Community Recs Post!
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recthethingEvery Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fics/podfics/fanart/fanvids/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fics/podfics/fanart/fanvids/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
Mister Miracle #17
24 Jul 2025 14:29iamrman posting in scans_dailyWords and pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
Scott and friends seek shelter in a hotel for the night and are mistaken for a group of gangsters.
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Ka-Zar #8
24 Jul 2025 12:29iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Mark Waid
Pencils: Andy Kubert
Inks: Jesse Delperdang
Parnival enacts his master plan.
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Justice League of America #258
24 Jul 2025 10:31iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils: Luke McDonnell
Inks: Bob Smith
The President has shut down the Justice League due to mounting pressure from Glorious Godfrey and his cronies.
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SGA: Long Ago (and Far Away) by Kristen999
24 Jul 2025 17:03mific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Genfic. John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Evan Lorne, Ronon Dex, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagan, Original characters
Rating: Teen
Length: 79,623
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Grim at times, as it depicts an aspect of WWII.
Creator Links: kristen999 on AO3, everybetty on LJ
Themes: Working together, Action/adventure, Teamwork, Friendship, Genfic, AU: historical, Novel-length
Summary: WWII-based AU. The Team as we know it has been transplanted to the South Pacific.
Reccer's Notes:
This tour de force is a novel-length story bykristen999, assisted by everybetty, an historical AU set in Papua-New Guinea, in WWII. It's pretty male-centric because of that, but does include Teyla as a local liaison with intel about the enemy. It's got lots of plot, great action and adventure, and an excellent sense of place - you can almost feel the tropical heat making you sweat and hear the mosquitoes whine. The story is illustrated throughout with lots of period photos from the time. It's told from all of the team's POVs, particularly John's (he's a pilot, of course, with Rodney and Ronon on his flight crew). Naturally, John gets thoroughly whumped, in the best genfic tradition. There's tons of atmosphere, friendship and teamwork, and it's a really great read.
Fanwork Links: Long Ago (and Far Away)
Characters/Pairings: Genfic. John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Evan Lorne, Ronon Dex, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagan, Original characters
Rating: Teen
Length: 79,623
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Grim at times, as it depicts an aspect of WWII.
Creator Links: kristen999 on AO3, everybetty on LJ
Themes: Working together, Action/adventure, Teamwork, Friendship, Genfic, AU: historical, Novel-length
Summary: WWII-based AU. The Team as we know it has been transplanted to the South Pacific.
Reccer's Notes:
This tour de force is a novel-length story by
kristen999, assisted by everybetty, an historical AU set in Papua-New Guinea, in WWII. It's pretty male-centric because of that, but does include Teyla as a local liaison with intel about the enemy. It's got lots of plot, great action and adventure, and an excellent sense of place - you can almost feel the tropical heat making you sweat and hear the mosquitoes whine. The story is illustrated throughout with lots of period photos from the time. It's told from all of the team's POVs, particularly John's (he's a pilot, of course, with Rodney and Ronon on his flight crew). Naturally, John gets thoroughly whumped, in the best genfic tradition. There's tons of atmosphere, friendship and teamwork, and it's a really great read. Fanwork Links: Long Ago (and Far Away)
The Flash #21 - "Bad Moon Rising, Part Two"
23 Jul 2025 19:20laughing_tree posting in scans_daily
The day my little boy came home from nursery -- and I've never shown him any my comics, he was three at this point -- and he goes, "Daddy, I'm a superhero," and he runs around the house punching stuff and breaking things. And I'm like, oh shit, I have appeared to have built a career around the fact that moral righteousness is who can hit the hardest, who can break things the most. And that really, really staggered me, and I had to really think about it. -- Si Spurrier
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Absolute Martian Manhunter #4
23 Jul 2025 18:43laughing_tree posting in scans_daily
Because, while I do think we're pretty radical, and it's pretty different, at the same time, if I'm drawing from anything, I'm drawing from those early Detective Comics stories, and going back to that. And that was a version of the Martian Manhunter who was kind of mysterious and almost mystical in his abilities, in the sense that he could seem to really do anything, whatever the story called for, and his perspective on humanity was really important. -- Deniz Camp
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Incredible Hulk #164
23 Jul 2025 18:14iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Steve Englehart
Pencils: Herb Trimpe
Inks: Sal Trapani
The Hulk is captured by a bunch of weirdos in a submarine.
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Star-Lord (Marvel Preview 4)
23 Jul 2025 10:27knight_moves posting in scans_dailyI had a yen to go through Starlord's backstory and apparently it's even more of a mish-mash than most comic book characters, with retcons having consigned his original origin story to an alternate reality. Still, I find Marvel Preview 4 an interesting taste of seventies sci-fi, with its zeerust futurism, hints of astrology, In Search Of The Unknown UFOism and NASA worship coupled with the usual capes and lasers.
(Yes, there are capes. It's the future, jabroni.)
This is SF coming out of the same primordial soup as Star Wars (which would premiere two years later) and it's just fascinating to me how it's simultaneously so modern and yet so of-another-time.
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(Yes, there are capes. It's the future, jabroni.)
This is SF coming out of the same primordial soup as Star Wars (which would premiere two years later) and it's just fascinating to me how it's simultaneously so modern and yet so of-another-time.
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Currently reading
23 Jul 2025 15:47vaznettiOn Wednesday, even!
Almost finished: Ombria in Shadow, Patricia McKillip: This is one of my favorite McKillips and one I reread frequently. I feel like the worldbuilding is more distinctive than some of her other works from this period, maybe because it's set in a decaying city which is vividly sketched in. It also feels a lot more dangerous and high-stakes than some of her later work, at least to me, and I love Mag and Lydea and Faey. I still do not entrely understand what is going on at the end but that certainly is typical of this phase of McKillip's writing.
Midway: Cato the Younger, Fred K. Drogula. I forgot that I owned a copy of this so I was particularly delighted to find it on the shelf. I think it's very good; Drogula does a fine job of maintaining his impartiality while making it perfectly clear what kind of person Cato was, and how much responsiblity he bears for the collapse of the Roman Republic through sheer bloody-minded assholeishness. But he also isn't presenting Cato as a simplistic, moralistic figure: he was also very good at navigating and directing Roman politics in his lifetime, and Drogula also does a good job explaining why the system was perhaps particularly vulnerable to manipulation by men like Cato (or Caesar, his nemesis.)
Almost finished: Ombria in Shadow, Patricia McKillip: This is one of my favorite McKillips and one I reread frequently. I feel like the worldbuilding is more distinctive than some of her other works from this period, maybe because it's set in a decaying city which is vividly sketched in. It also feels a lot more dangerous and high-stakes than some of her later work, at least to me, and I love Mag and Lydea and Faey. I still do not entrely understand what is going on at the end but that certainly is typical of this phase of McKillip's writing.
Midway: Cato the Younger, Fred K. Drogula. I forgot that I owned a copy of this so I was particularly delighted to find it on the shelf. I think it's very good; Drogula does a fine job of maintaining his impartiality while making it perfectly clear what kind of person Cato was, and how much responsiblity he bears for the collapse of the Roman Republic through sheer bloody-minded assholeishness. But he also isn't presenting Cato as a simplistic, moralistic figure: he was also very good at navigating and directing Roman politics in his lifetime, and Drogula also does a good job explaining why the system was perhaps particularly vulnerable to manipulation by men like Cato (or Caesar, his nemesis.)
Hawk and Dove (1989) #1
23 Jul 2025 14:32iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriters: Karl and Barbara Kesel
Pencils: Greg Guler
Inks: Scott Hanna
The Hawk and Dove limited series was so popular that an ongoing series came shortly after.
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Guy Gardner: Warrior #26
23 Jul 2025 12:30iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Beau Smith
Pencils: J.H. Williams III
Inks: Wade von Growbadger and Dan Davis
Buck Wargo wants Guy to take over his bar.
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Green Lantern #190
23 Jul 2025 10:30iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Steve Englehart
Pencils: Joe Staton
Inks: Bruce Patterson
Hal tries to solve the mystery of the Predator.
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that's 21 straight successful stolen bases
22 Jul 2025 21:18musesfoolToday was my first day back at work after my vacation and I did not sleep at all well last night, despite, you know, working from home and didn't have to get up early or anything. I was tossing and turning until sometime after 4 am, at which point I finally fell asleep.
Work was fine - busy, and kind of a lot, but not difficult despite the lack of sleep - but then I sat down on the couch after dinner to watch the Mets and fell asleep for about 40 minutes. *hands*
I'm really glad I took yesterday off too. I 100% recommend adding an extra day onto your vacation if you can - especially if it's a Monday, and doubly so if you actually went away. It makes it easier to get back into the grind, at least for me. I had 333 emails to sort through this morning, and there is way too much going on, as usual, but I timed it so that all of my regular meetings happened while I was out, so this week should be fairly quiet.
On the home front, I've had my new dishwasher for a week now and it is working really well, though I am still learning how to load it. The tines are much closer together and shorter than in my old one, which makes it difficult to get stuff in between them. But it's so quiet! And it doesn't leak! *knock wood* It does take 2.5 hours to run the full normal cycle, but I can live with that.
On the TV front, I finished Murderbot and enjoyed it - Mensah is still my favorite and I wish Bharadwaj had had more to do because I liked her as well.
I also finished the last 2 available episodes of My Life Is Murder because I read they are doing a new season, though who knows when it will be available here. I enjoyed the s4 2-part finale, and I do kind of low-key ship Alexa and Madison, though I also like that they have not had any real romantic interests for Alexa, and those 2 episodes really focused on her lingering grief for her husband.
In other news, Baby Miss L went to Sesame Place this past weekend and the videos of her vibrating with joy over meeting Elmo and Grover and Cookie Monster are amazing!
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Work was fine - busy, and kind of a lot, but not difficult despite the lack of sleep - but then I sat down on the couch after dinner to watch the Mets and fell asleep for about 40 minutes. *hands*
I'm really glad I took yesterday off too. I 100% recommend adding an extra day onto your vacation if you can - especially if it's a Monday, and doubly so if you actually went away. It makes it easier to get back into the grind, at least for me. I had 333 emails to sort through this morning, and there is way too much going on, as usual, but I timed it so that all of my regular meetings happened while I was out, so this week should be fairly quiet.
On the home front, I've had my new dishwasher for a week now and it is working really well, though I am still learning how to load it. The tines are much closer together and shorter than in my old one, which makes it difficult to get stuff in between them. But it's so quiet! And it doesn't leak! *knock wood* It does take 2.5 hours to run the full normal cycle, but I can live with that.
On the TV front, I finished Murderbot and enjoyed it - Mensah is still my favorite and I wish Bharadwaj had had more to do because I liked her as well.
I also finished the last 2 available episodes of My Life Is Murder because I read they are doing a new season, though who knows when it will be available here. I enjoyed the s4 2-part finale, and I do kind of low-key ship Alexa and Madison, though I also like that they have not had any real romantic interests for Alexa, and those 2 episodes really focused on her lingering grief for her husband.
In other news, Baby Miss L went to Sesame Place this past weekend and the videos of her vibrating with joy over meeting Elmo and Grover and Cookie Monster are amazing!
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52 episodes of Micronauts just dropped!
22 Jul 2025 17:50mastermahan posting in scans_dailyBack around 2019, Hasbro was working to develop a Micronauts animated series. A whole 52 episodes were produced, but the animation studio, Boulder Media, was sold off and the show was shelved and made a tax write-off.
Well, guess what just leaked to archive.org!
https://xcancel.com/Chevistian1/status/1947720694265221265
https://archive.org/details/s-02-e-16_202507/
I stuck one page of X-Men & the Micronauts #3 below the cut for legality purposes.
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Well, guess what just leaked to archive.org!
https://xcancel.com/Chevistian1/status/1947720694265221265
https://archive.org/details/s-02-e-16_202507/
I stuck one page of X-Men & the Micronauts #3 below the cut for legality purposes.
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Excalibur #56
22 Jul 2025 18:30iamrman posting in scans_dailyWords and pencils: Alan Davis
Inks: Mark Farmer
Excalibur works to eject their uninvited guests.
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The Demon #13
22 Jul 2025 14:30iamrman posting in scans_dailyWords and pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
Evilstein and the Monster from Hell!
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Captain America #381
22 Jul 2025 12:33iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Mark Gruenwald
Pencils: Ron Lim
Inks: Danny Bulanadi
Cap refuses to help Diamondback with the Serpent Society, so she seeks aid elsewhere.
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Blue Beetle #16
22 Jul 2025 10:29iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Len Wein
Pencils: Ross Andru
Inks: Danny Bulanadi
Blue Beetle is on the trail of a serial killer stalking Chicago’s homeless.
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