Behind the thick red curtains

Title: Live!
Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Rating: Mature
Length: 150 words
Content notes: set during the season 3 episode The Plague
Summary: Starsky is watching Hutch

( Live! )

So the other day lysimache introduced me to one of those daily web games that has apparently been going for a while, but she just found out about it recently: Catfishing.

It is a Wikipedia-based game, sort of like Redactle. Redactle, as you may know, gives you one redacted Wikipedia entry per day, and you unredact the entry by guessing words that you think appear in it, until you have guessed enough words to be able to guess the name of the entry.

Catfishing is like a reverse, shortened version of that. Instead of the article itself, you get a list of all the categories the article appears in, some of which make it much more obvious than others (e.g., "Les Misérables characters, Fictional mayors, Fictional outlaws, Fictional French people, Fictional French criminals, Literary characters introduced in 1862, Fictional characters from the 19th century, Fictional thieves, Fictional Catholics, Food theft") and then you have to use that information to guess the name of the article. (e.g., "Jean Valjean").

(Both Redactle and Catfishing have some kind of minimum notability threshold implemented somehow, so it's generally going to be something you have heard of, or something you will feel like you probably should have heard of.)

Every day you get ten new articles to guess, and they will let you play all previous days. So far my best score is 8/10, which I achieved on the first day. I have played about a month of older entries and I have not equaled my previous score, so I guess it's all downhill from here.

Anyway, you should play it. It's fun!

Our new challenge is:

AVALANCHE

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

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The Gentle challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Queen Susan the Gentle: The Chronicles of Narnia: Icons: Gentle, by innitmarvelous_og
Criminal Minds: Fanfiction: Close to You, by infinitum_noctem
Inspector George Gently: Fanfiction: Gently in the Darkness, by lucy_roman
Miss Marple: Fanfic: Appearances Can Be Deceptive, by smallhobbit
Heated Rivalry: Fan Fiction: Paying a Price, by darkjediqueen
Gentle: Kirby/Project Hail Mary (2026): Fanfic: curious little pink thing, by ecto_one_spengler
Torchwood: Fanfic: Parenting Problems, by badly_knitted
Torchwood: Fanfic: Handle with care, by m_findlow
no fandom : icons : soap bubbles, by highlander_ii
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Change of Plans, by veronyxk84
Wiseguy: fanfic: where your worries go, by teaotter
Hyouka (Kotenbu): Fanfic: the distant hill comes over to us, by bluedreaming

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Fandom: Hyouka (Kotenbu)
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: canonically dead character
Author notes: The title is from Hallucinating in the Dark by Jin Haishu, translated by Simon Patton. In addition, REGISTER OF GHOSTS: HAI ZI gave me the idea to go in a ghosts direction, and Gentle Sentences on Winter’s “secret language” and CLOSING CREDITS’ musing on words/language made me think of Hyouka as a fandom due to Chitanda’s character.
Summary: What if Oreki could see ghosts? How would that (not) change anything?

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I read Heated Rivalry on the train ride back home the other day. It was impossible to not think about the show and compare throughout. I can't tell what my opinion would have been about the book by itself, but I did like the experience of reading the book after watching the show.

I have been reading too much fanfic, though, and everything is already jumbling together in my head.

( general feelings )

( some other notes I jotted down )

Anyway, I'm just going to end up picking and choosing the details and parts of each canon I liked the most for how I think their story goes!

Title: where your worries go
Fandom: Wiseguy (tv)
Content notes: none
Challenge: Gentle
Length: 100 words

Summary: Carlotta Terranova, and the weight of a mother's concern.

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Title: Change of Plans
Fandom: Viola come il mare
Author: veronyxk84
Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post-series.
Summary: A gentle kiss, a forgotten movie. Viola and Francesco choose each other over everything else.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #514 - Gentle
Also for: #119 - A Better Idea by drabble_zone

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( READ: Change of Plans )

☙ ☙ ☙
 

Title: soap bubbles
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of bubbles floating in the air


( soap bubbles )

Title: Handle with care
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: M
Length: 1,838 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 514 - Gentle
Summary: Jack has been on the receiving end of alien technology that has made him more fragile than usual.

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Deepest Wish (4716 words) by Sineala
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel (Comics), Marvel 616, Avengers (Marvel Comics), Guardians of the Galaxy (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Gamora/Peter Quill/Richard Rider
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Gamora (Marvel), Peter Quill, Richard Rider (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Pining, Romance, Getting Together, Jealousy, Shame, Past Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Star Trek References, Star Wars References, Comic: Avengers Vol. 9 (2023), Comic: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 7 (2020)
Summary: While trying to untangle the romantic relationships among the Guardians of the Galaxy, Steve tries to find out more about the Avengers' recent heist at the Grandmaster's Speculatorium. For some reason, Tony doesn't want to tell him anything about it.

A very belated fic post! I posted this a couple weeks ago for magicasen for our You Gave Me A Stocking event on the You Gave Me A Home Discord server, so here it is.

(I also got a great stocking in return. Yay!)

What I Just Finished Reading

The Marvels Project: Giving myself credit for rereading this for the 616 Discord Book Club, this is the Brubaker/Epting miniseries that is a retelling of origin stories of Golden Age heroes. It's worth it if you like keeping a list of Project Rebirth retellings in your back pocket, I guess.

(Off the top of my head, my list is this, Captain America Mythos, and The Adventures of Captain America. There's a lot of other WW2 Steve stuff that's worth reading -- Man Out of Time, Cap White, the original-flavor Invaders, Avengers/Invaders -- but not specifically Rebirth-focused.)

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Captain Marvel Dark Past #2, Civil War Unmasked #1, Fantastic Four #10 )

What I'm Reading Next

Still gonna read that Cat Sebastian baseball book, I swear. I just need to stop being exhausted. For some reason, my body has decided I need three naps a day for the past week.

Title: Parenting Problems
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Twins, Flufflets.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1322
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Teaching the twins to be gentle and considerate is an uphill battle.
Content Notes: None needed
Written For: Challenge 514: Gentle.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

Title: curious little pink thing
Fandom: Kirby (series) + Project Hail Mary (2026), as a crossover between the two. Please tag as Kirby and Project Hail Mary (film) respectively, mods 🥺
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2557 words
Content notes: Part of the same AU as theseworks, but like. Is an AU of that AU where Project Hail Mary happened prior to Kirby and the Forgotten Land's events. Also ALL of this silliness is taking place post-Star Crossed World so pls don't yell at me about Star Crossed World spoilers if they come up. I swear this fic was finished just today and not started during the amnesty!

As for actual content warnings: Rocky swears a couple times and so does Mahoroa lol. And kinda blatant spoilers for PHM due to the premise.
Author notes:So the premise of this fic may have happened purely because the AMC Theatres location I went to when I first watched PHM had these little claw machines with Kirby figures......... and then after the movie I thought "oh hey this movie would be perfect with Kirby involved because they have similar hopeful vibes :)"

Written for: The prompt Gentle for Fan Flashworks.
Summary: Long after Grace dies, Rocky decides to seek out one of the refuges of what remains of humanity, and instead meets the universe's pink puff of a hero and his weird family.

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Title: Paying a Price
Rating: R
Warnings: Hate Crimes, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Sexual Assault (brief not wholly depicted), Homophobic Slurs
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Relationships: Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Ilya coming out put pulled Shane into the spotlight too without ever having come out himself. He pays the price.

Title: Appearances Can Be Deceptive
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 748 words
Summary: Miss Marple may be gentle, but this should not be taken for granted.

( Giles Featherstone knew the type )

Title: Gently in the Darkness
Author: lucy_roman
Fandom: Inspector George Gently
Rating: Teen and up
Summary/Warnings: George and John are stranded at night. Death fic.
Pairing: George/John
Word Count: 507

( Gently in the Darkness )

Title: Close to You
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairings: Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/Emily Prentiss
Characters: Jennifer "JJ" Jareau, Emily Prentiss
Rating: G
Length: 174 words
Summary: Emily has quickly become JJ's person, and JJ wants to be the same for Emily.

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Posted by Frank Jacobs

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/irish-language-decline/

In July, the European Union’s rotating Council Presidency will issue official communications in the Irish language, alongside English, in a historic first. Government ministers from Ireland, which chairs the Council for the second half of this year, will be encouraged to say at least a few words in Irish when they initiate or conclude a session.

Paradoxical to the point of comedy

It’s a high-water mark for Gaeilge on the world stage, but it’s also a moment that throws the language’s deepest contradiction into sharp relief. Constitutionally, Irish is the Republic of Ireland’s first official language, English merely the second. Yet the vast majority of the Republic’s five million inhabitants speak English first, or English only. According to the 2022 census, fewer than 72,000 people in the entire country use Irish daily.

The situation of the Irish language is paradoxical to the point of comedy. It is the most officially protected minority language in the EU and the subject of a genuine cultural renaissance — and an endangered tongue that by the cold arithmetic of census data could lose its last native speakers within a generation. Irish is having a moment. It is also running out of them.

A vivid picture of language retreat

It’s a demise long foreshadowed. The map sequence above paints a vivid picture of Irish language retreat.

• In 1800, Ireland was almost entirely green: Irish was the daily language of the great majority of the island’s population. English footholds only in the east: Belfast and Dublin, and their wider hinterlands.
• By 1850, the Great Famine had not only reduced the population through starvation and emigration but also accelerated the advance of English across Ireland’s midlands, as far as Sligo on the west coast.
• By 1900, the Irish-speaking areas were a ragged patchwork of smallish standalone zones, clinging to the island’s western and southern shores.

Ireland revolted against British domination: culturally, with the Irish Revival of the late 19th century, and politically, by gaining independence from Britain in 1922. Irish was cherished as part of the new state’s heritage, and as a marker of distinction from its former colonizer. Generations of Irish schoolchildren studied the language of their forebears. But to little avail.

• By 2000, the solid patches of the Gaeltacht — the areas where Irish is actually spoken — had almost entirely melted away. Most surviving enclaves are too small to shade on this map; they can only be circled.

Cool like Kneecap

This is one of the most dramatic instances of language retreat ever mapped in Europe. Even the emergence of a state dedicated to protecting Irish could not halt its near-disappearance.

Set against that history of decline, the current cultural spotlight on Irish is almost surreal.

Kneecap, the Northern Irish hip-hop trio who rap in Irish, have arguably done more to make Irish cool among twentysomethings than any government initiative ever could. Their story was made into the film Kneecap, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival — the first Irish-language film to do so.

Back in the Republic, pop singer CMAT (Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) opened her 2025 album “Euro-Country” with an unmetered refrain in Irish. A decade ago, that would have seemed earnest if not downright cringeworthy. Now it just sounds cool.

On the big screen, 2022’s An Cailín Ciúin (“The Quiet Girl”) became the first Irish-language feature to receive an Oscar nomination, and the first Irish-language film ever to gross over a million euros at the box office.

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

In the 2026 Netflix comedy-thriller How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Irish is used as a private code, deployed in front of an English speaker who cannot understand it. It’s a role that Irish has played for centuries. Just never before on a global streaming platform.

Demand for Irish is climbing as fast as the language’s growing visibility. At any given moment, around one million people are learning Irish on Duolingo. More than five million people outside Ireland have begun a course. (As anyone familiar with the platform knows, “begun” does not mean “continued,” and the Irish language’s famously irregular grammar will have thinned the herd considerably.)

Offline, the London Irish Centre has over 2,000 people on its waiting list for Irish classes. City Lit, one of the UK’s largest adult education providers, reports that Irish is its second-fastest-growing language course, with enrolments up 57% year on year.

Inside Ireland, the “pop-up Gaeltacht“ movement — informal Irish-language evenings in Dublin pubs — has been going strong for nearly a decade. Irish-medium schools (Gaelscoileanna) have grown from 16,000 students in 1990 to over 52,000 today. Trinity College Dublin’s Irish-language society has over 450 members, making it one of the university’s largest.

Dead poets and difficult exams

Behind all this lies a generational shift in attitudes. Older generations, who were force-fed Irish at school, came to associate it with dead poets and difficult exams. Gen Z and Gen Alpha associate Irish with authenticity, decolonization, and yes, cool bands. Fluency in the language has also become politically significant. In October 2025, presidential candidate Catherine Connolly’s command of Irish was cited as giving her an edge among young voters over her rival Heather Humphreys, who doesn’t speak the language. Connolly won.

All of which adds up to a picture that matches the encouraging green of this map, one that fans of Irish reach for when they want to feel good about the state of the language. The Republic is almost uniformly shaded in various greens, with only Northern Ireland noticeably paler. The map shows how many Irish people reported to the census that they could speak Irish. In most areas of the Republic, the figure is at least 25%, and upwards. Nationally, in 2022, nearly 1.9 million people — 40% of the population — reported they could speak Irish, up more than 112,000 since 2016.

Those are remarkable figures for a language once dismissed as a peasant tongue, pushed to Ireland’s western edge and to within an inch of its life. The healthy greens on this map are a testament to what public education and government policy can achieve.

The gap between “can” and “do”

Or are they? What the map doesn’t say is that “can speak” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The question is self-reported, and since Irish is compulsory in school, everyone who can conjugate a verb or order a cup of tea in Irish is entitled to answer yes. That is not the same as using Irish as a daily means of communication. For that, we need the next map.

Change the census question from “Can you speak Irish?” to “Do you speak Irish daily, outside of school?”, and the previous map’s reassuring greens drain away almost entirely. The Republic turns a sickly pale. Color survives mainly in parts of Donegal, the Connemara coast, and on the Dingle peninsula.

The daily-speaker figure is currently around 72,000 nationally, which corresponds to roughly 1.5% of the population. Of those, around 20,200 live in the Gaeltacht; even there, the proportion of residents who speak Irish has fallen from 69% in 2011 to 66% in 2022.

Extrapolate those trend lines, and the arithmetic becomes alarming. With daily-speaker numbers declining census after census, linguist Conchúr Ó Giollagáin warned in 2015 that Irish as a living language — as opposed to a school subject, Duolingo hobby, or urban identity badge — could be gone in about 10 years. That would be…about now.

Others, pointing to the younger age profile of some Gaeltacht communities and the modest growth of urban Irish-speaking households, call predictions of the imminent demise of the language greatly exaggerated. But based on the available data, no one can argue that the trend is moving in the right direction.

The after-effect of centuries of colonization

How is this possible, given the scale of government investment? Not only is Irish the Republic’s first official language, and compulsory from primary through to secondary school, it is required for entry into the civil service, and it is supported by its own radio station (Raidió na Gaeltachta) and TV station (TG4), and a range of promotional bodies.

Perhaps all that effort was part of the problem. For generations, compulsory Irish produced tedium and disgust. Irish was something you had to do, not something you wanted to do. The language became, in the eyes of the Irish establishment, a heritage item: cherished in principle but underfunded in practice; an internalized ambivalence that is the after-effect of centuries of colonization, as one newspaper columnist scathingly described it.

How to pull up Irish out of its death spiral? The way other European minority languages manage their survival can be instructive. When the Irish look across the water to Wales, they see a fellow Celtic language that is thriving by comparison.

The Welsh-language revival is, by most metrics, the most successful in Europe. The Welsh government targets one million Welsh speakers by mid-century — a number currently around 843,500, of whom 430,000 speak it daily. The crucial difference is institutional follow-through: Wales has backed its language ambitions with sustained, substantial investment across the entire education pipeline, from nursery to university. Targets are published, monitored, and adjusted.

Breton, the Celtic language of Brittany in France, tells a different story. France actively suppressed regional languages in schools, courts, and public offices well into the 20th century. In 2024, Breton had around 107,000 mainly elderly speakers, and it’s shrinking fast. Despite the growth of Breton-medium schools, intergenerational transmission has largely broken down. The lesson: education without daily community use is a holding action, not a revival.

Frisian, spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland by around 350,000 people, offers perhaps the most stable equilibrium any European minority language has achieved: co-official status with Dutch, taught in schools, present on road signs, used daily in shops, on farms, in local government. The key ingredients appear to be geographic concentration combined with genuine official bilingualism.

Time is a good storyteller

Those who fight for Irish deserve to celebrate when their language echoes through Brussels from July. But the question is whether there will still be a living Irish-speaking community left the next time Ireland assumes the Council Presidency — or the one after that.

The challenge is that, when it comes to language survival, neither institutional entrenchment nor cultural enthusiasm is a sufficient replacement for community transmission.

Where minority languages survive, the evidence suggests, it is because of sustained investment, early and well-funded education, and a critical mass of speakers concentrated enough to pass the language on naturally — at home, without an app.

Will Irish survive and flourish, or will it be loved and studied as a badge of Irish identity – but not passed on? At present, both futures are still possible. Which will prevail? Time will tell. Or as they say it in Irish, and rather better: Is maith an scéalaí an aimsir (“Time is a good storyteller”).

Strange Maps #1291

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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/irish-language-decline/

Creator: innitmarvelous_og
Title: Queen Susan the Gentle
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia
Characters/Pairings: Susan Pevensie
Prompt: Challenge 514: Gentle
Word Count/Medium: 5 icons
Rating: None
Warning: None
Summary: Five icons featuring Susan

Happy May! This month we have a Greek myth themed fest, with three sets of prompts: gods and their domains, themes/motifs/ideas, and adaptations. (My keyboard is Struggling at present, so I apologize if there's any mistakes anywhere! 😅) Remember the fills you create don't actually have to be in the Greek myth fandom or any adaptations you may get on your card. See you early next month for achievement banners. :) For reference, here's the bingo card generator and the allbingo AO3 collection.

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Our new challenge is:

GENTLE

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Sunday, 10th May. No sign-up required.

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The Amnesty challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Gravity Challenge: Star Trek Prodigy: wallpaper: without you by my side by lilly_c
Apart Challenge: Babylon 5: Fanfic: Set Apart by badly_knitted
Rainbow Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: After The Rain by badly_knitted
Face Challenge: Babylon 5: Fanfic: Facing The Future by badly_knitted
Play Challenge: Heated Rivalry: Fan Fiction: New Games by darkjediqueen
Rainbow Challenge: The X-Files: wallpaper: Caught me off guard by lilly_c
Rainbow: Kirby (series): fanart: colorful flight by ecto_one_spengler
Open Challenge: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Open Book by badly_knitted
Oops! Challenge: Babylon 5: Fanfic: Forgotten by badly_knitted
Oops!: Kirby (series): fanart: the mess by ecto_one_spengler
Games: The Witcher: Fanfiction: The Witcher's Hand by infinitum_noctem
Fragile Challenge: Babylon 5: Fanfic: Fragile As Hope by badly_knitted
Sleepless: Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Tearing Down the Wall by veronyxk84
Drive: Reborn As The Villain President’s Lover: Fanfic: and another more distant summit by bluedreaming
Locked Challenge: Torchwood: Fanfic: Behind closed doors by m_findlow
Joke Challenge: Babylon 5: Fanfic: No Laughing Matter by badly_knitted
Plant: Original: Collage: Aberglasney Gardens - The Ninfarium by smallhobbit
Performance Anxiety Challenge: Babylon 5: Fanfic: Religious Icon by badly_knitted
Obstacle: Wiseguy: fanfic: the same deep water as you by teaotter
Warmth challenge : Marvel Comics : icons : filter by highlander_ii
The Other Side Challenge: Babylon 5: Fanfic: Irrational by badly_knitted
Mystery Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Fascinating Mystery by badly_knitted
Plant: Collage: Original: Growing Cress by smallhobbit
Garden Challenge: FAKE: Fanfic: Magic Garden by badly_knitted
Win or Lose: The Professionals: Fanfiction: When I'm Losing I'm Winning by lucy_roman
Fragile: Wiseguy: Fanfic: It takes all that I have just to cry for help by teaotter
Welcome + Looking Back (Amnesty): Kirby (series): fanart: Thank you. by ecto_one_spengler

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teaotter claimed the Streak Assist.

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Next challenge coming right up.

Title: Thank you.
Theme: Welcome / Looking Back (for the current Amnesty)
Fandom: Kirby (video game series) - particularly Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby and the Forgotten Land.. (Mods please tag as Kirby.)
Rating: PG
Content notes: The Magolor depicted here is from a Kirby AU of mine where he wasn't a villain to begin with. Also, spoilers for Kirby and the Forgotten Land as well as scattershot spoilers for other games.
Artist notes: The most involved of my works - ironically, due TO work I didn't actually. Finish this until today. And I may have also had some itnernet issues at the same time... Yeah. I hope it's enjoyable anyway!
Summary: On the day of Kirby's first birthday spent in the New World, his unofficial older brother thanks him for their years of friendship.

(DUE TO RUSHING THIS I WILL RETROACTIVELY ADD THE ALT TEXT)

 

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Title: It takes all that I have just to cry for help
Fandom: Wiseguy (tv)
Content notes: Missing scene from Loose Cannon; very definitely spoilers.
Challenge: Fragile
Length: ~750 words

Summary: But that’s why he came here, isn’t it?

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