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The Motley Crew (The Thousand Nations). When a young man named Dolan flees from the north, he faces danger on all sides. The Northern Army wants him back. The Empire of Emor wants him dead. His native homeland of Koretia may not want him at all. And his only protection is a man with motives that are mysterious and possibly deadly.

New installment:

3 | Suspicion of the Guards. Why bother to guard a man who has the ability to torment you?

REISSUES

Already available free at my website, these two omnibuses are now also available at AO3, SqWA, and Ream.

Law Links: Novel and Side Stories (The Three Lands). Few events are more thrilling in a young man's life than a blood feud between two villages. Or so Adrian thought.

Death Mask: Novel and Side Stories (Death Mask). For eighteen years, he has survived in an army unit where few soldiers live more than two or three years. Now he finds himself in circumstances where his life is a living hell. Will the soldier who defied death find that life is too great a challenge?

BLOG FICTION

Tempestuous Tours (Crossing Worlds: A Visitor's Guide to the Three Lands #2). A whirlwind tour of the sites in the Three Lands that are most steeped in history, culture, and the occasional pickpocket.

New installments:

Capital of Emor.

The City Court and Law Academy.

Physicians' Quarters and Medical Academy.

Engineers' Rooms and Engineering Academy.

NEWS & UPCOMING FICTION

As of January 20, Amazon Kindle began allowing customers to download some of its DRM-free ebooks in epub and pdf. I've opted in my e-books to this program.

My apologies to Ream readers for the formatting quirks in the Ream editions of Law Links and Death Mask. I worked with Ream's forever-patient customer service for eight months to try to work out the conversion problems I encountered, before I had to give up. The text isn't affected by the formatting issues, you'll be happy to know.

"Heir" (The Three Lands: Blood Vow side story) – delayed because of my concussion last year – will be my next release.

oracne

I am learning to knit! I am very proud of my casting on, and am working on the tension while actually knitting. Today, I did multiple rows for the first time; I got up to row four before I tangled something too badly to continue and started over.

I am currently using a giant pair of kids' plastic needles that C. had from a kit she did last year, and some neon purple acrylic yarn. I also have a nice pair of circular needles that

drinkingcocoa helped me to pick out at our local yarn store; I started with those, but am now seeing how a longer row works.

I have no idea how long it will take for me to knit something that I'd actually wear, but the point for me is the process. It requires some concentration plus being in the moment, and will be a good thing to do while waiting for things or, potentially, getting back into listening to audioplays and the like. Plus, it's more mobile than doing a puzzle.

My many friends who knit are so excited..

watervole

I just got a subscription to Amazon and the extra for Apple TV, so that I could watch Murderbot - which was every bit as good as I had hoped.

Though I'm not sure the 20min episode format was the right choice. I'd have liked them a bit longer.

Having got the subscription for a three month trial, I'm seeing what else are must-watches.

I've just watched the musical 'Come From Away' which was brilliant, and I highly recommend. I had no idea what it was about, just took a punt on it.

It followed what happened in Gander, Newfoundland, when masses of planes got diverted after 9/11.

It's a stage production, hardly any scenery apart from a dozen chairs, but some great singers!

'Pluribus' is probably next on my list - any other suggestions?

umadoshi

One link, which hopefully won't be paywalled: "Rachel Reid's wild Heated Rivalry ride" at The Globe and Mail. The whole "local girl makes good" element of the HR show taking over the world is a very nice cherry on top of the whole thing, and I really liked this profile.

Reading: I'm maybe 30% into Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl and wavering about continuing. I've gotten better about DNFing things, and this time I actually have the book out of the library, so the good old financial sunk-cost fallacy isn't in play. But I still don't like DNFing.

I've also read some more of Braiding Sweetgrass and reread vol. 2 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

Watching: Crunchyroll wasn't in the mood to work when we attempted to watch last week's ep. of Frieren, so we're two episodes behind on that. (Annoyingly, Netflix keeps saying it thinks we'd love the show, but only has season 1.) Hopefully we'll get caught up on the most recent ep. of The Pitt tonight.

On top of those currently-running things, we're now one episode into Midnight Mass.

Playing: Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven continues to delight me.

Weathering: There's another storm heading in, due to arrive tonight, but it looks like it's veered enough that our local forecast is now for a somewhat more reasonable amount of snow than I'd been hearing before yesterday evening or so. Apparently it's also bringing fairly high winds, so there's the usual "will the power stay on?" worry. (Our neighborhood has been really lucky on that front this season, and

scruloose and I are pretty well prepared, so it's not a huge worry.)

Working: I turned in the final volume (!) of Pet Shop of Horrors on Friday and immediately tried to switch to the next volume of Now That We Draw, since that's due mid-week, but my brain was Not Having It; I suspect it was the sheer tonal dissonance as much as anything. But then yesterday, what with the storm warning and all, I basically did the last four-fifths of the book in one sitting to make sure I at least had a workable draft, and now my brain is pretty crisped. (It's not a very text-heavy or tricky rewrite, and the translators make it pretty painless, so four-fifths is a lot at once but not the feat it would be with some series.)

So now I have a draft with just a couple tweaks still to be made and a final read-through to be done, and I'm tempting fate a bit by not trying to get that all off my plate today, but I think letting it rest for a day before reviewing it is extra important given that I did the draft so fast. So I'm gambling a bit, but also have something I can submit with caveats if need be, if we do lose power for three days or something.

Sleeping: Sleep has been distinctly Not Great for the last few (?) nights. I've been doing decently at getting to bed in a timely fashion and mostly not taking forever to fall asleep, but I've been having even weirder and more stressful dreams than usual and it's all been very restless.

Current Mood: exhausted

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This is another Goes Wrong Show fic that started life as a fill for the Three-Sentence Ficathon! My worst failure to keep to three sentences yet; this version is slightly expanded, but the original fill was still over a thousand words.

The original prompt was 'outsider POV'. I originally started thinking about using an original character, and then it hit me that, as Vanessa joined later than the rest of the company, she could be the outsider.

Title: The Outsider
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: G
Wordcount: 1,600
Summary: How did Vanessa end up joining the Cornley Drama Society?

( The Outsider )

nanila

Watch on YouTube

I went a few days of January without taking videos, apart from when it was snowing or I was on travel, which wasn't very frequently. Consequently there are a lot of cats as well as a few of Humuhumu's drawings.

sholio

Festivids 2025 is revealed!

I got three(!!) gifts, all Murderbot and all very well edited and lovely ♥:

It's a Sin
All the Rowboats
Performance Reliability = ATL

Some other vids I've especially liked of what I've watched so far:

So It Goes - Foundation
The Heart Always Holds Onto Missing Roads - Murderbot
Moose in the Road - Mythbusters

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The deadline for assignments has now passed! We've temporarily closed the collection to take stock, and then will open it again for posting. UPDATE: The collection has now re-opened.

If your work has not been approved yet, please check the email associated with your AO3 account. We have reached out to several people with queries.

We will share the post-deadline pinch hits approximately a day from now.

petra

Even you can be copacetic (400 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence, That's Not How Any Of This Works, Romance out of order, Try again later, A+ Jedi Pedagogy, Obi-Wan Kenobi's A+ Parenting
Summary:

In which Anakin and Obi-Wan go from having wild sex to talking about important things, but not immediately. Inspired by a Tumblr post about a non-traditional progression of intimacies.

Current Mood: stop right there
Current Music: We're watching Jason make errors, the most pathetical errors

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The Last Soul Among Wolves

3/5. Sequel to The Last Hour Between Worlds, which I quite enjoyed. Secondary world adventure fantasy with F/F rivals to friends to enemies to lovers.

If you go by this blog, you’d think I read nothing in January. Which is not true, I did. I was also doing nanowrimo just because (I finished, obviously) and had few words left at the end of the day, so now we catch up.

Anyway, this was not as fun and stylish as the first, but was a pleasant enough romp. I will say, as enticement or warning, that it has become clear to me that Caruso writes her heroines as demi or ase. She is two for two by my count. More power to her, but I will say that either the book was slow to spell it out or I was slow to pick up the clues, because I had already started to wonder why this relationship felt so . . . nonsexual, non-electric, etc., a few hundred pages before I realized that yes, that is by design. She is doing a lot here to create emotional tension, which I liked, but if I’m being honest, the lack of sizzle took some of the air out of the emotional side for me. So, take that as you will.

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Fresh Femslash Salad Bar

FFSB is back for its third year, come join us! This is a multifandom, multimedia table event. Table claims are open now, and fills open tomorrow. Both close at the end of February.

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nanila

Rejoice, friends, for it is finally the 185th of January, the last day of the month. 🫩

How many times a day do you . . .

Brush your teeth?

Two, morning and evening. Also, before going to the gym, which is a weird quirk I've never bothered to unpack.
Shower?

Once. Twice if I go to the gym.
Check your E-mail?

I do not want to count. Near-continuously from waking until bedtime. I cannot keep up with it. It doesn't help that I have work email from two different institutions and multiple personal email addresses.
Check LJ? (or DW?)

It depends on the week. In non-teaching weeks and during holidays, I can usually read through both once a day. During term time, I do all my f-list / circle catchup at the weekends.

There are exceptions: camping holidays in remote parts of Wales result in zero signal, and grant proposal submission deadlines result in zero personal bandwidth.
Eat?

I usually have two or three meals a day: just after waking, around noon (if I don't have back to back meetings all day), and late afternoon or evening depending on children's activities and exercise classes. If I have the latter, I'll sometimes eat quite late.

petra

From a Tumblr post by

petewentzisblack1312, quoted in full for people who don't Tumbl:

heres my challenge to everyone for next month, for black history month. any time you want to draw inspiration from art, like poetry, music etc, pick a black artist. web weave with langston hughes and james baldwin and jamaica kinkaid and hanif abdurraqib and derek walcott and set your edits to meghan thee stallion and beyoncé and eartha kitt and coltrane and invoke basquiat in your art and it can be fanworks or original stuff and importantly, it doesnt have to be about race. obviously be cognizant of the context of the art youre using because a lot of the artists i mention specifically create art about racism but like. take your white doomed yaoi ship and make a webweave to poem by langston hughes. set an edit to body by meghan thee stallion. engage with black art in all contexts.

Check the post's tags out for suggestions of artists to explore!

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Hold fast to dreams

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Rinne and Nayuta standing next to each other, with big smiles. The text says Tokusatsu Femslash Femslash February Prompt Meme.

Description: It's already February in some parts of the world so time to celebrate Femslash February! A multimedia femslash prompt meme for all tokusatsu series and films. From Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Power Rangers, Ultraman, Kaiju, Sukeban Deka, and even the most obscure Showa-Era toku out there you can think of. If it's in the tokusatsu genre, it's welcome! Rules and more details on how this works in the linked prompt meme post.
Schedule: January 31st until March 1st.
Links:

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We've reached the closing curtain of our beautiful Snowflake Challenge 2026. It's been a whirlwind month of fun, community, and lots of creativity! One of the best parts of this challenge is that it truly lives up to its name and its original inspiration: every single year that we come together to celebrate is a unique circumstance of participants, mods, prompts, graphics, challenges, and celebrations. Every year is a unique snowflake in and of itself, never again to be replicated in the exact same pattern. I hope everyone felt some enjoyment and appreciation during the past month, and of course please continue to post your responses and fills because there is no deadline to this challenge!

Thank you so much to all the participants. Thank you especially to those who took the time to interact with fellow participants and make the community feel so alive! And of course thank you to all the mods who went above and beyond and especially to

tjs_whatnot, our co-admin who has worked really hard this month to keep everything running smoothly.

We do have a poll below to get your feedback on the challenge, if that's something you're interested in doing. We really appreciate it and we take all your responses into consideration when planning for next year.

Peace and happy late winter season to all!

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duskpeterson - UPDATE: Suspicion of the Guards (The Motley Crew #3) + online fic reissues
oracne - An ancient desire fulfilled!
watervole - Come From Away
umadoshi - Weekly proof of life: media intake | impending weather | manga work
cmk418 in fandomcalendar - Posting has begun at this year's Half a Moon
seleneheart in fandomcalendar - Dreamwidth Book Club: February
rionaleonhart - Fanfiction: The Outsider (The Goes Wrong Show)
nanila - 1SE for January 2026
sholio - Festivids!
littlefics in seasonsofdrabbles - Deadline Passed!
petra - Even you can be copacetic - Star Wars drabble sequence, Obi-Wan/Anakin
lightreads - The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso
elasticella in girlgay - Event: Fresh Femslash Salad Bar
elasticella in fandomcalendar - Multifandom: Fresh Femslash Salad Bar
nanila - The Friday Five on a Saturday
linky in fandomcalendar - Tokusatsu: Tokusatsu Femslash Prompt Meme: Femslash February Edition
petra - February Inspiration Challenge for Black History Month
linky in girlgay - Tokusatsu Femslash Prompt Meme: Femslash February Edition
florianschild in snowflake_challenge - 2025 Snowflake Wrap-up Post
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