Dead Plate: Cooking With Love
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COOKING WITH LOVE  ||  A RODY LAMOREE/VINCENT CHARBONNEAU PLAYLIST  || ► LISTEN
" i've been told I don't cook with love – which is a sentimental and meaningless review in the culinary world. i'm a professional chef, not a parent making a meal for their kid. but i think i understood what they meant when you walked in. "
( TRACKLIST )
My fandomtree
Dec. 28th, 2025 08:14 pmkingstokenI realized I never got around to promoting my own fandomtrees, so here it is. I'm asking for anything other than icons (fic, art, podfic, etc), and the fandoms I'm asking for are: The Great Mouse Detective, Sherlock Holmes (both Granada and the Rathbone films), Our Flag Means Death, Dead Boy Detectives, Doctor Who, and podfic for any fandom I've written for.
fandomtrees, so here it is. I'm asking for anything other than icons (fic, art, podfic, etc), and the fandoms I'm asking for are: The Great Mouse Detective, Sherlock Holmes (both Granada and the Rathbone films), Our Flag Means Death, Dead Boy Detectives, Doctor Who, and podfic for any fandom I've written for.335 | rec-cember, week four
Dec. 28th, 2025 10:59 amstraightforwardlyI’ve been going back and forth as to what my final rec_cember theme should be, and I’ve once again decided to do something slightly different. I think it’s probably obvious that I love sharing recs, and it’s probably equally obvious that the vast majority of those recs are fic recs, because fic has always been my main focus in fandom.
But this time, I think I want to rec some animatics. Specifically, animatics made for the songs from EPIC the Musical. Back during the height of my EPIC obsession this past spring/summer, I was watching many, many of the animatics on youtube, and I had the intention of making a recs list of my favorites. Obviously, I never got around to that, but it’s been lingering on my mind, so… why not now?
For these recs, I’m drawing from a list of recs I sent to a friend on discord back in August, and arranging them in the order of where the songs fall on the tracklist. There are thirteen recs in total.( beneath the cut )
rec_cember theme should be, and I’ve once again decided to do something slightly different. I think it’s probably obvious that I love sharing recs, and it’s probably equally obvious that the vast majority of those recs are fic recs, because fic has always been my main focus in fandom.But this time, I think I want to rec some animatics. Specifically, animatics made for the songs from EPIC the Musical. Back during the height of my EPIC obsession this past spring/summer, I was watching many, many of the animatics on youtube, and I had the intention of making a recs list of my favorites. Obviously, I never got around to that, but it’s been lingering on my mind, so… why not now?
For these recs, I’m drawing from a list of recs I sent to a friend on discord back in August, and arranging them in the order of where the songs fall on the tracklist. There are thirteen recs in total.( beneath the cut )
Yuletide recs (part 1)
Dec. 27th, 2025 09:26 pmsnickfic posting in yuletideSeven recs at my journal for:
True Detective: Night Country
Kyle Murchison Booth Stories
Companion
Kraken
My Sister and the Prince
Dragonriders of Pern (2x)
True Detective: Night Country
Kyle Murchison Booth Stories
Companion
Kraken
My Sister and the Prince
Dragonriders of Pern (2x)
Nominations Closed
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:01 pmcandyheartsexNominations for the tagset have closed! The tagset will be finalized over the next few days as the final round of nominations get approved (there are still almost 200 fandoms pending, plus nominations in existing fandoms, so please be patient), wandering tags get corralled, errors get fixed, etc.
Please stay tuned for at least one more post about nomination questions and notes, just in case you need to clarify a tag you've nominated.
Signups will open on January 1, 12:01 AM.
Please stay tuned for at least one more post about nomination questions and notes, just in case you need to clarify a tag you've nominated.
Signups will open on January 1, 12:01 AM.
misc. updates
Dec. 27th, 2025 06:02 pmaethel1. Fanlore: I was looking over new pages and saw one for Gerard Way/Patrick Stump. I thought I would add some livejournal links, but couldn't find much: gerard_patrick, which turned out to be a barely-used slash community for a different Gerard and Patrick, and two purged usernames not on the Wayback Machine so I can't verify whether they are Bandom communities (patrickxgerard and gerardpatrick). Were there ever any communities, primers, or reclists for this pairing?
Someone also created a new page for KJ Charles fandom and included a discord invite.
2. 2025 reading progress: 112 books.
Since my last post, I've finished four more novels, including one by a new-to-me author: The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi. It's a fantasy novella set in a desert, brutal, anti-authoritarian, possibly Marxist. I need to get my hands on the sequels. Most recently I finished After Hours at Dooryard Books, Cat Sebastian's latest novel. It is set in New York City 1968, but resonates with the present political moment. Nothing dramatic happens to any of the characters, at least not once they are introduced--they all have tragic backstories. Just 300+ pages of people minding a bookstore and not talking about their feelings while American history happens around them. I was genuinely riveted.
Currently reading: Native Nations and Slippery Creatures.
3. I read a new Starsky & Hutch fanfic: Cal's Lounge, Two Thirty-Six AM by triedunture. Highly recommend. It does feature the characters' very dated understanding of sexuality that I've seen mentioned on Fanlore pages--I don't know how accurate it is for real-life 1970s, but it is probably very in character for Starsky & Hutch.
Someone also created a new page for KJ Charles fandom and included a discord invite.
2. 2025 reading progress: 112 books.
Since my last post, I've finished four more novels, including one by a new-to-me author: The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi. It's a fantasy novella set in a desert, brutal, anti-authoritarian, possibly Marxist. I need to get my hands on the sequels. Most recently I finished After Hours at Dooryard Books, Cat Sebastian's latest novel. It is set in New York City 1968, but resonates with the present political moment. Nothing dramatic happens to any of the characters, at least not once they are introduced--they all have tragic backstories. Just 300+ pages of people minding a bookstore and not talking about their feelings while American history happens around them. I was genuinely riveted.
Currently reading: Native Nations and Slippery Creatures.
3. I read a new Starsky & Hutch fanfic: Cal's Lounge, Two Thirty-Six AM by triedunture. Highly recommend. It does feature the characters' very dated understanding of sexuality that I've seen mentioned on Fanlore pages--I don't know how accurate it is for real-life 1970s, but it is probably very in character for Starsky & Hutch.
7 Recs
Dec. 27th, 2025 01:04 pmkaranguni posting in yuletideI bring a quick 7 recs in 6 fandoms at my journal for
- The Bedlam Stacks (backstory! Keita! Merrick!)
- The Way of the Househusband (domesticity! But also porn!)
- Antique Bakery (Ono and Tachibana in the mountains!)
- Wimbledon (Peter is an idiot! But sort of okay at tennis!)
- Cthulhu Mythos (Dream Cycle Randolph brings horrors to the yard!)
- Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defence/Rivers of London (no more need said!)
Yuletide Recs!
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:52 amrachelmanija posting in yuletideRecs in Chalion/World of the Five Gods - Lois McMaster Bujold, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, The Long Walk - Stephen King, "The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson; New Yorker RPF, Lyra series/Caught in Crystal - Patricia Wrede, Mushishi, Some Like It Hot, Watership Down - Richard Adams.
At my DW, with commentary.
At my DW, with commentary.
#ITPE 2025 Masterlist
Dec. 27th, 2025 12:25 pmxdiorix posting in amplificathon(If you'd like to see previous years' master lists, 2011 is here, 2012 is here, 2013 is here, 2014 is here, 2015 is here, 2016 is here, 2017 is here, 2018 is here, 2019 is here, 2020 is here, 2021 is here, 2022 is here, 2023 is here, and 2024 is here.)
Happy 15th annual #ITPE!!!! Thank you for bearing with us despite Tumblr sabotaging us not just once, but twice.
Here’s some stats and highlights from this year’s #ITPE!
We had 73 participants this year, and you made 293 podfics for a total run time of 124 hours, 16 minutes, and 4 seconds–that’s over FIVE DAYS of audio!
We have 4 simulpods this year! Incredible things happened in The Queen’s Thief fandom with![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
deepestbluesky podding a gift for likethetrench, who recorded the same story for her recipient feelingsandtaxes, who in turn podded that story for lady-sci. Classic #ITPE antics! flowerparrish and tinybluebirdcloak gifted each other the same story as a treat, with flowerparrish also receiving a podfic of a story ze gifted to another recipient. Finally, jeremyknox | kbirbpods and opalsong both podded the same story for their recipients.
By far our most prolific gifter this year was flowerparrish, who (on top of modding duties) not only made 4 gifts for zir recipient (including a nearly 11 hour podfic), but also picked up 2 pinch hits and made 57 treats. Not far behind was jeremyknox | kbirbpods who also picked up a pinch hit and made 15 main gifts for faer recipients and 16 treats! Opalsong had a relatively restrained year (for her), but still made 10 gifts (nearly 10 hours of audio) for her recipient!rhea314 was also a generous gifter this year, making 8 main gifts for her recipient and 10 treats! pezzax was another of our prolific gifters this year, making 22 treats! We also had generous treaters in blackestglass, wanderingjedihistorian, chaoskiro, j03-05, and wilfriede! Honorable mentions to popcornfairy28 and reena-jenkins for the 3 and 5.5 hour (respectively) podfics they made for their recipients, and to betrayedbycinnamon for treating despite not being signed up to the exchange!
Finally, we'd like to extend some thank you’s to:
-Data mod![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
flowersforgraves for converting all the sign up data to airtable which makes matching so much easier.
-Asymptotical and Dragonflies_and_Katydids for creating the coding we used to generate distribution day templates.
-Our pinch hittersalliaskisthepossibilityoflove, flowerparrish and jeremyknox | kbirbpods
-And as always,![[twitter.com profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
exmanhater for ITPE’s permanent hosting
Now let’s get on to what you’re really here for…..the masterlist!! Here’s the masterlist spreadsheet for this year’s exchange!
Happy listening!!!
Happy 15th annual #ITPE!!!! Thank you for bearing with us despite Tumblr sabotaging us not just once, but twice.
Here’s some stats and highlights from this year’s #ITPE!
We had 73 participants this year, and you made 293 podfics for a total run time of 124 hours, 16 minutes, and 4 seconds–that’s over FIVE DAYS of audio!
We have 4 simulpods this year! Incredible things happened in The Queen’s Thief fandom with
By far our most prolific gifter this year was flowerparrish, who (on top of modding duties) not only made 4 gifts for zir recipient (including a nearly 11 hour podfic), but also picked up 2 pinch hits and made 57 treats. Not far behind was jeremyknox | kbirbpods who also picked up a pinch hit and made 15 main gifts for faer recipients and 16 treats! Opalsong had a relatively restrained year (for her), but still made 10 gifts (nearly 10 hours of audio) for her recipient!
Finally, we'd like to extend some thank you’s to:
-Data mod
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-Our pinch hitters
-And as always,
Now let’s get on to what you’re really here for…..the masterlist!! Here’s the masterlist spreadsheet for this year’s exchange!
Happy listening!!!
Fannish 50
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:03 amsoricelSo I'm going to try to do this Fannish 50 thing! Because I'm nearing the end of the Dreamer Trilogy, I'm thinking of going back through the Raven Cycle chapter by chapter, choosing one quote per week, and writing about it using these prompts. I definitely won't get through all of the books by the end of the year at this rate, but I think it'll be a good way to think more deeply about some of the characters and themes...and who knows, maybe I'll carry it over into 2027. Or maybe I'll fizzle out way before that! We'll seeee!
God dammit!
Dec. 26th, 2025 09:20 pmsoc_puppetI noticed shortly after making my first corn-filled hot-and-cold packs that mice love them. They also love being in our nice, cozy house in the winter!
After having more than a few hot-and-cold sacks ruined by mice, I decided to fix this by getting a big plastic tub to keep my extra sacks and unused corn in. This worked pretty great! For a while.
Today, I was planning to make some new corn sacks to hand out at work, since it's practically an annual tradition for me at this point. Only it looks like I'm going to have to break tradition (no big loss for me, TBH) because one or more mice has managed to wriggle in between the top and bottom of the plastic container. The three ready-made corn sacks I have stored in there, for a miracle, aren't chewed on; the bottom compartment is just soaked in mouse pee 😑 And there's soooooo much mouse poop. I don't even trust the corn that's remaining in the (presumably waterproof) bag that I bought it in.
So, upcoming tasks:
Dump the presumably bad corn in the yard waste bin
Get rid of or viciously clean out the plastic bin the corn was in
Brainstorm a new way to protect corn
Set mouse traps
Cry a little to myself over lost efforts
Pick myself up and start again
Not necessarily in that exact order.
After having more than a few hot-and-cold sacks ruined by mice, I decided to fix this by getting a big plastic tub to keep my extra sacks and unused corn in. This worked pretty great! For a while.
Today, I was planning to make some new corn sacks to hand out at work, since it's practically an annual tradition for me at this point. Only it looks like I'm going to have to break tradition (no big loss for me, TBH) because one or more mice has managed to wriggle in between the top and bottom of the plastic container. The three ready-made corn sacks I have stored in there, for a miracle, aren't chewed on; the bottom compartment is just soaked in mouse pee 😑 And there's soooooo much mouse poop. I don't even trust the corn that's remaining in the (presumably waterproof) bag that I bought it in.
So, upcoming tasks:
Not necessarily in that exact order.
