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Title: Bend It Like Benton

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Fandoms: due South x FlashForward crossover

Categories: Gen, M/M

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Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio (formerly Stella Kowalski) mentioned, Benton Fraser mentioned, Ray Kowalski implied

Relationships: Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski implied

Rating: Teen and Up

Length: 300 words (triple drabble)

Summary: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time nearly everyone in the world lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds during which time most saw a vision – a “flash forward” – of their lives six months into the future: April 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM PDT. Some people, however, merely lost consciousness without experiencing a vision…people who were then presumed to be fated to die by April 29, 2010.

AN: Written for both Ray Vecchio Day and for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW.

Fic on AO3.

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Announcement! It's time for our Global Pros Watch. We will be watching Not A Very Civil Civil Servant, on Tuesday, 30 September, 2025, at 9PM Eastern US time. Please check your time zone clock in your part of the world. We will stream the episode on Zoom. Before the viewing, at approx. 8PM Eastern US time, we will have an open Zoom chat. I will post the link on Monday, 29 September, 2025.

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BBC article.

Bring tissues if you, like me, are susceptible to Really Good News.

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Fandom: À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Duc Jean des Essientes, Gray Mouser
Rating: General Audiences (although most of the beverages might be deemed Mature, depending on your country.)
Length: 542
Creator Links: Idlewild Designs (archived); I’ve not succeeded in recovering a name for the site owner.
Theme: Food & Cooking, Book Fandoms, Meta, Pre-AO3 Works, Research, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms

Summary: The two literary passages cited serve that purpose:

Dining off black-bordered plates, the company had enjoyed turtle soup, Russian rye bread, ripe olives from Turkey, caviare, mullet botargo, black puddings from Frankfurt, game served in sauces the color of liquorice and boot-polish, truffle jellies, chocolate creams, plum-puddings, nectarines, pears in grape-juice syrup, mulberries and black heart cherries. From dark-tinted glasses they had drunk the wines of Limagne and Roussillon, of Tenedos, Valdepeñas and Oporto. And after coffee and walnut cordial, they had rounded off the evening with kvass, porter and stout.

— a black feast held to mourn the loss of the Duc des Esseintes's virility in A Rebours, by Huysman

The collation on the little ebony table beyond the coffin consisted entirely of black foods. By sight and then by nibbling and sipping the Mouser discovered their nature: thin slices of a very dark rye bread crusted with poppy seeds and dripped with black butter; slivers of charcoal-seared steak; similarly broiled tiny thin slices of calf's liver sprinkled with dark spices and liberally pricked with capers; the darkest grape jellies; truffles cut paper thin and mushrooms fried black; pickled chestnuts; and of course, ripe olives and black fish eggs—caviar. The black drink, which foamed when he poured it, turned out to be stout laced with the bubbly wine of Ilthmar.

— Fritz Leiber, "Bazaar of the Bizarre"

Reccer's Notes: With Halloween impending, this seemed an apropos topic.

Idlewild Designs was a 2000’s Geocities purveyor of Gothic, fantasy, literary, occult, rustic, Art Nouveau, and otherwise Bohemian aesthetic living tips; here they expand and elaborate upon the two literary feasts described, with potential ingredients listed by category and outlinks to recipes. (The site was still very much under construction by the time Geocities shut down; I’m assuming the business, at least in that stage, is by now as dead as Bela Lugosi and that this post doesn’t violate the OTW’s advertising ban.)

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So what items might you add to the list? Some suggestions of my own:

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Fanwork Links: Black Feasts, by Idlewild Designs (archived.)

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Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 46!

In the opening editorial of this issue, the editors explain that the journal is focused on diversifying fan studies by diversifying “the scholarly grounds upon which we do our work” to work against “the existence of a sort of canon of fan studies scholarship”.

Over the last year, the editors goal has been to “make room for the fandom killjoys (Pande 2018) and troublemakers who can unsettle those foundations” and this general issue continues to engage with that work.

Each issue includes articles representing theory, fannish meta, and book reviews, such as the following:

Further, this issue introduces a new special section, “New Currents,” which collects articles on new topics or approaches at a smaller scale than a special issue. In this issue, New Currents focuses on how fans and fan studies scholars engage with AI as a tool for transformative engagement with fannish texts. It features four articles and two symposium pieces, along with an introduction by the section’s guest editors, Suzanne R. Black and Naomi Jacobs.

TWC’s current calls for papers include the following issues:

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We accept submissions for our general issues on a rolling basis. The general issue is always released on September 15.

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This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanart/fics/fancrafts/fanvids/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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Thursday already! The week has been going fast. It feels like this should be Wednesday. Alas.

I'm a bit tired this morning, though I'm not sure why. I slept pretty well overall. I only woke up once, but I went right back to sleep.

I found a ring for our vow renewal! It's going to take at least a month to get here, as they make the rings individually. It's a very simple solitaire ring, but instead of a diamond, I went for moissanite, which I think is prettier than diamonds. Also, way less expensive, and not horribly shitty. I really love the design! I'm going to be waiting with bated breath to see how it looks.

Today, I shall finish the chores I didn't do yesterday, and then wash clothes and help Jess wash their hair.

I was really hurting last night, and I wasn't able to take Yoda on his long walk. I felt like the asshole. of all assholes and the *worst* pet momma ever.

Tomorrow, we may have a trip to DC to get Jess' drains out, or we may not. Depends on how much out put it has. It needs to be under 25mls. So far, we haven't gotten quite down to that level. I think Jess will reach out to the PA to see if we need to move the appointment.

My sister is very talky this morning, and I want to rip my ears off. Dunno why she's annoying me thie morning, but wow.

Okay, not much of substance to report today. Everyone have an awesome day!

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So remember how Booking.com told me our hotel reservation in Aberystwyth was confirmed, but when we got there the hotel had never heard of us? The agent I talked to on the phone on the spot said that if I booked one of the alternative hotels they'd email me, Booking.com would cover any extra cost. I booked one of them, it was quite nice, and it cost an extra £105; but a follow-up "sorry about the screw-up" form email from B.c said that they would refund up to £51.90. (Which is a weird number; I have no idea how they came up with it.) So obviously I was not happy about eating the other £53.10!

Well, it took an hour on the phone with them again today, but I emphasized that the first agent had specifically said that if I chose one of their options I would not face any extra expense, and also used the phrase "Booking.com's error" a couple of times, and in the end I did get the full amount refunded! (Well, they issued it as an in-house "cash credit," but I can withdraw it all to a credit card.) Victory is mine!

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