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Title: Into the Setting Sun
Recipient: EstelRaca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson & Mycroft
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: When Holmes fails to arrive at Baker Street for a scheduled dinner, Mycroft and Watson go searching for him.

Read on AO3: Into the Setting Sun

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I've posted a few recs for amazing fanworks from the

ficinabox collection on my journal! All creators are still anonymous.

My gifts
Stranger Things (2 fic)
Original Works (1 fic, 2 logic puzzles + fic)

Recs for

womansplace
Andor (fic)
DC Comics Wonder Woman (art)
Original Works (art, board game reskin, plushie pattern)

Art recs
Discworld (pottery)
DC comics (art animation)
Original Work (3 art, 1 pottery, 2 comics [note the final rec is NSFW])

dolorosa_12

Tomorrow is my birthday, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to use this week's open thread as a chance for all of us to do some good. Behind the cut, I'm going to recommend some concrete political actions for causes that matter to me — charities, campaigns, resources — and if you feel so moved, please do take the suggested actions.

Alternatively, use this prompt as a way to highlight in the comments causes and actions that matter to you. Two requests if you do take this latter option:

Be specific when describing your causes. If they are focused on a particular country or region within that country, name it, rather than expecting people to intuit that your cause is US-specific, limited to rural Australia, or whatever.

If you are asking people to part with their money, only recommend initiatives to which you have personally donated or would be comfortable donating. Organisations rather than individual fundraisers are generally safer in this regard.

( Charities, campaigns, resources )

Please do recommend your own actions in the comments.

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spikedluv

I did not go downtown today. I still got in some shopping, but only because I needed both milk and gas, so stopped at Stewart’s. And I might have stopped at the Price Chopper that’s ‘in the other direction’ to see what they had.

I visited my aunt, hit the post office to mail a couple more cards, hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I got leftover pulled pork out of the freezer for Pip’s supper.

I wrote ~600 words on my second fic for

fandomtrees! First draft is done, so I just need to get it typed in and edited. I read more in Boyfriend Material and watched another ep of The Pitt.

Temps started out at 30.9(F) and dropped to 22.1 before I left the house a couple hours later!! The forecast called for the overnight low to be 21, but we were skeptical of that because it was still 39.9 when we went to bed. Apparently Mother Nature was determined to get close to that forecasted low! All the snow that melted yesterday re-froze overnight, so that was fun. Temps reached 50.4 and we had sun today!

Tomorrow is supposed to be a high of 54 with rain in the morning and snow in the afternoon, which means a huge and sudden temperature drop. That’ll be more fun.

P.S. Thank you to everyone who has commented on my aunt update posts. I appreciate the hugs and suggestions.

Mom Update:

Mom is not doing well. ( more back here )

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Title: Peace and Literature
Recipient: Jabbage
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Canon
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings: No Warnings
Summary: Sherlock and Mycroft spend some quiet time together as children.

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Sharing a few gems that I've loved from the

ficinabox exchange. All creators are still anonymous!

Fandom: DC Comics
Fanwork type: art
Pairings/Characters: Diana
Rating and/or Content Warnings: SFW (but a bit suggestive)
Links: we can get a little restless
Summary:

Diana and a beautiful evening.

Reccer's Notes: Really vibrant, colourful style! A pin-up style pose, fabulously flirty.

Fandom: Andor (TV)
Fanwork type: fic
Pairings/Characters: Kleya Marki/Vel Sartha
Rating and/or Content Warnings: M
Links: the whisperings and the champagnes and the stars
Summary:

“That’s not what this is.” There is something about this, about all of this situation - the light, the faint jasmine lift of the scent Vel’s wearing, the casual, careless wealth - that Kleya cannot stand.

“You don’t like me and you can’t stand knowing you’re capable of being that petty. That’s exactly what this is.”

And that’s too much. “As I said, it's valuable work. Sorry you’re struggling with the burden of seducing rich socialites or whatever it is you’re doing but at least the catering’s good, right?”

The Aldhani mission fails. Vel blinks out of Kleya's life - only to reappear at a party six months later.

Reccer's Notes: This is outstanding, and pulls no punches! Excellent dialogue and characterization, and smolderingly hot but spiky chemistry between them.

Fandom: Original Work
Fanwork type: art, board game reskin, plushie pattern
Pairings/Characters: Fairy Queen/Young Woman Who Unwittingly Entered Her Realm
Rating and/or Content Warnings: G
Links: the Fairy and the Human
Summary:

There are legends about the fairy realm. Tales of wonder and the tales to scare children from the forest, where the entrance to the magical kingdom is supposed to be located.

Some believe in those tales; some don't, but no human dares to seek the truth and enter the fairy realm. Until one day, a woman running away from her past crosses the border and walks into the unknown.

Reccer's Notes: Gorgeous! This link goes to the first chapter which is stunning art of the queen and the young woman, with really lovely composition and beautiful colours and textures. But the creator has also created an entire reskinned board game with fairyland creatures, a cute sticker set, and even a small plushie pattern. I'm overwhelmed by the creativity, so cool!

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Title: To Implore Your Light
Recipient: beaglesbites
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada TV Show
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Now that Holmes had returned to London, alive and well, Watson had thought the nightmares would stop. He had the most marvelous proof that the worst had not happened, that Holmes was not lost, his body not left to be battered by the torrent of the Reichenbach Falls forever. Still, the nightmares continued.

Read on AO3: To Implore Your Light

hannah

I made a cake for my dad's book group, as is customary, and it wasn't until late in the day, long after dropping it off, that I found out the book group had cancelled its in-person meeting - to be fair, they hadn't known that until the afternoon, what with someone coming down with something and everyone else electing not to drive.

It also turns out that my parents had a building party scheduled that same night. One my dad thought he wouldn't go to with the book group, but could attend since the commute would only be from the lobby to the apartment. One where he could bring a cake that I'd happened to have dropped off earlier that day.

The group had been reading Charles Dickens, and I thought an apple ginger spice cake would be fitting to the general vibe of the novel. It turned out to be a set of flavors that were just as fitting for a near-solstice wintertime party.

I'm always happy when something I've baked finds its way to a good home, and I'm even happier when there's a little story to go along with the cake.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: nothing now

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Reveals delayed until Wednesday, December 24, 2025.

There are two post deadline pinch hits remaining. PH 1 has added a request for Strange New Worlds. Please see the details and claim at the PDPH post here.

The new deadline for these PHs is Monday, December 22, 2025 11:59PM EST (08:59PM PST).

dolorosa_12

We're back for another December talking meme post. This prompt is from

nerakrose: quintessentially Australian books.

This is not really a week in which I feel much like talking about quintessentially Australian anything, but I'll do my best.

I need to start out with a caveat, though. I haven't lived in Australia for more than seventeen years, and I often feel a bit out of touch from the country's contemporary politics, culture, and so on. So my answer reflects, in some ways, an Australia frozen in the 2000s, and many Australians who do actually live there now, and who have lived there in the intervening twenty-ish years may feel that my answer doesn't reflect their current reality.

( With that disclaimer out of the way, here's my answer )

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanvids/podfics/fancrafts/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here

spikedluv

I had a chiropractic appointment, a pedicure (another, different, red polish; she painted a nice snowflake for the design), AND a massage this morning! (Don’t laugh, but I scheduled the massage so I could get a GC for my niece. This massage therapist is local and works alone; it is very difficult to just walk in because the door is locked while she’s in an appointment, so I was like, screw it, I’ll ~make an appointment so I can get the GC. Win-win!)

I did zero shopping which made the morning even better. I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I cooked a strip roast with potatoes and baby carrots for supper. It was really good!

Today is my first injection of the higher dose of Trulicity (as decided when I had the appt with my PCP last Monday). I hope it doesn’t cause me digestive issues because I have not missed those. *fingers crossed*

I started Boyfriend Material, watched another ep of The Pitt and the current ep of one of my favorite HGTV programs, Fixer to Fabulous. Secrets of the Zoo was my background tv in the evening.

Temps started out at 32.9(F) (the temps got down to 22 before we went to bed, so it had warmed up substantially overnight) and reached 45.3!!! It was mostly cloudy, but the snow melted so that it was tough to walk in.

Today is the first of three ‘warm’ days (though it was only supposed to reach 39). Tomorrow is supposed to be mid-40s and Friday is supposed to hit the 50s! And then drop 20 degrees to being cold again. Me no likey.

Mom Update:

Mom didn’t sound good today. ( more back here )

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Page Summary

holmesticemods in holmestice - Treat for estelraca: Into the Setting Sun
scintilla10 in recthething - Fic in a Box recs!
dolorosa_12 - Friday open thread: concrete political actions, birthday edition
mgsx_mod in fandomcalendar - METAL GEAR SOLID EXCHANGE - MGSX - SIGNUPS OPEN
sunnymodffa in fail_fandomanon - FFA DW Post #2402 - Cum is what happens after you preposition someone
spikedluv - The Day in Spikedluv (Thursday, Dec 18)
holmesticemods in holmestice - Treat for Jabbage: Peace and Literature
dine - one nation controlled by the media
scintilla10 in womansplace - Art + Fic recs from Fic in a Box 2025 (DC Comics, Andor, Original Femslash)
holmesticemods in holmestice - Treat for beaglesbites: To Implore Your Light
hannah - Roundabout.
glassesofjustice in startrekholidays - Reveals delayed until Wednesday, 12/24/25, Two PDPHs remain
dolorosa_12 - Stuff goes wild on the peripheries
glitteryv in recthething - Community Recs Post!
spikedluv - The Day in Spikedluv (Wednesday, Dec 17)

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