Down to 424 fandoms!

I already did a sweep where I dropped “webcomics with only 1 fic, and it was posted more than a year ago.” This past month, I’ve been doing a sweep where I drop “webcomics with no more than 5 fics, and the latest was posted more than a year ago.”

And this is the one that finally pulled me under the 450 limit.

Haven’t reached the end of the alphabet, so I’ll probably do a final October update, just to record the final low for posterity. (And then, at long last, I can figure out a new regular routine for “picking up never-wrangled webcomic fandoms in small batches, cleaning up the tags, and letting them go quickly instead of sitting on them.”)

Currently only 15 have any tags to wrangle. Most of the un-canonized crossover fandoms I mentioned back in July are, in fact, canonized by now.

Also: I handed off one of my Always Has New Tags Every Week fandoms. One of my very first fandom-dropping tactics was “yeeting all the tiny obscure Dracula adaptations that never got fic anyway,” but I kept the original novel (and the AMT), to field the regular stream of incoming tags. This past month, I finally realized “the existing tags could use some review, I’m not enthusiastic about doing it, and this is an enduringly popular book that must have plenty of other wrangler fans. I can and should pass it on to someone new.”

So I did. And they’re already doing great with it! A good choice.

AMT check-in: Fake News, Narbonverse, and Cutie Honey proposals are all still hanging out on the requests page.

…related, I did scoop up the recently-renamed Pundit & Broadcast Journalist RPF (the “US” got knocked off the end), to do some much-needed cleanup in the tags there. But I still flatly refuse to be the wrangler who sorts out “which of the shows/networks in the hundred syns deserve their own subtags.” I will do stuff like “make sure somebody’s favorite obscure news anchor finally gets a canonical character tag” — that is the limit of the responsibility I’m taking, here.

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Friend: "I like my steak black and blue. Charred outside, blue inside. If the kitchen can’t do that, I’ll take it Chicago style."

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Ladies' Bingo Round 2026-2027 (Round 14) Sign-ups

Event Description:

ladiesbingo is a bingo challenge for creative works about the relationships between women. It runs for seven months (from September until March).

The motivation behind the community is to encourage people to make creative works focused on female characters and their relationships.

Round 14 (2026-2027) is now open.

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A reader writes:

I’m a manager who has what I’d thought was a generous habit: often when someone on my team hits a milestone, ends a difficult project, or just seems like they could use a morale boost, I give them gift cards (to coffee shops, restaurants, bookstores, etc.). I figured everyone likes free money.

But apparently I was wrong because I’ve realized that some people on my team barely use them. I know this because a few people have made comments like, “Oh, I still have that gift card you gave me” and I checked the balance of some of the gift cards where I had the access to do it and a lot of them haven’t been used.

I don’t need them to throw me a parade, but it does hurt to think these aren’t appreciated and are maybe seen as just clutter. Should I stop giving them? Ask people why they aren’t using them? Something else?

I think they probably are appreciated — at least as a visible token of your appreciation, even if they aren’t that excited about using the cards themselves. Some people, though, just aren’t gift card people — they forget them have them, don’t keep track of them, etc. It’s also possible that they don’t buy much at the particular stores the cards are for and don’t want to go out of their way to get something they don’t need. Or they may be holding on to them for when they’re really needed.

But it’s also fine to stop giving them if it’s making you feel bad! And in general when you give gifts, it’s best not to attach any expectations of exactly how they’ll be used. Once something is given, part of the spirit of the gift is that you have to relinquish control over it; the other person gets to decide what role it plays in their life from there.

That said, I do think there’s room to say to your team as a whole, “Is there something people would like more than gift cards, in a similar price range? I want to make sure I’m appreciating you with something you actually want.” In doing this, be careful not to complain about the cards going unused — that would make the gift cards feel like an obligation and like these appreciation gifts come with strings. But it’s fine for a manager to say, essentially, “I want to make sure I’m appreciating you in ways that you actually like.”

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Does a weapon want to hurt people? What if it had opinions on the type of people it was used to slay? Author Marissa Lingen had these sorts of questions rattling around in her brain long enough that a story formed from them. Take up your (opinionated) sword and follow along in the Big Idea for A Dubious Clamor.

MARISSA LINGEN:

Some big ideas form in an instant, an explosion of brilliance, totally ready to write down and go–the Big Bang of idea formation, if you will. Others are more like planetary accretion. There’s a whole massive whirling disc of random crap, and over time it runs into each other and eventually you have an entire planet with rings and moons. A Dubious Clamor was definitely in the second group.

Twenty-five years ago I read the Francis Peabody Magoun translation of the Kalevala. This is my recommended translation. Rather than trying to preserve rhyme or structure, it preserves weirdness, which for my money is the exact right thing to preserve. Catch me at a con sometime and I’ll tell you about the milk from hell or the insults from your in-laws, as rendered in the Magoun translation of the Kalevala. But the one bit that kept poking at me over the years was when one of the magical swords made by the smith Ilmarinen said, “Probably I was not made for the slaying of young maidens.”

Probably. The sword was willing to leave room for discussion on this point. Huh.

That one word kept popping up in my head: probably. Probably. Maybe not, though! Who knows! Probably. I started to wonder: are there other swords with both opinions and a refreshing unwillingness to lay down immovable dictates? I mean, probably! Why wouldn’t there be? Who would make those swords? Was it all Ilmarinen? Probably not! There are lots of other magical smiths in mythology. Was I a little too obsessed with one word in a translation? Yeah, probably!

But I liked where it was going. I was trained as a physicist (can you tell from my go-to metaphors above?). I was a lab TA for three years. One of the most important things I taught in those lab sections was the section of lab reports devoted to error analysis. I tried to walk lab students through assessing where things might not be perfect, where their own error had a chance to slip in. Several students wanted to write, “There were no sources of error in this lab,” and I had to walk them through why that was in fact not true. But in the outside world I kept watching malicious actors treat uncertainty and error as if they were a sign that you were on the wrong track. As if they had perfect answers that would work every time. As though science acknowledging that it didn’t was a sign of dishonesty. And I kept returning to that sword and the way that it went with. Y’know. Probably.

I can’t say I’m a huge fan of Oliver Cromwell in general, but my favorite thing he ever said was, “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you might be mistaken.” He should have listened to himself a lot more on that, but–yeah. At least consider. Think it possible. I can come up with a few contemporary figures who could do some more thinking it possible that they might be mistaken. I bet you can too.

The harpies came later. Jenny Lind and operetta and the alternate history aftermath of a Chartist rebellion and all the little cakes–all of it came later. The first and biggest idea, the one I couldn’t leave alone, was a sword that was not fond of people being all too certain they had all the right boxes to put each other in. That seemed worth raising a dubious clamor about.

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The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws, and public safety protections. Doing so would be a huge step back for California, and would actually end up being more expensive for Californians in the long run. Tell the governor to reject this provision before accepting these funds from the federal government.

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On August 31, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced it would be awarding California $1.4 billion to expand broadband connectivity in the state. In that deal is a provision that says that California agrees to not enforce any law, order, or policy that imposes any sort of restriction on internet service providers (ISPs). These ISPs will get awarded the funding in order to connect Californians they have neglected for years. The ban on enforcing our laws would last 14 years. This is disastrous for a lot of reasons.

First, California is one of the only states with a strong state net neutrality law. Recreating much of the FCC’s Open Internet Order, the law prevents ISPs from blocking, throttling, zero rating, and instituting paid prioritization on internet service. Put another way, the law ensures that users, not companies, decide how they can see on the internet. If California is not allowed to enforce our gold standard law, there will be little stopping ISPs from controlling how everyone experiences the internet.

Second, California has a number of affordability protections that would also fall under this agreement. For example, when the state approved the merger of Verizon and Frontier earlier this year, it required the new merged company to offer a $20 internet plan to low-income Californians—saving Californians billions of dollars over the next decade. Just this year the California Public Utilities Commission found that the average cost of broadband across four major urban markets (San Mateo, Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego) was $51 per month. In 2023, Consumer Reports found that 84% of American consumers pay at least $50 per month, with many paying more. That $30 difference per month—which is likely to actually be more—makes all the difference for low-income Californians. It is how Californians will save billions from this merger requirement. In contrast, $1.4 billion in new connectivity and infrastructure doesn't matter if the most vulnerable Californians cannot afford it. Eviscerations of this and the net neutrality protections will, ultimately, cost Californians more than they will get.

Third, this deal will impact public safety. The same California net neutrality law which protects consumers also ensures reliable service for first responders during emergencies by banning throttling. In 2018, Verizon throttled, or slowed down, the service of firefighters as they were battling what was, at the time, the largest wildfire in California history. In reaction, fire departments came out in support of what would become California’s net neutrality law. If California cannot enforce its net neutrality law it will leave its first responders in a weaker position as natural disasters only become more intense.

Most people do not have a choice in ISP as it is. California’s net neutrality law is one of the few things protecting Californians from the whims of these monopolistic giants. Californians should not give up our few hard-won protections in return for a hand out to these behemoths. Tell Governor Newsom to reject this provision before he accepts these funds from the federal government.

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Chuffed as I am (natch) at this intelligence:

Reading for pleasure has benefits at all ages – from improving health and wellbeing to staving off dementia – say scientists

- and the effects are not dependent upon its being Grate Litrachur -

I do wonder whether someone will desperately try to incorporate Fun Reading into the Self-Improvement Grind, sigh?

Though the whole 'pleasure' angle is slantwise to that message.

Do we suppose that all those guys who were 'raw-dogging' plane flights to prove how hard they were will now be reading instead, because It's Good For Them? (this can only be a good thing, really).

Though I am immensely heartened at something that gives pleasure is accorded the accolade of Being Good for Health and Wellbeing -

- yet I daresay yer MachoMaxxers will have nothing to do with it, pleasure is for the weak (better mental health and empathy, pah!).

I'll be over here with my nose in a book.

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Sally Sparrow with a Weeping Angel behind her.

A weeping angel pointing at the camera with the other hand upraised in a claw.

A grimacing weeping angel with others behind.

A weeping angel on a grainy camera image with a time stamp.

A circle of weeping angels surround sally sparrow and Larry Nightingale

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I have not slept in three or four nights and my insurance actually is trying to kill me, but

theseatheseatheopensea makes a gorgeous case for Hugo Fregonese's The Raid (1954) in the August issue of Edición Sunset and Widow's Bay (2026–) swept its categories at the Emmys. I'd have been even happier with it on CD, but it may mark some kind of flashover in my relationship to Doctor Who that I have just spent a wistful half-hour listening to Gardens of the Dead (2015). The blue of the sky has blown off into fall.

Current Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Hysteric"

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It started with the seventy billionth paper jam in the most inconvenient spots imaginable. The unreasonably sharp plastic didn’t help my colleagues or my hands either. We put it back together, and we got a software error.

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A reader writes:

I’ve been at my job for about three months. My department has six people, including the department head. We have a weekly meeting scheduled for Monday at 11am (our standard office hours are 10am-6pm).

Since I started, the department head, John, has never been on time to this meeting once. Typically, he’ll send an email sometime between 10:55 and 11:15 letting us know he will be in at 11:30, and then he walks in anywhere from 11:30-11:45. Sometimes he’ll send an email rescheduling the meeting for 12 or 12:30, but he is sometimes late even to that meeting. Sometimes we don’t get an email at all, and he just arrives at 11:15 or later. He always apologizes for being late, but in a very perfunctory way.

We can’t start the meeting without John, so every Monday at 11, the rest of us gather in the conference room and wait. Sometimes if the meeting is rescheduled significantly, we’ll disperse and come back later, but most often we just sit there and wait for him.

I find this whole dynamic very irritating and it makes me feel like my time is being disrespected. I’ve floated my concerns to my colleagues, but it seems like everyone else enjoys using this time to catch up socially, with one person saying this is the best part of their week.

I get the sense that I might have a higher workload than my colleagues, but it could be that I’m still adjusting to the new job. On high-pressure days, I’ve started bringing my laptop to the conference room so I can do work while we wait, but it makes me feel like an anti-social weirdo since no one else does this.

Plus, this fall I’ll be supervising a college intern and I’m already starting to stress about how to explain this dynamic to her. Even if I decide there’s nothing more I can do, I don’t want her to come away with the impression that this is just how workplaces are.

I’ve brought all of this up gently with my direct manager (who reports to John). She let me know that John is recovering from a recent surgery, and that she expects the issue will resolve itself when he’s fully recovered. However, I talked to a different colleague who told me that while this issue has been more egregious in the last few months, this general pattern has been going on for at least a year.

Is there anything else for me to do or do I just have to accept this weirdly entrenched dynamic? I feel like a stick in the mud for being the only person bothered.

(A side note that may not be relevant but adds to my frustration: John is a man in his 60s and the rest of us are women in our 20s and 30s.)

You can read my answer to this letter at New York Magazine today. Head over there to read it.

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Quentin Tarantino called TV a forgettable medium compared to movies. At least one actor took offense: “Our shows, if I didn’t have the great fortune of being in them, really stick with me. I’m still thinking about Leftovers. I’m still thinking about Six Feet Under. The storytelling is what sticks with you.”

Does TV storytelling, and its memorability, differ from movies (in any way other than length)? Does it matter what kind of TV it is? Does familiarity play a role?

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New Hire: "I didn't know customers could be so… so…"
Trainer: "Stupid?"
New Hire: "Are we allowed to say that?!"
Trainer: "Back here? Sure. Just not to their faces."

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Posted by Amanda

https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2026/09/sci-fi-v-e-schwab-more/

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The Rom-Commers

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center is $2.99! Center’s books have been positively talked about on the site and this released in summer of 2024. The heroine is a screenwriter who is brought on to rehab the hero’s rom-com script.

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?

Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies—good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates—The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!—it’s a break too big to pass up.

Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone—much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.” Worse, the romantic comedy he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesn’t even care about the script—it’s just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.

But Emma’s not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself. She will convince him that love stories matter—even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . . . what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much . . . more real than fiction? What if the love story they’re writing breaks all Emma’s rules—and comes true?

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You can find ordering info for this book here.

Vicious

RECOMMENDED: Vicious by V.E. Schwab is $1.99! Though I have not read this, several of my friends (four to be exact, two of whom have rated it five starts on Goodreads) have and absolutely loved it. This is book one in the Villains series and book two is also on sale.

A masterful, twisted tale of ambition, jealousy, betrayal, and superpowers, set in a near-future world.

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?

In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn’t automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.

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Top Secret

Top Secret by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy is 99c at Amazon! This is a m/m new adult romance. I’m basing this on the lackluster description, but it seems like two opposites or even enemies getting to know each other over text, without realizing who the other person is.

Bestselling authors Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy return with their first Male / Male romance in 3 years.

LobsterShorts, 21. Jock. Secretly a science geek. Hot AF.

LobsterShorts: So. Here goes. For her birthday, my girlfriend wants…a threesome.

SinnerThree: Then you’ve come to the right hookup app.

LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy?

SinnerThree: All the time. I’m an equal opportunity player. You?

LobsterShorts: [crickets!]

SinnerThree, 21. Finance major. Secretly a male dancer. Hot AF.

SinnerThree: Well, I’m down if you are. My life is kind of a mess right now. School, work, family stress. Oh, and I live next door to the most annoying dude in the world. I need the distraction. Are you sure you want this?

LobsterShorts: I might want it a little more than I’m willing to admit.

SinnerThree: Hey, nothing wrong with pushing your boundaries…

LobsterShorts: Tell that to my control-freak father. Anyway. What if this threesome is awkward?

SinnerThree: Then it’s awkward. It’s not like we’ll ever have to see each other again. Right? Just promise you won’t fall in love with me.

LobsterShorts: Now wouldn’t that be life-changing…

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Red Mars

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is $1.99! I mentioned this on Get Rec’d because Kelly Faircloth pitched this book as:

What if your midlife crisis was moving to Mars? An underappreciated facet of this novel is that everyone is middle-aged and a hot mess, emotionally.

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.

“A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke

For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light onto its surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels drilled into the mantle will create stupendous vents of hot gases. But despite these ambitious goals, there are some who would fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.

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https://www.askamanager.org/?p=41832

A reader writes:

My partner is doing university work placement with a health organization (health professional role, non-corporate) for the next eight weeks. It’s her first week this week and I notice she has worn the same (work appropriate) outfit every single day. It’s not a uniform, but her personal clothes. She works with different people on different days, so there will be some people that have seen her in this outfit for up to three days this week.

The outfit didn’t smell or was dirty, but I mentioned that wearing this every day would likely be read as out of line with professional norms. She replied that she simply didn’t care. I should note that she has a few but not a lot of professional outfits, but this is not really an issue of finances. I replied that as women we will unfortunately probably be held to a higher standard on this than men would.

Obviously this is her prerogative to wear the same outfit all week or for all of her placement, and I will be backing off about this conversation. However, I’m wondering your thoughts on what would be the professional ramifications of not changing outfits during placement / an internship.

First, you’re absolutely right about the gendered double standard on this: men could wear the same outfit to work for months without it being a thing, as long as the outfit wasn’t particularly remarkable (like khakis and a button-down). Many men do look like they’re wearing basically the same thing every day, even if it’s not the actual same shirt/pants each day.

But it really comes down to how distinctive the clothes are (and part of the reason for the gender difference is that men’s business clothes are often, although not always, more interchangeable). If you wear a white button-down or black pants every day, it’s unlikely anyone will notice or say anything. If you’re wearing the same pink polka dot shirt or zebra print dress every day, that’s going to stand out a lot more.

When people do notice, the issue isn’t so much, “Why does she look the same every day?” or “Why does she have five of those shirts?” If there’s a concern — and there won’t always be — it’s more likely to be whether you’re wearing the same unwashed garments each day rather than different versions of the same thing. That, obviously, can make people feel squicky about cleanliness and hygiene.

But otherwise, basic pants and shirts that aren’t in unusual colors? As long as the clothes appear clean and you don’t smell, it’s no one’s business — and it can save brain power to basically give yourself a work uniform that you don’t need to think about.

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For fans of the original French series Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) (Netflix) -- it's back! In the form of a film (also Netflix). Here's the trailer.

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This HaBO comes from Lindsay, who wants to find this romance:

This is an historical (probably written in the early 2000s or 2010s), and the protagonists have either a marriage of convenience or they marry young and some sort of Big Misunderstanding has the hero leaving shortly after the wedding night and going off to war.

He returns from war to find that the heroine is thriving without him. As he proceeds to grovel, he slowly realizes that every single painting in their home is a different depiction of Judith and Holofernes. Yes, every painting in their house is of a woman beheading a man. This is when he realizes how badly he has f@#*ed up.

We also checked with Lindsay on whether the book is also from this similar, solved HaBO for Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James and she confirmed that it is not.

https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2026/09/habo-judith-and-the-head-of-holofernes-part-deux/

https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/?p=177187

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