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Warm as life | Kaijuu No. 8 | Kafka/Reno/Narumi, Reno/Iharu, Kafka/Hoshina | 7.3k words (WIP, 4/7) | rated M

Summary: The new threat posed by No. 9 weighs heavily on everyone. Under these circumstances, emotions run high and what starts as a way of relieving stress can easily bloom into unexpected feelings. Some people find that easier to admit than others.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

impala_chick

ICON NOMINATIONS - JOIN IN! | MY THREAD

I only made 48 icons in 2025 but I still love bestof_icons. It's so fun to look at everyone's icons over the past year and gain inspo!

Fandom To-Do:
-

snowflake_challenge!
-

seasons_of_fandom gifts.
-Fill some

fandomtrees.
-Finish

candyheartsex sign up.
-Finish

retro_icontest challenge.
-Work on

icontalking mystery box.

kingstoken

Stole this from

lebateleur

Your main fandom last year?
Sherlock Holmes, various adaptations but Holmes in general

Your favorite movie watched last year?
I didn't watch many, but I would say K-Pop Demon Hunters, it's very fun.
However, I also watched all the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films this year and my favourites were The Spider Woman and The Woman in Green.

Your favorite book read last year?
If I can chose a children's book, I'm going to say Basil of Baker Street. I was delighted by it, so many Holmes references, and a good little mystery and adventure story.

Your favorite TV show of the year?
I watched the good chunk of the Granada Sherlock Holmes series year, and I loved it! It's very book accurate, and where they did makes some changes it works out well.
Also, Interview with a Vampire season 2 was fantastic!
But also, I'm currently working my way through Heated Rivalry and I'm enjoying it so far.

Your favorite video game of the year?
I didn't really play any games this year unfortunately. I started The Beekeeper's Picnic, but unfortunately never finished it, but hopefully some day.

Your favorite song, album, or artist to listen to this year?
Song: Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters (it is such a great sing-along, belt it out type of song)
Album: K-Pop Demon Hunters Soundtrack (so many great bangers on that, although my choices were also slim because I didn't listen to many full albums this year)
Artist: The only one that comes to mind is Chappel Roan, although I think she was more 2024 than 2025, but I was still listening her quite a bit at the beginning of the year

Favorite podcast of the year?
Sherlock & Co (although, I've fallen behind on it). I also enjoy If Books Could Kill.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
I guess falling into Sherlock Holmes fandom this year was unexpected, and something I really needed this year to distract me from stuff going on in my life. One of my fave Good Omens authors starting posting Granada Holmes related stuff and it got me to check out the series and I've been in thick of it ever since. I loved the Sherlock Holmes stories as a teen, and there has been some comfort in returning to what I previously loved only in a different way.

Your biggest fandom disappointment?
No real major disappointments I can think of, but that's mostly because I've been sticking with older completed series recently so no newer series that are cancelled after only one season like previous years.

Your TV boyfriend of the year?
John Watson

Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Svetlana from Heated Rivalry, maybe?

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Can I tell you how times I rewatched The Empty House and the scene where Watson finds out Holmes is alive? Way too many times!

Fandom resolutions for 2026?
I have a lot of IRL stuff happening this year, so I'm putting no pressure on myself when it comes to fandom.

Your biggest fannish anticipations for the new year?
I have no idea, I didn't expect to fall into the fandoms I did this year, so I'm sure I'll be surprised again this year.

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kingstoken

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

I'm having the worst luck with the Snowflake challenge this year, my brain just won't cooperate. I bounced off of the first two challenges, I just couldn't seem to bring myself to do them. So this is my attempt at doing challenge number three.

Okay, I'm going to talk a little about the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone. I watched them back in the autumn and I can't get them out of my head! Firstly I have to say that these are not for everyone, they are not book actuate, most of the films take place in the 1940s, so they were modern adaptations at the time. The characterization of Watson is off, poor Watson comes off as a bit of a bumbler, mostly for comedic effect, although how much he is a bumbler varies depending on the film. Also there are three different actors who play Moriarty!

Taking all that in consideration I still love these films! I wasn't convinced in the beginning, but as the series went on I became hooked. The Holmes & Watson relationship is not like canon, and yet I still came to love their dynamic. I ship Holmes/Watson, like I do for almost every adaptation.

In a way this terrible for me because the fandom for this 1940s film series is so small! There are only 182 works on AO3, and only a tiny handful of writers who write for the fandom, and usually only for challenges like Holmestice. I'm pretty sure I've read almost every Rathbone!Holmes fic on AO3 in the last couple of months.

I'm probably not doing a good job of selling it, but if you like old Hollywood movies, or are a Holmes aficionado who likes to know all the different adaptations maybe give it a chance. One note, these were made mostly during WWII, so be prepared for a sprinkling of war-time propaganda.

Anyways, here is a cute fanvid to maybe sell you on it:

Watch on YouTube

vriddy

My first book of the year is a DNF. There's a part of me that wants to see this as a bad omen for whatever arcane reason, but overall if I must put more weight into this than it deserves, then I'm more inclined to see this as a good omen about letting go of the things that don't serve me. I'm terrible at DNFing books. My compromise is usually "read 100 pages and if you still can't get into it by then, DNF is fair game." Unfortunately this book was only 131 pages long and every time I thought "I must be closer now!" I very much wasn't.

( When I can tell a book isn't working for me, I go into analysis mode )

I've seen a reading meme float on my reading page:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Turn to page 126
* The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.

I don't want to do it for the other book I started, which is actually closest to me, because I'm not that far in yet and it would spoil me! But I suppose my DNFed book is also there, so... Although I don't really like to talk that much about the things I don't like, I feel like the author is probably doing okay in circles far away from mine. The library waitlist for that book is unbelievable.

So, Orbital by Samantha Harvey! Even if we weren't meant to be this time, what do you predict for my 2026?

You are looking now straight into the heart of the Milky Way, whose pull is so strong and compelling that it feels some nights that the orbit will detach from the earth and venture there, into that deep, dense mass of stars.

Hm.... Don't let the abyss seduce you and swallow you up, no matter how pretty it might look at times? Sure! I can keep that up.

Actually I forgot I had Charlie Jane Anders' "Never Say You Can't Survive" hidden under a few notebooks near me, too. I've been doing a slow reread, a couple of paragraphs here and there, highlighting and tagging bits I want to be able to return to easily later. Maybe that'll give me the how?

"Or you might yourself remembering a broken shoelace from a pair of shoes you owned a dozen years ago."

which is within a section titled, "Big emotions come from tiny things"

Joy in the mundane? Sure, I'm extremely up for that, too :D

I'm a bit antsy about not having finished any book yet, but this is fine. I wrote a fair bit, and also read not-books. Over the last couple of years, I stopped tracking my reading publicly, only jotting down notes in my BuJo instead, maybe an occasional rec here and there, and that's worked wonders to help me read more. I'm still considering creating a goodreads account so I can review at least indie and smaller authors, but I haven't fully committed to a decision yet. Especially when the current system is working out so well for me.

vriddy

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vriddy

1. Looking for new friends?

friending_memes is hosting a "new year, new friend" friending meme!

Click the banner to join us and make some new friends!

2. Of course,

snowflake_challenge started as well :D Never too late to jump in if you'd like to, it's a chill challenge like that! I knew I wasn't going to do it this year either, but thought "maybe next year"..... however it's January 3rd and I'm already fighting to keep up with my reading page because I met SO MANY OF YOU COOL PEOPLE through the challenge, and you're participating again haha :D It's really a great way to get to know people a little bit before the friending meme that usually happens at the end of it. I can't recommend it enough if you'd like your reading page to be more lively.

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

3. I'm going to link again to this AO3 PSA from a while back. It's titled "Protect Your Contact Information From Scammers" but it's interesting in that it describes the format that spam comments take nowadays: first a paragraph that seems genuinely related to your story (thanks and fuck you, genAI), then an invitation to reach out to them because they want to make a comic from it, or help you give more impact to your story, or whatever cue to take you off-site.

The post also offers a step-by-step template for reporting registered accounts that do it, and I gotta say it's effective as the account I reported yesterday was removed in less than 24 hours. (Also, those comments are annoying always, but they sting extra on fics that you know from the start won't have much/any audience. Curses on your potatoes, spammers!!)

(Having said that I don't think the spambots have figured out the "Uncategorized Fandoms" section yet as I haven't gotten any of these on K-9 fic -- if you hate spam comments you should totally join us there XD)

impala_chick

Title: Two Handlers Required
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Sam Wilson/Bucky Barnes/Helmut Zemo
Rated: Explicit
Word Count: 6,684

Summary: Sam accidentally gets hurt while sparring with Bucky. They don't have time to deal with the fallout, because the Government needs them to escort Zemo to a gala.

Zemo is observant, as always.

A/N: Written for

ficinabox!

Fic on AO3

( Fic under here )

impala_chick

Meme and writing goals from

dreamersdare!

Total fic in 2025: 23
Total wordcount in 2025: 48,032
Total fandoms: 14

Leitmotif of the year
It's all either very horny or fluffy as hell, so escapism!!

Most popular story
promise I'll be gentle (Hades game, Zag/Than), which I wrote for Candy Hearts.

My best story this year
fingertips puttin' on a show (Band of Brothers, Liebgott/Webster) because I still think it's good :)

Hardest story to write
What She Said Crawled Inside Me (Doctor Odyssey, Max/Tristan/Avery). For me, it's always hard to write a new fandom for the first time but I also really wanted this fic to be compliant with canon events so it was tough to come up with the exact plot for this one.

Easiest story to write
promise I'll be gentle (Hades game, Zag/Than): I remember this one just flowing out of me.

Story most underappreciated by the universe in my opinion
Two Handlers Required (MCU, Sam/Bucky/Zemo) - Bucky gets spitroasted! I really thought it would make more of a splash.

( the rest under here )

2026 Writing Goals Rules!

1. The writing goal for any given year is to do 'just one more' than in the previous year. This applies to words, fics and fandoms. So, if in the previous year I wrote 10,000 words across 3 fics in 3 fandoms, then the goal for this year would be 10,001 words across 4 fics in 4 fandoms.

2. Co-written fics don't count toward the totals.

3. If the goals are surpassed during the year, a new goal is calculated like this:
- Words: Increae the goal by adding on the original wordcount target for the year again.
- Fics: Increase the goal by 2 fics for each remaining month in the year
- Fandoms: Increase the goal by 1.

4. Goals stop revising after Halloween (spooky!); surpassing them after that just makes me an overachiever.

5. Only posted works count. WIPs are a blight on my harddrive :P

2026 Goal: 48,033 words across 24 fics in 15 fandoms.

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impala_chick

Sliding in with one last

rec_cember post! Some canon divergent fics and vids I really loved reading/watching post-season 4:

✰End of the World Express by Electra_TUA (Electra_XT), Rated Mature, Diego/Lila/Five

In Diego’s defense, he didn’t expect the inter-dimensional terminal they were talking about to be a subway station.

The dialogue is so crisp and well-done. Scenarios with characters getting lost on the time subway is RIPE for fic. I loved the characterization of all three of them, but especially Diego, and how they all re-acquire their joy together by the end.

✰that would be okay by achilleees_tua, Rated Mature, Diego/Five

Six years, five months, and two days into his ill-advised solo subway adventure, Five finds a greenhouse full of strawberries.

Okay so maybe this isn't my usual ship, but I was craving even more subway fic and this fic delivers! So much introspection and even though Diego and Five know each other so well, they manage to get romantic and surprise each other.

✰Empty [Anniversary Video] by FanVids (JustBWilde), Lila/Five, *WARNING for fast flashing lights*

This summarizes the growth of their relationship so well. I like how the voice overs highlight how they started with white hot hatred towards each other - but then came all the way back around to hatred again with the way s4 ended. I think the main theme of the show is that time is a flat circle for Five. The tragedy of it all!!

✰Finally, this vid was posted in 2020 but it was new to me. It captures all of the Hargreeves' powers and their ride-or-die dynamic, plus the song is super fun:

Ready, Steady (Fanvid) by chiiyo86 (Gen)