Starfall Stories 47

Jun. 2nd, 2025 08:29 pm
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I'm still a bit behind on crossposting these:

Name: Trap for the Unwary
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #1 (Hope); Vert #28 (Fear less, hope more)
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro + Thread
Word Count: 2375
Rating: PG
Warnings: Imprisonment, nausea.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno. (Leion's side of On the Trail.)
Summary: Leion walks into a trap.




Name: Blink of an Eye
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet red #18 (Easy does it); Azul #19 (Trust the strength of another)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (for [community profile] no_true_pair prompt "March 27th - Osmer and Pello out in the woods") + Canvas
Word Count: 1091
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1311 somewhere in High Eisterland; Osmer Nivyrn, Pello Ahblan. (Slightly random snippet as yet.)
Summary: Pello gets his first taste of the Paths.
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PH 1 - Teen Wolf (TV), Critical Role (Web Series), QSMP | Quackity SMP )

PH 5 - Hetalia (Anime & Manga), Hiveswap, Redwall Series - Brian Jacques )

PH 7 - Bones (TV), House M.D., MASH (TV), NCIS: Los Angeles, SEAL Team (TV), The Professionals (TV 1977) )

PH 9 - Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin, Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling, G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Voltron: Lion Force (1984) )

PH 13 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest )

PH 16 - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), NoPixel (Web Series), 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), Crossover Fandom )

PH 21 - 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming), 陰陽師 | Onmyouji (Anime 2023), 밤에 피는 꽃 | Knight Flower (TV) )

PH 22 - Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives - Jeffrey Dean, Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives - Jeffrey Dean, Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives - Jeffrey Dean, Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives - Jeffrey Dean, Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast), Path of Night (Podcast), Path of Night (Podcast) )

PH 25 - Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who: Harvest of Time - Alastair Reynolds, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, Doctor Who (2005) )

PH 26 - The Stand - Stephen King, Crossing Jordan (TV 2001), Twin Peaks (TV 1990), Twin Peaks (TV 1990), NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: Los Angeles )

PH 29 - Stardew Valley (Video Game), Crossover Fandom, His Boy Next Door Series - R.J. Moray, Superstition - Superstition_hockey )

PH 40 - 今際の国のアリス | Imawa no Kuni no Alice | Alice in Borderland (TV), The Ancient One - Cat2000, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020), Mortal Kombat (Video Games 2023-), Marvel Cinematic Universe )

PH 41 - Original Work, Original Work, Original Work, Original Work, Original Work )

PH 42 - Wicked (Movie 2024), Supernatural (TV 2005), Supernatural (TV 2005), Star Trek: Voyager, Supernatural (TV 2005), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Discovery, Supernatural (TV 2005), Supernatural (TV 2005) )

PH 43 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agatha All Along (TV), Wicked (Movie 2024) )

PH 44 - Power Rangers Zeo, Riverdale (TV 2017) )

PH 45 - Jožin z Bažin | Jozhin from the Swamps - Ivan Mládek (Song), Kolja | Kolya (1996), Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek: The Original Series, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies), Bones (TV), Star Trek: The Original Series, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Atlantis )

PH 46 - Noblesse (Manhwa), Noblesse (Manhwa), Creator's Choice of Fandom )

PH 47 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) )

Deadline Has Passed!

Jun. 1st, 2025 10:26 pm
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The deadline has passed, and we have lots more works to approve and some post deadline pinch hits that are coming soon, likely in the next 14-16 hours. If you did not email us about an extension and have missed the deadline, you have been defaulted. If you did and there's been an error please contact us immediately.

If you do not currently have a gift and do not show up in the PDPHs when they are posted, do not fear, we have many many extensions currently out and your creator is likely hard at work. All extension deadlines should be granted to June 8th, 10pm EDT.

June Theme + Request List

Jun. 1st, 2025 06:12 pm
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Recs of any sort may be posted at any time, but in addition we have monthly themes. [community profile] tardis_library's theme for May is now closed, and here is our new theme for June:


Fifteenth Doctor // Smile

"I just wish we... we had longer."


Now that the latest series has drawn to a close, it's time to highlight the Fifteenth Doctor! Share any and all recs relating to Fifteen and his era or those connected to the theme "Smile", or, as ever, both. ♥


Post your recs to the community in the normal way any time from now until midnight on 30th June 2025 in your timezone. (See Info & Guidelines for posting template and instructions). Recs posted for monthly themes have their own tag with banners at the end of the year for reccers who posted something for at least six out of the twelve themes over the year. (Just let me know if you prefer not to receive banners.)

When making your post, add the tag "other: monthly theme". (The mods can take care of any other needed tags if you prefer, but a challenge/theme tag could easily be missed.)

Our current Seasonal Challenge is Alphabet Soup, open for posting until 15th June 2025.


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* Classic Who fanvids, any Doctor/TARDIS team (music, no/minimal audio quotes preferred), especially out there on tumblr/YT - [personal profile] thisbluespirit
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* Jack/Esther fic (Torchwood) - [personal profile] chamilet
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* Fanworks in more unusual media (not Art, Fic, or Vids) - [personal profile] lurking_latinist
* Gen fic featuring the Doctor's scarf any era - [personal profile] liadt
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I’m slacking on these post posts but here is a link to my [community profile] unconventionalcourtship fic:

You Can Find It on Craigslist (1020 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Rhea Ripley/Shirai Io | IYO SKY
Characters: Rhea Ripley, Shirai Io | IYO SKY
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic, Witches, Craigslist, Movie Night, mentions of other wrestlers, Movie: Terrifier (2016), Mild Gore

Summary: Iyo Sky is in a precarious position for a witch--isolated from her coven and regretting a lot of her choices. Keeping herself from her sisters is the only way she can protect them from a threat only she knows is coming. Iyo bides her time until she's able to distract herself with a job offer from Rhea Ripley. Handsome, surprisingly sweet and filthy rich, Rhea needs Iyo's expertise. Spoiler alert: The solution is almost always late night snacking and smooching.
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Title: Three Trillion Voices Lifted In Song
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] romanathethird
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1214 words
Creator's Summary: Cora isn't the only Interstellar Song Contest entrant with special reasons for wanting her song to be heard.
Characters/Pairings: Dugga Doo
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for The Interstellar Song Contest

Reasons for reccing: This is the serious backstory to a silly song. And it's a great backstory, with the sort of theme that sci fi deals with often.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65980882

Belated watching post

May. 26th, 2025 10:35 am
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I found this sitting in my posts in progress from March, about what I'd been watching at the time, or some of it. I obtained the two small pieces of info it was lacking and have otherwise posted as-is, so it's probably fairly babbly, but I feel it is better to post than not to post. (At least with random mostly-complete media posts, that is.)

The Ghost Camera (1933) This was recced to me ages ago by [personal profile] sovay and I managed to snag it in passing on TalkingPictures TV, but then failed to watch it. (I have issues with watching all sorts of things still for reasons that are too stupid and annoying to go into, but they are all basically the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome being a pain.) But then, [personal profile] liadt sent me it on DVD as well! So having been recced it twice by two people who know what's what when it comes to elderly film and suchlike, I had to eventually consider putting it in the dvd player and watching it.

Anyway, as I mentioned before, I really enjoyed it! It was sweet and fun. The internet tells me it was an unexpectedly good 'Quota Quickie' and it is. A nerdy scientist accidentally acquires a camera with a dangerous set of photos inside it, develops them and sets out, while being dogged by the criminals who want it, to find out whose camera it is - starting with finding the woman in one of the photos. It's engaging, the hero is charmingly atypical and shy, and it really does do some cool things with experimental camera angles and techniques, some of which almost even come across like handheld camera in places.

It's very early UK film, so it doesn't have the polish that a lot of the US ones had acquired by even this point, but if you like old films, this is a fun and interesting one.


Dope Girls (BBC) s1 I've only watched half of this because it was too much for me, but I neverthless watched that much, because it looked fascinating and different and the sort of thing I would be all over if it wasn't so much about crime. I'm hopeless when people in fictonal things are routinely committing crimes, and this is very violent, lots of 'rave' type shooting of scenes, none of which I can cope with. Saying I watched it, given how much I used the skip 10s button is probably an exaggeration BUT it's really beautifully made and it's about women immediately post WWI, based on a true story of a woman who set up a Soho nightclub (given value of 'true' no doubt varies in the show). The series also follows her illegitimate mixed race daughter Billie, a dancer, her legitimate teenage daughter who's getting into spiritualism following her father's death, and Violet, one of the very first women in the police, who's sent undercover into the nightclub.

Warnings for pretty much everything ever: dodgy accents, murder, suicide, meat & butchery, drugs, sex, 'rave' type scenes, beatings etc. It seems to be trying to be the new Peaky Blinders but since PB happened while I was ill and also contains characters who routinely commit crimes, I can't comment on accuracy of media's "the new x" pronouncements.

In short, it looks great if only I weren't me. I might still finish it, unwisely, anyway. It's about women immediately post WWI! /o\


They Came To A City (1944) This is one I happened to catch on TalkingPictures TV just as [personal profile] sovay was talking about John Clements, and I realised I had accidentally snagged this, featuring him. It's adapted from a play by J. B. Priestley, who actually turns up in a little prologue with a wee Ralph Michael & Brenda Bruce to tell the story of the film as a fable to prove a point to them. The story within a story is of nine ordinary British people from different walks of life who find themselves transported to a mysterious city run by an apparently perfect sort of socialist ideal. Some of them hate it, some of them stay, and some of them return to their regular lives to try and make their own cities more like the City. It's very static and talky and we don't see the city, but they pretty much lifted the original play's cast into the film and the performances are great all round and always raise it when it gets too close to being too much just talking about the ideas. It's slow but I found it utterly fascinating and loved it. I had to leave it on the DVR, so I couldn't even delete it as watched!

Also it gave me all the feels about the Beveridge Report and I've never said that about a piece of fiction before.


The Ghost Train (1941) wiki tells me there are actually about nine different versions of this, originally a play by Arnold Ridley who I know as Godfrey in Dad's Army. This is the most comic version, I gather, but also the one that has villainous Nazis instead of unlikely Cornish communists. It was another one I snagged recently from TPTV and, encouraged by current watching ability, I gave it a try and enjoyed it very much indeed! It does occasionally veer towards becoming a vehicle for Arthur Askey but it recovers itself in time, although I would definitely be interested in seeing some of the other versions. But his role as comedian was written in very well (he's a seaside vaudeville performer, his antics cause the stranding & solve it, and everyone gets annoyed with him) and I liked everyone else very much. Another mixed group of strangers get stranded in a remote Cornish railway station - with a story about a ghost train that runs through the station.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun, and I'd definitely be curious to see a version played more straight, but like I said, this is the one that sends a bunch of Nazis off a railway bridge, so I don't feel that it was the worst place to start!


[May comment: still didn't go back to Dope Girls; the state of my brain when employing the iPlayer can be easily illustrated by explaining that what I did was to watch a series and a half of Malory Towers instead. XD]

Starfall Stories 46

May. 25th, 2025 08:27 pm
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Two more [community profile] rainbowfic pieces, as I did let crossposting drop a way behind for a while:

Name: Hidden Lights
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #28 (Beg steal or borrow); Azul #30 (Token of strength or loyalty)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Pastels (also for [community profile] no_true_pair prompt March 26th - Leion & Pello at the beach) + resin (also for [community profile] allbingo May color fest square "true colors.") + Giftwrap + Triptych + Novelty Beads - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/00/09/8b/00098b9d3a37c21ed8bd3ee00da58c7c.jpg (September Secrets 2020) + "Fire Opal" (Birthday prompts 2020) + Graffiti - for the May Parents challenge.
Word Count: 1918
Rating: PG
Warnings: Brief mention of possible death, risk of drowning, abandonment.
Notes: 1297-1306, Portcallan; Pello Ahblan, Joend Ahblan, Leion Valerno, Tana Veldiner, Tam Jadinor. (Introducing a new character who we're going to see more of in time. The end scene of this takes place immediately after the recent Atino and Leion sequence.)
Summary: Pello's fascination with starstone leads to an unexpected encounter on the beach at midnight.




Name: On the Trail
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #7 (Calm)
Supplies and Styles: Thread
Word Count: 2692
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Nin Valerno.
Summary: Leion has vanished.

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