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After finishing the Silent Hill 2 remake, I watched all the endings. They're all excellently done! But I was particularly struck by the new 'Bliss' ending, which you get if you drug yourself before watching the videotape. I absolutely had to write fanfiction.

Title: Trouble in Paradise
Fandom: Silent Hill 2
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: James/Mary
Wordcount: 1,100
Summary: James and Mary, living in bliss.

( Trouble in Paradise )

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3178/

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.

https://xkcd.com/3178/

larissa

✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here

my thumb still hurts, to the point that i'm going to see the doctor about it this week. truly i am so over this.

other than that i don't have much of an update... last week was something of a blur, tbh. i've been dealing with some pretty serious chronic pain (aside from the hand stuff) that's left me unable to do much of anything at times. i cannot overstate how much i would like my body to just chill out.

i did finish reading the first book in the kindom trilogy, these burning stars, and sure enough it stuck the landing and was an instant favorite. i'm a little ways into the second book but i've been reading it more slowly since every chapter is so good i want to savor it. we love quality books.

that's more or less it for now... i feel like there's something i'm forgetting to mention. oh well.

anneapocalypse

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Fear of Drowning
Relationships: Urianger Augurelt/Warrior of Light, Urianger Augurelt & Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn
Characters: Urianger Augurelt, Warrior of Light
Additional Tags: Patch 7.0: Dawntrail Spoilers, Beaches, Memories, POV Urianger Augurelt, Backstory, Trust, Fear of Drowning, Introspection, Established Relationship, Patch 5.0: Shadowbringers Spoilers, Wolianger Week 2024
Series: With Lilies and with Laurel
Length: 1278
Chapter: 1/1

Summary:

During a quiet morning on the beach, Urianger reflects.

Notes:

Written for Wolianger Week 2024! I only recently realized I neglected to crosspost this fic, so I am remedying that now (Dec 2025). Backdated for archival purposes.

This is a work of fiction created for entertainment purposes and is not intended to be instructional with regard to relationships, mental health, overseas travel, learning to swim, or anything else.

Final Fantasy XIV is owned by Square Enix. This is a non-commercial work of fanfiction.

( Read on AO3 ) ( or below! )

Fic Index

kalloway

From Far Away 1-14 (Kyoko Hikawa) - for a beautifully-drawn shoujo manga with an interesting plot, this was such a slog that I am absolutely baffled. Like, I have bounced off this multiple times and basically made it through this attempt by skimming towards the end. Absolutely should have been my thing, absolutely was not. Base plot is isekai/portal fantasy, schoolgirl in a world with a bit of magic with a strong romance and good supporting cast.

"Gaiking" - the Force Five version of the series, presented on five DVD-Rs that I picked up many years ago. Despite this being an incomplete version of an already-shaved series, it wasn't difficult to follow and was pretty enjoyable. Had a 'movie version' added at the end.

RahXephon - complete series + movie. This is one of those "I will need to watch this again to fully follow wtf just happened" pseudo-mecha anime from the earlier part of the century. I liked it, and I liked the cast for the most part, though every now and then it felt like it was trying to go the harem route for no reason. I have a full DVD set with all the beautiful liner notes but I apparently also picked up a thin Blu-ray set at some point...

So, From Far Away can go, Gaiking and the thin RahXephon set can stay. Technically I guess this is a 50/50?

Anyway, even though we're into Actual Advent territory, I'm just gonna keep going and probably all through next year?

kalloway

I've done another bit of security-pruning and circle adjustment. Occasionally I just unfollow/un-access accounts that haven't posted for a rather long time. And I saw a few folks that are active again, so re-followed. ^_^ This is also a reminder that you can unfollow/etc. me for any reason and I won't take it personally.

I posted up a

holiday_wishes post over here. The most important bits are to tell me what to work on with my website and also send me Gundams, lol. I'm still granting all the wishes I can. This is such a fun time of year.

If you're in the USA (sorry, int'l shipping sucks), you can have some of my stuff over here. I really should make these posts more often as I spelunk.

I need to go through my communities and make/add some sort of No AI guideline to each. I just pulled a drabble from a community because they're allowing AI slop to be posted. It's now crossposted to my spaces and deleted from theirs. I'd always meant to create more for that community but that sure isn't happening now.

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3177/

Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.

https://xkcd.com/3177/

anneapocalypse

I'm posting a musical interlude on top of fic today because it's Bandcamp Friday! If you buy an album from Bandcamp today, the full price of your purchase goes to the artist. If you like having physical media, like me, you can order a CD (and have a digital download available immediately), but you can also just buy an album digitally, or buy individual tracks.

Watch on YouTube

The Terrordactyls' self-titled album is available in either format, if you like the song!

anneapocalypse

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Rating: Mature
Archive Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Urianger Augurelt/Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Urianger Augurelt & Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Ardbert & Urianger Augurelt, Unrealized Ardbert/Urianger Augurelt, Pre-Urianger Augurelt/Warrior of Light
Characters: Urianger Augurelt, Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn, Ardbert Hylfyst, Elidibus, Unukalhai, Tataru Taru, Minfilia Warde, Warrior of Light, Dewlala Dewla, Y'shtola Rhul, Yugiri Mistwalker, Thancred Waters, J'Rhoomale, Blanhaerz, Lamimi, Naillebert, Haneko Burneko
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Religion, Isolation, Loneliness, Patch 3.4: Soul Surrender Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Elezen Warrior of Light, Female Warrior of Light, Canon-Typical Violence, Guilt, Emotional Repression, Child Neglect, Childhood Memories, Unresolved Sexual Tension
Series: With Lilies and With Laurel
Length: 9,043 / 92,000
Chapter: 2/15

Summary:

Heartbroken after the loss of his dearest companion, Urianger labors to save two worlds in which he has never felt more alone.

Notes:

If you're new here, please start with Chapter 1!

Final Fantasy XIV is owned by Square Enix. This is a non-commercial work of fanfiction.

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lassarina

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xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3176/

Some tires are marketed as 'all-shape tires,' but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls, they wear out really fast.

https://xkcd.com/3176/

rionaleonhart

I've just finished the Silent Hill 2 remake!

'James, you can't keep doing this!' I exclaimed, as James prepared to jump down yet another seemingly bottomless pit. I paused for a moment to consider. 'Although he might be thinking the same thing about me. I always have to press the jump button twice before he actually jumps, as if he's going "are you sure it's a good idea to jump into this pit?"'

( Notes on the Silent Hill 2 remake, up to the end of the game. )

The ending stats screen gave me two stats that combined alarmingly: I'd been playing for 19h4m, or 1,144m. I'd checked the map 1,131 times. I can't believe I checked the map almost exactly one time per minute.

That's a lie. I can absolutely believe that. I'm frankly surprised it wasn't more; I love checking the map in Silent Hill. It makes me feel so much more secure when I know where I am and where I'm going!

I just darted into the sitting room, where Tem was hanging out, and picked up the Silent Hill 2 remake's box to bring back to my bookshelf.

Tem: Going off to be alone?
Riona: I was just thinking that it does look like that. 'James and I are going to go upstairs now.'
Tem: 'James and I are just going up to my bedroom.'

What a fantastic remake! It's so clearly built on a deep love for the original game, and that really pays off. I absolutely loved it. It's been so good to spend time with James Sunderland, one of my most longstanding and unfortunate blorbos.

lassarina

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larissa

in the continuing comedy of errors that is my body, my thumb hurts. this isn't even the thumb on the same hand as the other injury, so i guess i've been overcompensating. i've been resting and icing it all day and am hoping it will settle down on its own... i really don't want to deal with more hand pain than i've already got.

thanksgiving was nice; i got to see some family i hadn't seen in a long while, so it was good to catch up. (also i had some excellent pumpkin cheesecake.) other than that, there hasn't been a lot going on in irl news.

this week's ff14 update is that i'm pretty much done farming mogtomes aside from weeklies, so it's been back to the diadem. i am nearly done grade 3 botany, at which point it will be on to grade 3 mining. then i'm home free. (i am not even remotely home free; i still have 200k+ points to get in both botanist and miner.) other than that i've been working on the crafting portion of the ishgard restoration grind; i really should be working on the moon crafts as well but i haven't caught a lot of weather windows for it lately.

in reading news, i did not end up continuing the trilogy i was struggling with. instead i read a quick, lighthearted sci-fi romp, and have since started a space opera, bethany jacobs's kindom trilogy. i'm only halfway through the first book, but if it sticks the landing it's definitely going to be a favorite: excellent writing, characters, and plotting in a genuinely fascinating worldbuild. the characters are really what's selling it more than anything; one of the leads is refreshingly unlikeable and makes for a great character to follow.

that's about it for now. i really hope my body chills out in the coming weeks, because i am so over all this pain...

Current Music: Like a doll — ayumi hamasaki

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rionaleonhart

It's time for the end-of-year fic meme! As is tradition, I'm doing this right at the start of December, because I'm impatient. Last year I ended up posting two more fics after doing the 'end-of-year' wrapup. I evidently learnt nothing from this.

I've written a lot of little ficlets throughout the year, e.g. for promptfests, but for the purposes of this meme I'm only counting fics I've posted to my main AO3 account, or I'm going to get overwhelmed by indecision.

Number of fics written in 2025: thirty. You can find them on my AO3 account:

Riona.

Fandoms: Danganronpa, Danganronpa 2, Danganronpa: Despair Time, Project: Eden's Garden, Final Fantasy XVI, The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, Severance, The Hundred Line, Horizon Zero Dawn, Deltarune, Star Trek DS9, Kingdom Hearts, Metaphor: ReFantazio, House MD. Ten videogame fandoms, three television fandoms, one web series. Mainly things I've written for before; only four of these are new additions.

One crossover: Kindred Spirits (The Hundred Line/Horizon Zero Dawn), in which Yugamu and Nil bond over their shared passion for murder.

( End-of-year fic meme, 2025. )

Here's to the next year of writing! And... possibly also the next month of writing, because this is by no means the actual end of the year.

I just tried to post this, and the Dreamwidth post editor told me 'you can't post this, it's got an unclosed italics tag'. Which is a useful feature! Unfortunately, Dreamwidth did not specify where the tag in question was, and there are ninety-four italics tags in this post, so I had a real adventure tracking it down.

kalloway

Back to work... I expect the robots to be revolting tonight, for sure...

The one shop that I buy Gundam kits from started a massive Black Friday sale a few weeks back and there felt like there was something a little off about it... Yeah, they just announced they're sunsetting over the next few months because a billion reasons including tariff hell, but mostly peronsal-want-to-spend-more-time-with-family stuff. Better than being completely underwater, at least.

I'm going to try to get holiday cards out over the next week. If you're not on my usual mailing list but would like one, please PM me an address.

denise in

dw_news

Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

kalloway

I really need to catch up on these...

The Zen Diary - via JFF. It wasn't immediately clear to me at the beginning if this was a drama or a documentary and while it's more like some dramatized memoir, holy shit did it evoke a lot of feelings. Mostly wanting to punch the lead. Very well acted. A very good movie. Hated it.

Have a Song on Your Lips - via JFF. A fairly uplifting 'teaching choir' story with all sorts of complications. Also well acted and enjoyable.

Come Back Anytime - via JFF. Restaurant documentary.

Mottainai Kitchen - via JFF. Documentary about eliminating food waste.

Misc JFF shorts - via JFF and also on YouTube, several about sushi, yokai, music, and art...

The Scoop - via JFF. Hilarious as fuck double-crossing delight about an underground school paper and a writing club.

LOLO Itsukou Series 7: I Can't Hibernate with Books as a Pillow - via JFF, also on Youtube. By a group that writes short modern plays for student productions. Students in the school library on xmas eve. I'd watch more by this group.

Takano Tofu - via JFF. Sort of underwhelming drama about a family that makes Tofu and their complicated lives. Doesn't stick the landing at all but otherwise well acted.

Wizard Barristers - Yep, watched this again and still enjoyed it through the fanservice and whatnot does grate a bit. It's just the right kind of over-the-top that I sometimes need. I feel like the title basically explains the plot? Bonus for Moyo. Always bonus for Moyo.

Super Dimension Century Orguss - aka the one that didn't become part of Robotech and that's incredibly okay because Orguss is... There are some very good ideas in here but a lot that fail spectacularly and also a lot of absolute What The Fuck?! Listen, I watched Orguss so you don't have to.

E's Otherwise - rewatch as well. E's has some bumpy moments but manages to pull itself together by the end. The cross-dressing scenes still hold up incredibly well.

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Fanfiction: Trouble in Paradise (Silent Hill 2, James/Mary)

Hyperacute Interdynamics

2025 week 49

[FFXIV Fic] Of the Depths

Media Roundup, Accidental Advent All-in-One Again

Greetings

Chessboard Alignment

[Music] "Shipping" by the Terrordactyls (and it's Bandcamp Friday!)

[FFXIV Fic] Gentle Dark, Chapter 2: I Would Speak of Fate

What Are You Playing Wednesday

Inverted Catenaries

You Can't Try Bras On In Front Of James; He'll Find It Very Confusing.

November Round-Up, December Goals

Rare Femslash Exchange Nominations are Open!

2025 week 48

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It's Hard To Be The Only Person At An Orgy.

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