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Fandom: Merlin
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Merlin, Arthur, Unicorn
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital
Artist Website/Gallery: khmelisuneliart
Why this piece is awesome: Lovely art of Merlin and Arthur encountering a unicorn in a sunny glenn. If you don't know BBC's Merlin this piece still works as a pretty piece of fairy tale-esque art.
Link: tumblr

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, February 19, to midnight on Friday, February 20 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34242 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 14

How are you doing?

I am OK
9 (64.3%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
5 (35.7%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
5 (35.7%)

One other person
6 (42.9%)

More than one other person
3 (21.4%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

goddess47 posting in

romancingmcshep

Title: Reason for Secrecy
Author:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 165 words
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

mcsheplets prompt #134 - magic

For

romancingmcshep 2026

For Fluffbruary 2026 prompt day 19 - dazzling

Summary:

Rodney lets John in on a big secret.

Reason for Secrecy on AO3

mecurtin

It was SUPER cold and windy out that day and our 110-yr-old stone house leaks like a sieve in the main room, so Purrcy spent Caturday curled up adorably on our bed. *So* friendly.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby sits cosily on a flowerd bedspread, jewelry boxes visible behind him, gazing happily at the photographer with slightly squinted eyes. His white chest looks exceptionally full.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby sits cosily on a flowerd bedspread, jewelry boxes visible behind him, gazing happily at the photographer with slightly squinted eyes. His white chest looks exceptionally full.

Purrcy and I were just waking up from a nap, and he was looking *exactly* like a loving kitty whose tummy was only a little bit of a trap. But totally worth it, I swear.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby twists onto his back to look at you upside down, paws flopping in the air, tummy soft and pettable and pretty clearly a trap. But he's so CUTE!

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby twists onto his back to look at you upside down, paws flopping in the air, tummy soft and pettable and pretty clearly a trap. But he's so CUTE!

Two weeks of books, because last week got away from me.

#25 The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie. Re-read. Because I needed to read something I'd read before where every sentence is *good*.

#26 Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age, by Ada Palmer.
What an excellent way to write history! It's very much based on Palmer's teaching, on what she's learned about what works to reach people, on coming at questions from a variety of directions and styles to get students/readers to get both a feeling for the past, and a feeling for how our understanding of the past has changed.

For instance, one of the stylistic techniques Palmer uses is giving various people a Homeric-type epithet, so that it's easier to remember them and keep them sorted: Sixtus IV (Battle Pope), Innocent VIII (King Log), Julius II (Battle Pope II!); French philosopher Denis Diderot, with whom Palmer feels a particular mental connection across the centuries, is always "dear Diderot", and so on. Honestly, I really wish a historian of China would do this, it would make keeping the names straight SO much easier.

So it's a truly excellent approach to history in general and the Renaissance in particular, but I had to knock my five-star rating down to 4, because the last part of the book includes Palmer including as one of her refrains something that's a pretty obvious mistake, and *someone* should have spotted it & taken it out.

The mistake is stating that cantaloupe is a New World food, like tomatoes, and that discovering these fruits which didn't conform to the established hierarchy of which fruits are good/valuable/noble helped undermine the idea of a great chain of being, next stop! French Revolution. No. Cantaloupe is *not* a New World introduction, and people were suspicious of it & remained so for a long time because they thought it was "too cold and watery" or "distorted the humors" ... but was probably related to the fact that today cantaloupe is the item in the produce department most likely to be contaminated with Salmonella, wash it when you get it home.

It's really a pity that an obvious, checkable mistake was left in & repeated, because it detracts so much from the value of the whole book (at least for food historians). Maybe it can be fixed for a later edition. I've mentioned it to Palmer, we'll see if she ever speaks to me again ...

#27 Pretenders to the Throne of God, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The finale of the Tyrant Philosophers series, sticking the landing while leaving the world completely open. Ties up threads from all 3 previous novels, though it can be confusing especially since most characters we've seen before aren't traveling under their previous names.

As I think about it, the most curious thing about the series is that we really don't know much about the Pal's *philosophy*, what kind of Right Think they're trying to impose. Is Palaseen anti-theism where their martial success comes from, because they decant every magical or religious item they get their hands on for its power? Which of course means their whole culture is powered by a non-renewable resource their success is rapidly running them out of, whoops, which I thought was going to be more of a plot point in the series overall.

One of the constant pluses of this series is how it's focused on people who aren't rulers or bosses or the ones who get books written about them afterwards. It's the small people, the ones who don't run things (or not for long), the stretcher-bearers and soup-stirrers. Yasnic/Jack is a small man with a small god, yet he's the vector of great changes. It's not really that he's small-*minded*, except in the way he thinks only about the people (or gods) in front of him, not the "big picture" other people keep yapping about. He's a Holy Fool, but he really is holy (even when he claims he isn't).

#27 Project Hanuman, by Stewart Hotston
Big Idea SF, with contrast between humans living in a virtual worlds and those in physical reality, and machine intelligences in both, and the quantum nature of information, but the prose just ... sits there. I'm not invested enough to diagnose why the sentences seem so flat to me, but they are. Very hard for me to get through because of it.

Then over this past weekend I binged the Hilary Tamar series by Sarah Caudwell, which I'd somehow missed when it was new:

#28 Thus Was Adonis Murdered
Quite amusing, comedy-of-manners murder mystery, told for the most part in *letters!* by gad, written in that joyous era of free-floating bisexuality so aptly associated with the original Edward Gorey cover, before the Plague Years arrived. The murder plot was implausible, but the book is *fun*.

#29 The Shortest Way to Hades
Amusing enough, but I didn't LOL as I did at some of the other Hilary Tamars. Possibly because I had too much sympathy for the first victim, and I felt as though no-one else did. I think there's a British class thing going on there.

#30 The Sirens Sang of Murder
I startled my family by the volume of my LOLs. There's actually serious stuff mixed in there, along with the froth of a comedy of manners and tax law. Peak Hilary Tamar!

#31 The Sibyl in Her Grave
Yeah, this one didn't work for me. Too much of the action and the plot hinges on Maurice, an experienced CofE vicar, not having the experience or resources to deal with a mentally disturbed parishioner. But mentally disturbed parishioners who fixate on the vicar (priest, iman, rabbi) are par for the course, they happen literally all the time. Maurice is a social worker, he should be able to actually *help* Daphne, and he should have people around him to be an effective buffer against her.

Or does this reflect English society of the 90s? That Daphne is supposed to read as merely one of those "odd, unstoppable people"? Because to me she *clearly* reads as someone who's been horribly abused all her life and needs some real, *serious* therapy to become a functioning member of society.

#32 Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen.
This re-read was prompted by reading about the reception history of Jane Austen, and how at the time and for much of the 19th C readers found Austen's heroines not "feeling" enough: they really wanted heroines who were more like Marianne, less like Elinor.

Although Elinor is in many ways the most admirable of Austen's heroines, she's also the one who changes least, I think, and that makes her fundamentally the least interesting. To *grab* as a character we'd have to see Elinor change and struggle more--which is why the Emma Thompson movie is the extremely rare example of an Austen adaptation that's *better* than the book. There, I said it.

melagan

From Fanlore:

Fanon is any element that is widely accepted among fans, but has little or no basis in canon.

Sometimes it's a small event in canon that gets exaggerated; sometimes it's something in a fanfic story that gets picked up on and repeated by other writers until it's so common that newbies might think it's a canonical fact.

A variation of fanon is "personal canon" or "headcanon," which is a set of "fanon"-like facts that are accepted as canon by an individual fan or a smaller group of fans, sometimes in the making of a shared universe.

I would love to know your favorite piece of Fanon. Or many pieces of Fanon. There's no need to pick just one!

mific

Heated Rivalry is a difficult fandom to write in, as there's an intimidating amount of incredible fic!

I finished this a week ago, then vacillated about posting it after reading other stories by far more skilled writers, but I just finished the final edit and hit post, on the principle of "MORE CAKE!"

It's my attempt at writing something a bit like sex pollen in HR. Weird tropes are a lot easier in Stargate, where they're either already in canon, or can be explained away by alien tech and alien plants!

when you have to go there - about 13,000 words, Ilya/Shane, Ilya's POV.

starwatcher posting in

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, February 18, to midnight on Thursday, February 19. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34241 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am OK.
14 (58.3%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (41.7%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
10 (41.7%)

One other person.
8 (33.3%)

More than one other person.
6 (25.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

writerlibrarian

Health stuff

The chiropractor appointment this morning helped a lot. I’m feeling a lot better.

Teacher stuff

The first paper was due last Friday and only one student was late. My TA is working on noting the papers. We had two meetings to make sure we were on the same mind. She’s is a very good TA. I am three weeks ahead content wise and I am considering playing with avatar AI for the remix class. We will be analyzing all the remixes of Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes and the current trend in romansty and dark romance to use Greek Mythology, It’s an option I kinda hope to explore.

Reading

Done with v. 3 and v. 4 of The Apothecary Diaries, v. 5 arrived from the library. Still very good and addictive.

The Beginning After the End. 1 by Turtle Me. Manga. Okay, it’s a twist on the Arturian legends but not something I’ll continue to read.

Downlands by Norm Konyu is a whole other story. So, so, so good. Ghosts, gothic tale of a village, twins siblings, time travelling and gorgeous graphics. A must read graphic novel.

Watching

I have gotten a little further into Unveil Jadewind (17/34) but I’ve gotten back to one of my comfort viewing The Best Thing.

I’m watching the Olympic men’s hockey tournament and Canada almost lost today but we made it through. Probably lost Crosby for a game or more but Suzuki, Binnington and Marner saved the day.

Crafting

My red fox xstitch is coming along. It’s making me want to start a blackwork project.

mrs_sweetpeach

( Click here for Week #07 )

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: My home office
Crossposts: https://mrs-sweetpeach.insanejournal.com/805442.html

goddess47 posting in

romancingmcshep

Title: Bravery
Author:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 100 words
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

mcsheplets prompt #132 - kiss

For

romancingmcshep 2026

For Fluffbruary 2026 prompt day 18 - courage

Summary:

Rodney could be brave!

Bravery on AO3

otw_news_feed

Posted by callmeri

https://www.transformativeworks.org/the-otw-is-recruiting-for-social-media-moderators-organizational-culture-roadmap-volunteers-software-developers-volunteers-recruiting-volunteers-and-tag-wrangling-volunteers/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279772

Are you a developer who has submitted pull requests to the otwarchive GitHub repository? Want to help shape the future of the OTW in a flexible, collaborative role? Are you interested in following checklists to administer personnel related tasks? Would you like to wrangle AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Portuguese to English? Can you read and translate from Chinese to English? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting!

We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for:

Communications Social Media Moderator – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 60 applications
Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteer – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 60 applications
Accessibility, Design, & Technology Software Developer – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC
Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteer – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 30 applications
Tag Wrangling Volunteer – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 125 applications
Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Portuguese) – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 30 applications
Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Chinese) – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 45 applications

We have included more information on each role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at the volunteering page. If you don’t see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available.

All applications generate a confirmation page and an auto-reply to your e-mail address. We encourage you to read the confirmation page and to whitelist our email address in your e-mail client. If you do not receive the auto-reply within 24 hours, please check your spam filters and then contact us.

If you have questions regarding volunteering for the OTW, check out our Volunteering FAQ.

Communications Social Media Moderator

Are you familiar with Instagram or Facebook? Do you want to help connect the public with the OTW?

The Communications committee is recruiting for Social Media Moderators to help us manage our Facebook and Instagram. Social Media Moderators will help the OTW maintain an active presence on their platform, creating or reblogging a range of posts of relevance and interest to the OTW’s userbase, and doing outreach to fan groups and individuals on the site. Moderators are also responsible for handling user questions and managing responses to the OTW’s news content. You will be working as part of a team, and you must be able to dedicate at least 3-4 hours each week to the OTW.

For this position, we are seeking people who are familiar with the conventions of one of these platforms and who ideally have experience moderating a social media page. We are also interested in hearing from those with customer service experience, especially in an online environment. We expect you to have an interest in fandom at large and an understanding of the concerns and activities of the OTW (although we will, of course, provide you with training once you start).

You must be 18+ in order to apply for this role. If you’re a frequent Facebook or Instagram user who enjoys helping others, have wide-ranging interests across the fandom space, and are curious and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you!

Applications will close 25 February 2026 or after 60 applications

Apply for Communications Social Media Moderator at the volunteering page! If you have further questions, please contact us.

Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteer

Want to help shape the future of the OTW in a flexible, collaborative role? Organizational Culture Roadmap (OCR) Volunteers support the implementation of OTW Organizational Culture Roadmap goals by assisting with planning, documentation, and team coordination. Whether you prefer jumping into projects, offering behind-the-scenes support, or helping teams stay on track, there’s space to contribute in a way that works for you.

This role is great for those with clear communication skills who enjoy collaborative work. Time commitment is 1-5 hours per week. As an OCR Volunteer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring smooth operations by:

Writing and editing OCR project plans, goal documentation, statements, surveys, replies to public questions, policies, minutes, and reports
Assisting in the research, development, management, and delivery of internal projects
Working as part of a team to support specific goals to reaching completion

We’re looking for volunteers who are proactive, driven, and committed to the OTW’s long-term success.

You must be 18+ in order to apply for this role. In addition to the initial application, you will be required to complete an assessment to help us understand how well you understand and can complete the committee’s tasks. This will be emailed to you after you complete the application form.

Applications will close 25 February 2026 or after 60 applications

Apply for Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteer at the volunteering page! If you have further questions, please contact us.

Accessibility, Design, & Technology Software Developer

The Accessibility, Design, & Technology (AD&T) committee coordinates design and development of the software that powers the Archive of Our Own. It is currently seeking Ruby on Rails developers to enhance features, fix bugs, review code, and test new changes in line with the priorities established by AD&T committee chairs and senior developers.

Please note: applicants must have submitted a minimum of two pull requests – at least one for an issue with medium or higher difficulty – to the otwarchive GitHub repository that have been deployed to production prior to applying for the software developer position.

If you don’t have the time to commit to formally volunteering for the OTW, we gratefully accept bug fixes from anyone on GitHub! Please check out our contributing guidelines before submitting a pull request.

Applications are due 25 February 2026

Apply for Accessibility, Design, & Technology Software Developer at the volunteering page! If you have further questions, please contact us.

Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteer

Are you great at admin and enjoy the satisfaction of completing short tasks and ticking them off to-do lists? Or do you have experience in CRM or database software, data privacy, managing software access, or other related areas? Volunteers & Recruiting is looking for additional volunteers to help our busy team!

Volunteers & Recruiting supports the Organization for Transformative Works as a volunteer-driven organization by ensuring that volunteers are in the right roles, at the right time, with the right tools.

We recruit and manage incoming volunteers, handle exiting volunteers, and handle all committee setup as well as chair and board turnover. We help answer volunteers’ questions about the OTW or the tools we use, or direct volunteers to the right places. We set up tools for committees and subcommittees, mentor volunteers in their work, and track the service of each and every volunteer throughout their time with the organization. We ensure that every volunteer in the organization has the resources they need to complete their work efficiently and effectively.

This recruitment round we’d especially love hearing from applicants who are interested in regularly helping with our day-to-day work! This includes following checklists to answer tickets related to personnel changes, software access, recruitment setup, and general queries. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to a live text-based chat interview.

Applications will close 25 February 2026 or after 30 applications

Apply for Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteer at the volunteering page! If you have further questions, please contact us.

Tag Wrangling Volunteer

If you’re an experienced AO3 user who likes organizing, working in teams, or having excuses to fact-check your favorite fandoms, you might enjoy tag wrangling! To join us, click through to the job description and fill in our application form. There will also be a short questionnaire that will help us assess whether you have the skills and attributes that will lead to your success in this role.

Please note: you must be 18+ in order to apply for this role. For this role, we’re currently looking for wranglers for specific fandoms only, which will change each recruitment round. Please see the application for which fandoms are in need.

Wranglers need to be fluent in English, but we welcome applicants who are also fluent in other languages, especially Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Čeština (Czech), Español (Spanish), isiZulu (Zulu), Italiano (Italian), Polski (Polish), Suomi (Finnish), Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), Türkçe (Turkish), Українська (Ukrainian), ไทย (Thai), Русский (Russian), беларуская (Belarusian) and 한국어 (Korean) — but help with other languages would be much appreciated!

Applications will close 25 February 2026 or after 125 applications

Apply for Tag Wrangling Volunteer at the volunteering page! If you have further questions, please contact us.

Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Portuguese)

The Tag Wranglers are responsible for helping to connect and sort the tags on AO3! Wranglers follow internal guidelines to choose the tags that appear in the filters and auto-complete, which link related works together. This makes it easier to browse and search on the archive.
If you’re an experienced AO3 user who likes organizing, working in teams, or having excuses to fact-check your favorite fandoms, you might enjoy Tag Wrangling! To join us, click through to the job description and fill in our application form. There will also be a short questionnaire that will help us assess whether you have the skills and attributes that will lead to your success in this role.
Please note: you must be 18+ in order to apply for this role. For this role we’re currently looking for applicants who are fluent in both English and Portuguese. We welcome all Portuguese dialects! The work will involve both regular Tag Wrangling work and translating tags from Portuguese into English.

Applications will close 25 February 2026 or after 30 applications

Apply for Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Portuguese) at the volunteering page! If you have further questions, please contact us.

Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Chinese)

If you’re an experienced AO3 user who likes organizing, working in teams, or having excuses to fact-check your favorite fandoms, you might enjoy Tag Wrangling! To join us, click through to the job description and fill in our application form. There will also be a short questionnaire that will help us assess whether you have the skills and attributes that will lead to your success in this role.

Please note: you must be 18+ in order to apply for this role. For this role we’re currently looking for applicants who are fluent in both English and Chinese. We welcome all Chinese dialects! The work will involve both regular Tag Wrangling work and translating tags from Chinese into English.

Applications will close 25 February 2026 or after 45 applications

Apply for Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Chinese) at the volunteering page! If you have further questions, please contact us.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279772

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, February 17, to midnight on Wednesday, February 18. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34236 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 27

How are you doing?

I am OK.
13 (48.1%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
14 (51.9%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
11 (40.7%)

One other person.
10 (37.0%)

More than one other person.
6 (22.2%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

melagan

I received a lovely ecard from

smallhobbit today. A happy reminder of the start of The Year of The Fire Horse.

I had no idea it only happened once every 60 years

According to Chinese spiritual author Helen Ye Plehn, the horse is "known for freedom, enthusiasm, intelligence, and a strong drive for movement and progress."

Heaven knows we could use some of that. Thank you

smallhobbit!

otw_news_feed

Posted by Elintiriel

https://www.transformativeworks.org/thanks-for-participating-in-ifd2026/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279765

For International Fanworks Day (IFD) 2026, we once again came together from all corners of the fandom cosmos, and celebrated an Alternate Universe-themed IFD! First, we ran our annual Feedback Fest, where we asked you all to recommend to each other fanworks around your favorite AUs. Fanlore hosted their annual IFD editing event from February 14-20, and we signal boosted several community events along with our own. Some of these are still on-going, so make sure to check out the post!

We also hosted chatrooms and games on our once-a-year IFD Discord server for 30 hours. Thanks to everyone who came by! You can check out the fruits of our collective labor–several fandom-themed poems, song lyrics, and stories–by visiting our collected IFD works on AO3.

We’d like to thank everyone who participated in our IFD activities and events, and give a huge shoutout to our OTW volunteers who modded chats and games! We hope to see you all again for IFD 2027!

https://www.transformativeworks.org/thanks-for-participating-in-ifd2026/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279765

trobadora

Happy Lunar New Year!

Time keeps slipping away from me again, and I keep thinking of things I want to post about, but when I finally sit get to down and open DW, I've forgotten all about it.

But I remembered the New Year, at least! *g*

melagan posting in

sga_saturday

Dinner Date (1006 words) by melagan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Evan Lorne/Parrish the Botanist, Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Evan Lorne, Parrish the Botanist (Stargate), John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor
Summary:

Lorne and Parrish have dinner plans.

me_ya_ri

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Current Mood: calm

goddess47 posting in

romancingmcshep

Title: From the Ruins
Author:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagen
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 168 words
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

mcsheplets prompt #136 - rough

For

romancingmcshep 2026

For Fluffbruary 2026 prompt day 17 - auspicious

Summary:

"No more walking!" Rodney said gleefully.

From the Ruins on AO3

mific posting in

stargateficrec

Shows: SGA
Rec Category: threesomes+
Characters: John/Ronon, Rodney/Teyla, John/Rodney/Ronon, John/Rodney/Ronon/Teyla
Categories: M/M, F/M, M/M/M, F/M/M/M
Words: 2809
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:

sabinelagrande
Author's Website: sabinelagrande on AO3
Link: All I Wanna Do Is on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This was written for Porn Battle, and it earns its rating! It's a complete AU with team AR1 as criminals - a heist team, who mix and match with each other in complex ways in their down time. It works really well, but be aware that this isn't a long-term relationship, although they all make it through okay. Hot, clever, and well written.

( snippet of the fic under here )

mific posting in

fanart_recs

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: luluxa on tumblr, and on AO3 (AO3 ones are often higher-rated)
Why this piece is awesome: Luluxa did Heated Rivalry art! And it's gorgeous - warm skin tones with the boys on vacation somewhere hot - maybe their honeymoon? Just lovely!
Link: something for the Valentine's, backup link here

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kingstoken in fanart_recs - Merlin: Untitled Unicon Art by khmelisuneliart (SFW)
mecurtin in fandom_checkin - Daily Check-In
goddess47 in romancingmcshep - Reason for Secrecy - Stargate Atlantis (PG)
mecurtin - Two Purrcies; Two weeks in books
melagan - Canon vs Fanon
mific - I wrote another HR fic
starwatcher in fandom_checkin - Daily Check-In
writerlibrarian - What I’m doing Wednesday
mrs_sweetpeach - Project 52
goddess47 in romancingmcshep - Bravery - Stargate Atlantis (PG)
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starwatcher in fandom_checkin - Daily Check-In
melagan - Fire Horse
otw_news_feed - Thanks For Participating in #IFD2026!
trobadora - 新年快乐, 恭喜发财 and all that
melagan in sga_saturday - Fic: Dinner Date - Lorne/Parrish, John/Rodney (G) - prompt: Dinner
me_ya_ri - Jogging Along Slowly
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Reason for Secrecy - Stargate Atlantis (PG)

Two Purrcies; Two weeks in books

Canon vs Fanon

I wrote another HR fic

Daily Check-In

What I’m doing Wednesday

Project 52

Bravery - Stargate Atlantis (PG)

The OTW is Recruiting for Social Media Moderators, Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteers, Softwa

Communications Social Media Moderator

Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteer

Accessibility, Design, & Technology Software Developer

Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteer

Tag Wrangling Volunteer

Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Portuguese)

Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Chinese)

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Fire Horse

Thanks For Participating in #IFD2026!

新年快乐, 恭喜发财 and all that

Fic: Dinner Date - Lorne/Parrish, John/Rodney (G) - prompt: Dinner

Jogging Along Slowly

From the Ruins - Stargate Atlantis (PG)

All I Wanna Do Is (by sabinelagrande) (Explicit)

something for the Valentine's by luluxa (SFW)

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