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Title: The Gravity of Tempered Grace
Fandom: due South
Pairing/Characters: Fraser/Ray K, Stella/Ray V., Frannie
Rating: T
Summary: When his partner is dosed with a frightening new street drug and disappears, Ray goes on a journey to strange lands where reality is bent and magic abounds. He will have to contend with forces beyond his understanding in order to find Ben and bring him home.
Warnings: non-consensual drug use, spells & enchantments
Notes: Written for the due South Seekrit Santa exchange for

wicked3659. A take on the Snow Queen. Title from 'Iridescent' by Linkin Park. Beta by

delanach

On AO3: The Gravity of Tempered Grace

On

raselgethi: The Gravity of Tempered Grace

I also made a moodboard for this fic, which can be found here: https://acme-graphics.dreamwidth.org/42953.html

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)

thedarkcanuck

If You Could Read My Mind (12252 words) by TheDarkCanuck
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Robert "Bob" Fraser (due South), Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Additional Tags: Past Benton Fraser/Victoria Metcalf, pre CotW, Episode: s04e12-13 Call of the Wild (due South), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Fraser and Ray wake bound, gagged, and blindfolded in an abandoned building after a violent ambush.

sage

I received the absolutely delightful:
The Day After (4505 words) by rabidsamfan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey
Characters: Mervyn Bunter, Harriet Vane, Peter Wimsey
Additional Tags: Missing Scene
Summary:

A coda to Busman’s Honeymoon.

And I wrote:
Closing Ceremony (1651 words) by Sage
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Summer War - Naomi Novik
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Argent of the Woven Blade/Elithyon
Characters: Elithyon (Summer War), Argent of the Woven Blade
Additional Tags: Yuleporn, Yuletide, Yuletide 2025
Summary:

Elithyon & Argent, before the curse.

mekare

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squidgiepdx

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mekare

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verushka70

I originally saw this reblogged on Tumblr and just had to share.

I do not have the energy generally, or even at a mitochondrial level, to chase my fanfic dreams... But recently I finally posted a few decades-old WIPs (held back by my "perfect is the enemy of good enough" tendencies, sigh), proving that it is absolutely true: apparently, for some (many!) WIP fics, years/decades was my sustainable pace to finally complete them. And I'm okay with that. 🙂 Better late than never!

ride_4ever

Any blogger can challenge themselves to an annual Fannish Fifty without signing up to the Fannish Fifty Challenge on DW, but if you want to be part of the "official" Fannish Fifty click here to sign up.

Current Mood: Ready For It
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

mific

I was going kind of crazy trying to figure this out. Not that I'm obsessed or anything...

obsessional timeline (let me know if you spot anything wonky)

Massive SPOILERS for season 1, ofc!

I promise to post about other things! Soon!

sage

books
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club #5) by Richard Osman. This one just didn't grab me. Too many criminals, not enough Murder Club.

Xmas
was good, though delayed until Monday. I had a nice time, even if one of my gifts to my parents was redundant. The food was pretty great, though.

yarning/etsy
My Rock Star Lestat art doll sold on Christmas Day! Yay!! After which I finished a donation hat. And then another hat while reading Yuletide. I missed yarn group due to traveling for Xmas, though I got a commission for a Kermit green kickbunny, so I worked on that over my belated holiday. And I got a commission for an Older Daniel Molloy art doll yesterday, yay, so I'll be working on that over the next couple of days.

yuletide
reveals are tomorrow! Yay!

#resist
Tuesday, January 20: #50501 Free America Walk-out, 2pm local time. https://www.FreeAmeri.ca

Happy New Year, everyone! Please be safe as you enjoy kicking 2025 to the curb! <333

verushka70

Paul Gross will have a cameo in the upcoming Season 2 of the CBC series Saint-Pierre (starring Allan Hawco, of Republic of Doyle). See this article. Only one line in the entire article mentions PG's cameo. On a PC or laptop, use Ctrl-F and type "Gross" to find it. Mobile, use "Find in page" in your browser.

Besides his role in the George Clooney-produced Broadway version of Good Night, and Good Luck back in June, 2025, (currently only available for rent or purchase via Amazon Prime Video, Plex, and Apple TV), PG will also be in the independent film The Fallers (about which there is little other information). He's also been in rehearsals for Waiting For Godot in the upcoming 2026 Stratford season.

mekare

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runpunkrun

I picked this up knowing nothing about it except that it was science fiction, and I spent the entire book trying to figure out where it was going, but in a good way. It starts out with a raid, so I was thinking military SF, but then it quickly transitions into a mystery, and from there we go through some spy shit, a bit of romance, a Mission Impossible-style heist, a miner's strike, and, finally, cyberpunk. It's quite a ride. It's got unremarkable queerness (people are queer! it goes unremarked upon!), the protagonist is a woman of color of........complicated origins, and there's a fascinating relationship between her and an AI. Cohen, as he calls himself, is hundreds of years old, controls dozens of networks, and has expensive tastes.

In part, this book is about memory, what your memories make you, and who you are without them, and at times I felt like it was messing with my memory because it seemed to be skipping over important things in the investigation and in the spy shit. Like how did Li get her Beretta back? They took her knife, but left her with that gun and the ammo for it? No. It's also the kind of science fiction that comes with a ten page bibliography at the end in case you want to read up on quantum entanglement, but just tosses you into the world, dumps a bunch of new terminology on you, and lets you figure things out on your own. Which I mostly did, but it's a bit of an uphill trudge at the beginning.

This is the first in a trilogy, a fact I discovered when I was 82% through this one, and happily my library had the other two ebooks, as well, so I checked out the second book as soon as I was done with this one.

Contains: sexual assault, attempted rape—brief and not lingered upon; (sexual?) slavery—underpins a side relationship in the book.

ride_4ever

My #49 Fannish Fifty links to the #49 Fannish Fifty of my fanpair,

verushka70. And how's that for being fairly literal about the pairing thing, matching Fannish Fifty numbers.

For her extensive post about Canadian Tire acquiring Hudson Bay Company's intellectual property -- including the iconic striped blanket design -- and about the partnership between Canadian Tire and the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (the retailer has guaranteed at least $1 million a year to support Oshki Wupoowane -- The Blanket Fund --with the money being used to support grassroots Indigenous organizations and Indigenous cultural, artistic and educational projects) click here.

Also: direct link to Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund home page.

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

mific

As you may know, soon after filming Heated Rivalry, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie made an audio erotica recording for the company quinn (available on mobiles as an app). It's an originally written audio porn paid subscriber app with largely male performers, mostly M/F stories (and most of those second person listener-insert), but with a few M/M and F/F offerings.

The Hudcon story is Ember and Ice, clearly intended as HR AU romantasy fanfic, where Finn (Hudson), and Dane (Connor) are rival fae princes, alternately fucking or at war with each other. Their HR personalities are maintained as Hudson is the dutiful, serious prince who only fucks Connor, and Connor is the promiscuous bisexual prince with daddy issues. It is, of course, a love story, just with a lot of explicit sex. The story's laughable overall, but no more poorly-written than a lot of fanfic, even if the worldbuilding leaves a lot to be desired. But that's not why we're here: we're here for Hudson and Connor delivering breathy porn dialogue with absolutely no fade to black. Overall, they both do the sex noises very well but I think Hudson is just a tad more uninhibited and realistic, especially nearing orgasm. Which fits with his persona from the press tour.

Hilariously, Ember and Ice has been so successful in the full frenzy of HR fandom that the quinn app crashed for a while yesterday with too many panting fans trying to sign on and sign in. Thus we now have wonderful tumblr posts like this.

Hudson and Connor also did a photoshoot for Ember & Ice, with tasteful dollar-shop gilt and silver wings to demonstrate their fae origins.

Two young men in jeans and singlets sitting entwined on an obviously fake mossy knoll with a small tree behind. Each has a small set of fake filigree wings on his back.

Two young men in jeans and singlets sitting entwined on an obviously fake mossy knoll with a small tree behind. Each has a small set of fake filigree wings on his back.

They must be having a ball! I love that they're undoubtedly giggling about all this and revelling in the nonsense, but their demeanour in the photoshoot and their voice acting in Ember & Ice is quality work, 100% professional (especially the sex noises).

And naturally, there's already a story in the Ember and Ice fandom on AO3, the fandom tag so new it hasn't been categorised yet. I predict many more!

ETA: more evidence! "I hope they get a really satiating love story", ha!

seleneheart

I have created a community -

bookclub_dw - that will run like an in-person book club. One member of the community will have host duties for the month, which includes choosing the book for the comm to read that month and moderating a discussion about the book at the end of the month.

There is more information at the sticky post here: https://bookclub-dw.dreamwidth.org/257.html

I used to belong to a book club and really loved being pushed to read things that weren't on my radar, and have a chance to sit around and chat about the experience. I'm hoping to create something similar with this community.

I'm open to suggestions about the procedures and guidelines for how the community operates - please have a look at the community and then come back here to this post to give me feedback.

I plan to start with the first book in January - looking forward to it!

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Michael Martin Murphy - Wildfire

mekare

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verushka70

Joanne Currie and Regina Keim posted a new due South Convivial Pursuit quiz to the private Facebook Due South Duet: Fraser/Kowalski Slash group. The new Convivial Pursuit quiz is based on the Christmas episodes Gift of the Wheelman and Good For The Soul. (Episode links courtesy of Anna's due South episode transcripts site, https://nicede.se/dstranscripts/.)

verushka70

Regina Keim sent the Facebook Due South Trading Post group a link to this fabulous "Super Mountie" art on the German Etsy site.

I thought people might like to see it. Not sure if it's available outside Europe, though.

a Mountie, face obscured by downturned Stetson, tearing off the Serge to reveal Superman's suit with big S

ETA: Link fixed!

mific

Agh, I just found the hollanov discord server.

And wrote my first 1800 words of HR fanfic.

Um... anyone up to alpha read it to give me feedback about whether it's worth continuing?

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seleneheart - Fic: The Gravity of Tempered Grace
thedarkcanuck - If You Could Read My MInd (Due South Seekrit Santa 2025)
sage - Yuletide reveals!
mekare - Snowflake Challenge #1
squidgiepdx - Time Marches On
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verushka70 - Don't CHASE your dreams - we're persistence hunters! (From Tumblr) (Fannish Fifty #1)
ride_4ever - Fannish Fifty Challenge 2025: Post # 50: Fannish Fifty 2026 Sign-Up
mific - Heated Rivalry Season 1 Timeline
sage - What I'm Doing Wednesday: new year's eve edition
verushka70 - Paul Gross to cameo in CBC series Saint-Pierre, among other things (FF #63)
mekare - Some wishes for the New Year
runpunkrun - Spin State, by Chris Moriarty
ride_4ever - Fannish Fifty Challenge 2025: # 49: Canada Fandom: HBC, Can Tire, Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund
mific - More hilarity with Heated Rivalry audio porn
seleneheart - Dreamwidth Book Club
mekare - *cries in Doctor Who*
verushka70 - New episode-related due South Convivial Pursuit quiz posted to FB (Fannish Fifty #62)
verushka70 - Mountie art from dS Trading Post FB group (Fannish Fifty #61)
mific - and the madness continues

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