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(new here & only made two for now, will work on improving lol.)

Beetlejuice / Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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All from 2025's Fantastic Four: First Steps

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A few more recs from

ficinabox, posted over at my journal! (I posted them while the exchange was still anonymous, but creators are now revealed.)

Fandoms include:
Discworld
D&D: Honour Among Thieves
The Mummy
Original Works
Red Sonja
Wonder Woman movies

starandrea

Happy Solstice!

This sure has been a year. I adopted two new gardens, finished

inkingitout and novel-writing month, and bought both a car and a dog sled.

The dog sled is a kit that's supposed to double as a kicksled; it should arrive in a couple of weeks. (Daphne will not be pulling it. If I'm lucky she'll ride for a bit.) I just learned about kicksledding ::checks:: yesterday, so. As per usual.

Relatedly, I heard the following fun bilingualism today:

“我已经try very hard to 给我自己花钱。” ("I already try very hard to spend money on myself.")

Currently in legos I'm building a waterfall, which the box tells me will light up and move when I'm done. Despite my decades of STEM employment, my engineering experience is largely limited to assembling furniture and garden equipment. I suppose success or failure will determine whether this part of the jianghu becomes Cloud Recesses or Lotus Pier.

I found the velociraptors, by the way. And the dolphins! The dolphins are now frolicking at the foot of Baoshan Sanren's mountain. (I've already forgotten what I did with the velociraptors. They might be in the garden.) (ETA: They are in the chicken coop.)

The sky was very beautiful today.

( pictures of solstice sunup and sundown )

seasidefics

( yapping ahead )

Current Mood: cheerful

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skygiants

Sometimes I hit a romance in media and I'm like well. I don't know that I'd say that I ship this. I wouldn't be sad if these people broke up. But unfortunately I do actually believe that they are in love and find it compelling to watch what happens about it ....

anyway that's how I felt about the central relationship in The Legend of ShenLi, which is a xianxia cdrama about ✨ The Greatest General Of The Demon Realm ✨ and her epic romance with -- well. For the first five or six episodes ShenLi, the Greatest General of the Demon Realm, is trapped on Earth in the form of an angry CGI chicken, in the care of a sickly human scholar who has discovered that his angry CGI chicken is in fact some sort of supernatural entity and thinks the whole situation is very funny.

Here, for the record, is angry chicken ShenLi:

and here is ShenLi and her love interest when nobody is a chicken:

This whole introductory arc is really charming. Incredibly happy for that sickly scholar and his angry bird wife. But alas! all things must end, the lovers are parted, and ShenLi The Greatest General of the Demon Realm grimly returns home to confront her upcoming political marriage to a playboy from the Divine Realm, in the full assumption that she will never see her sickly scholar again because even aside from the political pressures one day in the Demon Realm equals a year in the human realm so the time difference is not workable.

However! then some monster nonsense starts happening in the Demon Realm, and so the Divine Realm sends its last surviving actual factual god to help out -- who bears a Mysterious Resemblance to ShenLi's sickly human boyfriend .... ( spoilers )

But enough about the leads! ( Here's a short list of my other favorite people in the drama, cut for some images as well )

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Hello, this is your mod. I've finished cleaning up the tags for the new year.

I'm starting to notice that some people are using this community in an attempt to find an editor for their full, original novels - works 50,000+ words or more. I worry that

betaplease is being used to take advantage of beta-readers for commercial work. This is a space for fandom and fandom-adjacent works, and part of the spirit of fandom (on the fic side, anyway) is that we do not make money on our editing or writing.

After some thought, I've decided the rule is, if you are intending to publish your writing with the goal of making money, it does not belong here on betaplease.

If you are publishing your work with the intent of making money, you should be paying an editor for a professional pass. This is for three reasons:

If you are trying to make money on your work, asking someone else for free work so that you can profit is unjust and disrespectful.
Frankly speaking, it is extremely unlikely that you are going to find any editors who are willing to edit a piece of that length for free. Even 10k can be exhausting, especially if you are expecting a professional level editing job.
If you are publishing in a commercial capacity, then your work should get a more professional type of editing pass than what we here in this community can give for free. The amount of effort an editor is going to give a story of over 50,000 words, to a stranger, for characters they don't even know and aren't guaranteed to enjoy reading about, for free, is minimal. You and your readers deserve more than the bare minimum.

I myself have worked as a professional freelance editor for over 15 years. I made this community because I love editing and I love fandom, and I want to support both. Using this community to find free editing for commercial projects feels like you're not respecting editors and our craft. Editing, just like writing or art, is a skill that is honed through years of effort.

With that said, I am not banning original fiction, and any novel-length works posted to

betaplease before now will be allowed to remain. And of course, if you are looking for an editor for your 50,000+ word original fiction that you plan to publish on AO3 and are never going to try to make money on, by all means, you are welcome here. However, if I notice continued posts in this direction from this point on, I will return this space to being strictly focused on fandom works only. I have also updated the rules to be explicit on this point.

Thank you for reading, and thank you for always supporting this small community. Best wishes to your writing and editing adventures in the new year.

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All from MCU's Fantastic Four: First Steps.

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⌈ Secret Post #6925 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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gluten_free

I adapted these muffins from a recipe in Katarina Cermelj's The Elements of Baking, making them dairy free and reducing the sugar. The result is a tender muffin with a domed top and a fluffy crumb, similar to a bakery muffin, but not as sticky or sweet.

Ingredients:

145 g tapioca starch
72 g sorghum flour
72 g millet flour
170 g granulated sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp xanthan gum
1/4 tsp fine salt

160 g non-dairy milk (175 ml)
150 g non-dairy yogurt (5.3 oz)
100 g neutral oil (1/2 cup)
2 large eggs (~100 g out of shell)
1/4 tsp almond extract

215 g fresh raspberries, rinsed and drained

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Questions? Ask 'em!

forestofglory

Here's some more recent DecRecs!

Day 18
Today is one of those days where I really wish I was capable of napping. But since that isn't going to work I'm planning on spending some time curled up on the sofa with an ereader full of fic an hopefully a cat on my lap
So for today's #DecRecs I want to rec one of my favorite fics ever "on a long journey" by twigofwillow
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29819775/chapters/73366473

This is a Lan Sizhui centric post-canon CQL fic and It's really the best!

Things I love about "On a Long Journey":
*It's beautifully written
*The characterization is so perfect!
*The way the story is non-linear and includes. memories, stories and letters (Jiang Cheng's letter is so funny and pitch prefect)
*found family and good feelings while still letting people be complex and messy!

Day 19
For today's #DecRecs I have a really cool boardgame that I first played this year Vantage by Designer Jamey Stegmaier
basically your party crash lands on an alien planet and you are all in different locations, represented by illustrated cards. You can tell the other people about the cards but not show them the cards

It's very fail forward game, so you kinda wander around and interact with the environment and maybe complete some goals. There's lots of cool stuff to do! Once I have taken a child on an adventure, almost gotten eaten by a dragon, and stolen a flying vehicle!

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This will be the last Challenge for 2025. So, let's have some "roundup Challenge" again. :o)

You can actually icon everything that made your own year awesome. This may be your favourite TV show(s) watched in 2025, your favourite movie(s) watched in 2025, your favourite actor(s) / actress(es) in 2025, your favourite event(s) attended in 2025 or anything that you thought was awesome about your own year. You are still only able to choose 2 Favourites for this Challenge. However, if you choose one topic only you may choose 4 different things.

As examples below I used 4 movies that I watched more than once this year. :o)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 by

itsanonyx | John Wick (Media Franchise) by

sietepecados | Lilo & Stitch (2025) by KahlanAmnelle | Flow by MamadNobarii

* You may icon 2 Favourites in this challenge (in case you cannot decide which one is your absolute favorite).
* You may enter up to 4 icons (ICON+URL).
* Please submit your icons as new posts to this community. Every member has posting access.
* Please no animations or x-rated icons. Everything else is allowed.
* Icons must fit DW standards (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
* Tag your entries with challenge number and your username, or I can do it for you.
* Please put a description in your entry which Favourite you picked.
* Please ask questions if you have any.

* DEADLINE: Sunday, January 04th 2026 (04pm Central European Time). [countdown]

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white_aster

The year Trump broke the federal government (Washington Post, gift link)
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.

Incredibly wide-ranging and important, showing the human cost of the firing of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and all the federal agency missions undermined and abandoned as a result.

I...could not read all of this. Teared up, still too soon. For anyone who doesn't know, I was part of the Reduction in Force earlier this year, terminated from my federal job at a science agency you've definitely heard of. I lived through this, and I can confirm that this article very much shows the full picture.

I know it's been awhile since the bulk of the Reductions in Force. Please don't forget us. The vast majority of fired federal workers were NOT called back. Many have NOT "moved on". Many are still struggling and still searching for jobs in a very tight job market,. For many, their niche federal experience is not so valuable anymore because the federal government still, by and large, is not hiring. Many are questioning themselves, heartsore and worried as much as every other patriot.

This didn't have to happen. it's 317 days until midterm elections. It's 1052 days until the next presidential election. If you're struggling, I see you, hang in there. And when it's time, please vote.

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Thank you so much for all your votes! Congratulations to all winners!
If you would like to get a winner banner, please comment.

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thewayne

A tarball is an old compression format that predates zip files, it was used in Ye Olde Dayes to archive a whole bunch of files into one big humongoid file for convenience.

Anyway, it looks like recovery of the tape was successful! With everything going on in my life, I don't have the ability to dig into the story right now, just wanted to get this out for my fellow geeks. Here's the Slashdot summary that you can dive into if you like:

Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a modified tape reader and analyzed with Len Shustek's readtape tool." A Berlin-based retrocomputing enthusiast has created a page with the contents of the tape ready for bootstrapping, "including a tar file of the filesystem," and instructions on dumping an RK05 disk image from tape to disk (and what to do next).

Research professor Rob Ricci at the University of Utah's school of computing posted pictures and video of the tape-reading process, along with several updates. ("So far some of our folks think they have found Hunt The Wumpus and the C code for a Snobol interpreter.") University researcher Mike Hibler noted the code predates the famous comment "You are not expected to understand this" — and found part of the C compiler with a copyright of 1972.

The version of Unix recovered seems to have some (but not all) of the commands that later appeared in Unix v5, according to discussion on social media. "UNIX wasn't versioned as we know it today," explains University of Utah PhD student Thalia Archibald, who researched early Unix history (including the tape) and also worked on its upload. "In the early days, when you wanted to cut a tape, you'd ask Ken if it was a good day — whether the system was relatively bug-free — and copy off the research machine... I've been saying It's probably V5 minus a tiny bit, which turned out to be quite true."

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/21/020235/bell-labs-unix-tape-from-1974-successfully-dumped-to-a-tarball