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So, the good news is that, with me still being in between major fandoms, I've retreated to published fiction and am reading more of that again, which pleases me after several years of reading very little. I finished Rose Lerner's Lively St. Lemeston series and Christie's Peril at End House in February.

The bad news is that my fanfic reading was sparse, despite picking up a bit in the second half of the month, so there's only one rec:

Word of Honor Fics Recs

Like Stumbling Through an Open Door, Ye Baiyi/Xie Wang, 6k, not rated

Happy reading!

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

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 )

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 )

Yesterday was the first anniversary of Word of Honor's premiere and it was honestly kind of a bittersweet occasion. I have such fond memories of the excitement and squee of spring as the show was airing and during the concert, but it was followed by the utter, unresolved awfulness of 813. Hopefully by this time next year, Zhang Zhehan will be able to return to public life, if he wishes to do so. Meanwhile, though my fic reading has slowed down since its height last spring, I have every intention of staying stubbornly on the mountain for the foreseeable future. 🏔️

I had fun yesterday browsing the #1YearWithWordOfHonor hashtag on Twitter and also wanted to signal boost a small prompt fest going on in honor of the 1st anniversary: Word of Honor 1st Year Prompt Fest. Hopefully the fandom can enjoy some fun new fics as part of the anniversary celebration!

I watch fanvids for a lot more fandoms than I read fanfic for, and one of the things I like to do is compare how vidders from different fandoms use the same song. Sometimes it's quite similar; other times amazingly different. See the two Umbrella vids below for an especially diametrically opposite approach!

I thought it might be fun to make a little list of vids I know from different fandoms that are set to the same song. This is by no means a complete list of vids for each song, let alone of songs that have vids from multiple fandoms! However, these are all vids I enjoyed enough to rec, and some are recent or even all-time favorites. It's going to be heavy on Cdrama fandoms since they're what I'm watching the most right now.

⚠ vids may contain spoilers, canon-typical violence and blood, major character death, and other content warnings, as well as potential visual triggers such as rapid or stutter cuts and flashing lights. If you're familiar with the canon, you'll have a pretty good idea of potential warnings, and if you want to watch fandom-blind, feel free to ask and I can provide specifics.

( On to the vids! )

A Word of Honor Tiermaker! I used similar tiers as for my Untamed tiers the other day. Vague spoilers if you haven't seen the drama or read the book.( Read more... )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed this month:( 12 MDZS fics, 1 Word of Honor, 1 Jane Austen, 1 The Old Guard )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed this month. I had a great month for fic reading, so there's more than usual and I'll put them behind a cut.

( 12 MDZS/CQL, 7 TYK/SHL )