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We have great nominations in our tagset already! If you're interested in nominating, please review our nomination guidelines. There's an opportunity to transfer accepted tags from the 2025 tagset to the 2026 tagset.

I'm seeking clarifications on the following nominations. If I could hear back about these in the next 24 hours, that would be appreciated so we can keep our nomination approvals moving.

All Media Types + Related Fandoms
Can the nominator(s) please amend their nominations? We do not accept "All Media Types" and "Related Fandoms" without a case being made.

Star Wars - All Media Types
Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker
Poe Dameron/Ben Solo
Poe Dameron/Din Djarin
Poe Dameron/Finn
Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

How to nominate Star Wars canons is outlined in the nomination guidelines. Can the nominator(s) please amend their nominations? If Luke and Din don't exist in the same sub-fandom, please nominate them under "Crossover Fandom".

Midsomer Murders - All Media Types
Ben Jones/Jamie Winter

I'm happy to hear why this should be "All Media Types", otherwise please amend the canon and specify if it's the TV show or books.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
Apollo/Hyacinthus (Percy Jackson)

Please amend your nomination to specify which PJO canon you're after, as we have books, TV show and movies. The fandom title will need to change. Please use one of these: "Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Rick Riordan" for books, "Percy Jackson (TV)" for the TV show, and "Percy Jackson (Movies)" for the movies. If the nominator has trouble with changing the fandom, please let me know.

Crossover Fandom

Crossover Fandom
Peter Parker (MCU) & Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson)

I wanted to flag with the nominator that this nomination is a bit too ambiguous, unless you're fine with receiving any version of these characters. If I accept this as is, I will not be enforcing any DNWs dictating which Peter Parker or Percy Jackson version you want.

If the nominator is after a specific version for Percy Jackson, please amend your disambiguation (i.e. "Percy Jackson (PJO Books)" for the book version). If you're happy to receive the book, TV show or movie version, please let me know and I will accept this as is.

And I apologise for being nitpicky, but as we've had three Peter Parkers in the MCU (Holland, Garfield and Maguire), please amend your nomination if you're after a specific version. "Peter Parker [Holland] (MCU)" is an acceptable way to format it.

Fandom renaming/fixing

Ocean's movies
Danny Ocean & Debbie Ocean (Ocean's)
Danny Ocean & Ocean's 8 (Ocean's)
Lou Miller/Debbie Ocean (Ocean's)

Google tells me Ocean's 8 and Ocean's 11 exist in the same universe, so I wanted to amend the fandom title. Is the nominator against the fandom being renamed to "Ocean's 11 Movie Universe"? Happy for alternate suggestions. Sorted!

If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Series)
Captain-General | Kitten & Magnus the Red (Warhammer 40.000)

I'm canon blind to If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device and Warhammer 40.000, but I've done some Googling and found that these two characters exist in this web series (I believe!). Can the nominator please update the disambiguation to reflect the web series? The disambiguation is making me think this should be under "Warhammer 40.000" as a canon instead. Happy to hear otherwise.

Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor (Supergirl Arrowverse)

Please renominate under "DC's Arrowverse" as the canon as per the nomination guidelines.

Please let me know on any nominations post if you see any duplicates or errors in the tagset. Happy nominating!

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Ooooh fandom_trees got revealed, I went looking for a needy tree over the holidays, found one looking for Edge of Tomorrow and thought ‘oh I have that, I should rewatch it’ and wrote this. It was my last watched film of last year and my first finished fic of this year which is pleasing to me. A nice end to my film rewatch project from last year where I pretty much wrote a fic for each film I re-watched.

Possibly/Probably (The Best Friend You've Never Met) (1599 words) by Glinda
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: William Cage/Rita Vrataski, William Cage & Rita Vrataski
Characters: William Cage, Rita Vrataski, Dr. Carter (Edge of Tomorrow)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Pre-Relationship, Friendship, final 'first' meeting
Summary: It’s a cliche often repeated, that you never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Cage tries all the same.

⌈ Secret Post #6952 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 39 secrets from Secret Submission Post #993.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Title: deep sea, baby
Rating: Explicit
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy TV
Relationship(s): Nahla Ake/Caleb Mir
Word Count: 361
Summary: 

Caleb’s flesh carries callus and scar and blemish, but Nahla had kissed over every single tarnish, had worshiped him whole; she’s trying to make her penance.

Read on AO3.

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The first secret from this batch will be posted on January 24th.

RULES: 1. One secret link per comment. 2. 750x750 px or smaller. 3. Link directly to the image. More details on how to send a secret in! Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is. Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!

Title: Put A Sock In It
Fandom: The Legend of Korra
Characters: Zaheer
Rating: G
Summary: Sticker/Button design of Zaheer with a sock in his mouth.

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Trying to get back on the bus with this one...



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.

1. I am - not always, but often - capable of finding ordinary things utterly delightful. Like the Wendy Cope poem about the orange. I am not in that state at the moment, but it is lovely when it happens.

2. On the small scale, I think I am slightly luckier than average. For example: my hair went grey in my early thirties, but that happened to be the couple of years in which many people my age were dyeing their hair grey. We moved house the week before the first Covid lockdown, when it could have been the week after. I win raffles, and the occasional twenty-five quid on the Premium Bonds. (Or maybe I'm no luckier than anyone else, but - see point one - appreciate my luck more?)

3. I really like making things. I like that about myself.

4. Fashion aside, I do like the way my hair looks.

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Challenge #9 at  snowflake_challenge 


Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

I cheated and read an article online that listed a bunch of tropes and these are my findings. I like hidden worlds and secret societies, but I strongly dislike chosen one stories. And I don't read a lot of fantasy, so I don't tend to encounter hidden worlds much. I guess I just like the idea of their being a secret mirror of our society. I've written a couple of fics where various pantheons of gods intersect with modern society and with each other because I like imagining what might be going on that we don't see. 

I LOVE me an amateur sleuth. That's why Miss Marple has always been my absolute favorite, closely followed by Jessica Fletcher. Right now I'm reading Three Bags Full where the sleuths are the ultimate amateurs - a flock of sheep whose shepherd has been murdered! I also like amateur spies like Tommy and Tuppence and Mrs. Pollifax.

If I like the source material, I will try almost any type of AU. The only kind I tend to bounce off of are set in school; as a teacher, I find them so unbelievable that I can't suspend my disbelief.

I'm also very fond of crossovers. Sometimes I'll see someone bigging up a crossover on the AO3 subreddit and, even if I know nothing about either canon, I'll give it a try. I also really enjoy writing crossovers; it's like weaving together two different fabrics or putting together a puzzle. 

And while we are on the subject of things I like, I love writing and reading drabbles. I enjoy a fic where someone has provided a link to a playlist. I like when people play around with form and experiment, even when it doesn't quite work. I like an author with audacity. 

A new baihe live action drama, Candy (糖果, pinyin: tangguo), has started airing on GagaOOLala. Here's the official synopsis:

Top actress Lin Can plummets overnight after a devastating PR crisis. Wen Nuannuan—the girl she once left behind in her youth—reenters her life as an assistant. Under the pressure of fame and public scrutiny, the two escape the city to join a rural reality show. Meanwhile, veteran manager Si Han and superstar Jiang Wan are locked in a fierce game of love and power, entangled in workplace rivalry and unresolved past feelings. Between tenderness and cruelty, sincerity and calculation, two GL love stories unfold against the unforgiving reality of the entertainment industry.

And here's the trailer:


The main page for the drama is here. Each episode appears to be about 30 minutes long (judging by the first one), and I vaguely remembering on Chinese social media that there are eight episodes in total (but am not 100% sure). The first episode is free-to-view.

Challenge #9.
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

I'm one of those people whose mind goes momentarily blank when asked "what are your favourite X?", so normally it'd take me a little while to think of this LOL. Luckily, because I signed up for a few challenges this year (most recently seasonsofdrabbles , still open for sign-ups for one more day), I had a list of tropes ready to be copypasted and, why not, expanded upon!

-Amnesia. I am a sucker for a good memory loss plot. Especially when you add angst and manipulation to it. I.e. what if someone did it purposefully? What if someone takes advantage of a character's lack of recalling of XYZ event that would've otherwise make them less trusting? And so on. I have a WIP in the works (so like, maybe for 2028 lol) that centers around such a premise, specifically in the DC fandom, with Jason and the bats. It starts with a Jason who, after being on the wrong end of a psychic attack, had Bruce heal his mind... and take some creative licenses while he was at it. Shortly after I first started developing the idea, Gotham War came out. My story would work very differently, but for a moment there, the coincidence was hilarious. 

-Time travel/loop. Especially when it doesn't fix anything, when it offers you a view of a past you can't fix, or that you can't keep. Unsurprisingly I do have some ideas involving that trope in DC, most notably one inspired by a post about Damian traveling in time and meeting a younger, carefree Talia (the time travel would be part of a larger story where I would reimagine and rework a lot of what canon does with the al Ghuls and that I don't care much for, but still).

And, well, time loops just have GREAT potential for character exploration. You can really get deep inside a character's fears with one!

-Exploration of canon historical settings, lore, worldbuilding, etc. I love it when fics explore what real events in a particular era would've been like in canon, when they get deep into the intricacies of the setting's world, etc. It really enriches the experience, and I hope my future fics can do that, at some point.

-Canon divergence. In general, I love reading and writing stories that explore "what if" scenarios, sticking close to canon up to that point so that we get to see what would diverge... and what wouldn't. When those steps are done with care and forethought, it can be incredible.

-Adapting to disability. I joke about how I love hitting characters with the stick of disability, and I do LOL. I have WIPs in the works (also, again, mostly with DC xD) where I blind characters, paralyze them, cut off their limbs, give them chronic illnesses, terminal illnesses... Or explores the ones canon gave them, too. I love stories that are... less about whump (though that too, sometimes; it's just that I feel it's not a balanced phenomenon, tbh), and more about how the character deals (or doesn't deal) with the changes

-Angst. I'm here to suffer. I want to read stories that leave me melancholic, despondent, shaking, crying. There's nothing like a well-written bittersweet or tragic ending.

-Unusual forms of fics (epistolary, outsider POV, interactive, etc.). It's incredibly fun what people can do with it! I still think about the minesweeper Murderbot fic...

-Adventures, heists, escapes, etc. It's just FUN. And it's plot. I love a navel-gazing character study as much as the next gal but sometimes I want to read and write A Story Featuring My Blorbos.

-Lovers to enemies. Incredibly underrated trope because nothing hits like this, IMO. Again, I obviously like to get my heart broken by fiction xD

-Betrayal. Another angsty trope that hits just right. I love especially to see the aftermath of it: how do the characters move forward? Can they move forward? Should they move forward? It's easy to see why Black Sails is one of my favourite shows lol; I've never seen it used so extensively and yet so differently and so well every. single. time. And I don't watch Doctor Who (I've tried, multiple times, it just doesn't stick), but every once in a while I think about this scene between Twelfth and Clara I've only seen out of context (used masterfully in a Silverflint gifset here btw).

-Mourning. Loss is a terrible and I want more stories that deal with the full scope of it, that truly make you feel it. Pluribus has certainly done it well, in depth, and in all manner of ways, and it's one of the reasons the show stole my heart as quickly as it did.

-Mind control. And specifically characters fighting it, navigating it, having to deal with the consequences of it. In general, stories about compromised agency and how the characters deal with it are my favourite thing in the world.

-Abuse aftermath. The above relates to this: characters with compromised, diminished, and stolen agency and how they fight, fawn, confront, deny, heal, stunt... all of that is catnip to me.

-Role reversal. A particular form of "what if" that can be fascinating if done right! If everything was the same except with this two characters swapping places... what would happen? What would change? What wouldn't? I don't have plans to write it, but I have thought about a role reversal AU for Jason Todd and Mia Dearden (Jason becomes the second Speedy; Mia becomes the second Robin) a lot, ever since a mutual talked to me about his (as yet unrealised, sadly) version of the idea. Even explored it a little bit here.

I could continue, but I feel that the list is more than long enough :P

Today's prompt is: smart

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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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Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

Oooh tropes! I love classifications and patterns and TVTropes ;) To avoid the overload, listing just 10 favourites, in no particular order.

(Warning! These links lead to TVTropes, and they may cause you lose hours of time, if you're not careful ;)

* GroundhogDayLoop Time loops in any form, not necessarily one day, it can take from a few days to a few years. It's so cool to see the same events happening in subtly different ways. Some interesting examples involve re-experiencing the same events as a different character.

* PerspectiveFlip Bad guys are actually good, and good guys are actually bad, and everything we had believed in was wrong :) History is written by winners. This is mainly a fandom trope because it requires an established baseline, but it can work with original fiction as well.

* UnreliableNarrator There are so many ways to make it work! From characters who are deliberately lying to those who are genuinely mistaken, gaslighted or neurodivergent.

* FairPlayWhodunnit A classic detective mystery, presented like a puzzle, which the reader can solve alongside the fictional detective. I love puzzles, provided they are not abstract like chess or sudoku, but have a solid story and clues.

* VirtualReality Our real lives are still not integrated with computers enough, but at least we can get full integration in fiction...

* DeadlyGame All kinds of high-stake competitions where the players risk their lives, and are often forced to participate. Works very well with Virtual Reality, but also in any kind of a dystopian environment.

* SplitPersonality A classic twist that never gets old for me! Works well with Unreliable Narrator trope. 

* WizardingSchool Schools of magic or other unusual disciplines like teaching villains, fictional characters etc. There are so many variations!

* GroupedForYourConvenience For fans of classifications and patterns and personality tests. Hogwarts Houses, the Hunger Games districts, the Divergent factions, Westeros families, 9 planets of the Locked Tomb... etc etc

* Metafiction Breaking the 4th wall, and messing up with your mind. Works best with computer games. (Some examples: OneShot, A Pet Shop After Dark, and don't forget the famous Doki Doki Literature Club ;)

These nominations have been submitted under specific fandoms - they need to be submitted under "Crossover Fandom." If these are your nominations, please submit them under the correct fandom:

Nick Burkhardt (Grimm)/Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
Colter Shaw (Tracker)/Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

We have received several nominations that are not disambiguated. If your nomination has not been approved, please check if it has been disambiguated or not (a fandom abbreviation in parentheses after the ship nomination).

You can nominate here. Nominations are open until January 25, 2026, 11:59am CST (UTC-6).

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Crossposting icons I did for fandomtrees so I can keep track of what I've made here.

Note: These icons are created for the usage of the people I've gifted to! If you want to use one, ask them first. If someone says no, please respect that!

Fandoms: Stock, Ultraman Arc

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