. You know you could almost be sympathetic to him if they didn't write him like they do. Instead, you want to slap him.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Deadly Fates - Chinese mythology inspired, I really liked it

What I am Currently Reading:

Keeper of Lonely spirits - LGBT paranormal with older mains. It was slow starting but I like it.

Dungeons and Danger - a paranormal mystery arc

What I Plan to Read Next:

Hooked on Murder - lousy so far

Death al Dente - so far terrible

The Death Card

Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: Inspector George Gently

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Title: The Image of an Image
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Rating: Gen, Nijimura & Akashi
Notes: It was hard replacing me.
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torachan

1. When Carla called the second plumbers yesterday, they told her they'd be out between 12 and 2 today, but then immediately after sent a message saying 10-12 instead, and they were indeed here by around 10:45. They got the water heater replaced quickly and even cleaned a lot of the cobwebs and weeds out of the shed, and they adjusted the placement of the new one so it sits further back inside and just generally looks better, so that was nice! It cost about ten times more than when they replaced the previous one eight years ago, but that was still significantly cheaper than the first guys quoted us, so I'll take it.

2. I've had the same headphones for my desktop PC for ages and the coating has started to flake off for at least the past year or so, but then yesterday I noticed the foam was now coming out of place as well. But! We have a pair of exactly the same ones that Carla had bought (actually she got hers first and I liked them and got a pair myself) but eventually replaced with better quality ones, and they were still in perfectly good condition, so I just switched to those and don't have to buy a new pair. The things about them that bothered her don't bother me, and I don't use headphones at my desk that much anyway, so I'm fine with sticking with these until they eventually wear out, too.

3. Carla made hamburg the other night for dinner and we had some patties leftover and decided to make sandwiches with them tonight. It's basically meatloaf with a slightly different flavor profile, and I love meatloaf sandwiches. We used tonkatsu sauce instead of ketchup, and while I would have gone for cabbage or lettuce, all we had on hand was some arugula and I'd literally just gotten back from walking to the store for something else, so we tried that and it worked really well.

4. I love his little crossed wrists!

Thrill me

April 2026 in Review

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

[FFXIV Fic] Harsh Light, Chapter 13: Comrades Dear to Us

Plant: Collage: Original: Growing Cress

How we’re protecting energy affordability in OklahomaHow we’re protecting energy affordability in Ok

Mystery Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Fascinating Mystery

Steph Who? LeBron Who?

Shades of Grey - Stargate SG-1 icons

The Buttertones- Orpheus Under the Influence

Just One Thing (30 April 2026)

Have you loved a community today?

MonochroMenace — MINIMUM RAGE [ft. Kasane Teto]

You showed me how to not throw my troubles away

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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 4/29 Game

What's Making Me Happy Today: Be The First!

Wednesday What I'm...

I feel like the worst at my job

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