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September 21 is considered to be Ray Vecchio's birthday and is celebrated annually by due South fandom as "Ray Vecchio Day". This is a day to show RayV some love by posting a RayV-centric fanwork or meta or recs related to Ray Vecchio or David Marciano (tag it as being for Ray Vecchio Day 2025).

Posting to the collection is now open at Ray Vecchio Day 2025 Collection on AO3.

Current Mood: enthused
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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davidgillon

TLDR: hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, with known immune system crossovers, turns out to have weird immune system proteins on top of all the other weirdness.

Interesting new hEDS paper I saw mentioned on FB today,

"Proteomic analysis revealed 35 differentially expressed proteins in hEDS, with 43% involved in the complement cascade and 80% linked to immune, coagulation, or inflammatory pathways. ... Cytokine profiling revealed alterations in nodal immune cell mediators in hEDS patients, supporting a model of dysregulated inflammatory response. Our findings indicate a systemic immune dysregulation, particularly involving the complement system and profibrotic cytokines, as a common feature in hEDS pathophysiology."

https://academic.oup.com/immunohorizons/article/9/10/vlaf044/8256436

The EDS Society write-up says there's another paper in the works from another team with similar results from a larger sample, and that includes people with HSD diagnoses, not just hEDS (unsurprisingly, I'm convinced the hEDS/HSD divide is bad science).

https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/exciting-new-research-sheds-light-on-heds-biology/

Current Mood: Bendy

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Fandom: Soapuppies
Rating: G
Notes: text added with imgflip. i added the trans flag background just because i was scared imgflip would make it nontransparent
Summary: rock eater

( the silly :3 )

sovay

I did not post it last night because I was so tired, but

spatch took a proof of life when finally home which did indeed look much more like a person than my fluorescently washed out self-portrait of a couple of nights ago and amazingly more so than the second night's tube-and-wires effigy. Concentrating to talk to doctors during that period worked well enough that I was asked more than once if I had a medical background and had to answer only in the sense of having had a lot to deal with, but otherwise a lot of what I remember from the first half of the week is drifting in and out of weird half-overheard half-sleep, inevitably interrupted by more doctors. I really enjoyed going back to sleep this morning after my medications without having to talk to anyone about them.

fleurdelis41 seasonally sent me some cases of piracy tried at the Old Bailey, of which my favorites are the prosecutor no-show, the hat-stealing rimshot, and the dudes whose defense was having been very drunk at the time.

Current Music: Gordon Bok, "Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home"

atamascolily

I remember enjoying the earlier books in this series about a London-based doctor who treats angels, demons, and monsters, but it's been so long that I can only really remember what happened in the first one. Unfortunately, this one really didn't work for me. The back cover blurb bills it as a road trip across America with Greta, an angel, and a demon, but things move so slowly that it's halfway through the book before they even get across the ocean, and they never actually leave New York City at all??? Very much a letdown.

The actual plot is about politicking between heaven and hell involving a lot of side characters in meetings plus mysterious attacks which have to be treated by our hero and allies, and I did not particularly enjoy it, even without the misleading marketing copy.

It's too bad, because the supposed premise is interesting, and the cover art is cute, but it felt like this book (supposedly the final installment in the series) went out with a whimper instead of a bang. Very disappointing.

neotoma

Leek-mushroom turnover, lemon tart, hard kiwifruit, American persimmons, bell peppers, purple UFO peppers, shennadoah pears, honeycrisp apples, pink pearl apples.

I'm going to try making salsa morada with the UFO peppers, and see if applesauce made with the pink pearl apples has a pink tingle to it.

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Song Lan | Song Zichen/Xiao Zingchen; Song Lan | Song Zichen, Xiao Xingchen
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3,632 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, determinedly Taiwanese cuisine, Food Porn because the author inexplicably omitted that tag, racist microaggression (a character recounts getting renamed by his exchange host family.)
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, First Meetings, Taiwan, Street food, chinese diaspora feelings and food as love language, SongXiao Feast
Creator Links: (AO3)

Irrelevancy; (Tumblr)

touchmycoat
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Fluff, Identity, Modern AU, Slice of Life

Summary: Flirting and cultural reclamation via Taiwanese street food. Songxiao modern meet-cute.

Author’s Notes:
For the #songxiaofeast on twitter, thanks for organizing the event~!!!! There's so much great art in the hashtag *~* love me some food love....

Chinese glossary at end lolol, and is this all a shameless marketing ploy for Taiwan night markets? yes.

…The menu (a twitter thread w pictures) (Unfortunately no longer accessible—FMO.)

大腸包小腸 (dà cháng bāo xiǎo cháng): "little sausage wrapped around a big sausage" lol
蚵仔煎 (ó-à-tsiān): oyster pancake. I'm using the Taiwanese romanization here because it better captures that Hokkien pronunciation. Ningxia Night Market seriously has the best ones.
臭豆腐 (chò dò fǔ): stinky tofu!! I think it smells delicious; don't be like SL eat it normally without that crazy amount of sauce nkfsjdfds
肉圓麵線 (bà wán miàn xiàn): meatball & rice noodles. Two separate things but they're typically sold together. Meatball is always pronounced in Hokkien and sometimes rice noodle is too (mǐ suǎ)
豆花 (dòu huā): tofu pudding. It's not too sweet and it's sooooo refreshing to have on a hot taiwan evening with ice!
雞蛋糕 (jī dàn gāo): egg cake! They're seriously very good but a hit-or-miss from street vendors lmfao.

Drop a comment~! Happy feastings!!!!!!!

Reccer’s Notes: Taiwanese bartender Song Zichen, taking both pity on and a fancy to diasporic American tourist Xiao Xingchen, proceeds to initiate him into the ways of local street food (as both a welcome into his heritage and a courtship overture.) This fic, stuffed with delicious Unresolved Sexual Tension, serves as a reminder that the Sinosphere is a very big and diverse place, and brought an outpouring of nostalgic yearning for the Taste Of Home from diasporic commenters.

(And Ningxia Night Market needs to hire Irrelevancy as a publicist, dammit; I was fervently wishing my neighborhood had something like that up the alley!)

Fanwork links: Comfort Food / 有可能的夜晚 (AO3-locked.)

james

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stonepicnicking_okapi

1. learn to hem pants
2. go to a new grocery store
3. attend a jhope concert in Brooklyn
4. make an essential oil spray
5. submit an application for a job
6. interview for a job
7. participate in a fic exchange
8. read a manga
9. go to Costco
10. work!
11. eat at a new restaurant
12. explore a trail at a new state park
13. try a new craft
14. play new board games (Canvas & EXIT game)
15. try new recipe
16. play a sport (PICKLEBALL! I went to my first intro to pickleball class today at the YMCA and it was fun. I may go back).

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Title: Morning
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Content notes: none apply
Summary: Mozzie needs help solving something... Neal isn't interested

( Morning )

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sonia

I got this great set of questions from

rosefox in preparation for discussing updating my website.

Mostly I want to look at the site you already have and learn what you're unhappy with and what you'd like it to do. My main questions are:

- Who's the target audience? How will they find and access the site? What do you want their first impression to be? What's your goal for how they spend their time there?
- Do you want to keep the logo you have now? Are there any specific colors or existing images you want to use for brand consistency?
- Do you want to port over the existing content? Will you be creating additional content from scratch? (I assume you'll want to write any text yourself, and my role is solely design.)
- Do you need to do e-commerce through the site, or is it mostly a pointer to another site where the books can be purchased? Are there any existing systems that the new site needs to work well with?
- Do you want any kind of frequently updated or interactive elements, like blog posts or quizzes, or only static pages?
- What's your plan for getting the link in front of people: social media, advertising, search rankings, handing out business cards?

My answers: (I know more than I realized!)
( cut for length )

settiai

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The more they release about the upcoming fourth campaign of Critical Role, the more excited I am for it to start. CR3 was very much dragging for me by the end, mainly because it felt almost as if it was more a sequel to CR1 and CR2 with the CR3 characters taking the back burner at times. There's a reason that I don't, for example, like the big crossover events that Marvel and DC like to do, and that's what it reminded me of for the last six months or so of the campaign.

Everything I'm seeing about CR4, though, has me optimistic that the fresh start in a brand new world it's promising will be a good thing. I can't wait to actually meet the characters and see how many of them I properly mesh well with.

Current Mood: curious

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Title: Incredibly Annoying
Fandom: DC Comics
Pairing/Characters: Stephanie, Jon, Damian, Jason
Author:

rivulet027
Challenge: Riddle
Rating: PG-13
Length: 414
Summary: Stephanie wakes up to a riddle.

( Incredibly Annoying )

james

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nanslice

There is a decided lack of whimsy in my life and man, it's a huge bummer. Today feels especially damning, so I'm gonna make a post!

I'm waiting to sign the paperwork but I've got a job at a nationwide pet supply store. I'll start as a part-time bather and after at least six months and 200 baths, I'll be applying for the grooming academy. I never really thought I'd go back into dog grooming but I have experience, enjoy it, plus it's pretty AI proof, so. You know! Also I love interacting with dogs and breaking down my day into assignments will be good, I think! The hiring manager was off yesterday and will be off today and Sunday, so I'll probably have to wait until Monday to move forward with the paperwork (I got a verbal confirmation, we were just waiting on the background check, which came through yesterday). A little frustrating because I'm really eager to get the show in the road, but I will try to remain patient. ;3;

Related, was able to talk to my doctor about my extreme panic and anxiety, and she upped my prescriptions so here's hoping that helps! I would very much like for it to! I need to find an actual therapist but medication working would also be very good! This house needs an income.

Yesterday I went out and used the little wood chipper to chew up a ton of the old, dead blackberry vines we took out earlier this year. It's not hard but it's tedious and they're pretty stabby. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while so I'm glad I finally found the energy and attention to do it!

Today we're going to a farm fest at one of the local community gardens. It should be a nice little community event, I'm looking forward to music and food, lol.

I'm participating in Kinktober this year, is anyone else? I'm working off the official list( Which I'll put under here since it's explicit ) and I'm pretty excited! I've already started working on mine, since I'm very slow, lmao. They'll all be in black and white since I don't want to try to worry about colors (and I mean, it's a play on Inktober, and I know ink comes in all colors, the tradition is black) and I'm having so much fun. I'm also trying more dynamic poses. I'm planning on posting them daily on bsky, although they're updating their ToS to be pretty shitty towards pornography. :\ I'm so frustrated with how the internet is going (and also everything that is terrible that is happening) and I just want to be able to draw and post porn in peace. But that's not how things are going.

AT LEAST DW IS STILL HERE. <3 <3 <3 Once I'm getting a steady income again, I'm going to put a little towards DW like twice a month or something. We've got to try to protect the spaces we have left. I'll still be posting on Bsky for as long as I can, but. It's a bummer!

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ride_4ever - Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 28: due South fandom: annual Ray Vecchio Day
adastreia - fic by me: m/f original work
linky in fandomcalendar - Tokusatsu: Tokurecs September 2025 Monthly Self-Reccing Period
davidgillon - Everything's Borked
himejoshiheart in fan_flashworks - Riddle: Soapuppies: Art: riddle me this :3
sovay - Cormorant to rock, gulls from the storm
atamascolily - "Strange New World" (Dr. Greta Helsing #4) by Vivian Shaw
neotoma - Farmer's Market -- 20 September 2025 (Festival of Honors, Year 233)
full_metal_ox in fancake - Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling: Comfort Food / 有可能的夜晚, by Irrelevancy
james - Holy Fanfic, Batman!
stonepicnicking_okapi - 25 in 2025
highlander_ii in fan_flashworks - White Collar : fanfic : Morning
switchbladeeyes in vampiremedia - Sinners
sonia - Questions to update a website
settiai - Critical Role: Campaign 4
rivulet027 in fan_flashworks - DC Comics: Fanfic: Incredibly Annoying
james - Good News/Bad News
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #6833 ]
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #977 ]
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