TBZ WIP Marathon (Fic Fest)

Jul. 11th, 2025 09:34 am
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Hello, everyone! This is for the deobi writers out there: the TBZ WIP Marathon event is now up and running 🏃 [community profile] tbzofourown


If you have a WIP (work in progress) where THE BOYZ are the main characters and you need a little push to get it moving, sign ups are open until September 7. Yes, this is a fest for you to work on YOUR 🫵 unfinished fic, whether it's a vague outline, a draft you've been working on for years, or a chaptered work in need of an update. Let's warm up those writing muscles together!

Details, rules, links | Bluesky thread | X/Twitter thread

POLL: favourite releases of June 2025

Jul. 10th, 2025 11:06 pm
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Last monthly poll for this half-year! The polls for January, February, March, April and May are still open.

You can make your case for your faves in the comments and if we missed something, you can do a write-in vote in the comments.

We'll keep this one open for a couple of weeks, then do a run-off poll.

Poll #33346 June 2025
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21


What are your favourite releases of June 2025?

View Answers

aespa - Dirty Work
3 (14.3%)

Alex Warren, Rose - On My Mind
0 (0.0%)

Allday Project - Famous
1 (4.8%)

aoen - The Blue Sun
2 (9.5%)

ARTMS - Icarus
6 (28.6%)

Ateez - Lemon Drop
11 (52.4%)

B.I - Ferris Wheel (feat. Heize)
1 (4.8%)

Baby DONT Cry - F Girl
1 (4.8%)

Baekho - Rush Mode
0 (0.0%)

Be Boys - I'm so sorry but I love you
0 (0.0%)

Catch the Young - Ideal Type
0 (0.0%)

Cooing - Psycho
0 (0.0%)

Cravity - Set Net G0?!
4 (19.0%)

DayChild - Click Clack
0 (0.0%)

Dignity - Sweet2th
0 (0.0%)

Double One - On the Rocks with Kiss
0 (0.0%)

Doyoung - 안녕, 우주 (Memory)
1 (4.8%)

Ejel - 의리소녀 (feat. Lee Seoyeon (ex-fromis_9))
0 (0.0%)

Elly - Run Star
0 (0.0%)

Enhypen - Bad Desire (With or Without You)/Outside
7 (33.3%)

fromis_9 - Like You Better
9 (42.9%)

H1-KEY - 여름이었다 (It was summer)
2 (9.5%)

Han Seungwoo - Stop It
1 (4.8%)

Hearts2Hearts - Style
2 (9.5%)

HITGS - Gross
0 (0.0%)

illit - Little Monster/Do the Dance
2 (9.5%)

Itzy - Girls Will Be Girls
2 (9.5%)

Izna - BEEP
0 (0.0%)

Jackson Wang - Hate to Love
0 (0.0%)

Jang Wooyoung - Simple Dance
0 (0.0%)

Jayn Lee - 2 / 2
0 (0.0%)

Jessi - Newsflash
0 (0.0%)

j-hope - Killin' It Girl (feat. GloRilla)
3 (14.3%)

Jung Daehyun - Stay
0 (0.0%)

Kang Daniel - Episode
1 (4.8%)

Katseye - Gabriela / Gameboy
2 (9.5%)

Kiss of Life - Lips Hips Kiss
0 (0.0%)

Le Sserafim - Different
1 (4.8%)

Moonbyul - Icy Bby
2 (9.5%)

n.SSign - Itty Bitty
0 (0.0%)

NINE.i - 어쩌면
1 (4.8%)

NouerA - n (number of cases)
0 (0.0%)

NOWZ - Fly to the Youth (feat. Yuqi)
0 (0.0%)

Oneus - X
4 (19.0%)

OX:N - You
0 (0.0%)

POW - Being Tender
0 (0.0%)

Primrose - Cinema
1 (4.8%)

QWER - Holding Back Tears
0 (0.0%)

Re:Hearts - Reborn
0 (0.0%)

Solar - Floating Free
1 (4.8%)

StayC - Lover, Killer
1 (4.8%)

Stray Kids - Hollow
2 (9.5%)

TWS - はじめまして
0 (0.0%)

UNIS - See you in my dream
0 (0.0%)

Uspeer - Zoom
0 (0.0%)

Uspeer - Zoom
0 (0.0%)

Wish - Palm Tree
0 (0.0%)

Wonho - Better Than Me
6 (28.6%)

XLOV - 1 & Only
7 (33.3%)

X-Unit - To. U
0 (0.0%)

Yugyeom - Shall We Dance/Interlunar
0 (0.0%)

WIP Wednesday

Jul. 9th, 2025 10:31 pm
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What are you working on? Stuck on a plot point and want to talk it out? Have a canon question or looking for a resource? Anything and everything about your WIPs is welcome. Any kind of WIP counts, including fic, fanart, graphics, meta, icons, etc.

Optional questions are below. If there's something else you want to say about your WIP, please add it and we can update the meme.

You can contribute to the post until we put up the next WIP Wednesday! We are embracing the slower pace of Dreamwidth.



[ New Music Monday | Rec Something Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]

Elatsoe, by Darcie Little Badger

Jul. 8th, 2025 10:05 am
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Ellie is a Lipan Apache teenager in a world where magic, vampires, ghosts, and so forth are known to be real. She’s inherited the family gift for raising ghosts, though she only raises animals; human ghosts always come back wrong, and she’s happy with the companionship of her beloved ghost dog Kirby, not to mention her pet ghost trilobite. But when her cousin, who supposedly died in a car crash, returns in a dream to tell her he was murdered, she finds that knowing who killed him isn’t as helpful as one might imagine…

Ellie’s cousin Trevor told her the name of his killer, Abe Allerton from Willowbee, but he didn’t know why or how he was killed. Ellie enlists her best friend, Jay, a cheerleader with just enough fairy blood to give him pointy ears and the ability to make small lights. More importantly, he’s good at research. They learn that Willowbee is in Texas, near the town where Trevor lived with his wife, Lenore, and their baby. Jay brings in help: his older sister’s fiancé, Al, who’s a vampire.
All of them, plus Ellie’s parents and a ghost mammoth belonging to her grandmother, play a part in the effort to solve the mystery of Trevor’s death and bring his murderer to justice. And so, in a sense, will a major character who’s long dead (and not a ghost) but who’s a big presence in Ellie’s life: Six-Grand, her great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother, the last person to have a gift as powerful as Ellie’s… and who vanished forever into the underworld.

I enjoyed this quite a bit. I mean, come on. GHOST TRILOBITE. GHOST MAMMOTH. It’s funny, it’s sweet, it’s heartfelt, it has lovely chapter heading illustrations, and it’s got some gorgeous imagery - I particularly loved a scene where the world transforms into an oceanic underworld, and Ellie sees a pod of whales swimming in the sky of a suburban neighborhood.

It's marketed as young adult and Ellie is seventeen, but the book feels younger (and so does Ellie.) I'd have no qualms handing it to an advanced nine-year-old reader, but it also appeals to adult me who misses the time when "urban fantasy" meant "our world, but with ghosts, elves, and so forth."

POLL: favourite releases of May 2025

Jul. 3rd, 2025 11:31 pm
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POLL. The polls for January, February, March and April are still open.

You can make your case for your faves in the comments and if we missed something, you can do a write-in vote in the comments. We'll run a poll for each month through June, and then do a run-off poll in July.

Poll #33320 May 2025
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26


What are your favourite releases of May 2025?

View Answers

2Z - Cross Road
0 (0.0%)

ablume - Echo
2 (7.7%)

Baekhyun - Chocolate / Elevator
1 (3.8%)

Bibi - Apocalypse
2 (7.7%)

Blackswan - I Like It Hot
0 (0.0%)

BOYNEXTDOOR - I Feel Good
3 (11.5%)

Chenle - Lucid
1 (3.8%)

DAY6 - Maybe Tomorrow
2 (7.7%)

E'LAST - Crazy Train
1 (3.8%)

EPEX, joan - so nice
0 (0.0%)

i-dle - Girlfriend / Good Thing
1 (3.8%)

Irene and Seulgi - Tilt
11 (42.3%)

IU - Never Ending Story / A beautiful person
3 (11.5%)

Jaechan - Poster Boy
0 (0.0%)

Jang Haneum - Shine
0 (0.0%)

Jeong Sewoon - goodbye
1 (3.8%)

Jin - Don't say you love me
3 (11.5%)

KickFlip - Freeze
1 (3.8%)

KIIRAS - Kill Ma Bo$$
0 (0.0%)

Kim Jaejoong - Rock Star
2 (7.7%)

Kiss of Life - Live, Love, Laugh
0 (0.0%)

Koi Kat - Wake Up Call
0 (0.0%)

Lee Changsub - 꽃이 되어줄게
0 (0.0%)

Lim Sejun - Summer
2 (7.7%)

MEOVV - Drop Top
5 (19.2%)

N.Flying - Everlasting
1 (3.8%)

P1Harmony - DUH!
5 (19.2%)

RIIZE - Bag Bad Back / Fly Up
3 (11.5%)

SAAY - Mood
0 (0.0%)

Seventeen - Thunder
7 (26.9%)

Shinee - Poet | Artist
10 (38.5%)

Tablo, RM - Stop the Rain
7 (26.9%)

Trendz - 카멜레온
0 (0.0%)

tripleS - Are You Alive
2 (7.7%)

TXT - Love Language
4 (15.4%)

UAU - 2 Months
2 (7.7%)

UmYull - 절망 속에서 춤을 추어라
0 (0.0%)

VVS - D.I.M.M
0 (0.0%)

The Wind - 안녕 내일
1 (3.8%)

XG - Million Places
1 (3.8%)

Xion - Camellia
0 (0.0%)

Yook Sungjae - Lie
0 (0.0%)

Yoonjisung - Voyage
0 (0.0%)

Yuta - Twisted Paradise
5 (19.2%)

Yuto - Blue Spring
0 (0.0%)

The Way Up is Death, by Dan Hanks

Jul. 2nd, 2025 01:39 pm
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In a prologue that's very Terry Pratchett-esque without actually being funny, an enormous floating tower appears in England, becomes a 12-hour wonder, and is then forgotten as people have short attention spans. Then thirteen random people suddenly vanish from their lives and appear at the base of the tower, facing the command ASCEND.

I normally love stories about people dealing with inexplicable alien architecture. This was the most boring and unimaginative version of that idea I've ever read. Each level is a death trap based on something in one of their minds - a video game, The Poseidon Adventure, an old home - but less interesting than that sounds. The action was repetitive, the characters were paper-thin, and one, an already-dated influencer, was actively painful to read:

Time to give her the Alpha Male rizzzzzzz, baby!

The ending was, unsurprisingly, also a cliche.

Read more... )

Monthly General Chat - July 2025

Jul. 2nd, 2025 11:01 pm
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General chat is for anything you want to talk about, k-pop related or not. These will go up at the beginning of every month, so feel free to check back in or comment at any point throughout the month. The post is stickied to the top of the comm along with the admin post.

Optional discussion question: how's the weather where you are?

Rebuilding journal search again

Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pm
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

New Music Monday - 30 June 2025

Jun. 30th, 2025 09:18 pm
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The regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.

Oneus - X
TWS - はじめまして (Japan)
Ejel - 의리소녀 (feat. Lee Seoyeon)
KIK - Timer (debut)
Baekho - Rush
Han Seungwoo - Stop It
Jayn Lee - 2/2
NouerA - n (number of cases)
Babymonster - Hot Sauce
AHOF - Rendezvous (debut)
One Pact - One Pack (pre-release)
Shin Soohyun - Love Letter (pre-release)
MYNAME - Bad Bad Higher (Japan)
Rescene - Deja Vu
KARD - Touch
ICHILLIN' - Glass Heart (pre-release)
Jung Yong Hwa - Shooting Star
DPNS - 무지개
1VERSE - Multiverse (pre-debut, pre-release)
Yu Dayeon - Oh My

New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.

Last week's MVs: 23 June

Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.

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