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Library hold for The Rose Field came in. The TOC divides it into 3 parts, so this is the liveblog for Part One.

Previous HDM-related posts here. To start from the earliest Book of Dust reactions, see The Reaction Posts of Dust on AO3.

I’m going in mostly-cold. Got spoiled for a few individual details, but the rest, including basically all the actual plot, is a mystery.

When doing the original reactions, I usually don’t stop and rewind the audiobook to make sure all the quotes are exact. For this roundup, I have an ebook version I can text-search, so I’ll try to correct them. Carefully, because I’ve only read chapters 1-17 in total, and don’t want to spoil myself by seeing search results from chapters 18-36.

For visual interest, I’ll throw in some screencaps of relevant people/places/items from the HDM TV series.

Chapters 1-8 ahead:

Rose Field cover art

( Look, I’m connecting some dots here (one of the things that generates Dust is conscious beings using their imagination, the red building is a source of roses whose oil lets you see Dust), but I have no idea how or whether Pan is connecting those dots. )

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vriddy

Last week,

scytale commented in passing about how clingy these four are, which honestly is just a factual statement at this point, yet the universe immediately beamed a ficlet into my brain just based on that because this is what I am now.

Clingy | K-9 | Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari | <850 words | rated M

Summary: This was all Fujimaru's fault. And Kagari's too. Maybe a little bit Yuushirou's, but he wasn't admitting to anything. Ren-san was perfect as always.

Yuushirou gets a boner during movie night.

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

Current Mood: giddy

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Two more little guys from K-9 are really capturing my imagination at the moment. Look at 'em:

Satsuki from K-9 embracing Yuu from the back and keeping Yuu quiet with a hand on his mouth

You can't just show me two characters that comfortably handsy with each other and not expect me to go "Oh 👀"?! For anyone familiar with Wind Breaker, their vibes are massively similar to Togame and Chouji, especially early on. They're scratching my "murderous protectiveness" itch in just the right way.

Yuu, the blond chibi, can transform into a cute sort of hybrid leopard and loves to fight.

Yuu from K-9, jumping backwards in hybrid human-leopard form

Meanwhile Satsuki can create and control huge branches. He may appear calmer and more reasonable, but that mostly means his expression won't change as he threatens to crush you between branches or tear your limbs apart. That kinda guy.

Satsuki from K-9 creating huge thick branches to attack with

Obviously, I love them. For many reasons, too. But also aren't their abilities kind of ridiculous?! This is a world in which only criminals get a superpower, one related to the crime they committed!! What kind of crime do you commit that you can transform into a leopard?!

And thus, having thought about it way too much, I'm writing what will apparently become my first K-9 multi-chapter fic. With zero members of my beloved OT4 showing up XD This series is just ridiculous. I love it. The author is clearly having a ton of fun, and I love that for them.

vriddy

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on bnha_fans.

Commented on booknook.

Commented on getyourwordsout.

Signal boosts:

For anyone who missed my previous post about it, if you're stuck about what to post about now that snowflake_challenge is over, have a look at the Stuff I Love: Top Ten Edition squee challenge for February that dreamersdare dreamt up ;D

erinptah

Justice for Keith Porter Jr., shot by an ICE agent who wasn’t even on duty.

Justice for Geraldo Lunas Campos, killed by a guard while imprisoned in an ICE facility.

Justice for Luis Beltrán Yanez-Cruz, died while imprisoned by ICE, from health issues they only made token efforts to treat.

Justice for Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, died while in ICE custody, they did get him to a hospital but not soon enough.

Justice for Parady La, died while imprisoned by ICE, from a medical crisis they didn’t even pretend to treat.

Justice for Heber Sanchez Domínguez, died while imprisoned by ICE, under suspiciously-unclear circumstances.

Justice for Victor Manuel Diaz, died while imprisoned by ICE, under suspiciously-unclear circumstances.

A US attorney in the Minnesota courts, who only didn’t quit because her job includes processing the release orders for ICE’s onslaught of detentions, “told U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell on Tuesday, “I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep.”” (Since then, she’s been fired. Commentary from rahaeli: “I hope the poor woman gets her 24h of sleep before filing her whistleblower retaliation lawsuit“)

Elected Democrats are actually fighting this. It’s a shame they don’t have the numbers to just out-vote every single atrocity Republicans are hot for. Can this be the year the voters figure that out, and finally elect more Democrats?

As if all of the above wasn’t enough reason, here’s some more: “Democrats Successfully Strip All Anti-Trans Riders From Final Appropriations Bills“

Can we vote out the party that keeps designing the anti-trans riders in the first place? Please?

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vriddy

Going on a Discord time-out for a few days (longer would probably be better, but let's start where we can). My skull feels like a hedgehog turned inside out with all the spikes drilling into my brain lately, and synchronous conversations (or even just the possibility of it) are like electric shocks running up and down the spikes.

I don't know why I'm always working so hard to find metaphors that probably only make sense to me. "And today's headache is... drilling into my brain through the temple! ...cerebellum massage with boxing gloves...!"

....I actually didn't know this bit was called cerebellum hahaha I thought it was the amygdala. Nothing like looking at diagrams of brain slices in the morning.

I wanted to post a book rec so it's not all eldritch hedgehogs and brains, but the BuJo with the rec I was thinking of is out of reach... Hm. Here are a couple of other books I enjoyed more recently though!

August Kitko and the mechas from space, by Alex White. With its bright pink cover, you know it's going to be as crazy as the title suggest, and it was a ton of fun! With mechas! From space!! Haha. Crack treated seriously at its finest. Fun premise, set a few hundreds years in the future, and written so well. Loved that one of the MCs was a bisexual dude and the second MC/love interest is nb with they/them pronouns. Not plot relevant, it just is. Great space opera overall.
A Darker Shade of Magic, by VE Schwab, which I got from a rec here (I mean I get like 90% of my book recs from my Dreamwidth reading page at this point I believe :D Thank you all!). Wonderful worldbuilding, wonderful writing, great characters. Great concepts, used really well. The kind of books that makes me want to write. I'm impatiently waiting for my library hold on the second one to be released!!

To quieter brains and asynchronous conversations! \o/ Please be patient with me if you expect a reply from me on discord. Or Dreamwidth, for that matter. My inbox is not quite empty yet but I'll get there, in time :D <3

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K-9 author posted super cute chibi art of Kagari earlier this year, which led to conversations about what his hair colour even is anyway. This is my answer!!

Suits like a charm | K-9 | Fujimaru/Kagari | <500 words | rated G

Summary: Fujimaru dyes Kagari's hair for him.

Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.

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adevyish

We are fully in the swing of winter now (I say, while leaving my parka unzipped outside). We are also nearing the Olympics, so I will take this opportunity to make a PSA and say: under no circumstances should you support the French ice dance team and here is why.

On to the music.

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vriddy

Stuck about what to post about now that

snowflake_challenge is over? Have a look at the Stuff I Love: Top Ten Edition challenge for February that

dreamersdare cooked up! :D

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doodlemancy

two new prints and a new sticker are now available over at my etsy shop!

over in my ko-fi shop, i have a bunch of new high-resolution desktop wallpapers! there are even some that aren't pictured in this ad graphic... because i thought i was "done making wallpapers for this month" and then i wasn't. typical doodlemancy shit.

Current Mood: energetic
Current Location: computer
Current Music: Hand In Hand ft. Hatsune Miku (kz)

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Title: What difference does it make, Danny?
Author: Helen Young
Language: English
Type: children's book
Genre: epilepsy PSA

1st release: 1980 for the original/84 for the translation
Publisher: Flammarion
Length: illudtrated paperback, 140 pages

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Heh. It's a good children's read and it's going back to the shared library so someone else can get it.

"Plus de gym pour Danny" en VF - épisode spécial : l'épilepsie, ou, ça marche comment quand ça marche pour le mieux et que le pire que tu aies à affronter ce sont les préjugés de ton prof.

vriddy

I went on a loooong walk and it felt SO NICE!! It quietened my mind a lot, too. It's possible I've been going a little bit stir-crazy because the weather has been so dreadful for weeks, and going for a stroll any longer than a short burst hasn't really been possible in too long.

Enjoy this picture of a walk I did.... last year, elsewhere, lol. We're really into the not so pleasant season at the moment. I guess I should have been on the lookout for nice naked branches to take a picture of, maybe?! But I was just soooo happy to stretch my legs properly for a few hours I forgot to look. Saw many happy puppies being walked, too!

Trees covered in ivy with sunlight by a narrow river

Reminder to self: long walks are probably part of your writing process, and also your process of being a human being.

Been reading a bunch of manga lately that truly embrace the Rule of Cool ("Why is this even happening in this way? Oh! Rule of Cool!") and was thinking maybe that's one of the things I don't let myself apply enough in my own writing. Everything must make sense and be fully justified by the worldbuilding, plot, etc! Meanwhile I translate the K-9 profiles and it's like, "yeah his jacket stays like that thanks to the power of magic" [ that world does not have magic ] and you know what, if it's not plot breaking and remains consistent once introduced, WHY NOT! WHY NOT APPLY THE RULE OF COOL!!? XD And I guess in fanfic you're playing in a sandbox that's probably already embraced that in some form.

Anyway, just peacefully reflecting!! And plotting to keep an eagle eye on the weather reports so I don't miss any wandering opportunities coming my way, haha.

Current Mood: peaceful

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vriddy

The few notes I took during my not-really-pacing-check aren't taking as long as the previous chunky edits to integrate (THANK GOD), which means I'm also speed-running through my Having Feelings About The Manuscript cycle... *sigh* I was taking a few notes for a post as I went (seeing how much better it is than before! happy feelings!) but I've already moved on from happy to things to be sad/disappointed about.

Audience: "Wow, you're about 70% into the manuscript and thinking it's bad? Is this where we're supposed to act surprised???"

Like, it does help to know that I literally go through this cycle every time whether writing or editing, but the feelings are still being felt and kind of suck regardless T_T

Here's what the voice at the back of my mind says:

You're enjoying the story because you can see that it's better "than before" but that doesn't mean it's good. It'll probably still look like baby's crappy first draft to someone coming in fresh. You've also had over 2 years to get used to the worst flaws, the ones that can't be fixed because they are load-bearing in the story.

Anyway!

As always the first couple of days were a bit rough while I adjusted to a new way of doing things. I've landed on: I take the written down squiggled notes I made and add them as comments to my Scrivener file (unless they're super straightforward/require 0 thinking, then I just make the change). Then I go through these comments scene by scene, deleting them as I integrate the feedback. In my BuJo I have many many little boxes for every scene that I can tick when I'm done :D Each chapter is about 4-6 scenes so it helps with giving a sense of progress and make the process feel a bit less overwhelming. I do love my ticky boxes.

Vaguely considering adding chapter titles because a few chapters would really benefit, but some others are more awkward and I don't know that I really want to have to find 10+ more titles /o\

I'm still writing ficlets here and there as a pressure valve from editing :D However, there's a mindset thing I'm noticing that I don't like at all:

Me about to write fic: "This should be FUN! If it's not FUN, then you failed!! :D"
Me about to write origfic: "This should be GOOD! If it's not GOOD, then you failed!! D:"

I don't like that. It should all be fun, like, I should always slip into writing mode with a lighter spirit. I don't want my own worlds to feel like a chore, full of associated pressure. So, something I'll definitely want to address, though I'm not too sure how yet.

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At long last, after a year’s worth of internal discussion and a few more months of preparing for the rollout, AMTs are back on the menu.

Two of my requests have already been approved! His Dark Materials & Related Fandoms and 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ | Puella Magi Madoka Magica & Related Fandoms are the metatags on a couple of shiny new tag trees!

Official AO3 announcement post is here. The number of “I’m so happy to see this, it’ll make my fandom browsing so much easier” comments are a joy to see. (The comments about “well, geez, took you long enough” are…valid, honestly.)

A lot of specific tag trees are still works-in-progress, especially if it’s a big complicated franchise. So don’t worry too much if a fandom you love doesn’t have one yet — the wranglers might still be working on it. Honestly, I’m still working on investigating all the Madoka Magica fandom syns, which is why most of the spinoffs still don’t have their own separate fandom tags. We’ll get there, I promise.

Fun little twist that’s only a problem for me: this means “more fandoms” listed on my wrangling page. The amount of work is objectively exactly the same! It’s the same amount of fic, just spread across slightly more fandom tags! But the recently-added limit is on the number of fandoms, not the amount of fanworks those fandoms get.

Current number of fandoms on my list: 1142.

Current number that have any tag-wrangling to do: 28. (Not the same 28 as the last time I posted. There’s some overlap — a fandom like Sailor Moon has new tags every week — but the others rotate, especially the “just got new tags from its first fic posted in 2 years” type of fandoms.)

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erinptah - Erin Reads: The Rose Field, Part 1 (chapters 1-8)
malurette - [list] january's media
vriddy - New K-9 fic: Clingy (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)
vriddy - Yuu and Satsuki from K-9, aka Leopard and Treeguy
vriddy - Community Thursday
erinptah - Sky is blue, water is wet, ICE needs to be abolished
malurette - [film] Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
vriddy - Time out
malurette - [book] The tears of the Singers (ST:TOS)
vriddy - New K-9 fic: Suits like a charm (Fujimaru/Kagari)
malurette - [meme] snowflake_challenge - day 15
adevyish - Monthly Listening: Jan 2026
vriddy - Signal boost: Stuff I Love Top Ten Edition - February Challenge
doodlemancy - what's new in the doodlemancy shop!
malurette - [book] What difference does it make Danny?
vriddy - Pondering the Rule of Cool
malurette - [meme] snowflake_challenge - day o8
vriddy - "Not really pacing check" continuing + mindset
malurette - [book] Straight ~Chuck Tingle
erinptah - AO3 fandom metatags are back!

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Erin Reads: The Rose Field, Part 1 (chapters 1-8)

[list] january's media

New K-9 fic: Clingy (Ren/Oboro/Fujimaru/Kagari)

Yuu and Satsuki from K-9, aka Leopard and Treeguy

Community Thursday

Sky is blue, water is wet, ICE needs to be abolished

[film] Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

Time out

[book] The tears of the Singers (ST:TOS)

New K-9 fic: Suits like a charm (Fujimaru/Kagari)

[meme] snowflake_challenge - day 15

Monthly Listening: Jan 2026

Signal boost: Stuff I Love Top Ten Edition - February Challenge

what's new in the doodlemancy shop!

[book] What difference does it make Danny?

Pondering the Rule of Cool

[meme] snowflake_challenge - day o8

"Not really pacing check" continuing + mindset

[book] Straight ~Chuck Tingle

AO3 fandom metatags are back!

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