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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Length: 11,539 words
Creator Links: Unpainted Canvas (RatTale)
Theme: mystery & suspense, casefic

Summary: During a hard case Holmes and Watson part ways after an argument, and now Holmes suddenly has more to worry about than missing children.

Reccer's Notes: After they have a terrible row, Watson is kidnapped by bad guys to prevent Holmes from pursuing a case. The entire story is from Holmes POV, and there is a lot of worry and tension as Holmes tries to solve the disappearance of his friend. It's a good casefic, as well as the circumstances leading to realization of feelings by Holmes.

Fanwork Links: AO3

badfalcon

October was… a lot. Between uni starting (!!!), work chaos, and a migraine that just would not quit, reading was more of a background hum than a main feature. But hey - two books finished is progress, and I’ll take that as a win.

📖 What I Read
The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A satisfying end to the Percy Jackson series! I enjoyed the scale of it, even if it didn’t hit quite as hard as some of the earlier books for me.
The Kiss Curse – Erin Sterling ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Cozy witchy romance with autumnal vibes - perfect for spooky season reading, even if I read most of it under a blanket trying to ignore my migraine.

☕ What I Didn’t Read (But Still Counts)

I made progress on several ongoing reads, even if I didn’t actually finish them. And honestly, that’s kind of the mood for October - slow, steady, distracted by tutorials and caffeine.

I also managed to start three new books this month - because apparently my brain’s motto is “finish? never heard of her.” So despite finishing two, I somehow ended up with more books on my “currently reading” shelf than I started October with. Classic me.

Still, it’s progress. The list may have grown, but so did the stories I’m excited to return to.

🧠 Life Lately

Uni starting has been both exciting and overwhelming - lots of new routines, brain fog, and figuring out where reading fits into my days again. Work’s been full-on too, so I’m trying to be kind to myself about the pace of everything.

Also: I did read a lot of fic (and wrote a fair bit too), so the stories are still happening - just not always in book form!

🌟 November Reading Goals

Let’s try again, but gently.

Finish at least 3 books
Keep reading a little most days
Maybe finally finish The Ministry of Time
Prioritise fun and curiosity over guilt
Share a few more updates - even the messy ones

✨ Because even if it’s slow, it still counts.
And hey - if all else fails, there’s always fanfic and hot chocolate. ☕💛

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My cognitive impairments mean I always mess up time zones. I’ve participated in many events in the past five years. Only one managed to sense my current time zone and adjust all the info on their site to match. (And of course I can't remember which one it was.)

Which is why I love https://dateful.com. It’s an excellent tool when you’re communicating across time zones. It’s free. It features:

Time Zone Converter: convert between major world cities and timezones instantly as you type
World Clock: up to 20 clocks to see how the rest of the world can participate in your event
Time Calculator: adds and subtracts times, dates, and durations

And best of all:

Eventlink: create a link that converts an event’s time to the user’s current time zone and day. You can add an event title, description, and URL (meeting link or a web page), and you can offer an “add to my calendar” which works with Apple, Google, and Outlook.

All that info in a single link. You don’t need an account, but if you create one, you can go back and edit your Eventlinks.

I’m able to do these things with the keyboard; I welcome insights from readers using adaptive technology.

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Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.

Spooky season's not over yet because our theme for November is mystery & suspense!

The tag for this round is: theme: mystery & suspense

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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Current Music Obession:

# Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift's new album is out and it times for reddit/celeb gossip bubble to declare it the worst album ever - once again. I only started really listening to her music when Folklore/Evermore came out and nothing she is doing now will ever be that good again, I fear. But I usually find her very listenable. And since I'm not interested in the lore and don't over analyze her songs in regards to their connections to her real life, I don't get constantly pissed at her music for bullshit reasons. This new album is pretty fun with a few songs I really didn't like.

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Description: This event focuses on rare pair ships for all Yugioh series (including crossovers), open to writers, artists, and image & video editors. We use tiered rulings to determine rarity for this event based on ao3 statistics. See our FAQ for more info on rarity requirements.

For this year's mini bang, writers will draft a fic for their chosen rare pair, meeting the 4000 word minimum. Then artists will claim at least 1 fic to use as inspiration for their art. Partners will collaborate and share their fanworks together during the posting period for this event. Please read our specifications page for more details about expectations for event works.

Sign up to participate with this link: https://forms.gle/1gRezet2nT4j5oEP6

Dates (see Schedule for more info):

Signups: Nov 1-Nov 30 (writers may start immediately)
Check-in #1 (writers only): Dec 21-23
Check-in #2 (writers with claim pitch): Jan 30-Feb 1
Claims: Feb 2-6
Claims assigned: Feb 7/8
Artist WIP share: Feb 20-21
Check-in #3 (all participants): Mar 6-7
Posting prep: Mar 12-14
Posting: Mar 15-Apr 4

Collaborative banner by whimwitch, VioVayo, Meda Princess, lucienslab, and sturionic! Thanks for your help with this ❤️.

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Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Barnabas Collins, Julia Hoffman, Elliot Stokes, David Collins, Elizabeth Collins, Roger Collins, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Harry Johnson, Willie Loomis, Maggie Evans

Rating: T

Length: 37,304

Creator Links: archiveofourown.org/users/SusanRains/pseuds/Carey%20Kasdot

Theme: Unusual setting

Summary: A dumbwaiter system found in the house unleashes a baffling illness which turns pleasant friends into infatuated screwballs. Meanwhile, games with the dumbwaiter bring Hallie and David nights of terror. With the addition of an afghan that roams the house at will and a houseguest no one wants, Collinwood hits the height of mayhem.

Reccer's Notes: You'd be pretty hard put to discover a stranger, more unsettling setting than a dumbwaiter in which an intrepid soul or two ventures to travel. Add to this Halloween rec the inimitable spookiness of the great estate of Collinwood and you've discovered a delightful read with stellar characterizations and the usual undercurrent of Things Unseen in the fandom.

Fanwork Links: The Lunatic Yarn (Dark Shadows 1971) Book 2 - Carey Kasdot (SusanRains) - Dark Shadows (1966) [Archive of Our Own]

Current Mood: peaceful
Current Location: comatose in bed
Current Music: birdsong

mildred_of_midgard

I'm not dead, just:

* Finished moving across the country and arrived 10 days ago.

* Prepping a webinar.

* Cleaning an apartment, parts of which have not been cleaned in 22 years.

* DMV, registration to vote, why isn't the printer working when I need it for those things, how hard can it be to find a vacuum crevice tool that fits, how much longer can I put off getting my fillings replaced before I hate my life choices, why do I keep taking off my glasses (oh right, it's because my prescription is 6 years old and I need to get progressive lenses), etc.

* Attending a weekly graduate seminar.

* Meeting with a wide variety of people 3+ times a week trying to convince them pedagogy is the bee's knees!

* Organizing alumni events, omg, how did I become the alum-in-chief?

* Injured wrist from moving, hamstring flare-up.

* Something about Peter Keith (remember him?), plus my other salon projects I haven't forgotten!

* My boss wants me to eventually resume doing some work in return for my paycheck. (I guess this is reasonable???)

* Sleeping 4-5 hours a night.

* Wheeeee!

mildred_of_midgard

So you know how I've been talking about pedagogy for a while now, and promising Old Irish teaching materials that I will need guinea pigs for, and some of you expressed interest?

Well, due to real life, I don't have Old Irish materials yet, though we're getting closer, but what I do have is...

A webinar on the pedagogy of dead languages! Which I am giving on Zoom on Nov 14! Comment or DM me if you want details.

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Lan Sizhui, Jiang Yanli, Jiang Cheng, Jin Ling, Wen Qing, and others.
Rating: Explicit
Length: 193,252
Content Notes: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, animal death, body horror, bullying, conspiracy, domestic violence, Scenery Porn, Scenery Gorn, Smut
Creator Tags: Horror, Spooky, Opposites Attract, Fluff and Angst, Gore, Ghosts, Necromancy
Creator Links: (AO3)

darkterrible; (Threads) tucsonodd; (Twitter)

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Theme: Uncommon Settings, Casefic, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Cops & Crime, Fandom Classics, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery & Suspense, Novel-Length Fic, Psychic Powers, Uncommon Settings, Urban Fantasy, Worldbuilding

Summary: Wei Wuxian can see the dead. Weird happenings ensue.

Author’s Notes: I really struggled with putting this back up again (sorry I know I'm a flake) I have a love/hate relationship with it. But here it is.

This is a repost (it's all over the internet in various formats and languages) but it is mine.

I wrote this a looong time ago, before I really had a GREAT understanding of the naming conventions used in the untamed. Some of it might be incorrect.

Reccer's Notes:: Although November’s Mystery & Suspense theme would apply, I’m using Uncommon Settings to shoehorn in this beloved modern-with-magic paranoir fic in time for Halloween; the intrigue-haunted waterfront city of Lotus, patterned after Venice, is very much a character in its own right. (Note that, despite the geographical inspiration, nobody seems to have been whitewashed.)

medium blues has a history as cryptic and elusive as its subject matter: for various reasons (including having been targeted in the fandom’s 2020 cyberbullying scandal) the author—along with this fic—has periodically vanished and resurfaced under a succession of pseudonyms.

Here are the author’s original summary and tags:

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Fanwork Links: medium blues, by

darkterrible.

(Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/20220625040644/https://archiveofourown.org/works/39589791?view_adult=true&view_full_work=true

(Archive.today): https://archive.ph/cJARF

Frontispiece by

mojoflower, from her review on

wangxianficrecs: https://wangxianficrecs.tumblr.com/post/643044937390325760/medium-blues-by-darkandterrible-e

dolorosa_12

Today's post is low-effort on my part, but hopefully produces some fun things in the comments.

The prompt is: share something wonderful that you've recently found online.

My link, gathered, magpie-like during my wanderings, is this latest video from

wisdm. I did test it to check it would display even when not logged in to Instagram, but Instagram links can go a bit funny, so please let me know if you run into issues.

I won't say anything further, except to say that Wisdom Kaye's is one of my favourite accounts on Instagram, and this linked post is (Halloween) seasonally appropriate, and amazing.

Edited to add this excellent new song by Rue Oberkampf.

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Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Victoria Metcalfe, original characters
Rating: Explicit
Length: 19,093
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings
Creator Links: thehoyden on AO3, luzula on the Audiofic Archive
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friends to lovers, First time, Working together, Complete AU: academia

Summary: "What the hell is this, an Austen novel?"

Reccer's Notes: Complete AUs are unusual in due South, and this is that rarity, a dS AU set in academia. Fraser is a new professor, looked down on by his colleagues as he's from the University of Guelph, and only Ray Kowalski, a punky, nonconformist professor, befriends him. They both have offices on the unpopular top floor (Fraser as he's bottom of the pecking order, and Ray as he likes to get away from the rest of the department), which helps kickstart their friendship. The story is about the highs and lows of academic life and there are some great sections showing Ray's unconventional teaching style which the students love, and Fraser's more traditional, but solid, approach. There's academic politics and also drama with the return of Victoria, Fraser's ex and his academic rival. It's about character development, and about Fraser and Ray's friendship which blossoms gradually into much, much more. The fic's beautifully written, and an extremely good read - highly recommended.

Fanwork Links: Academic Punk on AO3, and the excellent podfic by luzula is here

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When I started working on WisCon access in 2007, some kind soul (name lost) gave me a black teeshirt printed in tactile gold--with both Latin letters and braille. It sang the praises of ELECTRICAL EGGS, who advocated for handicap accessibility in the 1970s and 1980s. I loved the shirt but didn't know their history.

So I was thrilled when the September 2025 Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, volume 14 number 2, starts off with Eric Vero's article:

Oral History of The Electrical Eggs: Science Fiction, Disability Activism, and Fan Conventions

https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1262

The journal offers PDF, HTML, and "simplified HTML" versions of each article; all are open access, peer-reviewed, and Creative Commons licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

ABSTRACT

Before the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted in 1990, American science fiction fans in southern states organized, collaborated, and practiced accessibility at conventions. This grassroots movement began with the work of Samanda B. Jeude and a coalition of other science fiction fans who fought for visibility and access to convention spaces. In this oral history of their organization, “The Electrical Eggs,” I interview two key members decades after their participation in making conventions accessible. I complement these oral sources with brief histories of the role of eugenics and ableism in science fiction and the rise of disability activism in America. Although, the science fiction fandom still faces historical forces like ableism that have been present since its beginnings, the work of the Eggs is a testament to the power of collective action to provide accessibility in fan communities.

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kingstoken in fancake - Sherlock Holmes: Bad Dog by Unpainted Canvas
badfalcon - 📚 October Reading Wrap-Up
jesse_the_k in access_fandom - “Dateful” Simplifies Timing Online Events
akaparalian in fandomcalendar - Bandom/Fall Out Boy RPF: Fall Out Bang
versegm in fandomcalendar - Detective Conan/Magic Kaito: Kink Meme
prowlingthunder in fandomcalendar - Multifandom: First And Last - An Alpha/Omegaverse Exchange 2025/2026 LAST MINUTE SIGNUPS EXTENDED
hagar_972 in fandomcalendar - All Fandoms: Purimgifts
runpunkrun in fancake - Round 180: Mystery & Suspense
slippery_fish - October Random-ness 2025
pendulumscale in fandomcalendar - Yugioh: YGO Rare Pairs Mini Bang - Sign ups open!
malurette - [film] Les héros ne meurent jamais
pronker in fancake - Dark Shadows: The Lunatic Yarn by Susan Rains/Carey Kasdot
mildred_of_midgard - Smoke signal
mildred_of_midgard - Pedagogy webinar
full_metal_ox in fancake - Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling: medium blues, by darkterrible; art by Mojoflower.
dolorosa_12 - Friday open thread: internet magpies
mific in fancake - due South: Academic Punk by thehoyden
the_exchange_mod in fandomcalendar - My Holiday Academia 2025
malurette - [book] A clockwork orange ~Anthony Burgess
jesse_the_k in access_fandom - We're part of a movement: The Electrical Eggs

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Sherlock Holmes: Bad Dog by Unpainted Canvas

📚 October Reading Wrap-Up

“Dateful” Simplifies Timing Online Events

Bandom/Fall Out Boy RPF: Fall Out Bang

Detective Conan/Magic Kaito: Kink Meme

Multifandom: First And Last - An Alpha/Omegaverse Exchange 2025/2026 LAST MINUTE SIGNUPS EXTENDED

All Fandoms: Purimgifts

Round 180: Mystery & Suspense

October Random-ness 2025

Yugioh: YGO Rare Pairs Mini Bang - Sign ups open!

[film] Les héros ne meurent jamais

Dark Shadows: The Lunatic Yarn by Susan Rains/Carey Kasdot

Smoke signal

Pedagogy webinar

Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling: medium blues, by darkterrible; art by Mojoflower.

Friday open thread: internet magpies

due South: Academic Punk by thehoyden

My Holiday Academia 2025

[book] A clockwork orange ~Anthony Burgess

We're part of a movement: The Electrical Eggs

Oral History of The Electrical Eggs: Science Fiction, Disability Activism, and Fan Conventions

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