To Yuletide or Not to Yuletide?

Oct. 18th, 2025 11:43 am
tassosss: Shen Wei Zhao Yunlan Era (Default)
[personal profile] tassosss
That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler of the fan to suffer
The slings and arrows of the matching algorithm,
Or to take the challenge of a bad match
And by writing rise above them. To write--to read,
A mediocre story, written with love but far short
Of the letter writer's expectations; aye there's the rub.


On the one hand - Shetland and Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty are in the tagset. On the other, I've already forgotten the two other possibilities that I found to reach 4 offers and requests.

I'm not really great at treats, if I'm honest. I kind of want to write a fic, but also, I'm working on a bunch of other stuff right now and probably don't need to add another thing to my plate. 





Movies!

Oct. 13th, 2025 09:21 am
sholio: red and white wings against a blue sky (Avengers-Sam)
[personal profile] sholio
I am traveling and sightseeing with [personal profile] helen_keeble and having a LOVELY time. I've also watched about as many movies in the last three days as I normally do in six months. It's been great! I figure I'll just write them up quickly here. The end of spoilers for each movie are marked, so you can pick and choose which to read about.


Thunderbolts - watched on the plane, really enjoyed it!

Thunderbolts details and spoilers )

Kpop Demon Hunters - what fun, I can see why it's so popular!

Kpop Demon Hunters details and spoilers )

We also rewatched the first two X-Men movies from the early 2000s. I don't think I've seen them since they first came out!


X-Men (original 2000 movie) - This held up really well.

X-Men details and spoilers )

X2 - Most of it was a great time, but then the end happened.

X2 details and spoilers )

Amperslash, and new B5 fic

Oct. 8th, 2025 12:03 am
sholio: (B5-station)
[personal profile] sholio
I have a bare-bones signup in for [personal profile] amperslashexchange, which I will try to add to over the next few days! Fandom selections are unsurprising.

Completely unrelated to that or Whumptober, I posted something new for Babylon 5 over on AO3 just now: Balance in Duty, a slightly canon-divergent missing scene for 5x06 "Strange Relations," in which I lean into the episode's completely averted presumed-dead potential.
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
[personal profile] sholio
No. 5: “My panic’s at the ceiling, but I’m face down on the carpet.”
Quivering | Dream Journal | Phobia

Babylon 5, post-canon, Londo, gen (700 wds)
This is the one I was having trouble with a few days ago. Set in some kind of nebulous fixit universe.

700 wds under the cut )
sholio: text reading My Dashing Nemesis (Biggles-nemesis)
[personal profile] sholio
Continuing to use the Whumptober prompts basically as general prompts ... (I already wrote Algy & EvS in an elevator a while back for a different prompt fest.)

No. 7: “Tell me that you’re okay, and I’m fine.”
Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator | Pushed Beyond Breaking Point

Biggles & EvS, 1950s era, gen (570 wds)

570 wds of elevators under the cut )

Dear Amperslash Creator

Oct. 5th, 2025 06:02 pm
sholio: two men on horseback in the desert (Biggles-on a horse)
[personal profile] sholio
Thank you so much for creating something for me! I'm excited to receive any of these fandoms, and I love these characters so much, I know I'll love whatever you make.

General likes: hurt/comfort, forced proximity (one bed/tent/hotel room/escape pod, etc), plotty fic, domestic fluff, angst with a hopeful ending, enemies to friends or lovers, banter, prickly bonding.

Amperslash likes: complicated relationships, characters being incredibly significant to each other even when there is no formal description of the relationship they have, emotional and physical intimacy (including things like emotion-sharing, psychic bonds), smarmy h/c, characters who aren't formally in a relationship doing relationship-type things (comfort cuddling or comfort sex, sharing domestic living arrangements or other hallmarks of being together), sex/cuddle pollen, being undercover as a couple, brief flings/friends (or enemies) with benefits, kissing, traumatized characters seeking out more than the usual amounts of physical touch or not wanting to be separated from each other; generally ambiguous closeness of any sort.

DNWs (do not want) are in the individual fandom sections.

Individual fandoms

Babylon 5 )

Biggles books )

Murderbot (TV) )

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