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I've tried both the first episode of Kusunoki's Garden of Gods and the first episode of Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? and I've opted to watch Kusunoki's Garden of Gods.

Minato lives in a cozy fantasy with gods and spirits, while Harima lives in a dangerous exorcist story. Shall I ship them?

It's available on Crunchyroll.

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Just under 3 days to sign up!

In the meantime, I've been approving new fandom and character nominations. You may want to check the fandoms you're requesting or offering to see if something new and interesting has been added to the tag set. I'm also including a list of the newly-approved fandoms at the bottom of this post, in case that helps anyone find additional requests or offers.

I do have one clarification!

Twilight Series - All Media Types

We already have the books as a specific fandom in the tag set. Nominator, please specify whether you're interested in the books or the movies.

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New fandoms added since signups opened:

16th Century CE RPF
18th Century CE RPF
30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい | Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (Anime)
Alan Wake (Video Games)
Alien (Original Movies 1979-1997)
Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
Cerulean Chronicles Series - TJ Klune
Dexter (TV)
Dominion of the Fallen - Aliette de Bodard
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series - Matt Dinniman
Eureka (TV 2006)
Fairy Tail
From a Knight to a Lady (Webcomic)
Hooper (1978)
Horizon (Video Games)
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
Kamisama Hajimemashita | Kamisama Kiss
Legally Blonde - Hach/O'Keefe/Benjamin
Literary Writer RPF
Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Mean Girls (2024)
Midnight Scenes: From the Woods (Video Game)
Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
Nightwalker Mayonaka no Tantei | Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective
Nirvana (US Band)
Poker Face (TV 2023)
Raffles - E. W. Hornung
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (TV)
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Cranberries - Dreams (music video dir: Nico Soultanakis)
The Incandescent - Emily Tesh
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
The Penumbra Podcast
Transformers - All Media Types
Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
Twilight Series - All Media Types
Untitled Goose Game (Video Game)
Warehouse 13
Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
Wild Cards (Canada TV 2024)
Wind Breaker - にいさとる | Nii Satoru (Manga)
Winning (1969)
Winslow Boy (1999)
구미호뎐 | Tale of the Nine Tailed (TV)
九龍ジェネリックロマンス | Kowloon Generic Romance (Anime)
僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon)
名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed
大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
小蘑菇 - 一十四洲 | Little Mushroom - Yī Shí Sì Zhōu
恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs

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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on bnha_fans.

Commented on fan_writers.

Commented on 3weeks4dreamwidth. It's coming up soon, April 25th!! I'm hoping to run another rec fest in bnha_fans as part of it, we'll see how it pans out :)

Promoted meta_warehouse, vampiremedia.

Signal boosts:

My regular signal boost for senzenwomen, as I enjoy reading every week about the lives of all these amazing women from the past :D

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Event:

lul_soulmatesex is a multi-fandom, multi-medium freeform exchange dedicated to all types and derivatives of soul connections.

Event links: Dreamwidth | AO3 Collection

Due date: April 16, 2026, 11:59 am CDT (UTC-5) (flexible!)

Fanwork Minimums: 1,000 words (Fic) or a complete work on unlined paper (Art)

To Claim: reply to the latest PH Post on Dreamwidth or email ao3modball@gmail.com with the pinch hit number and your AO3 username. Thanks for your consideration!

PHs Required for Works Reveal:

PH 3 - NoPixel (Web Series), Video Blogging RPF, Runescape (Video Games), 仙王的日常生活 | The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Cartoon)

Additional Available PHs:

PH 1 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest

PH 11 - 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)

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Vince Gilligan was recently quoted as saying “[Slow storytelling] is a plus in a world of very fast-paced editing and TikTok videos that are only a minute long. If the whole world were to move at that pace...that would be very sad to me. I think there is a certain percentage of the viewership… is ready for a slower pace. It’s fast food versus home cooking.”

Have you found that the pace of TV storytelling has increased? Have you seen patterns in different time periods? And how slow is slow enough for your viewing taste?

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I've talked here about moving away from Gmail after it started shoving Gemini in my face. It's been a while since I left Google Docs after breaking out in metaphorical hives at the revelation that they were using docs to train their AI. No you don't! My writing is MINE!

I was watching AuthorTube and recently came to know of Skrib. It seems like a browser-based Scrivener, with the ability to split your screen to look at your notes and organise things. I like that it's staunchly against generative AI. It's stated on the website that they'll never use your writing to train AI. And that they'll never have tools that generate writing or write for you.

They have what they call an assistive AI that helps you refer to your own work. It can search through your research, notes or previous writing and pull up something for you if you need to find something real quick. I have writing friends on here who write long series with sustained worldbuilding, including one friend who writes historical fiction and tracks timelines and research. I thought y'all might be interested. Skrib's in closed beta and I'm on the waiting list, but I have an invite link: https://skrib.spot/599079c9

I'm waiting to try it. In the meantime I'm happy with Ellipsus, which is also against generative AI and which has a very soothing dark mode. I wish the interface was slightly different though: I like being able to have my chapters lined up on the sidebar so I can move between them quickly and easily within a project, like the interface of 4thewords.

I don't think anyone in this cosy corner of the internet would argue with me about generative AI but just in case anyone's wondering:

If I wanted to publish something I didn't write myself, I'd become a publisher who publishes other people's writing.

As it is, I want to write my stories myself and publish them myself, too. That's what being an indie author is all about!

What are your recommendations for writing software/word processors?

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King Charles III England Coast Path

The King Charles III England Coast Path (KCIIIECP), originally and still commonly known as the England Coast Path, is a long-distance National Trail that follows the coastline of England. Opened on 19 March 2026 by King Charles III, the trail extends for 2,689 miles (4,328 km).

Sections of the English coast already had established walking routes, most notably the South West Coast Path. However, the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 required Natural England, under section 298, to create a continuous coastal path. The first section, along Weymouth Bay, opened in 2012. The walking route is the longest coastal trail in the world, and its total length increases further when considered alongside the Wales Coast Path.

Those of you who live in or visit the United Kingdom may wish to explore this amenity.

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Hello,

the weekly chat post has come again. Do you have something to talk about?

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In my corner of the world, we're traditionally celebrating that a religion's main dude died but came back (sorta). Nothing to do with Star Wars, but it led to a family visit and a SW-related discussion.

We were talking about LEGO, and my (very opinionated) dad said, roughly: "but they just keep making those Harry Potter and Star Wars sets, it's stupid, it's the same thing over and over".

And... hm. Firstly, I was of course pretty unhappy to hear SW compared to the TERF Financial Support IP. Then... does SW really look derivative from the outside? Hm. I could see it, maybe. Sure, there are new stories, but if you look at general merch it's Vader, Vader, Vader and some Stormtroopers, maybe baby Yoda? Oh, and then Kylo Ren-branded school gear, always installed in a stand right beside the same things with Elsa from Frozen. (What gender is your kid, magical ice princess or genocidal emo?)

Hm.

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a comedy in four acts:

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The meant-to-be-just-a-pacing-check-except-not-really cleanup is DONE! VERY anti-climactic because of the unexpected month break right before the end XD The soul thief revision plan is good to go I think, and maybe I knew this time I was happy with it because my mind immediately switched to "finish up the witch remaining work, then we dig into the actual revisions." I even have a tracking spreadsheet ready!! AND I made a chart this time! I learnt about secondary Y axis and how to attach a data series to it so it scales properly! Lol. There may be PICTURES in my next recap XD I'm kind of planning 3-4 months for those revisions, but it's the first time I go so deep during the structural phase so I have no idea how it will go. The witch only took ~14h, but the changes were a lot simpler (to my detriment, since I ended up having to make large structural changes 3 rounds of revisions later based on beta-reader feedback. Ouch!) Very eager to find out how it will go this time!! And feed data to that chart >:D

I was so excited about my little chart that I decided to make one for the remaining scenes of the cursed witch's pacing check, too. 18 scenes left. It took me nearly 1h30 to fix up that first scene because it was a fight scene that dragged a lot. Slow, slow, slooooow. So I figured, 18 scenes, 2-3 weeks to do it! I can copy my scenes-per-week chart, with a dot for each week! Well. The pacing check was intended to be light. Only the big, you know, PACING problems. Of which there were fewer in the following chapters, so I finished it all up in several feverish sessions over a 3-day weekend 🤣 MY CHART IS A SINGLE DOT. This is so funny. If I'd known it'd go so fast, I probably would have tried to squeeze it alongside the workshop, but maybe I just needed a break.

Anyway, it was a happy surprise to return to the witch and enjoy it! I've learnt a fair bit about structure during the last month, and while -- as I feared -- I do see all the places that I would handle differently now... I don't hate it, nor feel anguish at how much better it could be? I dunno. Although, the dark side of taking yet another long break is that I feel so refreshed that I could smash myself against another round of editing... I could. Forever over and over, possibly. But I do need to learn when to move on, too.

( So what comes next? )