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Intergalactic Mixtape #34
Hey! Welcome to 2026. Also, welcome to the new subscribers; I assume lots of you are here from the very kind rec in The Rec Center. Thanks very much to...
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Maybe put some guard rails on your TBR lists. :)
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repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally
January 3, 2026 at 8:53 PM
repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally
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Seconded. This wonderful newsletter's been making my Fridays a little brighter since 2016, introducing me to so many fics and fandoms I might never have discovered on my own. Happy Anniversary Elizabeth and Gav!
Happy 10th anniversary to The Rec Center! My fannish life has been greatly enriched by this newsletter from @elizabethminkel.bsky.social and @gavia.bsky.social! Thank you both for such a labor of love for fandom and fan culture.
The Rec Center
The Rec Center: A weekly digest of fandom articles, fanart, and fanfiction recs, sent to your inbox every Friday. About the newsletter Launched in 2016, The Rec Center is a weekly newsletter about fan...
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January 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Seconded. This wonderful newsletter's been making my Fridays a little brighter since 2016, introducing me to so many fics and fandoms I might never have discovered on my own. Happy Anniversary Elizabeth and Gav!
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THE RAVEN SCHOLAR has me in an absolute chokehold, what an incredibly well-paced jewel of a book, I love the feeling of looking at the 400 remaining pages & feeling the anticipatory loss of it coming to an end
January 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
THE RAVEN SCHOLAR has me in an absolute chokehold, what an incredibly well-paced jewel of a book, I love the feeling of looking at the 400 remaining pages & feeling the anticipatory loss of it coming to an end
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forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 PM
forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus
I reread this review of A Drop of Corruption and I WILL be stealing the phrase "quasimagical biotechnology" for my Obsidian book log to apply to all the weird plant/body horror stuff coming out of SFF.
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett: Review by Jake Casella Brookins
A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey 9780593723821, $30.00, 480pp, hc) April 2025. Cover by Will Staehle. I was quite charmed by Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup, though le…
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January 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I reread this review of A Drop of Corruption and I WILL be stealing the phrase "quasimagical biotechnology" for my Obsidian book log to apply to all the weird plant/body horror stuff coming out of SFF.
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More than anything, just tell the creators of things you like that you Iike them! Leave comments, click like, share, all that stuff. It’s fuel for creatives.
I think a big fandom shift in interacting with stuff has gone from people commenting under the created thing whether it be fic or art to people linking it in private discord groups where the person who made it will never see any positive comments left on the thing they made.
January 3, 2026 at 11:09 AM
More than anything, just tell the creators of things you like that you Iike them! Leave comments, click like, share, all that stuff. It’s fuel for creatives.
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Happy Saturday! It’s the first Wombling Along of the year with a bumper set of people looking back at the year, reviews and other online articles I saw this week! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...
Wombling along — Runalong The Shelves
Helllloo!!! Happy New Year! For New Reader think of this as the blog’s weekend supplement where I gather up the reviews and other book related things that caught my eye this week. This week I went b...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Happy Saturday! It’s the first Wombling Along of the year with a bumper set of people looking back at the year, reviews and other online articles I saw this week! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...
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kind of wild that in the span of like 20 years we've circled all the way back around to "get a film camera and never post any photos of yourself or anyone else really online ever" being the most reasonable position
January 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM
kind of wild that in the span of like 20 years we've circled all the way back around to "get a film camera and never post any photos of yourself or anyone else really online ever" being the most reasonable position
Artists, if you use the alt text option to write “image”, I will mute you and never see your work again. Either use alt text or don’t, but don’t bait people who need accessibility tools.
January 3, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Artists, if you use the alt text option to write “image”, I will mute you and never see your work again. Either use alt text or don’t, but don’t bait people who need accessibility tools.
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setting an intention for SFF publishers in 2026 that they will put a "previously on" page at the front of the book when they are publishing sequels
IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR TOLKIEN IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU
IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR TOLKIEN IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
setting an intention for SFF publishers in 2026 that they will put a "previously on" page at the front of the book when they are publishing sequels
IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR TOLKIEN IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU
IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR TOLKIEN IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU
Happy 10th anniversary to The Rec Center! My fannish life has been greatly enriched by this newsletter from @elizabethminkel.bsky.social and @gavia.bsky.social! Thank you both for such a labor of love for fandom and fan culture.
The Rec Center
The Rec Center: A weekly digest of fandom articles, fanart, and fanfiction recs, sent to your inbox every Friday. About the newsletter Launched in 2016, The Rec Center is a weekly newsletter about fan...
buttondown.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Happy 10th anniversary to The Rec Center! My fannish life has been greatly enriched by this newsletter from @elizabethminkel.bsky.social and @gavia.bsky.social! Thank you both for such a labor of love for fandom and fan culture.
I’m frozen with indecision over what my first book of 2026 should be. 😅 There’s so many good choices.
January 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I’m frozen with indecision over what my first book of 2026 should be. 😅 There’s so many good choices.
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I think this might actually be my favourite "easter egg" thing I've read about Heated Rivalry? There was so much care and attention put into so many "little" choices. www.tumblr.com/coeur-de-coe...
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💬 0 🔁 32 ❤️ 96 · Ahhh, Jacob and his mind. · This is such a cool little extra.
And it appears to be true.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I think this might actually be my favourite "easter egg" thing I've read about Heated Rivalry? There was so much care and attention put into so many "little" choices. www.tumblr.com/coeur-de-coe...
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Maybe put some guard rails on your TBR lists. :)
Intergalactic Mixtape #34
Hey! Welcome to 2026. Also, welcome to the new subscribers; I assume lots of you are here from the very kind rec in The Rec Center. Thanks very much to...
buttondown.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Maybe put some guard rails on your TBR lists. :)
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Maybe put some guard rails on your TBR lists. :)
Intergalactic Mixtape #34
Hey! Welcome to 2026. Also, welcome to the new subscribers; I assume lots of you are here from the very kind rec in The Rec Center. Thanks very much to...
buttondown.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! Maybe put some guard rails on your TBR lists. :)
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anyway, thank you for giving us this, NYC. Because it matters! It matters that we get this hope, it matters that we get to see what he can do. it matters that he proved you can run the kind of campaign he did, and win.
y'all worked so hard to give us that! 💓
y'all worked so hard to give us that! 💓
January 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
anyway, thank you for giving us this, NYC. Because it matters! It matters that we get this hope, it matters that we get to see what he can do. it matters that he proved you can run the kind of campaign he did, and win.
y'all worked so hard to give us that! 💓
y'all worked so hard to give us that! 💓
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oh damn
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:27 PM
oh damn
Not me seriously considering getting a personal pizza from my favorite pizza place for every ten books I read. And yet...
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Not me seriously considering getting a personal pizza from my favorite pizza place for every ten books I read. And yet...
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If you're a writer or other creator with a stack of unread nonfiction you bought for research, my Worldbuilder's Book Club reading challenge is back for 2026 with twelve prompts to help you deepen different aspects of your created worlds!
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
December 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you're a writer or other creator with a stack of unread nonfiction you bought for research, my Worldbuilder's Book Club reading challenge is back for 2026 with twelve prompts to help you deepen different aspects of your created worlds!
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
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Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
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Anyway Happy New Year. Here's to a 2026 with more peace, love and justice. On my end, I'll commit to more weird fangirl shenanigans.
January 1, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Anyway Happy New Year. Here's to a 2026 with more peace, love and justice. On my end, I'll commit to more weird fangirl shenanigans.
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Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.
December 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.
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Quote with a GIF that depicts the energy you’re going into 2026 with.
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Quote with a GIF that depicts the energy you’re going into 2026 with.
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My 2025 reading roundup is now up! Come for the stats and graphs, stay for the silly awards (or possibly vice versa).
2025 in Books
2025 book crafts! I’m writing this a day early, because I have plans for the last day of the year that aren’t sit and home under a blanket thinking about books and stats. Madness. Despi…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My 2025 reading roundup is now up! Come for the stats and graphs, stay for the silly awards (or possibly vice versa).