Tarlan's Place

CURRENT FANDOM CHALLENGES:

1. michaelbiehn

ICON - Kyle Reese/Sarah Connor, Terminator movies, GEN

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2. crossoverbingo - COMPLETED - 6/25

AU prompts for the following fandoms in any xover combination: The Old Guard, Eureka, Stargate Atlantis, and Jurassic Park.

I still have a partially written TOG/SGA story to finish but it's still on the back burner. I have signed up for crackthewip 2026 to see if that inspires me to work on it but haven't managed to write anything recently.

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3. 100fandoms - COMPLETED - 28/100 - No time limit. Min word count: 100

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4. 100fandomicons 2026 - COMPLETED - 53/100 - 8 icons added

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END DATE: DEC 31

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5. seasons_of_fandom SEASON 2 - SPRING

Created 3 URSTYLE Collages for CH12.

12: BOUND AND DETERMINED, SPRING STYLE		DONE
13: EARTH DAY		JUL 10

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6. fandom_empire 02 2026: PROMPT TABLES with a TWIST

WEEK 8: Moodboard and icons - Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Word of Honor, The Terminator, Zhang Zhehan

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7. comment_bingo ROUND 9 - COMPLETED - 15/25

COMPLETE BY DATE: SEP 30

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8. 1character 2026 - COMPLETED - 5/50

The idea is to take one of the THEME tables of 50 prompts and write a single sentence for each prompt for the chosen character.

Character: Qingming | Canon: The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

COMPLETE BY DATE: JUL 22

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REMINDERS and EXTRAS:

1. fandom5k 2026 - awaiting reveals, which are delayed a second week for pinch hits.

WORKS REVEALED:		JUL 6 JUL 11
CREATORS REVEALED:		JUL 18

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WEBSITES:

General TO DO List.

1. Scan/Upload clippings and other articles:
2. Reduce the overall number of files:
3. Sort out the eFiction archives:
4. Make sites mobile friendly: I am going to look as CSS GRID when I can make time
5. Add items to empty albums:

Please remember to check out the GALLERY and FICTION archives for any new items/stories posted as I don't change the website UPDATE pages for these.

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PHOENIX: Updates

The move of the fiction archive is still in progress.

Michael Biehn - AO3 Fiction and Art collection
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UpCLOSE: Updates

Eric Close - AO3 Fiction and Art collection
Latest Uploads to the Gallery

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David Hewlett Archive: Updates

I started adding more TV/Movie appearances and setting up the pages in the Gallery. Still have a few more to complete to get me up-to-date with DH's credits.
TO DO: I still need to reduce the file count in the Stargate Atlantis and Traders directories

David Hewlett - AO3 Fiction and ART collection
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Focused on Nick Lea: Updates

Nick Lea - AO3 Fiction and ART collection
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**** POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT ****

FANFICTION: Still reading Word of Honor, and some The Untamed and The Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity fanfic. Really enjoying a series by chi-chi-chimaera (gestat1). First part is Qi Ding Gui. It's an AU where Zhou Zishu is caught after placing the first of the seven nails. The nail is removed and he is now under heavy guard but suicidal. Han Ying helps him escape and they go on the run together, eventually entering Ghost Valley to avoid the Window of Heaven (Tianshuang) who are on orders to bring him back to his cousin, Prince Jin. Despite drinking the Meng Po soup and losing memories he still retains basic principles and that means he cannot avoid eventually catching the eye of the Ten Devils - and the Guzhu, Wen Kexing, especially. It's intriguing and well written... though I do have a tendency to skim over any sex scenes.

BOOKS: I still have Surviving the Evacuation Part 9: Ireland by Frank Tayell to start reading one of these days.

MOVIES:

Aftershock (2010):

About the Tanshang earthquake in China - still to watch

Greenland 2: Migration:

Not sure what to say about this. As a sequel it was very good with lots of great disaster scenes but it was still formulaic in that the 'Garrity family' manages to survive every disaster while those with them die... and the disaster always happens to THEM. Must be the unluckiest people ever. Basic story: their safe haven in Greenland is no longer safe as tectonic plate movement has caused lava flows and destabilized the bunker. A doctor (of physics) says the original Clark meteor crater could theoretically now be a luscious safe haven with clean air and plantlife. They decide to take a chance on it as they believe their son deserves a chance to grow up breathing fresh air etc. Highlight for spoilers! John Garrity is dying, probably from radiation exposure. He knows he doesn't have more than 6 weeks to live so he is desperate to get his wife and son to safety. He dies having seen the safe haven crater is real but never reaches it.

Not Without Hope:

Based on a true story about 4 friends who go on a fishing trip off Clearwater, Florida but get caught in a storm. The 21ft boat capsizes and they are clinging on in cold water. All of them played American Football and two were currently active professional players who were all muscle. That turned out to be a disadvantage as once their body temp dropped they had no fat reserves to help against hypothermia. In all they were lost at sea for almost two days in a terrible storm. It was very well done. Highlight for spoilers! *Wiki Blurb: Not Without Hope is a 2025 survival thriller film directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Zachary Levi as Nick Schuyler, the real-life sole survivor of a 2009 boating accident that took the lives of NFL football players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith as well as Will Bleakley. Personally, I think what saved Nick was the jacket his mother had insisted he wear that the others laughed at. It trapped some of his body heat and protected him against the chill of the water and wind.

FAN and OFFICIAL VIDS: No new fanvids seen this week

TV SHOWS:

Ban Shu Legend:

Still going through this very slowly.

Bon Appetit, Your Majesty:

One of those dramas where, in this instance, a Lady Chef is transported back in time to the Joseon era after reading lines in an ancient cookbook and becames the head cook for the King. The King had been labeled a tyrant in history but she manages to turn him into a better king. However, his uncle hates that his nephew became king instead of him and plans to overthrow him. In the meantime, the chef has to prepare all sorts of gourmet meals to appease the king AND others, trying to avoid conspiracies as she tries to recover the magic cookbook that could take her back to the future. Overall it was fun (in a black humor way) but also had political machinations, rebellions, fights, treason, murder attempts but through it all they fall in love. Highlight for spoilers! The cookbook she is searching for turns out to be a book the king is writing as he describes all the amazing food she has cooked for him. In the end she dies to protect him after the rebellion dethrones him, and the cookbook sends her back to where she is in a coma in hospital. Her internet search says the dethroned king's body is never found. Several months later, having tried but failed to find a way back to her beloved king he turns up, having found a way to be reunited with her in the future - how is not explained but I guess... magic.

Bridgerton:

I decided to watch this. Overall it was good if not a little frustrating at times. Basically it was a re-telling of the Cinderella story but with the Bridgertons along with all the subterfuge, hidden motives, politics, joy and grief. I felt sorry for Francesca, who lost so much when her husband died suddenly. If there is another season then I wonder if they will explain why her husband's cousin, who professed to be Francesca's friend, suddenly upped and left without a word.

Veil of Shadows:

Not seen any episodes this week