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-Winter Solstice stock
-Dune
-The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
-Smallville (from Lexmas and 5.17 Void)
-Babygirl.

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December 2025 recs update:

unfitforsociety has been updated for December 2025 with 12 story recs and 1 vid rec in 7 fandoms:

* 5 Batfamily
* 2 Dungeon Crawler Carl
* 2 The Pitt
* 2 Star Wars
* 1 Slow Horses/Rivers of London crossover and 1 Ted Lasso vid

I haven't read much of anything from

yuletide, but the two I did rec I will update with author names tomorrow.

I didn't do much fannishly this year - the recs continue, and I still reblog a metric fuckton of stuff on tumblr, but my brain hasn't sparked to write again, though I think it might be inching closer, thanks to, of all things, Dungeon Crawler Carl. I also loved loved loved The Pitt and am so excited season 2 is coming so soon!

Now, I've got a new episode of Percy Jackson and the series finale of Stranger Things to watch, and then I have to wash my hair.

I hope everyone is celebrating New Year's Eve in their chosen fashion. <333

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Murder She Wrote - 9
Superman: TAS - 4
Birds of Prey (2020) - 1
Star Trek: Lower Decks - 8
Star Trek: TNG - 8
Star Trek: Insurrection - 5

Preview:

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https://xkcd.com/3188/

Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline.

https://xkcd.com/3188/

unfitforsociety

Batfamily

buy back the secrets by

sundiscus
5 times Superboy saves Tim Drake, and one time Tim Drake saves Superboy. Wonderful! <333

Jason and the Three Terrors by

Cdelphiki
One moment, Jason was peacefully sleeping, perfectly content with his life with the League of Assassins. Okay, so maybe not content content, but he wasn't unhappy, either. Then Talia woke him up at 2 am, threw three children at him, and told him to get them to America and far away from Ra's al Ghul.

What the fuck.

The last thing he wanted was to see Bruce. But with three brats relying on him and no Talia, there weren't many options for sanctuary. He just didn't expect the kids to grow on him so much in two short weeks. EPIC (326K words) AU where Talia sends Jason away from the League with Damian, Athanasia, and Mara, and their many adventures on the way home to Gotham. Engrossing read, highly recommended.

Life Alert by

lurkinglurkerwholurks
Fantastic outsider POV on Red Hood and Batman. <333

Puzzles Made of Broken Glass by

thatcuriouscat
Timmy Drake's parents go missing. He's the only one who notices. This is a long, entertaining, engrossing story about how Tim joins the Batfamily early. Oh, Tim. Highly recommended. <333

Resurgam by

Nokomis
Bored during her pregnancy leave from being Spoiler, Steph decides to follow Robin and ends up in a cemetery. Only, something follows her home. <333

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

13 Ways of Looking at a Lit Fuse by

Anonymous
Carl, as others see him. Exactly what it says on the tin. Lovely. And Donut's voice is absolute perfection!

I Should Have Let Him In by

Puns4Funs
Bea's POV leading up to and during the confrontation on Odette's show. Fascinating look at what Bea might have been thinking.

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The Pitt

2:00 AM by orphan_account
"I don't understand why you're letting that asshole crash at your place," Santos says, flopping back on the couch in the break room. "Seriously, Mel. There's a reason his wife kicked him out." I enjoyed this.

Scenes from a Lavender Marriage by

Siria
Trinity shrugged. "So marry me."

Whitaker stared at her. "You're a lesbian and I'm the opposite of a lesbian."

"Like that's stopped people before," Trinity said. Santos and Whitaker get married so he can get a scholarship. It works out for them. <333

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Star Wars

Twilight on Owl Creek Bridge by

yellow_caballero
SUBJECT: Regarding Senate Guard Objectives For Today

This is a polite reminder to all guardsmen that patrol schedules for the Senate vote ratifying dictatorships are posted in the breakroom. I am also issuing a warning to linear time that days should follow sequentially and are not intended to repeat. Please cease repeating. I am getting a headache.

Additionally, I'd like to remind all guardsmen that it is illegal to harbor invisible women in the Senate. If you see a ghost claiming to be Leia Organa, please remove her from the premises. She will be making a scene.

Thank you for your cooperation in preserving the peace of the Republic, and all hail the Empire.
FOX

Fox and Leia get caught up in some timey-wimey Force shenanigans. Oh my heart...

and the AU where it's a more traditional time travel type story: Fox & Leia's Star Wars Holiday Special

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Crossovers

Rivers of London/Slow Horses

The Spirit of Regent's Park by

Anonymous
Newly minted First Desk Diana Taverner visits the Folly to find out who this Thomas Nightingale fellow is, and learns a few things about London that are closer to home than she expects. Excellent crossover! Now I want all the crossovers between all these characters!

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Vids

Ted Lasso

In The Middle by

cursedwerewolf
Super cute Jamie/Keeley/Roy vid.

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aethel

( 113 books!! )

I would like to thank Hoopla, Overdrive, and my local public library for helping me read an absolutely ridiculous number of books this year: 113 books by 62 authors, of which 33-36 books were re-reads. (Re-reads marked with an asterisk, or a question mark on the three I couldn't remember whether I had read before or not.) Goodreads calculated my top genres as Fantasy, Romance, and Science Fiction. According to my lifetime-books-read spreadsheet, the top three most-read authors this year were KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, and Terry Pratchett. Four-way tie for fourth place: T. Kingfisher, Rex Stout, P.G. Wodehouse, Isaac Asimov.

I also tried to classify all 941 books in my spreadsheet by genre and found some predictable differences in the average number of books by the same author I read in each genre. Averages are for all-time, not this year alone:

romance - 4 books per author
fantasy - 3
sf - 2.7
horror - 2.3
mystery - 1.9
general fiction - 1.4
nonfiction - 1.2

I succeeded by the numbers, but failed some of my content goals: only 2 histories; only 1-3 new-to-me 19th century classics; and 3 works by Indigenous authors and 4 works by Black authors doesn't sound like a lot compared to the total. Categorizing books by the identity of the author was also fraught, as the information is not always easily accessible, not to mention the question of how these identity categories are even defined and who "counts". Plus, the whole point of the exercise for me was to find books with different settings and perspectives and maybe learn something new. I went with citizenship/tribal enrollment for the Native American authors, so as a result, I ended up dropping some of the most recommended titles from my TBR list. However, I enjoyed the books I did read, and have several left on my TBR list, so maybe I'll try the same goal in 2026. I also added a bunch of novels in translation to my TBR list, so I'm hoping to make headway on those next year. Plus all the history books and pre-20th century classics I didn't read this year.

And finally, I need to find some more book-themed user icons.

runpunkrun

I picked this up knowing nothing about it except that it was science fiction, and I spent the entire book trying to figure out where it was going, but in a good way. It starts out with a raid, so I was thinking military SF, but then it quickly transitions into a mystery, and from there we go through some spy shit, a bit of romance, a Mission Impossible-style heist, a miner's strike, and, finally, cyberpunk. It's quite a ride. It's got unremarkable queerness (people are queer! it goes unremarked upon!), the protagonist is a woman of color of........complicated origins, and there's a fascinating relationship between her and an AI. Cohen, as he calls himself, is hundreds of years old, controls dozens of networks, and has expensive tastes.

In part, this book is about memory, what your memories make you, and who you are without them, and at times I felt like it was messing with my memory because it seemed to be skipping over important things in the investigation and in the spy shit. Like how did Li get her Beretta back? They took her knife, but left her with that gun and the ammo for it? No. It's also the kind of science fiction that comes with a ten page bibliography at the end in case you want to read up on quantum entanglement, but just tosses you into the world, dumps a bunch of new terminology on you, and lets you figure things out on your own. Which I mostly did, but it's a bit of an uphill trudge at the beginning.

This is the first in a trilogy, a fact I discovered when I was 82% through this one, and happily my library had the other two ebooks, as well, so I checked out the second book as soon as I was done with this one.

Contains: sexual assault, attempted rape—brief and not lingered upon; (sexual?) slavery—underpins a side relationship in the book.

rivkat

Uketsu, Strange Houses: ( floor plans )

Jim Butcher, Out Law: ( Harry helps out Marcone )

Freya Marske, Cinder House: ( ghost Cinderella )

Seanan McGuire, Through Gates of Garnet and Gold: ( Wayward children reunite )

Kai Butler, The Earl and the Executive: ( space Regency m/m romance )

Olga Ravn, The Employees: ( weird crew )

James Islington,( the first two books of an engaging trilogy about a Marty Stu )
Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry: ( yep, that's what I expected )

Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall: ( reincarnation sf )

Isaac R. Fellman, The Two Doctors Górski: ( Yeah, it's Dark Academia )

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, The Salvage Crew: ( a human in a ship's body but not Anne McCaffrey )
Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes: ( monsters in space )

Jim Hines, Slayers of Old:( BtVS, but retired )

Neal Shusterman, Scythe: ( remember that Star Trek episode where they wouldn't use birth control? )

lightreads

At the Back of the North Wind

1/5. 1870’s children’s christian fiction about the son of a coachman who makes friends with the north wind.

It would be reasonable to ask why I read 1870’s children’s christian fiction. The answer is that I read this as a child, but remembered nothing about it other than the title and the sound of the narrator’s voice saying it. I recently found the digitized version of that old cassette audiobook (thank you, National Library Service – in general, I mean, not for this in particular) and I got curious.

Woof, I am allergic to this book. Its preaching, its sanctimony, its moralism. On the one hand, it could be worse. The author was a christian-socialist who was definitely not wrong that, say, drinking and smacking your wife around is bad. His opinions were apparently very unpopular at the time. But it doesn’t ultimately matter what stripe of preaching this is when you are allergic to the whole project. Philosophically, I mean. The thematic statement of this book is, as one character says, “kindness is but justice,” and bleh, fuck right off with that. It’s a view of the world and who gets what and who deserves what that I violently disagree with.

Also, not for nothing, I said “are you fucking joking” out loud when I realized where this book was going. I’m pretty sure I don’t remember this book well because I didn’t understand or like it as a child. I do remember his Princess and the Goblin, which I think I reread quite a bit, but I think I’m good now. The offensive ending, by the way, is literally ( spoilers I guess? ).

I think I would be less annoyed by this if it didn’t have these flickers of good fantasy in it. Something wild and creative and extremely weird. But whenever he started down that road he would pull abruptly back and suddenly re-christian everything.

Content notes: *gestures upward*

settiai

Beginnings and Ends (1015 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rook (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Backstory, Elf Rook (Dragon Age), Nonbinary Rook (Dragon Age), One Shot, Veil Jumper Rook (Dragon Age)
Series: Part 1 of Mer Aldwir
Summary: Once upon a time, Mer Aldwir's greatest regret was that they didn't have vallaslin of their own.

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musesfool

The first lines of each month meme, 2025 edition:

( 2025 first lines from each month )
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https://xkcd.com/3187/

1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.

https://xkcd.com/3187/

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Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star, Black Lightning, Dynasty, Heated Rivalry, Mako Mermaids, Mr. Robot, Namib, Nancy Drew, Narcos, New Girl, Romil & Jugal, Skymed, Stranger Things, Supergirl