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verushka70 ([personal profile] verushka70) wrote in [community profile] dsvirtualbar2025-12-02 04:08 pm

"Were there 3 or 4 seasons of due South?" "Yes." (with answer and proof)

So I was doing some dS research and though I haven't seen it recently, the question of "how many seasons of due South were there?" often comes up (or its variation, "were there 3 or 4 seasons of due South" - to which the answer is, "Yes" because both are true, depending which country you're talking about).

Explaining requires the Wayback Machine, but here you go for the definitive answer: it was 3 in the US and 4 in Canada (and other countries), as evidenced by this old page from William and Elyse's due South Page.

Specifically, this section here answers that question: 3 in the US, and 4 elsewhere (like the UK and Australia, in addition to Canada).

That is why the dS episode transcripts that were cribbed from the (very) old (and long defunct) Victoria's (Not So) Secret Site has the collection of transcripts bundled into one big file per season (with only three seasons). Scroll all the way to the bottom of the dS transcripts site, and you'll see the three big S1, S2, and S3 transcripts of all episode of the three individual seasons).

Gratitude to the Wayback Machine and Internet Archive for preserving fandom history. 💜
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verushka70 ([personal profile] verushka70) wrote in [community profile] ds_noticeboard2025-12-02 04:05 pm

"Were there 3 or 4 seasons of due South?" "Yes." (with answer and proof)

So I was doing some dS research and though I haven't seen it recently, the question of "how many seasons of due South were there?" often comes up (or its variation, "were there 3 or 4 seasons of due South" - to which the answer is, "Yes" because both are true, depending which country you're talking about).

Explaining requires the Wayback Machine, but here you go for the definitive answer: it was 3 in the US and 4 in Canada (and other countries), as evidenced by this old page from William and Elyse's due South Page.

Specifically, this section here answers that question: 3 in the US, and 4 elsewhere (like the UK and Australia, in addition to Canada).

That is why the dS episode transcripts that were cribbed from the (very) old (and long defunct) Victoria's (Not So) Secret Site has the collection of transcripts bundled into one big file per season (with only three seasons). Scroll all the way to the bottom of the dS transcripts site, and you'll see the three big S1, S2, and S3 transcripts of all episode of the three individual seasons).

Gratitude to the Wayback Machine and Internet Archive for preserving fandom history. 💜
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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_pinch_hits2025-12-02 03:39 pm

Pinch Hit #68

We are down to one open pinch hit! It is due at the main assignment deadline of Wednesday 17 December at 9pm UTC.

Comments are turned off for this community. To claim a pinch hit, please email the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com and:
  • Include the pinch hit number in the subject line
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For example, if your AO3 username is yuletidehippo and you want to claim Pinch Hit #42 for AwsomRecip, you might email us with the subject line “PH 42 for AwsomRecip” and “I’m yuletidehippo on AO3” in the body of the email. As was the case previously, if you don’t receive a reply you did not get the pinch hit.

Also! We now have a pinch hitters' prompts post! If you weren't signed up and you're pinch hitting, your rare fandom prompts are very welcome!


PH #68: Тайны дворцовых переворотов | Secrets of the Palace Revolutions (TV 2000), Hotel Portofino (TV), Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Request 1 by Alley_Skywalker
Тайны дворцовых переворотов | Secrets of the Palace Revolutions (TV 2000)
Characters: Ivan Alekseyevich Dolgoruky (Secrets of the Palace...), Pyotr II Alekseyevich | Peter II of Russia (Secrets of the Palace...)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

Request 2 by Alley_Skywalker
Hotel Portofino (TV)
Characters: Anish Sengupta, Lucian Ainsworth
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
Lucian/Nish is OTP ❤
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

Request 3 by Alley_Skywalker
Война и мир - Лев Толстой | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Characters: Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (W&P), Fyodor "Fedya" Ivanovich Dolokhov (W&P), Elena "Hélène" Vasilyevna Kuragina (W&P)
My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Please see letter for prompts and squee (and better readability for Likes/DNWs)!
Ship preferences for this request: Dolokhov/Anatole, Dolokho/Helene, Anatole/Dolokhov/Helene
General Likes:
A focus on the romantic/emotional aspect of a relationship and some semblance of a plot/point rather than just sex | mutual pining | secretly requited pining | complicated relationship dynamics | relationships that take some effort/time to work | loving each other but because [insert reasons here] not always being able to be together/communicate those feelings | UST | romantic partners who just can’t help but adore each other | kissing | face touching | forehead and hand kisses (esp. for comfort or as shows of devotion) | hugging | holding hands | non-sexual physical contact in general | praise kink (in the sense that there’s a lot of emotional investment in and getting-off on getting praised or otherwise acknowledged as worthwhile) | hurt/comfort!!! | LOYALTY KINK | themes of loyalty in general | conflicted loyalties | protectiveness and self-sacrifice | friendship | family (dynamics) | platonic love | backstories and childhood fics | fluff and banter | cuddling/snuggling | well-rounded characters | characters with emotions/sympathetic motives | the “other side of the story | politics and intrigue | worldbuilding especially in fantasy and historical settings | romantic asexual characters and asexual romances.
General DNWs (see letter for caveats on some of these):
Humiliation | noncom/rape | incest (unless requested or canon; doesn’t include cousins) | ships with 10+ years age gap (unless requested) | minors under 16 in sexual/romantic relationships with adults | Explicit rating and PWPs | above T rating in art | healing cock | BDSM and D/s | A/B/O | kink involving pain, humiliation or feature bodily fluids | foot kink | mpreg | cross-dressing | non-canon genders/gender headcanons | genderbending/genderswap | crack!fic | age regression & age play | AUs other than Canon Divergence (includes e.g. non-canon supernatural creatures/magic, soulmate marks, etc) | crossovers | time travel | apocalypse/post-apocalypse scenarios (unless canon) | gore | urine/feces | depictions of vomit(ing) beyond a cursory mention | non-canon permanent injuries/disabilities | (physical) torture | positive portrayals/framing of parental favoritism | narrative implications that “sex = love” or that romantic partners HAVE to have sex to have a “valid” relationship or to be “really” in love.
Gifts are enabled ❤

Letter:
https://alley-skywalker.dreamwidth.org/82828.html

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rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote2025-12-02 12:47 pm

The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thomas Walker



A sensitive, well-written novel about a young girl coming of age at the end of the world. 11-year-old Julia lives in California suburbs with her doctor dad and fragile mom when the Earth's rotation begins to slow, and gradually gets slower and slower and slower.

Days and nights stretch out. Birds fall from the sky. Some people become severely ill, apparently from disruption of circadian rhythms. Crops fail. But life goes on, and Julia experiences all the ordinary milestones - a first love, her parents' marriage breaking up, becoming more independent - against a backdrop of larger loss and change. It

This is an apocalypse novel almost entirely without violence, apart from some light persecution of a scapegoated neighbor. There's some death, but it's all from natural or accidental causes. It's science fiction but marketed as literary fiction, and feels a lot more like the latter. The book has that melancholy, nostalgic, sepia vibe of looking back on times when you knew something was wrong but were young enough to be focused mostly on yourself, and knowing you'll never be that innocent ot experience the same time or world again.
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purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote in [site community profile] dw_community_promo2025-12-02 08:38 pm

Gen Prompt Bingo Round 29


A border of purple flowers with Gen Prompt Bingo  Round 29 and the url genprompt_bingo.dreamwidth.org superimposed over it.


[community profile] genprompt_bingo is a low commitment multi-fandom, multi-media bingo challenge.

Its aim is to provide bingo cards of gen-style prompts to be used as inspiration in creating fic, images, meta, fanmixes, vids or any other kind of fannish activities. Although the prompts themselves are "Gen" (i.e., no prompts are specifically about romance or sex) fills may be of any genre, style or rating.

Prompt lists are renewed at the start of December and April. New cards can be claimed then even if a previous card has not been completed.

Round 29 is open
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Muccamukk ([personal profile] muccamukk) wrote2025-12-02 12:25 pm

GPOY

I just saw two culinary arts students sitting in the cafeteria still in their whites. They had an entire yule log in a pastry box between them, and were just silently eating it with forks.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-02 06:39 pm
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Write every day: Day 2

How was your writing day? I wrote about 150 words on the epilogue of my longfic, and since my writing the last few months has not been very productive and today was a busy day, I am happy with that. More tomorrow, hopefully.

Tally:
Day 1: [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chestnut_pod

Bonus farm news: I harvested my experimental oca plant yesterday. The yield was very small, and I had expected no better, as they really need a longer growing season. Perhaps next year we'll try it as one of the experimental ground crops under the high-growing tomatoes in our new polytunnel.
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-12-02 09:58 am

Stranger Things: We Better Make a Start, by thefourthvine

Fandom: Stranger Things
Pairings/Characters: Steve Harrington & Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Rating: Explicit
Length: 11,087 words
Creator Link: [archiveofourown.org profile] thefourthvine
Theme: Amnesty, Just Plain Fun, Platonic Life Partners, Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies AUs, Canon LGBTQ Characters, First Time

Summary: As soon as Eddie gets to the counter, Steve turns to him and says, "Back me up here. Kissing is no big deal, right?"

Steve Harrington is talking about kissing. Eddie's brain shorts out. "Uh," he says.

Reccer's Notes: Steve accompanies Robin to a gay bar where he discovers his skills with the ladies are transferable to guys. Robin and Eddie both have a crisis over it, though for different reasons. Very fun, very hot, with Steve at his himbo best.

Fanwork Link: We Better Make a Start
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grey853 ([personal profile] grey853) wrote2025-12-02 12:41 pm
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Snow in Kentucky

I woke up to 23 degrees, five inches of snow and no internet. I'm just glad I had power and the internet outage was short-lived. I'm in Kentucky and we're not used to this kind of weather so early in the season. We don't usually get snow until late December or January. I'm personally not a fan of the white stuff unless it's in a movie.

I'm hoping at some point that some industrious kid from the neighborhood will drop by and want to make some cash by digging me out. So far, no luck.

Here's a shot of the sight outside my back door.

Snow12-2

I'm so not looking forward to this winter.
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petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-12-02 08:06 am

Rule 34 Time - the author trifecta

This Tumblr post has Salman Rushdie's account of meeting Umberto Eco and Mario Vargas Llosa after each of them had trashed the other two in the press, and discovering that they got along extremely well in person.

OT3!

Having read none of them save a little Vargas Llosa en español, I can't begin to write it, but I can Want it.

*puts it in the Maybe Someday Yuletide tag*
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tassosss ([personal profile] tassosss) wrote2025-12-02 07:52 am
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The Expanse season 5

I spent Sunday watching The Expanse season 5, that tracks to Nemesis Games and part of Babylon's Ashes. I just started reading the latter yesterday. The show continues to deliver, and my only complaint was Amos's haircut (felt too styled for a trek through the wilderness.)

spoilers for book and show )
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beanside ([personal profile] beanside) wrote2025-12-02 05:11 am

Funny how it all turns out when you're too young to know what love's about

It's Tuesday! Whoo, survived Monday! Go me! I did it to the tune of 60 calls. The team average is supposed to be 37-40, so that's a lot. By the end of it, I was wiped out. But instead, I slapped on a bra and went out to deliver some ornaments we'd gotten to a small business who's decorating a tree in Good Sam Hospital. I had gotten like five boxes of them, and we used exactly none, instead going with the snowflakes and ginormous balls from Walmart. It's an interesting mix, but I kind of love it. I have one more ornament coming courtesy of the sale in the band Ghost's shop. They had a grucifix ornament, so I grabbed that shit.

Today will hopefully be a tiny bit quieter. Probably not much, but a girl can dream. Maybe 50 calls?

The CT techs at work are making me crazy. They were emailed about a week ago, with a question about a patient's contrast allergy, and where they should be scheduled, and they haven't replied. I've got a spot held, and I'd like to get the answer so I know whether they can use it. I sent a reminder yesterday, but still nothing.

For absolutely no reason, I woke up at 4:30 this morning and was ready to get up. No clue why my body does this sometimes. It's not a huge thing, just annoying. I took my Rybelsus and managed to stay in bed for 30 minutes for it to kick in before I got up and took pills and drank coffee, as per the directions.

I'm debating dinner tonight. I was considering chicken fajitas, which could be very tasty, it's just a lot of prep, cutting up the onions and peppers, and chicken, plus making tortillas. I'll probably do it anyway. I want fajitas. And more importantly, I want homemade tortillas. I even have a press. I'll have to do it early, since I have a psych appt at 5:30. It won't take long, but it'll break up my flow. I figure chopping first, then cook some tortillas, then appointment, then cook the chicken, peppers and onions. I need to christen my chicken with some marinade this morning, so it'll be ready.

I've been slowly paying down the cruise, and I should have it paid by the end of next week. That'll be everything paid for except the pre and post cruise hotels. We're down to 156 days.

It looks like this shit is going to happen! Next milestone will be getting the dog used to his sitter. We're going to meet with her off his turf, and see how he does, then bring her into outside when we're walking him. My plan is that each time, she gets his leash and he walks with her solo. And eventually, she just walks him right in the house, and we see how that goes.

I've almost got the next grouping of cards ready to go. Hopefully the first batch has arrived/is arriving soon. I'm hoping to stop at the mailbox tomorrow when I go to get my pills.

Thursday, I have two food deliveries coming. One from a seafood place and one from the butcher. They're both relatively small orders, but our freezer will be bursting at the seams.

Okay, I suppose it's time to consider chopping some food, maybe. Then I could bag it and marinate it all day. Everyone have an awesome Tuesday!
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snickfic ([personal profile] snickfic) wrote in [community profile] recthething2025-12-01 07:19 pm
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Oasis RPF recs

Four fics, all Liam Gallagher/Noel Gallagher, between 5k and 47k, at my journal.
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purpleyin ([personal profile] purpleyin) wrote in [community profile] holly_poly2025-12-01 09:09 pm

Assignments Out

Assignments are out! You should have received your assignment already, if not do let us know. Countdown timer links for both the default deadline and the fanworks due deadline have also been added to our schedule post and the collection profile now, so that you can keep track of when they are in your time zone.

There are seven initial pinch hits that we'll be sending out within the next day. They will be posted first to the Google Group for pinch hits and any not claimed over there will then be posted here/to our other socials. We'll also be putting up the Pinch Hitters Treats post soon as well, so keep a look out for that if you claim a pinch hit or if you might be interested in treating any of our pinch hitters.

If there's any issue with your assignment, or if you have any queries for us to pass onto your recipient, please send us an e-mail at holly.poly.exchange@gmail.com ASAP so that we can try to get it resolved.


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rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote2025-12-01 01:09 pm

Strange Pictures, by Uketsu



Another mystery with light horror/urban legend elements and a heavy use of images by the mysterious and pseudonymous Uketsu. If you like creepypasta, you will like this.

An abandoned blog with sketches of a woman's future child may reveal a horrifying secret. A child's drawings of his apartment building worry his teacher. A mountaintop murder has a clue in a sketch by the murder victim. How do the images reveal the solutions? Are these three weird stories related?

I enjoyed this very much. It's exactly as fun and bonkers as the first Uketsu book I read, Strange Houses, but feels more confident and assured. It also reads more like a normal novel, with actual scenes rather than solely relying on interviews and exposition.

I'm excited to read his next two books (forthcoming in English) Strange Buildings (originally published in Japanese as Strange Houses 2, which the translator says is more dark/disturbing than the first two) and Strange Maps, which the translator says is more of a classic mystery.

Content notes: Child abuse, animal in danger, brief but graphic violence.

Spoilers!

Read more... )