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Title: Clean Rooms and Dirty Light by

chainofclovers
Reader:

wilfriede0815
Bingo Square(s): Free Square
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Relationship: Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs
Length: 1h36m
Summary: Oh, you know. They're mad at each other; they love each other. They're smart women but kind of dumb when it comes to this.
Link to Podfic: On AO3

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Weilan art and two Zhubai fics. :)

Delicious by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Kissing, Lollipops, Lollipop Kiss, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: Eating this many lollipops around Shen Wei is going to result in getting licked. (That's the plan.)

But I Know Where to Start (1040 words) by facethestrange
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong
Characters: Bai Yu (Actor), Zhu Yilong
Additional Tags: Non-Explicit Sex, First Kiss, First Time, Light Angst, Tenderness, Crying, Hopeful Ending
Summary: It's the night of the last day of filming, and the last thing Bai Yu has ever expected from it is being kissed.

How Do You Want Me? (300 words) by facethestrange
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong
Characters: Bai Yu (Actor), Zhu Yilong
Additional Tags: Dirty Talk, Tenderness, First Time, Triple Drabble
Summary: "I would say that I've never even dreamed of this, but... That's all I've been doing since I met you. Dreaming of this," Bai Yu says with his cheeky smile and boundless tenderness underneath, trailing kisses down Zhu Yilong's collarbone.

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The regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases:

Kwon Eunbi - Hello Stranger
82Major - Takeover
NCT Wish - poppop
Odd Youth - I Like You
Unis - Swicy
Kai - Walls Don't Talk (pre-release)
ME:i - Muse/Ready Go (Japan)
Highlight - Endless Ending (pre-release)
TIOT - Flex Line
Super Junior-L.S.S. - Pon Pon (Japan)
Apink - Tap Clap
Astro - Moon
Sweet:ch - Candy House (debut, pre-release)
Big Ocean - Attention
Han Seungwoo - Positive Vibes

New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 7 April

Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.

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mific posting in

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen: background OFC/OMC, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Rating: Mature (for violence)
Length: 9462
Content Notes: Canon-level violence, explicit depiction of extreme pain. Killing of background OMCs. Briefly mentioned off-screen killing of a pet animal.
Creator Links: sadly, no. Rivier's LJ is locked now.
Theme: Outsider POV, Action/adventure, Team as family

Summary: see below

Reccer's Notes: This is the John Sheppard of The Storm/The Eye, in this story using cold ruthlessness to rescue Rodney from allies of the Genii. It's told entirely from the POV of an original female character, the wife of a powerful local man who's been complicit in capturing and torturing Rodney. John's taken her as a hostage to force Rodney's return, and we see the drama play out through her eyes. There's some great worldbuilding conveyed through her perspective, and her appraisal of John and Rodney is interesting. The bond between John and Rodney is intense but it's left unstated whether they're more than close friends and found family to each other. Beautifully written, gripping, and a great read, especially if you like a dark, fiercely competent John.

Fanwork Links: Exigencies (scroll down for text)

facethestrange posting in

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Hi, and welcome to this week's installment of the Guardian novel readalong! ♡

Here are last week's chapters, and you can find all previous discussions on the schedule post (vol. 1 part 1, vol. 1 part 2, vol. 2), or via the !readalong tag.

This week's chapters:

Chapter 15: Zhao Yunlan takes Shen Wei to their still-unfinished new place, and gives him the key. Shen Wei receives bad news from the Netherworld - black clouds have formed in the thirty-third heaven, which hasn't happened for 800 years. Zhao Yunlan suspects that it was caused by Ghost Face, but Shen Wei doesn't explain and leaves for the Netherworld. Zhao Yunlan asks Daqing about Kunlun-jun, but Daqing doesn't remember much. He tells Daqing that Shen Wei is the Soul-Executing Emissary.

Chapter 16: Zhao Yunlan asks Daqing about the Emissary's origin, and Daqing thinks he couldn't have been born from the Netherworld because he's older than the Netherworld. Back at the SID, Zhao Yunlan talks to Sangzan and does research. Information about Kunlun seems to be deliberately erased, so he reads other closely related ancient stories. He thinks that Ghost Face wants to collect the Four Hallowed Artifacts to destroy the Four Pillars that hold up the sky. Chu Shuzhi doesn't regret his crimes and has a fight with Zhao Yunlan about it, until Zhao Yunlan magically binds him to a chair. The Magistrate visits, and asks Zhao Yunlan to go to Kunlun Mountain to stop Ghost Face from acquiring the Merit Brush. He's not fully truthful, and Zhao Yunlan sees right through it. He uses this opportunity to get Chu Shuzhi's merit shackles removed, and agrees to go to Kunlun Mountain, despite a letter from Shen Wei telling him not to agree to anything.

The corresponding chapters in the Chinese version on JJWXC and the fan translation are:
Chapter 15: From about 1/5 into chapter 68 up to the end of that chapter.
Chapter 16: From the start of chapter 69 until about 2/3 into chapter 71.

Excerpts:

( 1) Zhao Yunlan gives Shen Wei the key to their new place )

( 2) Daqing's reaction to Shen Wei being the Soul-Executing Emissary )

( 3) Sangzan's insight helps Zhao Yunlan figure things out )

( 4) Guo Changcheng continues to follow Chu Shuzhi )

( 5) Zhao Yunlan gets Chu Shuzhi's merit shackles removed )

Questions:

What do you like the most about Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei's new place, and would you like to live there? What do you think Chu Shuzhi's neighbors think about him? Is the primordial past/mythology storyline easy for you to follow? Would you hate or enjoy being in a battle of wits with Zhao Yunlan? What's your favorite Chuguo moment and/or your favorite Weilan moment?

You can answer as many or as few questions as you like, or just comment without answering any of them at all! And if you see this post and you're not actually reading the novel: As always, I would love to know what you think about any of this with limited context. :D

And here is the new schedule, and that's where you can sign up to host a post!

eafay70 posting in

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Title: Thunderbug's Plot by

eafay70
Reader:

eafay70
Bingo Square(s): Epistolary, Lower Vocal Range (for you)
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Pairings: future Anthony Cirelli/Nick Paul
Length: 3:57
Summary: A series of text messages in which Thunderbug shares a matchmaking plot with Captain Fear.
Content Notes: none immediately come to mind

Link to Podfic: Thunderbug's Plot

This work was written and recorded for Out of the Auditary 2025.

Echo Effect	Epistolary	Use a Speed Effect	Read Angrily	Meta
~~Lower Pitch Effect~~ Lower Vocal Range (for you)	Angst	Action/Adventure	Yuletide	~~Harlequin~~ Female Character
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The theme challenge for this month is Courage (Please include the tag challenge: courage when you post.) Theme challenges have to do with fic choice. Since this month's challenge is 'courage' your story has to be related to that theme one way or another.

The shape challenge is 'Horseshoe' (tag challenge: horseshoe). This should be at minimum 7 squares, ie:

OOOOO
OXXXO
OXOXO
OXOXO
OOOOO

Shape challenges require that you complete a specific shape of squares on your card. If you complete a shape challenge by the deadline, you’ll win a cheat. If your card already has the shape formation before the challenge starts, you can only count that challenge as completed if you fill at least one square on your card within the challenge time period.

You can pick the challenge you prefer or do both if you're feeling ambitious. Once you’ve posted the podfic required to fulfill the monthly challenge, please comment here to let us know you’ve completed the challenge.

If you complete a challenge, you earn a cheat. If none of the challenges appeal to you, you can also earn cheats by commenting on other people's podfics.

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Cheats are rewards that allow participants to manipulate their cards so that they can be finished more easily. There are 2 kinds of cheats: shifting squares and swapping out squares. Shifting squares allows participants to swap locations of two squares on their card. Swapping out cheats allow you to discard one of your prompts entirely from your card and replace it with a prompt of your choosing from the Prompt List.

sasheneskywalker posting in

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Fandom: Batman/DC
Pairings/Characters: Tim Drake/Jason Todd
Rating: Mature
Length: 2,484 words
Creator Links:

DariaHernandez
Theme: outsider pov, therapy, angst and humor, established relationship, arguing

Summary: Two vigilantes and a couples therapist walk into a room.

Reccer's Notes: A fun fic told from a perspective of couples therapist who has to deal with Tim and Jason's relationship problems without knowing they're vigilantes.

Fanwork Links: The Talking Cure

xdiorix posting in

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Title: tano a mano by

shamoosh
Reader:

blackglass,

bluegeekEM,

DevilWithABirdDress
Bingo Square(s): using a cheat to swap "asmr-style" for "minor character", also used to fulfill the monthly shape challenge
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries
Pairing: Farai/Mensah/Tano
Length: 6:10
Summary: This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.

Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
Tano: please advise
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply

Link to Podfic: At AO3

birdylion posting in

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Fandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Amy Palavi, Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 8,606 words
Creator Links:

Laughsalot3412
Theme: Outside POV; characters of color, competence, female friendship, polyamory

Summary: So, apparently Amy’s boss was part of a criminal gang.

Reccer's Notes:
Do you remember Amy Palavi, the waitress in Leverage's brewpub from The Broken Wing Job? This story follows her as she grows closer to the trio. It's an interesting perspective on them, and also she gets to have a really satisfying story of her own, interwoven with theirs. Her developing friendship with Parker (and to a different degree also Hardison and Eliot) is wonderful.

Content Notes:

Amy and her family are subject to a racist online smear campaign. Leverage does something against it.

Fanwork Links: Motion Parallax on ao3

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Inspired by the confusing ass group tweet that went viral:

Poll #32963 POLL: confusing ass group

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

View Respondents

The Boyz

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Salty
10 (52.6%)

Ain't Salty
9 (47.4%)

STAYC

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ASAP
15 (78.9%)

Slow Down
4 (21.1%)

Stray Kids

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Why?
2 (11.8%)

Who?
4 (23.5%)

Question
11 (64.7%)

Day6

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I'm Fine
6 (33.3%)

I'm Not Fine
12 (66.7%)

*I'm Not Fine should be Not Fine

22degreehalo posting in

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Fandom: The West Wing
Pairings: Sam/Josh
Rating: T
Length: 11,539
Creator Links:

thegoodthebadandthenerdy
Theme: Outsider POV, Happy Endings, Missing Scenes, Politics, Post-canon, Worldbuilding

Summary: It was practically fable around the office after that: Sam Seaborn, his old friend, and the state of New Hampshire.
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Or: A story told in six parts by three people who remember the guy that walked out on his future in the middle of a rainstorm.

Reccer's Notes: It's unusual to tag a nominally 'our universe'-setting fic with 'Worldbuilding' but this fic does just such a stellar job fleshing out Sam's network of relationships through his time as a lawyer with Gage-Whitney into the future, it really deserves it! Every character here feels just so real and full it's almost hard to believe they're all OCs, and each provides their own form of comparison and contrast to Sam and his relationship with Josh. This really is a fic about that scene in particular and the way it is mythologised in-universe (because, really: what kind of romantic comedy climax scene even was that, even in canon?!), but by the end, the fic has also provided my current favourite depiction of Sam's career progression post-canon. It reads like such a labour of love, and the result is so impossibly satisfying. <3

Fanwork Links: Heard the Grapevine Got Twisted

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At the beginning of episode 37, Guo Changcheng is upset about his new power, and Shen Wei and Chu Shuzhi comfort him with shoulder clasps.

Wide shot: Xiao Guo is despondent; Shen Wei is facing him; Chu Shuzhi is sitting on the table, facing away from camera.

Wide shot: Xiao Guo is despondent; Shen Wei is facing him; Chu Shuzhi is sitting on the table, facing away from camera.

( More pics behind the cut. )

Poll #32961 Comforting Xiao Guo

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

View Respondents

What's the best thing about this scene / these screen caps?

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Shen Wei comforting Guo Changcheng
4 (28.6%)

Chu Shuzhi comforting Guo Changcheng
5 (35.7%)

Newly powered Guo Changcheng being mentored by two Dixingren
8 (57.1%)

Changcheng gathering his courage to accept his power
4 (28.6%)

the old-fashioned map of Dragon City, with red string and photos pinned all over it
6 (42.9%)

other
1 (7.1%)

Guo Changcheng's best inspirational speech

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comforting Li Qian in the hospital
2 (13.3%)

comforting Ji Xiaobai about his missing Weiwei
1 (6.7%)

talking back to Zhao Xinci during the loyalty test
7 (46.7%)

convincing Fourth Uncle to let Zhu Hong stay at the SID
1 (6.7%)

convincing his own uncle to let him stay at the SID
5 (33.3%)

honorary mention: insisting to Zhu Jiu that Ye Huo needs first aid (incl. agreeing to give his own life)
2 (13.3%)

after their Dial exchange, telling Chu Shuzhi, "You're not scary at all"
2 (13.3%)

passing on the last wishes of the dead via livestream
4 (26.7%)

breaking his hyponosis to tell Ye Zun, "I will never be your weapon to hurt others!"
9 (60.0%)

other
0 (0.0%)

trobadora posting in

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Guardian Novel Read-Along banner. Image taken from the cover illustration: tight close-up of Shen Wei in glasses and Zhao Yunlan smoking, staring intently into each other's eyes. Text reads: Novel read-along on sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org. 2 chapters per week, starts 9 November 2024.

Hooray the readalong! Cheers to everyone who's hosted a post so far, been part of the discussion, and to those who are lurking, too!

We're nearing the end of volume 2 of the Official Translation, and heading into volume 3. If you've been meaning to catch up or jump in, now is a great time!

Fans of the novel, the drama, or both are very welcome! You don't even have to be keeping up with the reading - it's absolutely fine to just react to the quotes. We want to hear what you think! As you'll have noticed if you've dipped into the discussions so far, we also talk about the drama adaptation and do a lot of compare-and-contrast.

Please consider hosting a post or two, if you're willing and able to! Comment with a date from the schedule below! Posts should ideally be made sometime on the Friday or Saturday, in any time zone.

Schedule for the end of volume 2 / start of volume 3

Weekend of 18 April - vol 2, chapters 17 & 18:

trobadora
Weekend of 25 April - vol 2, chapter 19:

facethestrange
Weekend of 2 May - no new post; catch-up time!
Weekend of 9 May - vol 3, chapters 1 & 2:
Weekend of 16 May - vol 3, chapters 3 & 4:
Weekend of 23 May - vol 3, chapters 5 & 6:
Weekend of 30 May - vol 3, chapters 7 & 8:
Weekend of 6 June - vol 3, chapters 9 & 10:
Weekend of 13 June - vol 3, chapters 11 & 12:

tehfanglyfish

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