Fanfiction: "Wanting to Know what you Don't Want to Know" (Ascendance of a Bookworm)
Mar. 31st, 2026 04:46 pmChapters: 1/1
Fandom: 本好きの下剋上 - 香月美夜 | Honzuki no Gekokujou | Ascendance of a Bookworm Series - Kazuki Miya
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Karstedt & Sylvester (Ascendance of a Bookworm)
Characters: Sylvester (Ascendance of a Bookworm), Karstedt (Ascendance of a Bookworm)
Additional Tags: Sylvester has just been through the wringer and may not be the most reliable narrator atm, Karstedt however is reliable in general, Minor Character Death(s), Past Child Abuse, Animal Death, Veronica was horrible, and now there’s a purge, this gets dark is what I’m saying, but I tried to end it on a hopeful note, takes place during part 5 vol 1, spoilers through the end of part 5, and in the best and truest tradition of AoaB people sit in a room and discuss things, Blanket Permission
Summary: During Ehrenfest’s winter purge, Sylvester is resolved to face the ugly consequences of his decision, and in the process, he finds himself facing ugly truths about his brother’s childhood and his mother’s crimes. Seeing how much had escaped his notice leaves him shaken, but Karstedt is there to support him and remind him of his own better qualities.
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DNF?
Mar. 31st, 2026 11:25 pmWas recently attempting to reading a book and found myself dreading picking it up again (just... so slooooooow). DNF (Did Not Finish) it is! (I actually gave the book more of a chance than I usually would, on account of: (a) i got it at an event where I got it signed/met the author and (b) it is a beautiful physical object.) Now I'm curious what "rules", if any, people have with DNFs? Are there things that make you read more/less of a book before you decide to drop it?
Physicist recreates neutron star reaction, reveals how explosive stars forge elements
Mar. 31st, 2026 05:10 pmFeatured Article: Apocalypse AU
Mar. 31st, 2026 06:00 pm
ALTThis week’s Featured Article is all about the end of the world! An Apocalypse AU is a trope where a fanwork is set during or after an apocalyptic event and the characters must survive harsh and devastating conditions. This trope is often associated with fanfiction (sometimes called Apocafics), but it appears across all types of fanworks.
Some fandoms have built-in apocalypse potential that characters fight against in canon. In those cases, the apocalypse is typically averted. For example, in the TV series Forever Knight, an asteroid threatens Earth in one episode; although it does not collide with Earth in the show, some canon-divergent AU fanworks often explore what might have happened should that apocalyptic event have occurred. Other fandoms, like Jeremiah or Battlestar Galactica, are already set in an apocalyptic setting in canon, so fanworks that explore this are usually not labeled as an alternate universe unless a new, different apocalypse is created.
These fanworks explore common tropes like survival, found family, and hurt/comfort. Characters search for food and shelter, fight creatures like feral animals or zombies, build communities, and support each other through shared trauma. Apocalypse AUs can also serve as vehicles for political and social commentary, reflecting current societal fears even when set in distant futures or faraway universes.
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I can't imagine that kind of sympathy
Mar. 31st, 2026 05:12 pmLeverage
in the middle by
Fun Leverage OT3 fanvid
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Excellently edited and really fun Star Wars vid!
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I'm meaner than my demons
Mar. 31st, 2026 05:09 pmproper rites by
Being a cat for three weeks has repercussions, it turns out.
Jason snacks his way through one of them. Damian reads books. Both of them drink a lot of tea. It's nice, mostly, which Jason finds highly suspicious. OH MY HEART!!!!
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Only 20 years left to stop spiraling decline in British biodiversity, according to study
Mar. 31st, 2026 04:30 pmSo I put a bullet where I should've put a helmet
Mar. 31st, 2026 05:05 pmApply Kleenex as Needed by
Maybe if Cassie cried, she'd feel better. Really nice look at McKay in s2 episode 12.
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Brendon Park is a patient man. That's the worst thing about him. Park the Shark is a predator, and he's just scented Emma as prey. Holy shit, y'all. Mind the tags.
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oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Mar. 31st, 2026 05:01 pmBy Halves by
Yuna and David meet Ilya Rozanov at the hospital after Shane's injury. Lovely AU from Yuna's POV.
Closer to the heart by
She says, almost without thought, "He can stay with us, if he wants. While you're gone."
Yuna Hollander does want to open her heart to her son's boyfriend, even if he is Ilya Rozanov. The first step is opening her home. <333 #i'm not crying it's just raining on my face
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4 times ilya rozanov found something like family in america + 1 time he built himself one in Canada. 😍😍😍😍😍
Geiger Counter by
Kip Grady meets Ilya Rozanov at a gay bar while watching the Admirals game. Somehow, that's not even the strangest part of his evening. I enjoyed this!
Influential by
The problem is, no one knows how to market Ilya Rozanov's (in his own words) sexy Euro masculinity to an audience of white straight men.
He needs the best. And if it happens to be his secret lover's mother who despises his very existence, so be it. The Ilya-Yuna text-fic I never knew I needed! <333
the lies are all behind you now by
In a hotel room their first year playing together for Ottawa, Shane and Ilya talk about gay rookies and bad threesomes and how to not sound like you're trying to hook up with Shane's mom. This is very sweet and also hilarious at points. <3
Lily and Jane's Reddit Adventures by
Ilya and Shane get Reddit's advice under the aliases Lily and Jane. Things spiral from there... This series is so much fun!
Lovers, or, English is a damn funny language by
Ilya asked Shane's father while Shane and his mother were talking outside: "Is boyfriends correct? Lovers is incorrect, but I am not sure what is correct."
"Well," Mr. Hollander said. "'Lovers' is usually used for, hm, a mistress or an affair. Something kind of sordid. Though--you would say Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers," he said. He paused his knife on the chopping board. "Somehow that's right and using it for real people isn't right. English is a damn funny language, Ilya."
"Yes," Ilya said from the bottom of his heart. I'm sure everyone has already read this, but if you haven't you really should! It's long and lovely with a fantastic Ilya POV.
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A little "what if?" scenario for S01E05 "I'll Believe in Anything" in which Svetlana actually says something to Ilya about him being a lovesick weirdo, and he convinces her to go with him to All-Star weekend–against her better judgement–because he thinks Shane will bring Rose. *happy sigh* Svetlana is the best, no lie.
To only ever know the cold by
Svetlana knows about Jane. It's frankly insulting for Ilyusha to think otherwise.
She just never expected to have to call him for help. During the Olympics. In Russia. In the dead of night. This is a lovely AU where they get together a little earlier than in canon.
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(Boobs.) Wonkette One-A-Day for 3/31/26!
Mar. 31st, 2026 08:22 pmWell Evan is back from his week off and I know you missed him, and he is back JUST IN TIME for BOOBS.
But first he did your Tuesday morning tabs!
I guess all the Wonkette people besides me like to make fun of the UFO thing, but sorry not sorry I BELIEVE.
It’ll be nice if they get rid of Orban, will Hungary be salvageable, y/n?
WHY WON’T THEY FIGHT OUR WAR FOR US.
Well I for one think Trump tried to rape that girl and then punched her in the head. Sorry this story’s been sitting up top so long today :/
And finally, and JUST IN TIME, it’s BOOBS!
Sounds Like Kristi Noem’s Husband Is A Boob Guy
Mar. 31st, 2026 08:20 pmFormer DHS Secretary/current Official Ladywoman of the Shield of the Wizard Council of the Upper and Lower Americas (real job) Kristi Noem might be divorcing her husband soon, we reckon, if we had to guess, but not because of ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF RUMORS that she’s been humping blankies with Corey Lewandowski forfuckingever and will never stop.
The Daily Mail is out with a scoop big enough to fill out an F-cup, precisely that Bryon Noem, husband of Kristi — you know, the guy who sits behind her while Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove asks her questions about how many times she’s placed her vagina on Corey Lewandowski — gets his kicks on dressing up like he has great big boobies like a Barbie doll, and going on the internet to talk sexytime with ladies who also have great big boobies like a Barbie doll. It is this whole “bimbofication” fetish. They have big Barbie boobies together! They are booby ladies, and Bryon Noem is a booby lady!
And he’s basically confirmed it, so we guess we can tuck these “allegedlys” away somewhere safe, as we won’t be needing quite so many of them in this post.
If you know a teenage boy or full-grown adult who likes boobyknocker jokes, you ought to go get them for this:
Kristi Noem’s husband is today revealed as a secret crossdresser who dons gigantic fake breasts and pink hotpants to chat with online fetish models.
NO KINK-SHAMING.
It’s just that while his wife was doing important things to keep the homeland safe posing for Nazi Barbie Instagram shoots, Bryon was on the internet talking to busty ladies, while putting big balloons and other booby substitutes up his shirt to make it look like he, Bryon, also had great big boobies. He is reportedly into “3000cc-plus boobs,” according to one of the models. (Them’s some big fake hoodly-hoots!)
The Daily Mail has reviewed hundreds of messages involving three women from the ‘bimbofication’ scene – where porn performers transform themselves into real-life Barbie dolls by pumping colossal amounts of saline into their breasts.
Bryon has lavished praise on their surgically-enhanced bodies, confessed his lust for ‘huge, huge ridiculous boobs,’ and even made indiscreet remarks about his 34-year marriage to former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi, our investigation can exclusively disclose.
Awesome.
National Security experts consulted by the Daily Mail say his brazen behavior could have left the 54-year-old MAGA favorite, who oversaw ICE’s aggressive crackdown until she was removed from her position on March 5, vulnerable to blackmail.
Oh now come on, let’s be fair. We are pretty sure there’s much more about Kristi Noem that left her vulnerable to foreign intelligence services, no need to scapegoat poor Bryon Boobyknockers over here.
Like, for instance, if a spy got a hold of her humping blanket.
Then they’d have Corey Lewandowski’s DNA!
Allegedly!
More details:
In a selfie shared with one of his online contacts, Bryon, an insurance mogul, can be seen squeezing into a flesh-colored crop-top and skintight pink shorts.
The rugged father-of-three appears to have stuffed two balloons inside his shirt to resemble breasts – positioning the knots to mimic nipples.
Yay! You ready for this? Can you even handle this?
OK, not the best nippling we’ve ever seen, but to be fair, we don’t think he’s seen his wife’s nips in a while. Look how he mugs for the camera, though, just like her!
To a woman he sent those types of pictures to, he said, “You turn me into a girl” and asked, “Should I put on leggings?” Another woman said she asked him about the whole rumor about his wife repeatedly fucking Corey Lewandowski right on his privates. He said, “I know. There's nothing I can do about it.”
Hey, isn’t it kinda weird that Kristi Noem and the rest of her Republican pals are such vile, evil anti-trans, anti-drag queen scumbags, considering stuff like this where Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon is dressing himself up as a big booby lady on the internet and presumably using it to make orgasm?
Does it suggest that the things these people fight hardest against are the very things they’re most violently trying to kill off within themselves?
Oh well, let’s not dwell on it! Ha ha!
More:
Another photo shows the rancher and businessman wearing figure-hugging green leggings and a white top stretched over two bulging orbs.
Remarkably, Bryon’s face is clearly visible in both images.
He pouts playfully at the camera, seemingly unconcerned that his online activity could pose security implications for his wife’s position at the heart of the Trump administration.
How very dare Bryon put Very Serious Kristi Noem’s Very Serious National Security Job at risk like that!
According to the report, Booby ladies were always asking Bryon for money, and he did send money, to the tune of more than $25,000 bucks, which we can only imagine he found underneath his great big boobies.
Want another Bryon Noem booby shot, this time with more crotch?
So anyway, as we said, Bryon Noem has basically confirmed this to the Daily Mail.
When Daily Mail reached Bryon by telephone he did not deny having explicit conversations or sharing photos of himself dressed as a woman.
It was also put to him that he had made indiscreet comments about his wife and could have endangered national security by exposing her to the threat of blackmail.
‘Yeah, I made no comments like that, that would lead to that,’ Bryon replied. ‘I deny the second part of that.’
Which might be valid, because his wife and the little Hitler she works for — even in the made-up make-work job she has now — are greater threats to national security than anything Bryon Noem could do sitting on the internet playing bimbo wearing a brand new pair of hot pink Pair Of Thieves boxer-briefs from Target with a bunch of balloons stolen from a clown at a child’s birthday party stuffed up his shirt.
Mere weeks ago, the New York Post was reporting that Bryon Noem was staying with Kristi despite how she allegedly has been fucking Corey Lewandowski for years, right in his face essentially, because of his deep Christian faith and how seriously he takes his wedding vows. Now, we find ourselves suspecting that he might have been getting off on this cuckification situation, at least in some form or fashion. Really, a lot about their marriage suddenly makes more sense.
Speaking of their marriage, poor Kristi, a known liar and ALLEGED adulteress, says through her spox that she is “devastated,” and that “[t]he family was blindsided by this. They ask for privacy and prayers at this time.”
Let us pray:
Heavenly Jesus Father God, please protect Bryon’s big pretend balloon boobies. Wouldn’t want one of them dang things to pop mid-stroke. That kinda thing could put somebody’s eye out!
Let us now to be remembering this Corey Lewandowski quote about Kristi Noem’s boobies:
Lewandowski apparently is not shy about referring to Noem in intimate terms, as another source recalled him speaking last year about the need to find apparel for the secretary that would flatter a woman with, in Lewandowski’s words, “big tits.”
That was from the original New York Post article about Corey firing the pilot for losing Kristi’s humping blanket. Is it relevant to this story? Well, you tell us, but it sounds like Kristi Noem’s great big boobies haven’t been home very much lately, or at least not in any home she’s historically shared with her lawfully wedded husband Tits McGee.
In conclusion, how very wow this all is!
And how refreshing to just have a good old-fashioned wholesome story about a white straight Republican Christian man who likes to pretend he has great big boobies like Barbie while his wife who is Nazi Barbie is in the sky on airplanes (allegedly!) fucking another man.
America might just survive this fascist moment yet!
OPEN THREAD.
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Peaceful Night by Elayna (T)
Mar. 31st, 2026 10:03 pmRec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, getting together
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 1,622
Author's Journal:
Author's Website: Elayna on AO3
Link Fic: Peaceful Night
Author's summary: On a peaceful mission during a holiday, truths are exchanged.
Why This Must Be Read: It's a sweet, adorable fic by Elayna, written for FTH 2022, about Rodney and John finally getting together—a well-planned date, with Rodney making endearing preparations for a warm and cozy time under the stars. If you're looking for a heartwarming story that will leave you feeling soft and happy, this is exactly what you need.
( snippet of fic )
Impacts from meteors may have helped start life on Earth by creating hydrothermal vents
Mar. 31st, 2026 03:20 pmChat corner, accidentally themed
Mar. 31st, 2026 09:35 pmHi,
welcome to the weekly Star Wars chat post. Standard rules: anything SW goes, self-recs are welcome, and any other recs as well of course.
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You know, I only just realized that the no-topic SW chat posts have actually slowly mutated into "random thought topic" through these post-scripts. Oops? Is that bad? I remember someone saying (way, way back) that they don't feel comfortable talking about their own stuff if there's a topic. But I just always feel like a single-sentence post, "here ya go, do your thing, I'm off" must be so boring? I feel better when I'm adding something at least vaguely readable.
So, you know what, just treat the second half of these posts as if it was one of the comments. No-topic chat, with a bonus random Crow ramble.
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Mar. 31st, 2026 12:10 pmHere's a sketch and line art for a portrait I started before I got taken out. This is Morrison, the main character of a vampire supremacist cult in my current Rimworld colony! I'm thinking I'll make a little Rimworld site/shrine with character portraits and bios for the main pawns in each colony I do for the channel.


Okay now to hit the week's worth of things I missed in the Inbox and Reading Page!
TDOV 2026
Mar. 31st, 2026 12:15 pm
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 25 years this TDOV. Trans health care saves lives!
Thank you, universe, for the chance to become middle-aged and wear goofy hockey jerseys. Help me make it so that the ones who come after me have the same chance, and better.
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PS I could say a lot of other things, but then we'd never get out of here.
"The Hollow Places" Discussion Post
Mar. 31st, 2026 02:43 pmQ2. Who was your favorite character? Why?
Q3. What was your favorite scene? Why?
Q4. The Hollow Places is inspired by the short story The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. If you've read it, is the inspiration obvious?
Q5. How would you describe Kara?
Q6. What are your thoughts about the Wonder Museum?
Q7. Do you have any favorite quotes?


