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Collecting a bunch of new thoughts I’ve had while trying to write some Little Sister D fic.

(As mentioned in the original reread post. Yeah, at least one fic of this is happening. I’m even starting with the fluffy fixit version.)

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So I’m looking more deeply into contextual meanings and nuances of Chinese endearments, as you do, and it looks like “哥哥 gēgē” and “妹妹 mèimei” are the more generic terms for “big brother” and “little sister”. (They can also be used more broadly, to address older men/younger women who aren’t literal relatives. They’re warm and friendly without being over-familiar, as long as you get the age dynamic right.)

Meanwhile, “大哥 dàgē” is more specifically “eldest brother.” It’s the version you would use for an older male boss (and, in pop culture, a mob boss). The same site doesn’t say “小妹 xiǎo mèi” is “youngest sister”, just that it’s a more-affectionate diminutive of “little sister,” which in practice gets used for the youngest a lot.

Littler Sister D saying what she's called

In related news, “宝贝 bǎobèi” (“precious treasure”) is an intimate term for a loved one, especially a spouse or child…but it’s also used for favorite pets. And there’s a modern-day trend on shopping sites to use it for products, as a playful way to convey what a great valuable deal this is.

I’ve gotta have D use that one for Leon.

( I was not prepared to have this many new feelings about a story I first read 20 years ago )

erinptah

Down to 728 fandoms! I’ve knocked out about 150 since the last check-in, and almost exactly 800 in the whole past 6 months.

There are so many 1-work webcomic fandoms to drop, and I’m not even halfway through the alphabet yet. Bet I get my list under 450 by the end of this sweep.

(I’m not gonna just reach 450 and then stop. We’re doing the full A-to-Z here. Hopefully that leaves me a nice amount of wiggle room to pick up and clean new fandoms — which I’ve done a little of in the past 6 months, but it’ll be nice when I can make that a regular thing again.)

Only 25 of my fandoms have any tags to wrangle. This time I checked through in a little more detail, and for a full 8 of those, all the unwrangled tags are in the “crossover from for a fandom that isn’t canonical yet” category. (A full 2 of them are only here because of the same fic! It’s from this past December, and it’s tagged with 2 different adaptations of The Grinch…plus a tiny little web series, whose characters have been sitting in the Grinch bins ever since.)

AMT updates: I’m still holding firm on not being the person to detangle the Pundit & Broadcast Journalist RPF tag…but I did go down a different rabbit hole, and ended up writing a proposal to turn Late Night Host RPF into a metatag.

This involves a couple updates to Fake-News-adjacent fandom tags (LSSC and LWT). So I’m not re-submitting the new-and-improved Fake News AMT proposal until after this whole shebang has been processed.

It also involved adding a few new late-night fandoms to my wrangling list. (This kind of project is one of the reasons to leave wiggle room.) Definitely not keeping these long-term! Just long enough to make sure that, if/when everything gets updated, the various Jimmies and Jameses and so on all end up in the right places.

kronette

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erinptah

Trying to do “1 like = 1 rec” Pride Month webcomic recs again this year. I’ve added some new good stuff to my reading list since the last round! …But still haven’t rebuilt the network I had on pre-X Twitter, where I did the first round.

Give them a like and a repost to help out?

Rec thread on Bluesky

Rec thread on Mastodon

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Wanting to pick good recs has prompted me to do a bunch of catch-up reading. I’m behind in a lot of webcomic archives. Ended up moving several of them to my “recs for Finished, or at least Permanently Ended, webcomics” list.

Every time I go to update that page, I think: should I reorganize this somehow? Are there things I should explain better? Is the formatting weird? Should I just import all the entries into my Tagpacker recs and use that instead?”

…And then all those options seem like a lot of work, so I just add to the existing list, in the existing format.

How’s it working for other people? Feedback welcome.

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One of the archives I’ve been trying to catch up on is Kevin & Kell. (So far I’ve made it from “2 years behind” to “1 year behind”.)

This strip, I had to stop and just sit with it for a while.

Two regular Kevin and Kell characters take in a kid displaced by a Trump analogue's immigration policies: "You're welcome to stay." "HOW LONG?" "Until people come to their senses." "THAT LONG?"

erinptah

Sequel to the first post of this hot new internet game: “Someone has posted a fic on AO3 with this New Fandom Tag. Can we figure out what fandom it’s referring to?”

Recap: To get a fandom approved for a canonical tag on AO3 — especially a fandom for a series that should be online in the first place — it helps if you have links to sources. As in “here’s the website, here’s the creator’s social media, here’s a wiki page, here’s any other info to confirm what the canon is.”

These webcomic fandom tags have been lingering for a while, uncanonized and unfilterable. I went looking for the original comic, and couldn’t find it. So I’m tossing the questions to the broader internet hivemind…

“Apotelesma (Webcomic)” – Another case where I can find multiple comics with this title — Apotelesma by sunflowee and Apotelesma: A Space Odessy by nicolapop — but neither of them obviously match the character tags on the work (March 2026). Secret third Apotelesma?

“Overdrive Webcomic” – All I found was Overdrive by srinitybeast, and the work (Jan 2026) doesn’t seem to match the character tags or the genre. Another lost Overdrive out there?

“Rabies (webcomic)” – The work (Dec 2024) has a bunch of lovely full-name character tags, but since they’re all realistic names, googling them these days just gets you a ton of results about real people with those names. Unhelpful.

“Reach For The Stars Universe (Web Comic)” – The work (March 2025) is also tagged with Minecraft and an SMP fandom, so maybe it’s a spinoff/fancomic for one of those? I don’t know enough about that branch of fandom to effectively through it. [ETA: Probably found! Reach For The Stars is a Minecraft mod/webseries.]

“Static (Webcomic)” – On a recent work (May 2026), but there’s also a work from February that seems to be the same fandom. Both crossovers with a comic by ttwonkies on Tumblr, but I didn’t spot any helpful references to Static on ttwonkies’ social media.

kronette

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erinptah

I’m at the start of PSOH volume 5 in the SS re-release, which is the start of volume 7 in the TP original.

There’s a bonus story at the end of TP v6 that we skipped, because SS doesn’t have it at the start of v5, but in the middle. More on that later.

As usual, originally threaded on Mastodon / Bluesky. Having a weird situation where my phone gave me reply notifications for Bsky posts, but I can’t see the replies themselves. It’s not that they were deleted — some of the posts (here’s an example) still list 2 replies — I just can’t see any other than mine, either on desktop or mobile. Can any of the rest of y’all read them?

Anyway. Affiliate links for the whole Collector’s Edition, in case you want your own.