

Episode 5: I'm glad Raphael was at least able to tell someone about his loneliness.
Theodore isn't going to last long at this rate.
Man, who hurt Keith.
Isn't Cocoon stage just like a rebellious teenage phase...
Welp the kids are gone.
Episode 6: I get Deli's POV but telling a small child to take care of their infant sibling if something happens to him instead of saying something directly for Raphael when he leaves is just sad. Raphael is more than a 'big brother' and what he can do for Ui.
Yes, call out Dino for hurting Theodore! >.<
She would've confirmed it anyway but the enemy girl led the kids to Johannes, the next target for their raid.
I think the fathers could get a long way just by telling their children how they feel and that they never mean to hurt them, that they're still learning too and are trying their best.
Episode 7: The mansion was burned down, the children were taken except Ui, Dali was stabbed, Johannes was taken too...x_x
Calling dhampir gutter-rats, that's kinda sad, I know they stink to vampires but damn, they can't help being born. And a whole village of them was massacred just for existing.
Lol well at least the kids are okay for now... Will Kiki really be okay with killing off the kids one by one when Johannes doesn't talk?
Episode 8: Catarina is either a femme man or trans femme. 🤔
The village of dhampir worshiped the TRUE OF TRUMP but then were taken out by them. Man what a tragedy. :/
I don't understand Pendulum's boss's dream at all, he 'wants to make TRUMP happy'?? TRUMP is some distant god who randomly sweeps in and kills people off in weird fits.
I don't think there was a single dud in this collection of shows!
Over the Garden Wall stickers this week! (A gift from Alex last year.) One of my favorite personal Halloween traditions is rewatching it.
Having most of this week off from work was wonderful! It never feels like enough time, or like I manage to do quite enough, but I'm still fairly pleased with it. We didn't get out and do as much as I maybe wished, but it wasn't nothing, either. I also managed to be relatively productive at home: I got some cleaning projects and other chores done. I read a pretty good amount, though didn't write much. Halloween itself wasn't amazing, but it was all right.
Goals for the week:
- I finished reading Queen Demon
- I started my WIP outline
- I worked on my reading page
- I did not work on my pin boards
- I watered my plants
- I cleaned my bedside table
- I cleaned out my table drawers
- I did not clean the small or large bookshelves
- I did get together with Taylor
- I watched Over the Garden Wall
- I did not put my laundry away
- I did my November tracking grids
- I kept up and finished my "October Devotional"
- I started reading Red Rabbit
- I did not yet vote
- I did work on my book reviews
For my October Devotional:
- 26 - We got and ate some Halloween candy
- 27 - We bought new bedding
- 28 - We went to see Shelby Oaks
- 29 - We went for a walk around the 17 Mile House
- 30 - We went on a drive, we made curry
- 31 - Halloween! I watched Over the Garden Wall
Tracked habits:
- Work - 1/7 - I took Wednesday-Saturday off
- Household Maintenance - 6/7
- Physical Activity - 4/7
- Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7 - but with one day of less than 500
- Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
- Meta Work - 4/7
- Personal Writing - 4/7
- Other Creative Things - 3/7
- Reading - 7/7 - I finished Queen Demon, finished Bloodhunt Academy, read a couple short stories, and started Red Rabbit; Taylor and I read more of Overgrowth; Alex and I read more of Dead Silence
- Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday I watched some book reviews in the background at work, and later we watched some storm chasing and then news coverage of the hurricane; Monday I caught up on Re: Dracula and listened to music, and later we watched news about the hurricane; Tuesday we watched more hurricane coverage, I listened to Re: Dracula and listened to music, we went to see Shelby Oaks, and later watched some book reviews; Wednesday I listened to Re: Dracula and then some music, and later some more book reviews; Thursday I listened to Re: Dracula, we watched the Ravens vs. Dolphins game, and then watched Jurassic World: Rebirth which was better than expected; Friday I listened to Re: Dracula, I watched Over the Garden Wall, we watched a paranormal channel livestream; Saturday I listened to Re: Dracula, and Taylor and I watched the current two episodes of the Real-Time Kingdom Hearts Fandub.
- Video Games - 1/7 - Taylor and I played some Final Fantasy XIV, getting through the first part of the Pandæmonium raid series
- Social Interaction - 4/7
Total words written" 348 on a WIP outline
Brainstorming for Topics: Discussions & Picspams
Nov. 4th, 2025 06:28 pmI'm trying to come up with new topics for future discussions and picspams, but I'm afraid my brain is going a bit in circles, so I'm hoping you could help me out a bit with brainstorming and suggestions.
What topics would you like to discuss? What kind of picspams would you like to see? Would you be interested in revisiting previous topics, and if yes, which ones?
( Previous topics with links under the cut: )
Btw, all of the picspam posts are indefinitely open for people who want to add more pretty pictures! *g*
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, ed. Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman (2018) [part 2]
Nov. 4th, 2025 10:50 am"The Counting of Vermillion Beads" by Aliette de Bodard
( In a historical fantasy setting, sisters are indentured to work for the imperial census. )
"The Land of the Morning Calm" by E.C. Myers
( A girl discovers that her dead mother's spirit still haunts the online game she played in life. )
"The Smile" by Aisha Saeed
( A courtesan wants for nothing, but realizes it's meaningless without her freedom. )
"Girls Who Twirl and Other Dangers" by Preeti Chhibber
( Teens at a Navrātri dance pull a prank that gets a little out of hand. )
Category: N/A
Character / POV: pregame Tenko Chabashira
Tags & Warnings: joining TDR as a metaphor for suicide, mental health issues (implied moral OCD), child neglect, unhappy ending.
Word Count: 500 words
Summary: Chabashira wish she hadn't ruined herself.
( Read more... )
Hero in the Serpent's Skin by Hwei 🇲🇾
Wrote about it here.
Kasalan ng Bayan | Community Wedding by Renren Galeno 🇵🇭
An overachieving student deals with the duality of (co-)organizing a community wedding while convincing her parents to file for legal separation... A story about transferrable skills and girlhood. Renren Galeno is most known (locally, at least) for her thriller comic Sa Wala | Nothing to Lose which is about a magical cockfighting chicken (which I haven't read), so I was surprised to see her put out something with such a mundane and low-stakes setting lol.
Dead Horses by Freya JN
Or as the artist calls it, feline lesboviolence. A marvelous feat of storytelling that sets you on a winding path that twists and twists—"in circles, in knots"—until it takes you back to where it begins and gives you release. The writing is patient, the dialogue snappy, and the visual journey perfectly cinematic and emotionally rewarding. There's also a soundtrack for it.
Highly recommend if you like fantasy with worldbuilding, action, messy women, rewarding twists, and a dose of horror. Hands down one of the best things I've read this year.
how i made Dead Horses, from thumbnail to final page 🐱
— Freya JN (
[image or embed]goblinstunts) October 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Layover By Lis Xu
Short comic about visiting family in Shanghai during a layover. Everything is drawn in pencil which makes the story feel like a diary entry, and the characters drawn as anthropomorphic dogs which gives it a sense of distance. It's not too detailed or serious but still feels very personal and might be triggering for people who have sick family abroad.
Lina and Eileen by Shuning Ji
Fantasy comic about a princess who dreams of being kidnapped by a dragon, and a lady knight who dreams of slaying one. Gorgeous fairy tale illustrations with a vibrant watercolor style. The plot is too YA for me, though I'm fond of the note it ended with.
Meet Me at the Seafloor by Gojiberry
A depressed marine biologist hears a siren's song, tracks it down, and meets a selkie. Life-affirming and manga-like and a nice change of pace from my dark fantasy fish romances. Also reminded me of this other manhwa I was reading at that time called I See You, which is about a woman who's about to commit suicide but is challenged by the Reaper (also a woman) to live three more months.
Fashion Intervention by Chereen Francis-Roberts
28-year-old Bertie has a party to attend but her closet is haunted by a fashionable demon. 😱 Very fun oneshot about self-care through self-expression. Has the thrills of shoujo transformations/makeovers except the MC has to do it all herself and make do with what she has. I basically live in Uniqlo so #can't relate to the struggles but the outfits were super fun.
Aquatic Lives by Pepe Reyes 🇵🇭
This was actually part of last year's comic fair, but since Pepe Reyes also participated this year I wanted to read his previous entry first. This is such a beautiful piece about being in the sea. The visual style reminds me of the Delirium chapter in Sandman: Endless Nights. In his afterword he posts underwater photos he took when diving in preparation for this comic, which was very cool! His 2025 comic is about bugs (I think), though, so I'm kind of nervous about reading that. 🙈
Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are. (Or any other site that has tags, I don’t know if FFnet or Wattpad does)
1. What rating do you write most fics under?
Teen & Up!
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Doom Patrol (81) (I've actually written around 250 DP fics but <3 not all are here)
The Orville (54)
Babylon 5 (20)
3. What is your top character you write about?
The Negative Spirit from Doom Patrol <3 Unsurprisingly! I'm in love with them!
I will not be doing my Squidge stats for this because it is embarrassing to me that Morden has a higher count than TNS does.
4. What are the 3 top pairings?
TNS/Larry (29)
TNS & Larry (23)
Alara Kitan/Solana Kitan (18)
On Squidge, where I was previously hosting much more of my fanworks at least the ones that weren't Problem Attic in nature:
Mr. Morden/Anna Sheridan (14)
Mr. Morden/OC (That's Viv!) (13)
Valentina/Her Spirit (6)
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
( incest tw )
On Squidge, where I was previously hosting much more of my fanworks at least the ones that weren't Problem Attic in nature:
Drabble (20)
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (18)
community: femslashfete (17)
6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
Yes! On AO3, I only have 20 b5 fics. On Squidge, I have EIGHTYONE!! It's because that's where I used to put my B5 fics I was too embarrassed for others to see. I need to get my 2nd otw-archive instance up so I can pile it all there.
Copypaste to your journal if you wanna play too:
I pull into the parking lot, put up my handicapped hang tag and it shattered into 5 pieces. OMFG. It was cracked but I didn't realize it was that bad. I'm gonna have to tape it together until I can get to the BMV.
Get inside to find out our secretary had a major health event and is in ICU on an ecmo which is needless to say serious shit. Scary.
the ladies basketball teams me they're leaving tomorrow for a full week and I have to move the test to be fair to them (which really isn't a problem) so long as they're here for the bone practicum this week.
And then I set up my practicum. 4 and a half hours because shit is missing AGAIN. I know who took it because it's always him. I screwed up the answer key and questions 3 times. I didn't leave work until 830 at night and didn't eat dinner til 9. blech.
I was going to share something fun for music monday that I thought
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Rewatched ep. 1-2 of

Tuesday: Death
Nov. 3rd, 2025 10:19 pmJust a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
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Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
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Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ any, any, Every night at midnight, a mysterious figure visits people moments before they die. One night, they arrive at your door—but not for you.
+ any, any, After a loved one’s death, you begin receiving text messages from their number. Each message reveals something they never told you while alive.
+ any, any, In a vast library beyond time, every life ever lived is recorded. You’re the new archivist—and the next volume to be added bears your own name.
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