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Title: Flying solo
Fandom: Warrior Nun
Characters: Lilith
Rating: G
Notes: Done with felt tip pens, Chinese ink and graphite.
Summary: Lilith has no other option. Having left the OCS behind, she trails her own path.

Over here, at my journal!

osprey_archer

Last time I posted one of these reading lists,

asakiyume noted that I’d already read, like, half the books, and I decided that it might be the path of wisdom in the future to try to post these lists BEFORE I started reading the books on them. So! Behold! The authors I intend to revisit from my 2018 reading list!

Juliana Horatia Ewing - the university library has Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances (memories of early nineteenth-century England), The Story of a Short Life (unclear, but I think a child soldier dies valiantly?), and Lob Lie-by-the-fire ; Jackanapes ; Daddy Darwin's dovecot (three short stories, possibly fantasy). Any preferences?

Ngaio Marsh

Jerry Pinkney

Rosemary Sutcliff - We Lived at Drumfyvie, on the basis of

regshoe’s review

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Head of the House of Coombe

Roald Dahl - I’ve read the most famous ones (Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), plus his memoirs Boy and Going Solo. But I’ve barely skimmed the surface otherwise. Recs?

Caroline Dale Snedeker

M. T. Anderson - Nicked. Recced by multiple people!

D. E. Stevenson - Mrs. Tim Flies Home. The last of the Mrs. Tim quartet.

E. M. Delafield - technically The Provincial Lady in America is next, but I’d have to get it through ILL, whereas the library has The Provincial Lady in Wartime. Will probably get Wartime unless someone feels strongly the books must be read in order and/or the America is wonderful and I simply mustn’t risk missing it.

Elizabeth Enright - Spiderweb for Two. Wrapping up the Melendys!

Rick Bragg - I really liked his food memoir The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table, so I meant to try some of his other books, but… I have not. Any suggestions?

Daphne Du Maurier

Edward Eager - Playing Possum (the last of his little-known picture books)

Deborah Ellis - One More Mountain, the newest Breadwinner novel, published in 2022

Fyodor Dosteovsky - The Brothers Karamazov. Thoughts which translation I should get?

Jacqueline Woodson

Eliza Orne White - I, the Autobiography of a Cat. I am including White on this list solely because the archive has this book, and how am I supposed to resist a title like that?

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

C. S. Lewis

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton or Ruth, probably.

Dorothy Gilman

E. Nesbit - The Wouldbegoods

Thanhha Lai - When Clouds Touch Us, the sequel to Inside Out and Back Again. Always nervous about sequels but going to give this a try.

Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth. Another book I’ve meant to read for AGES.

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Title: Sharing A Meal
Fandom: Kamen Rider Gotchard
Pairing/Characters: Kyoka/Lachesis
Rating: G
Word count: 535
Content Notes: Domestic Fluff, Post-Canon, Canon Divergence
Author's note: Also written for the "cooking together & 400 words" prompts for Fresh Femslash Salad Bar!
Summary: Lachesis and Kyoka cook together.
Also on Ao3, or read below the cut:

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halfamoon

Today's theme is The Outlaw.

Here are some ideas to get you started: Is she a criminal or is she someone who challenges the norms? How does she fight for justice? Do her actions put herself or those she loves in danger? Does she feel that she needs to atone for any of her actions?

Just go wherever the Muse takes you. If this prompt doesn't speak to you, feel free to share something that does. You can post in a separate entry or as a comment to this post.

Want to get a jump start on tomorrow's theme? Check out the prompt list in the pinned post at the top of the page. Please don't post until that day

dine

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halfamoon

Title/Link: [Podfic] Doctor, I'm Burning Up
Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Character(s): Jiang Yanli/Wen Qing
Rating: Explicit
Prompt: Needs
Summary: Wen Qing privately “checks Jiang Yanli’s health”.

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halfamoon

Day 4 - Needs

Title: Only way out
Fandom: Danganronpa v3
Characters: Iruma Miu focused, with her relationships with Ouma and K1-B0
Rating: M
Summary: Maybe she could trust someone here. Just maybe. But the outside world needed her genius, her inventions... or that's what she needs to tell herself. Or why Miu decided to kill Kokichi.

Story in ao3

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halfamoon

Title: The Most Readable Eyebrows in the World
Fandom: Suikoden III
Characters: Iku/Franz
Rating: G
Summary: You know that worried expression Iku gets sometimes in the game? Yeah, that's what I was thinking of here.

( Iku is a worrier. )

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halfamoon

I thought about skipping this prompt at first because no character immediately came to mind. But then I thought about Ishizu after Battle City and what she felt like she may or may not "need" at that time.

Title: directionless, without a compass
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh
Character: Ishizu Ishtar
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Summary: Ishizu doesn't need the Millennium Necklace anymore
Link: here on ao3 or you can read it under the cut below

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halfamoon

Title: Dinner with Mom
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Faith Lehane and Joyce Summers
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 662
Summary: Added scene during "Who Are You?". After the body swap with Buffy, Faith doesn't run out to see the Scoobies right away. Instead, she opts to have dinner with Joyce and gives them both something that they need.

( Dinner with Mom )

landofnowhere

A bunch of ground to cover today, as last week I focused on the Johanna Kinkel book, but I also read a bunch of other stuff. Also I am in the middle of not one but two SF novels with complex worldbuilding.

Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson. Readaloud; this is a Broadway play from 1930 that just entered the public domain. Generally fun Elizabeth/Essex drama. Contains a Prince Hal/Falstaff play within a play, but it didn't feel the most effective use of metatheatre. Also it is silent on the Shakespeare authorship question -- I thought it might be a Baconian play because Francis Bacon appears and Shakespeare doesn't, but it doesn't drop any hints in that direction, nor does it mention Shakespeare's, though Burbage and Heminges are characters. Arguably this is realistic; people don't talk all the time about who wrote a play.

As You Like It, William Shakespeare. Readaloud. I've lost track of how many times I've read this aloud, but it is still a very good play. This time around I mainly noticed all the talk about how winter's not so bad really, which hits differently when you're in the northern US and in the middle of weeks of sub-freezing weather. But the Forest of Arden has olive and palm trees, so it's clearly a different climate.

Swept Away, Beth O'Leary. Jo Walton recommends going into this one entirely unspoiled; I didn't, but I enjoyed it anyway. This is one of the books I had in mind when titling the post; the woman is 31, the man 23, which is not something I've seen much of in the genre.

Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Slowly making my way through this; the plot is progressing as I'd expect it to and we are getting to see alien biology up close! Excited to see where it's going.

Chroniques du Pays des Mères, Élizabeth Vonarburg. Post-apocalyptic matriarchy with complex worldbuilding and good writing. Not only is it a meaty SF book, it's in French, so I may not be picking up everything that I could be. On the other hand I'm reading it at a set pace for an online book group, so I get to hear other people noticing things I'm not. There have been some exciting revelations and I'm restraining myself from reading ahead, but might reread to help figure out what's going on.

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halfamoon

Title: The Therapist
Fandom: Lost
Characters: Harper, Juliet
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers all the way through
Summary: Harper's spent years hating Juliet Burke. Having left the island and got some distance from the situation, she's come to understand that as caregivers, doctor and therapist, they had more in common at the time than they knew.

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hamsterwoman

Behold, I have read a book!

1. Moniquill Blackgoose, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath – I did this as part of a sync read with

lunasariel,

cyanmnemosyne, and

hidden_variable (though not all of us are yet finished), and you can see our in situ reactions as we read along here.

Back when this book first came out, a couple of flisters read it, and basically everything I learned about it from their write-ups made me feel like this book had been written just for me – magic school! dragons! learning to do chemistry with dragons at magic school! When I described this premise to L, her reaction was, “Did you black out and publish a novel?” So, yeah, this was incredibly well-suited to my interests, which raises the question of why it’s taken me nearly 3 years to read it, especially as I’ve owned a copy of this book for a while. And I liked it a lot! Not in an iddy way, which is a little bit of a surprise given just how well it aligns with some of my favorite tropes, but I’m both very glad that I finally read it and am curious to read more. (Book 2 is now out; let’s see if it takes me another 3 years to read it…)

( More, with spoilers )

*

I have also watched a thing:

The Goes Wrong Show:

rionaleonhart started posting gloriously cracktasting ficlets which were intriguing to read canon-blind (I’m a sucker for rivals-to-lovers, and Chris/Robert was clearly that), and also were giving me vaguely Taskmaster-y vibes in the combination of absurdity and disaster. And then Riona posted a very helpful fandom primer, from which I learned more context and also that the show was only about 6 hours of content (i.e. within my “impulse binge” parameters) and available to me to watch on YouTube. And I have now binged it, and had a great time, and am even more able to appreciate Riona’s Chris/Robert fic, heh.

( More, with spoilers )

Great fun, and I’m sad there isn’t more to binge. (Well, I understand there are plays which predate the show, but I’d need to track them down somewhere.)

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halfamoon

TITLE: It Must Be Tuesday https://kerk-hiraeth.dreamwidth.org/22023.html

PROMPT: Day Two - Guilty Pleasures

FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer {AU}

AUTHOR: kerk_hiraeth

RATING: PG

LENGTH: 200

CHARACTERS: Buffy; Faith; Andrew; OC;

SUMMARY: The life of a Commander-in-Chief is not all grim or boring, or necessarily sensible and sane.

A/N: This double drabble is set in a fanon-adjacent version of Jet Wolf's, much mourned by me, Chosenverse. Faith and Andrew have a bizarrely nerdy friendship and both have equally bizarre relationships with some of the Junior Slayer's. Timeline-wise we are, maybe, somewhere around where season nine or ten might have been.

Goddess watch over you,

''I must admit you're not the chosen one I would have chosen, '' The Great God Om (currently disguised as a Turtle), to the novice, Brutha - Small Gods.

kerk

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Location: USS Rattray
Current Music: Lana del Rey - Fuck It I Love You

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halfamoon

Title: Into a Burning Building and Out of Harm's Way

Fandom: 911/Angel the Series

Character/Pairing: Cordelia Chase/Sal Deluca

Prompt: Needs

Rating: Teen

Length: 2424

Summary: Cordelia Chase is not afraid of fire. She had faced down vampires, an evil mayor, hordes of demons trying to ruin graduation day, an unfaithful boyfriend, and tax agents who stole all her best outfits. This bravery puts her on a direct path of a hot firefighter from the LAFD and a new job - which means she’s far too busy to take a job as a receptionist by the time Angel comes along.

AO3

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halfamoon

Title: Finding Yourself in a New World – Chapter 4: Needs
Day/Prompt: Day 4 / Needs
Fandom: Warrior Nun (TV)
Character/Pairing: Yasmine, Camila, Ava, Lilith, Beatrice, Mary, Shannon
Rating/Warning(s): T / None
Word Count: 2768
Summary: After Yasmine has been told to be mindful of her own needs she makes sure to do just that.

Here on AO3

pauraque

In 17th century West Africa, an immortal woman named Anyanwu encounters another immortal for the first time, a man named Doro. But while Anyanwu is a healer who uses her powers to help others, Doro is a brutal manipulator who has been gathering people with paranormal powers and attempting to breed a race of superhumans under his iron fist. Anyanwu is the only other immortal he has ever found, and he intends to use her as "breeding stock" to make more. The novel follows centuries of their power struggle after Doro takes Anyanwu to the New World, as she strives to protect those under Doro's control and he strives to bend her to his will.

This is the chronologically earliest novel in Butler's Patternist series, though it was the fourth to be published. I was assured by leading experts (i.e. book club friends) that this is a perfectly good entry point to the series, so I started here and do not actually know yet what happens next!

It's the kind of book where it's hard to sit down and think of what to write about it, because it has so many layers that are worth thinking about and talking about, and they're all woven together so tightly and effectively that I'm not sure where to start pulling threads to unravel everything the book does. Butler had a gift for writing stories that resonate deeply with real situations without being simplistic, didactic one-to-one mappings. The speculative narrative and the real world historical setting illuminate each other in complex ways, and all the while Butler never loses sight of the characters as people with their own specific hurts, flaws, and needs. She makes it look so easy.

spoilery thoughts

The obvious comparison is to her stand-alone novel Kindred, published just the previous year, which had a contemporary Black American woman time-traveling to the era of slavery. Anyanwu also travels from a life of freedom to the New World under slavery. Against this backdrop, Doro acts as a master over "his people" in the eugenics program—and he definitely uses the phrase to indicate ownership, not kinship. His program isn't legal slavery, but it is inextricably entwined with it; sometimes Doro buys enslaved people who have the powers he's looking for, and if they wanted to leave, how could they? Even if Doro didn't catch them, they'd only be fleeing into a land where they'd be assumed to be runaway slaves. Anyanwu's powers are a match for Doro's, so saving herself is an option, but he controls the lives of everyone she knows and cares about. What this book shares most strongly with Kindred is a devastating portrayal of how people can be trapped into compliance with systems of oppression.

The book's religious themes are also complex. Anyanwu does not pray to gods, as she feels she has all the power she needs within herself, but she does not see herself as superior to other people either. Meanwhile, Doro shamelessly plays the part of a god over his people because it serves his purposes and he can get away with it. But not a loving god. Rather he reminds me of the way people will sometimes talk about the so-called "Old Testament God": bloodthirsty and hypercontrolling, demanding absolute obedience and destroying anyone who gets in his way. In which case his favorite son Isaac plays the corresponding supposed role of Jesus: the "good cop" son who draws Anyanwu into trying to appease his father. If this is a distorted image of Christian theology, well, distortion and misuse of Christian faith are certainly a deliberate theme in the book, as Anyanwu overtly calls out Christian enslavers for their hypocrisy.

On a deeper and unspoken level, the book comments on the thought processes underlying patriarchal power structures. Doro has the power to kill and he uses it to control others without a second thought; might makes right. Anyanwu could also use her powers to kill if she chose to, but it doesn't even occur to her. Instead she heals—but everything she has goes to other people, all her nurturing and self-sacrifice. She has total control over her own body's inner workings (while Doro doesn't even have his original body anymore!), and she uses herself as a scientific test subject to learn to heal wounds and diseases, suffering pain and injury so others can recover. She always puts others first, and the rightness of this is so ingrained in the assumptions of the characters that nobody ever questions it. Even when she escapes Doro temporarily, she keeps coming back to him, in part because she can't bring herself to leave others unprotected.

The fact that Doro and Anyanwu both have male and female bodies at different points in the story made me think about how patriarchy isn't defined by anatomy, but by power dynamics. I would not describe either of them as trans characters, but there is a trans resonance with the way Anyanwu remains confident in her womanhood regardless of her physical form, and in the many ways she remains vulnerable to misogyny even when people who don't know her read her as a man.

The bond between Anyanwu and Doro is both twisted and deeply understandable. They're the only two immortals; everyone else they know grows old and dies. They're lonely. Doro wants someone like him, but he can't get that by force, much as he has been trying. Anyanwu's well of empathy seems boundless, but somehow excludes herself. Her threat of suicide makes sense as it's the only way she can escape the cycle of returning to him again and again—she can't trust herself not to keep going back as long as she is like him. And the only way she can be unlike him, as she sees it, is to sacrifice her immortality and die.

The book's protagonist is a healer, and I think one of the book's core questions is who deserves healing, and who is too far gone to ever be healed. Doro tries to punish Anyanwu by forcing her to bear a child by Thomas, an uncontrolled psychic who is so deep in addiction and depression that he has become physically repellent. To Doro's surprise, Anyanwu responds with empathy (her greatest superpower, I think) and begins to heal Thomas's physical and mental wounds. Doro's reaction—to murder Thomas and possess his body—is the moment when he tells on himself the most. He intends to show power and cruelty, and he does, but he also reveals himself as a desperately isolated person who yearns to be healed, to be transformed from something repulsive into someone loveable. The book has the courage to leave it less than settled how possible that really is for him.

So, I guess I'll be continuing this series! I have been warned that not all of the books in it are this good. I'm sure I will cope somehow.

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halfamoon

Today here's some behind the scenes photo icons of Renge and Akiko from the recent Kamen Rider Girls Remix special! Six icons below the cut.

( Six Icons )

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halfamoon

Title: Impossible Colors
Fandom: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Character: Arabella Strange
Prompt: The Innocent
Rating: G
Length: 1402 words
Summary: On her first night in Lost-Hope, Arabella is being dressed for a ball in an outfit of fairy colors. She believes she can leverage her understanding of fairies and their colors for her release.

Link: Read it on AO3

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halfamoon

Title + link: loved in shades of wrong
Author:

atlantisairlock
Fandom: Bad Sisters
Characters/Pairing: Bibi Garvey/Eva Garvey
Length: 5153 words
Rating: T
Warnings: Sister/sister incest, unhealthy relationships.
Summary: Bibi and Eva, and five times they kiss, throughout the years.

Reccer's notes: I could probably recommend everything the author has written for this fandom, but if I had to choose only one story of those posted up until now this might be it for me (the size of my comment below it might be proof enough, as well as the public bookmark I made of it). There's a lot that can be said about this fic and if we're talking needs then I think it fits in well with the theme given how these two clearly need one another so much that they're willing to put aside societal expectations and even some common sense, at times, to fulfil that primal necessity for one another. It hurts them, it hurts people around them, but in truth it is denying that evident need in one way or another that leads to those negative consequences, not the need in itself. The fact that this is all explored within a frame that is both respectful of canon and reinvents it at the same time makes it all the more riveting as one can see what has been left the same and what was altered to the best effect in drawing Bibi and Eva so much closer to one another.

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sisterdivinium in halfamoon - Day 5: fanart, Warrior Nun - Lilith
osprey_archer - Revisiting my 2018 Reading List
linky in halfamoon - Day 5: Fic - Kamen Rider Gotchard - Kyoka/Lachesis
cmk418 in halfamoon - Day 5 Theme - The Outlaw
dine - just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and flowers
semperfiona in halfamoon - Day 4 - Podfic - MDZS - Jiang Yanli/Wen Qing
lovelytomeetyou in halfamoon - DAY 4 - FIC - DANGANRONPA - IRUMA MIU - NEEDS
suzume in halfamoon - Day 4 - Fic - Suikoden III - Iku/Franz
alchemicink in halfamoon - Day 4: Fic - Yu-Gi-Oh - Ishizu
cmk418 in halfamoon - Day 4 - Fic - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Faith Lehane and Joyce Summers
landofnowhere - wednesday books has older women romancing younger men
tellshannon815 in halfamoon - Day 3: caregivers. Lost, Harper and Juliet
hamsterwoman - To Shape a Dragon's Breath + The Goes Wrong Show
kerk_hiraeth in halfamoon - Day Two Theme - Guilty Pleasures (BtVS)
ineffablecabbage in halfamoon - Day 4 - Fic - Angel - Cordelia Chase
jacquelee in halfamoon - Day 4 - Fic - Warrior Nun - Yasmine
pauraque - Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (1980)
linky in halfamoon - Day 4: Icons - Kamen Rider Gotchard + Kamen Rider Girls Remix - Renge & Akiko
logonaut in halfamoon - Day 1: Fic - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Impossible Colors - Arabella Strange
sisterdivinium in halfamoon - Day 4: fic rec, Bad Sisters - Bibi/Eva

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