#mar'25

[lilolilyr]

What I've been reading March 2025

January • February • 2024

I have read 5 million words in fanfic this month :D and also, I've surpassed 4k bookmarks on Ao3! 50 of them are my March Fic Recs!

The Geraskier obsession that had me in its grasp since reading the Accidental Warlord in February is still going strong, and the first weeks of march I really read nothing but Witcher fics! Now I've branched out a bit again through bookmark surfing (reading everything a fic author has written, then going to their bookmarks and reading them all, going to the author of the best one, rinse and repeat), and I've also read some James Bond 00Q, Marvel mainly ClintCoulson, NCIS Tibbs and H50 McDanno! Very slash heavy last month for main ships, I also ended up reading a bunch of femslash rarepairs in basically all of the fandoms I was reading in, looks like it might be time to get back to more of that xD probably Avorah, what with the new season of Hacks coming out soon!

When it comes to books, I've really just continued the bird book from the month before - made it to page 100 before I had to bring it back to the library last week. I'll for sure borrow it again! Check out this pretty illustration:

Whose fic I read is a lot more spread out than last month (tho some Witcher repeats, & I'm not spam tagging ppl who I've already tagged last month xD I'm not sure anyone but me cares about these stats anyway but I do like to give a little shoutout to everyone whose Tumblr I can find) , 37 works (6%) by penandinkprincess, 34 (6%) by whisperedstory, and also still 11 works (2%) by inexplicifics who was at 14% last month because of all the accidental Warlord works, and should probably be even higher wordcount wise bc the fics are so long!

And the new ones: 15 works (3%) also Witcher fics by @hummingbee-o0o hummingbeeooo and 14 (2%) by @suzukiblu suzukiblu, 13 (2%) 00q by @beaubete beaubete, and once again Witcher for the others: 12 (2%) @livingintheworldofstories snowkatze, 10 (2%) fandomtrash24601, 9 (2%) @eyesupmarksman eyesupmarksman, 9 (2%) @lurikko lurikko... So yeah apart from one 00q it's still all Witcher really xD

Thank you all for your many wonderful stories, allowing me to read so much :D

Of course I also read fics from authors with less fics or where I just stumbled across one and didn't get around to reading more yet, some of my faves were:

NCIS Tony/Gibbs

Something New by summersquares - Gibbs gets some new neighbors and a dog, and later a new love...

Hawaii 5-0 McDanno

Lost at the Edge of the Sun by @gilajames - Danny tries to hide from the team that he is homeless.

The Witcher Geraskier

when you feel bad about what you've done by ollyollyoxenfree - Jaskier is so used to bickering with Geralt that the mountain argument barely registers for him - but Geralt feels guilty!

of bards and witches and witchers by writethroughthenight - Jaskier and Yennefer are siblings. Jaskier made everyone forget that though...

James Bond 00q

Sigh No More by @dhampir72 - "Bond wants nothing more than for someone, just once, to be waiting for him at the airport when he returns home."

Remember Me by @consultingwriters, which I actually had an (fic spoilers!!) inspo idea for (but of course no energy to write it... Leaving the idea out there for maybe someone else to pick up!) - James forgets his gay revelation and his relationship with Q.

Fidelity by @marlowe-tops - Q is doomed to always fall for someone who won't be loyal to him. He thinks his unrequited crush on Bond will let him stay happily single without risking further heartbreak...

Out Tonight by @starredthought - Q is a drag queen, and James has many feelings, also on this but mainly on other matters entirely!

Thanks y'all's, really bringing me joy with all the fics <3

Those fics and more can be found in my Ao3 bookmarks and recs, feel free to check them out!

No pressure tagging everyone who sees this to show us your own fic or book recs and/or make some more Ao3 bookmarks :D (in a new post pls)

History + 6377812 - to read: -10276 - 1531 - 29669 - 158322 - 4698 - 26609 - 29815 - 34469 - 78993 - 5517 - 138180 - 21719 - 40873 - 34886 - 5890 - 1045 - 99571 - 37305 =-759368 - to continue reading: -373223 - 42369 =-415592 - mar25 didn't reread -14169 - didn't read yet: -43184 no external sources

total: 6377812-759368-415592-43184-14169= 5,145,499

and holy fuck exactly 600 works in my history?? what in the even... for comparison in february the history has barely even 400 works, and I had a Lot more 'to read' stuff that didn't count bc of the accidental warlord inspo bookmarking... So, lots of shorter fics this march!

My formula so I have it noted down somewhere: history - to read(exclude:series, exclude: external source) - to continue reading (exclude: series, exclude: external source, exclude: to read) - didn't read yet (exclude: series) + external source (exclude: to read, exclude: to continue reading, exclude: didn't read yet) & check month tag (mar25 in this case) and add and subtract as noted (subtract usually, it's probably 'didnt reread now' on an old bookmark, unless it's external source I've actually reread)

And actually what I've been reading most is probably my now over 40k words long master's thesis xD I'm almost done with it!

Adding my geraskier tag list bc this is still mostly a Witcher rec list @toboldlynerd @cincia-azzurra

[finnstansonly]

survival/evacuation funds (vetted)

Updated: 20 April 2025

Name = link to post detailing their story, verification if available ; (link) = link to fundraiser ; ~ = a campaign that has recently had to be re/started from scratch ; ** = stagnating (pls donate!!)

*note: i am not a vetter. i will keep this list updated every few days so the numbers on the post can accurately reflect the progress of each campaign i've listed. also, the funds on this list are not solely palestinian families, but sudanese families as well. if you are going to use #palestine pls also use #sudan.

Hala (paypal) ~ Eman Abosedo (gfm) $1,601/$50,000 Rana Akeela (gfm) €2,310/€50,000 ** Help for Sudanese Families (chuffed) $3,513/$5,000 Isra Fathi Guma Ahmed (gfm) $3,695 AUD/$9,100 AUD ** Siraj (chuffed) €7,494/€67,600 Abeer (gfm) $8,801 CAD/$75,000 CAD Safaa (gfm) €7,778/€60,000 ~ Hashem (gfm) £8,950/£50,000 Almadhoun Family (gfm) €12,989/€50,000 Nedaa (gfm) £10,092/£25,000 ** Sohad Mahmoud (gfm) €11,779/€20,000 ** Mahmoud Helles (gfm) €13,079/€50,000 ** Mahmoud Ziad (gfm) $15,062/$30,000 Hanaa (gfm) €15,200/€35,000 ** Fidaa (chuffed) $26,170/$100,000 ~ RESTARTED Ahmed Al-Habil (gfm) €19,488/€50,000

Naveen (gfm) $25,549 CAD/$50,000 CAD Sajida's Family (gfm) £15,309/£30,000 ** Wasim (gfm) $27,929/$40,000 4 Sudanese Families (gfm) €33,485/€50,000 Eman Zaqout (gfm) $46,706 CAD/$80,000 CAD Alaa Amsse (gfm) €38,055/€100,000 Dana (gfm) £29,428/£40,000 Ayaa (gfm) $48,234/$100,000 Laila Shaqoura (gfm) €33,900/€55,000 Youssef Al-Habeel (gfm) €49,349/€50,000 Ibrahim Hussein (gfm) $57,099/$100,000 Iwais Family (gfm) kr854,068 SEK/kr1.5M SEK

** ! STAGNANT CAMPAIGNS ! **

Isra Fathi Guma Ahmed (gfm) $3,695 AUD/$9,100 AUD. no donations in 3 MONTHS

Eman Abosedo (gfm) $1,576/$50,000. no donation in 1 MONTH

Sohad Mahmoud (gfm) €11,779/€20,000. no donation in 1 MONTH

Hanaa (gfm) €15,200/€35,000. no donation in 1 MONTH

Rana Akeela (gfm) €2,300/€50,000. no donation 29 DAYS

Sajida's Family (gfm) £15,309/£30,000. no donation in 22 DAYS

Mahmoud Helles (gfm) €13,079/€50,000. no donation in 10 DAYS

Ahmed Al-Habil (gfm) €19,488/€50,000. no donation in 10 DAYS

Nedaa (gfm) £10,067/£25,000. no donation in 7 DAYS

[breeberrypies]

fell in love with the thought of you

- @heynhay 5k dtiys on instagram!!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Linkin Park - Numb

[lsd-l]

[gaymars97]

Guys. Im fucking crying /pos

Its the same fucking picture

[littlesoulshine]

bunny masterlist

introduction

you were in playboy? (language)

drunk kisses (suggestive)

bunny tail (nsfw)

kisses

kicking butt

dean masturbates to your spread

[lilolilyr]

Reader Wordcount Tag Feb 2025

Yeah I'm still doing that xD 2024 • January '25

I've read 4 million words in fic this February!

When it comes to books, I've also read Agatha Christie's very first Poirot, 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', in an anniversary edition that had her original ending as well as the one amended by her editors, which was an interesting comparison to see! Also, I think I should be able to start guessing who the murderers in crime stories are because in the last three crime novels I read and two films I watched, it was always my favorite minor character! xD I also continued the Discworld novel 'Moving Pictures' but only made it a chapter or so further in, not because I don't like it - the shenanigans of wizard university students in particular were hilarious - but just because other things were more interesting to me at the moment. Oh, and I read some chapters in a non-fiction book about birds! I got it for my dad at the library because I figured that as an avid birdwatcher he might find it interesting and I was right :D and once he finished it I also started reading and I can only recommend it, it's very interesting! 'The Bird Way' by Jennifer Ackerman. Funnily enough my dad used a bookmark I gave him a couple years back with of a painting with a bird in a tree on it, made by @amysnotdeadyet :D

My fic reading and thus my recommendations of the month are a bit more varied than just Star Wars this time - though we've still got a whole bunch of that! Other fandoms too, though: The Witcher (mainly Geraskier, especially anything related to the Accidental Warlord series by @inexplicifics - I read a Star Wars adaptation to that by @bairnsidhe, the Accidental Verd'Alor series, months ago that I absolutely adore and when I went back to it saw it was inspired by the Witcher fic and I love that one just as much!), DC (SuperBat) & Warehouse 13 (Bering and Wells - the gift exchange was so much fun and I ended up reading even more fics after I went through all the new ones!) :)

Unrelated but fitting to my still ongoing Star Wars obsession - shoutout to @toboldlynerd and the badge maker at their university! I absolutely adore these and they'll take pride of place on my coat and laptop bag :D

No-pressure-tagging everyone who sees this to make their own rec list of their favorite February fics, and/or share what books you've read recently- or to just remember to use the Ao3 bookmark-rec function a bit more in the future :D

~~~ continue reading ~~~

I also read a couple of great Harry Potter longfics but we're not talking about that above the readmore, no Sir, because jkr sucks with her bigotry and thus any HP content shan't be advertised. If you're already in the fandom tho, there are a bunch of fics by queer and anti-jkr authors in there, and in general well written fics!

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Reader Wordcount Calculation: History 5,242,138 - to read: -896,597 (several works, I also did the excel calculations here instead of counting them one by one bc it was several Ao3 pages long lmao, so many this month mostly bc of the Accidental Warlord thing - I always opened the inspired-by fics and bookmarked them to read later, bc I didn't want to confuse myself by reading AUs of the AU in the middle of the fic lmao), - to continue reading: 824485-143206-73343-87257-59903-18578 - didn't read yet -8018-3503 + external source: 20000+6000+6000+9000+74000+42668+30989 → Total: 5242138−896597−442198−11521+188657 = 4,080,479

The authors I've read most fic from this month, %es figured out by copying the author column from the excel history sheet (so it's not entirely accurate, but ish), and checking them in https://wordcounter.net/: winner by a wide fucking margin @inexplicifics inexplicifics at 14%, then @kitastrophea local_doom_void 3%, @whispered-story whisperedstory 3%, and at 2% each @penandinkprincess penandinkprincess kaedwenitome shadowfoxdemon27 just_another_dax @sparrowrising sparrowrising musicalgalaxy1000 falconer54 :)

&, both because of the fic recs and to make you look at the pretty badges, adding my still short Star Wars tag list: @toomuchactionforme @the-willow-that-weeps :)

In case anyone's curious, this is the bookmark from my dad's bird book - it has clearly suffered some under my dad so I didn't want to put it above the readmore bc this really doesn't do the art justice anymore lmao, but it's still very pretty! And I didn't find the exact art on Amy's blog to link here o.o

[badboyhalo-updates]

Badboyhalo will be in Gumi's REPO lobby on 25th May at 9pm EST!

[mikeywayarchive]

Instagram story by mikeyway

[Mar 19, 2025]

[abybweisse]

VolXXXIV, Cover for Snake

Saw this on Twitter/X this morning.

Yep, I figured Snake would end up on the cover of the volume that includes the chapter where he dies....

[breeberrypies]

but i will wait forever, i need someone now to look into my eyes and tell me girl you know you gotta watch your health

— @slvx0 100k dtiys on instagram!!

[suzuki-ecstar]

sometimes supporting fernando online feels like this

[lsd-l]

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Flashing Gifs // Happy 48th Birthday / Grattis på födelsedagen Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård! (25 Aug ‘76)

These darker, more twisted characters give me an opportunity to howl that primal scream and let it out, which I rarely do in everyday life. (x)

[gaymars97]

Alot of times, I see psyren on the media and what I see is “Krieg being scary and Maya loving him regardless” which is real nice, but it’s just always that.

Maya being scary and Krieg loving her regardless, on the other hand, is what we need to talk about. Please. There’s barely any of that anywhere. Please give us scary siren. Please