Added a bunch of new Pet Shop of Horrors fics to my Tagpacker bookmark collection. Then I spent a nice long afternoon rereading/liveblogging the final chapter. (...I promise I take breaks for other things. When there's an hour between posts, it doesn't mean I spent the whole hour typing those words, it means I also had a snack or scrolled some Tumblr or something.

Knights of Guinevere | Frankie, Sparky | T | The Kid A little girl sneaks onto Sparky's ship and refuses to leave. OR How Sparky ended up more-or-less adopting Frankie fic:one-shot,trope:kidfic,genfic,series:knights of guinevere Knights of Guinevere | Andi, Frankie, Gwen | M | Admin Override When Gwen wakes, her backup battery is nearly drained, and her sensors are in disarray. She is cut off from the world at large, entombed within the hollow chamber of her mind, somewhere in the lower labs.

A treasury of Oz short stories with comedy, fun twists, and Dorothy/Ozma romance.

Fun times with Clip Studio Assets: A few days ago, I got an email that some unspecified subset of the CSP materials that I've uploaded were "deleted" for review, then "unpublished" because they were re-evaluated as failing the Sensitive Content Moderation Policy. Most of my materials are backgrounds/textures that I made for art pieces, so I tend to include the finished art in the preview.

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South Korea's Kakao Entertainment is shutting down Tapas, the North American webtoon platform it acquired in 2021 for approximately ₩1.1 trillion…

Bonus Pet Shop of Horrors thread, because I've been flipping through some of the spinoffs for D Family Lore before getting to the finale. These two (PSoH: Le Passage, and PSoH: Ark Adrift) never had paperback releases in English -- just ebooks, all licensed by BisouBisou Comics, a sub-label of HarperCollins Japan. So those are the versions I'm reading.

Down to 424 fandoms! I already did a sweep where I dropped "webcomics with only 1 fic, and it was posted more than a year ago." This past month, I've been doing a sweep where I drop "webcomics with no more than 5 fics, and the latest was posted more than a year ago." And this is the one that finally pulled me under the 450 limit.

Reread post for Pet Shop of Horrors chapter 42 "Duplication". Again, heads-up for inevitable Implicit Spoilers For Everything. Occasionally including the sequels/spinoffs! We're getting into Deep Lore territory, here. (I posted the D/Tetsu fic, it has explicit post-canon spoilers, anyone doing a first-time readalong here should definitely save it until you get to the end.) Originally liveblogged on…

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The campaign to print Dorothy And Her Princess In Oz is live! It’s funny, it’s heartwarming, everyone here is friends of Dorothy, there's not much continuity from one story to the next but if Baum didn’t care about it than we won’t either. If you follow me on AO3, you've already seen the fics — now's your chance to get them (a) in print (b) with all-new bonus art.

Reread thread for Pet Shop of Horrors chapter 41 "Disappearance". Heads-up: These final 3 chapters all flow together, and I'm expecting a lot of "how well is this explained/paid off by the end" type of reactions. So there's going to be a lot of implicit spoilers, even for things I don't say straight out. If you're avoiding those, maybe go finish the series yourself before coming back to this.

For anyone who reads and/or writes on AO3: how do you feel about "freeform tags that are questions" being synned as if they don't have the question mark? Some examples of tags where it's happened: "Is this an AU?" is synned to Alternate Universe "does this count as Slow Burn?" is synned to Slow Burn "

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A very strong point: Last December: "Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?" The "we can always tell who's trans" panic is going just great: May: " Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use…

Leif & ThornRipples in the night (art | Leif/Thorn | worksafe ish)Average Overachievement (comic | Pascentia, Dexie | G) Moon KnightTossable Jake (art | Marc/Jake | worksafe) Pet Shop of Horrorsyou're my present, chapters 1-4 (fic | D, Leon/Xiao Mei, Jill | M)Here you come again (art | D/Leon | worksafe)No Need for Count D!

Home stretch of this reread now! Chapter 40 "Departure" is the start of Tokyopop volume 10, and halfway through Seven Seas volume 7. Sidenote: I still haven't solved the mystery of the "Madam C" character tag on AO3...but I happened to reread an older fic that refers to "Madam C's" as a bakery. So now I'm guessing we only ever hear about the bakery, we never meet the proprietor.

Leif & ThornHeart-shaped Leif (art | Leif | worksafe) Moon Knight5+1 times Marc was maybe technically having a foursome?, chapter 3 (fic | Marc/Steven/Jake, Marc/Steven/Layla | M)Fingers in mouth (art | Marc/Steven | technically worksafe??) Moon Knight/Pet Shop of HorrorsReally Good With Dogs (fic | Jake, D/Leon, Khonshu | G) Pet Shop of HorrorsFlowers and the Detective's Daemon…

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Next Pet Shop of Horrors reread thread! Originally liveblogged on Mastodon / Bluesky, combined here. Affiliate links for the whole Collector’s Edition, in case you want your own. And one bonus link: Fanshop Discord server (heads-up that there's active spoiler discussion for the rest of the series happening right now). Still in Seven Seas volume 7, starting with the two side stories that weren't in the original Tokyopop release at all.

I had a "nightmare" that I found a PSoH chapter revealing Leon's Actual Full Name. The nightmare part was that dream-me had a ton of stress thinking about how many Leon-related canonical tags I would have to update/rename. Come join the AO3 Tag Wranglers, you too can have fun bizarre anxiety dreams like this! Monthly fandom tracking (I know it's not the 15th as I'm posting this, but it was when I ran the numbers):