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Thursday, December 25th, 2025 11:11 am

Title: Healing The Healer
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jonathan Willaway, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Jonathan is a scientist, Varian is the healer, but right now Varian is in no condition to tend his own injuries, so Jonathan will have to do it for him.
Word Count: 400
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 16: Role Reversal.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.



Thursday, December 25th, 2025 09:23 pm
Fandom: Metal Gear Solid
Pairings/Characters: Snake/Otacon
Rating: G
Length: 13,779 (1:33:04)
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] thelonebamf
Theme: Amnesty, Ambiguous Relationships, Angst (With A Happy Ending), Hurt/Comfort, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Trauma & Recovery, Pre-Canon

Summary: Snake returns from Operation N313, lauded a hero and finds the latest shipment of Foxhound recruits already at the camp. Still struggling to sort out his thoughts about the mission, he finds his attention drawn to one rookie in particular, a scrawny, unassuming runt who can't seem to stay out of trouble.

Reccer's Notes: This just works so damn well as an alternate first meeting for these two! It's such a dismal, pessimistic setting - as expected with this canon - but the way these two forge a connection, finding some degree of comfort and caring and hope - makes me really emotional! And I love the use of the book, as well! (Also somehow even though I always knew the Hal connection to 2001: A Space Odyssey I never noticed how Dave fits in to it, too?! 🤦)

Fanwork Links: Rat in a Foxhole [podfic], Rat in a Foxhole
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 11:00 am

Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

Christmas morning with a cat in the house is not a calm affair - it's a spectacle. Before you've even finished your first sip of coffee, there's already a whiskered menace inside the tree, batting ornaments like they personally wronged them. Tinsel becomes a snack, wrapping paper transforms into a crackly battlefield, and every box is immediately claimed in the name of feline law. Welcome to the season of chaotic cat clawmedy.

There's a delicate holiday balance at play: absolute mayhem wrapped in undeniable cuteness. One moment your cat is sprinting down the hallway at warp speed for no visible reason, and the next moment they're curled up under the tree looking like a tiny Christmas angel who has never committed a crime (don't check the evidence). Christmas with cats is all about extremes - zoomies and naps, destruction and devotion, mischief and meowgical charm.

As presents are opened, your cat supervises closely, convinced the crinkliest gift is clearly theirs. They'll sit in the box, on the box, or directly on the instructions you need, all while judging your unwrapping technique. And yet, when the chaos settles, they'll curl up beside you, purring like a festive little engine, making everything feel warm and right. If your Christmas is powered by whiskers, paws, and a healthy dose of cat-induced nonsense, these memes are your holiday spirit animal. Grab a Christmas-y snack, embrace the meowing mayhem, and enjoy a holiday that's pawsitively unhinged - but impossibly cute.

Thursday, December 25th, 2025 07:00 am

Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

Outdoor cats must have some crazy adventures. We often wonder, when we let our cats hang out outside, which places they go to, which people or other animals they befriend or make enemies of. There are whole relationships that our cats have that we don't know about. Of course, we know that sometimes our cats visit the neighbors. Sometimes our cats cause chaos in the neighborhood with their shenanigans. We know that some strays are friendly with our cats and some are not. But we don't know the details, and we suppose that we never will. So when we do get to see some of what they experience firsthand, it's something special.

And what happened with the cat and cat owner in this story is definitely special. The cat was hanging out outside, just living its best life, when, out of nowhere, she spotted something where that something should not be - her owner in the wrong home. Of course, from our perspective, the cat owner just went to visit the neighbor for a second, but from the cat's purrspective, considering the reaction that she had, this must have been one of the weirdest experiences that she has ever experienced in her life. 

Thursday, December 25th, 2025 10:44 am
Unexpected bonus Christmas extract from Son who doesn't really do fiction.

After an hour's rest, they struggled on until noon. The tents were pitched and supper was issued: cold seal steak and tea - nothing more.

On the same night exactly one year before, after a festive dinner on board the Endurance, Greenstreet had written in his diary: 'Here endeth another Christmas Day. I wonder how and under what circumstances our next one will be spent.' That night he failed to even mention what day it was. And Shackleton recorded briefly all that really needed to be said: 'Curions Christmas. Thoughts of home.'


Wishing you all a happier time than being stuck in Antarctica, whether or not you celebrate Christmas.
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 09:12 pm
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu
Rating: T
Length: 4,491
Creator Links: [profile] boomchick
Theme: Amnesty, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Magic, Mythical Creatures: Demons, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Spells & Curses, Trauma and Recovery

Summary: Luo Binghe's healing powers falter in the shape of the wounds Xiu Ya once gave him. He does the only logical thing--HIDES IT.
Shen Qingqiu knows something is wrong with his husband, but finding out what is going to hurt...

A sweet little post-canon fic about healing, plotted with and illustrated by the incredible Falcities for the SVSSS Gotcha for Gaza

Reccer's Notes: This is such a sweet, thoughtful fic! Binghe always tries so hard to be strong, and never really quite escapes the trauma reaction that he doesn't deserve help or that suffering is just something to be endured. In this post-canon fic, his husband gets the opportunity to tell him otherwise and show him just how much he loves all parts of him, including the demonic parts!

It also has quite possibly my favourite (and very appropriate to the themes!) no beta tag ever: No beta but we live regardless

Fanwork Links: blood, leave no stain
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 09:01 pm
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu
Rating: T
Length: 3,248
Creator Links: [personal profile] marquisguyun
Theme: Amnesty, Character Development, Domestic, Happy Endings, Hurt/Comfort, Time Travel

Summary: Luo Binghe had suffered through numerous life-changing revelations since waking up on the floor of the woodshed. First he had thought he was dead and a ghost, then he'd been informed he was in the future, then they'd tried to tell him that he was a demon. But still, the most unbelievable thing this strange future version of his shijie had tried to convince him of was that he was married to their shizun.

Reccer's Notes: This was written for the prompt 'Time Travel - Character discovers future self is apparently happy in the MOST unlikely relationship', and truly I cannot think of a better canon ship for that than this pair šŸ˜„ This is so sweet, and baby Binghe's POV is so perfectly young and hurt and yearning and protective-instincts-inciting...! And then the canon couple themselves are just so very sweet and perfect... <33 Such love!!!

Fanwork Links: the future is a foreign country
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 10:07 am
Wow, vriddy wrote a fic? Wonder what fandom it could be about...............


Good luck, Yuu-san | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | <700 words | rated T

Summary: Fujimaru accidentally discovers a new weakness of Oboro.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 09:00 am

Posted by Blake Seidel

Ah, the irreversible and unrelenting march of time.

We're not sure where 2025 went, but it went somewhere. In fact, we're literally days away from 2026. Another year older, another year farther away from our retirement, but hey, at least we have our cats. We think we can all agree here at I Can Has Cheezburger that cats are the very foundation of what makes life livable. We wake up at 5 AM to their purrfeclty incessant screams, feed them, get some cuddles, kiss them 1,000 times before leaving for work, think about what they're doing all day without us, rush home to see them again, feel the sweet embrace of their love, then rinse and repeat.

We are not ready for 2026, but is anybody? Well, maybe our cats are, but as far as we know, they don't really understand the concept of a calendar year. But as long as we have our cats with us, and the many cats that we're friends with on the internet (don't make it weird, we know you have some too), we feel like we'll get through it just like we got through this year. 

And you know what? We might even come out of it with some pawsitivity. 2025 may have been thrown in the litter box, but we must say, we got some pretty hissterical cat memes from it. As feline meme expurrts, we gathered what we thought were our 50 funniest feline memes, just for you. They might help you emeowtionally process another year of existing by reminding you that we're lucky to live with so many fluffy, funny felines in our world. Or they're just cat memes, but we think you know they're much more than that.

Thursday, December 25th, 2025 08:15 am
Hi everyone, the Late Treat Bonanza 2025 collection is now open for browsing!

The collection will remain open for additional work posting until creators are revealed, which is on 1 January 00:00 PDT (UTC-8). Thank you to everyone who took the time to make someone a late gift, and I hope everyone enjoys the goodies in the collection!

If you need to contact me, feel free to send me a private message or email me at pearlspinelcitrine [at] gmail [dot] com.

Late Treat Bonanza 2025 AO3 Collection
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 08:02 am
Merry Christmas to all celebrating! I hope you have a lovely day.

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 11:58 pm
It's December Days time again. This year, I have decided that I'm going to talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

24: Gamer )
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 07:57 am


A happy and safe Christmas to everyone! Happy and safe holidays! I figured in times like these we all might need a bit of magic :-)
Thursday, December 25th, 2025 06:17 am

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Posted and commented on [community profile] bnha_fans. The comm is really active in all sorts of good ways, which is LOVELY! :D

Commented on [community profile] goals_on_dw.

Posted & commented on [community profile] getting_started about whether image links also get redirected when using a rename token. The answer is YES which is pretty cool and good to know :D

Signal boosts:

Thursday, December 25th, 2025 02:10 pm
During the family Christmas Zoom call Mum asked if I had any recs for historical computer games in which the protagonist does not commit acts of violence. When I asked what kinds of gameplay she enjoyed she just said "nothing too hard".

So here's what I came up with after exploring the historical and education tags on steam, if anyone has any recs or anti-recs please let me know!
Read more... )
Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 10:01 pm
All That Means or Mourns by Ruthanna Emrys. I really love how Ruthana Emrys thinks about community and connection and the natural world. "Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most…"
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 11:20 pm
How did it get to be Christmas Eve? Are we sure? This year has been hard to believe in. I fell asleep in front of the decorated tree. Merry Erev Christmas.

Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 07:48 pm
1. I'm so glad I decided to work from home today after all. The rain was really steady all day and I'm glad I wasn't out driving in it.

2. It had rained a bit overnight and was raining slightly when I went for my walk this morning, but I managed not to get very wet at all. Then I almost immediately hopped in the car to go down to Gardena and pick up the Christmas cake. It was raining a bit on the way down and then there was a sudden downpour right before I got to the bakery, but it stopped before I arrived. Got my cake and had almost no rain on the way back, but then it really let loose as soon as I was a few blocks from home lol. I had to dash in the house, but at least then I didn't have to go out anymore.

3. There was a few hour break in the rain in the late afternoon and early evening, so we got some more walking done and were able to take the trash out to the outside bins (Thursday is our usual trash day but of course they're not going to pick up until Friday this week; still, we like to get everything out on schedule, especially since we'll be out all day tomorrow).

4. When the rain was only drizzly this afternoon, the doorbell rang and I assumed it was a package, but it was the little boy across the street who was bringing homemade gifts to all the neighbors. Not sure if everyone was getting the same, but we got some chocolate coated Chex mix. Tasty! And very nice of them.

5. I forgot to mention yesterday but we did get the car back. I really wanted to get it back before the holidays and before the rain, so it was good timing. Hopefully nothing else goes wrong with either car for a while.

6. Look at Ollie all tucked in! That's actually not a blanket covering him, or rather, it's a wearable blanket with a hood. It's been very cozy now that the temps are down, but when I'm not wearing it, I leave it folded up on my bed and the cats just love to lie on it. (Or under it, in Ollie's case last night, though that was my doing. He did stay there, though.)