For many years Escapade has been a con I never missed. I'm missing it this year and a lot of other "usual attendees" are also missing it this year. January 2025 is just a tough time for con attendance this year and that is reflected in Escapade putting out a call to bolster this year's attendance or to help the con in other ways ( Read more... )

The 18th Annual All-Fandoms Holiday of More Joy Day will be January 10th, 2025.

What is More Joy Day? In short it's this:

In 2008, in the interest of spreading more joy, sdwolfpup proposed that on a designated day in early January we each engage in one or more acts, either online or in physical space (or both!), which bring joy to another person, in the ( Read more... )

Another year of the Fannish 50 Challenge begins ( Read more... )

Yays! Continuing my "Fannish 50 Streak" of having done fifty Fannish 50 posts per year for each year that Fannish 50 has been running, and also now completing the thematic responses to the due South 30th anniversary celebration's 30 Below Fest created by and run by flownwrong (there were seven thematic prompts of which I already did six and now ( Read more... )

Thank you kindly to CTV News for this article about the "tradition" of Jews in Canada and the U.S. going to Chinese restaurants on Christmas: The history of Jewish families eating Chinese food on Christmas.

Title: Ray Kowalski Is Undercover In More Ways Than One
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Category: Gen
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser
Word count: 139

Summary: What the title says: Ray Kowalski is undercover in more ways than one.

Fic on AO3.

Title: That Dream Again & That Awakening
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen and Up
Categories: Gen, M/M
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker
Word count: 139

Summary: Ray dreams that dream again, then he awakens.

Fic on AO3.

My due South x Welcome to Night Vale crossover written for "A Ficathon Walks Into A Bar":

Title: The Gathering of Goudists (Turnbull Worships Cheese)
Fandoms: due South, Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: Teen and Up
Categories: Gen
Characters: Renfield Turnbull, Robert "Bob" Fraser, The Faceless Old Woman
Word count: 825

Summary: Constable Renfield ( Read more... )

Title: Toasted Purple
Fandoms: Canadian Six Degrees, Purple Toast
Rating: Teen and Up
Categories: Gen, F/M, M/M
Characters: Callum Keith Rennie,Brent Spiess, various members of movie and TV cast and crew
Word count: 1,236

Summary: It begins with an actor and an avant garde movie and it concludes with a Canadian TV show...and an ( Read more... )

Thank you kindly for November postal mail from fen: dine and sidleypkhermit! <3 <3