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Tomorrow's Dawn (6318 words) by ErinPtah
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Count D & Leon Orcot, Count D/Leon Orcot, Count D & Xiao Mei D, Xiao Mei D & Leon Orcot
Characters: Leon Orcot, Count D (Pet Shop of Horrors), Xiao Mei D (Pet Shop of Horrors), Chris Orcot
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pet Shop of Horrors Chapter 26: Donor, Pre-Slash, Caretaking, Brother-Sister Relationships, Fix-It, Mutually In Denial Count D/Leon Orcot, Papa D's Terrible Parenting, Illustrations, 1990s
Summary:

"Look, your brother can kinda be a cold insensitive creep, okay...? That's just how he is! It doesn't mean he hates you!"

Alternate good end for "Donor". After being rejected by D, his mysterious little sister flees the shop...and ends up at Leon's apartment.

Can Leon help heal the rift between the siblings? Will he make a single accurate deduction about what's really going on with the D family? And can D ever just be grateful to a human, without making it weird?

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I had the tubes of this stone for some time and came across the balls during a trip to Minnesota in 2024. Combined them with some gold and multi color E beads to echo the colors in the stone. It's so lovely to look at, I wanted it to stand as alone as possible in the necklace.

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erinptah

Since we’re all melting, let’s enjoy a Pet Shop of Horrors reread-and-translation-comparison thread that opens with The Beach Episode.

Start of Tokyopop volume 8, and Seven Seas volume 6. Originally liveblogged in separate threads on Mastodon / Bluesky, combined here.

TP volume 8 has a “Parental Advisory: Explicit Content” warning on the front. None of the others have that! I just double-checked! Why only flag the Canon-Typical Violence that on this book…? (It’s the one with the cutest cover, too — Chris, surrounded by T-chan, Pon-chan, and Q-chan.)

Meanwhile: Chapter 2 of the Little Sister D fixit is up! Which is good, because I’m giving myself even more new plotbunnies in this one…

( You're just too good to be true / Can't take my eyes off of you )

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Let's get the fun stuff out of the way first. With thanks to the 53 distinct donors so far, Squidge's Hot Fic Summer Fundraiser is nearly there! So far we have raised $2,269.82 out of our goal of $2,500. Hitting our goal means keeping the lights on for another year. So if you've been sitting on the fence about donating and can spare a few dollars, it would be awesome if you could donate. But remember - if you're struggling, take care of yourself first. There's a reason flight attendants always say, "Put your own mask on first before helping others." While we'd welcome all of you as donors, we're glad to have you as Squidge users and visitors.

Second is discussion over on SquidgeWorld about possibly disabling guest comments from here on out. This is due to a commission spammer feeding fics into ChatGPT and then having ChatGPT spit out questions that might engage the creator(s). While we can try and prevent AI from scraping our works, we can't prevent someone copy & pasting said works into an AI engine for their own use.

But disabling guest comments is a big step toward that.

There's a whole discussion on SquidgeWorld if you'd like to read there. If you have an account, you can comment there, or you may comment here as you like. I'd like people to be a part of this conversation as opposed to telling people what can and can't be done as part of their access to the open Internet.

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Rogan: last night, I had one of those extremely cogent, cinematic, screaming nightmares, but the story annoyed me so much I refuse to make it a real story. Instead, I post it here.

There was a people who lived in a cold green land of forests, hills, and snow. The winters seemed to last forever, and the snow was so heavy that they had built a roofed-over compound where they would retreat for the winter, living safely for months, sealed in by snow. The people had been there a long time. They were happy there.

Then the bat people started appearing.

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Today I came across some references to making hex quilts by starting with circles and folding the sides. This approach works great with hand-sewing.

Hex Quilts Video

Hexagons from Circles

Hexie’s From Circles

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I saw a series of photos on Pinterest that looked straightforward enough. Bead three colors into loops (so put on however many you want, thread a bead with both strings, then add an even number onto either string and thread a bead with both strings, repeat) and then weave.

It was easier in theory.

After I figured it out, I found an actual tutorial by Amanda Rivera on Panda Hall. 🙄🙄🙄

The beads are glass seed beads, size 8. I bought those; the thread, chain, and clasps and rings were previously cannibalized from other things.

Overall, it was easy. I think my loops may be a bit too small, and I know my beads are not a uniform size. The blue beads had some absolute units. If they were all the same size, I might have a neater looking braid, but oh well. Who's going to look so close?

What I'd like to find is a Slovenia charm to add to it. Red, white, and blue can be many countries, but I wanna be explicit in representing my maternal parentage.

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Current Music: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

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That's a wrap on Round 161! Grab a [temperature] beverage, give the penguins a little treat, and tell us what all you got up to! And of course, oodles of gratitude to our magnificent Mod Squad:

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lilly_c, Clumsy Rhino

desertvixen, Guardian of Deadlines, this Round's Champion Usurper!

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Title: Perfectly Balanced
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Base style: Practicality
Type: CSS
Best resolution: Built in 1912x1074 – Mobile responsive
Tested in: Built in Firefox. Tested in Chrome & Opera on Windows OS. Tested in Android OS with Firefox.
Features: Mobile Responsive! Intended for "navigation panel" splash page style layouts.. Perfectly centers journal content vertically. Uses base dreamwidth CSS to prevent "navigation panel" codes from shifting.



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July 5th 11:30 AM Pacific start time (Eastern 2:30 PM, Central 1:30 PM, Mountain 12:30 PM). Link will be emailed to you when you sign up. Free Tickets on OneFreeCommunity.com

Weekend description:
Get ready to join us for an unforgettable experience at our upcoming Accessible Virtual Pride on July 4-5, 2026! We’re thrilled to invite you to a celebration of diversity, inclusivity, and love, uniting the LGBTQAI2S+ community and our allies in a safe and COVID-conscious environment. Produced by Calling Up Justice and One Free Community. Our event is dedicated to promoting justice and accessibility, ensuring everyone can participate regardless of their ability to attend in person. Inspired by the story of “Stone Soup,” every aspect of this event is a labor of love, with volunteers dedicating their time and talents to create something truly special. https://callingupjustice.com/accessible-virtual-pride-2026/

🏳️‍🌈 Are you frustrated by the inability to attend Pride events in person due to a lack of masking in your communities?
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🗓️ Date: July 4-5, 2026 🎉 Produced by: Calling Up Justice and

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Current Music: I Can See The Change by Celeste

erinptah

2-hour video breakdown of that “what if the CW did gritty adult Powerpuff Girls” pilot that everyone was making fun of a while back. Apparently the script leaked! This guy talks through it all, and adds so many good takes.

It’s mostly as terrible as you expect, but there were some genuine “this could’ve been good, if it was in a better show” moments. There’s a point where the Youtuber says “admit it, if you watched that scene on TV, it would’ve gotten you,” right after reading a description that did in fact have me thinking “okay, if that was on TV, it would’ve gotten me.”

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Extremely long unrolled Xitter thread with a “how to fix the Harry Potter books” proposal. Starts with a reveal that could’ve happened in the Chamber of Secrets, builds on it with a major turning point in Goblet of Fire, then tracks the way those changes could spiral through all the rest of the series.

This guy does have a few iffy takes. (There was at least one really stark example of “when the characters do X, it’s wishy-washy liberalism that JKR should feel bad for writing; when the characters don’t do X, it’s utopian socialism that JKR should’ve written.”)

But the meat of the premise is good, and the sheer scale of the HP problems he fixes along the way — worldbuilding problems, plot-hole problems, setups-that-never-went-anywhere problems — is kind of amazing. I teared up IRL when I got to the ending.

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Patreon introduced a new Twitter-esque microblogging feed. How’s that working out so far?

Welp, they’re actively promoting “you don’t even have to write anything new for this! You can repost stuff you’ve already posted on other sites!” So, I can only assume it’s super popular and going just as well as they hoped.

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I have low-key wanted to print an Oz treasury for years now. The upcoming Printopia 2026 event on BackerKit has finally kicked me into gear.

(This is replacing the usual yearly Leif & Thorn campaign. The strips for Volume 9 will not, for the first time, all be fully-drawn before the campaign would start. And I don’t want to mess up my perfect stable “books start shipping by the next March” track record with “books start shipping by, idk, whenever I’m finished.”)

Here’s the pre-launch page for Dorothy And Her Princess In Oz. Like with all my print comic collections, it’s a mix of “stuff that’s been freely shared online” (the stories) and “special book-exclusive bonus stuff” (new art) (seriously, this thing will have a ton of new art).

If that sounds like something you’d buy, click through and sign up. If it doesn’t, but you’re willing to give me an ego boost from the follower count going up, sign up anyway.