Round 189 Theme Poll
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fancakeAugust will be a Flashback round where we revisit a classic theme from the early years of the comm.
Poll #34840 round 189 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 74
Pick the next theme of fancake:
Epistolary
23 (31.1%)
Pining
27 (36.5%)
Worldbuilding
24 (32.4%)
Xteink X4 E-Reader
Jul. 16th, 2026 07:36 pmsinealaThis is me attempting to write a post with actual content. We'll see if I have the energy to finish it.
For my birthday this year,lysimache bought me an Xteink e-reader, because she had seen a Wirecutter review and thought it seemed like my sort of thing, which it is. (The Tom's Guide review is very good, also, if you'd like to see another review by someone who is going to take pictures, because I'm sure not.)
( Review follows )
Anyway! It's fun! I can hold it in one hand! I've read half a book so far! If this works, I might end up buying an X3 before they decide to phase out all the models with buttons.
Hooray, I finished writing a post.
For my birthday this year,
lysimache bought me an Xteink e-reader, because she had seen a Wirecutter review and thought it seemed like my sort of thing, which it is. (The Tom's Guide review is very good, also, if you'd like to see another review by someone who is going to take pictures, because I'm sure not.)( Review follows )
Anyway! It's fun! I can hold it in one hand! I've read half a book so far! If this works, I might end up buying an X3 before they decide to phase out all the models with buttons.
Hooray, I finished writing a post.
Wednesday Reading Meme
Jul. 15th, 2026 03:29 pmsinealaWhat I Just Finished Reading
Nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Avengers Armageddon #2, Captain America #13, Fantastic Four #14 )
What I'm Reading Next
Maybe I will read one of the Hugo nominees. We shall see.
Nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Avengers Armageddon #2, Captain America #13, Fantastic Four #14 )
What I'm Reading Next
Maybe I will read one of the Hugo nominees. We shall see.
Mo Dao Zu Shi: Rise and Shine, by LesbianlazerOwl for Shadaras.
Jul. 14th, 2026 01:59 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Mo Xuanyu, Wei Wuxian (mentioned), Nie Huaisang (implied), Lan Wangji (mentioned; implied); Mo Xuanyu/Himself, Mo Xuanyu & Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (mentioned; implied), Mo Xuanyu -> Nie Huaisang (one-sided)
Rating: Explicit
Length: 4,927
Content Notes: Body Modification (voluntary), Cannibalism (mentioned as part of the culture), canon-typical ritual bloodletting, Classism, First Person POV, Needles, Scenery Porn
Creator Tags: Masturbation, Voyeurism, mermaid Mo Xuanyu, Non-Human Genitalia, Prehensile dick, Worldbuilding, Abyssal Mermaids, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, In that most of the sects are benthopelagic sea critters, And Wei Wuxian actually gets to talk to Mo Xuanyu, Monsterfucker Mo Xuanyu, POV Mo Xuanyu, Hair Kink (minor), self-bondage (minor), Misunderstandings
Creator Links: (AO3)![[archiveofourown.org profile]](/%20https://www.npmjs.com/package/ocr-https-archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
LesbianlazerOwl; (Dreamwidth) lazerowl; (Twitter) ![[x.com profile]](/%20https://www.npmjs.com/package/ocr-https-p2.dreamwidth.org/0abf207ab719/-/x.com/favicon.ico)
gay_lazerOwl
Theme: Unreliable Narrator, Cultural Differences, Interspecies Pairings, Languages & Linguistics, Mermaids, Pining, Worldbuilding, Xeno/Alien Biology
Summary: Mo Xuanyu lives alone at the edge of the habitable world, continuing Wei Wuxian's work and strengthening his cultivation. One day soon, he hopes to surpass the Yiling Laozu's power and follow him into the unknown. Complications arise.
Creator Notes: (Cut for length.) ( Continue. )
Reccer's Notes: LesbianlazerOwl’s AU where the Jiang and Jin Sects are deep-sea merfolk is a strange and rapturous gem that turns Lovecraftiana upside-down (from the POV of a character embodying everything Lovecraft abhorred: a queer Asian—here turned sea creature—looking to monsterfuck.)
With all the haughty smarter-than-the-sheeple dudgeon of the alienated Emo Kid, Abyssal Merman! and Seeker of Arcane Knowledge Mo Xuanyu follows his idol the Yiling Laozu’s forbidden explorations of the mysterious and unfathomable surface—where, according to rumor, he found love with an eldritch air fairy! (Should the author ever see fit, I’d love to read a Wangxian prequel.)
LesbianlazerOwl compresses an incredible amount of atmosphere and implicit worldbuilding into just short of 5000 words, in ways that encourage still further speculation (the Sunshot Campaign is referenced; what could justify such a name in this world, and what were the Wen—creatures of the infernal blazing heights of the Epipelagic Zone?)
Fanwork Links: Rise and Shine, byLesbianlazerOwl for Shadaras: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42602655
Collections: Mutual Masturbation Exchange.
Pairings/Characters: Mo Xuanyu, Wei Wuxian (mentioned), Nie Huaisang (implied), Lan Wangji (mentioned; implied); Mo Xuanyu/Himself, Mo Xuanyu & Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (mentioned; implied), Mo Xuanyu -> Nie Huaisang (one-sided)
Rating: Explicit
Length: 4,927
Content Notes: Body Modification (voluntary), Cannibalism (mentioned as part of the culture), canon-typical ritual bloodletting, Classism, First Person POV, Needles, Scenery Porn
Creator Tags: Masturbation, Voyeurism, mermaid Mo Xuanyu, Non-Human Genitalia, Prehensile dick, Worldbuilding, Abyssal Mermaids, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, In that most of the sects are benthopelagic sea critters, And Wei Wuxian actually gets to talk to Mo Xuanyu, Monsterfucker Mo Xuanyu, POV Mo Xuanyu, Hair Kink (minor), self-bondage (minor), Misunderstandings
Creator Links: (AO3)
lazerowl; (Twitter) Theme: Unreliable Narrator, Cultural Differences, Interspecies Pairings, Languages & Linguistics, Mermaids, Pining, Worldbuilding, Xeno/Alien Biology
Summary: Mo Xuanyu lives alone at the edge of the habitable world, continuing Wei Wuxian's work and strengthening his cultivation. One day soon, he hopes to surpass the Yiling Laozu's power and follow him into the unknown. Complications arise.
Creator Notes: (Cut for length.) ( Continue. )
Reccer's Notes: LesbianlazerOwl’s AU where the Jiang and Jin Sects are deep-sea merfolk is a strange and rapturous gem that turns Lovecraftiana upside-down (from the POV of a character embodying everything Lovecraft abhorred: a queer Asian—here turned sea creature—looking to monsterfuck.)
With all the haughty smarter-than-the-sheeple dudgeon of the alienated Emo Kid, Abyssal Merman! and Seeker of Arcane Knowledge Mo Xuanyu follows his idol the Yiling Laozu’s forbidden explorations of the mysterious and unfathomable surface—where, according to rumor, he found love with an eldritch air fairy! (Should the author ever see fit, I’d love to read a Wangxian prequel.)
LesbianlazerOwl compresses an incredible amount of atmosphere and implicit worldbuilding into just short of 5000 words, in ways that encourage still further speculation (the Sunshot Campaign is referenced; what could justify such a name in this world, and what were the Wen—creatures of the infernal blazing heights of the Epipelagic Zone?)
Fanwork Links: Rise and Shine, by
Collections: Mutual Masturbation Exchange.
Tags:
- fandom: mo dao zu shi,
- length: 01.000 - 5.000 words,
- theme: au,
- theme: au: complete au,
- theme: au: complete au: mermaids,
- theme: cultural differences,
- theme: interspecies pairings,
- theme: languages & linguistics,
- theme: mythical creatures,
- theme: mythical creatures: mermaids,
- theme: pining,
- theme: unreliable narrator,
- theme: worldbuilding,
- theme: xeno/alien biology
Wednesday Reading Meme
Jul. 8th, 2026 06:46 pmsinealaWhat I Just Finished Reading
Nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Civil War Unmasked #3, Sorcerer Supreme #8 )
What I'm Reading Next
Nope.
Nothing.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Civil War Unmasked #3, Sorcerer Supreme #8 )
What I'm Reading Next
Nope.
OFMD: bloom & wilt by redshift
Jul. 5th, 2026 09:27 pmkingstoken posting in fancakeFandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Izzy/Ed, Izzy/Ed/Stede
Rating: E
Length: 31,803 words
Creator Links: redshift
Theme: Unreliable narrator
Summary: Izzy has spent years at Edward's side. The occasional petal here and there, the intermittent rasp that makes itself a permanent home in the hollows of his throat, the cough that comes and goes; it's all worth it, to be the person Ed turns to. It's a price he pays willingly.
Now, though. Now, Izzy knows what love looks like on Edward Teach, and it is soft and sweet and open and nothing like what Izzy has ever been able to give. Izzy's place is at Edward's side, and it's killing him.
That's okay. He's always wanted to die for something that matters.
Reccer's Notes: Izzy has hanakaki disease, and I love how the author writes it likes it's an almost chronic illness. Izzy is an unreliable narrator in how he thinks about Ed and Stede and their motivations. We as the reader can tell by their actions that their intentions are not what Izzy probably thinks, but Izzy's thoughts are very much coloured by the experience he is going through and he's not seeing things for how they truly are, and of course he refuses to talk to Ed about his feelings and what going on, which only makes everything worse.
One note, this is canon-divergent after season one.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Pairings/Characters: Izzy/Ed, Izzy/Ed/Stede
Rating: E
Length: 31,803 words
Creator Links: redshift
Theme: Unreliable narrator
Summary: Izzy has spent years at Edward's side. The occasional petal here and there, the intermittent rasp that makes itself a permanent home in the hollows of his throat, the cough that comes and goes; it's all worth it, to be the person Ed turns to. It's a price he pays willingly.
Now, though. Now, Izzy knows what love looks like on Edward Teach, and it is soft and sweet and open and nothing like what Izzy has ever been able to give. Izzy's place is at Edward's side, and it's killing him.
That's okay. He's always wanted to die for something that matters.
Reccer's Notes: Izzy has hanakaki disease, and I love how the author writes it likes it's an almost chronic illness. Izzy is an unreliable narrator in how he thinks about Ed and Stede and their motivations. We as the reader can tell by their actions that their intentions are not what Izzy probably thinks, but Izzy's thoughts are very much coloured by the experience he is going through and he's not seeing things for how they truly are, and of course he refuses to talk to Ed about his feelings and what going on, which only makes everything worse.
One note, this is canon-divergent after season one.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Navy Seal Copypasta (Internet meme): Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical, by Copypasta Sings.
Jul. 4th, 2026 03:02 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Navy Seal Copypasta (Internet meme): Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical, by Copypasta Sings.
Pairings/Characters: Self-insert OC.
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 287 words; 3:52
Content Notes: Unreality, stalking threats, death threats, Critical Research Failure (U.S. military), Lyrical Dissonance, macho edgelordship, profanity. The archived original 4chan forum discussion under the OP link gets even nastier.
Creator Links: Copypasta Sings:![[youtube.com profile]](/%20https://www.npmjs.com/package/ocr-https-youtube.com/favicon.ico)
copypastasings7991; the OP, for obvious reasons, remains ultra-classified.
Theme: Unreliable Narrator, Filk, Music, Non-AO3 Works, Social Media
Reccer's Notes: This trash-talking ßadass Boast by a Master of Gorilla (sic) Warfare and Top Army Sniper of the Navy SEALs has inspired a zillion adaptations and memetic mutations; dramatic readings have tended to the most gravelly depths-of-the-scrotum basso the speaker can muster.
Copypasta Sings takes it in a diametrically opposite direction, setting the lyrics to a sensitive singer-songwriter acoustic ballad.
Fanwork Links: Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsZMbs5PC64
Pairings/Characters: Self-insert OC.
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 287 words; 3:52
Content Notes: Unreality, stalking threats, death threats, Critical Research Failure (U.S. military), Lyrical Dissonance, macho edgelordship, profanity. The archived original 4chan forum discussion under the OP link gets even nastier.
Creator Links: Copypasta Sings:
Theme: Unreliable Narrator, Filk, Music, Non-AO3 Works, Social Media
Reccer's Notes: This trash-talking ßadass Boast by a Master of Gorilla (sic) Warfare and Top Army Sniper of the Navy SEALs has inspired a zillion adaptations and memetic mutations; dramatic readings have tended to the most gravelly depths-of-the-scrotum basso the speaker can muster.
Copypasta Sings takes it in a diametrically opposite direction, setting the lyrics to a sensitive singer-songwriter acoustic ballad.
Fanwork Links: Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsZMbs5PC64
