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Saturday, January 31st, 2026 11:37 pm
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Katie Brown, David Parrish, Elizabeth Weir, Bates
Rating: Explicit
Length: 6499
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Hth on AO3
Themes: Crack Treated Seriously, First time, Friends to lovers, Humor, In vino veritas

Summary: Rodney toked pot that one time, but it never made him one of the cool kids.

Reccer's Notes: Okay, I'm stretching it a little thin in terms of the prompt, but any excuse to rec this charming, hot, and funny fic. The cracky premise is that Colonel John Sheppard, the military commander, is the drug czar of Atlantis, and Hth actually does sell it, while still keeping Sheppard in character. I'm very fond of "under the influence" stories, and this is lovely, as Sheppard inveigles Rodney to smoke pot with him and Rodney transforms from a pining nerd to being almost as cool as Sheppard. As so often, they've both been secretly attracted to each other for ages, and a bit of disinhibition (hitting Rodney harder as he's less used to it) speeds things along. It's a favourite story of mine with great dialogue, and a very fun read.

Fanwork Links: Be Cool

Saturday, January 31st, 2026 08:30 pm
Title: Give me one reason
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,198 words
Content notes: Post-CoE AU
Author notes: Written for Challenge 503 - Second chances
Summary: Jack has to hope that Ianto will give him a second chance to make things right.

Read more... )
Friday, January 30th, 2026 11:43 pm
++ We have the official teaser for the second season of Daredevil: Born Again, which I'll be honest the only thing I care about from this is the return of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. The interactions between Jessica and Matt in The Defenders was truly the biggest highlight and I've always wanted more of that, and we're finally getting it.

++ I'm still not on the Heated Rivalry train, but I'm happy for all those who are enjoying it. It's just interesting how the show gained so much traction so quickly since it premiered, and really sometimes you just don't know what is really going to resonate with so many people. Perhaps it's the FOMO some have, hopping on trends and popularity of something, whatever it is every single time I see someone talking about it in the wild and not in a fandom space it's just fascinating. I get slightly taken aback because this isn't usually something that most would talk about, the show isn't made for the broader audience in mind (at least to my knowledge, it's a mature queer story with explicit scenes), so it's kind of a pleasant shock. I mean, when the Major of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, recommended the city's citizens read the book for free during the winter storm and the Prime Minister of Canada meets with the cast and pays tribute to the show? That's kinda amazing.
Friday, January 30th, 2026 06:09 pm

⌈ Secret Post #6965 ⌋

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


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Friday, January 30th, 2026 11:46 pm
Buffy: Are you drunk?!
Giles: Yes. Quite a bit, actually.

~~The Yoko Factor~~


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Friday, January 30th, 2026 05:14 pm
12 recs in 8 fandoms: Cherry Magic, Khemjira, Moby Dick, Never Let Me Go, The Old Kingdom, Perfect 10 Liners, Thai Actor RPF, and ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat.

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Saturday, January 24th, 2026 12:12 am
.Fandom: Chen Qing Ling, Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings: M/M, F/M, F/F, poly…this one earns AO3’s Multi glyph. Cut for length: Continue. )

Characters:: Cut for length:
Continue. )


Rating: Teen And Up Audience
Length: 75,126; 132 chapters
Content Notes: This is a raunchy parody; a lot of kinks are implied, and characters will be slipping off for papapa in combinations you may not agree with. Expressive and strategically placed use of eldritch glitchtext.

Creator Tags: Chatlogs, chatfic, Texting, Comedy, Canon Compliant, Crack, Memes, Humour, the untamed - Freeform, God Idek what to tag, Humor, meng yao is best bitch, i am afraid of when lan xichen finally snaps, xue yang is a highly cursed person, nie huisang is still mvp tbh, more relationships and characters to be added probably, tagging everyone was Hell, chatroom fic, Polyamory, Lots of it, ok maybe, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Just have fun everyone!!!, Additional: please do not eat or drink reading this enough people have choked x-x

Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] Hades_the_Blingking; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] swaglexander-the-great

Theme: Crack Treated Seriously, Crack, Epistolary, Fandom Classics, Fix-it Fic

Summary:

The Untamed universe is exactly the same, except everybody has magical crystals that have a suspiciously familiar messaging system. The story is pretty much the same as the show, except everyone lives!! (so minor changes).
or
in which Wei WuXian tries his darndest to date Lan Zhan, Jiang Cheng possibly has a aneurysm, Jin ZiXuan is still the most awkward human alive, and Xue Yang makes me write some VERY cursed things. Written in chatfic format! :3

Comments are very much appreciated! ^.^b


Author’s Notes:

Listen, I know the premise of this fic is actually insane, but it somehow works really well.
The 'message crystals' they have work on some form of minor telepathy - they don't 'type' as such. That's all the explanation we are getting :3 Format best viewed on a desktop, but it doesn't matter too much I don't think!

On with the show


Reccer's Notes: Despite the author’s disclaimer, I read this just fine on a $10 3G flip phone.

This freewheeling bawdy Muppet Song turned epic saga got a lot of the fandom through quarantine; I admit to shoehorning it into the “serious” category, but an author (who isn’t writing for pay) doesn’t sustain a story through four years and 132 chapters without putting something resembling thought into it; a skeletal outline of the canon plot (with more survivors and a lot more innuendo) remains faintly visible.

Fanwork Links: Grandmaster of Meme-onic Cultivation, by [archiveofourown.org profile] Hades_the_Blingking.
Friday, January 30th, 2026 01:43 pm
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Friday, January 30th, 2026 09:25 pm
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen & up
Length: 1782
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: dance_across on AO3
Themes: Crack treated seriously, Friendship, Humor, Pining, Post-canon

Summary: Ray and Fraser discover that someone's been writing stories about them. Slashy, slashy stories.

Reccer's Notes: This is set after canon, during Ray and Fraser's quest. They've become minor celebrities in the wake of the big submarine/terrorists drama and when they briefly hit an outpost of civilization (a motel with internet), Ray checks his email and finds Frannie's sent him a link to a fanfic someone's written, called "Snowfall in Summer". Hilarity then ensues as they decide to read it together, and it leads to Ray making a big decision. The cracky premise is the existence of fanfic about them, and as far as possible, dance_across shows us how that might actually pan out. In a romantic way, of course, with a hopeful ending! It's a lot of fun.

Fanwork Links: Twenty Cents a Page

Friday, January 30th, 2026 12:39 am
Buffy: So you traded up on the food chain. Then what?
Spike: No, please. Don't make it sound like something you'd flip past on the Discovery Channel. Becoming a vampire is a profound and powerful experience. I could feel this new strength coursing through me. Getting killed made me feel alive for the very first time. I was through living by society's rules. Decided to make a few of my own.

~~Fool For Love~~




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Thursday, January 29th, 2026 07:19 pm

Fandom: MCU (but you don't need to have any MCU knowledge for this)

Characters/Pairings: Sam Wilson/Riley

Rating & Warnings: T (more PG than PG-13), slash, no other warnings

Estimated Fic Length: Currently around 1k. I do plan to write a bit more but definitely nothing over 10k. 

Notes: It's a pre-canon, canon-divergence story that is really a world-building excuse, so I don't necessarily need a beta with MCU knowledge, though it'd be a bonus. I'd love to find someone to talk with about flow and just to help me structure it out! No need for much grammar beta-ing, more big-picture. I'm not looking for anything too time-intensive, if that's a concern. 

Right now it's a bunch of vignettes, and I'd appreciate help grounding it in a solid story!

Thanks!
Arella

Thursday, January 29th, 2026 05:10 pm

⌈ Secret Post #6964 ⌋

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


01.



More! )


Notes:

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Thursday, January 29th, 2026 01:01 pm
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Fandom Snowflake Challenge #15 ) And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

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Thursday, January 29th, 2026 09:24 pm
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Thursday, January 29th, 2026 01:50 pm

Fandom: Sherlock (BBC TV 2010)

Pairings/Characters: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, John Watson

Rating: Explicit

Length: 4400 words

Theme: Crack Treated Seriously

Summary: Sherlock and John swap bodies. John doesn't want to talk about it.

Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Rhuia

Reccer’s Notes Sex pollen on Earth requires some shenanigans, but add in body swap and we’ve got a deep dive into how this combo would affect these two’s self-knowledge and desire. Very explicit, very steamy, very funny.

Fanwork Link Once, Twice

Thursday, January 29th, 2026 09:16 am
Title: Unique Methods
Fandom: Jimmy Neutron
Ship: Judy Neutron x King Goobot x Hugh Neutron
Rating: G for General Audiences
Length: 246 words
Notes: Also written for [community profile] 100ships prompt “green”. Mid-episode “The Egg-Pire Strikes Back Part 1”, canon divergent. A little crack-y. (Second chances as in this being a villain’s second chance at doing their evil plan [though the second attempt has admittedly gone off the rails].)
Summary: Ooblar questions his brother’s methods when it comes to getting the DNA regenerator.

Story )
Thursday, January 29th, 2026 09:19 am
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