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January 2026 Fanfic Recs

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:00:41 GMT

I can't believe it's February already. I read several published books in January, including:

Sorcery and Small Magics, by Maiga Doocy, a tropey and satisfying m/m fantasy romance that had me cracking out my violin playlist on Spotify

The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow, an m/f time loop fantasy romance about the uses and abuses of story-telling

And here are some of the fanfics I enjoyed:( Beyond Evil and Heated Rivalry )

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July 2025 Fanfic Recs

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:19:35 GMT

I'm still on my Agatha Christie kick. This month it was Murder in Mesopotamia, which is set on an archaeological dig in Iraq. I'm pretty sure it's one I never read before, nor have I seen the David Suchet episode. Christie was interested in archaeology and participated in digs, so it had some interesting details about the work and day-to-day life of archaeologists in that era. It featured a different narrator than most Poirot books: a woman hired as nurse to the eventual victim about a week before her death. The nurse was both opinionated and unreliable, which was a fun combo in some regards since you could see how her prejudices for or against certain characters were affecting her judgement and blinding her to some of the realities of the case, but unpleasant when her opinions involved racism against the local Arab workers at the dig, which they frequently did.

As for the mystery itself, perhaps the easiest explanation of my feelings is that I enjoyed the setup, but not the solution. One hopes for a satisfying answer to all three of the questions of Who, Why, and How, and the ending was so improbable on one of those counts that it destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the classic Christie twists and turns and it's a light, fast read, so I wouldn't describe it as wasted time.

And here are some of the fics I enjoyed in July!( MDZS, Beyond Evil, K-pop RPF )

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August 2024 Fanfic Recs

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 21:57:36 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in August:( MDZS, Beyond Evil, Singin' in the Rain )

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June 2024 Fanfic Recs

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:34:38 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in June:( Beyond Evil, Word of Honor, and SHINee RPF )

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August 2023 Fanfic Recs

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:29:07 GMT

Sorry I'm late with this one, I was traveling on the first and second of the month, and actually traveling for three out of four weeks in August, so I got some reading done, but not a lot. Here's some of the fics I did get the chance to enjoy:( Beyond Evil, Mr. Queen, K-pop RPF )

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June 2023 Fanfic Recs

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:35:07 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in June:( Beyond Evil, The Old Guard, ATEEZ 'Bouncy' MV )

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April 2023 Fanfic Recs

Mon, 01 May 2023 14:40:11 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in April:( Bad Buddy, Moonlight Chicken, Word of Honor, Beyond Evil )

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March 2023 Fanfic Recs

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 14:54:08 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in March:( MDZS/CQL, Beyond Evil, 1000 Stars, Nirvana in Fire, Yuri on Ice, K-pop RPF )

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January 2023 Fanfic Recs

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:04:28 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in January:( Beyond Evil, Kinnporsche, Until We Meet Again/Between Us, Fire Island, Knives Out!, K-pop RPF, MCU )

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December 2022 Fanfic Recs

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 20:48:24 GMT

Happy New Year! Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in December:( MDZS/CQL, Beyond Evil, Kinnporsche, K-pop RPF )

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Beyond Evil Fanwork Recs

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:19:14 GMT

I offered some Beyond Evil (Korean title: 괴물) recs to a friend who watched it recently and it's a small enough fandom that I thought the easiest thing might just be to compile everything I liked so far into one post, so there's very little new here if you've been following my monthly recs, but if you stumble on this post from Dreamwidth search or Google or anything like that, hopefully it will be useful for you! ( Read more... )

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August 2022 Fanfic Recs

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:41:25 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in August:( 4 MDZS/CQL, 5 Kinnporsche, and 1 each of Beyond Evil, Bad Buddy, Good Manager, and Chinese Actor RPF )

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July 2022 Fanfic Recs

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:02:47 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in July. Vegaspete kind of ate my brain this month, but there's also at least one each for MDZS/CQL, Bad Buddy, Beyond Evil, Semantic Error, and Hawaii Five-0. ( Read more... )

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June 2022 Fanfic Recs

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:15:17 GMT

Posting a day early as I'm going out of town and not sure how much internet access I'll have tomorrow. Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in June. For some reason I had zero attention span for longer works this month, so these are almost all short and smutty oneshots. 🤷‍♀️ However, I did binge three new dramas, and explored the AO3 tag a bit for all of them. ( MDZS/CQL, Word of Honor, Beyond Evil, Mr. Queen, Bad Buddy, Kinnporsche )

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May 2022 Fanfic Recs

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:30:25 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in May:( MDZS, Nirvana in Fire, Beyond Evil )

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April 2022 Fanfic Recs

Sun, 01 May 2022 13:46:44 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in April:( 6 MDZS/CQL, 1 Beyond Evil, 1 Word of Honor, 1 RPF )

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Twitter Fanart Recs, Part 1: Miscellaneous Fandoms

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:28:07 GMT

With the news about Elon Musk buying Twitter today, it's hard to tell what might happen to fandom-on-Twitter. Depending on what changes he chooses to make, I could see fandom either continuing there for several more years until something else happens to provoke a migration, or leaving fairly quickly if it becomes (even more of) a hellhole of misogyny, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fat-phobia, and conspiracy-mongering, as "free speech" defenders of Musk's particular type tend to encourage.

I haven't been doing fanart recs here because I don't know that much about art and have a hard time talking about what I like about particular pieces, but in the interest of helping myself remember names so I can track people back down if another migration happens, I thought I'd put together a list of some of my favorite fanart that I've found on Twitter in the last year or so.

This is going to be Part 1: Miscellaneous Fandoms, and Part 2 will be MDZS/The Untamed. I'm sure I'm missing lots of beautiful art from both, so there may end up being a part 3. 😰

( Mostly Word of Honor, with some RPF, Beyond Evil, Our Flag Means Death, Cherry Magic, Tolkien, Good Omens, 2ha, and TGCF thrown in for good measure )

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March 2022 Fanfic Recs

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:01:28 GMT

I was out of town for quite awhile in the middle of the month and didn't get much reading done during that time, but luckily found some good stuff at the beginning and end to make up for it. Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in March:( MDZS/CQL, Beyond Evil, Yuri on Ice, MCU, RPF )

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February 2022 Fanfic Recs

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:04:56 GMT

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in February:( 4 MDZS/CQL, 1 Word of Honor, 2 Beyond Evil )

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