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Fandom: Tron (Movies)
Pairings/Characters: Rinzler & OCs, Sam Flynn/Quorra in the background
Rating: Teen
Length: 71,293 words
Creator Links: badgerwitch on Ao3
Theme:
Just Like Canon (Featured), Robots Androids & AI, Science Fiction, Alternate Universe: Fork in the Road
Summary:
Their entire world lay subject to Kevin Flynn's rules, except for the Sea of Simulation. There, there are no boundaries to the outside laws of the modern, connected world. ...Rinzler isn't done just yet. Post-Legacy. Unfinished.
Reccer's Notes:
A story starting off from the ending of Tron: Legacy, which follows Rinzler journeying across networks and being discovered by some human hackers in the process. Serves as an alternate canon continuation with a great premise and some fun Sam/Quorra in the background near the end. Although this fic is marked as complete, it is abandoned/discontinued, so if you hate cliffhangers, be warned.
Fanwork Links:
Outer Limits on Ao3

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Fandom: Mega Man (Cartoon 1994)
Pairings/Characters: Mega Man & Roll & Dr. Light, Dr. Wily & Proto Man
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 4,075 words
Creator Links: jackalopez on Ao3
Theme:
Just Like Canon (featured), Science Fiction, Robots Androids & AI, Gen, Siblings
Summary:
Mega Man and his sister, Roll, face their toughest enemy yet! And it just so happens to be… Mega Man?!
Reccer's Notes:
A fun genfic recreating the canon's monster-of-the-week episode structure, including a cameo from another classic Rockman character, the Copy Robot. Super canon-accurate and an enjoyable read!
Fanwork Links:
Double Trouble on Ao3

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Fandom: The Protomen
Pairings/Characters: Megaman & Protoman & Thomas Light
Rating: Unrated, estimate Teen
Length: 3,997 words
Creator Links: N/A, Author is anonymous
Theme:
Featured (Just Like Canon), Gateway Fanworks, Old Fandoms, Siblings, Robots Androids and AI, Science Fiction
Summary:
A spotlight thrums to life, its beam illuminating a bare-bones stage.
Reccer's Notes:
A script format retelling of Act 1 of the Protomen as a stage play, packed with references to the Orestia and Act 2 of The Protomen. Deals heavily with themes of generational trauma, cyclical revenge, and family issues, while following the canon story. As heartbreaking and beautiful, if not more, than the original album, plus, there's a great video podfic version also available on the Archive!
Fanwork Links:
How to Draw a Circle on Ao3

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Though I am breaking that a little bit because of the sheer circus going on at the moment.

As one commentator put it, what the current administration is doing to the White House is aesthetically what a meth lab does to a regular house. They've cemented over the back garden, one entire wing has been demolished and is some sort of a "building project" that may never get finished and a cage fighting pit is being built on the front lawn.

And in terms of the concert that was being planned for the ~~Semiquincentennial of the USA~~ 80th birthday of a certain Mangled Apricot Hellbeast, it's like a musical version of the hoky- kokey except everyone immediately jumped out and did not jump back in again, with the possible exception of Vanilla Ice... who as the headliner of anything is just... sad.

Also, we're now in June, which in the US is Pride Month, and I think it's time we got back to more of our roots on S_D and celebrate the hell out of that, because good god almighty do we need to support our local queer communities, more on that shortly.

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Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Pairings/Characters: McCoy & Spock & Kirk
Rating: T
Length: 152,048 words
Creator Links: PSW
Theme: just like canon

Summary: McCoy's transport is destroyed in what appears to be a containment field explosion, leaving no known survivors. The truth, however, is not so simple as that ...

Reccer's Notes: McCoy is kidnapped by non-Federation aliens that force him to work for them in a medical capacity treating other kidnapped individuals. Meanwhile Kirk and Spock think McCoy has been killed in an explosion. I think this fits the "just like canon" theme because the quality, plot, and the writing of this fic is as good as any Trek tie-in novel, and may in fact be better. There is a quite a bit of hurt!Bones in this as he struggles to survive and try to escape the situation he is in. At the same time Spock and Kirk are trying their best to deal with their grief over the loss of their friend, and not always doing that in the healthiest of ways. All while there is a greater plot about these new aliens and what they are trying to achieve, and some original characters that I really enjoyed.

Fanwork Links: AO3

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Fandom: Stranger Things
Pairings/Characters: Ensemble gen, with a focus on Steve Harrington
Rating: Teen
Length: 180,411 words
Creator Link:

MrsEvadneCake
Theme: Just Like Canon, Gen, Epic Works

Summary:

Doom comes to Hawkins, Indiana. Population est. 30,000.

It's cold, that's all, and the breeze is kicking up. That's why Steve feels the chill go up his spine like someone dropped an ice-cube down his back.

"Why wouldn't I be real, El?"

"The Aboleth got you."

Reccer's Notes: This fic is just like a season of the show, with a new big bad and EVERYBODY (from S2) in it, the voices expertly rendered, and the story well told. Highly recommended.

Fanwork Link: In A Strange Land

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103 of 108. Warning for a sexual situation of ambiguous consent, but it’s one I have no trouble with.

The Defenders got its start with the roster you see here, a poorly socialized quartet that soon earned it the nickname of the “non-team.” The Silver Surfer was more like a satellite orbiting the other three. It reached its greatest commercial success (with a different roster) under Steve Gerber, whose writing was more about indulging his subversive streak than brand reinforcement. This property seems like it’d suit the old JLI team down to their toenails. ( Gerber might have suggested using other body parts in that sentence. )

seawasp

This of course links back to my detailed discussion of Project 2025, but the point of this post is to summarize the ENTIRE PROJECT in a few basic principles, which in turn show why it WORKED -- aside from the fact that the Heritage Foundation and others put decades of work into trying to prepare the ground.

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I'm not sure how to get out of this, but it's important to realize that the entire course of events was really built on approaches so simple and yet opposed to our system that the system had no way to properly respond.

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(The full title is too verbose for DW’s header limit.)

Fandom: “Subways Of Your Mind”, AKA “The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet” (FEX song); Lostwave
Pairings/Characters: Gen; invitation to the audience.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3:16
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply; the song was identified and claimed in 2024; role-playing unreality galore in the comments.
Creator Links: (YouTube):

hailey-ks7mg

Theme: Journey & Travel, Fanvid, Folklore & Fairytales, Gen, Non-AO3 Works, Research, Social Media

Summary: if you don’t know the song in this video it’s known as “the most mysterious song on the internet”. It’s a new wave/post punk song that was originally played on a german radio station between 1982-1984. no one knows it’s name or who created it, leading to a several year search for it’s origins that inspired me to make this edit.

i recommend watching whang’s videos on the subject if you want to learn more :)
• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - Tales From the Internet
• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet UPDATE

driving ambiance + footage is of the autobahn motorway in germany and is from the channel rarbi.art
https://www.youtube.com/user/rarbiart/

note: this video was made for creative purposes only. all music and images belongs to the original creators. no copyright infringement intended.

Reccer's Notes: Commenter

dj-ov2it’s summary:

People think of this as a meme but keep in mind. One singular day in early 80s northern germany, a couple thousand people were listening to this song and of those, a whole lot might have been driving a car. This exact video - albeit in an abstract sense - has HAPPENED before and those people are mostly still very much alive. Hell, my close relatives might be some of them.

Fanwork Links: the most mysterious song on the internet but it's playing on your car radio in 1980s germany, by hailey.

Current Mood: wanderlustful.
Current Location: under a summer moon.
Current Music: Implicit in the subject.

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Hi folks!

Found one of my old posts where the images are still working, so reposting.

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It's been a while since we last checked in with the "Life With Archie" title. As long-time readers will remember, this magazine showcases the alternate futures where Archie marries either Betty or Veronica. This resulted...somehow...in Hiram Lodge becoming an archvillain. (We've since learned more about what happened to make him that way, and it's a doozy.) Plus a whole host of other subplots.

But today, we're going to look at the main plotline in Life With Archie #16, the marriage of Kevin Keller. This is likely to be a plotline controversial with social conservatives because--

--it's interracial! I'm pretty sure this is the first interracial marriage in Archie Comics, not counting aliens or monsters.

So, how did the happy couple meet? It turns out that even in the future presented here, the US is still fighting a war in the Middle East. :-(

( Kevin Keller, war hero )

Your thoughts and comments?

SKJAM!

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: "The Cowboys"--John Williams

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Fandom: Merlin
Pairings/Characters: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon, Leon & Arthur Pendragon, Morgana & Arthur Pendragon, minor Elyan/Gwaine, minor Gwen/Morgana
Rating: Mature
Length: 148,000 words
Creator Links:

queerofthedagger

Personaje
Theme: journey & travel, slow burn, road trips, hurt/comfort, fix-it, friends to lovers, angst (with a happy ending)

Summary: Arthur has always had distant dreams of leaving Camelot. They were never more than a wistful fantasy, at least once he grew up.

Finding out about Merlin’s magic changes everything though, and not only because Arthur would do more to keep Merlin safe than he cares to admit. What follows are secrets upon secrets, allowing the dreams to slip back in as all his father’s lies unravel around him. Slowly but surely, Camelot feels less like a home and more like a gilded cage, and Arthur isn’t so certain anymore whether he’s the right person to carry this legacy. If he even wants to.

One final secret, one opportunity, and suddenly the dreams aren’t mere dreams anymore. Merlin wouldn’t be Merlin if he didn’t follow wherever Arthur goes, and as they try to outrun Uther’s manhunt for them, they have to learn to live a life that’s about more than duty, other’s expectations, and a destiny that has never once cared for them.

Or: Arthur long since expected that one day, he might have to flee Camelot with Merlin. He just never thought that he would be the reason.

Reccer's Notes: Fantastic fic about Merlin and Arthur traveling the world together, having adventures, helping people, being general badasses, and falling in love. I love the way Merlin and Arthur’s relationship develops throughout the story <3

Content Notes: canon-typical violence

Fanwork Links: We Can Always Run

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Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Rating: Explicit
Length: 9254
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: china_shop on AO3
Themes: Journey and Travel, Road trips, Polyamory, Action/Adventure, First time, Friends to lovers, Post-canon

Summary: Fraser finds a 1971 green Buick Riviera in Ottawa, and takes Ray Kowalski and Diefenbaker on a road trip to Florida to deliver it to Ray Vecchio.

Reccer's Notes: A rollicking tale, interestingly structured in a series of 1st person POVs moving from Ben to Ray K to Ray V. They each elaborate on different aspects of the action plot (which involves a road trip to drive the Riv from Canada down to Florida), and on the developing relationships between Ben, Ray and Ray, the Rays often dissing each other and cutting in to say "what he didn't tell you was this..."
It's fun, interesting, with great characterisation, and the non-linear structure absolutely works. During all the drama, Stella quietly breaks up with Ray V in a believable, no-fault way, and it ends happily with Ben, Ray and Ray working things out together. Excellent reading!

Fanwork Links: About a Riv

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I just found out the local library (RWC) is sponsoring a talk entitled “The transgender assault on Women and Girls”. The description of the talk says it’s about allowing trans women in women’s sports, but the title and the descriptions of the speakers sure as heck makes it look like it’s about more than that. In other ways this library has been very welcoming to LGBTQ+.

I want to respond but I’m having trouble figuring out how. I don’t mind being out to the city government or library but I don’t want to wade through a lot of vitriol if I post publicly. Do you have any thoughts?

Options:
Write an email to the local newspaper where the announcement was posted
Write an email to someone at the library, but who?
Write an email to the county Pride center
Write an email to the city council
Post on NextDoor
Post on Facebook (the local library has a page) and Bluesky

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Tron (Movies): Outer Limits by badgerwitch

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Star Trek TOS: Equilibrium by PSW

Stranger Things: In A Strange Land, by MrsEvadneCake

Why yes, Virginia, what the AI companies did IS theft...

Round 187: Just Like Canon

Disney Villains: Ursula #3

DC Defenders: DEFENDERS #1-3

Why it was EASY for the Inmates to take over the Asylum...

“Subways Of Your Mind”, by FEX (AKA “The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet”): Fanvid, by hailey.

Kevin Keller Gets Married!

Merlin: We Can Always Run by kairennart (Personaje), queerofthedagger

Due South: About a Riv by china_shop

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