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Fandom: Mega Man (Cartoon 1993)
Pairings/Characters: Mega Man & Proto Man, Mega Man & Roll
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Length: 342,087
Creator Links: BlackRussian on FFN and BlackRussian on Ao3
Theme:
Siblings, Action/Adventure, Enemies Working Together, Plotty Fic, Series, Science Fiction
Summary:
Fighting Dr. Wily while watching your rebellious sister is tough for anyone, even a robot. Add an evil brother who's determined for you to join his side (or else battle to see who's strongest), things get ugly. Retcon of the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon.
Reccer's Notes:
An amazing AU take on the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon from 1993 which adds heart and multiple intertwining subplots, as well as fixing major plot holes and including more background for various characters. The central character relationships are between Mega Man and his (evil?) older brother Proto Man, and Mega Man and his sister Roll, but there's plenty of background relationships that keep the story engaging, along with a lot of clever worldbuilding and cheesy moments to fit the original cartoon's tone. It's part of an ongoing series, but seasons 1-2 are complete.

Fanwork Links:
Read it here on Ao3 and here on FF.net

Fancake Theme for March: Siblings

Mar. 3rd, 2026 10:05 am
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Photograph of two adorable Vietnamese toddlers in identical denim overalls and dinosaur sweaters, text: Siblings, at Fancake.
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McRaven - Mississippi's most haunted house

McRaven Tour Home is Mississippi's most haunted house.  It's strictly a tour home built in 1797 by highwayman Andrew Glass as a hideout.  It was added on in 1836 and again in 1849, but the original portion of the house remains 1797.  Civil War buffs will love learning about how McRaven was used as a field camp and later field hospital during the Siege of Vicksburg.

Open daily for history tours, haunted tours and paranormal investigations.  Featured on several television shows such as "Ghost Adventures", "Haunted Towns" and "Looking Around Mississippi with Walt Grayson."  McRaven has also hosted several paranormal investigators such as Richel Stratton, Brian Murray from "Ghost Hunters" and Youtubers Sam and Colby.

Private ghost hunts available, sorry no overnight accommodations, the ghosts aren't morning people.  

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For those who know [personal profile] minoanmiss and aren't already aware, she went into cardiac arrest, had to be resuscitated, had to be resuscitated *again*, and now has brain edema. And isn't expected to live.

Certainly, odd things do happen, but it seems unlikely in this case.

Which *sucks*. I've known her for fucking decades, on and off, in person and online, and just. Fuck.

As Gingi put it, "MM is not religious but is agnostic rather than atheist. She would appreciate being thought of lovingly, kindly, and generously in this time." <3<3<3.

(Thank you, [personal profile] gingicat for the news.)

Day 2 works are now live!!

Mar. 3rd, 2026 11:28 am
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And can be found here! Happy reading!
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Today, much of the world is fortunate to have sufficient sanitation and methods of treatment to prevent widespread tuberculosis (TB). In the early 20th century, however, this was not the case, and the disease was much more poorly understood and a massive issue. Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, TB patients (known as "lungers") would often seek treatment at sanatoria in places with healthier air. Arizona was especially considered an ideal place because of its warm and dry climate. Several were located in the then-sparsely populated Cave Creek area alone.

With thousands of patients coming to the state, the sanatoria were overloaded with many being forced to stay in tents. Better-equipped sanatoria had proper TB cabins or huts in which "lungers" lived. This particular example from Cave Creek was at the Desmount Sanatarium, which operated during the 1920s and 30s. Most of these structures did not survive long. This one did because it was used for various other purposes afterwards, including housing for construction workers of nearby dams. Finally, in 1990 it was restored moved to its present location at the Cave Creek Museum. Recognized as the last tubercular cabin in Arizona, it was also named to the National Register of Historic Places.

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Stories about nuclear war don't usually feature popular, pre-existing characters...

Four Times Familiar Characters Faced Nuclear Armageddon

This winter's cozy project

Mar. 3rd, 2026 10:17 am
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As part of this winter’s “learn to darn” project I checked out a book that Andrea had gotten out of the library after she returned it, because I like to have a book about things when learning a new skill, even if it’s the sort of skill where books aren’t the best resource–and for mending, I have to admit the superiority of video tutorials. The book was Skye Pennant’s Well Worn: Visible Mending for the Clothes You Love, and it turns out she also has a channel full of video tutorials, so I could use both. Yay!

This book was great for learning more about mending, like, contextually, and seeing lots of pictures of what it could look like and learning to think about how to approach specific mends. It is organized largely by type of clothing and type of damage, which is very useful–I could go right to “sweaters” and “socks,” and see what she recommends as the best type of darn for fixing underarms, or elbows, or heels. I also learned what some of the different types of stitches are called, which is a thing I’d managed never to learn before even on the occasions I had learned the stitches themselves. This all made it much easier and more helpful to figure out what to look for when looking for video tutorials on Youtube, which I did have to do for my actual mending because I did find myself having a fairly difficult time trying to translate the still images of the various steps of stitching into motion, especially with the horizontal image flip I had to mentally do given that I have a different dominant hand than the author.

At the end of the day I am not sure I’m hugely on the visible mending train specifically since my wardrobe tends to be pretty monochromatic, but it’s nice to have options and it’s good in the learning phase to not be focused on the idea that if a darn is visible then I have somehow failed. If the hole is gone then I have not failed. Maybe one of these days I’ll be brave enough to darn black socks with red thread, but in the meantime, my favorite black sweater is nice and discreetly Scotch darned and I can wear it again, so overall I’m feeling pretty pleased about the whole endeavor.
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Heavy Time (Devil in the Belt, volume 1) by C J Cherryh

A rescue places two space miners in the cross-hairs of a ruthless corporation.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/muscle-and-blood

Victory in Virginia!!

Mar. 3rd, 2026 08:17 am
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On Friday, the judge hearing our VA case issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Virginia's SB 854 against any Netchoice member (which means us!) while the lawsuit proceeds. Judge Giles's ruling is a little technical in places and covers a number of legal issues that I keep meaning to get around to explaining someday so folks can have a better grasp on the kind of things they'll see argued in cases like these, like strict scrutiny and associational standing, but the end result is still pretty clear, I think: the judge agrees Netchoice has made a strong enough showing right from the start that the law is unconstitutional to block the state from doing anything to enforce it until the full case can be heard.

This is only the beginning of that particular fight and we still have a ways to go, but it's great news for us, for all our users from Virginia, and for the internet as a whole. Three cheers for the Netchoice team and the outside litigation counsel, who are Clement & Murphy for this one! The full docket in RECAP: NetChoice v. Jason S. Miyares, 1:25-cv-02067, (E.D. Va.).

For me!

Mar. 3rd, 2026 08:09 am
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Happy Purim, and happy [community profile] purimgifts!

I got the most glorious fic (and image collage) -- this feels like it could be an outtake from the actual books, and that's high praise.


Hamentaschen (438 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lady Astronaut Series - Mary Robinette Kowal
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elma York/Nathaniel York
Characters: Elma York, Nathaniel York
Additional Tags: Canon Jewish Character, Baking, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Canon Compliant, Collection: Purimgifts Day 1
Summary:

Elma makes Hamentaschen for the first time after the meteor.

Minoanmiss

Mar. 3rd, 2026 08:52 am
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Devastating news about [personal profile] minoanmiss:

(Details via her former roommate)

[personal profile] minoanmiss is gravely ill, currently unconscious and not expected to recover.

She was in cardiac arrest on Sunday morning (or Saturday night), and per reports, she was neither breathing nor had a heartbeat when the EMTs arrived. They resuscitated her and brought her to the hospital where she went into cardiac arrest again and was resuscitated again.

There was also brain edema, which is getting worse. [personal profile] minoanmiss is likely to not regain consciousness.

---

I have no words. Just...utterly heartbroken.

due South: Puzzle Pieces by luzula

Mar. 3rd, 2026 11:32 pm
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Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Maggie Mackenzie/Francesca Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Frannie Vecchio, Ray Kowalski/ Maggie McKenzie
Rating: Explicit
Length: 7587
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: luzula on AO3, and on the Audiofic Archive.
Themes: Siblings, Marriage, Family, Domestic, Kidfic, Polyamory, Bisexual characters, AU

Summary: Sedoretu AU. Glimpses from the marriage of Fraser, Ray K, Maggie, and Frannie.

Reccer's Notes: I love the 4-person marriage invented by Ursula Le Guin - the sedoretu - and [personal profile] luzula makes it work perfectly here. In this 'verse there's the category of gender, plus another category called moiety - morning and evening people. In a sedoretu there are two same-sex and two opposite-sex couples, and two pairings (morning-morning and evening-evening) that are forbidden. Here, the forbidden pairings include the half-siblings, Fraser & Maggie. Luzula writes them all beautifully and lets us see how well this poly marriage works. We also get glimpses of how the sedoretu is the usual form of marriage in this AU, with their parents also in sedoretus. Domestic and lovely.

Fanwork Links: Puzzle Pieces, and luzula also recorded it as a podfic here.

I ordered some stickers

Mar. 1st, 2026 11:17 am
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and on the packaging it says:

"This product is not a toy and is intended for collection or use by individuals aged 14 or above"

They're superhero stickers! 14 and above! What do they think kids are doing, eating them!?

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