[#49 - electric] Arcane - Jinx/Vi

Feb. 27th, 2026 08:30 am
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Title: Spark
Rating: Teen
Type: Fic
Size: 1,958 words
Prompt: Electric
Fandom: Arcane
Ship: Jinx/Vi (and background Silco/Vander)           
Warnings:
 Incest and pseudo-incest
Notes: Also fills the the "Pining" square for my incest bingo card
Summary: Reunited after years apart, Vi and Jinx have a plan to bring their little family back together. But nothing's ever quite that simple, is it?

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7/100 (Table here)
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20 lovey-dovey icons for ships20in20

Feb. 27th, 2026 07:04 pm
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The February round of [community profile] ships20in20 was an inspirational round on the theme of Valentine's day. There were provided textures and fonts and a ton of inspiration icons. I enjoyed it! I hope you do too.




20+4 icons, most of them Wu Lei related )


Every single comment is treasured. All icons shareable! Concrit welcome. Check out my resource post for makers of textures and brushes I use.

Previous icon posts:

FAKE Fic: No Time To Spare

Feb. 27th, 2026 06:02 pm
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Title: No Time To Spare
Fandom: FAKE
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Police work is a high-pressure occupation, especially for detectives working serious crimes. Even more so when there’s an innocent life on the line and no time to spare.
Word Count: 1227
Written For: Theme Prompt: 214 – Pressure at 
[community profile] fandomweekly.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
 
 


Ficlet: Claimed

Feb. 27th, 2026 05:54 pm
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Title: Claimed
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG-15
Word Count: 537
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto wasn’t flirting, exactly, but it still had an effect on Jack.
Written For: The prompt ‘Any, any, marked as property,’ at 
[community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 
 


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Dragons, Gamers, & More

Feb. 27th, 2026 04:30 pm
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Posted by Amanda

The Right Swipe

RECOMMENDED: The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai is $1.99! Maya read this one and gave is an A:

The Right Swipe is an amazing, well written story about two people of color falling in love as they come to terms with how the physical, psychological, and emotional traumas they experienced continue to affect them both. It was also, for me, a quiet little moment where I felt my existence was acknowledged.

Alisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom.

Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her career—and the occasional hookup. The cynical dating app creator controls her love life with a few key rules:

– Nude pics are by invitation only

– If someone stands you up, block them with extreme prejudice

– Protect your heart

Only there aren’t any rules to govern her attraction to her newest match, former pro-football player Samson Lima. The sexy and seemingly sweet hunk woos her one magical night… and disappears.

Rhi thought she’d buried her hurt over Samson ghosting her, until he suddenly surfaces months later, still big, still beautiful—and in league with a business rival. He says he won’t fumble their second chance, but she’s wary. A temporary physical partnership is one thing, but a merger of hearts? Surely that’s too high a risk…

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Single Player

Single Player by Tara Tai is $1.99! Dahlia mentioned this on her monthly Queer Romance Roundup. The main characters work in the video game industry. Did any of you read this?

Two video game creators go head-to-head in this delightful, queer enemies-to-lovers workplace romance debut.

Cat Li cares about two things: video games and swoony romances. The former means there hasn’t been much of the latter in her (real) life, but when she lands her dream job writing the love storylines for Compass Hollow—the next big thing in games—she knows it’s all been worth it. Then she meets her boss: the infamous Andi Zhang, who’s not only an arrogant hater of happily-ever-afters determined to keep Cat from doing her job but also impossibly, annoyingly hot.

As Compass Hollow’s narrative director, Andi couldn’t care less about love—in-game or out. After getting doxxed by internet trolls three years ago, Andi’s been trying to prove to the gaming world that they’re a serious gamedev. Their plan includes writing the best game possible, with zero lovey-dovey stuff. That is, until the man funding the game’s development insists Andi add romance in order to make the story “more appealing to female gamers.”

Forced to give Cat a chance, Andi begrudgingly realizes there’s more to Cat than romantic idealism and, okay, a cute smile. But admitting that would mean giving up the single-player life that has kept their heart safe for years. And when Cat uncovers a behind-the-scenes plan to destroy Andi’s career, the two will have to put their differences aside and find a way to work together before it’s game over.

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One Cursed Rose

One Cursed Rose by Rebecca Zanetti is $1.99! This is book one in the dystopian fairy tale Grimm Bargains series. I recently reviewed this and gave it a D, but no judgement if you want to try the crazysauce for yourself.

For fans of Scarlett St Clair and Sarah J Maas, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti explores the forbidden and the taboo in this modern twist on Beauty and the Beast – the first in a seductive new dark romance series set in a world where information is power, and those who control the flow of information live like gods…

“Sexy and utterly engrossing!” —bestselling author J.T. Geissinger

They christened me Alana—and while the name means beauty, beneath that surface is a depth I allow very few to see. I’m sole heir to Aquarius Social, a media giant about to succumb to an unseen enemy. My father’s solution is to marry me off to the son of a competing family. My reaction? Not a chance. Now I have just a week before the wedding to change my fate.

Who knew the unforeseen twist would be an assassination attempt on me and an unwanted rescue by Thorn Beathach, the head of the rival social media empire driving Aquarius under? The richest, most ruthless of them all, the Beast protects his realm with an iron rule: no one sees his face. When he shows himself to me, I know he’ll never let me go.

Thorn may think he can lock me in his enchanted castle forever, but I’m not the docile Beauty he expects. If the Beast wants to tie me up, I’m going to take pleasure from every minute of it . . .and we’ll just see who ends up shackled.

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A Natural History of Dragons

RECOMMENDED: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan is $1.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This is the first book in the Lady Trent series, which Carrie really loves. Readers say the book is pretty awesome in terms of concept, but they surprisingly wanted more dragons. Have you read this book or series?

You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon’s presence, even for the briefest of moments—even at the risk of one’s life—is a delight that, once experienced, can never be forgotten. . . .

All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world’s preeminent dragon naturalist. She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied the stifling conventions of her day.

Here at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, her prospects, and her fragile flesh and bone to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic discoveries that would change the world forever.

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It appears that tomorrow is the last day of February. What were my goals this month? Am I still working on goals for the year? (The fact that I don't know seems to indicate either I am not yet successful, or I am already so successful I don't even think about it.) (I'm sure it's the latter, right?)

I haven't finished my Grade 1 Chinese textbooks, but in my defense I added math, so it's four textbooks per grade instead of two. They're really fun. I remember that reading them the first time is how I learned the word for "equals". (In that I still remember it, rather than just seeing it and forgetting it, which is apparently what I did with "greater than" and "less than".)

I've been in the 75fluent discord a bit, and a lot of people are using the SuperChinese app. I looked back through the scores of Chinese learning apps I've tried, and that's not one of them, so I feel like I should check it out. (My Chinese learning app knowledge is now, after just a few years, completely outdated. That's pretty neat.)

2024 was the year it got easier to listen, and 2025 was the year it got easier to write. Dare I decide that 2026 will be the year it gets easier to speak?

Last night I saw a video about how, when reading a book, the first chapter is the hardest and it gets immediately easier after that. So I started reading the first Chinese book I found in my kindle library that was A) new to me, and B) not a graded reader. (I love graded readers, but after you've read hundreds of them, they're a bit repetitive. By design, of course.) It seems to be about good study habits for high schoolers. I don't remember how this is in my library, but the first chapter was pretty interesting, so I assume that's why.)

I did not diamond paint except to start the irises, but I did photograph a bunch of legos, make some graphics, and handwrite some cool zines for [community profile] beagoldfish. Plus wrote stories for [community profile] chenqing_100!

I also sowed a bunch of seeds in containers now covered by snow, and looked at enough of my tubers to determine that 1) the dahlias look largely viable, and 2) there was probably some layering of cold in my canna storage, because the ones in the top box are trying to sprout while the ones in the bottom box are soundly asleep. (That's reasonable; they were by the back door where the floor is pretty cold, but the pipes above the floor run warm for the dog's comfort.)
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I never actually posted my Yuletide fic here, and it's almost March. Way behind. But anyway, I had fun with it, so enjoy!

Title: What Abigail And Ione Did That January
Author: [personal profile] beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Rivers of London
Characters: Abigail Kamara/Ione Seaton, Thomas Nightingale, Peter Grant
Written For: Chrome in Yuletide 2025
Summary: Ione comes down for a visit after Christmas. But a quiet visit is not in the cards when there is a missing persons case to be solved.


I am standing in Euston Station, and it's even worse of a madhouse than I expected it to be. But I'm so excited I'm not even bothered by the crush of tourists with roller bags who seem determined to run me over as they dash to catch their trains. Ione is coming, and though we've talked on the phone almost every day, it's been months since we said goodbye in Scotland.

I want to know if she smells as good as I remember. I want to know if her skin feels as good as I remember. I'm almost afraid I've built her up, in my head, to such a peak of perfection, that I'll be disappointed to see her again and find she's just a girl.

But if I were going to let my fear control me, I wouldn't be a wizard now. I'd never have survived the house on Hampstead Heath, or the Robinette kidnapping, or the wyvern up in Glasgow. And I'd never have gotten to kiss Ione. )

Work is At It Again!

Feb. 27th, 2026 04:28 pm
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Because of course they are. Due to Brilliant Financial Decisions that I can't get into without doxxing myself, work are making some changes. Some of them I can understand; they're standardising opening hours and want shift patterns to line up with each other, cool, that makes sense. Some of them though... Yeesh. Their ideal situation that they're working towards includes but is not limited to:

  1. No full-time contracts, and a hard limit of 25 hours a week max. (Lunch breaks are inconvenient, and if we only work a five hour shift we don't get a break.) Also, no one will need to work extra hours because we'll be fully staffed – ignore every other time we've said that, this time we mean it!

  2. No home libraries; everyone is part of a pool and assigned two or three libraries per week to work at.

  3. No overlap between shifts, so no proper handover between shifts (because why would we need that?).

  4. "We heard your complaints that there's no job mobility that isn't becoming a manager, so we created more manager positions! ♥"

  5. Two fewer libraries in the network – one of them is closing entirely, and one is full of valuable and delicate material so we're going to leave it open and completely unstaffed.

And when people raised questions and objections, they were told "Well, you can always leave."

... Aight, bet.

Now I'm waiting to hear back from one library job, and I've got three other applications to get in by close of play on Monday. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For bonus points: we were all assigned a mandatory meeting with one of our great-grandbosses to discuss the changes and ask any questions. Me being me, I sent him an email before the meeting with all of my questions so that we had an agenda and he could prepare answers! (ʘ‿ʘ🌺) He told me a lot of things, most of which did not answer my questions, and I sent him a summary of his answers and the questions I would still like answered. (ʘ‿ʘ🌺) I think each email was two pages each, front and back, and I need you all to understand the peak comedy of his reply: "Had a quick read, that looks right, hope it helped you."

I do literally hours of writing relevant and appropriate questions, checking my recording, summarising your useless responses, checking FAQs, and your response is "Hope it helped you."

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ🌺

Met with my line manager on Thursday and accidentally cried at her, because I sent her copies of my messages and her response was "I can tell you really care about this job and your colleagues." Turns out I wanted someone to acknowledge that? I'm not being awkward for the sake of it, I'm being awkward because I want to keep doing my job! She also suggested that I send my questions to Other Great-Grandboss to get actual answers, but only after I revise out some of my... Expressions of frustration... Because Other Great-Grandboss will actually read them, and it won't help me get my answers. But god, I just – I'm irrationally convinced that somehow I can find the magic words to convince the bosses to fucking listen to us and understand why people are upset. I can't, but what if I could.

... Anyway, that's what's going on with me right now. I'm going to cross stitch Pokémon and watch other people play the new Resident Evil game because hahahahaha NO I AM NOT PLAYING THE GAME WHERE SOMEONE STALKS ME IN THE DARK. NO THANK YOU.

check in day 27

Feb. 27th, 2026 04:18 pm
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How is the writing going?

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Discussion: what are you working on this weekend?

March sign up

Feb. 27th, 2026 04:14 pm
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It's time to sign up for the January WIP challenge! Some people join the challenge mid month, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways. For those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.

Sign-ups will be open until the end of March.


    Level of challenge: 1 chapter, 1000 words, 1 fic finished, whatever you like
    Fandom(s) involved: if you know at this point
    What you're looking for from the challenge: this could be as vague or specific as you like: someone to be accountable to, someone to remind you to write, someone to bounce ideas off, etc.
    What you could offer other participants yourself: ditto!
    How people should contact you: DW message, e-mail, IM etc.
    Time zone: useful for seeing who might be up for a writing session at a time convenient to you


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The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.

If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.

Volunteers for March

Feb. 27th, 2026 04:13 pm
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Week 1: 1st to 7th
Week 2: 8th to 14th
Week 3: 15th to 21st
Week 4: 22nd to 28th
Week 5: 29th to 4th

Who ARE these people

Feb. 27th, 2026 03:34 pm
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This seems somehow to link on to earlier posts this week - a lot of my memories of childhood reading/being read to are associated with episodes of illness!

Posted in a group on Facebook: 'A book you read as a child yet still think about today'.

WOT.

Just So Many.

The various classic works of children's literature that have become culturally embedded in references and allusions - the Alice books, the Pooh books, The Wind in the Willows, the Jungle Books, The Secret Garden, Little Women et seq, the Katy books -

Ones that are perhaps not quite so iconic? like the Little Grey Rabbit books.

A whole mass of girls' school stories and pony books. A fair amount of Enid Blyton though I'm not sure I think about any specifics there.

Various anthologies and collections - some stories still remembered - classic fairytales, myths, etc.

Plus things like Pears Cyclopaedia and The Weekend Book

And I do, in fact think about things like, the attitude towards The Scholarship Girl in The Making of Mara in what is actually the unposh, girls' day school, to which her father sends snobbish Mara. (Only this week when thinking about educational privilege....)

Plus, I will mention yet again being absolutely traumatised by Marie of Roumania's The Lily of Life.

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Feb. 27th, 2026 10:56 am
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It's Friday!!

...I am so tired. Two days off work (for a specific project) did not make me less tired. It's going to be another "go pick up coffee from the fun campus coffee shop just to make it through the afternoon" day.

But it's Friday! And the weather is supposed to be lovely this afternoon, so I'll take it.

Hopefully tonight/this weekend I'll have a chance to work a little more on my WIPs. I have something like 2k of Forsaken Road handwritten in a notebook, and a few different investigation scenes from broken beaten damned I need to bounce around a little more until they shake out into some proper clues. (And maybe polish up a couple of the OCs for that fic. One of them is pretty well-developed, but he only has one scene, and the others could use some work.)

...If I don't end up working part of the weekend, because that just became a possibility. Academia!
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