6 days until June 9th!

Jun. 3rd, 2025 03:50 pm
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Get your submissions in to the AO3 collection as you can! If you will be posting solely to DW or Tumblr, please inform me of the location of your work on the day via DW message or Tumblr ask. If you will not finish your work in time for June 9th, you have until June 17th to add it in time for Amnesty Day.

Monthly dS Art Digest (May 2025)

Jun. 1st, 2025 09:17 am
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It’s June, so let’s look back at May art - we have some new artists here:
 

ARTIST: cherry-cola-wolfie
 
RayK, Dief and Fraser
 
 
ARTIST: cherubsbarewetass’s sister
 
The pope is from Chicago
 
 
ARTIST: dirtyzucchini
 
Red ships and green ships mug design
 
 
ARTIST: gjdraws
 
Fraser in James Allodi’s Mountie costume from Chicago Holiday
 
Salmon Fraser and RayV for MerMay
 
Salmon Fraser gets another underwater buddy (RayK)
 
 
ARTIST: heart-of-leo
 
RayV is a supportive best friend
 
 
ARTIST: lookturtles
 
Dief and Bear and Flower Crowns (fancomic) 
 
 
ARTIST: mariemeetsmisery
 
RayK’s outfits from Burning Down the House
 
RayK’s outfits from Eclipse
 
 
ARTIST: mekare
 
Fraser and the alligator (originally posted on AO3 in 2019, but probably new for many)
 

ARTIST: mortmere
 
Final chapters 34 to 38 in the dS Stacked Rewatch Art Project (the link goes to Ch. 34, please follow the links to the next chapters from there):
 
 
C6D bonus:
 
CKR in Star Trek Discovery by mangust5623
 
Paul Gross pencil drawings by LonVal
 
(Thanks to Regina for spotting that last link.I don’t actively look for C6D works to include in these digests, I focus on due South stuff, but when I see something else with our guys, I might as well add it here.)

DS Story: W Is For Wolf

May. 31st, 2025 05:11 pm
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Series: The Due South Alphabet Series
Title: W Is For Wolf
Author: Grey/Grey853
Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 39,932
Tags: male slash, alternate universe-canon divergent, explicit language, explicit suggested sexual content, angst, Christmas

Summary: Dief has a medical problem. Vecchio has a close call. There's a big winter storm. Will Ben and Ray have a great Christmas?

Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66072517

Snippet:

″Have you noticed anything different about Dief lately?″

Ben turned from doing the supper dishes and stared at Ray in surprise. ″What?″

″I said have you noticed him being off a little lately.″

″Off?″ Ben dried his hands on the towel and walked over to his partner. ″In what way?″

″Slower, sleeping more, not really eating as much. He’s got a little come-and-go limp on his right front leg, too.″

Ben frowned and came around to sit next to Ray on the sofa. He kept his eyes on his sleeping friend. ″You’ve noticed these things?″

″I was asking you that.″

″To be honest, I’ve been so busy with work lately I’ve not paid that much attention.″

Ray hated to bring it up, but he’d been noticing changes for a while. At first he’d hoped he was just imagining it, but he was pretty sure he wasn’t, not anymore, not after the whole turning down the doughnut situation. Dief never met a treat he wouldn’t eat. ″It’s been going on for a few weeks. I wanted to brush it off, but today when Cheri had a powdered doughnut, he wasn’t even interested. Only ate about half his kibble, too. I’ve never known Furface to turn down food. You think something’s wrong?″

″He’s not said anything.″

″I know he’s not due for his shots, but maybe I should take him to the vet tomorrow.″

″I suppose it couldn’t hurt.″

Ray noted Ben’s worried expression and put his hand on his arm for comfort. ″I’m sure it’s nothing. Maybe he just needs a tonic or something. He’s getting older.″

″I hope that’s the case, but it could be something serious. I should’ve been paying closer attention.″

″Like you said, you’ve been busy. It’s getting closer to Christmas. Things get hectic for cops this time of year.″

″You’ve been busy, too, Ray.″

″I know. I’ll call the vet first thing tomorrow morning and take him in. I’m sure it’s nothing big. Maybe he ate a bad rabbit or vole or something just as disgusting.″

″Perhaps.″

″Don’t worry about it. I shouldn’t have said anything.″

″No, I’m glad you did.″ Ben got up and stooped beside Dief and petted his head several times. It was their regular signal to go out for their nightly walk. The animal opened its eyes, but instead of getting up, Dief only snuffled softly before closing his eyes again.

His expression darkened and Ben took the time to run his hand slowly over Dief’s back, along his sides, then under his belly and his over neck. His hand stopped right at where the right leg met his chest. ″There’s a lump here.″
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April-May mail from fen!

The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written by [personal profile] elayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.

From "across the pond" [personal profile] smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".

[personal profile] minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.

My "MFU cousin" [personal profile] vysila sent me a box full of zines.

And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent to [personal profile] lauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to [profile] ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.

New Quiz

May. 25th, 2025 04:11 pm
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It's quiz time again.
Enjoy!
www.due-south.de/games/quiz

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