The chaotic Dragaera reread continues
( Spoilers for both Vallista and Tsalmoth )

Please join us for the weekly TS chat on Saturday, December 13th, 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.
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.”
It’s time for our postponed episode watch! We’re up to Season 2 Episode 5 – Payback. Come and find out all about Jim’s love of motorcycles when he was in high school…
Also, the 20th year of TS Secret Santa is underway! You can find all the collections here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/2025_TheSentinel_Secret_Santa/collections
See you there!
“There used to be a market for the little 60,000‐word romance with no plot,” Mrs. Anderson said, “but our publisher has become very demanding.”
Fern Michaels's books usually end up containing about 250,000 words.
Mrs. Anderson credits the success of the books to the authors’ attitude about women. As she put it:
“We don't have women love men who brutalize, beat and brand them. Our women don't put up with that.”

On this day in history,
jerakeen made the very first post to this comm. Happy birthday to us!
To celebrate
fancake's fifteen years of operation, we're taking a two-pronged approach, with thanks to
full_metal_ox for suggesting the second prong:
post recs to the comm for fanworks published in 2010 for amnesty (if all else fails, theme: old fandoms should probably cover you, but consider also theme: favorite fanworks, theme: fandom classics, and theme: underloved fanworks)
comment on this post with what you were into when you were fifteen—or what you were into fifteen years ago—what you're into today, and how your tastes have changed—or not!—over the years, or share your thoughts in your own journal and leave us a link here in the comments
a secret third thing???
Happy birthday, Fancake! Thank you for making this comm a community. 🎂