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Happy birthday,

ceb,

gominokouhai,

ksghost,

miapatrick and

shark_hat!

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2026 Portland Winter Light Festival
World Trade Center • Portland, Oregon
February 13, 2026
Nikon D810 • AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G
f/4 @ 24mm • 1/30s • ISO 6400

I really dislike doing “coverage” photography – even moreso in poor lighting conditions. I have to overshoot – a lot. And then I have to deal the mess.

( Decisions, Below This Cut )

Previously
PDXWLF 2026, Day 1 – Friday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 2 – Saturday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 5 – Tuesday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 6 – Wednesday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 8 – Friday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 9 – Saturday

smallhobbit

Just over 10.5K words this month, which is still a good number for me, and brings my annual total so far to 25.5K, allowing breathing space later in the year since my goal for this year is 100K.

For

allbingo Valentine's month I wrote A Fortunate Meeting starring Miss Marple, who denies being responsible but was certainly involved.

small_fandoms had their annual drabblethon and this year I wrote a series (29 drabbles because I needed to include everybody) A Year at the Midnight Bell

ushobwri had their annual WiP month, and I finally finished The Last Chapter which is Spooks (MI5) with Lucas faced with more family news. Although as I was writing it, I had an idea for a follow up, so A Family Saga looks like it may still continue. I also used this for my entry to this year's

crackthewip

And, although written last month, my

candyheartsex exchange was posted To Brighten Your Life Discworld Sam Vimes/Sybil Ramkin.

lovelyangel

Risk of Change
Director Park • Portland, Oregon
February 14, 2026
Nikon Z8 • NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S
f/2.8 @ 70mm • 1/250s • ISO 6400

Good weather meant I could leave the D810s at home and go with my mirrorless cameras. I packed the same kit I used on Wednesday: the Nikon Z8 with NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens for close-quarters work and the little Nikon Z6 with the NIKKOR Z 85mm f/1.8S lens for portrait work.

( PDXWLF Second Saturday Below This Cut )

Previously
PDXWLF 2026, Day 1 – Friday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 2 – Saturday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 5 – Tuesday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 6 – Wednesday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 8 – Friday

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Posted by Aditi Paul

https://www.transformativeworks.org/otw-signal-february-2026/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279937

Every month in OTW Signal, we take a look at stories that connect to the OTW’s mission and projects, including issues related to legal matters, technology, academia, fannish history and preservation issues of fandom, fan culture, and transformative works.

In the News

A recent article in The Varsity, University of Toronto’s (UoT) campus paper, profiles a growing student community centered around a shared love of fanfiction.

Fanfiction Club president Zain Butt says that while interest was initially low, they now have 40–50 students at weekly events that include activities such as fandom potlucks, karaoke featuring fandom songs, and a collaborative murder mystery with the school’s Literacy club.

Both club president and social media manager acknowledged that there is still some stigma around fanfiction, with fans often being relegated to anonymous corners of the internet. The club and its interactions with other campus groups places fanfiction alongside other recognized student activities as an established creative practice. The club itself provides a space for students to grow a community outside of online spaces.

The community is really what made this club,” Butt said. “It wouldn’t be possible without people. The community really is something special. And there’s the fact that it’s so diverse: we have so many different people. Oftentimes, [they’re] completely different, personality-wise, but they bond over their shared fandom, or their shared trope. That’s what I really love.

A 2025 research paper by Victoria Lunden looks at the preservation of fandom and pop culture within archival institutions. In “Preserving the People’s Stories: The Preservation of Fandom and Pop Culture”, Lunden notes that archives have historically focused on “official” records while overlooking creative works produced by everyday people.

Citing the work of Abigail De Kosnik, Lunden positions fandom as both a cultural production and community record that captures the voices of marginalised groups and lacks the elitism often found in other archival institutions.

Fan archives must be regarded as having consequence and relevance for both fans and for larger society…they are ‘safe spaces’ for non-hetero-normative practices that are not documented anywhere else.

In the essay, Lunden highlights OTW projects Archive of Our Own (AO3), Fanlore and Open Doors as being models for community-driven, ethical digital archiving that, as a non-commercial space, offers a counter point to corporate-controlled narratives.

OTW Tips

Do you have questions for us, but don’t know who to ask? In November 2025, we updated our FAQ on how to contact OTW staff! The page features a comprehensive list of which committee to reach out to for many of the most common questions we receive.

We want your suggestions for the next OTW Signal post! If you know of an essay, video, article, podcast, or news story you think we should know about, send us a link. We are looking for content in all languages! Submitting a link doesn’t guarantee that it will be included in an OTW post, and inclusion of a link doesn’t mean that it is endorsed by the OTW.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/otw-signal-february-2026/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=279937

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Posted by Daily Bunny

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/28/i-think-bunnies-are-going-to-get-every-last-crumb-from-this-thing

Thanks, Scott, Jean, and bunnies Schubert Edward Dubert and Penelope Pollilop! Scott says that Schubie and Penny are “housing some pellets!”

https://dailybunny.org/posts/2026/2/28/i-think-bunnies-are-going-to-get-every-last-crumb-from-this-thing

lovelyangel

Quantum Jungle by Robin Baumgarten
World Trade Center • Portland, Oregon
February 13, 2026
Nikon D810 • AF-S NIKKOR 105mm f/1.4E
f/2.8 @ 105mm • 1/125s • ISO 3200

The rain has returned – light, intermittent rain. I was loathe to use the Hydrophobia rain cover again. I decided to gamble and use my Nikon D810s in the rain. They are pro cameras, weather-sealed – and theoretically they’ll do fine in light rain – for a short while. In my camera kit I keep a terry washcloth so that I can wipe down the cameras if they get wet. The D810s are pretty rugged, and I was going to let them earn their keep.

( PDXWLF Second Friday Below This Cut )

Previously
PDXWLF 2026, Day 1 – Friday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 2 – Saturday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 5 – Tuesday
PDXWLF 2026, Day 6 – Wednesday

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Title: In Trouble Again
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Willaway, Scott, Fred, Sil-El, Liana, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: The travellers have accidentally landed themselves in hot water again.
Word Count: 400
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 507: Amnesty 84, using Challenge 88: Hot Water.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( In Trouble Again... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

credoimprobus

Okay, so I 100% do not expect a) anyone who was there for those early LJ days to still be around to see this, or b) even if there against all odds were, that anyone else would actually remember this stuff the way I do, but: that thing that was spawned from muse shenanigans back at the birth of the millennium? This would be it. Or, you know, at least 35k's worth of the beginning of it. \o/?

(These two remain my favourite ship of ALL TIME. I love them so goddamn much. <3333333)

Basically, though, if anyone's had a hankering for a bit of urban fantasy-flavoured, screwballesque m/m romcom with a bunch of adorably antagonistic flirting, I got ya. :D? (Just a warning that this is, to clarify, not complete. But I just wanted to see at least part of what's effectively turned into my life's work publicly available before I'm fucking 80, you know?)

Reveille prequel acts I & II, the preview version [14k + 20k words]
(Gets very explicit, of course, because this is me we're talking about. X,D And also features a ton of swearing and some instances of alcohol use.)

sunshine304

Last night (for me) Fandom Trumps Hate officially opened for browsing! You can find all the amazing offerings at

fth2026offerings ! They even made a handy guide for using the tags to quickly find what you're looking for!

And the Fan Craft Bazaar also opened! You can find all the cool hit at

fth2026craftbazaar !

I'm so excited! (Perhaps you could tell by all the exclamation marks XD)

I'll not be offering fic or something like that this year. But my craft bazaar offerings are there and my stall posts are now live as well.

📗 fanbinding for The Untamed/MDZS
🧣 hand-knitted loop scarves

Perhaps someone is interested. And check out all the other cool things people are offering!

recognito

While writing up the review of another series that's doing seventy Marimite callbacks, I started writing up Marimite and the next thing I knew, it's a solid half of the post... time to do a spin-off

I've been rereading the Maria-sama ga Miteru light novels due to my poisoning, and I recently hit the difficult stretch of Yumi's second year where we're really stretching the limits of what the soeur relationship is. Yumi and Sachiko's relationship hits a rough patch; there are comparisons to adultery, cheating, abandonment, and so on, before they have a loving embrace, forgive one another, acknowledge their love for each other, and return to status quo.

This span of time is also the spot where Konno uncomfortably brings up queerness in an all boy's school environment. There's an arc where the neighboring boys' school needs the student council of Lilian's help and we're introduced to a student who's likely a trans woman in terms so transphobic that lmao I'd recommend just skipping that whole arc/novel if you don't want to get mad. This is compounded by the constant motif of Sachiko's gay (but also a selfish jerk, so points there, I guess) cousin, Kashiwagi, being a potential sexual threat to straight men, a straightforwardly homophobic trope presented as a punchline. It's obvious Konno's trying to make queerness something outside of Lilian—defined, literally, as something confined to the boy's school, where the threat of queerness and (male) sexuality can be lumped together and put away. In actuality, people attending an all girls' school do engage in their romantic and sexual feelings, but, within Marimite, the soeur system is used to actively shunt those feelings of romance and sexuality to "safe" targets to preserve the students' purity.
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poliphilo

Suddenly (it seems, though it's not really sudden) we're no longer getting up in the dark but in daylight. And today is the last day of February.

A mosquito has been pestering us in the bedroom. Yesterday evening I decided it had enjoyed a long enough innings and tracked it down and clubbed it to death with a folded bath towel. It left a splash of blood on the wall.

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Title: Hot and humid
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,163 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 506 - Amnesty using Challenge 28 - Warmth
Summary: The hub is freezing but Ianto has found the perfect spot for making it through cold winter days.

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allbingo

This is the February community post for

allbingo. What were your bingo activities during February? What are your plans for March?

For February we had:
[recurring]
Valentines Fest (and its Meet and Greet) hosted by

ysabetwordsmith
This fest features romantic ups and downs, along with platonic options.
Posting will be February 1-28.

See also the Aromantic February 2025 Prompt List by

abyssal_sylph.

For March we will have:
[recurring]
National Craft Month Fest hosted by

nsfwords
This is a fest focusing on the myriad joys (and frustrations) of Crafting.
Posting will be March 1-30.