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ficinabox - what a bounty! Time got away from me; I've been meaning share this this sooner, but here they finally are:Clock Strikes Midnight (4204 words) [Teen]
Fandom: Grimm (TV)
Relationship: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard/Juliette Silverton
Characters: Nick Burkhardt, Sean Renard, Juliette Silverton, Rosalee Calvert, Alexander
Content Tags: background Rosalee Calvert/Monroe, Wesen & Grimm & Royals Politics, Plans to make the Wesen world go public, Politics, Worldbuilding, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Voice of Reason Rosalee Calvert
Summary: "Revelation is inevitable. Sooner or later, we will be found out and our secrets dragged out of the shadows and into the light."
At a potluck picnic in the park, Portland's Wesen gather to decide their future—and that of the world.
A Historical Perspective on the Gesetzbuch Ehrenkodex (6082 words) [Teen]
Fandom: Grimm (TV)
Content Tags: Wesen & Grimm & Royals Politics, In-Universe Textbook, Pre-Canon, In-Universe Documents
Summary: Being the introduction to a textbook on the history of a complex time in the wesen world.
A Private Audience (1265 words) [Teen]
Fandom: Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling
Relationships: Kashtiliash/Kathryn Hollard, Raupasha & Kashtiliash, Raupasha/Kenneth Hollard
Characters: Kashtiliash, Raupasha, Kathryn Hollard
Content Tags: Missing Scene, Not Canon Incompliant, Uptimers vs Downtimers, Hollard Family Tropism for Royalty
Summary: Raupasha seeks Kashtiliash's permission this time...
candyheartsex) wrote2025-12-20 10:54 amtrobadora) wrote2025-12-20 02:06 pmficinabox had multiple delays and ate into the Yuletide period more than I'd expected, after rarepairexchange had already had more delays than expected, eating into the ficinabox period. (Because I really am constitutionally incapable of letting a story go until it's gone live, I will keep working on it and often expanding it ...) So I probably should try and stick mostly to exchanges with a fixed reveals date next year - if those have delays, they tend to be small ones.ficinabox - I'll post about that separately - and I wrote two stories myself! I don't think I'm terribly anonymous; it's fairly easy to tell which are mine. But I'll talk about that after author reveals. *g*sid_guardian, our slo-mo rewatch (half an episode per week) is going strong! We're having fantastic discussions every week, and it's so much fun. And we're only at episode 8 (taxi scene and Zhao Yunlan's disaster flat coming up this weekend!), so we're going to be at this for some time. :Dlannamichaels) wrote2025-12-19 11:17 amaurumcalendula) wrote2025-12-19 10:19 amride_4ever) wrote2025-12-18 08:40 pmsdwolfpup proposed that on a designated day in early January we each engage in one or more acts, either online or in physical space (or both!), which bring joy to another person, and which might even inspire that person to spread joy further, exponentially onward.sdwolfpup's post.donutsweeper) wrote2025-12-18 12:48 pmyuletide_pinch_hits but so far there's been nothing I could take. I am hoping to manage a few treats, we'll see, the writing brain has not been braining.recthething recs while the exchanges they were from are still anon (because I am lazy and don't want to have to look them all up and recode things rather than C&Ping them) so here are two weeks of recs, from ficinabox (assorted things) and doodle4doodle (art): ficinabox, creators anon until Dec 20th:doodle4doodle (works anon until Dec 19th):flamebyrd) wrote2025-12-18 10:02 amI quit two phone games recently and want to work through some feelings about it.
Farm RPG
I started playing Farm RPG a while back because I was looking for something that was like Stardew Valley but more idle focused.
On the surface this is the case, but it’s not so much an idle game as it is a clicker. Some resources accumulate over time once you've bought the upgrade, but for the most part you are clicking to obtain them. Fishing is a twitchy “click on the moving dot” affair. Farming involves waiting (minutes, hours, days) or expending an item, but is not very profitable.
There are villagers to befriend (not marry) and quests to complete, but there’s a cynical snideness to the writing that didn’t really work for me. Some quests require items you get from sending your animals to the slaughterhouse, which I didn't want to do and used workarounds that just take longer (weeks/months instead of days.)
All of this I could deal with but I’ve reached a point where I cannot progress in the story without putting the raptors I have raised in a fight club and I just don’t want to. They’re good raptors! The only alternative I could see would involve many, many more months of grinding.
And then one day I missed finishing my daily quests, took a step back and asked, am I actually enjoying this game? Am I looking forward to doing the daily tasks or is it tedious?
So I’ve stopped.
nb. there is a social aspect to the game which I turned off shortly after starting. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I engaged with the community.
Pokémon TCG Pocket
If you want the feeling of opening packets of collectible cards with cute art but don’t want the clutter or to spend actual money, this game is almost perfect! You can open 2 packs a day for free! You can make decks and battle (against the computer or online)!
You can spend real life currency on a monthly subscription to open an extra pack a day, or à la carte to reduce the time until you can open new packs. But I wasn’t even tempted.
I quit because quitting Farm RPG made me question if I actually enjoyed this game too, and I thought how long the app takes to load every time, how unlikely it is that I’ll ever complete my collections, how I always battled in auto mode because it was slow and not interesting to me… so I’ve quit.
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What games have you recently quit? What are you Actually Enjoying right now?
I have been trying to read more but ironically most of the time this is more engaging than playing a game and leads to more time on my phone.
aurumcalendula) wrote2025-12-17 07:53 pmforestofglory) wrote2025-12-17 09:44 amaegtx 
profiterole_reads) wrote2025-12-17 05:57 pmcandyheartsex) wrote2025-12-17 12:06 amsunshine304) wrote2025-12-16 11:10 am
aurumcalendula) wrote2025-12-16 12:14 amgossmaggie33selenakserricodonutsweepergoodbyebirdgoodbyebirdserricoelanya) wrote2025-12-15 02:17 pmCalar Brescia is the crown prince of Aethrennar, a fey-elf (eladrin) monarchy whose power reaches beyond the Nerathi Confederacy into the Feywild. He is everything one might expect from an eladrin prince: cold, selfish, arrogant, and beautiful.
Sir Aldaan Evir is a half-elven (elomeni) veteran of Nerath’s campaigns against its southern neighbours in Moro. Granted knighthood for his role in a recent campaign, he is regarded as a hero of Nerath, though his feelings on this valorization are mixed.
When Calar is kidnapped by unknown forces, Sir Aldaan turns up to rescue him. But from the very start, everything goes wrong. The two men are trapped together on an adventure through the dangerous changing lands outside of Nerath’s city states, and beyond, that will test their growing bonds of trust, and of something more.
aurumcalendula) wrote2025-12-14 06:57 pm