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angrbodaMy estimate of snow depth turns out to have been a little exaggerated. About 16-17 cm in this part of the garden. Elsewhere in the garden I measured 23, but apparently failed to get a photo of that. The other two photos are from a few days ago, documenting a couple of garden visitors.
Also, the projected -20 next sunday was downgraded first to a still severe but less unusual -13, and then to a much more reasonable -5. They are however saying there's a risk of second load of snow next week. Lovely... Hopefully that's going to get downgraded as well.
(Husband, who can work from home, finds shovelling a good trade-off for the excitement of a lot of snow, and is keeping a running Snow Watch commentary...)
Also, the projected -20 next sunday was downgraded first to a still severe but less unusual -13, and then to a much more reasonable -5. They are however saying there's a risk of second load of snow next week. Lovely... Hopefully that's going to get downgraded as well.
(Husband, who can work from home, finds shovelling a good trade-off for the excitement of a lot of snow, and is keeping a running Snow Watch commentary...)
Locus List
Feb. 7th, 2026 12:00 pmmarthawellsSome good news:
Both Queen Demon and the Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute anthology, made it on the Locus Recommended Reading List:
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/
with a lot of other excellent books and stories, including a new section for translated works.
You can also vote on the list for the Locus Awards. Anybody can vote here with an email address: https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/ though they have you fill out a demographic survey first with how many books you read per year, etc.
Of course a lot of great work did not end up on the list, like I was surprised not to see The Witch Roads and The Nameless Land duology by Kate Elliott, which I thought was excellent.
Both Queen Demon and the Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute anthology, made it on the Locus Recommended Reading List:
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/
with a lot of other excellent books and stories, including a new section for translated works.
You can also vote on the list for the Locus Awards. Anybody can vote here with an email address: https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/ though they have you fill out a demographic survey first with how many books you read per year, etc.
Of course a lot of great work did not end up on the list, like I was surprised not to see The Witch Roads and The Nameless Land duology by Kate Elliott, which I thought was excellent.
PXWLF Day 1
Feb. 7th, 2026 09:57 amolivermossI started with the main/downtown section of the festival and boy do I have regrets. There is a reason I usually mind the outskirts of the festival for interesting photos and experiences.
The Portland Winter Lights Festival is a 2 week thing with over 200 art installations and events. Last year they ranged from giant metal fire breathing dragon at the waterfront to 'store that happens to sell a few glow in the dark items is open late'. Also, last year I saw a drag king performance based on I Saw The TV Glow. It is a highly varied experience, and the website is deeply unhelpful. I can tell you already that some of the images this year are concept art and not actually was what done. There is cool stuff, but to find it you just need to keep hopping around hundreds of sites and hoping.
I've had a good time at the festival in the past. One year it happened during that extended snowstorm/power outage Portland had and I remember trudging through deep snow to see the fire powered light events, a truly surreal experience.
Anyway, the main downtown space can get crowded and people can get pushy. I don't have a sense of balance so people pushing me side to make a hole for their group is A Problem for me. Some lady wanted to push through a line I was in, rather than go around. I asked her to cut behind me instead of in front for a specific reason, and she had a expletive filled crash out at me.
I hopefully got at least 2 good pictures, but yeah, there is a reason I usually skip the main area. I am *hopefully* hitting the Electric Blocks and some east side stuff tonight, then I'll start sorting through lists to see what else I want to hit. The only exhibit up on St John's is... an art exhibit that's been there year round for years.
Also, damn, just like I need a dedicated Mike Bennett folder I need to start a PDXWLF folder.
The Portland Winter Lights Festival is a 2 week thing with over 200 art installations and events. Last year they ranged from giant metal fire breathing dragon at the waterfront to 'store that happens to sell a few glow in the dark items is open late'. Also, last year I saw a drag king performance based on I Saw The TV Glow. It is a highly varied experience, and the website is deeply unhelpful. I can tell you already that some of the images this year are concept art and not actually was what done. There is cool stuff, but to find it you just need to keep hopping around hundreds of sites and hoping.
I've had a good time at the festival in the past. One year it happened during that extended snowstorm/power outage Portland had and I remember trudging through deep snow to see the fire powered light events, a truly surreal experience.
Anyway, the main downtown space can get crowded and people can get pushy. I don't have a sense of balance so people pushing me side to make a hole for their group is A Problem for me. Some lady wanted to push through a line I was in, rather than go around. I asked her to cut behind me instead of in front for a specific reason, and she had a expletive filled crash out at me.
I hopefully got at least 2 good pictures, but yeah, there is a reason I usually skip the main area. I am *hopefully* hitting the Electric Blocks and some east side stuff tonight, then I'll start sorting through lists to see what else I want to hit. The only exhibit up on St John's is... an art exhibit that's been there year round for years.
Also, damn, just like I need a dedicated Mike Bennett folder I need to start a PDXWLF folder.
Deep blankness is the real thing strange
Feb. 7th, 2026 05:29 pmoursinThat was a week that felt a bit odd, which may have been quite a bit down to my not sleeping as well as have latterly been doing.
Also not getting out for accustomed daily walk as often as usual because RAIN.
Somewhat stunned by phonecall from friend with whom I am collaborating on various projects who has recently had some rather devastating health news.
Resumption of contact with two other friends: one of whom I had contacted after receiving what turned out to be, as I had suspected, spam email from her hacked account.
Having the February blahs, pretty much.
Rules Update
Feb. 7th, 2026 10:57 amsoc_puppet posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
queerly_belovedHello, everyone! I've got some minor rules updates for the community that I want to alert everyone to. They're pretty much all about use of cut tags. (To learn more about cut tags, check this article of Dreamwidth's FAQ or this tutorial post; you can also use Details/Summary HTML instead.)
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Second, in addition to properly age labeling any 18+ content, put any NSFW content under a cut. If it's legal in the US, it's legal to share in this community, but I don't want anyone to get in trouble at work for scrolling through this community on their break!
Finally, please put any images that are over 500 pixels in any dimension under a cut, as well as utilizing a cut for posts that are significantly longer than a few hundred words. In addition, if you're sharing more than three images, please put the majority of them under a cut. This is to keep things neat and tidy on reading pages, reduce load times (for images), and to let any compulsive readers out there decide whether they want to read the whole post or not.
I'm also planning to add a new Content Warning label for drugs and/or alcohol; if you have suggestions for any others, please let me know!
I'm welcoming feedback on all of these, or any of the other community rules, so if you have any thoughts to share, I'd love to hear them! Please also take this as an excuse to review the community rules overallas I apparently needed to do myself, oops. And thanks for spending time at Queerly Beloved with me!
First, remember to put any content that would require a CW tag under a cut. Unlike Tumblr and some other sites, blanket blocking a tag is more complicated on Dreamwidth, and jump-scaring compulsive readers is probably better avoided!
Second, in addition to properly age labeling any 18+ content, put any NSFW content under a cut. If it's legal in the US, it's legal to share in this community, but I don't want anyone to get in trouble at work for scrolling through this community on their break!
Finally, please put any images that are over 500 pixels in any dimension under a cut, as well as utilizing a cut for posts that are significantly longer than a few hundred words. In addition, if you're sharing more than three images, please put the majority of them under a cut. This is to keep things neat and tidy on reading pages, reduce load times (for images), and to let any compulsive readers out there decide whether they want to read the whole post or not.
I'm also planning to add a new Content Warning label for drugs and/or alcohol; if you have suggestions for any others, please let me know!
I'm welcoming feedback on all of these, or any of the other community rules, so if you have any thoughts to share, I'd love to hear them! Please also take this as an excuse to review the community rules overall
Scorpions by LadyRa (Explicit)
Feb. 7th, 2026 11:49 ammelagan posting in stargateficrecShow: The Sentinel/Stargate SG-1
Rec Category: Crossovers
Characters: Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal'c
Pairings: Jim/Blair, Jack/Daniel (mirror universe Jim/Blair), previous Blair/Daniel
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: Unknown
Author's Website: AO3 profile
Link: Scorpions
Why This Must Be Read: This story is well-balanced between the two fandoms. I'd classify it as Action-adventure with some Guide gifts (and Jack's reaction to that) thrown in.
Both the Jack and Jim in our universe are in denial about their feelings for the men in their lives. It's a slow clue bus, but it eventually gets there (and the trip shouldn't be missed).
( snippet of fic )
Rec Category: Crossovers
Characters: Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal'c
Pairings: Jim/Blair, Jack/Daniel (mirror universe Jim/Blair), previous Blair/Daniel
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: Unknown
Author's Website: AO3 profile
Link: Scorpions
Why This Must Be Read: This story is well-balanced between the two fandoms. I'd classify it as Action-adventure with some Guide gifts (and Jack's reaction to that) thrown in.
Both the Jack and Jim in our universe are in denial about their feelings for the men in their lives. It's a slow clue bus, but it eventually gets there (and the trip shouldn't be missed).
( snippet of fic )
GenPrompt Bingo: A Moment of Clarity/Understanding
Feb. 7th, 2026 09:29 amsenmutAO3 Link | Hunting Gone Wrong (1144 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars [2008] - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Suicide/Suicidal Ideation
Characters: CC-1119 | Appo, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Suicidal Thoughts, Child Murder
Summary:
They were being hunted, picked off one by one on this death world. Appo wasn't certain what he'd done to anger his Lord, but being sent to hunt a Force User had seemed easy enough on the data pad.
The reality was proving brutally different, and he was down to just two members of the original six that had followed him here to capture the rogue Force User for Lord Vader. Nor could he just comm for back up; the Exactor was pursuing the rag tag Rebels that had been in the system when they dropped.
Appo pulled up a map of the world, narrowing in on the fissure-laden landscape of this island. The Force User had taken out the other drop ship while they were in atmo before ditching from the ship and letting it crash. A small part of him decided it was rather fitting that they were all marooned, and Appo's chances of a pick up were a lot better than the Force User's.
TK-1138 let the world kill him, spooking at a noise and falling into one of the hissing fissures. Appo looked at the last surviving man of his squadron and ground his teeth inside his helmet. They might only be fleshborn, but he'd spent time fine-tuning the training that CC-2224 sent them out with.
They had to be the best to be 501st, after all. That had never stopped being true, from the before-times to now.
"Stay here, get the communication unit pieced together. Fleet should be back any time now."
"Yes sir."
Was the trooper relieved? Hoping Appo was the next victim? It didn't matter. Appo had to catch this karking —
The pain in his head came back, as that slip into his first language usually sparked it.
It was bad enough he held tight to his name.
He'd forgotten what it was like to hunt by himself. Even in his plastoid, it was easier to move and hide and track than when he was half-focused on keeping a squad alive.
He thought he was closing in on the Force User. He was fairly certain they were even injured. All he had to do was clear this climb, and he'd be close enough to be sure. Just a little more to climb —
— and a noise drew his eyes up, to see a face with white marks on bronze skin, blue and white marks on the horns and headtails alike, but eyes like his own staring holes into his soul.
The Jedi were traitors, manipulating the whole war, killing his brothers to cling to their power. The Chancellor said so, and he was their Supreme Commander. The General believed it. Appo followed orders, led the men up the stairs, and they started quartering the Temple, clearing out the traitors of all shapes and sizes.
It didn't matter that this one looked like the Commander. She'd been a traitor too. He brought his blaster up for a clean shot, waiting until she deflected two others to take his own.
He ignored the voice screaming in the back of his head that she had been just a kid.
Appo blinked at the bright light all around him, his concealing helmet (bucket, a piece of him remembered) gone, and him trussed him up as firmly as he'd meant to do to her once he caught the Force User.
She was tossing an EMP grenade in a hand, pacing in front of him.
Just as suddenly as she'd overcome him on the climb, she was there, kneeling in front of him.
"It would be more merciful to kill you," she said. "To you and to my father."
Clone dark eyes staring out of a face like hers.
"I don't feel like being merciful today." She clicked the detonator, and Appo's world disappeared for the second time in less than an hour, this time consumed by searing pain in his skull, the kind that came when he remembered the before times.
Vader's Fist.
Torrent Company.
Memories, like those of two different men, warred within him.
Torrent won.
He found himself retching up the nutripaste he'd been rationing himself since landfall. She at least tilted him with the Force so he didn't get it on himself.
Appo looked at her again, recognizing the hard jawline and set of the eyes as The Captain's trademark resolve. The lines of her marks might scream of the Commander, but he didn't think this one was going to try and make it all better like Commander Vod'ika had tried time and again, after the bad campaigns.
"So, when I take your binders off, I'm not going to stop you if you choose the easy way out," she said in a hard voice. "Didn't even know that kriffing monster still had any of you. Was supposed to be him I was facing down here."
"You… tried… to bait VADER?!" he asked, but of course a child of those two would be that brazen.
She didn't answer, just staring at him with unblinking anger at him for not being the right prey.
The easy way — he knew just what she meant, and as her features blurred with the earlier, rounder face of that child in the Temple, he thought he just might.
"You said your father," he managed to get out instead. "The Captain lives?"
"Somewhere out there. It's not like he and I could work together once I was old enough to go out on my own."
The binders fell away from him, and his gear was right there. A tiny piece of him suggested he go for his blaster, not to take the easy road, but to try and take her down, like he'd been told to.
Just like he'd been told to murder children. And atrocities that made that pale in comparison, ever since the day he followed his General into haran.
"What's the hard way?" he asked, and that got a blink, then a flex of the too-small lekku.
"I take you to a rehab specialist, away from the fighting, and you figure out if you can make peace with the man that chip made of you."
"Will he come there? Or her — kriff." The face and lekku had gone hard all over again on the pronoun. "She's gone?"
"It's why I joined up. He lived, when she didn't come back to us. And I'm not going to stop until he goes down."
"Small part of getting off this rock?"
"Got that covered." She turned to start walking down the easy side of the rise.
A few minutes later, he was following, with just the weapons and rations, hard as it was to leave the armor's protection behind.
She didn't say a word, and he kept following. Maybe, in her, in what she offered as the hard way, he'd find a way to his honor again.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars [2008] - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Suicide/Suicidal Ideation
Characters: CC-1119 | Appo, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Suicidal Thoughts, Child Murder
Summary:
Appo is on a death world, hunting, but maybe he was the prey... and the wrong one at that.
Hunting Gone Wrong
They were being hunted, picked off one by one on this death world. Appo wasn't certain what he'd done to anger his Lord, but being sent to hunt a Force User had seemed easy enough on the data pad.
The reality was proving brutally different, and he was down to just two members of the original six that had followed him here to capture the rogue Force User for Lord Vader. Nor could he just comm for back up; the Exactor was pursuing the rag tag Rebels that had been in the system when they dropped.
Appo pulled up a map of the world, narrowing in on the fissure-laden landscape of this island. The Force User had taken out the other drop ship while they were in atmo before ditching from the ship and letting it crash. A small part of him decided it was rather fitting that they were all marooned, and Appo's chances of a pick up were a lot better than the Force User's.
TK-1138 let the world kill him, spooking at a noise and falling into one of the hissing fissures. Appo looked at the last surviving man of his squadron and ground his teeth inside his helmet. They might only be fleshborn, but he'd spent time fine-tuning the training that CC-2224 sent them out with.
They had to be the best to be 501st, after all. That had never stopped being true, from the before-times to now.
"Stay here, get the communication unit pieced together. Fleet should be back any time now."
"Yes sir."
Was the trooper relieved? Hoping Appo was the next victim? It didn't matter. Appo had to catch this karking —
The pain in his head came back, as that slip into his first language usually sparked it.
It was bad enough he held tight to his name.
He'd forgotten what it was like to hunt by himself. Even in his plastoid, it was easier to move and hide and track than when he was half-focused on keeping a squad alive.
He thought he was closing in on the Force User. He was fairly certain they were even injured. All he had to do was clear this climb, and he'd be close enough to be sure. Just a little more to climb —
— and a noise drew his eyes up, to see a face with white marks on bronze skin, blue and white marks on the horns and headtails alike, but eyes like his own staring holes into his soul.
The Jedi were traitors, manipulating the whole war, killing his brothers to cling to their power. The Chancellor said so, and he was their Supreme Commander. The General believed it. Appo followed orders, led the men up the stairs, and they started quartering the Temple, clearing out the traitors of all shapes and sizes.
It didn't matter that this one looked like the Commander. She'd been a traitor too. He brought his blaster up for a clean shot, waiting until she deflected two others to take his own.
He ignored the voice screaming in the back of his head that she had been just a kid.
Appo blinked at the bright light all around him, his concealing helmet (bucket, a piece of him remembered) gone, and him trussed him up as firmly as he'd meant to do to her once he caught the Force User.
She was tossing an EMP grenade in a hand, pacing in front of him.
Just as suddenly as she'd overcome him on the climb, she was there, kneeling in front of him.
"It would be more merciful to kill you," she said. "To you and to my father."
Clone dark eyes staring out of a face like hers.
"I don't feel like being merciful today." She clicked the detonator, and Appo's world disappeared for the second time in less than an hour, this time consumed by searing pain in his skull, the kind that came when he remembered the before times.
Vader's Fist.
Torrent Company.
Memories, like those of two different men, warred within him.
Torrent won.
He found himself retching up the nutripaste he'd been rationing himself since landfall. She at least tilted him with the Force so he didn't get it on himself.
Appo looked at her again, recognizing the hard jawline and set of the eyes as The Captain's trademark resolve. The lines of her marks might scream of the Commander, but he didn't think this one was going to try and make it all better like Commander Vod'ika had tried time and again, after the bad campaigns.
"So, when I take your binders off, I'm not going to stop you if you choose the easy way out," she said in a hard voice. "Didn't even know that kriffing monster still had any of you. Was supposed to be him I was facing down here."
"You… tried… to bait VADER?!" he asked, but of course a child of those two would be that brazen.
She didn't answer, just staring at him with unblinking anger at him for not being the right prey.
The easy way — he knew just what she meant, and as her features blurred with the earlier, rounder face of that child in the Temple, he thought he just might.
"You said your father," he managed to get out instead. "The Captain lives?"
"Somewhere out there. It's not like he and I could work together once I was old enough to go out on my own."
The binders fell away from him, and his gear was right there. A tiny piece of him suggested he go for his blaster, not to take the easy road, but to try and take her down, like he'd been told to.
Just like he'd been told to murder children. And atrocities that made that pale in comparison, ever since the day he followed his General into haran.
"What's the hard way?" he asked, and that got a blink, then a flex of the too-small lekku.
"I take you to a rehab specialist, away from the fighting, and you figure out if you can make peace with the man that chip made of you."
"Will he come there? Or her — kriff." The face and lekku had gone hard all over again on the pronoun. "She's gone?"
"It's why I joined up. He lived, when she didn't come back to us. And I'm not going to stop until he goes down."
"Small part of getting off this rock?"
"Got that covered." She turned to start walking down the easy side of the rise.
A few minutes later, he was following, with just the weapons and rations, hard as it was to leave the armor's protection behind.
She didn't say a word, and he kept following. Maybe, in her, in what she offered as the hard way, he'd find a way to his honor again.
Books Received, January 31 — February 6
Feb. 7th, 2026 09:15 amjames_davis_nicoll
With two books new to me, this just barely qualifies as books received. One SF, one fantasy and the SF novel is from a series.
Books Received, January 31 — February 6
Poll #34194 Books Received, January 31 — February 6
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36
Which of these look interesting?
View Answers
A City Dreaming by Maurice Broaddus (June 2026)
15 (41.7%)
Lord of the Heights by Scarlett J. Thorne (July 2026
5 (13.9%)
Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.8%)
Cats!
28 (77.8%)
Cute but kinda odd?
Feb. 6th, 2026 05:05 pmcupcake_gothFB recommended the group "essa - comfort stuffed animal". It's exactly what it sounds like: do you have a stuffed animal that gives you emotional support? Talk and share photos in the group!
It's cute seeing everyone's photos, but ... DRAMA! Does your stuffed animal count as an essa if you haven't dressed it in a tiny "Support Animal" vest? Why did you pick that stuffed animal? OMG you aren't cleaning them theright commentor's way? If they're truly an essa, why are you asking for support or ways to feel more comfortable taking them with you out in the world?
Like, serious drama over these things. Which, of course, means it's a REAL online group/community, right?
(The tiny "Support Animal" vests that people think means their stuffed animals are more valid than others is WILD. Clovis Devilbunny thinks the whole thing is hilarious.)
It's cute seeing everyone's photos, but ... DRAMA! Does your stuffed animal count as an essa if you haven't dressed it in a tiny "Support Animal" vest? Why did you pick that stuffed animal? OMG you aren't cleaning them the
Like, serious drama over these things. Which, of course, means it's a REAL online group/community, right?
(The tiny "Support Animal" vests that people think means their stuffed animals are more valid than others is WILD. Clovis Devilbunny thinks the whole thing is hilarious.)
Mike Bennett's Workshop
Feb. 6th, 2026 03:56 pmolivermoss
I've photographed his work a LOT over the past several years, and yesterday I saw him in the wild... or rather leaving his new workshop location. I wanted to repost some pictures of I've taken of his stuff over the years for context, but that's the downside to my main photography folder being 34,154 Files in 517 Folders. That's far from every photo I've ever taken, only select photos go in. I have spent time organizing it, but... not enough?
Anyway, you can get his vibe from these pics I think.
Where the magic happens:
He runs the sticker, keychain and pin exchanges across Portland. He did the Crypto-zoo, Dinotopia, The Portland Aquarium and runs the Wonderwood Springs D&D/RPG themed cafe in St Johns. I know I've posted about that place and can picture the images, but I cannot find them right now. I might need to start a dedicated Mike Bennett folder. Originally known online as Regional Memesmith, he is part of the fabric of the Portland arts scene.
( Wait, remembering his old psued jogged a memory )
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Feb. 6th, 2026 06:35 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6972 ⌋
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fic: your curious body sitting on the shore [m/m, Heated Rivalry]
Feb. 6th, 2026 10:52 pmraventhe inevitable daemon AU, omgggg.
your curious body sitting on the shore (5481 words) by raven
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Yuna Hollander, Rose Landry
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Daemons
your curious body sitting on the shore (5481 words) by raven
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Yuna Hollander, Rose Landry
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Daemons
It’s not just that Ilya’s daemon is impressive. Like… a wolf. A fucking wolf. Yeah, Shane is impressed by that. It's that hockey players shouldn’t have daemons at all.
2026 52 Card Project: Week 5: Maeve
Feb. 6th, 2026 03:28 pmpegkerrSo I have recently had something non-terrible happen. I have acquired a new car, a 2023 Hyundai Tucson. This has been an extraordinary leap forward in technology for me. In fact, I have remarked that driving it after years of driving my old 2000 Toyota Camry, I feel rather like I am piloting a spaceship.
It has seat warmers! It has a video console! You can move the side mirrors in before entering the garage! It has a backup camera!
This may seem like old hat to you--to anyone who is driving anything built in the last decade--but it is entirely wondrous to me.
I name my cars in alphabetical order, boy-girl-boy-girl. My last car was named Lafayette, so this one needed to be a girl's 'M' name.
Given recent events, I decided that I needed a warrior queen's name and settled upon Maeve.
Image description: Background: deep space, seen over the surface of a planet. A black car (Hyundai Tuscon) sits on the planet surface. A sleek spaceship hovers overhead.
Maeve
Click on the links to see the 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
It has seat warmers! It has a video console! You can move the side mirrors in before entering the garage! It has a backup camera!
This may seem like old hat to you--to anyone who is driving anything built in the last decade--but it is entirely wondrous to me.
I name my cars in alphabetical order, boy-girl-boy-girl. My last car was named Lafayette, so this one needed to be a girl's 'M' name.
Given recent events, I decided that I needed a warrior queen's name and settled upon Maeve.
Image description: Background: deep space, seen over the surface of a planet. A black car (Hyundai Tuscon) sits on the planet surface. A sleek spaceship hovers overhead.
Click on the links to see the 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
AO3 Celebrates 10 Million Registered Users
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What do the country of Portugal, the city of Seoul, and the Archive of Our Own (AO3) have in common? They are all home to more than 10 million people! That's right: AO3 has surpassed 10 million registered users this month! We at the Organisation for Transformative Works (OTW) are delighted to share this incredible milestone with you.
Even as the community is growing year by year, the active exchange of creations and ideas between fans remains as a cornerstone of fan culture. Whether it's gifting each other fanfic, recording a podfic of your favorite story, or putting together a reclist of fics—no fandom thrives without the myriad ways fans share their passion with one another. In today's world, where ideas are just one more commodity, and content is curated for maximum revenue, it's more important than ever to appreciate and celebrate these aspects of fan spaces.
One way to let other fans know you appreciate the love and hard work they pour into their creations is commenting on their work. In celebration of this milestone, we have prepared a Bingo all about comments! Below you can find the bingo cards in both a square and vertical format.
You can fill out as many bingo squares as you want—the more comments, the merrier! Let us know on this post or on social media which Bingos you scored.
Happy commenting, and a huge thank you to everyone who helped us reach this milestone!
The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, OTW Legal Advocacy, and Transformative Works and Cultures. We are a fan-run, donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.
AO3 Celebrates 10 Million Registered Users
Feb. 6th, 2026 05:02 pmotw_news_feedWhat do the country of Portugal, the city of Seoul, and the Archive of Our Own (AO3) have in common? They are all home to more than 10 million people! That’s right: AO3 has surpassed 10 million registered users this month! We at the Organisation for Transformative Works (OTW) are delighted to share this incredible milestone with you.
Even as the community is growing year by year, the active exchange of creations and ideas between fans remains as a cornerstone of fan culture. Whether it’s gifting each other fanfic, recording a podfic of your favorite story, or putting together a reclist of fics—no fandom thrives without the myriad ways fans share their passion with one another. In today’s world, where ideas are just one more commodity, and content is curated for maximum revenue, it’s more important than ever to appreciate and celebrate these aspects of fan spaces.
One way to let other fans know you appreciate the love and hard work they pour into their creations is commenting on their work. In celebration of this milestone, we have prepared a Bingo all about comments! Below you can find the bingo cards in both a square and vertical format.
You can fill out as many bingo squares as you want—the more comments, the merrier! Let us know on this post or on social media which Bingos you scored.
Happy commenting, and a huge thank you to everyone who helped us reach this milestone!