My latest Guardian fanworks

Nov. 4th, 2025 07:39 am
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1 dramaverse fic, 2 novelverse fics, 1 RPF drawing. :)

I Will Miss Him Too (325 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Da Qing & Shen Wei (Guardian), Da Qing & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Background Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Da Qing (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Ye Olde Haixing Era, The Pendant of Pining, or the Wrapper of Pining at this point
Summary: Da Qing picks up Shen Wei's most prized possession and lifts it up, mouth open in curious delight. The golden wrapper glints in a ray of sunlight at the entrance of the tent.

Everywhere (811 words) by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kunlun/Shen Wei (Guardian)
Characters: Shen Wei (Guardian), Kunlun (Guardian)
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Sounding, Anal Play, Tentacle Sex, vine sex, Vines, Consentacles, use of powers during sex, Invisibility, Outdoor Sex, Tenderness, Soft, Aged-Up Character, Adult Wei, POV Shen Wei (Guardian), no nut kinkvember 2025, Kinktober 2025
Summary: Wei loves to look at Kunlun — the soft fire in his eyes, and the unruly curtain of hair falling around them, and the way his robes slip off his shoulders and he smiles, bare and shameless. But Wei loves this too — the yellow-green glow behind his eyelids as Kunlun gives and gives until Wei can't take anymore, unseen, everywhere.

It's Kunlun's turn to look at him.

Good Kid (693 words) by facethestrange
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian - priest
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng
Characters: Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi, Minor Characters
Additional Tags: Set During Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Missing Scene, POV Guo Changcheng
Summary: "He— He should be home, but I haven't knocked yet," Guo Changcheng replies and winces. She's really sweet and she wouldn't roll her eyes at him, but he doesn't want to look at her in case she does.

"What do you want from him anyway that got you so terrified?" She raises an eyebrow. "Trying to ask him out?"

———
A slight canon divergence/missing scene of the moment where the auntie from the neighborhood committee leaves Guo Changcheng in front of Chu Shuzhi's door (volume 2, chapter 16).


Long Day on Set by facethestrange
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, Chinese Actor RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong
Characters: Bai Yu (Actor), Zhu Yilong
Additional Tags: Cuddling & Snuggling, Sleepy Cuddles, Literal Sleeping Together, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: They are eepy tired.
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Title: The Poet and the Pendulum
Character: Finnick Odair
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Music: The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish
Length: 3:24
Notes: Edited original song length of 13:55 to fit narrative.
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr

An Active Author's Autumn

Nov. 4th, 2025 12:09 am
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 Happy no-longer Halloween, everyone!

We had a successful talk at the Community Learning Center in Kendallville Thursday, once I got over being intimidated by the size of the room.

 


I mean, they put us on an actual stage, and handed us microphones. Two dozen people were there; we sold eleven books, and signed two others that had been previously purchased. That's pretty good, when you consider they had to pay $15 to get in.

 

That makes two live presentations, a book signing, a radio station interview, a TV interview, and a podcast, and we're exhausted. Emily and I are what people now call introverts: When we're out in public, especially when attention is on us, it drains our batteries. It didn't help that we had to fight off a cold during this period.

And yet it's good for us to get out, and we've made sales. We even got a sale from out of the area after our radio interview with Jack Hammer, at WXKE.

 


 I'm not that good at public speaking, but I think I held my own.

 

I expect sales of Haunted Noble County, Indiana to drop now that the spooky season is over. Sadly, I don't have books named Thanksgiving In Indiana or A Hoosier Christmas, but it is that time of year when I try to push book sales for gift giving season. The number of authors who never have to worry about promotion is probably in the low three digits, these days.

 On a related note, if you've ever bought any of our books, please leave a review! Amazon only allows reviews from people with an account who've spent $50 in the last year, but the book does not have to be purchased there. Goodreads is good, too. It's in the name.

You can't imagine how important reviews are to the success of a book. It doesn't have to be something long and complicated.

 



 

 

 So, what's next? I mean after recovery, because being out in the cold and various allergens has left us sniffling and exhausted. Next step for me is to start working again on the Hoosier Hysterical sequel. We want it to come out early next year in honor of America's Semiquincentennial, which is a real word, I think. I should probably just call it our 250th birthday.

Meanwhile, Emily is going to reformat and make a new cover for Radio Red, which we're re-releasing after getting the rights back from the original publisher. It's a fun romantic comedy set in Michigan, and I think people will like it. Sadly, very little was done to promote it earlier.

Then we have to finish the Albion Fire Department photo book (send pictures!), publish a Storm Chaser prequel, continue submitting half a dozen finished manuscripts to publishers and agents, and write more. Granted, writing is not a spectator sport, but for us it's an exciting time coming up.

 



 


Even introverts can be extroverted on the internet:

·        Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0058CL6OO

·        Barnes & Noble:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Mark R Hunter"

·        Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4898846.Mark_R_Hunter

·        Blog: https://markrhunter.blogspot.com/

·        Website: http://www.markrhunter.com/

·        Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozma914/

·        Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkRHunter914

·        Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrhunter/

·        Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkRHunter

·        Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRHunter

·        Substack:  https://substack.com/@markrhunter

·        Tumblr:  https://www.tumblr.com/ozma914

·        Smashwords:  https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ozma914

·        Audible:  https://www.audible.com/search?searchAuthor=Mark+R.+Hunter&ref_pageloadid=4C1TS2KZGoOjloaJ&pf

 


Remember: Book sales are how we afford caffeinated beverages, and we’d be no fun without them.



The stranger signs of late spring

Nov. 4th, 2025 06:15 pm
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Goddammit but the birds are pooping all over the place. My car, my windows, my car windows. Good grief!

spontaneous

Nov. 4th, 2025 12:00 am
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 4, 2025 is:

spontaneous • \spahn-TAY-nee-us\  • adjective

Spontaneous describes something that is done or said in a natural and often sudden way and without a lot of thought or planning. It can describe a person who does things that have not been planned but that seem enjoyable and worth doing at a particular time.

// The kitten captured our hearts, and we made the spontaneous decision to adopt.

// He's a fun and spontaneous guy, always ready for the next big adventure.

See the entry >

Examples:

"The Harlem Renaissance was filled with poetry and song—and with performance, as enshrined in [filmmaker William] Greaves's footage which features many spontaneous, thrillingly theatrical recitations of poems by Bontemps, Hughes, Cullen, and McKay." — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Sept. 2025

Did you know?

When English philosopher Thomas Hobbes penned his 1654 treatise Of Libertie and Necessitie he included the following: "all voluntary actions … are called also spontaneous, and said to be done by a man's own accord." Hobbes was writing in English, but he knew Latin perfectly well too, including the source of spontaneous; the word comes (via Late Latin spontāneus, meaning "voluntary, unconstrained") from the Latin sponte, meaning "of one's free will, voluntarily." In modern use, the word spontaneous is frequently heard in more mundane settings, where it often describes what is done or said without a lot of thought or planning.



Thoughts on vacation

Nov. 3rd, 2025 11:51 pm
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Today was my first official day back after my vacation (I did work Saturday, but I had none of the weekly duties since I wasn't there all week, and didn't have much to do). And my brain did not return to work with me! LOL. Took about 7 hours to kick into gear.

I enjoyed my week off more than usual, even though I never did do any of the vague plans like take a drive somewhere or do some deep cleaning/organizing. That's because I spent the whole time immersed in my current fandom; binging episodes, writing, reading. It was exactly the way I most wanted to spend the time and I regret nothing. Unlike other days off where I wasn't productive in RL, I do not consider it time wasted.

It still went too fast.

I'd like to return this monday

Nov. 3rd, 2025 10:39 pm
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Woke up 20 minutes before the alarm and thought okay this day shall go well. Oh how wrong I was

I pull into the parking lot, put up my handicapped hang tag and it shattered into 5 pieces. OMFG. It was cracked but I didn't realize it was that bad. I'm gonna have to tape it together until I can get to the BMV.

Get inside to find out our secretary had a major health event and is in ICU on an ecmo which is needless to say serious shit. Scary.

the ladies basketball teams me they're leaving tomorrow for a full week and I have to move the test to be fair to them (which really isn't a problem) so long as they're here for the bone practicum this week.

And then I set up my practicum. 4 and a half hours because shit is missing AGAIN. I know who took it because it's always him. I screwed up the answer key and questions 3 times. I didn't leave work until 830 at night and didn't eat dinner til 9. blech.

I was going to share something fun for music monday that I thought [personal profile] shipperslist had but I can't find it so since it's writing month let's do music that we want to write to or have written to. One of the stories I want to get on is the "last" story in the All that Glitters Husk Overlord series (well it's where the whole series was heading, to husk/angel becoming a couple) so it gets the world's most sappy love song also for [community profile] lyricaltitles bingo challenge
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I posted recs from my [community profile] fandomgiftbasket and from [community profile] trickortreatex at my journal here.

Fandoms are: 9-1-1 Lone Star, The Addams Family, Arthurian Mythology, DC Extended Universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pop Music RPF, Roswell New Mexico, and Stardew Valley.
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My air plants arrived today. :D So I gathered materials to start assembling the lantern terrarium. (Start with Photos: Fairy Garden Lantern Deconstruction. Continue with Photos: Lantern Terrarium Assembly Part 2 Testing the Fit.)

Walk with me ... )
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Thinking of absent friends as the moon turns full and the year turns to winter.

Death and the Moon

                        (for Catherine Marcangeli)

The moon is nearer than where death took you
at the end of the old year. Cold as cash
in the sky's dark pocket, its hard old face
is gold as a mask tonight. I break the ice
over the fish in my frozen pond, look up
as the ghosts of my wordless breath reach
for the stars. If I stood on the tip of my toes
and stretched, I could touch the edge of the moon.

I stooped at the lip of your open grave
to gather a fistful of earth, hard rain,
tough confetti, and tossed it down. It stuttered
like morse on the wood over your eyes, your tongue,
your soundless ears. Then as I slept my living sleep
the ground gulped you, swallowed you whole,
and though I was there when you died,
in the red cave of your widow's unbearable cry,

and measured the space between last words
and silence, I cannot say where you are. Unreachable
by prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeable
in the air, even if souls are stars. I turn
to the house, its windows tender with light, the moon,
surely, only as far again as the roof. The goldfish
are tongues in the water's mouth. The black night
is huge, mute, and you are further forever than that.


— Carol Ann Duffy
from Feminine Gospels

couple Marvel drabbles

Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:51 pm
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Title: Kiss on the Moon
Fandoms: MCU / What If...? / X-Men Movieverse
Pairings: Jean Grey/Wanda Maximoff
Rating: PG
Warnings/Spoilers: Phoenix!Jean. Post WandaVision.
Summary: What if post Westview, Wanda fell into another universe?
Notes: Written for [community profile] xmen100 prompt Scarlet Witch, [community profile] 100ships prompt red, [livejournal.com profile] 15pairings prompt stargazing and for [community profile] uc_xmen drabble-a-thon prompt Jean/Wanda - phoenix, kiss. Never expected to write this pairing but it was oddly calling to me so I went with it. I was mainly thinking of Sofia!Jean but there are some comics influences but feel free to picture whoever you want of course.
kiss on the moon...

Title: Stumble
Fandoms: MCU
Pairings: Kate/Yelena
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: Post Thunderbolts/The Marvels films.
Summary: Yelena visits Kate.
Notes: Written for [community profile] mcu100 prompt kiss.
Stumble...

Title: Kissed by Flames
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Pairings: Rating: PG-ish
Warnings/Spoilers: Post Series. Phoenix.
Summary: Amara and Jean reunite.
Notes: Written for [community profile] xmen100 prompt Magma, [community profile] 100ships prompt flame, [livejournal.com profile] fivebyfiction prompt Phoenix, [community profile] uc_xmen drabble-a-thon prompt "X-Men Evolution - Amara/Jean - Phoenix, kissed by fire". So I've been interested in this pairing since the last time I rewatched XME ages ago, and I've been wanting to write for them since I don't think pairing really exists? I did make fanart for them ages ago but I haven't seen anything else. Also not sure if they really interacted in the comics so I'm not sure how Amara's abilities would work with/against the Phoenix but meh this is fanon anyway. I kinda want to write more, not going to lie - not sure if I will.
kissed by flames...

Title: Night Out
Fandom: X-Men '97
Pairings: implied Madelyne/Emma
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: Canon Divergent of Season 1. Missing Scene.
Summary: Madelyne arrives on Genosha, and Emma takes her out.
Notes: Written for [community profile] xmen100 prompt dawn[community profile] xmen15 prompt night for [community profile] uc_xmen drabble-a-thon prompt "X-Men '97 - Madelyne/Emma - night out". Okay so this is the first time in a VERY long time writing X-Men, so I'm a little rusty. Also I might make more of this when I'm less tired because this pairing is really calling to me.
night out...

[#280 | Trick or Treat] Voting Post

Nov. 3rd, 2025 10:09 pm
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Here are the entries for this challenge:

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Please Note: Because we only have 3 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (both spots) in order to be counted. Winner votes are worth 2 points, Runner Up votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

When voting, please copy/paste the ENTRY NUMBER and the FIC TITLE from the list above into the spot you're voting for (this prevents accidentally mis-numbering a vote and casting it for the wrong entry). It should look like this:

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Please note that you cannot vote for your own entry, and that votes cannot be made anonymously. You do not have to be a member of the community in order to vote, nor have submitted an entry for this week; everyone is welcome to participate in the voting. IP addresses are logged to prevent duplicate voting.



Voting closes Wednesday, November 5 at 9:00PM EST.

Annoyed

Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:54 pm
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Tried to move my dinner time in just two days, ate too late, crashed my blood sugar, and had to cancel gaming.

(It's not diabetes. It's just that I am incredibly intolerant to eating late)

Beta Volunteer Post

Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:49 pm
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"Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."



The Adventure of the Yellow Face


Because even Sherlock Holmes sometimes needs someone to look over his work.



If you're available to beta or Britpick for someone, please leave a comment with the following information:



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Also! We recommend sherlock60's Round 5 Discussion Posts. scfrankles spent over a year compiling historical linkspams on topics inspired by the original canon stories, and then generously shared what she learned with all of us. I highly recommend the collection for anyone needing inspiration or background for Victorian- or Edwardian-era fanworks!

Pinch-Hitter Volunteer Post

Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:46 pm
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Every so often a participant is unable to complete their assignment and we have to scramble for someone to make a gift for the recipient. If you would enjoy being one of the people the mods turn to in our times of need, please leave us a comment! Include your email, and tell us what fanwork types, universes, pairings, and ratings you might be willing to create for. All comments are screened.

Volunteering on this post is not a commitment: you'll simply be among the people we turn to first when we need a pinch-hitter. If we need a pinch-hitter, we'll email you a request and a proposed due date; you're free to accept or reject. (We only ask that you respond promptly, as our deadlines are often tight!)

Thank you so much for volunteering!

Take a test.

Nov. 3rd, 2025 08:54 pm
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I'm only a little disappointed I'm not working the polls tomorrow. Only a little, because as much as I'd wanted to get out and participate, I know calling off was the right thing to do. I'm coming off a nasty cold - four negative rapid tests since last Wednesday night, including one this afternoon, seem reasonably trustworthy - and while I'm mostly recovered, working the polls for the full duration tomorrow wouldn't do me any good. It's hard enough when I'm completely healthy.

What I'm finding amusing about this is one of my clients reached out and because I'm not working the polls and the physical demands will be significantly less with far fewer hours, I'll be working with her tomorrow afternoon, which means I've basically gone from the public to the private sector.
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 Bryant-Lake Bowl (Vee Dang photo credit)
Image: (Photo credit Vee Dang). Me, being dramatic at the show at Bryant-Lake Bowl

First, for those of you hoping to get a chance to see/hear this, I was initially excited to know that Cole usually video tapes and records these. When I asked after getting a copy of it this morning, Cole said that the video cut out about 45 minutes in and the audio has some kind of horrible background hiss. There is some hope for the audio recording, but it's going to take some cleaning up and I don't know how much time/energy/expertise Cole has to devote to that. :-(  Sorry, y'all. If I get it, I'll post it. If not, c'est la vie.

Especially since you missed a great show!

Me and Scott at Bryant-Lake Bowl 2025 (Gerriann Brower)
Image: (photo credit: Gerriann Brower) Me and Scott Keever at Bryant-Lake Bowl.

I have to say that I'm impressed that in both of these shots (taken by different people at different times, obviously,) I am actually looking up from my reading. In Ger's picture, you can see that we managed a decent crowd too, which is impressive given that it was technically a "school night," being a Sunday evening and a lot of folks have work the next morning. 

As an extrovert, there's this thing that happens to me when the spotlight hits me and I feel eyes on me. Rather than get nervous, I blossom. As soon as the first laugh come back from the audience, I loose myself completely to the moment. So, the reading went really well. There was only one moment when, looking up from my podium, I accidentally picked a middle distance to stare at that included the spotlight? So, when I looked back down at my page I briefly had to try to read around the big silver "burn" spot on my eye! JFC, what a dummy. I did not do that a second time!

Speaking of missteps, if there were anything I could do over it would be the interview.


Interview - Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour (Ger Brower)
Interview: (photo credit: Gerriann Brower) From left to right: Lyda Morehouse, Cole Sarar, and Scott Keever

I should have had time to consider my answer since Scott went first, but my mind was fully blank. Cole asks this wonderful set of questions that are based on the idea of "what do you love about yourself or your community?" (and then "how about in 5 years? How about 40?") I wasn't sure which community I wanted to talk about (queer, nerd, gamer, writer?) and so I kind of nattered on about the writing community that I've cultivated over the years and I kind of feel bad about making a joke at [personal profile] naomikritzer 's expense about how I hoped "people in my life" would stop winning so many awards so I could stop being jealous/envious. And, I didn't mean to put her on the spot and I certainly didn't want to make things awkward, but I kind of maybe did? I don't know what entirely possessed me. My only excuse is that I was fully exhausted and unprepared for this interview. (And to be clear, Universe, I want my friends to win ALL the awards, all the time!)

What I wish I'd talked about instead? How LLM/AI are going to affect the writing/creative community in the next five years. I mean, I don't know the answer as to how we are going to be able to save what we love in the face of AI/LLMs, but it would have been 100% LESS AWKWARD.

Ah well, live and learn, I suppose.  [Insert joke about how at least I didn't randomly bring up Hitler!]

I was super-prepared for the show--though at least two people asked me very specifically if we'd rehearsed. The second time I had to ask, "Did it seem like we didn't??" But I think people were actually responding to how polished we were--at least that's what the second person implied. If anyone  has ever been to one of my readings, they'd have known I rehearsed because normally I can't help but editorialize. I managed only one aside. So, that should tell you everything you need to know! We definitely rehearsed! Three times, actually!

Anyway, it was great fun. 10/10 would again.

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