New K-9 fic: Good luck, Yuu-san (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
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vriddyWow, vriddy wrote a fic? Wonder what fandom it could be about...............
Good luck, Yuu-san | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | <700 words | rated T
Summary: Fujimaru accidentally discovers a new weakness of Oboro.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Good luck, Yuu-san | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | <700 words | rated T
Summary: Fujimaru accidentally discovers a new weakness of Oboro.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Community Thursday
Dec. 25th, 2025 06:17 amvriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
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bnha_fans. The comm is really active in all sorts of good ways, which is LOVELY! :D
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Posted & commented on getting_started about whether image links also get redirected when using a rename token. The answer is YES which is pretty cool and good to know :D
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Christmas Crafts: The Sweatering
Dec. 24th, 2025 07:30 amalthea_valaraYesterday I made a red mini-sweater ornament using worsted weight yarn. I succeeded! It's cute! And much less fiddly than the fingering weight patterns I had tried. I found a small Christmas tree applique done in crochet, and did the tree in fingering and the star in some embroidery floss, so now I have a sweater with a Christmas tree on it. Very cute!
It is now 7:27am. I have one sweater done. Six more to go. I have one in partial progress - just needs the sleeves. This one's green and I am going to put a candy cane applique on it. The girls (3 of them) will get the red sweaters and the boys (4 of them) will get green.
I do have until late Friday to get these done, but I'm hoping to get a lot done today so that I can enjoy the next few days.
Will be editing this post with status updates!
07:31:00 AM - 07:55:00 AM (24 min) - first sleeve of first green sweater done
08:26:00 AM - 08:53:00 AM (27 min) - candy cane applique done and sewn on
08:54:00 AM - 09:15:00 AM (21 min) - second sleeve done. First green sweater finished!
10:27:00 AM - 10:55:00 AM (28 min) - Yoke of second green sweater, up to splitting for sleeves
12:14:00 PM - 01:14:00 PM (1 hour) - Body, sleeves, and finishing of second green sweater
EDIT 3:01pm: WE INTERRUPT THE SWEATERING FOR AN EMERGENCY STOCKING. See, mom had me go to the Irish import store yesterday to pick up dinner, but also said to buy myself a Crunchie bar "but don't eat it, it's for your stocking". which reminded me I haven't put out my stocking yet. Folks, I cannot find it. It's not in the usual places, or in the one unusual place I thought it might be. So me being me, I grabbed a Q hook and super bulky yarn and started making a new one. I allowed myself an hour to work on it, and I have finished the heel turn. Now: back to the sweatering.
EDIT 5:49pm: Emergency Stocking is DONE and submitted to a Nerdopolis challenge. Only took an hour and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, I've got a red sweater yoke complete. Might have time to finish it before dinner, so off I go!
It is now 7:27am. I have one sweater done. Six more to go. I have one in partial progress - just needs the sleeves. This one's green and I am going to put a candy cane applique on it. The girls (3 of them) will get the red sweaters and the boys (4 of them) will get green.
I do have until late Friday to get these done, but I'm hoping to get a lot done today so that I can enjoy the next few days.
Will be editing this post with status updates!
07:31:00 AM - 07:55:00 AM (24 min) - first sleeve of first green sweater done
08:26:00 AM - 08:53:00 AM (27 min) - candy cane applique done and sewn on
08:54:00 AM - 09:15:00 AM (21 min) - second sleeve done. First green sweater finished!
10:27:00 AM - 10:55:00 AM (28 min) - Yoke of second green sweater, up to splitting for sleeves
12:14:00 PM - 01:14:00 PM (1 hour) - Body, sleeves, and finishing of second green sweater
EDIT 3:01pm: WE INTERRUPT THE SWEATERING FOR AN EMERGENCY STOCKING. See, mom had me go to the Irish import store yesterday to pick up dinner, but also said to buy myself a Crunchie bar "but don't eat it, it's for your stocking". which reminded me I haven't put out my stocking yet. Folks, I cannot find it. It's not in the usual places, or in the one unusual place I thought it might be. So me being me, I grabbed a Q hook and super bulky yarn and started making a new one. I allowed myself an hour to work on it, and I have finished the heel turn. Now: back to the sweatering.
EDIT 5:49pm: Emergency Stocking is DONE and submitted to a Nerdopolis challenge. Only took an hour and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, I've got a red sweater yoke complete. Might have time to finish it before dinner, so off I go!
Fandom primer: K-9: Public Security Bureau – Division 9 – Special Abilities Countermeasure
Dec. 24th, 2025 11:27 amvriddyIt's hard for me to figure out how to even start this post, because I was just presented with this picture:
...and I didn't really ask any more questions before reading the manga. Bonus impact for stumbling on it in Japanese because the "kept pet" implied in the verb is delicious, and obviously plays with the K-9/"police dog" title.
Anyway, meet Oboro on the left - he's great - and Ren on the right - she's great. The art is beautiful, and everyone is very pretty.
This seems pretty simplistic at first glance, but that slowly changes as we drill deeper into the worldbuilding and learn the nuances of these abilities and how they manifest. The implications are deeply fucked up, with often devastating consequences that I'm totally here for as my heart gets shattered again and again.
TOGETHER THEY FIGHT CRIME! More specifically, crime related to sin users. But they also get their asses kicked and handed over to them quite a bit, haha.
( A bit more on the story and on them )
Cross-posted tofanifesto, anime_manga, fourormore (with additional but potentially spoilery OT4 screenshots), also linked to from polyamships :D
...and I didn't really ask any more questions before reading the manga. Bonus impact for stumbling on it in Japanese because the "kept pet" implied in the verb is delicious, and obviously plays with the K-9/"police dog" title.
Anyway, meet Oboro on the left - he's great - and Ren on the right - she's great. The art is beautiful, and everyone is very pretty.
About the world
Some people have special abilities, most of which are not well understood. Only one thing is known for sure: these abilities manifest after someone commits a crime. For example, the criminal from the first chapter is an arsonist and can control/become fire. (Somewhat unrelated, but this is pretty fun coming in from the BNHA world because it's like a universe in which only bad guys get a quirk.) Here, these abilities are called "sins," haha. In the Japanese, it's simply the kanji for crime with "sin" written in katakana beside it.This seems pretty simplistic at first glance, but that slowly changes as we drill deeper into the worldbuilding and learn the nuances of these abilities and how they manifest. The implications are deeply fucked up, with often devastating consequences that I'm totally here for as my heart gets shattered again and again.
The story premise
Our plucky detective Ren is selected to join Division 9, a newly created division that pairs a detective with a sin user in order to fight fire with fire -- what could possibly go wrong?! I love her. She kicks so much ass.
So, who's our main cast?
( Short character profiles )
TOGETHER THEY FIGHT CRIME! More specifically, crime related to sin users. But they also get their asses kicked and handed over to them quite a bit, haha.
( A bit more on the story and on them )
Where to read? How many chapters are out?
( 37 chapters, 3 volumes. You, too, could catch up in a reasonable amount of time! 🫵 )Bonus scythe, for fellow appreciators of the Rule of Cool
Cross-posted to
fanifesto, anime_manga, fourormore (with additional but potentially spoilery OT4 screenshots), also linked to from polyamships :DNew K-9 fic: Oversight (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
Dec. 24th, 2025 08:45 amvriddyI think I'm starting to get it out of my system. Maybe. Not at all eyeing the manga volumes for a reread. This will be fine. I'm fine. We're cool.
Oversight | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.4k words | rated T
Summary: Ren has never questioned where Oboro lives, until now.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Oversight | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.4k words | rated T
Summary: Ren has never questioned where Oboro lives, until now.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
New K-9 fic: Looking great (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
Dec. 23rd, 2025 05:41 pmvriddyIf I get all the ideas out of my head, then I'll be able to write a mini-promo post for the fandom that doesn't just consist of a couple of screenshots with me pointing and screeching, right?
...Right?! 😨
Looking great | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.6k words | rated T
Summary: After an incident, it's decided that it would be better for the four of them to stay in Akihabara during the investigation.
Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.
...Right?! 😨
Looking great | K-9 | Fujimaru Jin/Hizuki Ren/Kagari Yukito/Oboro Yuushirou | 1.6k words | rated T
Summary: After an incident, it's decided that it would be better for the four of them to stay in Akihabara during the investigation.
Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.
get your brits out
Dec. 22nd, 2025 10:27 pmthe_siobhanEngineer visited. He was... not encouraging.
I swear, if I ever run into this contractor ever again, I'm going to punch him right in the dick.
I'm not sure what happens next. Engineer said he would talk to permit wrangler and see what they could come up with, but that hasn't happened yet. I suspect he's trying to close out a bunch of work for end-of-year, so hopefully early next month there will be a plan.
***
Walked past a dog park on my way to the gf's a couple of days ago and a few of the owners had laced LEDs in different colours through their dogs' collars. It gets dark at 4:30 in Toronto, so all I could see were these clusters of bobbing lights running around in circles. It honestly took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.
Fucking genius to be frank.
***
Physio continues to go really well. I'm now running into the problem where I have been off my feet for so long they are a bit de-conditioned from walking so I'm getting sore arches and blisters as I get back into it. S'fine, I know that part is temporary.
( cut for brief weight talk )
***
I don't know if the news elsewhere is talking about it, but this year's version of the flu killed a couple of kids here in Canada, so it's getting talked about. It's either mutating faster than usual or the vaccine wasn't exactly for the right strain, because it's dodging the vaccine and it's an especially nasty version.
So my dad's wife has laid down the law about masking if family wants to visit him this winter and I am very relieved. I plan to remind everybody prior to the "official" Xmas dinner that they need to mask for the couple of weeks after New Years and partying like it's 1919.
***
I finally opened up the ancestry account and I've been futzing around with it a bit. My brief exposure to people who get into genealogy is that it's mostly retirees who take it up as a hobby and I can see why - it's time consuming. (Maybe possibly being from an Irish Catholic family where everybody has 12 kids does not help with that.)
So far I've found a bunch of relations that hie'd off to the USA and one possible connection to Australia. I'm mostly mining other peoples' family trees at the moment. There is a higher level membership that gets you access to newspaper archives, I figure I'll do that one when I've collected enough hints to make it worthwhile.
***
Spent too much time listening to Kneecap and now the Youtube algorithm is sending me Irish language bands.
I have no complaints.
I swear, if I ever run into this contractor ever again, I'm going to punch him right in the dick.
I'm not sure what happens next. Engineer said he would talk to permit wrangler and see what they could come up with, but that hasn't happened yet. I suspect he's trying to close out a bunch of work for end-of-year, so hopefully early next month there will be a plan.
***
Walked past a dog park on my way to the gf's a couple of days ago and a few of the owners had laced LEDs in different colours through their dogs' collars. It gets dark at 4:30 in Toronto, so all I could see were these clusters of bobbing lights running around in circles. It honestly took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.
Fucking genius to be frank.
***
Physio continues to go really well. I'm now running into the problem where I have been off my feet for so long they are a bit de-conditioned from walking so I'm getting sore arches and blisters as I get back into it. S'fine, I know that part is temporary.
( cut for brief weight talk )
***
I don't know if the news elsewhere is talking about it, but this year's version of the flu killed a couple of kids here in Canada, so it's getting talked about. It's either mutating faster than usual or the vaccine wasn't exactly for the right strain, because it's dodging the vaccine and it's an especially nasty version.
So my dad's wife has laid down the law about masking if family wants to visit him this winter and I am very relieved. I plan to remind everybody prior to the "official" Xmas dinner that they need to mask for the couple of weeks after New Years and partying like it's 1919.
***
I finally opened up the ancestry account and I've been futzing around with it a bit. My brief exposure to people who get into genealogy is that it's mostly retirees who take it up as a hobby and I can see why - it's time consuming. (Maybe possibly being from an Irish Catholic family where everybody has 12 kids does not help with that.)
So far I've found a bunch of relations that hie'd off to the USA and one possible connection to Australia. I'm mostly mining other peoples' family trees at the moment. There is a higher level membership that gets you access to newspaper archives, I figure I'll do that one when I've collected enough hints to make it worthwhile.
***
Spent too much time listening to Kneecap and now the Youtube algorithm is sending me Irish language bands.
I have no complaints.
I've Been Vastly Oversold On The Power Of Friendship.
Dec. 22nd, 2025 09:02 amrionaleonhartMy household is celebrating House Christmas today, before most of us visit our respective families for Official Christmas, so it's time for the annual bad Christmas manip!
The James image I used as a base is a still from one of these gorgeous GIFs made by![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
stdismas! James is extremely pretty here. Possibly slightly less pretty once I've badly drawn a Father Christmas outfit onto him, but these are the sacrifices we must make in the festive season.
Merry Christmas, if you're celebrating! May you have a better time than James Sunderland. (I don't know exactly how James spends Christmas, but I feel there's a solid chance he spends it just like every other day: having an absolute psychological breakdown.)
The James image I used as a base is a still from one of these gorgeous GIFs made by
Merry Christmas, if you're celebrating! May you have a better time than James Sunderland. (I don't know exactly how James spends Christmas, but I feel there's a solid chance he spends it just like every other day: having an absolute psychological breakdown.)
This is how an enabler thinks
Dec. 21st, 2025 06:22 pmvriddyMe in the previous post, sharing my current Scrivener setup with screenshots:
Enabling friend a couple of hours later, sliding into my DMs with a screenshot and 👀👀👀:
(Shared with permission ;))
I'm still laughing about it. These are the projects I hadn't really mentioned yet, or not in a while. I'm having such a fun and joyful fandom time lately. I feel so lucky. I know these things ebb and flow, and people drift apart, life gets in the way, and so on. But I've posted about the lows before, and it feels only fair to record the highs, too :D Wishing everyone many many creative and joyful times.
Enabling friend a couple of hours later, sliding into my DMs with a screenshot and 👀👀👀:
(Shared with permission ;))
I'm still laughing about it. These are the projects I hadn't really mentioned yet, or not in a while. I'm having such a fun and joyful fandom time lately. I feel so lucky. I know these things ebb and flow, and people drift apart, life gets in the way, and so on. But I've posted about the lows before, and it feels only fair to record the highs, too :D Wishing everyone many many creative and joyful times.
Scrivener for fanfic, continued
Dec. 21st, 2025 01:10 pmvriddyI mentioned earlier in the year that I migrated to Scrivener for my fic projects as well. I've been finding my feet more and more with it, and slowly customising the interface in ways that tickle my brain just right. Thus I thought I'd record and share a snapshot of my current system!
I'm still using a single project for all fandoms. Sometimes I think about switching to a Scrivener project per fandom, especially when I start writing a multi-chap, then I go meh again... I dunno. I have a couple of fandoms I write a lot for, but more that will only ever have a couple of fics. And it's not necessarily clear from the start which will be which either. I think I'll continue this way until it feels too unwieldy. Or maybe if I start something that I know will be novel-length........... but even then?! Haha. Who knows.
This first organisational tidbit isn't particularly exciting. I renamed "Manuscript" into "Fic" and have a subfolder per fandom. Multi-chapter fics get their own subfolder, often with more under: one for the Story files, and then other files and/or subfolders for notes. Otherwise it's usually just a file under.
Scrivener has a concept of a "Research" folder which is the only folder where you can include images and the like. I renamed that into Ideas and inspiration, and store screenshots and other inspiring pictures there.
Then I can look at the thumbnails and remember why I love a particular ship, or feel inspired all over again by a particular scene XD >:D >:D
Note: Friends who I am DESPERATELY trying to drag down into the K-9 hole with me, hopefully to go nuts about that OT4 together, don't zoom in if you don't want spoilers ;)
( And this is where things get fun )
I'm sure I'll continue to tweak and improve, but this system is working well for me at the moment, and also it makes me happy.
I'm still using a single project for all fandoms. Sometimes I think about switching to a Scrivener project per fandom, especially when I start writing a multi-chap, then I go meh again... I dunno. I have a couple of fandoms I write a lot for, but more that will only ever have a couple of fics. And it's not necessarily clear from the start which will be which either. I think I'll continue this way until it feels too unwieldy. Or maybe if I start something that I know will be novel-length........... but even then?! Haha. Who knows.
This first organisational tidbit isn't particularly exciting. I renamed "Manuscript" into "Fic" and have a subfolder per fandom. Multi-chapter fics get their own subfolder, often with more under: one for the Story files, and then other files and/or subfolders for notes. Otherwise it's usually just a file under.
Scrivener has a concept of a "Research" folder which is the only folder where you can include images and the like. I renamed that into Ideas and inspiration, and store screenshots and other inspiring pictures there.
Then I can look at the thumbnails and remember why I love a particular ship, or feel inspired all over again by a particular scene XD >:D >:D
Note: Friends who I am DESPERATELY trying to drag down into the K-9 hole with me, hopefully to go nuts about that OT4 together, don't zoom in if you don't want spoilers ;)
( And this is where things get fun )
I'm sure I'll continue to tweak and improve, but this system is working well for me at the moment, and also it makes me happy.
How's It Goin, YEM-edition
Dec. 20th, 2025 08:04 pmhitokage posting in getyourwordsoutHard to believe, but it's true: we're in the final stretch of 2025's Year-End Marathon. If my calculations are correct, this should put par at 24 days or 24 590 words, depending on your pledge type. Any way you look at it, that's a lot. If you're on par or ahead of the curve, congrats, you're amazing. If you've fallen behind, that's okay, too. You're trying and that also makes you amazing. Yes, even those who feel (rightly or wrongly) there is no way you can meet your pledge. Abuela is proud of all of you!
So as we enter this final stretch, how are things going? If you've hit your goal, are you going to keep going? If you haven't, do you have any strategies you intend to use to carve out writing time during this busy time of year? What can we do to help you, ahem, get your words out?
For myself, after (accidentally) hitting my goal in the first week of the month, I've let myself shift gears a bit to work on revising and rewriting, while also being very aware that the last half of this month was likely to be Very Tiring. Banking so many words in November definitely helped take the pressure off, but I'm going to keep at it for at least another week. For one thing, I've got some dangling ends I'd like to get settled before the new year!
Whether you're soaring ahead or trailing behind, the fact that you've tried at all is awesome. Writing is hard work! Writing in December is even harder! No matter how things have gone over the course of this marathon, I hope you've found it useful. And if you feel up for an even bigger challenge, pledging for 2026 is open! Pledging unlocks the full GYWO experience starting January 1st, so if you think you'd like to join us, we'd be happy to have you.
Whatever your holidays this busy season, we wish you the best. May your heart be full, your mind at peace, and your favorite beverage at the exactly right temperature.
So as we enter this final stretch, how are things going? If you've hit your goal, are you going to keep going? If you haven't, do you have any strategies you intend to use to carve out writing time during this busy time of year? What can we do to help you, ahem, get your words out?
For myself, after (accidentally) hitting my goal in the first week of the month, I've let myself shift gears a bit to work on revising and rewriting, while also being very aware that the last half of this month was likely to be Very Tiring. Banking so many words in November definitely helped take the pressure off, but I'm going to keep at it for at least another week. For one thing, I've got some dangling ends I'd like to get settled before the new year!
Whether you're soaring ahead or trailing behind, the fact that you've tried at all is awesome. Writing is hard work! Writing in December is even harder! No matter how things have gone over the course of this marathon, I hope you've found it useful. And if you feel up for an even bigger challenge, pledging for 2026 is open! Pledging unlocks the full GYWO experience starting January 1st, so if you think you'd like to join us, we'd be happy to have you.
Whatever your holidays this busy season, we wish you the best. May your heart be full, your mind at peace, and your favorite beverage at the exactly right temperature.
New BNHA fic: We'll prescribe you a sheep (Dabi/Hawks)
Dec. 19th, 2025 09:32 amvriddyI woke up antsy, which after a couple of hours morphed into a fuzzy, overwhelming anger I could barely repress despite having no specific target for or place to direct it, or really any useful action to take from it.
So that made me think about Dabi/Hawks, and want to write them, and to push hard on the angst, maybe post-canon, probably ending in MCD for at least one of them. Possibly both.
Then I remembered the sheep farming AU. Which I started in early, pre-vaccine covid days. In which Dabi and Hawks run away from it all and just live quietly, happily together, raising their sheep.
Maybe soft could be good, too. Time for a new entry in that AU! Also good for relearning to occasionally write short and to yeet more easily. Writing more short things can only work if I don't just add them to the towering pile of "stuff to edit at some point"!!!
We'll prescribe you a sheep | Dabi/Hawks | 800 words | rated T
Summary: Dabi's sick and misses the sheep. Hawks tries to help.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
So that made me think about Dabi/Hawks, and want to write them, and to push hard on the angst, maybe post-canon, probably ending in MCD for at least one of them. Possibly both.
Then I remembered the sheep farming AU. Which I started in early, pre-vaccine covid days. In which Dabi and Hawks run away from it all and just live quietly, happily together, raising their sheep.
Maybe soft could be good, too. Time for a new entry in that AU! Also good for relearning to occasionally write short and to yeet more easily. Writing more short things can only work if I don't just add them to the towering pile of "stuff to edit at some point"!!!
We'll prescribe you a sheep | Dabi/Hawks | 800 words | rated T
Summary: Dabi's sick and misses the sheep. Hawks tries to help.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
Community Thursday
Dec. 18th, 2025 05:31 amvriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
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getyourwordsout, worderlands, inkitout, fan_writers.Hallucinations Are Very Much A Recurring Theme.
Dec. 16th, 2025 10:39 pmrionaleonhartEvery so often, I post an analysis of how I chose my recent fic titles! We're nearing the end of the year, which seems an appropriate time for another roundup.
In reverse chronological order, my fic titles since July:
( Rambling about why I chose fic titles. )
What's really striking me here isn't actually anything about my titling habits; it's the fact that my last twelve fics in a row have been shipfics! That's very unusual; about half of my fics tend to be gen. I'll have to come up with some gen ideas!
In reverse chronological order, my fic titles since July:
( Rambling about why I chose fic titles. )
What's really striking me here isn't actually anything about my titling habits; it's the fact that my last twelve fics in a row have been shipfics! That's very unusual; about half of my fics tend to be gen. I'll have to come up with some gen ideas!