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Fandom: Star Trek Reboot (AOS)
Pairings/Characters: Gen
Rating: Teen
Length: 1390 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] lazulisong
Theme: Working together

Summary: Winona is called to fix the cock-up of the Yorktown's engines. She uses one of the science-bitches to help her do it.

Reccer's Notes: This fandom has many versions of Winona Kirk. The one you get here is the engineer who does NOT fuck around and can fix anything you throw at her. She is irreverent and badass. And, in this particular story, she is wonderfully, delightfully contrasted with Spock, who is helping her fix the Yorktown engines. Yes, Spock is the science bitch.

I really can't say much more because I'm laughing too hard rereading the story in order to write this rec. Laz perfects the art of proving that swearing isn't what you do when you lack imagination. Every cuss word in this fic is a brilliant gem of hilarious, creative, and accurate speech.

Like every ridiculous fic that is very, very good, this one makes you believe that this Winona Kirk is not only possible, but is absolutely in character. It also makes you believe that this Spock is possible and will call Winona Overlord and let her call him Tiny Science-bitch.

Fanwork Links: One Foot in Front of the Other

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Samantha Carter, Jonas, Cameron Mitchell, team, original character
Categories: gen, episode related, team, angst, Jack and Daniel friendship, friendship, character study
Warnings: Jack warning for some profanity
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: [archiveofourown.org profile] moonlitesonata
Link: a fish called Mac

Why This Must Be Read: I almost tagged this as "original character" just because of the fish. :) (There are original characters here, too.)

This delightful, insightful story takes a few seconds from Fire and Water and uses that brief snapshot of Daniel's aquarium to create an entire series arc that begins with the acquisition of a fish called Mac at the beginning of S1 and ends after Ark of Truth with, well...

There's friendship and wry humor and thoughtful observation and heart-wrenching grief, and it's both outsider POV and Daniel POV all in one. A very satisfying and intriguing read!

snippet of fic )

Daily check-in

Jul. 3rd, 2025 08:30 pm
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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, July 3, to midnight on Friday, July 4 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33321 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 25

How are you doing?

I am OK
12 (50.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
12 (50.0%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
7 (28.0%)

One other person
11 (44.0%)

More than one other person
7 (28.0%)



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.

Purrcy; Pride

Jul. 3rd, 2025 12:20 am
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I finished taking the laundry out of this basket & put it down on its side for Purrcy investigation. It was worth snooping in, but not really good for long-term use, he found.

What's that in the sky? he wondered, after several days of rain & thunder-growler attacks.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stands in a brown cloth laundry bin lying on its side. He peers out and up at the sunlight coming from the skylight above, his whiskers looking long but rather doubtful.

My back continues to be better, while not being anything like *all* better. Prednisone has the reputation of being Side Effects City, my biggest ones so far are dry mouth making my voice all scratchy, and a certain amount of ADHD/mania type behavior, trouble settling & sleeping. Only 3 more days of tapering to go, though.

Amid all The Horrors ramping up & up, here's something that's given me active joy in the past couple of days: Sir Ian McKellan joining Scissor Sisters onstage at Glastonbury Festival:



My god, he's still got that full Royal Shakespeare voice.

It makes me cry a bit with joy at the end there, seeing Sir Ian being able to lead his people in a public celebration of being out & proud. And to see an old man being *venerated*, for once, admired for achievements but in this case also as a symbol of what people like those in the audience can have with age: a *full* life, a *long* life, a life with everything in it, despite what they may have been told. You don't have to be young to be queer, it's not a phase, it's part of a complete human life.
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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Self Rec
Characters: Samantha Carter, Original Character, Hathor, Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill
Pairings: Samantha Carter & Original Character friendship,
Categories: Gen, Angst, Whump, Episode-related, Episode: s03e01 Into the Fire (Stargate SG-1), Alternat Universe: Canon Divergence
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] nuh_s
Author's Website: My Ao3
Link: Hathor's New Jaffa

Why This Must Be Read: Written for Whumpex 2025, this one was really fun to play around with the concept, what if Carter was turned into a Jaffa by Hathor? I got to explore a few of my Jaffa cultural headcanons and, of course, whump Carter.

snippet of fic )

Daily Check-in

Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:02 pm
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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, July 2, to midnight on Thursday, July 3. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33319 Daily Check-in
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 28

How are you doing?

I am OK.
15 (53.6%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
13 (46.4%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
10 (35.7%)

One other person.
12 (42.9%)

More than one other person.
6 (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.
 

Mirror Image, by cmdonovann (G)

Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:36 pm
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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Characters: Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, There But For The Grace Of God!Samantha Carter, George Hammond, Catherine Langford
Pairings: Samantha Carter & Daniel Jackson friendship, Samantha Carter & Samantha Carter friendship
Categories: Gen, Episode Related, There But For The Grace Of God, Alternate Universe: Canon Divergence
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] cmdonovann
Author's Website: cmdonovann's Ao3
Link: Mirror Image

Why This Must Be Read: This is such a fun fic written for the Kill Your Double Exchange featuring Carter and TBFTGOG!Carter. What if Carter had followed Daniel through the quantum mirror? The treatment of Carter as a familiar face vs Daniel as an unfamiliar face in canon is interesting.

snippet of fic )
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Posted by pfyre

An older story – McShep – in which Atlantis will secede from IOA/SGC/Earth – Atlantis had some warning that things were not going in their best interests for several months before the actual break. Walter and Siler help get them ‘extra’ supplies that aren’t being filled via proper channels. O’Neill is turning a blind eye to what is happening in the mountain as Walter and Siler send as much extra as possible. Caldwell is doing what he can during the runs on the Daedalus.

.

On the Daedalus’ final run – Caldwell gives Weir, Sheppard and McKay letters from O’Neill. When the Daedalus leaves they are ‘scanning’ an outer rim planetary system when something reacts and ‘shoots’ them and they’re forced to ‘crash’ land on the nearest planet. Atlantis comes to the rescue and discovers an Ancient outpost on a moon or perhaps it is an independent satellite. Sheppard manages to get them into the outpost and they use the stargate in the outpost to connect with Atlantis. They save as many of the crew as possible – eventually they gate the crew to a site in the Milky Way.

.

Meanwhile the IOA/SGC send orders for the population of Atlantis to evacuate to a planet on the edge of Pegasus Galaxy and they will send a ship to get them. Meanwhile that plan is to strip Atlantis of any and all tech and to abandon the Pegasus Galaxy to the Wraith. Of course the population of Atlantis vote to secede and they leave the planet with Atlantis.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any pointers, links, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.


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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Characters: Samantha Carter, Janet Fraiser, Daniel Jackson, George Hammond, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Jacob Carter
Pairings: Samantha Carter and Janet Fraiser friendship, SG-1 Team
Categories: Gen, angst, hurt/comfort, friendship, dramaeral and SG-1/SGA specific; drama; episode related; five things; friendship, both generic and specific; gen; het; humor; hurt/comfort; kidfic; slash; and team]
Warnings: Temporary Character Death
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: phantisma's Ao3
Link: More Than A Monster

Why This Must Be Read: Imagine, if you will, vampires in SG-1 science fiction style. This fic perfectly keeps with SG-1's tone and characterization for a vampire story. Carter dies. And wakes up. But she's different and has to deal with that. Carter, Janet, and Daniel especially shine in this story. There are also some Jack moments that are just perfect even though he has a smaller role.

snippet of fic )

Project 52

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Jul. 1st, 2025 06:07 pm
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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, July 1, to midnight on Wednesday, July 2. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33314 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.
12 (44.4%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
15 (55.6%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
10 (37.0%)

One other person.
13 (48.1%)

More than one other person.
4 (14.8%)




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.
 
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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged both Books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes & Watson
Rating: T
Length: 2743 words
Creator Links: RatTale
Theme: working together

Summary: After a long day of seeing patients, Doctor Watson is on his way home when he gets pulled into an alleyway to help one more patient for the night.

Reccer's Notes: When Watson has an unexpected patient, in an unexpected place, Holmes gets roped into helping.  They have to work together for the benefit of the patient.  It's very nice to read a story where Watson is the competent medical professional and is the one in charge instead of Holmes. 

Fanwork Links: AO3

what fresh hell is this?

Jul. 1st, 2025 09:44 pm
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It rained for three hours straight - thunderstorm, hail and torrential rain - and didn't cool done one bit. That shouldn't be allowed. And now we have all the heat and all the humidity, and ugh.

(Hi! I'm still here. Things are just very busy and I can't seem to find the time or energy for posting, much less keeping up with anything other than the [community profile] sid_guardian discussions ... I hope everyone's doing well, whether you're caught in this heat wave too or not.)

July reccers

Jul. 1st, 2025 08:26 pm
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Many thanks to [personal profile] cassiope25, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] mific, and [personal profile] nuh_s for all their June recs! We had 13 recs this past month.

Our reccers for July are:

[personal profile] cassiope25: Rodney McKay
[personal profile] goddess47: Jack O'Neill
[personal profile] mific: AU
[personal profile] nuh_s: Samantha Carter
[personal profile] smilebackwards: John Sheppard

Reccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.

If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list.

Five Things Rhine Said

Jul. 1st, 2025 03:57 pm
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Posted by Caitlynne

Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with Rhine, who volunteers as a volunteer manager in the Translation Committee.

How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?

As a Translation volunteer manager I mostly deal with admin work that surrounds the work our translators do – be it talking to other committees about things that are to be translated, preparing English texts for translation, making sure our version of the text is up to date, or getting texts published once they are translated – along with more general personnel stuff like recruiting new translators, keeping a clear record of who is supposed to be working on what and who is on break, checking in with translators and how they feel about their work, that kind of thing. Having been in this role for some time now, I also help with mentoring newer volunteer managers in how to do what we do, at the scale we do it.

What is a typical week like for you as a volunteer?

There isn’t one singular stereotypical week in this role, but some different modes with different focuses that are more or less typical for me:

  • Going on-call for a week: Translation volunteer managers work from a shared inbox that serves as a first point of contact for all inquiries related to the Translation Committee. Each week, one or two volunteer managers go on-call as the ones primarily responsible for making sure everything gets actioned and squared away as needed. This usually means spending a couple hours each day working through everything in the shared inbox, including but not limited to assigning tasks to translators, checking on translators who were on hiatus, triaging translation requests from other committees, and responding to any questions translators may have in the course of their work.
  • Working on a bigger project, like a series of high-visibility posts (e.g. membership drive, OTW Board elections), opening recruitment, or internal surveys: When Translation does a committee-wide thing, it’ll by necessity involve most or even all of our forty-some language teams, each with 1–8 members. Coordinating all that takes some organisational overhead (and some love for checklists and spreadsheets, along with automations where feasible), which typically means sitting down for a few hours on three or four days of the week and chipping away at various related tasks to keep things moving, including but not limited to asking other people to double-check my work before moving on to the next step.
  • Working on smaller tasks: When I want to have a more relaxed week while still being active, I’ll sit down on one or two afternoons/evenings, and take care of a task that is fairly straightforward, like scheduling and leading chats to check in with translators or train people on our tools, creating a template document with English text for translation, drafting and updating our internal documentation, asking others to look over and give feedback on my drafts, and giving feedback on others’ tasks, drafts, and projects.
  • Weekly chair training/catch-up chats: We have a regular weekly meeting slot to sit down and talk about the few chair-exclusive things in the Translation Committee, as part of chair training.

What made you decide to volunteer?

I actually started volunteering at the OTW as an AO3 tag wrangler back in 2020, when lockdowns were on the horizon and I felt like I could pick up some extra stuff to do. Growing up bilingual and with some extra languages under my belt, I ended up hanging out in some of the spaces with lots of OTW translators. Then I found out that I could internally apply as a Translation volunteer manager, and the rest is pretty much history. At that point I was missing the feeling of doing some volunteer management and admin work anyway!

What has been your biggest challenge doing work for the OTW?

On a high level, I’d say it’s striking a balance between the expectations and the reality of the work the Translation Committee does, including the sheer scale. On a more concrete level, it’s like this: Being a translator in the Translation Committee is, by default, a relatively low commitment, with a number of optional tasks and rosters that we encourage people to take on, if they have the time and attention to spare. Part of how we ensure that is by dealing with as much of the overhead in advance as we can, as Translation volunteer managers.

This means that for instance, when the English version of a text is updated – which may take about two minutes in the original text – we go through each language team’s copy of the text, make the changes as needed in the English copy, highlight what was changed, and reset the status in our internal task tracker so that it can be reassigned to a translator. This way the changed part is clearly visible to the translator, so they can quickly pinpoint what they need to do and make the corresponding changes in the translated text.

For both the author of the original English text and the translator, this is a very quick task. On the admin side, on the other hand, it’s the same two-minute process of updating our documents repeated over and over, about 15 times on the low end for frequent news post series that we only assign to teams that consistently have some buffer to absorb the extra workload, and almost 50 times on the high end for some of our staple static pages that (almost) all teams have worked on, meaning it’s something that takes somewhere between 30 minutes to almost two hours even when it’s a tiny change and you’re familiar with the workflow.

(And that’s before getting to very last-minute changes and emergency news post translations with less than two days’ turnaround time, where we manually track everything across around thirty teams, usually. Each time that has happened, everyone’s dedication has blown me away. Thank you so much to everyone who answers those calls, you know who you are!)

What fannish things do you like to do?

I like to read, especially if it’s something that plays around with worldbuilding or other things that were left unsaid in canon. I wish there were more hours in the day so that I can pick up some of my creative projects again. I suppose some of my coding projects like my AO3 userscripts and my AO3 Saved Filters bookmarklet also count as fannish?


Now that our volunteer’s said five things about what they do, it’s your turn to ask one more thing! Feel free to ask about their work in the comments. Or if you’d like, you can check out earlier Five Things posts.

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Round 176: Working Together

Jul. 1st, 2025 09:19 am
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Photograph with added text: Working Together, at Fancake. Workers in India use wide wooden paddles with long handles to shove a huge yard of drying grains into big piles. The grain, most likely rice, is a beautiful golden color, and there's a mix of western and traditional clothing among the seven men and women.
Our theme for July is working together!

This round is for fanworks that feature characters working together to achieve a common goal or—and this is not necessarily the same thing—fanworks set in the workplace.

The tag for this round is: theme: working together

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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