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So I unfortunately have just been able to update the Dreamwidth blog today because (for those not on the WIPBB Discord) my laptop started dying around the end of April and then finally kicked the bucket about two weeks ago, so I took it into a repair shop and am still waiting to get it back due to it having to be fixed in part by a third party and said third party having a backlog. So while I can get on Discord and Tumblr because they're app-based on my phone, I'm having issues with certain sites on my mobile browser, including Dreamwidth. So my apologies for not informing you ahead of time that sign-ups for the 2026 rounds of both WIP Big Bang and WIP Reverse Bang have been extended to June 1st! So you've still got a few more days to sign up if you haven't already.

Check-In #1 is also now live! Please remember that all four check-ins are not mandatory so if you do not do it or you accidentally miss one of them, it's totally fine. This form is used for both WIPBB and WIPRB, so please fill it in once for each project you are completing for either Bang. You should be using a different unique check-in ID for each project if you are completing multiple projects, so if that's not the case send an email to the mod email account (wipbigbang@gmail.com) with check-in ID substitutions you may need and then do the check-ins with the new IDs you want to use (I currently have not set up the spreadsheet because I still do not have my laptop fixed and back in my possession yet, but as soon as I get it I'll switch stuff over). Thi

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I’m placing this sealed manuscript with my solicitors on instructions that it be published at least seventy years after my demise, when all the principals are long dead and any rumor has passed into family legend. I trust that one day this tale will be welcomed among the rest of my works.

So opens Max Jason Peterson’s novelette The Adventure of the Hidden Lane. Written in the style of a classic Sherlock Holmes story, with the framing of a lost story, this queer addition to the Holmes lexicon is a wonderful story, a great mystery, and perfect for us to announce on Sherlock Holmes Day!

Follow us on the social media platform of your choice and/or sign-up for our newsletter to be sure you’re among the first to hear when this novelette becomes available!

Peterson is also a fine artist, and this novelette will sport a selection of illustrations by Peterson, done in a style reminiscent of the art done by Sidney Edward Paget for the original Holmes stories.

Grayscale watercolor of three men on a staircase. The one in the lead approaches a door, holding up a candle that illuminates the scene. All three wear late 19th century style men's suits. The middle and bottom figures on the stairs are recognizable as Sherlock Holmes and James Watson ala the style of the original Holmes illustrations.

I’m so excited to be reprinting this story (originally published in A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes) with Max’s all-new original illustrations. I hope you’ll join Duck Prints Press for this new, queer Holmes adventure!

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A clipart of magnifying glass with a text inside that reads: Queer Detective Stories, and text outside ouf it that reads: Sherlock Holmes Day, and five book covers on a Rainbow gradient background. The books are: A Master of Djinn by P. Dj�l� Clark; Fadeout by Joseph Hansen; Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett; The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett; Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood.

Ten book covers on a Rainbow gradient background. The books are: The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal; The Little Death by Michael Nava; The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas; Death by Silver by Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott; The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older; Unbury the Bones by Coyote JM Edwards; Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen; When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman; Copper Script by KJ Charles; Watson's Sketchbook by Lee Knox Ostertag; Death Trick by Richard Stevenson; The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall.

May 22nd is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday, and now that occasion is marked by Sherlock Holmes Day. Was Sherlock Holmes queer? Debatable, and certainly head-canon-able, but regardless, we’re celebrating in the way we always do: with queer books. The contributors to the list are: E. C., Linnea Peterson, Shea Sullivan, Mikki Madison, Terra P. Waters, Puck, Evangeline Giaconia, and an anonymous contributor.

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Dave Brandstetter series by Joseph Hansen
Astreiant series by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett
Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett
Pentecost and Parker series by Stephen Spotswood
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Henry Rios Mysteries series by Michael Nava
The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas
Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey series by Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
Unbury the Bones by Coyote JM Edwards
Evander Mills series by Lev AC Rosen
Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman
Copper Script by KJ Charles
Watson’s Sketchbook series by Lee Knox Ostertag
Donald Strachey series by Richard Stevenson
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall

Find these and other books on our Goodreads book shelf, or grab them from our Pagebound.co list, or buy them through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate page.

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Back in March, we adopted a little black cat from PAWS. It was somewhat abrupt—I'd been vaguely looking but hadn't been too serious about the whole thing because I wasn't sure that Squidling could handle actually living with a cat even though he's quite good with my mom's cat and the neighborhood cats—but the minute I saw the listing for the long-haired black senior cat who was used to living with kids and was described as having impeccable litter box habits, I thought she might stick.

When we went to meet her at PAWS and, the minute one of us put our hand in her cage, she rammed her head into it and started purring, I knew it had to happen.

Her original name was Bellatrix, which we shortened to Bella, and Squidling gave her the new full name of Bluebell to finish the transition. She's been a completely different experience both from the dog (she fits soooo much better in our lives than the dog did, thank heavens) and from my past cats.

Theoden, for those who didn't know him, was a doofy marshmallow himbo of a buff/tan cat—big, generally confident, and completely helpless at anything and everything except yelling at people to do things for him. Random, meanwhile, was a beautiful little blue-eyed murderbeast who would snuggle so hard it was like he wanted to be inside you, then turn around and bite and bunny-kick you for literally no reason (and I say this as a person with lots of cat experience—I never could figure out what triggered Random most of the time, he'd just suddenly decide he was Done With You).

Bella... is a lady. She is seven years old (not the ten that was originally quoted to us, at least not by the vet's estimate and her very nice teeth), and about eight pounds soaking wet, and has very particular opinions about many things. Her litter box habits truly are exactly as impeccable as advertised, and while she will make her wishes known if her food bowl is empty, she never gobbles. She eats delicately, and walks away a few times before coming back to a meal later.

She's also the first cat I've ever had who cares about when people go to bed. And, as it turns out, she cares very much about that. A few weeks after joining our household, Bella determined what the "correct" bedtime was for my husband and I, and she now holds us to it with an iron paw, herding us upstairs to bed and supervising all bedtime-adjacent activities to make sure we get properly settled before retiring to her favorite comfy chair or to explore back downstairs, herself. She also supervises story time during Squidling's bedtime routine, just to make sure we're doing things right.

It's delightful to have a cat in the house again, and it fills a hole that I'd probably left empty too long.

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Here's an older post where I was having fun with Snapchat filters on Guardian, The Untamed and Till the end of the moon in my journal.
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I sure hope to do more of these purely for unhinged fun. /o\

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Round 26 at

tvmovie20in20 was, unusually, a round where you had to provide five characters and one of them was chosen for you at random. The wheel landed on Song Sanchuan, so... here's a set full of him:

Teasers:

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I love comments, and if you have concrit for me, I'm open for that, too. All my icons are free to take and use, credit is appreciated. The list of makers whose textures and brushes I like to use is here in my resource post.

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Mozume Kazuko was born in 1888 in Tokyo, where her father was a professor of linguistics (he also edited dictionaries, getting the position thanks to Shimoda Utako). Kazuko graduated from the Atomi School for Girls and, along with her sister Yoshiko, studied writing with Futabatei Shimei, who left them in Natsume Soseki’s hands upon leaving Japan. Her work (an autobiographical short story) was first published in 1910 in the literary magazine Hototogisu. The following year, when Hiratsuka Raicho started her women’s journal Bluestocking, she asked her old classmate Yoshiko to take part; Yoshiko, about to marry a diplomat, suggested her baby sister Kazuko instead.

The well-to-do Mozumes provided office space for the journal, and Kazuko worked on the editing staff and published several pieces of her own in it. In 1913, however, an issue of Bluestocking was banned by the Ministry of Education as injurious to the precepts of good wives and wise mothers, and Kazuko’s father, horrified by having policemen search his house and frighten Kazuko’s five-year-old half-brother, made her leave the women’s movement (on the pretext of her stepmother’s death the previous year). She continued to publish occasional works under a penname, but considered herself a “dropout” from the magazine ever after.

Kazuko married Fujinami Goichi, an eminent radiologist, and became a member of a group promoting education for the deaf. She also edited the journal of her husband’s hobby organization, which brought together people interested in cleaning moss off graves and recording the contents of gravestones, publishing a lengthy record of their results (they also shared the equally recondite hobby of gathering with like-minded people monthly to eat unusual fruits). Her husband died in 1942; after the war she and her sister Yoshiko, who wrote detective novels, lived together and gave calligraphy lessons. She died in 1979 at the age of ninety-one.

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A setting premise inspired by books and blogs I have recently read:

In this world, people travel without the certainty that they'll arrive in their destination. It's easy to unknowingly go through the rifts between our reality and other worlds. Beware of fog, bridges and doors that appear suspiciously new. Rituals, customs and charms are developed to secure safe travel. People watch the sky to ensure that the sun, the moon and the stars are alight during their travel. Eclipse is a disaster as the supernatural roam freely in the land.

Some people dedicate themselves to navigate the unknown. The risk is great, but the potential reward is huge: magic items, creatures that thought to be mythical, knowledge beyond imagination.. Siilarly minded people group together to develop theory and practicalities to travel. The dreamers project themselves into the dreamland. The gmers play games that pass from the old to go to the the fey realm. The faithful throw themselves to saints and deities for blessings.

The astral sea is the realm of collective unconsciousness. Some powerful psychics's imprints re so strong that they trap unsuspecting travellers. They can only get free if they resolve their unfinished business. Powerful kingdoms compete to build ships to navigate the sea.

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It's been just under a week since our cruise ended. We got off on Saturday morning, but it seems so much further away. It seems like a lifetime since we walked the halls of the Koningsdam, or strolled through Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan. Since I stood looking up at the Mendenhall glacier, stretched between the impossibly large peaks of Bullard and McGinnis Mountains and felt a mix of awe and vertigo. It was like a cathedral to nature, and we'd all come to witness and worship. I felt something shift inside my chest and head. I would forever be the person I'd been before Alaska, and the one post Alaska. The whale watching with the whale who obliged us with a fluke shot was not the consolation prise.

Or the White Pass train in Skagway, which was a monument to man's stubbornness and ingenuity, and breathtaking in it's own way. I took a deep breath of the mountain air and stepped out to the platform to watch nature rush by beneath my feet. I'm not a heights person, and we were about 2,000 feet up, winding along the side of the mountain. And I looked down the mountain at the sheer drop while the train swayed, and it was amazing. Soon after, we passed into Canada, and reached the summit of the White Pass, snow still piled along the sides of the tracks. And I remember thinking "Is this really my life? Am I really a person who is in Alaska?

And then the tour we weren't meant to do in Ketchikan. While we were supposed to be eating our weight in crabs, we chose to just do our own thing. We'd have to have to killed ourselves to make the crab feast, since the boat docked late, so we just didn't. Instead, we took the sketchy cash-only tour, breaking every safe tourism rule in existence. And we saw such beautiful things. The waterfall, the taste of salmon berries. The totem poles and another ode to mankind's ingenuity, the Salmon Ladder that allows salmon to safely traverse upstream to spawn. It was amazing, and we nearly missed it.

And the ship! I love that ship. We had so many great moments. Some amazing meals, a decent massage, some time in the thermal spa. And of course, our vow renewal, which was amazing in a different way. After 26 years, I got to walk down the aisle and recite some very beautiful vows to the love of my life. They were the vows that are standard for Holland America, but they were perfect. Relaxing on the balcony and watching the waves and scenery slip by. So many enormous mountains raising to craggy, snow covered peaks, and the Dawes glacier right off our ship, where we sat with our hot chocolate (in Holland America mugs) and watched in wonder at another beautiful glacier. And of course, our amazing suite, which was opulent and a comfortable home for 7 days.

And of course, the most important thing, the staff. The hard working steward, Yusuf and Dov, the waiters who remembered our names and were happy to stop and talk with us for a few minutes, checking on on how we were enjoying our cruise. And of course, our concierges Sheryl and especially Rachel. I wanted to keep Rachel, so that she could sort out my life for me. She felt comfortable enough to tell us about her daughter, and made sure we got where we needed to be as first time cruisers. She walked us onto the ship, and went over everything that we had planned, and let us know what came with the suite. It was a little daunting. And then, she walked us to the gangplank for the first port in Juneau, so we'd know where to find it. And she walked us to our vow renewal, and took my camera to take so many pictures and videos, like the one linked above of our vows.

And now I'm back in the land of cardiac appointments and so many patients needing sooner appts, and no way to schedule them. It barely feels real, like a wonderful dream, but it happened and it mattered.

And now I can't wait for our California Coast cruise. It's 18months away, and I know it won't have the same magic as Alaska, but I'm hoping it'll have it's own magic. We're going so many new places. Disneyland (The Happiest Place on Earth) and San Diego. And then back on the Koningsdam for another amazing cruise with interesting ports. Ensenada, Mexico, Santa Barbara, and the jewel, two days in San Francisco. I've always wanted to go to San Francisco. And maybe we'll do a quick tour around Los Angeles before we head up to Disneyland. I'd like to see the La Brea Tar pits, and maybe the Hollywood sign. I don't really need much more than that in LA, I don't think. I wouldn't mind doing a studio tour, but I don't need to. I'd rather save my knees for Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure and San Diego and San Francisco. It will be the week after daylight savings ends, so we'll probably get to see everything at night, which will be cool.

I've got an appointment in July to see an Ortho about said knees. They won't do knee replacement on anyone over a BMI of 40, so I'm hoping some cortisone shots and maybe some gel cartilege could be slipped in, because even at my skinniest, my BMI was still 42.

So, we'll see what kind of shape I'm in come November of next year. If I need to, I'll rent a scooter for Disney and also in the San Diego Zoo. I plan to uber in the cities to minimize walking, so I think I'll be okay.

I might come home with my knees fucked up again, but it'll be worth it, just like it was this time.

I do need them to settle down, because in 2 weeks, we have our company picnic, and I do want to go, and I'd rather not need a cane. Last year, it was fun, though hot as balls. This year, the temp is supposed to be 81, which is still warmer than I'd like, but I'll manage. I need to look for my work ID so I can wear it and look official. Of course, it's an ID that states my old job, but I'm not willing to go get a new one done, since that would mean driving to the hospital in the city.

Got work today, then game tonight, a long postponed one. It should be fairly short since they're close to the final battle, but it was just enough that we couldn't get it in last session. Then tomorrow shall be Marchen. Sunday, we may go out to brunch to celebrate Jess' birthday. We did have Indian food delivered last night and cupcakes, but they deserve all the celebrations.

In that time, I'd like to start moving stuff into our storage unit. I took a half day off to spend mostly with Jess, but I did go over to the storage unit and get my keys. I did not realize when I rented it that it's in a row of two tier units. They're each about 3.5 feet high, and ours is on the top, which is going to suck, since we're going to have to lift our stuff into it. Not ideal, but we'll work with it.

After I got back, we watched a youtube video ranking all the rides in Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. It was actually really useful, and knocked a few rides I had been considering out of the list. What I've currently got is 8-10 rides in Disneyland and 6-8 in California Adventure.

I have a few non-negotiable ones, like Indiana Jones and the Matterhorn. I'm also thinking about Space Mountain. It's set up slightly differently than the one in Florida, which we didn't do because all accounts said it's difficult to get out of. This has a different car, which is not as bad, so I think I'd like to try it. And of course, Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion and the former Splash Mountain (Tiana's Bayou Adventure) I know we did them in Disney World, but these are the OGs. And at California Adventure I must do the Incredicoaster and the Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout. I know Jess loves them a good drop tower, and having survived the Tower of Terror in Disney, I'm game for it.

And now, I shall step out of vacation planning and reminiscing mode and get myself ready for work. Everyone have a most excellent Friday!

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Years ago, when Handmaid's Tale the TV show came out, I was living with a roommate who had a viewing party with friends every week. And when the show started airing they watched it every week, and I joined them, because it was an easy social activity where I never had to leave my own apartment.

I discovered through that experience that I apparently had a LOT more feelings about the original book (novella?) than I thought, because I had a LOT of feelings about how the show was doing things Wrong. It was tough for me to articulate why it bothered me so much, at the time, as the differences in S1 between book and show were still fairly subtle, but I decided the rest of the show wasn't worth my time, and felt very justified when it ended and I caught up on what they'd done with it all.

Anyway, all of which is to say, when The Testaments came out I was like - DEFINITELY reading that book! And then, the war in Ukraine, and October 7th, and another war, and another war, and another war... let's just say sinking into a fictional gender dystopia with bonus rape content on top was not something I really felt like doing.

So, the show came out, and I told myself I'd wait until I read the book. But I am very out of things to watch, and needed background noise for my day, and so started the first episode.

Boy howdy, if you ever need a form of entertainment know that you can watch an episode of The Testaments with me and I will pause about every 3 minutes and rant at you for like 20 minutes. For the entire episode. Guaranteed.

I can't say when this has EVER happened before, but legit the first 15 minutes of that episode annoyed me SO MUCH that I went and borrowed the book from the library ON THE SPOT and am now 25% into it, after less than a day (when I wasn't planning on having any reading time).

Do I ENJOY sinking into that particular one of Atwood's worlds? Not really, I'm still not mentally in a great place for it. But do I feel like I NEED her book so my braincells can recover from 15 minutes of the Hulu show? ABSOLUTELY.

My brain is basically treating it like medicine. Does it taste good? It does not, but we need to down it in one shot, as quickly as possible, so we can move on with our lives.

And yes, in case you were wondering, the medicine absolutely does work. How does that meme go? "Begone, you demons of stupidity"? That's me with that TV show.

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I've been reading and enjoying so much The Pitt fic. Give me all the oldschool slash fics where it's just (presumably) straight dudes on a workplace show and then all of them being together in some combo or another.

1. Hot Under the Collar (85475 words) by itsflippinCJ
Chapters: 16/16
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker, Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot/Dennis Whitaker
Summary: In which Dennis "I'm obviously just a beta with a really mild scent and a huge thing for Alphas" Whitaker is completely obsessed with his chief and the night shift attending, and it's all totally normal and completely ok and 100% Not A Problem.

I read this fic during the break between S1 and S2, it doesn't require any knowledge of S2 canon (or really more than a few episodes of S1 to understand who everyone is). Dennis is a beta who is actually an alpha, and Robby and Jack are alphas too, and this is 85k of my favorite sort of porn-is-plot writing. A++, stellar work.

2. In their eyes shall shine (6066 words) by Irrelevancy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Summary:“You really think, after all we’ve seen together—hell, after all I’ve seen, you’ve got something crazy enough in your head that it’d scare me off?”

Now, this is VERY much a post S2 fic, but it's maybe my favorite one so far. It's medical kink, it's going into the deep end with Robby, it's exactly the dynamic I LOVE with him and Jack.

3. the taste of truth (16646 words) by Saturn
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Summary: “I haven’t had a heat since I was fourteen,” Robby said, not meeting Jack’s eyes. “Never planned to again, but today…” He shrugged. “I guess today was too much. Game over.” Robby has his first heat in 40 years, after his suppressants fail. He can’t hide who he is anymore, but the last thing he wants is an Alpha.

OK, so, I could honestly just send you to read all of Saturn's fics and that would be its own reclist, but this is the first one read (because of course I started from the omega-verse). This is post S1, and it's wonderful and lovely and again dynamics I absolutely love and spot-on voices and just, everything.

4. save me, serve you (26213 words) by sweetsabbatical
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker, Jack Abbot/Dennis Whitaker
Summary: Everyone presents around the time they come to adulthood as either Dominant or Submissive. Dominants and Submissives alike require regular domination or submission to keep their hormone levels in check. Submissives are especially vulnerable to sickness if they do not enter subspace on a regular basis. Hucklerabbot biological BDSM AU.

Look, this is a WIP, I have no idea whether it'll ever be continued or finished, and I generally don't rec WIPs. However these types of AUs are so rare these days, and this one is really fun imo, and there's already 26K of it, and I don't feel like the chapters end in cliffhangers, so. I really enjoyed this, and if you're into these kinds of AUs you deserve to know this one exists lol

5. sweet sounds coming down (7827 words) by Saturn
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/John Shen (The Pitt)
Summary: “Hey, thanks,” Abbot said, picking up the coffee cup. “Even if it’s a self-serving gesture, I appreciate it.” He gave John a wide grin—one that went all the way up to his eyes, highlighting his crow's feet—and John’s belly fluttered in response. He could practically feel his heart beating in his chest, and his palms were suddenly clammy.

Have I mentioned how great Saturn's fics are? SO GREAT. This one is Jack Abbot/John Shen and I enjoyed it a lot. I love the idea of them on the night shift together, I think it teases out a really interesting and different dynamic for Abbot that he doesn't get with Robby or Whitaker, and I wish to read more fics for this pairing.

6. Your Husband wants a Taste (15105 words) by AHumbleFan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker, Jack Abbot/Dennis Whitaker, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker
Summary: Dennis Whitaker and Dr. Robby have an arrangement. After a little slip-up while on the job, Dr. Robby becomes aware of Dennis's situation. He can't afford the expensive price tag that comes with blood bags, and he can't remember the last time he's had a proper meal. Who would Dr. Robby be if he didn't lend a hand to his favorite vampire? Besides, it benefits both of them in more ways than one.

So, this fic really threw me for a loop. I read the summary on AO3 and skimmed the tags, and the fic turned out to be completely different than what I'd assumed. So, definitely read all the tags and summary carefully! Do not make my mistake! LOL but even though this has several tropes I usually avoid this ended up being a fun read that I'd recommend. Dennis is a vampire, Jack and Robby are werewolves and alphas, there's a whole load of worldbuilding and kink, and there's a second fic in this series as well.

7. let me look at you (3903 words) by Saturn, amalli
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Summary: Before Robby can think better of it, the edge of his buzz hanging on, he adds to his text message, Can’t even get myself off the way I used to. He stares at his phone, at the reckless message he sent, his body heating, watching the dots on his phone pulse as Jack types a response.

Again SATURN. But honestly, if you only read 1 Robby/Jack fic, let it be this one. Where at no point are they in the same room together! LOLOL but seriously it's so spot on, so fun, such a great "is it a relationship if your friend is helping you to get off???" fic, just, fantastic.

8. wolf's bane (20112 words) by astrifere
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Frank Langdon, Frank Langdon/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot/Frank Langdon/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Summary: Nothing is a secret in the Pitt for long—it’s a miracle he’s kept it under wraps for this long, despite the near-deadly dose of preternate inhibitors he’d had in his system for nearly a decade. Yeah. His physician at rehab had had a thing or two to say about that. So, here Frank is: emergency med resident, recovering addict, recent divorcee, and not-so-secret wolfshifter.

A Langdon/Robby/Jack fic appears! Definitely a post S2 story, that basically gave me everything I wanted from the Robby/Langdon dynamic, with bonus Jack on top. Also normally I skip stories where being an alpha or a werewolf or whatever involves actually shifting into an animal, but I gave this one a shot and it didn't disappoint.

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A very loose take on "Little Red Riding Hood," set in modern times post-apocalypse!

Cordelia, nicknamed Red because she hates her given name and always wears a red hoodie, is the sole survivor of her family. She's traveling the post-pandemic wilderness to get to her grandmother's house in the woods, armed only with an axe. She's used a prosthetic leg since losing one in a car crash when she was a child, so people underestimate her. They shouldn't.

The story alternates between her post-pandemic journey and the events leading up to it, when Red lived with her mom (a Black college professor), her dad (white, I forget his job) and her older brother Adam. Red is about 20, Adam is about 22; they're both college students. Red is extremely into horror movies and preparing for danger, so she sees the urgency of the pandemic well before most people. Unfortunately, that's not enough to save her parents and brother.

I was absolutely glued to this book, staying up past midnight to finish it, despite its many flaws. If you, like me, enjoy a small scale apocalypse story with a focus on the logistics of survival, this is a must-read. The logistics of survival bits are GREAT.

It's repetitive (HOW many times do we need to be told that Red can't run fast because she has a prosthetic leg?), everything is over-explained, Red is somehow able to use a small axe to kill multiple men armed with guns (all at once in addition to sequentially!) despite having no training, and the ending is incredibly abrupt and has more loose ends than a half-finished sweater. I cannot believe the author's chutzpah in setting up all sorts of fascinating mysteries only to have Red conclude that she's not the main character (what?) and so no longer cares that she'll never know the answer to any of them. Okay, but I care!

And yet, I enjoyed the hell out of it, right up to the non-ending. I am just a sucker for people searching for beef jerky in looted supermarkets and rescuing kids.

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Halfway through this book, I was looking up all of Henry's other books, which are horror or thrillers, many dark fairytale retellings, so I could read them all. When I got the end, I looked up their reviews. Many mention "abrupt" endings and none of the rest are post-apocalyptic, which was by far the best part of the book, so I will probably leave my reading of her books right here.

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Today was supposed to be a nice short easy walk of a day.

We started walking a few minutes after eleven. We caught the bus home -- well, to the pub down the road from our hotel for dinner, because once we got to the hotel boy howdy were we not leaving again -- at quarter past five.

It wasn't challenging walking, it was all basically level and the hardest part was that we were often walking in roadways, pressing ourselves against the hedge or ducking into driveways when a car went by. And we did see some lovely things, including another dolmen, and we walked out onto a part-time island that's only accessible at low tide, which was very cool. But we also walked through a bunch of not that interesting residential areas, and had to scramble across a rocky beach and clamber up its bank onto private land and sneak away to the road when our GPS utterly lied to us; we think its trail was probably programmed before all the residential construction we were walking past and through, because it absolutely insisted that we were supposed to be walking through places that were absolutely not possible to walk through.

Anyway, I am wiped, and we have to be up and out early to get to the ferry port for our day trip to the even smaller island of Sark, population 500 people (rising to 1,000 in the tourist season when seasonal tourism workers arrive) and zero cars. Fortunately I do not need to squeeze in time for breakfast, since the only thing I'll be consuming before we make landfall is a pill. But we'll ask if we can grab some bread and cheese and breakfast meat from the cold buffet before we leave, and picnic when we get to Sark.

As for recounting today's adventures, though, that's not happening tonight, and probably not tomorrow either, given our schedule. Geoff's blog of today is up, though, with a few pictures; he is less wiped than me, and also he travels with his laptop so he can type on a proper keyboard whereas I'm swipe-typing on my iPad.

G'night.

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