Becoming Someone I Like
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lb_leeRogan: You know, it's funny. I was looking back through some of the old entries in this blog, about my ridiculous experiences at the 2019 Straight Pride protest and the 2025 Clown March, how I ended up writing my own future with Send In the Clowns. and it just dawned on me: I've become someone I really like and respect.
Schlock and Awe: JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #2 (JLI 62)
Feb. 26th, 2026 05:15 pmtcampbell1000 posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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JLA #36 had introduced the Scarlet Skier as herald to Mister Nebula, an obvious Galactus pastiche who brings his “gift” to all worlds. A “gift” not of death, but of decadent design. He hungers…for kitsch.
( Of course, one has to work extra hard to convey DELIBERATE kitschiness in superhero comic art. )
Megamind: Rings by impatientseamstress
Feb. 26th, 2026 04:03 pmmythicmistress posting in fancakeFandom: Megamind
Pairings/Characters: Megamind/Roxanne Ritchi, Minion, Metro Man
Rating: M
Length: 168,535 words
Creator Links: impatientseamstress
Theme: Inept in Love
Summary: Roxanne Ritchi just wanted her shoes replaced.
Marrying her Supervillain in a surprise Vegas elopement was not part of the plan. It wasn't part of Megamind's plan either... Unfortunately, all of Metro City is way too excited to finally see them together for them to admit the truth. But they can solve this...somehow
Reccer's Notes: Oh, Megamind and Roxanne were being SO STUPID about each other, in the "I love her/him, but she/he couldn't possibly love me back" way. They managed to argue themselves into getting married, for crying out loud! (Didn't help that EVERYONE IN METRO CITY was shipping them...) There's also some fun worldbuilding done for what a world with superheroes, supervillains, and damsels would look like.
Fanwork Links: Rings (locked to AO3 users)
Pairings/Characters: Megamind/Roxanne Ritchi, Minion, Metro Man
Rating: M
Length: 168,535 words
Creator Links: impatientseamstress
Theme: Inept in Love
Summary: Roxanne Ritchi just wanted her shoes replaced.
Marrying her Supervillain in a surprise Vegas elopement was not part of the plan. It wasn't part of Megamind's plan either... Unfortunately, all of Metro City is way too excited to finally see them together for them to admit the truth. But they can solve this...somehow
Reccer's Notes: Oh, Megamind and Roxanne were being SO STUPID about each other, in the "I love her/him, but she/he couldn't possibly love me back" way. They managed to argue themselves into getting married, for crying out loud! (Didn't help that EVERYONE IN METRO CITY was shipping them...) There's also some fun worldbuilding done for what a world with superheroes, supervillains, and damsels would look like.
Fanwork Links: Rings (locked to AO3 users)
Bonus: Whatever Happened to the Conglomerate?
Feb. 26th, 2026 05:58 pmtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
An extra JLI-adjacent feature inspired by your…yes, YOUR…comments on the Conglomerate in Justice League Quarterly #1! ( Really, it's almost as if YOU wrote this! Or at least as if you told ChatGPT to do it! )
Miguel/OC fanart by karolushek (SFW)
Feb. 26th, 2026 10:11 amkingstoken posting in fanart_recsFandom: The Road to El Dorado
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Miguel/Original Male Character
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital
Artist Website/Gallery: karolushek
Why this piece is awesome: If you ever thought Miguel from The Road to El Dorado deserved a love interest too, then you might be interested in this piece. It's lovely and colourful, and fits right in with the feel of the film.
Link: Instagram
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Miguel/Original Male Character
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital
Artist Website/Gallery: karolushek
Why this piece is awesome: If you ever thought Miguel from The Road to El Dorado deserved a love interest too, then you might be interested in this piece. It's lovely and colourful, and fits right in with the feel of the film.
Link: Instagram
SGA: Do Over by crysothemis
Feb. 27th, 2026 12:37 ammific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 18,910
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: crysothemis on AO3, nny (villainny) on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Inept in love, Friends to lovers, First time, Humor, Pining
Summary: John never sleeps with anyone twice.
Reccer's Notes: Rodney (who's attracted to John) bumps into a few women, and then Ronon, leaving John's quarters. He clumsily asks John about these goings on, and mostly accidentally challenges John to have sex with him (because why not with Rodney if everyone else gets to?). It doesn't go swimmingly so Rodney demands a do-over, then another do-over, and another, because there's always something wrong with their encounters. This is partly as Rodney's bisexual and he mistakenly thinks John must be as well, and Rodney also manufactures "mistakes", until they're both entirely hooked and John's joining in with the pretense enthusiastically. It's hot, funny, and clever - a great read.
Fanwork Links: Do Over
And there's a podfic by nny
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 18,910
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: crysothemis on AO3, nny (villainny) on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Inept in love, Friends to lovers, First time, Humor, Pining
Summary: John never sleeps with anyone twice.
Reccer's Notes: Rodney (who's attracted to John) bumps into a few women, and then Ronon, leaving John's quarters. He clumsily asks John about these goings on, and mostly accidentally challenges John to have sex with him (because why not with Rodney if everyone else gets to?). It doesn't go swimmingly so Rodney demands a do-over, then another do-over, and another, because there's always something wrong with their encounters. This is partly as Rodney's bisexual and he mistakenly thinks John must be as well, and Rodney also manufactures "mistakes", until they're both entirely hooked and John's joining in with the pretense enthusiastically. It's hot, funny, and clever - a great read.
Fanwork Links: Do Over
And there's a podfic by nny
After the Storm by artgroves (alby_mangroves) (SFW)
Feb. 26th, 2026 11:58 pmmific posting in fanart_recsFandom: Interview With the Vampire
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: traditional art (drawing)
Artist on DW/LJ:alby_mangroves
Artist Website/Gallery: alby_mangroves on AO3, alby_mangroves on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: As usual with alby, gorgeous detail and a beautiful drawing, with Lestat and Louis lying intertwined.
Link: After the Storm
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: traditional art (drawing)
Artist on DW/LJ:
alby_mangroves Artist Website/Gallery: alby_mangroves on AO3, alby_mangroves on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: As usual with alby, gorgeous detail and a beautiful drawing, with Lestat and Louis lying intertwined.
Link: After the Storm
The Power Fantasy #16
Feb. 25th, 2026 05:07 pmmastermahan posting in scans_daily
Last time, Eliza Hellbound tried to drag the world into Hell. Heavy died fighting her.
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Crime Syndicate (2021) #5 of 6
Feb. 25th, 2026 06:45 pmshakalooloo posting in scans_daily
Here we go! Uh, for page limit reasons I will skip the opening action scene, but I think the after-action debrief summarises it well enough...
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The Importance of History
Feb. 25th, 2026 11:57 amlb_leeRogan: we grabbed Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder Harry Hay from the library because Hay said some things that caught my eye in the 1987 anthology Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning in his piece “A Separate People Whose Time Has Come”:
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(LOL I totally wrote a similar post about this last year: https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/1396350.html)
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(LOL I totally wrote a similar post about this last year: https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/1396350.html)
I’m coming to thee cottage by _deathofseasons_ (SFW)
Feb. 25th, 2026 11:20 amkingstoken posting in fanart_recsFandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya/Shane
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Pencil (I think)
Artist Website/Gallery: _deathofseasons_
Why this piece is awesome: Beautiful drawing of Ilya and Shane as Knights, and Ilya cradling Shane
Link: Instagram
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya/Shane
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Pencil (I think)
Artist Website/Gallery: _deathofseasons_
Why this piece is awesome: Beautiful drawing of Ilya and Shane as Knights, and Ilya cradling Shane
Link: Instagram
F/February
Feb. 24th, 2026 11:26 pmpsocopteraF/F February continues with two more novels. A Scatter of Light, Malinda Lo, 2022, is a companion novel to Last Night at the Telegraph Club, set over 50 years later in 2013. I liked this a lot, and not just because we get a very nice update about Lily and Kath; I liked the romance and the stuff about art and the stuff about aging relatives and grief. It's been a long time since I reread A Ring of Endless Light but it might be a little bit in dialogue with that, or maybe that was just a coincidence.
Daughter of Mystery, Heather Rose Jones, 2014, has been on my to-read list for ages - since 2019, apparently, steadily creeping up in priority the more times someone recced it to me or it came up somewhere. My note said "fantasy Regencyish lesbian", which pretty much sums it up, but I will elaborate that it's a Ruritanian romance, taking place in Alpennia, a country located somewhere in the Alps between France, Germany, and Switzerland, it is low-magic fantasy but not quite no-magic, and would probably appeal to fans of Kushner's Swordspoint books. Exactly my sort of thing, in other words, as people keep telling me, and, yup, they were right, and I look forward to reading the rest of them (this is the first of several). (And perhaps I will ruminate a bit about whether there could be anything interesting to be explored in the idea of Alpennia coexisting with Orsinia or Gallacia...)
Daughter of Mystery, Heather Rose Jones, 2014, has been on my to-read list for ages - since 2019, apparently, steadily creeping up in priority the more times someone recced it to me or it came up somewhere. My note said "fantasy Regencyish lesbian", which pretty much sums it up, but I will elaborate that it's a Ruritanian romance, taking place in Alpennia, a country located somewhere in the Alps between France, Germany, and Switzerland, it is low-magic fantasy but not quite no-magic, and would probably appeal to fans of Kushner's Swordspoint books. Exactly my sort of thing, in other words, as people keep telling me, and, yup, they were right, and I look forward to reading the rest of them (this is the first of several). (And perhaps I will ruminate a bit about whether there could be anything interesting to be explored in the idea of Alpennia coexisting with Orsinia or Gallacia...)
Stranger Things Season Four
Feb. 24th, 2026 11:25 pmpsocopteraStranger Things Season Four. Whoops, I've had this tab open for awhile, as I discovered when I went to post something else. The needle continues to swing between entertaining and annoying, and this season the balance may have tipped; too many plot threads I wasn't into. Kind of think they should have ended it last season. Although I like it more now that I've started reading it as itself an RPG - thinking about which characters are PCs vs NPCs, and thinking about the narrative from a standpoint of player engagement/satisfaction rather than single-author storytelling, makes so many choices make more sense. We'll probably still watch the last season eventually at some point?