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A graphic over a textured rainbow background. Top text reads Pride Vending June 6th and 7th. In the middle left is a logo of a lightbulb with rainbow stripes for the "glass" and a heart in the center as the filament, and text reads Schenectady Pride, Gateway Plaza, Schenectady, NY. Saturday June 6th 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. In the right center is a logo of a pink triangle with a silhouette of the state of New Jersey, with rainbow stripes around the edges of the triangle. Text reads Jersey Pride Kingsley St. Asbury Park NJ. Sunday June 7th 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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!



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It's been so interesting replaying Stormblood because I am remembering how much I actually like Zenos as a character in Stormblood.

Read more... )

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High-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 pm
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At the time of writing, 41 46 51 MPs have signed the early day motion to reject the EHRC's new guidance:

https://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
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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
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Here I start with 2024's fics! Beginning with the ones I wrote for the Three Sentence Ficathon.

Title: 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
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(aha, this post-by-email has finally appeared!)

Books on pre-order:

  1. Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec)
  2. Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027)

Books acquired in May:

  • and read:
    1. Darksight Dare (Penric & Desdemona) by Lois McMaster Bujold
    2. Grumpy Fake Boyfriend by Jackie Lau
    3. Four Weddings to Fall in Love by Jackie Lau
    4. Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie [1]
    5. Big Red Tequila (Tres Navarre 1) by Rick Riordan
    6. 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 am
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Voting for Challenge 128 - Spherical
We 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



Voting ends on Tuesday, 5th June, 2026.

Lady Luck Slots 265

Jun. 2nd, 2026 03:53 am
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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! )

This round ends Monday, June 8, 2026.
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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.

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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
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Last week's answer was Cid Kagenou from The Eminence in Shadow, voiced by Seiichirou Yamashita!



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.

Who do we have this week? )


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.
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I admit that I watched this mainly out of (morbid?) curiosity about what Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man would be like. Mostly I think it was about what you'd expect that to be like.

Spider-Noir - just the first episode )
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Posted by Neil Steinberg

Illustration by Lauren Nassef

     Spencer Leak Jr. passed away at the young age of 56. In their obituary of the scion of the famous South Side funeral home family, my colleagues Violet Miller and Mariah Rush include a few of the high profile funerals A.R. Leak Funeral Home have held, such as for singer Sam Cooke, Rev. Jesse Jackson and drug kingpin William Morris "Flukey" Stokes.
     I had to wonder how many readers, 42 years after the fact, knew just what a wild display of the funerary arts that last send-off truly was. I plunge into it in my 2022 book, "Every Goddamn Day." Honestly, I was reluctant to do so. The man was a drug dealer, his funeral a garish display of the values that killed him. Told haphazardly, I could see it coming back to bite me.
     But it happened on a Feb. 28, and that date needed a story. Context was everything, and I tried to gingerly tell the tale with sympathy and understanding.

Feb. 28, 1984

     “Willie the wimp was buried today,” the song begins“They laid him to rest in a special way.” 
     Yes, yes they did. 
     White organized crime is celebrated. The Godfather. The Sopranos. Black gangsters, not so much. The glorification of rap, true. But those are Black artists singing about a life they know, in theory. “Willie the Wimp” will be written by a Texan, Bill Carter, who saw the news story and was fascinated. It’ll become a minor hit for blues rocker Stevie Ray Vaughan. 
     “Southside Chicago will think of him often / Talking about Willie the Wimp and his Cadillac coffin.” 
      Maybe the street-level carnage, the tragic effect on ordinary Black lives, is just too great to pretty up. Italian American kids are not being cut down every day in every city by the mafia. Drug dealers like Willie do too much damage, take too many lives. He’s easily, gratefully forgotten. And yet, what a sight he was. 
     “With hundred dollar bills in his fingers tight / He had flowers for wheels and flashing headlights.”           
     The funeral happens today, just as the song says. Willie “the Wimp” Stokes Jr., the 28-year-old son of drug kingpin Flukey Stokes. At the South Side’s A. R. Leak Funeral Home. In a pink suit, propped up behind the wheel of a coffin made to resemble a Cadillac Seville, down to its wire-spoke wheels, and authentic grill, put on at a body shop. The headlights and taillights work. Enormous wide-brimmed gray hat on his head. To some, the effect may be more of a toddler’s play car than anything that would seem elegant to anyone who isn’t high on the drugs he sold. 
     To others, however, there is a pride in the ostentation, a definite respect. Jet magazine gives the funeral three pages and is not critical. It ends pointing out that his mother finds comfort in the send-off. “I think he would have really liked it because that’s the way he was,” she says. “He was flashy and he believed in style.” And this is definitely style, of a certain sort. 
     "He been wishing for wings, no way he was walking / Talking about Willie the Wimp and his Cadillac coffin.”

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