Books read, February 2026
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brithistorian- 7 February
- Library Wars: Love & War, vol. 10 (Kiiro Yumi)
- Good Old-fashioned Korean Spirit (Kim Hyun-sook and Ryan Estrada)
GenPrompt Bingo: A Moment of Clarity/Understanding
Feb. 7th, 2026 09:29 amsenmutChapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars [2008] - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Suicide/Suicidal Ideation
Characters: CC-1119 | Appo, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Suicidal Thoughts, Child Murder
Summary:
Appo is on a death world, hunting, but maybe he was the prey... and the wrong one at that.
Hunting Gone Wrong
They were being hunted, picked off one by one on this death world. Appo wasn't certain what he'd done to anger his Lord, but being sent to hunt a Force User had seemed easy enough on the data pad.
The reality was proving brutally different, and he was down to just two members of the original six that had followed him here to capture the rogue Force User for Lord Vader. Nor could he just comm for back up; the Exactor was pursuing the rag tag Rebels that had been in the system when they dropped.
Appo pulled up a map of the world, narrowing in on the fissure-laden landscape of this island. The Force User had taken out the other drop ship while they were in atmo before ditching from the ship and letting it crash. A small part of him decided it was rather fitting that they were all marooned, and Appo's chances of a pick up were a lot better than the Force User's.
TK-1138 let the world kill him, spooking at a noise and falling into one of the hissing fissures. Appo looked at the last surviving man of his squadron and ground his teeth inside his helmet. They might only be fleshborn, but he'd spent time fine-tuning the training that CC-2224 sent them out with.
They had to be the best to be 501st, after all. That had never stopped being true, from the before-times to now.
"Stay here, get the communication unit pieced together. Fleet should be back any time now."
"Yes sir."
Was the trooper relieved? Hoping Appo was the next victim? It didn't matter. Appo had to catch this karking —
The pain in his head came back, as that slip into his first language usually sparked it.
It was bad enough he held tight to his name.
He'd forgotten what it was like to hunt by himself. Even in his plastoid, it was easier to move and hide and track than when he was half-focused on keeping a squad alive.
He thought he was closing in on the Force User. He was fairly certain they were even injured. All he had to do was clear this climb, and he'd be close enough to be sure. Just a little more to climb —
— and a noise drew his eyes up, to see a face with white marks on bronze skin, blue and white marks on the horns and headtails alike, but eyes like his own staring holes into his soul.
The Jedi were traitors, manipulating the whole war, killing his brothers to cling to their power. The Chancellor said so, and he was their Supreme Commander. The General believed it. Appo followed orders, led the men up the stairs, and they started quartering the Temple, clearing out the traitors of all shapes and sizes.
It didn't matter that this one looked like the Commander. She'd been a traitor too. He brought his blaster up for a clean shot, waiting until she deflected two others to take his own.
He ignored the voice screaming in the back of his head that she had been just a kid.
Appo blinked at the bright light all around him, his concealing helmet (bucket, a piece of him remembered) gone, and him trussed him up as firmly as he'd meant to do to her once he caught the Force User.
She was tossing an EMP grenade in a hand, pacing in front of him.
Just as suddenly as she'd overcome him on the climb, she was there, kneeling in front of him.
"It would be more merciful to kill you," she said. "To you and to my father."
Clone dark eyes staring out of a face like hers.
"I don't feel like being merciful today." She clicked the detonator, and Appo's world disappeared for the second time in less than an hour, this time consumed by searing pain in his skull, the kind that came when he remembered the before times.
Vader's Fist.
Torrent Company.
Memories, like those of two different men, warred within him.
Torrent won.
He found himself retching up the nutripaste he'd been rationing himself since landfall. She at least tilted him with the Force so he didn't get it on himself.
Appo looked at her again, recognizing the hard jawline and set of the eyes as The Captain's trademark resolve. The lines of her marks might scream of the Commander, but he didn't think this one was going to try and make it all better like Commander Vod'ika had tried time and again, after the bad campaigns.
"So, when I take your binders off, I'm not going to stop you if you choose the easy way out," she said in a hard voice. "Didn't even know that kriffing monster still had any of you. Was supposed to be him I was facing down here."
"You… tried… to bait VADER?!" he asked, but of course a child of those two would be that brazen.
She didn't answer, just staring at him with unblinking anger at him for not being the right prey.
The easy way — he knew just what she meant, and as her features blurred with the earlier, rounder face of that child in the Temple, he thought he just might.
"You said your father," he managed to get out instead. "The Captain lives?"
"Somewhere out there. It's not like he and I could work together once I was old enough to go out on my own."
The binders fell away from him, and his gear was right there. A tiny piece of him suggested he go for his blaster, not to take the easy road, but to try and take her down, like he'd been told to.
Just like he'd been told to murder children. And atrocities that made that pale in comparison, ever since the day he followed his General into haran.
"What's the hard way?" he asked, and that got a blink, then a flex of the too-small lekku.
"I take you to a rehab specialist, away from the fighting, and you figure out if you can make peace with the man that chip made of you."
"Will he come there? Or her — kriff." The face and lekku had gone hard all over again on the pronoun. "She's gone?"
"It's why I joined up. He lived, when she didn't come back to us. And I'm not going to stop until he goes down."
"Small part of getting off this rock?"
"Got that covered." She turned to start walking down the easy side of the rise.
A few minutes later, he was following, with just the weapons and rations, hard as it was to leave the armor's protection behind.
She didn't say a word, and he kept following. Maybe, in her, in what she offered as the hard way, he'd find a way to his honor again.
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Feb. 7th, 2026 01:56 pmbbcnewsworld_feedJanuary Created Works Round-Up!
Feb. 7th, 2026 09:29 amduckprintspress
Duck Prints Press’s monthly “created works round-ups” are our opportunity to spotlight some of the amazing work that people working with us have done that ISN’T linked to their work with Duck Prints Press. We include fanworks, outside publications, and anything else that creators feel like sharing with y’all. Inclusion is voluntary and includes anything that they decided “hey, I want to put this on the created work’s round-up!”
Visit our Created Works Round-Up Master Post to see all the works our creators have shared since September, 2022!
And check out what they’ve shared with us this month…
In the Heart of the Lake by Shadaras
art || original work || platonic or familial || teen & up || no major warnings apply || complete
summary: Any time he can skip out of work to hold his child, he does.
other tags: Father-Child Relationship, Underwater Setting, Non-Sexual Nudity
After the Moon Rose Anew by Shadaras
fiction || the spear cuts through water – simon jimenez || m/m || jun ossa/keema of the daware tribe || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 1,048 || complete
summary: After the curtains close on the Inverted Theater, there are still moments of interest in the lives of these two young heroes who are no longer gods but mortals seeking contentment in their second lives.
This is one such moment.
other tags: Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Introspection
I Am Haunting Your House by Mindful Wrath
audio || original work || no ships || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 00:25:17 || complete
summary: I AM HAUNTING YOUR HOUSE is a dark alternative concept album with deeply layered vocal harmonies and a rich but restrained palette of instrumentation, Evanescence meets Will Wood, equal parts manic and dreamlike. It’s a ghost story. It’s a confessional. It’s screaming defiance at the people who want you dead while knowing you can’t outlive them all. I AM HAUNTING YOUR HOUSE is a story of grief, rage, hope, and exhaustion, dredged from my heart and sung with my whole chest.
Long, long ago, in the faraway land of Deimos… by EvilToTheCore13
fiction || warframe || m/m || loid/albrecht || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 12,376 || work in progress
summary: A cursed sorcerer-prince. A clever and brave servant who becomes a prisoner in the beast’s enchanted castle.
Nothing is ever quite so clear or quite so easy as it is in fairytales. Can love truly break a curse? And even if it can–will Albrecht Entrati ever accept it?
other tags: Alternate Universe – Beauty and the Beast FusionAlternate Universe – FantasyAlternate Universe – Historical, Some Whump, Eventual Romance, Human/Monster Romance
If You Don’t Have Your Own Deathworlder, Homegrown Is Fine by Pherryt
fiction || witcher || no ships || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 22,317 || complete
summary:
Lambert’s gone missing and Geralt’s not going to let that go without an investigation. While chances are slim, there’s always hope his brother is still alive.
Meanwhile, Lambert wakes up in a strange metal cage, face to face with the largest cat he’s ever seen – and it’s wearing clothes!
Aka: Witchers in space – brought to you by the author getting inspired by multiple Deathworlder fics and all those humans are space orcs posts from Tumblr.
other tags: blood and injury (non graphic), imprisoned, impled past torture, nothing graphic
A Little Fun by Terra P. Waters
fiction || stranger things || m/m || jonathan byers/steve harrington || explicit || no major warnings apply || 7,808 || complete
summary: After their return from the Abyss, Jonathan takes Steve up on an offer to crash at his and Robin’s apartment.
other tags: Season/Series 05, Spoilers, Pre-Time Skip, Wound Care, Getting Together, Life-Affirming Sex, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Bisexual Jonathan Byers, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington Has a Big Dick, There Was Only One Bed, Come Eating
To Lay Worship Upon the Altar of His Body by unforth
fiction || tian guan ci fu || m/m, poly (multiple genders) || hua cheng/xie lian, xie lian/anonymous others || explicit || no major warnings apply || 7,211 || complete
summary: Xie Lian realizes that the strange feeling that’s been growing within him presages a heavenly tribulation, one different than any he’s experienced before or heard about.
Now he has to figure out how to overcome the tribulation… but first, he has to figure out how to tell San Lang.
other tags: Canon divergent, gang bang, massive overstimulation
The Way of House Sparrows by Vee Dragonmuse
fiction || ted lasso || poly (multiple genders) || roy kent/jamie tartt/keeley jones || explicit || no major warnings apply || 147,736 || complete
summary: In which, Jamie continues his journey to be a better man while still embracing his inner prick and Roy whenever he stands still long enough. Keeley finds that kind of personal growth very appealing.
other tags: Post S3, domestic life, discussion of past child abuse, PTSD
Parallel Park by Linnea Peterson
micro-memoir || original work || m/nb || general audiences || no major warnings apply || 100 || complete
summary: A micro-memoir piece about re-learning to parallel park on a first date.
Mosaic Haiku, Chapter 20: Snow Days at the Mosaic by EliotQueliot
Mosaic Haiku, Chapter 21: Time Is an Illusion by EliotQueliot
poetry || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || general audiences || creator choses not to use warnings || 1,565 || work in progress
chapter 20 summary: Have fun playing in the snow
chapter 21 summary: In this episode of Mosaic Haiku, Eliot and Quentin reflect on the very first smoldering days of their friendship. These moments are both their past—and their future, somewhere, since they’ve time-traveled to the past of Fillory.
The events we see in Season 1, Episode 1, include some of their favorite moments from their first days together, and they reflect on these and remember them to one another over the years at the Mosaic. (Being armchair time-travelers has become a favorite pastime.)
Please note: The Tumblr post has the photoscenes from the show in place. The AO3 chapter has some of the art (there will be more added over time).
other tags: Haiku, Poetry, Mosaic, Beauty Of All Life, Episode: s03e05 A Life in the Day, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Watercolors, Drawings
chapter 20: TUMBLR – AO3 | chapter 21: TUMBLR – AO3
Mosaic Haiku (Art and Poetry), nine new paintings and a drawing by EliotQueliot
art || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || general audiences || creator choses not to use warnings || work in progress
summary: Mosaic Haiku celebrates the lifetime of love between Eliot and Quentin that yielded the “key to greater magic” in “A Life in the Day.” For the Time Is an Illusion event held by Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza, I added nine paintings to Mosaic Haiku, in Chapters 5, 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16 on AO3 (specifics about which art are listed in the chapter notes). For links to the works of art as individual pieces, see @eliotqueliot on the creators list for the Time Is an Illusion event (the Tumblr link for this post) and click the titles of the artworks to see the individual Tumblr posts. Additionally, following the event, I added a drawing to Chapter 6. The Instagram link takes you to that drawing (with links in the post to the individual Tumblr post).
other tags: Haiku, Poetry, Mosaic, Beauty Of All Life, Episode: s03e05 A Life in the Day, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Watercolors, Drawings
The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 7: Soulmate Cards by EliotQueliot
The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 8: Soulmate Cards (Part 2) by EliotQueliot
The First Duty of All Magicians Is to Save Their Friends, Chapter 9: Striptease or Fashion Fight? (Or, Cats and Kittens) by EliotQueliot
fiction || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 9,480 || work in progress
chapter 7 summary: In Quentin’s room, Eliot does his best to move the mission along (specifically: to bang one Quentin Coldwater). But he doesn’t want to hurt Quentin, and he actually has feelings for the boy that make him wish that other life Margo told him about could be real again. So the route proves more circuitous than one might expect from one Eliot Waugh.
chapter 8 summary: Eliot and Quentin choose to talk this time, and things go better. Part of that may be due to Eliot realizing how important it is to share his feelings… …and to a tiny, beautiful magic that lives in Quentin now. The magic which made the soulmate cards…
chapter 9 summary: Eliot’s mission: seduce one Quentin Coldwater to save his life. But really, who’s seducing whom?
other tags: Horomancy, Post-Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Fix-It, POV Eliot Waugh, Character Death Fix, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Time Shenanigans, Episode: s03e05 A Life in the Day, Physical Kids Cottage (The Magicians), Rescues, Eliot Waugh Is Smart, Margo Hanson is a Good Friend
chapter 7: TUMBLR – AO3 | chapter 8: TUMBLR – AO3 | chapter 9: TUMBLR – AO3
…Baby One More Time, Chapter 12 to 15 by EliotQueliot
fiction || the magicians (lev grossman, syfy) || m/m || quentin coldwater/eliot waugh || mature || creator choses not to use warnings || 19,715 || work in progress
chapter 12 summary: “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try until you give up the ghost, because I’m not giving up on Quentin.”
chapter 13 summary: Quentin meets Quentin. Eliot confronts his truth.
chapter 14 summary: Eliot and Mosaic Quentin both need time to rest and reunite before returning to the quest to save Quentin 40. Of course, coming up with a new plan means reviewing a painful past.
chapter 15 summary: They’re both “his Quentin.” Please don’t make Eliot choose.
other tags: Time Loop, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Quentin Coldwater Lives, Time Travel Fix-It, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Memories, horomancy, Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day), Age Difference, The Clock Barrens (Fillory), the mosaic, Post-Mosaic Timeline (The Magicians: A Life in the Day)
chapter 12: TUMBLR – AO3 | chapter 13: TUMBLR – AO3 | chapter 14: TUMBLR – AO3 | chapter 15: TUMBLR – AO3
Merry Christmas to my Dog by ShannonXL
video || original work || no ships || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 00:00:39 || complete
summary: Did you know that animals can talk on midnight on Christmas eve? Something about Jesus dying for capitalism makes them chatty.
Need by ShannonXL
fiction || the vampire diaries (tv) || f/m || elena gilbert/damon salvatore || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 4,373 || complete
summary:
Elena gets hit by a curse and Damon is the one who’s there.
other tags: fuck or die
Never Pegged You For a Good Guy by ShannonXL
fiction || the vampire diaries || f/m || elena gilbert/damon salvatore || explicit || no major warnings apply || 5,824 || complete
summary: Elena finds Damon’s strap-on harness and fucks him like he badly needs.
other tags: Pegging, Established Relationship, Fluff and Smut
Take Care of Me by ShannonXL
fiction || the vampire diaries || f/m || elena gilbert/damon salvatore || explicit || no major warnings apply || 3,375 || complete
summary: Alternate ending of the argument in S5E10.
other tags: Established Relationship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Non-Sexual Intimacy
Books Received, January 31 — February 6
Feb. 7th, 2026 09:15 amjames_davis_nicoll
With two books new to me, this just barely qualifies as books received. One SF, one fantasy and the SF novel is from a series.
Books Received, January 31 — February 6
Which of these look interesting?
A City Dreaming by Maurice Broaddus (June 2026)
2 (25.0%)
Lord of the Heights by Scarlett J. Thorne (July 2026
0 (0.0%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
7 (87.5%)
Round 35: aurora_amethyst: somein30: icon crossing
Feb. 7th, 2026 08:54 amaurora_amethyst posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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(morning writing)
Feb. 7th, 2026 08:55 amelainegreyHOME! I am home home home home.
This business of feeling feelings: so glad to be home. I think i loathe air travel. Thank goodness for e-books, enabling me to dissociate from the experience. There was a period when i was flying cross country and crocheting when audio books and crochet were my flight go tos, but between there being more of me and less room i can't imagine doing much than holding the phone. Between NC and Ohio with stops at a hub were just tiny hops in the air and back down and long stretches of sitting or lugging.
Work went well. We had an all staff meeting where our president cheer-led us in this year's theme of courage under pressure, and i think i needed to hear it. This project will take much courage. It will also be very engaging between now and retirement, and i wonder if it will exhaust me or engage me.
And there was some speaking of retirement. Our product person DH is retiring... soon? I thought it was next year but some chatter made me suddenly wonder if it's this year. I discussed that question with the engineering manager BC as he drove me to the airport. (We both thought it was further off.) BC said he was planning to retire at 60 as our employer has a health care benefit that continues then until Medicare. (He said it as if it was a long way off. Rummages in LinkedIn: hmm, he graduated from college 9 years after i did.) He thinks our employer will pay the same into our health care as they do now after retirement. I just thought we could buy into the same negotiated plan. I can take the benefit on Friday, 2028-03-31.
I don't know if it will be fiscally wise to retire then, but right now i hold that out as conceivable retirement to myself when my sense of energy flags. Working until 62 or 63 would have some financial benefits. I just don't know if i can i develop practices to take care of my physical body.
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I did take double doses of my morning meds yesterday, unintentionally. Last day, i thought, and downed all the remaining pills, forgetting that the trip was a day shorter than planned. I found a pub med review of 400+ overdoses for the med and decided i did not need to call poison control. There's a one percent chance on paper of a bad reaction, and i am a larger person, so the impact would be diluted. I reduced caffeine, crossed my fingers, and all was ok. I have lots of other physical complaints and whining, but nothing worrisome.
Christine says she's feeling stronger and can tell she's healing.
I should move my body today, something in the yarden. Unpack. I probably have a long list of todos.
Day 7: fanart, Bad Sisters - Angelica Collins
Feb. 7th, 2026 10:53 amsisterdivinium posting in halfamoonFandom: Bad Sisters
Characters: Angelica Collins (hinting at Angelica/Grace)
Rating: G
Notes: Done with felt tip pens, Chinese ink and graphite.
Summary: At the end of the day, whatever Angelica's actions, the truth behind them is only one. It bears Grace's name.
Over here, at my journal!
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Feb. 7th, 2026 08:20 amphys_environment_feedRetro_Icontest: Icon Crossing
Feb. 6th, 2026 07:40 pmaurora_amethyst posting in 1wonderment | | |
I made a pretty decent batch of icons for the Icon Crossing round at
retro_icontest . I was going to make 5 more, but I was hitting some road blocks with the randomization, lol. Pairs 1-10 were randomized by tinny, and 11-15 were randomized by me.( . . . icon crossing. . . . )
-No hotlinking, please!
-Comments are love!
-Textless icons are NOT bases! Please do not alter them!
-Please credit
aurora_amethyst or 1wonderment-Do not claim them as your own!
Free for All Saturday, Week 6 [DW Edition]
Feb. 7th, 2026 08:50 am↑↑↑ Available dates:
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