Not quite 365 days questions
Jan. 5th, 2026 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pattrose5. Are you looking forward to any TV shows this year?
I'm not aware of any new shows coming out. I look forward to the shows I watched last year. I also hear Rental Family with Brendan Fraser will be released on Hulu and Disney in late February. I'm going to try to be patient.
I don't watch too many newer shows. This is a list of my favorites.
High Potential
Will Trent
9-1-1
Elsbeth
Matlock
Brilliant Minds
I'm not aware of any new shows coming out. I look forward to the shows I watched last year. I also hear Rental Family with Brendan Fraser will be released on Hulu and Disney in late February. I'm going to try to be patient.
I don't watch too many newer shows. This is a list of my favorites.
High Potential
Will Trent
9-1-1
Elsbeth
Matlock
Brilliant Minds
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Jan. 5th, 2026 05:44 pmcase posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6940 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Books
Jan. 5th, 2026 03:36 pmysabetwordsmith posting in goals_on_dwJANUARY 2026 BOOK: THE SPELLSHOP
bookclub_dw has chosen The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst as our book for January.
I'll make the discussion post on January 31, 2026. If you have any discussion questions you'd like to be considered, please comment to this post.
Looking for something new to read? This community works just like a facetime book club -- members pick a title per month, read it, and talk about it. \o/
bookclub_dw has chosen The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst as our book for January.I'll make the discussion post on January 31, 2026. If you have any discussion questions you'd like to be considered, please comment to this post.
Looking for something new to read? This community works just like a facetime book club -- members pick a title per month, read it, and talk about it. \o/
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Jan. 5th, 2026 04:14 pmmelagan
Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.
I'm letting this vid clip show how far John will go for the man he loves.
The Book of Guilt, by Catherine Chidgey
Jan. 5th, 2026 12:38 pmrachelmanija
This is a difficult book to review as almost all of the plot is technically spoilery, but you can also figure out a lot of it from about page three. I'll synopsize the first two chapters here. We follow two storylines, both set in an alternate England where Hitler was assassinated in 1943 and England made peace with Germany.
In one storyline, a young girl named Nancy lives an isolated life with her parents. In the other, which gets much more page time, three identical young boys are raised by three "mothers," in a home in extremely weird circumstances. They rarely see the outside world, they're often sick and take medicine, their dreams are meticulously recorded by the "mothers," and all their schooling comes from a set of weird encyclopedias that supposedly contain all the knowledge in the world, which are also the only books they have access to. There used to be 40 boys, but when they recover from their mysterious illness, they get to go to Margate, a wonderful vacationland, forever.
I'm sure you can figure out the general outline of what's going on with the boys, at least, just from this. What's up with the girl doesn't become clear for a while.
( Spoilers through about the 40% mark )
( Spoilers for the entire book )
This book was critically acclaimed - it was a Kirkus best book of 2025 - but I thought it had major flaws, which unfortunately I can only describe by spoiling the entire book. It's not at all an original idea, and I do think we're supposed to be ahead of the characters, but maybe not that much ahead. It also contained a trope which I hate very much and its thesis contradicted itself, but how, again, is under the end cut. It's a very serious book about very serious real life stuff, but that part really didn't work for me because of spoilers.
Lots of people loved it though. It would probably make an interesting paired reading with a certain very acclaimed spoilery book (( Read more... )), which I have not read as I have been spoiled for the entire story and it doesn't really sound like something I'd enjoy no matter how great it is. But I suspect that it's the better version of this book.
Content Notes (spoilery): ( Read more... )
[#32 Chocolate, Stranger Things, Rockie] when all is said and done
Jan. 5th, 2026 09:33 pmshroomystar posting in 100shipsTitle: when all is said and done
Rating: Teen
Category: F/F
Fandom: Stranger Things
Author: shroomy(y)star
Ship/Characters: Robin Buckley/Vickie
Warnings/Notes: smoking, post-canon
Word Count: 2727
Summary: It’s late. They should probably drive home, but, well, the thing is, they always get dessert.
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Rating: Teen
Category: F/F
Fandom: Stranger Things
Author: shroomy(y)star
Ship/Characters: Robin Buckley/Vickie
Warnings/Notes: smoking, post-canon
Word Count: 2727
Summary: It’s late. They should probably drive home, but, well, the thing is, they always get dessert.
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snowflake_challenge 2026: Day 3
Jan. 5th, 2026 01:38 pmlightbird
Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
Shout-out to everyone engaging with and creating fanworks for the forgotten things.
To fans of under-represented characters and/or ships! Thank you for creating this content!
To fans in small fandoms and/or old fandoms!
Forever Knight! -
brightknightie still runs the fkficfest every year, and she and other wonderful writers like senmut and greerwatson and so many others write new and wonderful stories for this 1990s fandom every year, and do it with the greatest love.Hey Arnold! - some of us are still engaging with and creating fanworks for this great Nickelodeon cartoon from the 1990s. We're more scattered around social media, less of a cohesive fandom, but we are still here and enjoying ourselves.
AtLA! - this show is 20 years old and so many of us are still here rewatching it and creating transformative works! I love us!
Star Trek! - even the original show from the 1960s is still huge, and there are new generations discovering it and loving it, but many of the so-called "fandom olds" are still here too, and continuing to love and enjoy their fandom.
Thank you!
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Snowflake Challenge Day #3
Jan. 5th, 2026 12:40 pmkingstokenWrite 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:
Snowflake Challenge #3
Jan. 5th, 2026 11:11 ampattroseSnowflake Challenge #3
Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.
Dear Jim and Blair,
It has been 28 years since I first discovered fanfic for the Sentinel. No one had to drag me; I jumped in willingly. You both kept me company on nights I couldn't sleep. You made me laugh, made me angry, and made me fall in love with you all over again. Looking back, I wouldn't change a thing. You'll always be my favorites, even when I play in other people's sandboxes. Looking forward to many more years of writing about you.
Love,
PattRose
Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.
Dear Jim and Blair,
It has been 28 years since I first discovered fanfic for the Sentinel. No one had to drag me; I jumped in willingly. You both kept me company on nights I couldn't sleep. You made me laugh, made me angry, and made me fall in love with you all over again. Looking back, I wouldn't change a thing. You'll always be my favorites, even when I play in other people's sandboxes. Looking forward to many more years of writing about you.
Love,
PattRose
Cemetery in the snow
Jan. 5th, 2026 05:17 pmbookscorpion posting in common_natureI went to the cemetery today to take photos of all the snow we've been getting, and it was gorgeous. Even better, the snow came out - only for about fifteen minutes but it was magical
Volunteer social thread #160
Jan. 5th, 2026 05:59 pmpauamma posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_volunteersThe Arctic vortex thingy must be out in force today. Snow's falling here, which hasn't happened in December or early January (despite it being winter here) in... I think decades, maybe 30 years or so.
Question thread #147
Jan. 5th, 2026 05:50 pmpauamma posting in dw_devIt's time for another question thread!
The rules:
- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.
The rules:
- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.
Sand: Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: Beneath the Sand
Jan. 5th, 2026 04:42 pmsmallhobbit posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Beneath the Sand
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 455 words
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is looking for missing jewellery
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 455 words
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is looking for missing jewellery
( I'm convinced )