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Lovesick Falls - Julia Drake
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troisoiseauxRead Lovesick Falls by Julia Drake, a modern, queer YA retelling/remix of As You Like It in which best friends Celia, Ros, and Touchstone spend the summer working at an outdoor theater festival, navigating crushes and friendship drama. This one was slightly less my cup of tea than her first novel (The Last True Poets of the Sea, a modern YA take on Twelfth Night), mostly because of one major plotline in which main character Celia meets/befriends/briefly goes out with her celebrity crush Oliver, an actor on the endearingly bad TV show she and her friends are obsessed with, a trope I find so viscerally embarrassing it's fully a squick. (Like, people actually want to meet their celebrity crushes/idols/blorbos?! Can't relate.) Overall, I liked it a lot, though— more than I'd initially expected to when it seemed like it was taking more of a cutesy best summer ever! YA romance angle, because it was ultimately a bittersweet coming-of-age: ( ... ) As a retelling of As You Like It, specifically, Drake works in some fun nods to the original play, including a very grumpy cat named for the melancholy Jaques.
Lake Lewisia #1352
Jan. 5th, 2026 05:25 pmscrubjayspeaksThis is the time of year when many will fall victim to predatory prognosticators, claiming to have the ability to foretell your fate in 2026. We recommend only consulting officially licensed prophets, seers, and fortunetellers, whose respective governing bodies monitor accuracy, timeliness, and ethical methodology. And remember, anyone who claims the future is both knowable and unchangeable has clearly never encountered even a basic temporal anomaly, so how much can they really know about the world around us?
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Sand: Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: Beneath the Sand
Jan. 5th, 2026 04:42 pmsmallhobbit posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fan_flashworksTitle: Beneath the Sand
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 455 words
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is looking for missing jewellery
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 455 words
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is looking for missing jewellery
( I'm convinced )
Fandom Snowflake Challenge #3
Jan. 5th, 2026 04:05 pmscribblemoose posting in snowflake_challengeIntroduction Post*
Meet the Mods Post
Challenge #1 * Challenge #2
Meet the Mods Post
Challenge #1 * Challenge #2
Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.
( Challenge #3 )
And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.
And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.
due South: Fanfiction: Sandy Boots: Sand
Jan. 5th, 2026 01:42 pmlucy_roman posting in fan_flashworksTitle:Sandy Boots
Author:lucy_roman
Rating: General
Summary:Ray hates having sand in his boots
Pairing:Fraser/RayK
Word Count:75
( Sandy Boots )
Author:
lucy_romanRating: General
Summary:Ray hates having sand in his boots
Pairing:Fraser/RayK
Word Count:75
( Sandy Boots )
snowflake challenge back on!
Jan. 5th, 2026 12:35 am0dense:) happy to be back! as I recall, the snowflake challenge came around right when I first landed on DW, so it's great to roll up just in time again.
icebreaker / re-introduction: Hi! I'm Odense; I'm 30something, I like writing exchanges and I LOVE the 4th wall. I've been off the rink for a bit on account of the winter holidays crush, but I'm generally working on transitions these days. My concrete new year's resolution is to apply for jobs - lol it's not a super exciting resolution, but I think I need a change!
I'm doing the snowflake challenge to try and get back in the DW habit. I love the longer-format this space still encourages, and think it's only become more valuable as the internet at large pivots towards fast consumption. (Also, something's going on with LJ getting even shakier? sad to hear. another mark for DW's significance, though) I also really appreciate DW's privacy: I really hope I start to see more familiar names port over here from hrpf, this year! like, I used to have a fic rec blog, but I've fallen out of that habit. I might try to bring that back, under DW-lock this time :)?
icebreaker / re-introduction: Hi! I'm Odense; I'm 30something, I like writing exchanges and I LOVE the 4th wall. I've been off the rink for a bit on account of the winter holidays crush, but I'm generally working on transitions these days. My concrete new year's resolution is to apply for jobs - lol it's not a super exciting resolution, but I think I need a change!
I'm doing the snowflake challenge to try and get back in the DW habit. I love the longer-format this space still encourages, and think it's only become more valuable as the internet at large pivots towards fast consumption. (Also, something's going on with LJ getting even shakier? sad to hear. another mark for DW's significance, though) I also really appreciate DW's privacy: I really hope I start to see more familiar names port over here from hrpf, this year! like, I used to have a fic rec blog, but I've fallen out of that habit. I might try to bring that back, under DW-lock this time :)?
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Fanfic: In a Grain of Sand
Jan. 4th, 2026 08:17 pmalexcat posting in fan_flashworksTitle:In a Grain of Sand
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 392
Content notes: My sweethearts
Author notes: The beach trip takes place just before Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Summary: Steve remembers Natasha.
( In A Grain of Sand )
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 392
Content notes: My sweethearts
Author notes: The beach trip takes place just before Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Summary: Steve remembers Natasha.
( In A Grain of Sand )
Original: icons: sand
Jan. 4th, 2026 09:44 pmlilly_c posting in fan_flashworksTitle: sand
Fandom: none
Rating:
Length: five icons
Content notes: images used are from a public domain search
Artist notes: images used are from a public domain search
Summary:
( castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually )
Fandom: none
Rating:
Length: five icons
Content notes: images used are from a public domain search
Artist notes: images used are from a public domain search
Summary:
( castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually )