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Thank you for creating something for me for Fat Bear Flash 2026! (Tagset)

I know the tag says "dear author" but please be assured I'd be thrilled with art!

Similarly, most of the human characters I've requested run toward furry-and-bulky, but I am genuinely open to other interpretations of "bear" for any of them: please feel free to follow your heart!

( Harry the Fat Bear Spy )

( Sherlock Holmes - ACD )

( Aubreyad - O'Brian )

( The Flight of the Heron - Broster )

( Horatio Hornblower - Forester )

( The Jungle Book - Kipling )

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recthething

Bread & Roses by rosalindscotch. Merlin fusion with the movie Pride (2014). I enjoyed this movie and found this to be a sweet adaptation of a film with a lot of heart.

Concession by obsession_inc. A great premise and wonderful execution. "An AU diverging from canon after the first movie: Christine Everhart investigates the disappearance of Tony Stark and Pepper Potts." A mystery whose solution gets revealed bit by bit and the end result is not pretty.

Sunrise in Exile by Ragdoll (Keshka). "Tony does the math and realizes their best chance to save the universe is by... not confronting Thanos on his own turf. So he steals a wizard and a spider and a space ship. And he runs." Late in the story there's a reference to their path through the universe as a futuristic Odyssey. There's something to that. Eventual Tony/Stephen, but it's not the main point of the story, and I love the way it's described in the last few chapters. An adventure worth taking.

grim from the reaping by bedlamsbard. An Avengers series that begins after Infinity War and supposes a different direction for the remaining Avengers. The main difference? It is Loki who survives rather than Thor. Told in two main parts, the first section is a separate adventure revolving around Steve, the hunt for the supersoldier serum, and the beginnings of New Asgard on Earth. The second part envisages a similar but different path through Endgame. Deeply plotted and told mostly from Natasha's POV, it pays some tribute to the fallout from the Snap as well as the way the survivors hang together.

The New Monuments Men by Sholio. White Collar AU where "Neal leads a gang of thieves who steal artifacts and return them to their rightful owners. FBI agent Peter Burke infiltrates their group to take them down. But the more Peter learns about their mission, the more doubts he has about his." Did a nice job of showing Peter slowly shifting away from his life and finding a role within Neal's group.

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⌈ Secret Post #7197 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 44 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1028.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #1029 ]

The first secret from this batch will be posted on September 26th.

RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

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sovay

Report from the windowless pit: I slept at least ten hours and was presented with an extremely fancy salmon bagel with cucumber slices and za'atar on coming aboveground. The deck has been repaired since the last time I visited and features a hammock. Vacation underway.

I have just been made aware of the casting of Daniel Craig as Andrew Ketterley in the Greta Gerwig film of The Magician's Nephew I had no idea was happening. I must shift my mental view from Peter Cushing.

September blew past in such a skein of stressors that it was not until I was lying in bed last night that I remembered about International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Have a photoshoot which describes itself magnificently as hot girl summer of the Caribbean and the electrified Cyril Tawney of Blackbeard's Tea Party's "Chicken on a Raft" (2011).

My godson is embroidering sharks.

Current Music: Morcheeba, "The Sea"

rembrandtswife

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Current Mood: thoughtful

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scans_daily

For Batman Day here's an old story about the time Joker found a new best friend.

( Friends )

alethia

A Man of Action (9833 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Jack Abbot (The Pitt)
Additional Tags: Pre-Season/Series 01, Grief/Mourning, Touch-Starved, Complicated Relationships, Developing Relationship, First Kiss, First Time, Porn, who did jack sleep with first after his wife died?, what if it was robby?, when the sex is good and it still doesn't matter
Summary:

"Do you want sex or do you want touch?" Robby asked, keeping it soft.

Jack flared a frustrated hand and said, "Yes." Then he shot Robby a look that called him a dumbass.

Robby rolled his eyes. "Don't be a dick, you know they're not the same."

"Right, one just encompasses the other," Jack said, apparently ignoring the dick thing.

Robby blew out a sharp breath and gave up on talking. A demonstration was in order.

Current Mood: busy

lb_lee

About ten years ago, we had to change our online and computer use habits because of painful muscle spasms in our shoulder. It took years, but we learned how to use physical therapy exercises, our hands, back hook, racketball, and electrostim unit, and we learned that contrary to our childhood belief, bodily pain wasn’t just some irrevocable, mysterious act of fate that we could do nothing about. It could be managed, dealt with, improved and understood.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: good
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/48105.html

petra

Stephanie Cole, whose work I loved in Cabin Pressure, has passed.

She had a splendid romance with Anthony Stewart Head's character.

I am going to listen to Vaduz (transcript here) and cry.

If you are just learning about ASH's audio comedy career, his first episode is Newcastle (transcript here) which is also the only Butawhiteman Can'tbekhan-free episode of Cabin Pressure, as he was sick during taping and someone else filled in as his role.

Not that I have EVER played it for ANYONE with a BC aversion except that once.

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Also, happy Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Current Mood: mourning
Current Music: It makes you sound like a Disney toy

oursin

Dept, definitely, 'it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it': Gold-covered hairballs may reveal why cats eat grass:

A mom to two tuxedo cats—Mildred and Merle—Hughes has been saving their hairballs for years, waiting for the right research project to come along. That’s just what happened when undergraduate student Kara Bensel, now an animal behaviorist at Appalachian State University, joined the lab.
Together, Bensel and Hughes clipped off bits of six homegrown hairballs and coated them in gold—a necessary step for scanning them with an electron microscope.
....
Her next question: If spiky grass helps cats expel grass from their mouths, might it also ease expulsion out the other end? She’s been storing her cats’ poop in the freezer, waiting again for the right project—and student—to come along.

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Dept, counterintuitive, or maybe not? Pronatalist Policies’ Backlash in Authoritarian Regimes - they do not actually work as intended.

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Dept of All More Complicated Eugenicists: Imperialist and eugenicist Petrie also opposed Nazi advocacy for the supremacy of ‘pure races’... but on the grounds that mixing of the ‘right’ races was more eugenic.

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Dept of, as I have been saying these ages: British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century

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Dept of, debunking myths about Ye Medeevles, with particular reference to the Netherlands: Book review: ‘Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries’ by Andrea Bardyn, Chanelle Delameillieure, Jelle Haemers

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Dept of, The Great C18th West Indian Heiress Scam: Charles James Fox and the West Indian Heiress

ranunculus

Woke up yesterday feeling absolutely awful. Spent most of the day in bed reading novels that were "beach reads" at best. I'm pretty sure this crash was directly related to the food I ate with the hunters. Mark made homemade ravioli, homemade ravioli sauce, teriyaki venison & beef and apple crisp. It was really tasty food. I threw caution to the winds and ate all of the above, which was certainly laced with onion, garlic, wheat and fruit sugars. I'm now back to my usual diet that avoids all those things. Today is pretty normal, I have the energy and desire to go do things. Mostly boring things like cleaning up any number of things, the Iris Barn, the shop, the house....

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fancake

Fandom: The Pitt
Characters/Pairings: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker, Trinity Santos, Jack Abbot, Dana Evans, Frank Langdon
Rating: Mature
Length: 18,907 words
Creator Links: Rhapsody_Bohemia on AO3
Theme: mentors & proteges, au,

Summary: Dr Robby can't stand the breakroom coffee anymore. He didn't care if that made McKay call him 'bougie' (which meant something other than an intubation bougie, he was now learning).

Dana usually enabled his caffeine habit. But now that she was on a well-deserved break from the Pitt, he has to make the journey to the staff cafeteria himself.

When he gets to know the sad-eyed barista behind the counter, he can't help but keep coming back for more.

A Hucklerobby Coffee Shop AU, featuring our favorite Nebraskan boy as a Med School dropout and the grouchy Dr Robby that we all know and love.

Reccer's Notes:
I fell hard for The Pitt with all the trauma and angst that goes into the series itself, because while I've worked in hospitals most of my adult life (pharmacy technician and pharmacy informatics), I've never seen a television series that actually gets a lot of it right. That's the thing about The Pitt, it just grabs you and won't let you go.

This is a nice little story where Dennis was in college, gets cut off by his parents, and is still at PTMC, but as a barista in the employee cafeteria. Robby meets him and they instantly have a connection. And when Robby finds out that Dennis was in school to become a doctor, he takes him under his wing.

A lot of The Pitt fics for Robby/Dennis go down the DOM/sub route, but this one doesn't. There's really no power dynamics or anything (which isn't my cup of tea, but YMMV). It's just two lonely people meeting each other, finding they have something in common, and then becoming closer. It starts out as strangers, grows to mentor/protoge, and really goes from there.

You know - like real life. Just like The Pitt really simulates real life.

Anyway, this is a beautiful, somewhat angsty fic that I adore, so sharing here.

Fanwork Links: Fic on AO3.

cofax7

What do we think about this Greta Gerwig adaptation of The Magician's Nephew?

I admit I'm kind of intrigued! I don't know how this is all going to work, but just the prospect of Daniel effing Craig as Uncle Andrew hitting on Jadis of Charn just charms the fuck out of me.

Here's at least one teaser photo

Also it's the sort of production that is guaranteed to piss off the super-religious fans who loathe

rthstewart's stories (as a for example).

Thoughts? rants? Let's chat!

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

lsanderson

Fillmore County resident tests positive for measles; first case in Minnesota since April
Molly Castle Work Rochester, Minn
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/09/19/fillmore-county-resident-tests-positive-for-measles-first-case-in-minnesota-since-april

54th annual Mahkato Wacipi in Mankato celebrates Dakota culture, honors men executed in 1862
Hannah Yang Mankato, Minn.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/09/19/mankato-mahkato-wacipi-celebrates-dakota-culture-honors-men-executed-in-1862 ( Read more... )

james_davis_nicoll

Three books new to me: one SF, one fantasy, and one non-fiction. At least one is series.

Books Received, September 12 — September 18, 2026

Poll #35092 Books Received, September 12 — September 18, 2026

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18

View Respondents

Which of these look interesting?

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Hide and Seek by Erin Ampersand (February 2027)
4 (22.2%)

The Witching of Katharine Ward by Gemma Bowen (August 2027)
4 (22.2%)

Strange New Thoughts by Geoff Shullenberger (August 2027)
6 (33.3%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (5.6%)

Cats!
15 (83.3%)

purplecat

Cover for the Doctor Who EDA Beltempest by Jim Mortimore. A system of planets with circles showing their orbits and what looks like a sun about to explode in the centre.

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scans_daily

The Marvel Stormbreakers Workout Variant cover for Uncanny X-Men #38 by Luciano Vecchio

Embiggened under the cut, and Mr Vecchio makes his opinions about Logan's armpits clear...

( Because apparently that was a discussion being had )

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sanguinity - Fat Bear Flash 2026
yourlibrarian in recthething - Merlin, Iron Man, Avengers, White Collar
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #7197 ]
yourlibrarian in recs - Merlin, Iron Man, Avengers, White Collar
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #1029 ]
sovay - I left my soul there down by the sea
rembrandtswife - You can't do without McCoy
cyberghostface in scans_daily - Batman Annual #3
alethia - The Pitt Fic: A Man of Action (Abbot/Robby, NC-17)
lb_lee - Zen and the Art of Vessel Maintenance
petra - Things to do today: listen to Cabin Pressure and weep
oursin - Of interest, perhaps
ranunculus - Lost Day
squidgiepdx in fancake - The Pitt: First, Respect the Beans by Rhapsody_Bohemia
cofax7 - hey my Narnia peeps!
feurioo in tv_talk - Speak Up Saturday
lsanderson - 2026.09.19
james_davis_nicoll - Books Received, September 12 — September 18, 2026
purplecat - Random Doctor Who Picture
icon_uk in scans_daily - Starting the weekend with a workout!

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