My Fannish Corner

 Here's a new one on me: Has anyone ever gotten gibberish as a spam comment on AO3?

It was a huge block of text that looked like this: 

.'smylxL2P>sS5j=RIE]ScX-7DR&V\FU?[79jO94@\f!IB:w[3"aJv%J:}pIRO$q=K `q4Bv_ C6=q%OD-8MY^(;|EHNh3bS7C3e#gf}IsNZ(ETXFlS'V4ZipY|rr^2_kVqs]?ty4a8

It was from a guest. Yes, I have guest comments turned on for most of my works, I get so little engagement with my work that I'm not going to turn it off unless I have to, heck I've only gotten a couple of spam comments in all the time I've been on AO3.

I marked it as Spam and moved on, but I've never seen it before. What's the point of this one?

Written for smallfandomfest prompt, ' An undercover assignment gone wrong,' from 2013
Title: One Way Out
Author: Cat Moon
Fandom: Miami Vice (tv)
Pairing/Characters: Sonny/Rico, OC
Rating/Category: R/Slash
Summary: An undercover deal goes bad, leaving Rico and Sonny only one choice: protect each other. They’re partners, it’s what they do. Sometimes, that gets out of hand and goes way over the top. The repercussions of this one will change their partnership forever.
Notes/Warnings: Inspired by the scene in the ep, "Smuggler's Blues," where Rico gets frisked and Sonny's interesting reaction to that. SA is mentioned but does not occur.
Word Count: 3848


( One Way Out )

I've been thinking about it and I have to say that my #1 trope is AU - Canon Divergent. But I don't think of it that way because I don't really consider it to be a trope (for that matter, I don't consider it to be an AU). It's taking canon and altering it somehow, which I think the majority of fanfic does, as long as it's not set exactly in canon with no changes. Or am I not grasping the meaning quite right?

I did a Tiermaker chart and everything for last year's Snowflake, so I'm just going to link to that post here: Favorite Tropes 2025. My tastes haven't changed. 

First, a quick announcement before I get into the challenge: threesentenceficathon  IS LIVE! Go and leave prompts, fill prompts, it's a ton of fun! Even if you don't think you'll like it, you may surprise yourself. It's also a great, low pressure, quick and easy way to get the creative juices flowing (which fits in with Snowflake Challenge #8, the creative process).

Challenge #7

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

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Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.


This is tough! I had to leave out a lot of beloved characters! 😥

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Written for the prompt, Verboten, at vocab_drabbles
Title: Hopeless Heart
Fandom: Miami Vice (TV)
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG
Words: 65
POV: Sonny Crockett (Sonny/Rico)
Notes: About the ‘author’. With the few fandoms I’ve done poetry for in the past, I’ve used a special pseudonym for the specific character pov, just for fun. For Josef’s poems in Moonlight, I used JK Fitz, his initials and Fitz(gerald) the name he was using when he lived in NYC, just because it sounded cool. Sunshine Superman is Sonny’s, because I think it fits him both in terms of irony and his true nature.

 No, it's not Sunday, but I haven't done any of these in a while, and that's the title of my post series, so.

I've written two stories this year so far, which is a good start even though they're both short. I've got to get cracking on my prompt fill for
Small Fandom Fest, too. Yikes! And I've got my main series to work on, and a continuation of a fic that was originally only going to be a short one-shot, but popular demand inspired me to expand it...

This show, this show. I can't believe the stuff it has me doing! I'm almost ashamed to admit. Stuff I swore I would never do. Like sign up with TikTok. Forgive me. I still hate it. I only want to see Miami Vice related vids, and the short length of a lot of them is ridiculous. I found a new-to-me artist though, who posted one of his songs to an MV video. But serious, I really hate it. Very annoying site.

I post a lot of episode reactions on Tumblr now, instead of just lurking like I used to do. I've been taking notes and making screencaps as I watch the episodes. I'm considering making some gifs, now that I have the means to do it... Heck, if I had the patience I could make music videos. I made a Sonny/Rico playlist (well, several of them on my classic Media Player, but one online for sharing). I've started making memes, and oh yeah, I've also started using screenshots/photos to make Titles for my fanfic. Sheesh!

I was just lurking on r/Miami Vice on Reddit and thinking about how this show truly had something for everyone. Men, women, people of all genders and sexual orientations, slash fans, action fans, cishet men who loved the cars/boats/guns/bikini-clad women, there was POC diversity, social commentary that's still relevant today, gorgeous men... And we're all still here thirty years later, happy as pigs in shit. 😀😁🤣

ETA: I forgot to mention the poetry: I've started writing MV poems, too! I only do it occasionally, just with a couple of characters/fandoms that particularly inspire me that way. I should have known, though, with an angst-puppy character like Sonny Crockett.

I'm a simple person. I don't play video games. The only concession I have is the basic Solitaire game, I play that pretty often for the mindless stress relief.

Some of you may not know that there is the option to create custom decks. With my old computer, I had a Torchwood (mostly Ianto) deck. For the new one, I created a new one for Miami Vice. Photos can be used for all the face cards. The background is also customizable (in this case it's Sonny sucking on an ice cube). It makes the game more fun.

Yes, Sonny and Jack are the queens. That's just the way it is. 😉

According to my computer, I've got around 390 hours of music on my hard drive. That's mine, no one can take it away, and I'm not renting it. I've been collecting music all my life and put all my cassettes and DVDs on the HDD, as well so that's one reason I have so much accumulated. I still have quite a few CDs, but most if not all of those I also copied to the computer.

Don't get me wrong, I love high fidelity. If I had the space/money I'd want the best possible quality media and equipment to play it on. I used to have an awesome stereo with huge speakers, back in the day. I can't do that now though, for various reasons.

Do you keep physical copies, digital copies you own, or mostly stream? Have a poll:


( Some other naughtier fandom stuff under the cut... )

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate!

As usual for someone whose job is affected by the holidays, I'm pretty relieved it's over. It's just exhausting, and somehow, I'm always too busy to really get into the season. I don't even bother decorating these days.

But I got a nice, unexpected Christmas present this year. My job does random drawings weekly during the season, as a way to encourage people to not call out. If you have perfect attendance that week, you're entered to win one of the prizes. On Monday, a few of us were talking about the prizes and I was saying that there wasn't anything I really wanted, except maybe a TV.  I didn't really need one, but mine is in my bedroom. I have a small, old one in the living room, the kind that doesn't have internet. Since I don't have cable and rabbit ears don't work where I live, all it's good for is watching DVDs, so I said it would be nice to have a TV for the living room. On Tuesday, which was my day off, my name was called for a 65". So yesterday on Christmas Eve, I came home with a new TV. Merry Christmas to me! It was just so weird and funny how I was talking about it the day before, and then I won it the next day.