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First of all, relax! I'm far from being picky, and I can pretty much guarantee that I'll love whatever you decide to create for me. These are nothing but guidelines, for you to take to heart or ignore to your heart's content. Also, hey! You're writing me fic or drawing me art! That's automatically a good reason for me to love you, no matter what. So, please, keep that in mind. Trust me, you can pretty much do no wrong. ♥

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Title: The Next Step
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Bikky.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 468: One Step Closer.
Setting: Like Like Love.
Summary: Bikky is making progress towards achieving his dream.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

The Next Step

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

settiai

I've participated in the National Consumer Panel since January 2014, which involved scanning my grocery purchases and doing the occasional survey in exchange for gifts cards and such. Unfortunately, I've finally had to break down and delete my account due to their continued transphobia.

When participating, you have the list the demographic information of the shopper, and the only gender options listed are Male or Female. Which, you know, is an issue if you're legally nonbinary. Especially since X is a valid gender option on US passports as well as driver's licenses in many states. In addition, they have an annual demographic survey each year where you provide more information about yourself, and - once again - the only gender options are Male or Female. If you want to participate, you have to intentionally misgender yourself, or you cannot proceed forward through the survey.

I've been reaching out to the National Consumer Panel about this issue since 2021. In both 2021 and 2022, my messages were acknowledged, and they point-blank stated that the issue was that their parent companies (NielsenIQ and Circana) dictated what gender options they were allowed to list.

In December 2022, I received the following email:

That email? Was the last communication that I received from NCP one way or another. I've continued to reach out each year when the annual demographic survey goes out with only Male and Female as the gender options listed, but I haven't received any response from NCP at all since 2022.

It's very clear at this point that the blatant transphobia of forcing nonbinary individuals to misgender themselves to use their site is intentional and won't be changing. Maybe it is the parent companies that are to blame, but the fact that NCP sent me an email in 2022 saying they were working to fix the issue and then ignored every single message that I've sent since then? Well, that says a lot. If nothing else, they're the ones who chose to simply stay quiet.

At this point, I'm done. I deleted my account earlier today, and I sent them an email making it clear why I've done so. With the current state of the world, I can't in good conscience continue to participate with an organization that's not even pretending to try to not to be transphobic.

I honestly doubt this post is going to do much of anything in the grand scheme of things (and the same's true of the thread that I posted over on Bluesky). Still, I wanted to at least make a public post about it just in case it lets even one person out there know that the National Consumer Panel shouldn't be trusted if you're LGBTIQA+.

Current Mood: frustrated

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I hit Price Chopper and the Bakery while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park.

I did two loads of laundry (washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, went on several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and changed kitty litter (and then almost immediately had to SCOOP the kitty litter because Midnight takes a fresh pan of kitty litter as an invitation).

I read some fanfic and started Key Lime Sky.

Temps started out at 39.2(F) and reached 70.0. That was much colder than I wanted it to be in the morning, but it got really nice out.

Mom Update:

Mom had a pretty good day. ( more back here )

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(I'm still awake so it's still Saturday night, right?)

All of these are fics I read in the past week and added to my fanfic database, and which I flagged for either being a favorite fic, or one I thought was exceptionally well-written. (For all fics I added this week, leave a comment and I can make a special post for you, or you can browse the regular posts linked in my master recs post.)

This week I was concentrating on fics from the Australian YA book series beginning with Tomorrow, When the War Began, as well as fics for the 2010 film by the same name. If you've never heard of either, I highly recommend them.

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( Ships )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

Below are the recs:

( Tomorrow When the War Began (book & film) )

If any of the non-dead links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

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Theme Prompt: #274 - Near-death experience
Title: Close to the bone
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: M. Contains suicide ideation.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Ianto is grappling with the trauma of what it really means to be a Torchwood field agent.

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Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia; No Reservations
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Anthony Bourdain, “Global” Alan Weeks, Todd Liebler, Tracey Godwin, Reepicheep, Aslan, and a cast of colorful Narnian OCs.
Rating: Teen and up (mostly for Bourdain-characteristic profanity.)
Length: 6,228 words
Content Notes: a vast variety of food, some narratively presented as off-putting; drunkenness; smoking; weed (that he doesn’t get to use); Bourdain’s typical abrasive impertinence; Author Showed Her Work.
Creator Links: (AO3)

Edonohana; (Dreamwidth)

rachelmanija
Theme: Food and Cooking, previously recced for Crossovers/Fusions, previously recced for Small Fandoms, Cultural Differences, Fandom Classics, Older Characters, Research, Worldbuilding

Summary: I’m crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table.

Author’s Notes: ( Cut_for_length. )

Reccer's Notes: Okay; what’s the September 2025 Food & Cooking theme even for if this classic doesn’t circle around for a threepeat? (Twelve years since the last mention should be a sufficient interval.)

This brilliant crossover, all the more poignant in hindsight, nails both Bourdain’s voice and the Narnian sense of place, painstakingly hitting all the beats: Food Porn; Food Gorn (with the acknowledgement that the difference between the two is in the palate of the beholder); departure from what Diana Wynne-Jones would term the Guided Tour into Parts Unknown, with the aid of knowledgeable locals; hospitality in austere circumstances; martial arts (with thought given to the size logistics!); scary local politics; above all, food as a vehicle of cross-cultural understanding.

“No Reservations: Narnia” has the additional distinction of being RPF that not only reached but impressed the subject:

“This is astonishingly well written with an attention to detail that’s frankly a bit frightening…I’m both flattered and disturbed. I think I need a drink.”—Anthony Bourdain.

Fanwork Links: No Reservations: Narnia, by

Edonohana for

innocentsmith; cover art by

moonblossom_graphics.

Current Music: ”Parts Unknown”.

cornerofmadness

So THIS house hit the market yesterday at 163K

It's gorgeous. It's everything I could want in a Victorian house. I was ready to call my bank to work up what I can afford. Then I calmed my ass down and looked it over. WHY so cheap? Yeah Wellston kinda sucks but it's not too bad. Sends to Dad. Why so cheap?

His response. Ghosts in that attic, demons in that basement (truth) buy it. We all were concerned that it looked like the basement wall is collapsing and if that's the case I can't afford to fix a foundation.

evil_little_dog is already plotting how to redo the fence (so you can get to the garage) and putting in trees and apparently showing up with all her possessions, ha.

Today I go to Wellston and look. It's one block off the main drag. At the corner of the block is the abandoned (haunted!!) old Loy Hospital (jackasses busting out windows), some business I have no clue about and a non denomination (which I keep typing as demonation) church with a hand painted sign that says COMPELL CHRIST (like that's not ominous). On the other side of the block is a small business and the old school turned community center and Adena health clinic (is it a drug rehab place? I forgot to look. Good going Dana) Down the road is nothing but big houses like this one and St Peter and St Paul Catholic church and Grace Baptist.

I. Want. This. House. I don't wanna live in town. It's not the best area. I don't even care. I come home and find out why so cheap. It was a typo. It's 263K not 163. SIGH. Keeping my eye on it. If you knock off 30K I could probably still buy it but at that price I'm not sure I want that neighborhood. I'll end up with old hospital ghosts or something.

My stomach is no longer burning (huzzah) but I am still weak, exhausted and getting nauseated. Of course I suspected potential ulcers before this. I need to keep my eye on this. But I did get a letter (again! OMG why letters?) from Cabell Hospital about a telehealth appointment with the nurse prac. WHY? I haven't had the CT scan yet and I just saw the actual doc. Yet another call I need to make.

I did watch Glitch's Knights of Guinevere. It was....interesting. I'm not as jazzed as the rest of the internet who are acting like this is the second coming. That aside, I did really like it and am disappointed I'll be waiting months if not a year for more. It definitely comes out swinging (right at Disney). I do think I need a second watch, pausing to read all the worldbuilding posters etc in the background.

( not really a spoiler but just in case )

Watch on YouTube

And I haven't done Science Saturday in a while so have some links

here.

Scientists invent new sunscreen made from pollen and it doesn't hurt coral reefs like traditional sunscreen does

Diet change could make brain cancer easier to treat, early study hints

Kneeling Bull: A 5,000-year-old hybrid creature from Iran with a mysterious purpose The click baity title aside, there isn't much to the article but the sculpture is cool

James Webb telescope finds a warped 'Butterfly Star' shedding its chrysalis — Space photo of the week

Here’s Exactly What Happens to Your Body if You Eat Celery Every Day more the nutrition of celery. I love celery. I'm not allowed to eat it. Sigh.

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: How (not) to get rid of a body

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[Art] Fiddler on the Roof - Bock/Harnick/Stein | Endeavour (TV) | Ted Lasso (TV)
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[Fic] Stranger Things (TV 2016) | The Walking Dead (TV) | Heroes (TV 2006)
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SPIKE: You lookin' for me?
BUFFY: Really not.
SPIKE: Oh. Right then. Off you go. Did you cry?
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: The wedding. Two hearts joined for eternity, great pelting showers of rice and so forth.
BUFFY: You didn't hear.
SPIKE: What? Families get out of hand? Tear the place apart?
BUFFY: No. Well, yes, absolutely. But... Xander left. The wedding didn't happen.
SPIKE: Well. Gotta say... I didn't see that coming. (sits on a bench)
BUFFY: It was awful. (sits nearby) Anya was devastated.
SPIKE: Is that right.
BUFFY: And, Xander... thinks maybe they can still get back together, but... he hurt her a lot.
SPIKE: Yeah, well... some people can't see a good thing when they've got it.

~~BtVS 6x17 “Normal Again”~~

The Sunnydale Herald is looking for at least a new editor. Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! Find out more here.

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Spike and the Wrath of Cordelia Chase (Angel/Cordelia/Spike/Buffy, G) by xaeyrnofnbe
Enough Trust to Unmask (Angel & Cordelia, T) by xaeyrnofnbe
echo chamber (Buffy/Cordelia, T) by ElasticElla
death is your gift (that keeps on giving) (Buffy/Drusilla, T) by ElasticElla

A Crime of Passions (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by RavenLove12

On the Road with Faith and Dawn (Faith, Dawn, FR13) by LancerFourSeven

A Slip Twixt the Snark and the Straw (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Kenijo
A Crime of Passions (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by RavenLove12

[Chaptered Fiction]

After Twilight, Chapter 1/5 (Angel & Buffy, past Angel/Buffy, M) by xaeyrnofnbe
Uncovered Evil, Chapter 13/? (AtS ensemble, M) by CloudSeeker
In Sure and Certain Hope, Chapter 11/? (Tara/Willow/Buffy, M) by storiwr
This Cheer’s Girl, Chapter 5/? (Buffy/Faith, M) by QuillBard

Fracture, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Holly
Nemesis: To Give What Is Due, Chapter 22 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by YouCutYourHair
Anointed in Dawn, Chosen in Ash, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Angelinasway
Buffy and the Slayer - Season 2, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Sunnydale Sentinel
Open your eyes, Chapter 13 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by Ennoh
A Century of Longing, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Pyewacket
Dusk's Haven, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by TwilightChild

Soul Searching, Chapters 2-3 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by CheekyKitten
Anointed in Dawn, Chosen in Ash, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Angelinasway

[Images, Audio & Video]

21 BtVS/AtS icons (ensemble, NSFW) by nondenomifan

Artwork: Love using my blorbos as little paper dolls (Willow, worksafe) by ornitharts
Artwork: “Say you’re happy now… Once More, With Feeling.” (ensemble, worksafe) by gracekb-art
Artwork: big bad dog keeps following me home, i think he just wants to use my phone (Buffy/Spike, mildly NSFW) by rabbitmotifs
Gifset: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x06 “Family” (Willow/Tara, worksafe) by in-a-faradaze
Comic panels: best part of being an artist is making crossovers that no one cares about (Buffy, Spike, multi xover, worksafe) by wellwatersurprise
Textposts: Dawn appreciation post because oh my god she suffered so much (worksafe) by tiaragloryart
Artwork: [Buffy & Willow from ep. 2x18] (worksafe) by hatsforpossums

Video: Not the Doctor || Jagged Little Slayer || a Buffy fanvid (Xander/Anya, worksafe) by Tafadhali

Artwork: Some wallpaper art I’m working on… (Buffy, worksafe) by LessTrack6622

Artwork: [art] Lapsitting (Buffy/Giles, M, NSFW) by evesock
Fanvid: Not the Doctor [Fanvid] (Xander/Anya, T) by periru3, Tafadhali

[Reviews & Recaps]

season 6 episode 3 - after life (!!!) by socratesgirl

60: “The I in Team” (BTVS S4E13) by Still Slaying: A Buffyverse Podcast
Rewatch: Reptile Boy Part 1 by Re-Vamped with Juliet Landau

PODCAST: Do You Use Email? (BtVS S6E17) by It Stakes Two

[Recs & In Search Of]

The Cave by awal (Buffy/Angel, T) recced by iwillrememberyoumarathon

ISO (Fic): Does anyone have a saved copy of [With a Painted Ribbon by Apfeltorte]? by teletubby

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[Fandom Discussions]

spike and faith living in buffy’s basement together but make it a sitcom by incognitoduck11
I love that Life Serial is basically just ‘take your Buffy to work day’ by fluffyspuffy
So was Spike bleaching his hair himself or did he have an appointment booked at the salon on a regular basis? by you-askedforthis, turtlezen42
ethan rayne is one of the only examples when “he’s only bothering you because he likes you” by emoclectic
I think part of why Buffy is initially so disgusted by Spike’s feelings for her is the self-abasement by blackdogswims
the funniest thing to me how some people still think buffy wasn`t sincere when she told spike she loved him in chosen by elverrie, reliand
I’m surprised that the idea of Buffy being turned into a vampire was never explored in the show by vamp-liar

Rewatching The Yoko Factor and Confused About Something by ExperienceKindly6454
What’s an unpopular opinion of yours? by Sweaty_Affect9363
How did [Buffy] stand to be around [Spike], again? Did she bring air freshener and Orbit Gum? by KENZOKHAOS
When Buffy and Willow treated Anya like a basic 'monster of the week' in that season 7 episode... by miggovortensens
why were Buffy and Cordelia competitive during Homecoming by voldy1989
s3 was the most identity-defining season for the Scoobies by FaveStore_Citadel
If faith and Gwen met illyria how would they react to each other? by Competitive_Image_51
Some of the most creative use of two parallel shows. BtVS&A by xXxMindBreakxXx
Which Scooby’s best and worst at swallowing their pride? by FaveStore_Citadel
Why don't we talk about Willow's jealousy as much as we talk about Xander's? by jdpm1991
Cordelia + Hair.....should've gone with the Buffy S2 look vs the bob by primal_slayer
If Buffy was made in the 50’s who’s playing at the Bronze and what track? Side note: what’s Cathy playing on repeat! by StruggleLumpy6969
Buffy Being Angry About Willow's Lie by Moon_Logic

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Below is the schedule for the fall round!

Please note that the cadence is a bit different from the previous round. In addition to having a 72-hour anon period, we are adding another day for matching (which we had in the past).

Schedule:

Nominations open: Sunday, October 5 (will remain open through signups)

Signups open: Sunday, October 12

Signups close: Sunday, October 19 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time

Assignments out by: Wednesday, October 22

Assignments due: Saturday, November 1 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time

Collection opens: Saturday, November 8 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time

Authors revealed: Monday, November 11 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time

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Assignments have been assigned! Find yours at the email address associated with your AO3 account. Alternatively, you can find it under the "Assignments" tab on the sidebar of your AO3 profile.

If you linked an unfinished letter, please try to complete and/or unlock it as soon as possible.

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PH #1 (all_ashes):

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Don Giovanni - Mozart/Da Ponte, House of the Dragon (TV), The Decameron (TV)

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PH #5 (facethestrange):

镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, Crossover Fandom

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PH #6 (firsttraintovictoriaville):

Roots of Pacha (Video Game), The White Stripes, Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game), Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-reum

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PH #10 (MxKit):

Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo! (2020), The Nameless Game (Gameverse), The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)

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PH #13 (plicate):

Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Zingchen; Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3,632 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, determinedly Taiwanese cuisine, Food Porn because the author inexplicably omitted that tag, racist microaggression (a character recounts getting renamed by his exchange host family.)
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, First Meetings, Taiwan, Street food, chinese diaspora feelings and food as love language, SongXiao Feast
Creator Links: (AO3)

Irrelevancy; (Tumblr)

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Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Fluff, Going Home, Identity, Modern AU, Slice of Life

Summary: Flirting and cultural reclamation via Taiwanese street food. Songxiao modern meet-cute.

Author’s Notes:
For the #songxiaofeast on twitter, thanks for organizing the event~!!!! There's so much great art in the hashtag *~* love me some food love....

Chinese glossary at end lolol, and is this all a shameless marketing ploy for Taiwan night markets? yes.

…The menu (a twitter thread w pictures) (Unfortunately no longer accessible—FMO.)

大腸包小腸 (dà cháng bāo xiǎo cháng): "little sausage wrapped around a big sausage" lol
蚵仔煎 (ó-à-tsiān): oyster pancake. I'm using the Taiwanese romanization here because it better captures that Hokkien pronunciation. Ningxia Night Market seriously has the best ones.
臭豆腐 (chò dò fǔ): stinky tofu!! I think it smells delicious; don't be like SL eat it normally without that crazy amount of sauce nkfsjdfds
肉圓麵線 (bà wán miàn xiàn): meatball & rice noodles. Two separate things but they're typically sold together. Meatball is always pronounced in Hokkien and sometimes rice noodle is too (mǐ suǎ)
豆花 (dòu huā): tofu pudding. It's not too sweet and it's sooooo refreshing to have on a hot taiwan evening with ice!
雞蛋糕 (jī dàn gāo): egg cake! They're seriously very good but a hit-or-miss from street vendors lmfao.

Drop a comment~! Happy feastings!!!!!!!

Reccer’s Notes: Taiwanese bartender Song Zichen, taking both pity on and a fancy to diasporic American tourist Xiao Xingchen, proceeds to initiate him into the ways of local street food (as both a welcome into his heritage and a courtship overture.) This fic, stuffed with delicious Unresolved Sexual Tension, serves as a reminder that the Sinosphere is a very big and diverse place, and brought an outpouring of nostalgic yearning for the Taste Of Home from diasporic commenters.

(And Ningxia Night Market needs to hire Irrelevancy as a publicist, dammit; I was fervently wishing my neighborhood had something like that up the alley!)

Fanwork links: Comfort Food / 有可能的夜晚 (AO3-locked.)