Arc Raiders devs reveal plans for "new large Arc", a fresh map, and two more Expeditions this spring

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 05:41 pm
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Posted by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/arc-raiders-devs-reveal-plans-for-new-large-arc-a-fresh-map-two-expeditions-and-extra-matchmaking-options

Har(c)ken to me, defenders of Speranza! Embark have just announced their plans for ARC Raiders updates over the first four months of 2026. The extraction shooter’s next season is called Escalation, and its offerings range from new maps and enemies to new Raider decks, changes to existing maps, and more Expeditions. The headline attraction is surely the “new large Arc” coming in April. I wonder how big Arcs can get. Perhaps an Arc the size of a map, like Cronos in God Of War 3? But, you know, metal?

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46 US lawmakers express "serious concerns" about the Saudi-led EA buyout's impact on game developers

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 05:08 pm
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Posted by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/46-us-lawmakers-express-serious-concerns-about-the-saudi-led-ea-buyouts-impact-on-game-developers

The Saudi-led acquisition of Electronic Arts is meeting with more friction in the US House of Congress. 46 lawmakers have signed a letter calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the debt-financed $55 billion deal for signs that it could be damaging for workers and anti-competitive to the point of breaking US anti-trust law.

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Steam Machine and Steam Deck support will be coming to Nexus Mods' Windows-only mod manager at some

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 04:45 pm
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Posted by Mark Warren

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Ah, cool. The world's foremost hosts of unofficial Skyrim additions you'd rather not have to explain to an elderly relative, Nexus Mods, have committed to bringing SteamOS support to their mod manager Vortex at some point down the line. That'll mean you can use it with the Steam Machine and Steam Deck, if you fancy a modded playthrough on the go or via a smaller package.

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2026 Snowflake Challenge #10: Big Mood Board

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 12:55 pm
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Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

( A Moodboard for a Sterek Fic! )
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  • Current Music: In My Blood by Shawn Mendes
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Book review: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 06:17 pm
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Just finished this, my second book finished of the New Year. And it was honestly one of the most powerful and affecting books that I've read for a very long time. A tale of Shakespeare, yet not of Shakespeare, a moving family story, an immersive glimpse of Tudor England. I'm reluctant to say too much in detail to spoil things.

Structurally it was really interesting, different in some ways I gather from the film version. I also found it phenomenally immersive, similar to the effect that Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall series had on me. I wondered if this was due to the present tense used throughout much of the book, but I don't think that's so much the reason, as an acute sense of authorial observation and description. And just thoroughly good writing.

It has big standout moments that are particularly powerful, but also moved me constantly throughout, both by the feelings conveyed, and the power of the writing, which was both lyrical and addictive in equal measure.

Just an incredible achievement. And one that I would recommend without question.
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Fading Away

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 06:01 pm
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/78166081

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Lan Zhan’s mother passes away and this is how he learns to deal with it...

Words: 15154, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 77 of Fluffy WangXian Oneshots

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78166081

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Catching up on Snowflake backlog

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 05:57 pm
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There is no Friday open thread this week, because the [community profile] snowflake_challenge backlog was stressing me out so much that I needed devote a whole post to catching up with it. That said, if you want to use any of the challenges as a prompt, and respond in some way to it in the comments (either by linking to your own [community profile] snowflake_challenge post, or by answering it fresh), do feel free to treat it as a Friday open thread.

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

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Tease

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 05:20 pm
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Posted by TheEarthWitch

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Lan wangji is tempted by a nymph of a man, all he wanted was to get some work done! (or, Lan wangji can't get enough of his husbands ass)

Words: 3439, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78163996

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Cheese Quest

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 11:35 am
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Today I wanted to stay home from work, so I did. To celebrate myself, I made my favorite vegetarian tortilla soup and ate it with Wisconsin Organic Fontina that I got at HEB (before people panicking over the weather cleared the shelves).

It’s pretty good. It is extremely smooth and mild when you first bite into it, but then you find that it’s a bit crumbly and has a slightly sharp flavor. I actually really liked it. I had it with Hatch green chili pita chips and spicy pumpkin tortilla soup and it was a good combo.
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Snow, ice, and nothing nice...

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 12:24 pm
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The forecast for this weekend is getting worse and worse every time I check, and it looks like they're now calling for a decent bit of snow followed by ice and freezing rain on top of it. I'm fine with snow since I don't have a car and don't have to worry about shoveling, but the ice is more worrisome since it can lead to power outages.

( More under the cut. )

So now we just have to wait and see what actually happens this weekend. That said, I do think that I'm going to try to get the majority of my weekend cleaning and such done tomorrow before the snow starts just in case the power does go out.
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Как китайцы первыми попали на Луну

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 02:17 pm
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Posted by WTF MXTX and Multicultivation 2026 (MXTX_novels)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78155946

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Лань Ванцзи очень внимательно относится ко всему, что говорит Вэй Усянь.

Words: 168, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

Series: Part 23 of Зима 2026: тексты низкого рейтинга, Part 12 of Writober-2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78155946

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Самая неприступная красавица

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 01:55 pm
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/78155106

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Уличной гадалке порой приходится иметь дело со странными людьми. Кто разберет, что на уме у этих господ?

Words: 324, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

Series: Part 22 of Зима 2026: тексты низкого рейтинга, Part 11 of Writober-2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78155106

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Пойдём в кино?

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 01:36 pm
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Улыбка Императора

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 01:32 pm
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Posted by WTF Asian Food 2026 (AsianFood)

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Кто-то прокрался к нам в дом, пока мы спали, открыл тайник, о котором никто не знает, и уложил туда вино, которое я люблю больше всего!

Words: 1908, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78154401

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Красное платье

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 01:31 pm
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Posted by WTF MXTX and Multicultivation 2026 (MXTX_novels)

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Ханьгуан-цзюнь всегда приходит невовремя. Не Хуайсан научился мириться с этим.

Words: 781, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

Series: Part 19 of Зима 2026: тексты низкого рейтинга, Part 8 of Writober-2025

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Воровать мужей запрещено!

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 01:24 pm
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Posted by WTF Asian Food 2026 (AsianFood)

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Лань Ванцзи погружался в невесть откуда взявшееся среди камней Гусу болото в стоическом молчании. За двоих голосил Вэй Усянь, который всё никак не мог подобрать подходящий талисман, чтобы прервать наглое воровство собственного мужа.

Words: 892, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78154096

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Пицца на четверых

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 01:18 pm
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Posted by WTF MXTX and Multicultivation 2026 (MXTX_novels)

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Лань Сычжуй с друзьями пытаются обзавестись собственными традициями. Вансяни всегда готовы помочь.

Words: 654, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

Series: Part 17 of Зима 2026: тексты низкого рейтинга, Part 6 of Writober-2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78153866

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Неудачное решение

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 01:05 pm
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Posted by WTF MXTX and Multicultivation 2026 (MXTX_novels)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78153416

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Куда отправится пьяный Лань Ванцзи? Конечно, к своему однокурснику Вэй Усяню!

Words: 939, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

Series: Part 15 of Зима 2026: тексты низкого рейтинга, Part 4 of Writober-2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78153416

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Не тот воспитанник

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 11:40 am
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Posted by WTF MXTX and Multicultivation 2026 (MXTX_novels)

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Второй молодой господин Лань знакомится в лесу с племянником главы мелкого соседнего клана, а потом вся семья Лань едет в гости в клан Цзян...

Words: 4515, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Русский

Series: Part 13 of Зима 2026: тексты низкого рейтинга

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78150846

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“It’s something when a unicorn thinks the butterfly names are too poetic.”

Friday, January 23rd, 2026 10:08 am
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Chinese has a lot of suspiciously specific characters, most of them obscure, though in many cases the suspicion is because they’re the name of an object that’s no longer used, such as 铃, pronounced líng, which is a sort of bell used only for decorating an imperial carriage. And then there’s ones like my favorite: 虯, pronounced qiú, meaning a young dragon old enough to have grown horns.

There are characters that are more suspiciously specific, but this one, I keep circling back, inventing contexts that would require having a word for the concept. I mean, I can see farmers inventing shoat/shote so they can talk specifically about weaned pigs that are less than a year old, and getting them ready for market, but dragons aren’t farmed or hunted, or even fished.

虯 —that’s—huh. Yeah.

---L.

Subject quote from Safely You Deliver, Graydon Saunders.
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