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Welcome to Topic Tuesday! Right away I want to stress that discussion posts are always welcome to the community, you don't have to wait until a Topic Tuesday rolls around, and then maybe be disappointed by the current topic of discussion. Whenever you want to talk about something, please simply make a separate entry to this comm, no matter the week, the time, or the topic. All right? *g*

The topic I picked for today is Favorite mom/dad characters. This is another prompt that was suggested to me on a post I made on Bluesky, asking for ideas. Do you have favourite mom/dad characters in c-ent? If yes, who are they? Tell us all about them!

As usual, if you want to talk about spoilers, please use one of these codes to hide them.

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marthawells

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runpunkrun

a dragonfly
unable to settle
on the grass
-1690

Translation by Jane Reichhold.

( 俳句 )

esteefee

Happy Birthday to my brain twin,

em_kellesvig!

Tribbles Are Trouble (4583 words) by esteefee
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Dr. Cole MD (Stargate Atlantis)
Additional Tags: Crack, Tribbles (Star Trek)
Summary:

Rodney finds a new alien ~~pig~~ pet, and John is wigged out.

grayswandir posting in

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This isn't directly C-ent related, but yesterday I visited the Hong Kong Palace Museum (a partner museum of the Beijing Palace Museum in the Forbidden City), and thought I'd post about it here. It just opened in 2022. There are nine galleries, seven of which were filled with displays from Chinese history, mostly things from the imperial palace. The vast majority of the items on display were from the Qing Dynasty, mainly from the time of Qianlong's reign (1736-1795). But there were also some displays from earlier reigns and earlier dynasties, and even one display of pottery dating back as far as 4,000 years.

( To connect this at least slightly to Cnovels/Cdramas... )

Anyway, I thought I'd share some of what's on display. This is nowhere near everything, just a selection; there are hundreds and hundreds of objects in the galleries. (Er, also apologies for the low quality. My phone is old and the museum has very low lighting. :P)

( Museum exterior )

( Entering the Forbidden City )

( Life and Art in the Forbidden City )

( The Art of Armaments: Qing Dynasty Military Collection )

And moving backwards in history:

( Ming Dynasty Ceramic Treasures from the Palace Museum, 1368-1644. )

And the last gallery I visited, ( the Founding Donations gallery, which had some even older items on display. )

( A couple of scenery shots outside. )

(I'm not sure how best to tag this! Let me know. :)

dancing_serpent posting in

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The weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?

Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
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runpunkrun

Photograph with added text: Working Together, at Fancake. Workers in India use wide wooden paddles with long handles to shove a huge yard of drying grains into big piles. The grain, most likely rice, is a beautiful golden color, and there's a mix of western and traditional clothing among the seven men and women.

fancake's theme for July is Working Together!

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!

oneiriad

Aka I signed up for early access to the first episode.

( Spoilers below the cut )

runpunkrun

One of those thrillers that splits the narrative between two women—both twenty years old, working at the same grubby motel and living in the same apartment, one in 1982 and the other in 2017 trying to solve the mystery of the first one's disappearance—and their stories run so parallel they're basically interchangeable and you start wondering if maybe the author should have only told the story once. It certainly would have cut down on the amount of clunky exposition and awkward dialogue.

The thrills were not thrilling, but the mystery might have been interesting if we weren't getting it from both ends. As it is, not worth the time.

Contains: References to rape, domestic abuse, and child death; descriptions of dead bodies; ghosts.

dancing_serpent posting in

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Wishlist Wednesdays are intended as a catch-all for anything you'd like to ask for in a casual, low-stress setting. No need to create a separate entry to the comm (although you are always welcome to do that, too), just leave a comment with your request right here under this entry.

It can be anything. Are you looking for icons of a specific drama or actor? Do you need a beta for your fic? Do you want to know where to buy merchandise of something? You can ask for recs of any kind (fanfic, drama, novel, music, whatever), or even leave specific fic prompts that others might be able to fill. Or whatever else that you can think of. Right now we're still kinda experimenting with this format, after all.

Feel free to discuss wishes/requests in the comments. And if you want to fill a request, feel free to do so right in the comments, too, or make a separate entry to the comm.

And please also check out the previous entries!

Multiple wishes/requests are definitely all right, just post a new top level comment for each. It would make it easier for people who might be interested in helping you out. The only thing I'd suggest for now is that you hide possible spoilers in the usual ways:

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dancing_serpent posting in

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This is the monthly round-up for June 2025.

• Fanvid for: 双兔 | Soul Sisters

• Wishlist Wednesday

• Cover reveals for The Beauty's Blade!

• Topic Tuesday: Underrated Dramas

• Graphics/Picspam for: Xiao Zhan as Zang Hai for Wet Man Wednesday!

• Fanvids for: Hikaru no Go, Justice in the Dark

• Quick Rec Wednesday

• Review for: Lament of the River Immortal (Feud)

• Promo/Rec for: Into the Fire (Hong Kong film, 1989)

• Review for: Justice in the Dark

• Fanvids for: Justice in the Dark fanvid + Silent Reading song translations

• Did You Make a Thing?

• Last chance! Pingxie Exchange sign-ups end tomorrow

• Fanvid for: 双镜 | Couple of Mirrors

• DC-Slash Con Seeking Panel Suggestions Today

And of course we had the monthly round-up for May 2025 and our weekly chats on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and the 28th

Did you discover an entry you missed? Come on over and take a look/comment!

alierak posting in

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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

amedia posting in

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DC-Slash is an online convention coming up at the end of July. We still have ONE DAY for people to make panel suggestions (https://www.dcslash.org/dc-slash-con/programming) and I for one would LOVE to see MOAR Asian Drama-related suggestions!!!

( Read more... )

aurumcalendula posting in

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Title: To Hell & Back
Fandom: 双镜 | Couple of Mirrors (2021)
Music: To Hell & Back by Maren Morris
Summary: 'lucky for me, your kind of heaven's been to hell and back'
Notes: Premiered at Escapade 35.5.
Warnings: quick cuts and flashing lights, violence

AO3 | bsky | DW | tumblr | YouTube

mekare posting in

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Trailer here.
Cast here on my dramalist.

As far as I know this is not an adaptation of NPSS‘s stories "Wu Xie‘s Private Notes" but a readaptation of book 1 (and possibly 2).

And here is a video with the new Pangzi that made me aware that this existed: video on Tumblr.

Are you excited?

dancing_serpent posting in

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mekare posting in

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I figured I‘d signal boost this here: Pingxie Exchange has prolonged sign-ups until tomorrow:

Saturday, June 28, 2025 3 PM EDT / 7 PM UTC

Info post

rivkat

no good, very bad thing: for the first time ever, I carefully concealed my Star of David scrunchie to do an interview in case it became a distraction. I try hard not to self-censor, but ...

marthawells

For Murderbot Day, a great interview with DeWanda Wise, about playing NavigationBot in The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon:

https://www.nexuspointnews.com/post/interview-dewanda-wise

I had worked with Paul on Fatherhood. He literally texted me and was like, "do you want to play a murderous robot?"

dancing_serpent posting in

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This month is almost over, so, let's hear it. *g* How did it go with your fannish creativity?

Did you manage to make a thing?

Created fanart or made vids? Wrote fic or meta? How about picspams, link collections, character mood boards, themed playlists, promo posts, or whatever else you create for fannish enjoyment?

Here's the place to share it with us! Leave a link in the comments, or elaborate on it as much as you want.

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Topic Tuesday - Favorite mom/dad characters

July 4 Flood Relief

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HBD Fic: Tribbles Are Trouble (McShep, PG)

Exhibits from the Hong Kong Palace Museum

Weekly Chat

Fancake's Theme for July: Working Together

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The Sun Down Motel, by Simone St. James

Wishlist Wednesday

Monthly Round-Up

Rebuilding journal search again

DC-Slash Con Seeking Panel Suggestions Today

Vid: 双镜 | Couple of Mirrors

New adaptation: Wu Xie‘s Private Notes!

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