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The threesentenceficathon is live and already has over 40 pages of prompts, bless xD. I wrote a few!

-Pluribus, Carol/The Hivemind, "communion" (any, any F/F, i want to fucking tear you apart). dreamwidth link + ao3 link. 

-DC comics, Diana/Donna, "replica" (Any, Any F/F selfcest, i just touch myself and say / "i'll make my own damn way."), dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-Stranger Things, Holly & Nancy + Holly & Henry, "her arms, a fortress" (Stranger Things, Holly & Nancy Wheeler, nightmares). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-Severance, Helena & Helly & Jame Eagan, "clean hands" (any, any female character, every woman is allowed to commit patricide). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

-The Locked Tomb, Nona & Camilla, "mimicry" (The Locked Tomb, Nona, Like Humans Do). dreamwidth link + ao3 link.

I also prompted quite a few things:

• Pluribus, Carol Sturka, past trauma.
• Pluribus, Carol/Helen, immune!Helen + Hive!Carol.
• Pluribus, Carol & Manousos, birds of a feather.

• Foundation, Gaal/Salvor, Salvor doesn't know/disclose their relationship when they meet.
• Foundation, Demerzel, backstory.
• Foundation, Gaal/Cleon XXV, gentle manipulation.

• DC comics (pre-reboot), Diana/Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, obsessive rivalry.
• DC comics (pre-reboot), Cass Cain/Kate Kane, at odds.
• DC comics (pre-reboot), Diana/any amazon (minus Hippolyta), unrequited love.

• The Pitt, Javadi/Santos, brat!Javadi.
• The Pitt, Mohan/Santos, exhausted!Mohan.
• The Pitt, García/Santos, trouble in paradise.

• The 100, Octavia/Niylah, masochist!Octavia seeking comfort during the bunker years.
• The 100, Echo/Raven, friends with benefits + pining during the years in the Ark.
• The 100, Clarke/Josephine, cut from the same cloth/recognition through the other.

Edited with one last fill + 3 more prompts, as the first post of the ficathon just closed.

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.


This is actually something that I've been wondering if I need to improve on, especially when it comes to writing series. Specifically, how much of a series I should have planned out before I start posting it, although admittedly there have been a few times where I've intended something as a one-shot and then realised that actually I can't really leave the story where it is.

Also, this is a process specifically to Dark more than any of my other fandoms, but I realised I should probably make sure I have a full understanding of the original timeline before I try to change it. A moment of sheer frustration at Ulrich getting stuck in 1953 and being unable to rescue Mikkel from 1986 led me to write a scene where Ulrich did get to 1986, and it became clear I couldn't just leave it there. But at that point in season 1, I didn't have the whole context of how that whole family tree/timeline worked, or the reasons why the character Claudia just would not let the timeline deviate that way. So I now find myself with an ending I know has to happen, but that I was trying to avoid and that's just blocking me finishing the final chapter. Anyone remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books as kids? I'm seriously thinking about those now as I'm tempted to write the one ending where Claudia fixes the timeline her way or trying to work out if there's any way of incorporating the alternate universe characters into the timeline so the minimum of people actually get erased from existence and Ulrich and Mikkel get their happy ending.

Something I have often done is been determined to get a fic finished before the next episode of a show aired and canon could contradict it. This tends to be easier with one shots than series, although I've only ever had one dickhead trying to "correct" me over not incorporating context that hadn't aired at the time that chapter was posted. But since that was a known troll, they could shove their corrections where the sun didn't shine. If that does come up, I don't rewrite.

Sometimes it involves going back and watching old episodes, or even just checking facts on fandom wikis, to make sure I have my details correct. (Even if I sometimes wonder why I bother - for example, I was trying to find out whether Fringe's Peter Bishop's specific date of birth was ever confirmed, to see if it was feasible for a time travelling Daniel from Lost to have met Walter before Peter was born to give him the name. In the process, I managed to establish that Walter's father's date of death in 1944 doesn't make sense for Walter's birth in 1946, so decided that if the writers weren't going to worry about that, I'd roll with my idea whatever!)

As far as requests go, if I'm not doing it as part of an exchange, I'll only consider if we've interacted. Just my way of making sure I don't end up granting a request for aforementioned known troll, whose MO was to ask for requests then spam anyone who didn't take their (very specific) requests with insults.

But anyway, what I'm wondering if I need to do is try and do more planning in advance of any story likely to become a series before I start posting it. I have one now I'm trying to work out (School Spirits, a rewrite of season 2 where Mr Martin possesses someone other than who he actually does possess in canon) so I'm going to start with that.

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


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Last week, I cut my finger pretty deeply while making food, and missed two days of work trying to give it time to heal (I bathe dogs for a living; I did not want to be sticking an open wound into dirty dog water). The third day, a dog broke my glasses and I had to leave early (I was able to mend them).

Yesterday, I woke up very sick, probably with the same punishing cold Will has. My job is pretty lenient about calling out, but gosh do I hate doing it this often. ;o; It always makes me nervous. My boss is super understanding but I don't want to take advantage of that. Oh well. ;3;

I'm painfully behind on Snowflake Challenge, to absolutely no one's surprise; I did the first one and stopped. XD; There are some that I want to go back and do, but I doubt I'll actually catch up. But that's okay! I want to do the animals/pet one. Speaking of which, I bought Dale's 4x2x2 (120 gallon) terrarium! It looks like it'll be a pretty easy build, and I have several things to add to it (although there are definitely more things I want to add, like some of the climbing vine, some fun rocks/slate, things like that. I'm hoping to get it built today, if I'm feeling better in the afternoon.

I read the first book of the Uriel Ventris series, Nightbringer, and it was delightful; Ventris is an adorable, pious, little murder machine, and I'm pretty sure literally every man he met wanted to top him. I immediately bought the second volume on thriftbooks (a lot of "older" Black Library books are out of print, so I have to search for them as well as be willing to part with more than a little bit of moola). We already own the third book (Will bought it a little while ago) so that should keep me busy for a while. I'm a very slow reader. XD;

This morning I went out, coffee in hand, to sit on the back step. It was very cold but peaceful. I heard the first birdsong of the day. <3 I'd read about how people with ADHD need to sit in the moment sometimes, no screens, no texts, nothing like that, and just allow themselves to be. It was very nice and I think I should start more days like this.

This post is very disjointed bc it was written between a couple of days. I hope it all makes sense. ♥

I started writing this ages ago as a treat for a horror exchange, though I can't now remember for whom or which exchange - if it sounds like something you might have requested, it's probably for you! It grew out of all proportion - it was going to be about 500 words - and picked up all kinds of other things including some of my experience of Berlin, and after a great deal of wrestling with the ending I have finally finished it. I was going to think of a cleverer title for it, this one was because I was listening to 'Bonnie Jean Cameron' a lot while writing it, but I accidentally posted it with this working title (which is slightly better than the other working title of Horror Soulbonding) and decided to let it stick.

Title: aye blythe blink
Content: angst with a happy ending, nightmares, hallucinations, soulbonding as horror, Biggles/EvS, 11k words
Summary: Biggles starts to have strange nightmares. Algy looks for a solution.

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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.)

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

Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.

Given that I've read a romance novella recently (Courtney Milan's "The Pursuit Of..."), I've got romance tropes on the brain.

I like a slow burn. I remember once borrowing a book from the library and the main characters were having sex by page 50 and I was like "...". Yeah, that completely turned me off. The desire, the wanting, the longing is FUN! Jumping into bed that early misses out on a lot of the fun for me.

When I was younger, I liked "damsel in distress" tropes in romance novels, but I don't really have the patience for that these days. Because in those kind of books, too often the hero doesn't realize his feelings for the heroine UNTIL she gets herself into trouble, and that's kind of boring.

Looking at this list of tropes: My own writing has had the "mutual pining" trope, and yeah, I really dig that in a romance novel. I'm not opposed to "Enemies to Lovers" but it's not something I normally read these days, nor write. "Friends to Lovers"? yes, I like that, and I'm working on some more fics revolving around that theme.

I feel like a lot of my own fic is "Missing Scene" stuff (not that I've written much fic yet! but still). I try hard to fit my fic into the canon, either in the midst of it (as with my FFXII & FFXIV fic) or after it (as with my FFV fic). The thing is, canon usually means SO MUCH to me that I want to extend it. I don't feel I'm trying to fix it, more like... taking a thing that canon made me feel/think and running with it.

I'm not entirely sure I understand the definition of "crack" but I think I've written some? Both Best-Laid Plans & if you like it, then you should've put an earring on it (fics by me) are what I consider to be crack. Ridiculous situations that surprise the reader and make them laugh or smile.

I very much strongly identify with the "Fluff" nomenclature. Most of my fics are short, sweet little things. I have written angst but I'd much rather write happy things.

I like there being some humor in what I read/write. If I can crack up over my own work? BONUS. I think there's room for humor in most longer works, because life is NOT always dreary. Sometimes the funny happens, and that should be included.

I don't do AUs, really. I haven't read much fanfic myself yet, but the idea of reading my favorite characters in alternate settings just doesn't appeal to me. Like I said above: I want to see canon extended, not transformed.

Given that I read so rarely these days, it's a wonder to me that I even have a sense of what I like and dislike. I'm hoping to read more this year, of both traditional published works and fanfic. But yeah, these are some things that draw me.

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One rainy day Kanade, a high school student, finds a mouse-sized cat in his room. It's a fairy cat or "palm-sized cat!" They are elusive magical creatures which sometimes adopt humans, but mostly behave like ordinary cats. Only extra-tiny!

That's about it for the plot. What this manga is actually about is showing an incredibly adorable tiny cat being an incredibly adorable tiny cat. It's an incredibly adorable manga. Proof:

Apologies - I did post this yesterday, but it went to my journal instead of the community, and I failed to notice.


This week's challenge is:




Reminder of Rules

Entries should be 100, 200, or 300 words exactly, excluding titles and headers.
Please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your drabble, though you can if you like.
Each challenge ends when the new challenge is posted, but if you're a few days late that's still fine.

NEW RULE: DOUBLE AND TRIPLE DRABBLES ARE ALSO ACCEPTED ;)

Have fun!

The Art of Murder feels like an especially fitting thing to recommend for Fannish 50, as - despite its ominous title - it's all centered on the experience of being a fan and creating fanworks. It's an indie animation pilot (there are some truly amazing indie animation projects on YouTube, it's a rabbit hole I highly, highly suggest hopping down), and the premise is so charming: When young artist Pip goes to sleep, the characters she draws fanart of in her sketchbook always come to life for the night.

These characters really set the tone of The Art of Murder: not only are they all aware they're fanart of fictional characters, with all of them taking pride in the popularity of their source material, but they're all pastiches of existing character archetypes. There's Winn, a young girl who primarily draws from Adventure Time's Finn, but also generally represents that high-energy kid hero type in a lot of similarly quirky cartoons. Albie draws from the library of traditionally-animated Disney Princesses, and is insecure about the rise of 3D animation, (and one of my favorite jokes in the pilot is when her character is used to poke at the way princess media like Disney's make money selling dozens of differently dressed merchandise for the characters). Sousuke the anime ninja draws from, well, Sasuke from Naruto - and speaks entirely in (captioned) Japanese, a fantastic touch - and finally, Giorgio is a detective from an dating sim game, and his hamminess delightfully plays up the tone of many of those games.

The story starts on a night where someone new has been drawn: Not a character from an existing IP, but Pip's own original character. The other characters welcome the aptly-named OC to "The World of Pip's Sketchbook" in a super-catchy musical number As dawn comes, the characters return to the sketchbook... And then the next night, a page of the sketchbook has been torn out - one of the characters has been, effectively, killed.

The pilot mostly sets up the characters and story, but I do believe there's more in progress. While I don't think the mystery is exactly hard to take a guess at solving, I kind of love that, because the direction I see things going just further highlights how this is a show about the experience of being a fan, but also just being a creator! And who knows, maybe I'm entirely wrong!

If you check out The Art of Murder, let me know what you think - it's really got some great self-aware, tongue-in-cheek humor. It feels like a love letter to loving things, and I think that's so fun!

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Title: Workplace Incident
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 485: Accident.
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: There’s been an… incident at the two-seven, leaving the boys a bit worse for wear.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.






Workplace Incident

When frozen in writing, there's nothing like a bulleted list to trick yourself into making words. ( Read more... )

We've extended the deadline, so you have another week to submit your programming ideas for VidUKon 2026! Please submit your ideas for vidshows, panels, or other programming events by Sunday 25 January at the end of the day everywhere. Here is more information on submission. If you have any questions, drop a comment here or email us at vidukon@gmail.com.

A busy work week like the one I described previously requires a quiet weekend, so that is exactly what happened. Gym, swimming, market shopping, and a loop around the river, market, and high street today with Matthias (we bought hot drinks from the coffee rig and browsed in the bookshop without buying anything), and otherwise no other excursions out of the house. I tried making these brown butter miso chocolate chip cookies as recommended by rekishi, and they were very delicious indeed! I've just taken more pine and red berry branches from the disassembled Christmas wreath, and they'll go on the fire in the wood-burning stove tonight.

Two nice things happened on Dreamwidth yesterday: fandomtrees reveals went live, and threesentenceficathon is open for prompts and fills for 2026. I wrote one Six of Crows Kaz/Inej ficlet and made a couple of recipe recommendations for the former (and got given so many soup recipes in response to my own request — I can't wait to try them out), and in general had an enjoyable time. I haven't had a chance to plunge into the latter so far, but I always enjoy it when I do. The first post of prompts is here — I think it's a great, low-pressure way to rekindle the creative spark, and the atmosphere is always so friendly.

I've read three books, and one serialised short story this week. All but one of these (the third in a really silly romantasy series that I'm grimly carrying on with for completionist reasons; it involves human women falling in love with the personified gods of the North, South, East and West winds, and is really not good) were excellent.

The other two books were The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Garth Nix), and The Stolen Heart (Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk). Booksellers is Nix's first foray into novel-length fiction for adults, and is set in alternative version of 1980s Britain in which the titular booksellers have a secret life acting as a sort of supernatural security service. Back when I was a book reviewer, I interviewed Nix in his Sydney office, which was packed to the rafters with all the books he used as inspiration — encyclopedias and folklore dictionaries, fiction of all genres, popular history, anthologies of folktales and mythology, etc — and I could see the varied, myriad works of this personal reference library put to good use in this novel, which is heaving with references and allusions from all sources. There's Arthuriana, British children's fantasy (such as Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones), Terry Pratchett, Romantic poetry, local folklore, weird bits of London history, Cold War-era spy novels, and so on. It's the sort of book that will appeal to people who enjoy playing spot-the-reference to all the ingredients of this genre salad, and Nix clearly had the time of his life writing it.

The Stolen Heart is the second in Kurkov's series of historical mystery novels in which his hapless protagonist Samson (who fell by accident into a job working for the Soviet police force in 1919 Kyiv) tries to solve another bizarre mystery while struggling to survive the chaos around him. As with the previous book in the series, The Stolen Heart is written with a careful balance of humour and empathy, conveying both the terror and the absurdity of living in a place and time of violent, destabilising transition. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm confident that I'll enjoy its conclusion.

Finally, I read 'The Road Less Taken', a serialised short story by Amal El-Mohtar. The link goes to the final chapter of the story, with links to the previous six chapters gathered at the top of the page, so if you are interested in reading it, ensure you start at the beginning. The story interweaves a relationship breakup with the recent jewellery theft from the Louvre and the folktale of Thomas the Rhymer in a manner so clever that you will feel by the end that these three things are, of course, connected in reality! It's an Amal El-Mohtar story, so all her trademarks — the power of music and of female friendships, and food and cooking as a way to show love and care — are of course front and centre.

The most recent snowflake_challenge prompt is all about tropes: 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.)



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In the time it's taken for me to write this post, the light has left the sky, although it's still silvery blue at 4.30pm, as opposed to total darkness. The Earth moves on its slow tilt back towards the Sun.

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I only managed to finish two fic for fandomtrees this round. I was thrilled to be inspired to write in an old fandom and to revist a fic I wrote for a previous round. I hope you enjoy!


Title: Winter Wonderland
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: The Sentinel (tv)
Rating: PG13/Slash
Pairing/Characters: Jim/Blair
Length: 1,600 words
Spoilers: Nothing specifically, but for entire series to be safe.
Summary: "Don't be mad," Blair said.

"Well, it's not auspicious that those are the first words you say to me when I walk in the door."
Author's Notes: Written for pattrose for fandomtrees. One of her fandom requests was for: The Sentinel, Jim/Blair with a like of kid!fic and first times. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to write Jim/Blair again! I hope you enjoy what I came up with! Title from the song of the same name. (It's snowing in the story, it was snowing outside when I posted it, I think you can see why this title came to my mind. *g*)
Feedback: Would be greatly appreciated.
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Posted: December 2, 2025

Read Fic @ AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/75130406



Title: But What If There Was a Demon vs Dinosaur Cage Match?
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: Angel: the Series(tv)[/Primeval (tv)]
Rating: PG13/Het
Pairing/Characters: Dawn/Connor & Faith
Length: 1,935 words
Spoilers: Takes place post-series, but no real spoilers unless you don't know who Dawn and Connor are. o_O. General spoilers for the concept of Primeval (dinosaurs!).
Summary: "Dinosaurs?" Faith said, sounding dubious after Dawn and Connor had given their account of their experience with Jennifer and the Triceratops.
Author's Notes: Takes place post-Some Things You See With Your Eyes . . . Written for cornerofmadness for fandomtrees. They asked for Angel: the Series, Dawn/Connor, mission. This is a follow-up to the last Dawn/Connor fandomtrees fic I wrote for you. It's more ‘between missions', but there's bonus Faith! I hope you enjoy it!
Feedback: Would be greatly appreciated.
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Posted: December 19, 2025

Read Fic @ AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/76027846

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