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sad voice freaky clown ([personal profile] feurioo) wrote in [community profile] tv_talk2025-09-20 01:08 pm

Speak Up Saturday

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-20 03:27 pm

Torchwood: Fanfic: Target practice

Title: Target practice
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Owen, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: M
Length: 1,809 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 491 - Riddle
Summary: Ianto and Owen get caught in the crossfire whilst investigating.

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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-19 05:10 pm

Original: Poetry: little pig little pig

Title: little pig little pig
Fandom: Original
Challenge: Riddle

Author's note: on the theme of things I can't figure out.


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double_dutchess ([personal profile] double_dutchess) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-09-20 01:07 am

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, September 19th

Giles: I cannot believe that you are fool enough to do something like this!
Xander: Oh, no, I'm twice the fool it takes to do something like this.

~~Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered~~


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VeroNyxK84 ([personal profile] veronyxk84) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-19 09:42 pm

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Unaffected

Title: Unaffected
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S7, during ep. 7x12 “Potential.”
Summary: Buffy and Spike talk while walking home with the Potentials.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #491 - Riddle


READ: Unaffected )
 
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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-19 03:19 pm

Guardian: fic: Experiments in Dynamic Translation

Title: Experiments in Dynamic Translation
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: E-rated
Length: 9,017 words
Notes: Part of my Breakage and Repair 'verse. In which Shen Wei and I both discover kink from first principles. Much much thanks to [personal profile] teaotter for beta!
(Riddles and conundrums are in the same ballpark, right?)
Tags: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Established Relationship, Domesticity, Soft D/s, Unplanned/Impromptu Kink, Identity Porn (literal).
Summary: It’s been just over ten weeks since his and Da Qing’s return to the land of the living, and in that time, Shen Wei has not yet had occasion to don his robes of office in front of Shuzhi—or indeed, to conduct any Envoy business at all in his presence. He’s visited the SID once or twice on official matters, but only in Haixing clothes, and he’s been sure to keep his manner light and casual in the public areas. Formal liaising is for the privacy of Zhao Yunlan’s office.

Now, faced with the prospect of a Dixing state dinner, Shen Wei discovers he’s slipped into—not so much keeping secrets as compartmentalising. Again.

Experiments in Dynamic Translation )
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Fae ([personal profile] fatalfae) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-09-18 04:32 pm

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, September 18th

Lorne: Well, I figured since you all managed to destroy my club - twice - that I wouldn't be imposing if I hit you up for a place to stay. (Sees the mess in the lobby) On second thought, maybe I should reconsider that standing offer I have from a marginally attractive Mulix demon.

~~Dad~~

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treonb ([personal profile] treonb) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-18 11:16 pm

Star Trek: Fanvid: The Riddle of a Federation Crew

Title: The Riddle of a Federation Crew
Fandom: Star Trek
Song: "Mutant Generations" by Bob Kanefsky
Rating: PG
Length: 1:13
Content notes: None
Vidder notes: None
Summary: For a sci-fi show, there's something very unscientific about Star Trek

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AurumCalendula ([personal profile] aurumcalendula) wrote in [community profile] spacefungusparty2025-09-18 02:02 pm

Fanvid beta?

Would anyone be interested in looking at a mirror!Philippa Georgiou fanvid draft?

It contains footage from both Discovery and the Section 31 movie, but I think it should work even if someone hasn't seen the latter.
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jo ([personal profile] jo) wrote in [community profile] tv_talk2025-09-18 12:05 pm
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The beauty (?) of pre-streaming TV

Apologies for the post title -- I am very bad at coming up with titles for entries.

This topic arose out of a discussion on Bluesky and I thought it would be interesting to post it here. The premise is that before streaming, scripted television had to react to its own reality. What I mean is, shows that had to pump out 20+ episode seasons *every year* had to deal with actual real life things and work them into the script. For example, a character becomes pregnant because the actor gets pregnant, or a lead role had to "go missing" for part of a season because the actor was off doing a movie or dealing with a real life issue, or a character had to end up in a cast or otherwise accommodated because the actor injured themselves in real life, or the "filler episodes" that exist because of budget concerns, or the finales that were written because they didn't know if they'd be renewed for another season, etc.

With streaming, because the wait between seasons is so long, we no longer get these (admittedly sometimes rather demented) workarounds anymore. Or as one person on Bluesky put it: "If you can just tell the story you want to tell with the actors you have with whatever running time you want, it's not TV, it's a movie."

Thoughts? Do you miss the imposed responsiveness of pre-streaming TV? Do you have any favourite (or not so favourite) examples of plot lines that came about because of real life events involving the actors or other aspects of the show (e.g. budget issues)? 
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fancyflautist ([personal profile] fancyflautist) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-09-17 09:02 pm

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, September 17

Willow: I'm just saying you might wanna rethink the stereotype before someone turns *you* into a toad. And while you're at it, why don't you try removing that broomstick from your-- Dawn!
Dawn: Hey. Don't stop the invective on account of me.

~~All The Way~~



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ice cream ([personal profile] bluedreaming) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-17 04:08 pm

Anne of Green Gables: Fanfic: making the obvious into riddles (I will always love you)

Fandom: Anne of Green Gables
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from ALWAYS, I'VE LOVED BIG CARS by Phillip Zhuwao, and Boy with the Red Piano by Louis Armand. It was inspired by CARRYING SOMEONE ELSE’S INFANT PAST A COW IN A FIELD NEAR MARMORA, ONT. by Ken Babstock.
Summary: Everything comes around the same again, even if it’s different. (A contemporary setting poke at Anne & Diana.)

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Barb C ([personal profile] rahirah) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-09-16 07:32 pm

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, September 16

Xander: I'll have you know I was just accosted by some kind of, um, locker monster.
Giles: Loch Ness Monster?
Buffy: 'Locker' monster is what he said. But it wasn't really a monster. It was, like, this big arm that came out of the locker, but then we opened it again, it was gone. Nothing.
Xander: This was right after Buffy's history teacher starts doing some freaky channeling thing in class.
Giles: Ooh! Sounds like paranormal phenomena.
Willow: A ghost? Cool!
Xander: Oh, no, no. No. No cool. This was no wimpy chain rattler. This was 'I'm dead as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore.'
Giles: Well, despite the Xander-speak, that's a fairly accurate definition of a poltergeist.

~~Buffy Episode #31: "I Only Have Eyes For You"~~



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