Pride Vending with Duck Prints Press on June 6th and 7th
Jun. 2nd, 2026 11:21 am
IT’S PRIDE MONTH! There are so many awesome Pride events going on, and I’ll only be able to bring Duck Prints Press vending to a small fraction of them, but if you attend any of the Pride events I’m at, I hope you’ll say hi! I’ll be doing 4 Pride events total – Schenectady Pride, Jersey Pride, Albany Pride, and Troy Pride Night Out. The first two are this weekend, on Saturday, June 6th, and Sunday, June 7th.
SCHENECTADY PRIDE: Saturday, June 6th. Gateway Plaza, Schenectady, from 2 p.m to 5 p.m.
JERSEY PRIDE: Sunday, June 7th. In and around Kingsley Street in Asbury Park, from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Both events are rain or shine. (The current forecasts suggests both events will be nice and warm, but that it may rain. Regardless, I’ll be there!)
Schenectady Pride is one of my favorite events all year, every year, and this is my first time ever vending in New Jersey, so it’s safe to assume I am really, really excited for this weekend. I hope y’all are too, and that I’ll get to meet some new friends and see some folks I’ve seen past years.
HAPPY PRIDE, Y’ALL!
Did you know? You can see a list of all events on the Duck Prints Press schedule by visiting our webpage, and you can get these event vending notifications straight into your e-mail by signing up for our mailing list!
[FFXIV Meta] Some Zenos thoughts mid-Stormblood replay.
Jun. 2nd, 2026 10:19 amIt's been so interesting replaying Stormblood because I am remembering how much I actually like Zenos as a character in Stormblood.
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Femslash week in review: 2026-05-19 - 2026-05-25
Jun. 2nd, 2026 09:34 amHigh-level stats for week of 2026-05-19 - 2026-05-25
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 11129 (+56 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5799 (+91 from last week) (2490 new, 3309 continued)
- 0.56% of all 1029974 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:
- Boku no Hero Academia returns, replacing Murder Drones.
- The Amazing Digital Circus celebrates 10 consecutive weeks on the chart.
- Signups open on June 8 for a femslash exchange themed around sparring, called June Joust. That sounds great.
- An undressing-themed F/F exchange called Take It Off! revealed this week with 38 works.
( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )
UK people: trans rights
Jun. 2nd, 2026 02:11 pmhttps://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65938
Write to your MP to tell them to sign it! Praise them if they already have!
If you have Bsky, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance have a skeet about it you can boost:
https://bsky.app/profile/transsolidarity.bsky.social/post/3mnb3wyefxc2g
Scottish Trans (in collaboration with Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and TransActual, because the collaborative work going on here is so phenomenal) have an "email your MP to reject the EHRC code of practice" template form:
https://equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
The Hansard transcript of the response to Seema Malhotra's statement on the EHRC guidance yesterday is blistering:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-06-01/debates/CE610C68-7093-454F-B897-AF008EE7E7A0/EqualityAct2010CodeOfPractice
Rimrunners (Rimrunners, volume 5) by C J Cherryh
Jun. 2nd, 2026 09:00 am
Merchantship Loki is retired war criminal Bet Yeager's ticket off Thule Station and away from murder charges... but Loki offers hazards of its own.
Rimrunners (Rimrunners, volume 5) by C J Cherryh
FANFIC: took ill on a thursday (DC comics / Batman)
Jun. 2nd, 2026 02:48 pmTitle: took ill on thursday.
Fandom: DC comics (Batman, War Games/Under the Hood).
Character/Pairing: Gotham City & Jason Todd (& Stephanie Brown).
Rating/Warnings: T, referenced character death.
Summary: For the prompt: "dc comics, any, never could get the hang of thursdays".
Word count: 100.
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“Took ill on Thursday,” is how Solomon Grundy’s nursery rhyme goes.
An imposing figure stops in front of a store’s window, sleek red helmet reflecting the lights of the television screens on display; it’s another program retelling Black Mask’s ascension in the city’s underbelly on the never-ending news circle, Stephanie Brown’s publicized death at his hands nothing more than a mere footnote on the story of yet one more sadist with a gimmick.
Jason returns to Gotham on a Thursday, but he is under no delusion: he knows his city to have been sick for far, far longer than that.
To-read pile, 2026, May
Jun. 1st, 2026 01:34 pm(aha, this post-by-email has finally appeared!)
Books on pre-order:
- Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec)
- Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027)
Books acquired in May:
- and read:
- Darksight Dare (Penric & Desdemona) by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Grumpy Fake Boyfriend by Jackie Lau
- Four Weddings to Fall in Love by Jackie Lau
- Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie [1]
- Big Red Tequila (Tres Navarre 1) by Rick Riordan
- Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells [1]
[1] Pre-order
Go me, I read everything I acquired this month. I did not read a single borrowed or previously acquired book but I have two library books awaiting my attention now I'm past the month boundary.
I bought Big Red Tequila on the first day of the month but got distracted and didn't pick it up again until the last few days. Rick Riordan's adult detective Jackson "Tres" Navarre has a lot of the sass and stubbornness of his teenage demigod Percy Jackson, the book is a lot longer but the pages turn just as quickly. There are six more books in the series ...
Challenge 128: Voting
Jun. 2nd, 2026 06:15 amWe have received 12 lovely icons. Thanks so much to everyone who entered!
( I C O N S )
- vote for your Top Three in order, voting is weighted (3, 2, 1).
- choose 1 icon per special category
- do not vote for yourself or encourage others to vote you
- use this form, filling it out in the comments
Lady Luck Slots 265
Jun. 2nd, 2026 03:53 am
Come on down to the Lady Luck Slots, where every spin's a winner! The better the match, the better your prize!
( Roll up, roll up! )
Switch It Up 294 - Anniversary Edition!
Jun. 2nd, 2026 03:42 am
( Out with the old, in with the new! )
The new week will start on Monday, June 8, 2026, and this round will close on Monday, June 15, 2026.
Coloring Book 382 - Super Special Round!
Jun. 2nd, 2026 03:19 am
Art by Aki!
( What are we coloring this time? )
The new week will start on Monday, June 8, 2026, and this round will close on Monday, June 15, 2026.
Seiyuu Guess 760
Jun. 2nd, 2026 02:14 am
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Seiyuu Guess! Our host for this game is Shizuka, a rookie seiyuu who's still learning the tricks of the trade! She's been provided with a description, image, and clip of a certain character, and it's up to you to help her figure out who voices them.
Tell Shizuka both characters' names, both of their seiyuu, and what series they're from for thirty random cards and a random crayon!
This round ends Monday, June 8, 2026.
Spider-Noir first episode (fairly negative)
Jun. 2nd, 2026 12:10 am( Spider-Noir - just the first episode )