Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

Nov. 4th, 2025 08:23 am
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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

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It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Several significant elections are taking place in the US foday. As with all opportuniies to influence local and national events, we strongly encourage you to exercise your democratic rights. Such things are vital, perhaps moreso than ever.

Miraculous Ladybug introduced two new elements. The first was, someone who is celarly destined to become the wealthiest person in Paris; the therapist who various Miraculous Holders visit in their civilian ID's: Max for his (now confirmed) autism, Mylene for her anxiety, Juleka and Alya for their separate family issues, and so on and, in a move guaranteed to pay for at least three kids going through college, Adrien about his daddy issues.

The second was the first planned spin off series, Stellar Force, a combination of Kyuranger, Saint Seiya and Miraculous.

(Incidentally, it may be that the Super Sentai series of annually rebranded, colour-coded, spandex-clad (distantly hears "IT IS NOT SPANDEX!" in Dr K's voice... sorry, deep cut) heroes is coming to an end in early 2026 with the finale of it's 50th team, though it may also be that it is instead rebranding. Details are still unclear on that)

A couple of stories from London's West End;

Paddington: The Musical premiered at the weekend, and the producers finally revealed what their on stage Paddington looks like and he's quite an extraordinary creation. A little person actor wear performs the character on stage, and a second performer offstage provides the voice and puppets the animatronic facial expressions.

And for those attending the Halloween evening performance of Disney's Hercules musical, they got something of a surprise... their two act performance had THREE acts. After the show proper ended, there was a surprise appearance on stage by Susan Egan, the original Meg from the 1997 film, who duetted on "I Won't Say I'm in Love" with the current stage Meg Mae Ann Jorolan, followed by various members of the cast all singing classic villain songs from other Alan Menken scored films
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I posted recs from my [community profile] fandomgiftbasket and from [community profile] trickortreatex at my journal here.

Fandoms are: 9-1-1 Lone Star, The Addams Family, Arthurian Mythology, DC Extended Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pop Music RPF, Roswell New Mexico, and Stardew Valley.

Daily Check-in

Nov. 3rd, 2025 06:17 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, November 01, to midnight on Tuesday, November 02. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33796 Daily Check-in
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 28

How are you doing?

I am OK.
18 (64.3%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (35.7%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
10 (35.7%)

One other person.
13 (46.4%)

More than one other person.
5 (17.9%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
 

[ SECRET POST #6877 ]

Nov. 3rd, 2025 08:05 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6877 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


ExpandMore! )


Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Rec-Cember 2025

Nov. 4th, 2025 02:02 am
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Hey all! The sign-up post for [community profile] rec_cember 2025 is up. We’re hoping to inspire more folks to share their recs this December. Hope to see some of you over there.

(posted with mod permission ❤️)

uncluttering other people...

Nov. 3rd, 2025 07:31 pm
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is much easier than doing your own!

My mother is not a hoarder, but has a regrettable tendency to accumulate things, an inability to do sorting and tidying activities which are not "work for four hours straight and accomplish the entire task in one go", and health conditions that mean she can essentially never do anything substantial in one go any more. Over the summer I pointed out that she probably didn't need three overflowing boxes of toddler books given that her youngest grandchild is now in secondary school, and strong-armed her into going through them with me so we could donate most of them and put the rest neatly away in the available storage.

I was with her again last week, and she had spontaneously decided we were going to do some more - I bagged up and put away some of her not-currently-in-use clothes for her, and we went through the toy collection which again now fits neatly in the box, while the overflow is waiting to be collected for the church Christmas fair.

We also talked about possible clothing solutions - she has bags and bags of clothes that don't fit, at least some of which may well be needed in the future, and I have done my best to suggest that "random unlabelled bin sacks in every corner" is not the optimal solution. We'll see what results.

What has everyone else been up to?
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Marissa Lingen ([personal profile] mrissa here) is a disabled SF writer. She’s been publishing short stories since 2001—over 200 so far. Most of her work is quite short, and I’m delighted at how her subtle implications generate detailed worlds and relationships.

Her disability experience informs her work. One of my faves is “A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places”, free to read in print or in audio at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Like the author, the viewpoint character has vertigo.

Her monthly newsletter alerted me that she’s

leading a writing workshop where people can process their vertigo experiences through the written word.

FREE
23 November 2025 1700 GMT
must register in advance or more info
ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk

FULL DETAILS:
https://dateful.com/eventlink/1965359842

She’s eager to spread the word to people directly or indirectly affected by vertigo—please share the Dateful link far and wide.


Free Story, Essay & Interview

Expandlinks and excerpts )

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Title: Missing You Hours
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff
Summary: They missed each other.
Word Count: 1,177


[personal profile] tcampbell1000 posting in [community profile] scans_daily


This funny Joker comic hit the market on the same day as The Killing Joke. I can’t emphasize that enough.

And that’s not even the most baffling thing about it.

ExpandTHREE staples?!?! )

Daily check-in

Nov. 2nd, 2025 07:54 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, November 2, to midnight on Monday, November 3 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33793 Daily check-in poll
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 28

How are you doing?

I am OK
16 (57.1%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
12 (42.9%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
9 (33.3%)

One other person
13 (48.1%)

More than one other person
5 (18.5%)



Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
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Issue #3'd ended on Birdie realizing that her friend Wilson was also in danger from the VR game Nightmare Cemetery.

Her brother Pik was in a coma, mentally taken into the game by the " King of Sleep ". The King'd shoved one of his claws through her friend Enid's left eye while she was helping look for Pik.

Wilson had also been helping her - they'd both taken sleeping pills to get around the hard time-limit on their Dreamwaves, expecting to be able to wake each other up.

But she wasn't able to wake him. She was grounded by her worried and frustrated dad, able only to watch videos about other victims of Nightmare Cemetery.

ExpandShe found someone else who'd lost a sibling. )

[ SECRET POST #6876 ]

Nov. 2nd, 2025 03:26 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6876 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



ExpandMore! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #982.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Barnabas Collins, Roger Collins, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Elliot Stokes, Julia Hoffman, David Collins, Hallie Stokes, Maggie Evans, Willie Loomis 

Rating: T

Length: 102,807

Creator Links: SusanRains | Archive of Our Own

Theme: Mystery & Suspense
 
Summary: Four strangers converge on Collinsport. But maybe one of them is coming home.
The vicious killing of two young boys has Barnabas convinced that a vampire preys upon Collinsport. His suspects are four newcomers: three strangers, and an enemy from his own past, long believed dead.

Reccer's Notes: Though it may be read separately without much fuss, this fic follows Lunatic Yarn, recc'd a few days ago. Blood Levy details the goings on of the ever-put-upon Collins family as they struggle to maintain their reputation while wringing a little love and enjoyment out of ~Life. It's a fine mystery using all the familiar TV show performers, the main ones in their regular roles, while various supporting performers Author has envisioned as original characters. Beginning with sudden action, continuing in an eerie atmosphere, well, could we expect anything else?
 
Fanwork Links:
Blood Levy (Dark Shadows 1971) Book 3 - Chapter 1 - Carey Kasdot (SusanRains) - Dark Shadows (1966) [Archive of Our Own]

Mind Your Language: Fanfic: Solo tu

Nov. 2nd, 2025 01:39 pm
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Title: Solo tu
Author: harryschreine
Fandom: Mind Your Language
Pairing:
Giovanni Capello/Maximilion Papandreou
Characters:
Giovanni Capello, (implied) Maria Papandreou
Rating: PG-13
Length: 111 Words
Prompt: #496 Missing
Add. Notes: Set in Season 4 era, 1980s
Summary:  "Max... where are you?"

 

ExpandClick here to read! )

 


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https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/01/asking-eric-thomas-traumatic-socks/

Dear Eric: My husband of more than 20 years gives me slipper socks with grippy soles. I hate them!

We live in a hot climate, so I have little use for them. They filled up my sock drawer and retraumatized me every time I touched them. I threw them away and they came back.

He gave me five more pairs at Christmas. They can’t be worn with shoes or out in public. They are synthetic so I cannot even use them to polish the furniture. I kept them for animal first aid.

I cannot be cool about these socks. They remind me of the horrible time I had in the hospital having emergency surgery. My husband couldn’t even manage to hug me or talk with me before my surgery.

I’m trying very hard to be graceful and grateful for any gift from my husband, but I want to throw these at him. He knows darn well I dislike them but has given them repeatedly to me. I have to use my good fabric shears to slice them up or he will “rescue them” from the garbage.

Is there a graceful way to handle the next installment of fluffy grippy socks? I tried to no avail telling him I get my grippy socks the old-fashioned way – at the hospital, in person!

– Sock Drawer Full

ExpandRead more... )
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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Length: 11,539 words
Creator Links: Unpainted Canvas (RatTale)
Theme: mystery & suspense, casefic

Summary: During a hard case Holmes and Watson part ways after an argument, and now Holmes suddenly has more to worry about than missing children.

Reccer's Notes: After they have a terrible row, Watson is kidnapped by bad guys to prevent Holmes from pursuing a case.  The entire story is from Holmes POV, and there is a lot of worry and tension as Holmes tries to solve the disappearance of his friend.  It's a good casefic, as well as the circumstances leading to realization of feelings by Holmes.

Fanwork Links: AO3

Challenge 496: Missing

Nov. 1st, 2025 04:45 pm
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Our new challenge is:

MISSING



As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

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