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Pimp: Rhythm Heaven by torchicwpip (Welkamo)

(Ignore the fact that I only submitted one prompt for this series and then forgot to do more before the deadline whoops)

Rhythm Heaven is a series of rhythm games published by Nintendo. If you know the Warioware series, it’s kind of like that: a bunch of wacky minigames where you hit the buttons (or the stylus, depending on the game) to the rhythm of the music. But what kind of minigames can you expect? Well, we’ve got:

- A monkey and a mandrill (his name is Mandrill) coach you in golf
- You, an astronaut, must translate a Martian’s message to the people of Earth
- You, a Martian, must translate a farmer’s tinder profile to the Martians back on base
- You are a little seal that must step and roll
- Tap dancing with monkeys!
- a watch operated by high-fiving monkeys (this is a great game for people who like monkeys)
- ping pong in space!
- baseball in space!
- a guy who has been stuck in the basement until he masters karate (in French it’s been 55 years)

You can earn little tidbits of lore for doing well in minigames, in the form of Reading Material and Rhythm Items (the latter is a Megamix-exclusive). But the fandom also makes a lot of their own headcanons, lore, and ships!

As of writing this, there are four games in the series: the original game for the Game Boy Advance (known in the fandom as Rhythm Tengoku, as it was never localized outside of Japan, and Rhythm Heaven Silver, named after a popular fan translation), Rhythm Heaven for the DS, Rhythm Heaven Fever for the Wii, and Rhythm Heaven Megamix for the 3DS.

The downside is that the physical copies of the games are notoriously difficult to get nowadays. Luckily, it’s very easy to hack your 3DS (for legal reasons I cannot confirm nor deny that I have homebrewed at least 3 game systems).

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Green Lantern #179

Writer: Len Wein

Pencils and inks: Dave Gibbons

Green Lantern has been called away on an urgent mission, so it falls to somebody else to save Ferris Aircraft. Enter: The Predator. The Destruction Team won’t have time to bleed!

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murderbot on tv

Episode 3 Available Now

It's Murderbot Day again, though the episode actually dropped yesterday on Murderbot Eve.

Here's an interview with David Goyer where he says nice things about me:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/05/22/murderbot-ep-david-s-goyer-on-alexander-skarsgrd-and-staying-true-to-martha-wells-books/

“No one was interested. They were like, ‘This is just RoboCop’ and we were like, ‘No, it's not at all. It's the anti-RoboCop,'” Goyer recalled. “It's about neurodivergence. It's about humanity.”

And an interview with Paul and Chris:

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/05/the-making-of-apple-tvs-murderbot/

Paul Weitz: The first book, All Systems Red, had a really beautiful ending. And it had a theme that personhood is irreducible. The idea that, even with this central character you think you get to know so well, you can't reduce it to ways that you think it's going to behave—and you shouldn't. The idea that other people exist and that they shouldn't be put into whatever box you want to put them into felt like something that was comforting to have in one's pocket. If you're going to spend so much time adapting something, it's really great if it's not only fun but is about something.

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Forever People #6

Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

Darkseid doesn’t take kindly to the Forever People trashing his theme park.

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Current Music: "Come Monday" - Jimmy Buffett

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rl: health

Daily Check In (Belated)

*\o/*	Word Count	Step Count	Headache?
Daily	1,282	8,879	no
Monthly	13,415	203,498	7 days

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Lust #30. Afterglow

Universe: Magikverse
Story: The Runes In My Blood
Colour: Lust #30. Afterglow
Supplies and styles: miniature, life drawing, silhouette, resin
Resin:

fandom_empire Fortune Wheel Week 2 - Breakfast In Bed &

drabble_zone - Amnesty #45
Word count: 100
Rating: M
Warnings: mentioned sex
Summary: my Mother told me to keep my expectations low when it comes to men.

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Original | Amnesty #45 / Prompt #127. Romance | Untitled

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Digital Terrarium, part two

I’m still daydreaming about the Digital Terrarium magazine, and this is what I’m considering:

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Part of my motivation for creating a magazine like this is that, as someone with a female-coded name, it’s 99.99% impossible to get anyone to respond to my pitch emails, even when we’re mutuals on social media and I send them a direct message to ping them about the pitch.

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If there’s still to this day no real space for soft and queer (and vaguely female-coded?) voices in video game writing – and if there’s no space for someone like me specifically – then there needs to be more space. Simple as.

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[fest] 37

SFFest37: Rules Reminder & Claiming Post

Is everyone ready?!! Prompts are now available for claiming! Please read the following rules before you claim a prompt.

( Rules for Claiming Prompts and Posting Submissions )

That’s it for the rules! Now for something fun: if you submit three or more fanfic and/or fanart, in any combination, you will receive a lovely button acknowledging your contribution to

smallfandomfest!

Complete List of Prompts

(If you notice that your prompt is incorrect, please comment here and let me know immediately so I can correct it. Once the prompt has been claimed I won’t be able to change it.

Also, if you notice typos, pairings not being listed uniformly, or large fandoms that slipped through, please let me know so I can fix/make a note of them for the next round. Thank you.)

Please reserve this post for claims and questions about the current round.

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Excalibur #45

Writer: Alan Davis

Pencils: Alan Davis

Inks: Mark Farmer

Nightcrawler tries to turn the Technet in to a competent team. Pray for him.

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Detective Comics #621

Writer: Alan Grant

Pencils: Norm Breyfogle

Inks: Steve Mitchell

This issue is told via flashback as Batman tells Tim what happened to his parents.

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[Amnesty #45: Challenges #3, #109, #112] BtVS / Buffy — Alive Again

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Detective Comics 2025 Annual #1 - "Batman, Do Not Solve My Murder"

I had a really good time kind of finding my level with Batman. I think the notes I got back for the first draft was that my Batman was a little too chummy and a little too quirky and a little too friendly. He needs to be a little bit spikier. And I was like, "Yeah, I get that." -- Al Ewing

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reviews

Book Review: Overgrowth by Mira Grant

Overgrowth by Mira Grant
[Goodreads | Storygraph]
4 / 5 stars

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Two similar letters, originally posted years apart

1. Dear Carolyn: My mom basically despises my boyfriend, “Tom,” because he didn’t graduate from college and works a blue-collar job. She is so rude to him, we can’t even be around her. She defends this by saying that looking at us together makes her feel disgusted, she can’t help how she feels, and she’s being as nice as she can given the intensity of her feelings. Tom actually cried after our last dinner with my parents.

Tom and I are 24, are independently financially stable and have lived together for six months — another source of my mother’s angst, but I suspect if I were “shacking up” with a more “eligible” bachelor, she would deal just fine. Although I am beyond furious at her treatment of Tom, I don’t want to lose her. Our relationship no longer resembles the mother-daughter bond we used to have. I’m also scared about what this is doing to my parents’ marriage. My dad is saying things to her in a tone I’ve never heard before — telling her that her behavior is unacceptable, that she needs to stop. She just gets defensive and yells at him. I don’t want my relationship to be their undoing.

I love Tom and could see us getting engaged in a year or two. However, I’m actually thinking about breaking up with him over this, although I know evil shouldn’t triumph. But I feel like he’s on one side, and on the other side is my relationship with my mom AND my parents’ relationship AND the potential to have it all if I meet a college-educated suitor. (I feel like a horrible person saying this.)

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2. Dear Annie: I am a 26-year-old woman deeply in love with someone my parents can't stand. He's not what they envisioned for me; he's rough around the edges, has tattoos, rides a motorcycle and works with his hands for a living. My parents like clean-cut, college-educated types in suits, and he's the complete opposite.

Yes, he has a bit of a "bad boy" past. He's made some mistakes in his younger years -- got into trouble, partied too hard, even had a brush with the law. But that was years ago. Since then, he's turned his life around. He's steady, loyal, hardworking, and treats me with more respect and care than anyone I've ever dated.

Despite all that, my parents won't give him a chance. They're polite when he's around, but I can tell they're just waiting for me to wake up and realize he's "not good enough." They constantly drop hints about finding someone "more suitable" or "more stable," and it's starting to wear me down. I feel caught in the middle -- between a man I love and parents I don't want to disappoint.

I'm not blind to his flaws, but I believe in the man he is now. How do I move forward when the people I've always looked to for support can't accept the person I've chosen? Am I being naive for thinking love is enough, or are my parents judging him unfairly? -- Torn Between Love and Loyalty

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⌈ Secret Post #6712 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #959..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Original | Amnesty #45 / Prompt #249. Headache | You don't want to live in pain forever

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Alien Green #08. I wanna speak to the writers

Universe: Elemenverse
Story: Sculpted By Ice | Title: You don't want to live in pain forever
Colour: Alien Green #08. I wanna speak to the writers
Supplies and styles: canvas, miniature, chiaroscuro, resin
Resin:

lyricaltitles - Album Challenge, Aspiral by Epica - Metanoia &

drabble_zone - Amnesty Week #45
Word count: 100
Rating: T
Warnings: none

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Pimp: Georgina Kincaid Series (Richelle Mead) by maevedarcy

So you're looking for a lighthearted book series that's equal parts funny and intriguing, I have THE urban fantasy series for you.

The Georgina Kincaid series is a collection of six(*) urban fantasy novels written by Richelle Mead. The series is written in a first-person perspective following the main character, Georgina Kincaid, who is a succubus with a heart (sort of).

More info with mild spoilers for the first books of the series under the cut.

*The six OG books in the series. Picture from ebay.

The basics

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The characters

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Why you should read it (spoiler free)

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Why you should read it (MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES)

( I'm serious, I will spoil the first book and part of the series for you. I'm not joking. If you don't like spoilers, do not click )

Where to read
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Did you read it already?
Then please talk to me about it I'm starving!!! Fr there's only ONE fic on AO3 for this fandom that's not a crossover. Let's change that!

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Prompt 33

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