where there's smoke there's--

(I really could’ve posted this earlier but I’m a busy donut. Here it is now.)

War Widow premiered on Wednesday and the way I found out was seeing a Facebook pop up on Big Finish's website. I know, I know, I'm a bit in a cave when it comes to fannish stuff these days, but wow this story feels like it wasn't too heavily promoted. Anyway in this shorter installment of The Death and Life of River Song, the Time War encroaches on Stormcage. The Eighth Doctor saves River. Things get weird since this is the Time War.

( Some of this stuff has been hinted on Big Finish's website but here is a spoiler cut anyway )

To help my mind, which I think is a bit disordered, I've decided to get one of those planner apps. With that said there are some things I forget to put on a list, and sharing a new social media account is one of them. I started Bluesky to help me keep track of fandom writing things. IDK, the pandemic and people being dicks over my fic caused me to lose track of what's happening in the fandom world. That said I started a Bluesky account. Still looking for other fannish follows there but you can follow me here if you'd like.

And I’ve been off Dreamwidth so much that I didn’t even realize unconventionalcourtship DID run this year (with a different mod). I probably should have updates on these comms or a site where these comms advertise their stuff—I’m not seeing anything on my friends list when I check it out until it’s too late.

Of course I’m late to the news that the mod of Unconventional Courtship has stepped down from the comm and as of now the fest isn’t running this year. Of course.

I had ideas for UC but then again I can use one idea to create a rewrite and the other for Iddy Iddy Bang Bang if that runs this year.

Humble Bumble has on their site a Big Finish Doctor Who audio bundle for sale for the next ~20 days. The full bundle costs US $493 but can be obtained in full if you donate a minimum of US $18. The audios available in this bundle:

The Sontarans (minimum US $1 donation)
The Auntie Matter (minimum US $1 donation)
The Black Hole (minimum US $10 donation)
The Third Doctor Adventures Vol. 1 (minimum US $10 donation)
Night of the Vashta Nerada (minimum US $10 donation)
Empire of the Racnoss (minimum US $10 donation)
The Carrionite Curse (minimum US $10 donation)
Day of the Vashta Nerada (minimum US $10 donation)
Ravagers (minimum US $18 donation)
Infernal Devices (minimum US $18 donation)
The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles Vol. 1 (minimum US $18 donation)
Ravenous 1 (minimum US $18 donation)
The Diary of River Song Series Three (minimum US $18 donation)
UNIT: Silenced (minimum US $18 donation)
Theater of War (minimum US $18 donation)
Expiry Dating (minimum US $18 donation)
The Elite (minimum US $18 donation)

All proceeds go to BBC Children in Need.

Writing this here for, say, if I find these things on AO3. Or if I want to write them, but two things: I’ve never written for Stranger Things and I have two ideas for new fic ideas. I also am looking at rewrite_a_fic this year as well. TL;DR do I have the time? IDK.

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Sweetbreads (200 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Cooking Lessons, Organs, Ficlet
Series: Part 13 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: An excerpt from a cooking show on how to prepare sweetbreads.

We Could Die Like This (4743 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charlotte/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox & Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks & Bayley | Davina Rose
Characters: Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt, Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose, Sasha Banks, Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Inspired by Final Destination (Movies), Inspired by Irish Mythology, Little Black Dress, Surreal, Tokyo (City), Car Accidents, Homophobic Language, Japanese Mythology & Folklore, WWE Clash in Paris, Accidental Death, Hotels, Reality TV, Electrocution, WWE SummerSlam 2018, Podcast, WWE Wrestlepalooza, Airports
Series: Part 14 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: Becky Lynch is living her best life when a raven suddenly appears.

I honestly had no intention of revising and expanding an exchange fic from a few years ago. I felt like I needed to rewrite this fic I wrote in screenplay format or I clumped some discarded drafts together. Instead a more recent kudos led me to A Night in Alexa’s Playground. For some reason I actually was motivated to rewrite the fic instead of thinking “oh maybe I need to introduce Vampire: The Masquerade lore in this What We Do in the Shadows homage. Anyway, the fic (original linked on AO3):

Playground After Dark (3454 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alexa Bliss/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Alexa Bliss/Lilly | Alexa Bliss's Doll/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox
Characters: Alexa Bliss, Lilly | Alexa Bliss's Doll, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: WWE Money In The Bank, WWE Money In The Bank 2018, WWE Money In The Bank 2022, Las Vegas, Dubious Consent, Hotel Sex, Therapy, Flashbacks, Femdom, Mommy Dom Alexa Bliss, Pony Play, Pegging, Spanking, Riding Crops, Frottage, Butt Plugs, Age Play, Masturbation, Voyeurism, Subspace, Rewrite
Summary: After Money in the Bank 2022 Becky Lynch insists she doesn’t need a friend. Alexa Bliss insists Becky needs a friend. Alexa becomes more than Becky’s friend for one night.

1) write for iddyiddybangbang before the fest started
2) post my tardis_bingo comment bingo chart 😑

So I read this post from the OTC. I totally understand why OTC needs a non-commercialization policy. On a petty level I've been annoyed at, for instance, someone writing fics in a kink meme and then linking to a site like Ko-fi at the end. And for copyright reasons I get not monetizing works. But part of me feels like their rules are a wee bit draconian.

I've been linking to the summaries of books I use as summaries for unconventionalcourtship to prove that they're real books since the goal is to alter a romance novel summary for a fic. I'm not advocating people to actually buy the book. I don't even know these authors. I haven't read their books. 🤐 I guess in the future I may just leave the links to the comm announcement posts and on DW but I'm a bit annoyed I'm being lumped in with people who actually are "please go to my Patreon for more!" when I thought I was doing a good deed.

Also: The OTC mentions Twitch but I want to clarify that getting a Twitch account is free. I would assume under their TOS that asking people to get Twitch subscriptions (with or without Amazon Prime) is against their TOS. There is no such thing as "Twitch Prime." And technically I think X actually can't be allowed to since you can subscribe to individual creators on X.

IDK, I think this policy needs a little bit of hammering out because to be fair it's thorny to enforce their commercial promotion policy as is.