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patrokla ([personal profile] patrokla) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2025-11-03 04:07 pm

Yuleswaps 2025: MATCH-UPS COMING SOONER OR LATER

Here we go. Please watch this post! We will update here as each batch goes out:

Candy? COMING SOON (probably last)

Drinks? SENT (twice, lol) as of 6:51 PM PST!

Books? SENT as of 6:39 PM PST!


INSTRUCTIONS & REMINDERS )


SENDING DEADLINE: Friday, November 21, 2025


Extensions/Defaulting: Pre-research your post office/courier service hours, and plan to send as early as you can! BUT if your best-laid plans fail, and you need an extension -- we get it! Please bypass the shame spiral and email us ASAP. We want to know what's going on but rarely hesitate to grant brief extensions, especially to historically reliable swappers.

And, of course, if you need to default for any reason, the above is doubly true!! Life happens, but if you let us know as soon as it does, we can help out your recipient AND probably have you back next year with minimal anxiety.


One More Time: don't forget to check in at Swaps Central! And a safe, merry Swapstide to all!

Current FAQ and very old resources post here, for anyone who needs them. Questions and comments here or via email, as always.

Kat & Livi & Helen
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darkjediqueen ([personal profile] darkjediqueen) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-11-03 12:55 pm

S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Missing You Hours

Title: Missing You Hours
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff
Summary: They missed each other.
Word Count: 1,177


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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote in [community profile] fandomcalendar2025-11-03 07:15 am

Fancake Theme for November: Mystery & Suspense

Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.
[community profile] fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules.

This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!
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harlow_turner_chaotic_ace ([personal profile] harlow_turner_chaotic_ace) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-11-02 05:09 pm

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, November 2

Xander: And was there a lesson in all this huh? What did we learn about beer?
Buffy: Foamy
Xander: Good, just as long as that's clear.

~~S4E5: Beer Bad~~




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Cassie Morgan ([personal profile] badfalcon) wrote2025-11-02 08:38 pm
Entry tags:

🍂 November Goals 🍂

 October slipped past in a blur, but November feels like a month for gentle structure — reading because it’s comforting, writing because it helps me breathe, and trying not to treat either as a chore.

📚 Reading Goals

Finish at least 3 books
Keep reading a little most days, even just a few pages
Maybe (finally!) finish The Ministry of Time
Prioritise fun and curiosity over guilt - reading doesn’t have to be productive to be worthwhile
Share a few more updates, even the messy or half-formed ones. That’s part of the story too.


✍️ Writing & Fandom Goals

Update Surface Tension
Update Wolf-Tethered - and try to figure out what story it’s actually trying to be!
Update You Wouldn’t Take My Word for It If You Knew Who Was Talking
Write some Sincaraz - whatever shape it wants to take
Write more Darren/Jannik kink (because it’s always fun)
Maybe write some more Team Sinner Polycule fic
Keep sharing, even if it’s just a snippet or a ramble - words in the wild count


🌿 Life Goals

Keep doing physio for shoulder, hip, and knee - consistency over perfection
Have at least one proper rest day with no guilt
Cook something comforting, ideally involving butter or cinnamon
Go outside on at least one clear, cold morning - just to breathe
Keep organising clothes storage a little at a time — it doesn’t need to be perfect, just better
Get back to daily gratitudes
Keep using Finch - it’s been helping, and that’s worth keeping up
Try one small thing that makes life feel softer


November doesn’t need to be wildly productive; it just needs to feel a little steadier, a little kinder. Here’s to slow progress, good food, and stories that won’t leave us alone. 💛

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milky blueberry ([personal profile] harryschreine) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-11-02 01:39 pm

Mind Your Language: Fanfic: Solo tu

Title: Solo tu
Author: harryschreine
Fandom: Mind Your Language
Pairing:
Giovanni Capello/Maximilion Papandreou
Characters:
Giovanni Capello, (implied) Maria Papandreou
Rating: PG-13
Length: 111 Words
Prompt: #496 Missing
Add. Notes: Set in Season 4 era, 1980s
Summary:  "Max... where are you?"

 

Click here to read! )

 


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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-11-01 04:45 pm
Entry tags:

Challenge 496: Missing

Our new challenge is:

MISSING



As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Monday, November 10th. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

You can view stats for [community profile] fan_flashworks entries and search and filter them via the Community Report and Creator Report. See our FAQ post for more details. (Three cheers for [personal profile] treonb! *\o/*)

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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-11-01 04:41 pm
Entry tags:

Admin: Challenge closed

The Amnesty challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Garden: Original: Collage: National Botanic Garden of Wales, by [personal profile] smallhobbit
Triangle Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Out Of Their World, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Coinincidence Challenge: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Once, Twice, Three Times, by [personal profile] darkjediqueen
The Other Side Challenge: Babylon 5: In Opposition, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Solitary : Marvel Comics : icons : Foggy, by [personal profile] highlander_ii
Purgatory Challenge: Babylon 5: Enduring, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Garden: Original: Collage: Aberglasney Gardens, by [personal profile] smallhobbit
Technology Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Remarkable Device, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Kids Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Under Sentence, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Rain: Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: Like Rain at at Picnic, by [personal profile] smallhobbit
Shot: Canaan: Fanfiction: Be Still My Heart, by [personal profile] infinitum_noctem
Bruise Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Just A Bruise, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Photo Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: The Photograph, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Teaching: Bluey (TV), Original: art: Bingo and a kitten dragon, by [personal profile] china_shop
Shinies Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: One Final Night, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Family Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Like Family, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Elusive or Ephemeral Challenge: Torchwood: Fanfic: Hard to spot, by [personal profile] m_findlow
Punch Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Impulsive Act, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Did You Hear That?: My Journey to You: fanfic: how you ache for the fawn, by [personal profile] teaotter
Season: Original: Poetry: Spring Pageant, by [personal profile] mergatrude
Gift Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Wedding Gift, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
nightmare - Thunderbolts* - fanfic - everybody's looking for something, by [personal profile] fadedwings
Haunted (Amnesty): Mario & Luigi (series): fanart: sufficient imitation, by [personal profile] ecto_one_spengler
Sorry: Dragon Age: Fanfiction: Miserere Mei, by [personal profile] thehungrycity
Tree: Starsky & Hutch: Fanfiction: Glad to be Home, by [personal profile] lucy_roman
Bruise + Healing: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Won’t Matter, by [personal profile] veronyxk84
One Night Only Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: For All Time, by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Garden/Brilliant Challenge: X-Men/Avengers: Fan Fic: This Love, by [personal profile] apachefirecat
riddle: Anne of Green Gables: Podfic: making the obvious into riddles (I will always love you), by [personal profile] bluedreaming
Negative Space Challenge: No Fandom: Junk Journal Page: Surviving is Succeeding, by [personal profile] drabblewriter

Congratulations to [personal profile] veronyxk84, who earned The Unbelievable (72 Challenge Streak) badge!

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Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

The Community Report and Creator Report will be updated shortly with the entries from this round. See our FAQ for more details.

New challenge coming right up!
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VeroNyxK84 ([personal profile] veronyxk84) wrote in [community profile] su_herald2025-11-02 12:14 am

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, November 1

WILLOW: Snyder must be in charge of the volunteer safety program for Halloween this year.
XANDER: Note his interesting take on the volunteer concept.
BUFFY: What's the deal?
XANDER: Oh, a bunch of little kids need people to take them trick-or-treating. Sign up and get your own pack of sugar-hyped little runts for the night.
BUFFY: Yikes. I'll stick to vampires.

~~BtVS 2x06 “Halloween”~~




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Cassie Morgan ([personal profile] badfalcon) wrote2025-11-01 10:33 pm

📚 October Reading Wrap-Up

October was… a lot. Between uni starting (!!!), work chaos, and a migraine that just would not quit, reading was more of a background hum than a main feature. But hey - two books finished is progress, and I’ll take that as a win.

📖 What I Read
The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A satisfying end to the Percy Jackson series! I enjoyed the scale of it, even if it didn’t hit quite as hard as some of the earlier books for me.
The Kiss Curse – Erin Sterling ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Cozy witchy romance with autumnal vibes - perfect for spooky season reading, even if I read most of it under a blanket trying to ignore my migraine.

☕ What I Didn’t Read (But Still Counts)

I made progress on several ongoing reads, even if I didn’t actually finish them. And honestly, that’s kind of the mood for October - slow, steady, distracted by tutorials and caffeine.

I also managed to start three new books this month - because apparently my brain’s motto is “finish? never heard of her.” So despite finishing two, I somehow ended up with more books on my “currently reading” shelf than I started October with. Classic me.

Still, it’s progress. The list may have grown, but so did the stories I’m excited to return to.

🧠 Life Lately

Uni starting has been both exciting and overwhelming - lots of new routines, brain fog, and figuring out where reading fits into my days again. Work’s been full-on too, so I’m trying to be kind to myself about the pace of everything.

Also: I did read a lot of fic (and wrote a fair bit too), so the stories are still happening - just not always in book form!

🌟 November Reading Goals

Let’s try again, but gently.
  • Finish at least 3 books
  • Keep reading a little most days
  • Maybe finally finish The Ministry of Time
  • Prioritise fun and curiosity over guilt
  • Share a few more updates - even the messy ones
✨ Because even if it’s slow, it still counts.
And hey - if all else fails, there’s always fanfic and hot chocolate. ☕💛
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Katie ([personal profile] drabblewriter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-11-01 04:55 pm

Negative Space Challenge: No Fandom: Junk Journal Page: Surviving is Succeeding

Title: Surviving is Succeeding
Fandom: None
Rating: G
Length: One page
Summary: Surviving is succeeding.

Read more... )
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sad voice freaky clown ([personal profile] feurioo) wrote in [community profile] tv_talk2025-11-01 03:32 pm

Speak Up Saturday 🍀

Assortment of black and white speech bubbles

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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ice cream ([personal profile] bluedreaming) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-11-01 09:17 am

riddle: Anne of Green Gables: Podfic: making the obvious into riddles (I will always love you)

Title: making the obvious into riddles (I will always love you)
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables
Reader's name: bluedreaming
Author's name: bluedreaming
Link to text version of story: text here
Rating: G
Length/file size: 0:58 min, 0.46 mb
Content notes: none
Podficcer's notes: Got a new phone, so I had to try that out instead of my regular mic :D
Summary: Everything comes around the same again, even if it’s different. (A contemporary setting poke at Anne & Diana.)

embedded streaming and direct-download links )
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whimwitch ([personal profile] pendulumscale) wrote in [community profile] fandomcalendar2025-11-01 09:10 am

Yugioh: YGO Rare Pairs Mini Bang - Sign ups open!


Links: | Mastodon | Bsky | AO3 | [community profile] ygorarepairs 

Description: This event focuses on rare pair ships for all Yugioh series (including crossovers), open to writers, artists, and image & video editors. We use tiered rulings to determine rarity for this event based on ao3 statistics. See our FAQ for more info on rarity requirements.


For this year's mini bang, writers will draft a fic for their chosen rare pair, meeting the 4000 word minimum. Then artists will claim at least 1 fic to use as inspiration for their artPartners will collaborate and share their fanworks together during the posting period for this event. Please read our specifications page for more details about expectations for event works.


Sign up to participate with this link: https://forms.gle/1gRezet2nT4j5oEP6


Dates (see Schedule for more info):

  • Signups: Nov 1-Nov 30 (writers may start immediately)
  • Check-in #1 (writers only): Dec 21-23
  • Check-in #2 (writers with claim pitch): Jan 30-Feb 1
  • Claims: Feb 2-6
  • Claims assigned: Feb 7/8
  • Artist WIP share: Feb 20-21
  • Check-in #3 (all participants): Mar 6-7
  • Posting prep: Mar 12-14
  • Posting: Mar 15-Apr 4
Collaborative banner by whimwitch, VioVayo, Meda Princess, lucienslab, and sturionic! Thanks for your help with this ❤️.