kingstoken: (Crowley SPN)
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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (books)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Length: 47,061 words
Creator Links: Flawedamythyst
Theme: Mystery & Suspense, casefic

Summary: Moriarty kidnaps Watson.

Reccer's Notes: Watson is kidnapped by Moriarty.  The story cycles between two POVs, Watson's and Holmes'.  We follow Holmes as he does everything he can to find Watson, and Watson as he tries his best to survive as a prisoner.  I will say Moriarty was actually menacing in this story, not watered down like some portrayals, and there is a lot suspense about if Holmes will be able to rescue Watson in time before something terrible occurs.

Fanwork Links: AO3

SGA: In Heaven and Earth by Sholio

10 November 2025 00:02
mific: John sheppard looking sad or worried against stone wall, half out of frame (Shep - sad)
[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Rating: G
Length: 1800
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Sholio on AO3, Sholio's old SGA website
Themes: Mystery and suspense, Genfic, Ghosts

Summary: It gets bloody creepy here at night.

Reccer's Notes: This is an interesting story about Atlantis remembering her dead, and indeed those still living, in a somewhat troubling way. At first it's unclear how it's happening, but gradually John figures out it's just the city, haunted, and haunting them. Nicely creepy.

Fanwork Links: In Heaven and Earth

progress!

8 November 2025 11:38
melagan: Coffee cup with Atlantis in the rising steam (Default)
[personal profile] melagan
Every year I sign up for SGA Secret Santa, I always think I'm going to get my story done early. This is the first year I might actually manage it. Hoo-yay.

Of course, I'm only talking about the first draft, but at 80% done, I'm looking at wrapping up soonish. This has never happened to me this early in the challenge.

I think I might have to go lie down.

Weekly chat reminder

7 November 2025 23:37
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[personal profile] snycock posting in [community profile] ts_bluejungle

Please join us for the weekly TS chat on Saturday, November 8th, at 7 pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/19:00 UTC. That could be as early as 11 am if you’re on the west coast of North America, or 2 pm if you’re on the east coast, or 7 pm in the UK, or Sunday morning in Australia or New Zealand.

 

Last weekend Daylight Savings Time ended in the US, which means chat will start an hour earlier than we’re used to. For folks in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the opposite: chat is now starting an hour later, because Daylight Savings Time has started down there.

 

We’re in the usual place: http://us25.chatzy.com/81935648447483. There’s nothing to download or install, just choose a name and a color and click on “join chat.”

 

Since several of us are writing for TS Secret Santa this year, we’re going to do some writing sprints in chat. That’s where we write for a period of time, usually about twenty minutes, and then chat for a bit, then write for a while, and so on. Of course, you do any kind of writing you like, it doesn’t have to be for TS Secret Santa.

 

See you there!

 


sholio: murderbot group from episode 10 (Murderbot-family1)
[personal profile] sholio
I was too busy to notice when it happened, but [community profile] trickortreatex revealed authors this morning, which means I can 'fess up to my (not at all predictable) ToT offering.

The Preservation Harvest Festival (4989 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Murderbot & PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Amena (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Halloween, Holidays, Trick or Treating, Friendship, Bonding, get loved idiot
Summary: Murderbot vs. Halloween.
sholio: (B5-station)
[personal profile] sholio
No. 22: “All the battles I want to win, nothing matters but giving in.”
Self-Sacrifice | Collar | Hunted for Sport

Babylon 5, Cartagia arc [800 wds] - also on Tumblr

800 wds under the cut )
sholio: Gurathin from Murderbot looking soft and wondering (Murderbot-Gura)
[personal profile] sholio
The post-October Whumptober catchup continues, with more of the ones I wrote last month, but wasn't sure about.

No. 27: “Would you even want me, looking like a zombie?”
Surgical Scars | X-Ray | Bedside Vigil

Murderbot TV, Gurathin & Bharadwaj gen, 800 wds
Also on Tumblr

800 wds under the cut )

poll!

6 November 2025 18:06
melagan: Coffee cup with Atlantis in the rising steam (Default)
[personal profile] melagan
Poll #33804 I love my fandom
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23


How many fandoms do you participate in?

View Answers

1 to 5
12 (52.2%)

5 to 10
3 (13.0%)

I've lost track
5 (21.7%)

you don't even want to know
4 (17.4%)

ticky box is my fandom
5 (21.7%)

sholio: Gurathin from Murderbot looking soft and wondering (Murderbot-Gura)
[personal profile] sholio
As mentioned earlier, I have some Whumptobers to catch up on (half finished, or ones I was a little uncertain about posting) so those will continue into November.

No. 15: “You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts.”
Failed Rescue Attempt | Body Part in the Mail | Live-Streamed Torture

1000 wds, Murderbot POV (TV-verse)
Also posted on Tumblr.

1000 wds under the cut )

Fic in brief

3 November 2025 21:15
sholio: aged sepia paper with printed text saying "If undelivered, return to Air Ministry, London" (Biggles-london air ministry)
[personal profile] sholio
A couple of quick things I wrote for Fandom Giftbasket:

Firefly (Biggles/EvS, G, 1500 wds)
An evanescent moment on the journey home from Sakhalin.

Vaguely inspired by a photo of fireflies in India.

Birds (Alliance-Union, Meg/Dek, 500 wds)
Posted as a commentfic snippet, just a soft little moment for them after a rider ship mission.
sholio: (B5-station)
[personal profile] sholio
Rewatching Babylon 5's "Ship of Tears" and (parts of) "War Without End" was definitely not conducive to ending up in the most cheerful frame of mind this evening. It's so good, though.

Something I noticed in Ship of Tears )

Gifts everywhere!

2 November 2025 12:11
sholio: Text: "Age shall not weary her, nor custom stale her infinite squee" (Infinite Squee)
[personal profile] sholio
[community profile] trickortreatex and [community profile] fandomgiftbasket both revealed this weekend. I have gifts to coo over!

Trick or Treat:

Beware of Gurathin Bearing Gifts (Murderbot, gen, 580 wds)
Fun and playful with some nice little cultural details, and a tantalizing hint of a future mission to come.

Fandom Giftbasket:

Jala, Tujula, and Fraught Understanding by [archiveofourown.org profile] pushkin666 (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar, 700 wds)
This is lovely, a possibly-late-in-series vignette with a little bit of cultural exchange (via food/drink) and a little hard-won wisdom/acceptance.

Keepsake by [archiveofourown.org profile] opalmatrix (Murderbot, gen, 3200 wds)
A really enjoyable, very slightly AU slice-of-life on Port FreeCommerce in which Ratthi takes MB shopping for the first time. Great in-character interactions and a lovely ending!

Zayd & Marwan by [archiveofourown.org profile] celli (Murderbot, gen, 750 wds)
Murderbot, Mensah's kids, and cats. Cute and fun!
pronker: animated bird feeties (Default)
[personal profile] pronker posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Barnabas Collins, Roger Collins, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Elliot Stokes, Julia Hoffman, David Collins, Hallie Stokes, Maggie Evans, Willie Loomis 

Rating: T

Length: 102,807

Creator Links: SusanRains | Archive of Our Own

Theme: Mystery & Suspense
 
Summary: Four strangers converge on Collinsport. But maybe one of them is coming home.
The vicious killing of two young boys has Barnabas convinced that a vampire preys upon Collinsport. His suspects are four newcomers: three strangers, and an enemy from his own past, long believed dead.

Reccer's Notes: Though it may be read separately without much fuss, this fic follows Lunatic Yarn, recc'd a few days ago. Blood Levy details the goings on of the ever-put-upon Collins family as they struggle to maintain their reputation while wringing a little love and enjoyment out of ~Life. It's a fine mystery using all the familiar TV show performers, the main ones in their regular roles, while various supporting performers Author has envisioned as original characters. Beginning with sudden action, continuing in an eerie atmosphere, well, could we expect anything else?
 
Fanwork Links:
Blood Levy (Dark Shadows 1971) Book 3 - Chapter 1 - Carey Kasdot (SusanRains) - Dark Shadows (1966) [Archive of Our Own]
kingstoken: (Castiel looking up)
[personal profile] kingstoken posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Length: 11,539 words
Creator Links: Unpainted Canvas (RatTale)
Theme: mystery & suspense, casefic

Summary: During a hard case Holmes and Watson part ways after an argument, and now Holmes suddenly has more to worry about than missing children.

Reccer's Notes: After they have a terrible row, Watson is kidnapped by bad guys to prevent Holmes from pursuing a case.  The entire story is from Holmes POV, and there is a lot of worry and tension as Holmes tries to solve the disappearance of his friend.  It's a good casefic, as well as the circumstances leading to realization of feelings by Holmes.

Fanwork Links: AO3

Round 180: Mystery & Suspense

1 November 2025 09:49
runpunkrun: combat boot, pizza, camo pants = punk  (punk rock girl)
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Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.
Spooky season's not over yet because our theme for November is mystery & suspense!

The tag for this round is: theme: mystery & suspense

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

Rules! )

Posting Template! )

Promote this round! )

sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)
[personal profile] sholio
Whumptobers will continue until morale improves probably a ways into November, since I'm still having a good time with it, and I have a few incomplete ones.

Alt Prompt: Organ Theft
Murderbot & Tarik, 800 wds (bookverse, post-System Collapse)
Also on AO3: Grand Theft Human

800 wds under the cut )
pronker: animated bird feeties (Default)
[personal profile] pronker posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Barnabas Collins, Julia Hoffman, Elliot Stokes, David Collins, Elizabeth Collins, Roger Collins, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Harry Johnson, Willie Loomis, Maggie Evans

Rating: T

Length: 37,304

Creator Linksarchiveofourown.org/users/SusanRains/pseuds/Carey%20Kasdot

Theme: Uncommon settings

Summary: A dumbwaiter system found in the house unleashes a baffling illness which turns pleasant friends into infatuated screwballs. Meanwhile, games with the dumbwaiter bring Hallie and David nights of terror. With the addition of an afghan that roams the house at will and a houseguest no one wants, Collinwood hits the height of mayhem.

Reccer's Notes: You'd be pretty hard put to discover a stranger, more unsettling setting than a dumbwaiter in which an intrepid soul or two ventures to travel. Add to this Halloween rec the inimitable spookiness of the great estate of Collinwood and you've discovered a delightful read with stellar characterizations and the usual undercurrent of Things Unseen in the fandom.

Fanwork Links: The Lunatic Yarn (Dark Shadows 1971) Book 2 - Carey Kasdot (SusanRains) - Dark Shadows (1966) [Archive of Our Own]

Weekly chat reminder

31 October 2025 22:50
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Please join us for the weekly TS chat on Saturday, November 1st, at 7 pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/19:00 UTC. That could be as early as 12 pm if you’re on the west coast of North America, or 3 pm if you’re on the east coast, or 8 pm in the UK, or early Sunday morning in Australia or New Zealand.

 

On Sunday, November 2nd, Daylight Savings Time will end for those of us in the US, which means that next week chat will start an hour earlier. If you’ve recently started or ended Daylight Savings Time where you are, be aware that chat may be an hour earlier or an hour later than you have been used to.

 

We’re in the usual place: http://us25.chatzy.com/81935648447483. There’s nothing to download or install, just choose a name and a color and click on “join chat.”

 

This week we’re watching an episode – Reunion. Simon goes to his high school reunion and has to get rescued by Jim and Blair, who are off getting lost in the woods.

 

See you there!

 


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