Our Favourite Media of May 2025

Jun. 10th, 2025 10:51 pm
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Each month, we look back over the media we loved in the previous month, from books to film to video games and more. This entry in the series was written a while ago, but we haven't posted a favorite media since then, so we're posting it now for maximum completion!


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Poll: best SID team moment (drama)

Jun. 12th, 2025 09:46 am
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A few years ago, I made a Team-as-Family picspam for [community profile] guardian_wishlist, if you'd care for illustrations. :-)

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16


Best SID team moment

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Hazing Xiao Guo (ep 1)
0 (0.0%)

Popcorn (ep 5)
5 (31.2%)

Congratulating Xiao Guo for becoming permanent staff (ep 8)
3 (18.8%)

Giggling over the sex doll (ep 9)
1 (6.2%)

Road trip (ep 9)
2 (12.5%)

Listening to Wang Zheng tell ghost stories in the mountains (ep 9)
1 (6.2%)

Drinking party in the mountains (ep 11)
0 (0.0%)

Team dinner to welcome Consultant Shen (ep 14)
8 (50.0%)

Resisting Zhao Xinci's leadership (eps 16-17)
7 (43.8%)

Reunion dinner (ep 20)
8 (50.0%)

Greeting Hei Pao Shi with a group bow (ep 21)
6 (37.5%)

other
1 (6.2%)

In ep 20, Zhu Hong reveals she has a syringe of magic resurrection venom that she’d forgotten about. What else does she have that she’s forgotten?

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a babelfish
1 (7.1%)

an alethiometer
4 (28.6%)

a time turner
5 (35.7%)

a sonic screwdriver
3 (21.4%)

a holy grail (it's very nice)
4 (28.6%)

a troublesome gold ring
4 (28.6%)

other (please specify in comments)
1 (7.1%)

Dongji Island

Jun. 11th, 2025 08:42 pm
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Has everyone seen the new Zhu Yilong pics from his new film Dongji Island?

Is everyone else also screaming?

Wenella tweets Zhu Yilong Dongji Island pics

pics | trailer

The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott

Jun. 10th, 2025 09:37 pm
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I devoured The Witch Roads in three days. Read more... )

New Music Monday - 9 June 2025

Jun. 9th, 2025 01:49 pm
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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.

Doyoung - 안녕, 우주 (Memory)
Itzy - Girls Will Be Girls
Izna - BEEP
Kiss of Life - Lips Hips Kiss
QWER - Holding Back Tears
Cooing - Psycho
Solar - Floating Free
Crazangel - I'm Just Me (debut)
DayChild - Click Clack
Primrose - Cinema
Double One - On the Rocks with Kiss
Ateez - Lemon Drop
ARTMS - Icarus (Cinematic version) (Club version)
j-hope - Killin' It Girl (feat. GloRilla)
XLOV - 1 & Only
n.SSign - Itty Bitty

New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 2 June

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

[ Rec Something Wednesday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]
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We're counting down until mid-year!

Myy May TBR turned out to be more of a suggestion.


I read What Moves the Dead because I managed to read What Feasts at Night. And although I didn't get to The Brides of High Hill, I did reread The Empress of Salt and Fortune and grab When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain on my way to it. :D

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Fandom: Trails of Cold Steel
Pairings/Characters:
Laura S. Arseid/Duvalie, Ines/Ennea, Victor S. Arseid/McBurn
appearances by other assorted Cold Steel characters and hints of other ships Rating: M
Length: 22442 words
Creator Links: Rosie_Rues
Theme:
Grief/Mourning, Dreamsharing, Recovery, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, changing roles in life, loss of limb
Summary: With the Great Twilight over, Duvalie follows Laura home to Legram. She's not entirely sure why she's here, or when she's going to leave, but she can't bring herself to regret her choice.

Meanwhile, Victor's dreaming of the only man in the universe still willing to offer him a challenge...

Reccer's Notes: While I have read this fic several times, the most recent was some time ago, I always remember it as being roughly half of one ship and half of another- I note this here because one of those ships is M/M. In my rereading, I see the balance is more 2/3 to 1/3, with the bulk of it being the theme-compliant Laura/Duvalie, who begins as something of a lost and reluctant guest in Laura's home in the wake of the loss of the woman who saved her. The emotional metamorphosis of Duvalie's canonical hostility towards Laura- already very much blunted as the story opens, turn to friendship and later towards attraction is an absolute treasure. There are many smaller moments of many relationships of varying sorts between her and otter female characters throughout the story, some of which absolutely beg for stories of their own.

The M/M ships is Victor/McBurn, and they are a prominent part of the story- really a story occurring in parallel, but separately- until it suddenly isn't. While I don't want to dwell on them in this post as they are not germane to the theme, it bears mentioning that they are there in case they would turn anyone off from reading. But I will say that their development is quite astounding, a sword master who has lost an arm, a god who has lost his world and any connection to it and what they become to each other.

This fic deals with grief in many forms, over many different kinds of loss, from loss of friends, comrades in arms, loss of a limb, loss of connection to oneself and an entire world. It's all very sensitively written, and even the absolutely fantastical loss of a god from another dimension with his entire world somehow becomes much less fantastical than one might expect.

There are also themes of many different changes in life that come with time passing and with dealing with these griefs. Oh, and the very cracky-sounding, but utterly sincerely dealt with coping with the shock of learning that your father is banging the demon god from another dimension. (that needs to be a tag, ok)

This is just one of my favorite ever fics, by one of my favorite authors.
Fanwork Links: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45897169
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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 in the schedule posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4), or via the !readalong tag.

This week's chapters:

  • Chapter 9: In Kunlun's memories, the young King of the Gui gives Kunlun a gift, retrieves his soul fire from the Great Seal, and gets kissed twice. Kunlun tells him to keep the soul fire, gives him the power to rule over mountains and rivers, makes him half-divine, and sets him free from the Great Seal. The King of the Gui doesn't want to let Kunlun die, but his death is inevitable. Zhao Yunlan wakes up from the memories and meets Ghost Face, who makes him doubt what he's learned about Kunlun's past. Shen Wei shows up and stops Ghost Face from talking. Zhao Yunlan mysteriously disappears.


  • Chapter 10: Zhao Yunlan is transported to a white void where he meets Shennong and suspects him of tampering with the memories in the Great Divine Tree. Zhao Yunlan is sent back to the Mortal Realm, but he lands in the past, in 2002. He secretly follows his father/Shennong's Mortar to Antiques Street and to the Netherworld. His "father" meets the Soul-Executing Emissary and accuses him of not honoring his promise to stay away from Zhao Yunlan. They argue about the Great Seal and what Shen Wei plans to do if it collapses. After watching them, Zhao Yunlan is left with even more questions. He finds that his copy of Record of Ancient Secrets is blank, and decides to buy another copy in 2002 to see if it ends up at the SID in eleven years.


The corresponding chapters in the Chinese version on JJWXC/the fan translation are 87 and 88.


Excerpts:

1) The young King of the Gui's gives Kunlun a gift )

2) The two kisses )

3) Ghost Face airs his grievances and reveals too much )

4) Zhao Yunlan ends up in the past )

5) Shen Wei's ominous plans )


Questions:

What is your favorite soft (or angsty, or soft and angsty) Weilan moment in the primordial past? Do you sympathize with Ghost Face? How do you feel about the time travel storyline, and how does it compare to the drama version? Would you also immediately buy ice cream if you suddenly ended up in the past? Are you as confused as Zhao Yunlan about what is true and what isn't?

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!
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Fandom: Taskmaster (series 16)
Characters/Pairings: Sue Perkins/Susan Wokoma
Rating: Gen
Length: 00:02:06
Content Notes: no archive warnings apply, and there are no video-specific warnings.
Creator Links: thingswithwings on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Friendship, Team, Humor

Summary: If you're lost, you can look, and you will find me.

Reccer's Notes: This is gorgeous and hilarious as the Sues stumble about carrying out the endless ridiculous tasks, laughing, triumphant, and always there for each other.

Fanwork Links: Team of Sue

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