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Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: M
Characters: Daeron, Maglor, Elrond, Celebrian, Erestor, Glorfindel
Warnings: Violence, Torture, Aftermath of Torture, whump
Summary: Maglor finds Daeron after he escapes from the Witch-king's clutches, wounded by a morgul blade and fading; they must reach Rivendell, as Arthedain and Cardolan burn. 

First Chapter / Previous Chapter

Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I’m gonna change you like a remix
Then I’ll raise you like a phoenix
- “The Phoenix” by Fall Out Boy

- -

 

 

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Not sure these links are particularly appropriate, but maybe so.

Well, I do remember her saying she scarcely noticed The Change, though she did nuance that statement by adding that she had so much else going on at the time (eldercare and other stuff) she didn't have time to notice:

Yet more on monetising the menopause: Menopause getting you down? Don’t worry, the wellness industry has a very pricey solution for you.

I am probably being horribly cynical, but when somebody goes for a home birth after a first high risk experience of parturition, one does wonder if some kind of wellness woowoo was in the mix (“She had read or heard somewhere that there was less chance of bleeding at home and that is why she wanted a home birth.”)? but this is a dreadful story: 'Gross failure’ led to deaths of mother and baby in Prestwich home birth.

This is also a really grim story about reproductive politics in Brazil: Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics:

In complicated childbirth scenarios, when the life of the pregnant person and the fetus are in conflict, therapeutic abortion has historically been considered the last resort. But in Brazil, since the nineteenth century, this solution has been replaced by the cesarean operation. This was not based on medical reasons. Cesarean sections, up until the early twentieth century, were rudimentary procedures, almost always fatal to the birthing person. What motivated its adoption in Brazil was based on different logics: religious, legal, and moral. The cesarean became an acceptable alternative to abortion because it allowed the fetus to be born, even if the birthing parent died. The nineteenth-century theological and medical debates that gave rise to this sacrificial logic still shape birth in Brazil.

Synchrony between 'Catholic and fundamentalist Evangelical actors... promoting cesarean as a morally acceptable alternative to abortion' in present day.

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If you spend time on social media or follow political commentary, you may have heard warnings that Canada is on track to becoming as politically polarized as the United States.
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In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in excavation. The slow, painstaking work of archaeology was rarely headline news. But this was no ordinary dig.

October Link List

Oct. 28th, 2025 11:35 am
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Very scattered, some references to U.S. Politics.

On the YouTubes (and a Podcast)
[youtube.com profile] Schmowd3r: PI Investigates the Blake Lively "Situation" (3:42h).
Probably not a lot of new information on the Blake Lively piece if you've been following the case, but it's well laid out. The first section is largely about trying to detect bot campaigns, and he has some really interesting thoughts there. Also, he's an entertaining presenter, and am adding him to my subs.

[youtube.com profile] LilShopofAli: Some of y’all still don’t understand desirability and it shows (1:40h).
This is a bit dated as it's about the topic du jour from a couple months ago, but I really like how Ali can take the discussion of the moment and expand it into a video about the wider cultural context. Very well done.

[youtube.com profile] olurinatti: How “This Didn’t Age Well” Destroyed Media Literacy (0:42hr).
Great video about thought-terminating cliches and how they affect the way we talk about media.

[youtube.com profile] ophie-dokie: censorship is coming for you next (& you're cheering it on) (1:02hr).
Can we stop running to cling to mommy's apron the state and demand stuff get cancelled? It's not going to end well.

Search Engine Podcast: A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet (0:47hr, no transcript?).
If the medium is the message, and the medium is algorithmically-driven short-form video, what messages are we dealing with right now? Thoughts on Gen Z, and the world they're stuck in.


I Failed to Think of a Theme, and Failed, so Random Shit Posted in Order Bookmarked:
Kyrianna: Portraits.
Surrealist watercolour portraits of people with disabilities, manifesting symptoms of pain and restriction on their bodies. Really beautiful and affecting.

The Tyee: Unifor Undaunted as Amazon Ramps Up Its Anti-Union Fight.
"A union leader says newly certified workers are keen despite the company’s legal counteroffensive."

Tom's Guide: How to disable Copilot in Windows 11.
This was quite easy, and I wish I'd done it months ago.

TGEU: International Day of Action for Trans Depathologisation 2025.
I thought the demand list was really well laid out. These folks are doing such important work.

Spitfire News: Survivors deserve better storytelling.
A call to improve how journalists and content creators talk about violence and abuse. There's an open letter linked, and Kat also helped set up [instagram.com profile] survivorstoriesdeservebetter.

CBC: 'A healing event': Heiltsuk doctor performs rare delivery of Heiltsuk baby in own homelands.
An early labour in Bella Bella, B.C., where the hospital isn't equipped to deliver babies, had a happy ending.

The AV Club: Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash.
A growing number of artists have boycotted the service over its founder's investment in military AI.

Old songs

Oct. 28th, 2025 06:23 pm
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Earlier this week, [personal profile] poliphilo was musing about songs learned in childhood; so the subject was already in my mind when I read The Guardian's obituary for Shirley Abicair.

After my previous post, I hesitate over writing "I remember..." but The Guardian confirms that I would have heard her Little Boy Fishing on Children's Favourites; and I must also have seen her on Crackerjack, because I have a visual memory of her: she had a zither. Is that why I remember her with affection? That seems reasonable; and although my memory doesn't say this, every scrap of folk music on the BBC should be treasured, and she falls into that category.

But I had no idea of anything she might have done after the very early 60s, and was quite surprised to learn of some of her later recordings. The Guardian provides lnks to YouTube, as well as to her Desert Island Discs (luxury item: a case of avocado pears).

I picked up two new gigs!

Oct. 28th, 2025 11:44 am
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This week's post is full of good news: I picked up two new freelancing clients! Back on the upswing. I also got super into the Halloween spirit. You gotta go to the Substack to check it out.
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All Yuletide requests are now visible:
-at karanguni's app
-at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
-in a spreadsheet
-in a text doc

Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.

Enjoy!

Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.

Posting, and to Which Collection )



Bonus!! Decoy questions/author questionsA few weeks ago, we made a post about the questions we send to recipients when authors need to clarify something about their recipients' preferences.

As a result of that poll, in a situation where an author has a fandom-specific question, we will now send questions for at least 3 fandoms in a person's requests, but will not generally make up extra/decoy questions for their full set of fandoms.

You suggested that curious authors could make up (some of) their own extra questions. While that could be helpful - if you want to - we ask you to keep the following things in mind.

  1. Clear questions are the best questions. Several times in the past we've received extremely confusing questions and it turned out a participant thought they needed to disguise what they were asking from the mods. Please do not.

  2. Avoid excessive detail, especially about plots you don't plan to write. Don't ask your recipient "Would you be interested in a story where they time-travel to meet five different generations of their ancestors, and also there are capybara zombies?" unless you are contemplating such a plot (and maybe not even then) - because you may make your recipient hopeful about something that won't arrive.

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15 Actresses Icons

Oct. 29th, 2025 01:59 am
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[5] Daisy Ridley
[5] Ella Purnell
[5] Margot Robbie

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TV Tuesday: Frenemy

Oct. 28th, 2025 12:41 pm
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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



What makes for a memorable TV antagonist? Does any kind of redemption arc play into this?

SquidgeWorld Unplanned Downtime

Oct. 28th, 2025 05:27 pm
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The SquidgeWorld Archive is currently offline due to a hardware issue.  We hope to be back up asap.

October recs: 4x Vorkosigan AUs

Oct. 28th, 2025 05:30 pm
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Canon divergence AUs are my favorite genre of Vorkosigan Saga fics, here are some I enjoyed a lot.

3 series with additional children and 1 isekai )
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Amanda Porretto isn't sure she'll ever have children. At 27, she is the average age of new mothers in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She's feeling the pressure as an only child. Her father wants to be a grandfather and her mother, before she died, always told Porretto that she would eventually want to be a mom.
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Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an uprising that has been described as the country's most significant movement since the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
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Fertility rates began falling in most of the world starting in the last century. By the 1970s, the U.S. had dipped under the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman, a trend that has continued on a declining slope.
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Hello on Tuesday! What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?

       - I thought about my fic once or twice
       - I wrote
       - I did some planning and/or outlining
       - I did research and/or canon review
       - I edited
       - I've sent my fic off to my beta
       - I posted today!
       - I'm taking a break
       - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Tuesday Discussion: How do you compose your words for your writing -- handwritten on paper? Typed up in a document on your computer? On your phone?

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