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VeroNyxK84 ([personal profile] veronyxk84) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-08 08:35 pm

Issue: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Punching Bag

Title: Punching Bag
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S7, after ep. 7x16 “Storyteller.”
Summary: Buffy finds a way to let off some steam.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #490 - Issue
Also for: Dance + Eyes + Strength by [community profile] sweetandshort


READ: Punching Bag/Double drabble )
 
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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-08 10:28 am
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Eligible Nominations for Yuletide 2025

Yuletide is a fanfic exchange for rare and tiny fandoms. When you nominate, please follow these guidelines to help us approve and organise fandoms.

We have not made any changes to eligibility this year. However, we made a few major changes last year, loosening our requirements around the scope of individual nominations for anthologies and RPF. You’re now welcome to nominate anthology canons (where multiple short installments of canon are different stories) by their overarching title, but if one person nominates an anthology canon, and another nominates individual installments of that canon (episodes, or skits, or stories) we will bring this up for discussion when clarifying nominations, and will approve one or the other, not both.

Similarly, you can nominate an RPF tag that covers a large profession or long period of history if you want, provided that the number of qualifying works under that tag on AO3 is under 1,000. However, if two people submit RPF fandoms where one fandom is a subset of the other, we will bring this up for discussion when clarifying nominations, and approve one or the other, not both. We strongly encourage you to coordinate your nominations with fellow RPF fans - a coordination post will be posted here shortly.


Here is what can be nominated for Yuletide 2025! )

The Evidence Post )

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ice cream ([personal profile] bluedreaming) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-08 07:05 am

Issue: Solo Leveling: Fanfic: invisible ripples (maybe in the future)

Fandom: Solo Leveling
Mods please use the f: book (category) tag
Rating: T
Length: 300 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: The title is from A Great Big Tree by Kiyoko Nagase, translated by Takako Lento, and Alien by James Harpur.
Summary: An attempt at a bit of a Cha Haein character study.

Read more... )
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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-08 08:04 pm

Torchwood: Fanfic: Pulp fiction

Title: Pulp fiction
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,292 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 490 - Issue
Summary: Ianto thinks he’s finally cracked a secret message lurking in his pile of monthly trash rags.

Read more... )
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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2025-09-07 08:28 pm

engine running hotter than a boiling kettle

Despite getting a late start all weekend and being distracted by a new matching game on my phone (I can lose hours to these stupid games), I got some good cooking done!

Yesterday, I made garlic & mozzarella milk bread (pics), which turned out quite well even though I forgot the salt due to its weird placement in the recipe (in theory I understand why it is where it is, but in practice it makes no sense to do it that way), but I used salted butter, so I don't think I missed it, and the bread rose just fine.

This afternoon, I finally made this strawberry cheesecake since my cream cheese was well past its use-by date and my heavy cream was getting there! It's still chilling, but when I licked the spatula after pouring the filling into the pie plate, all I really tasted was the five-spice powder. Which I like! But it's not what I would expect given the amount of freeze-dried strawberry powder in it. I guess we'll see how it goes when I cut into it tomorrow. (I also have this issue with nutmeg - even when I try to go easy on it in something, it still is frequently the only thing I taste after using it. I don't know why!)

And then I finally got up and made meatballs with oregano and red wine vinegar to have for lunch during the week. This was a method my grandmother used to use, and it is a great way to eat meatballs (or veggies - she also used to make it with zucchini, and I imagine you could do other types of squash or eggplant this way) - you make and cook the meatballs and set them aside. Then you saute onions in some olive oil (or in the beef fat left if you've fried your meatballs - I do mine in the oven, so I just use oil) and lower the heat and let them caramelize a bit, then you put the meatballs back in, sprinkle about 1/8 cup of dried oregano over them, and then pour in 1/3 - 3/4 cup of red wine vinegar. Be careful as billows of deliciously pungent smoke will rise from your frying pan at that point! Then lower the heat and let it all simmer for 10 or 15 minutes. Good both hot and at room temperature! (I haven't made it with zucchini myself, but for that, you slice and fry or bake your zucchini, and then continue on with the onions/oregano/vinegar as described.)

I have taken the garbage out and started the dishwasher, so now I am prepared for the awfulness of Sunday night. Sigh.

*
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a little snacki snacc ([personal profile] snacky) wrote in [community profile] narniaexchange2025-09-07 03:05 pm

The stories are live!

Go, read, leave comments!

We'll be here when you get back.
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a little snacki snacc ([personal profile] snacky) wrote in [community profile] narniaexchange2025-09-07 02:03 pm

ONE HOUR WARNING

Barring any last minute emergencies, the reveal will be at 3 pm ET. So just about an hour left for treats and edits. We're almost there!
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lucy_roman ([personal profile] lucy_roman) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-07 01:31 pm

Law & Order: Fanfiction: The Burning Issue

Title: The Burning Issue
Author: [personal profile] lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: A missing scene from the episode Burn Card (s18e14). Following Ed's suspension Lupo tries to talk to Bernard.
Word Count: 300

The Burning Issue )
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penaltywaltz ([personal profile] penaltywaltz) wrote in [community profile] wipbigbang2025-09-06 11:52 pm

2025 Round: WIP Big Bang/ WIP Reverse Bang - Pinch Hits Extended To Some Point On September 8th

Pinch hit claims will end at some point on September 8th due to a family emergency on Mod Ragna's part. If you are interested in claiming this fic, get your claims in by 11:59 PM PST on September 7th to be safe. These are links to the Tumblr advertisements for the remaining WIPBB and WIPRB projects. Please feel free to also share them on Tumblr or in other places to boost them. Ship/character info, warnings and summaries are listed for each fic at their link!

WIPBB Pinch Hits:

Captive Prince - "by fight or fate"
Formula 1 RPF - "lake effect"
Formula 1 RPF - "you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling"
Formula 1 RPF/Motorcycle RPF/Motorsports RPF - "We both know hearts can change"
Invisible Inc. - "Hurt"
Invisible Inc. - "Resistance and Escape: A Review"
My Hero Academia | Boku No Hero Academia - "Play With Me Kaachan"
My Hero Academia | Boku No Hero Academia - "United Heroes"
Professional Wrestling - "Take My Fucking Hand…"
Saiyuki - "Winter's Treasure"
Zero Escape - "roadkill"

WIPRB Pinch Hits:

Invisible Inc. - "Night Time"
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind - "Jojo Bebop"
Naruto, Naruto Shippuden - "Like Him - A Naruto Animatic"
Naruto, Naruto Shippuden - "Mama's Boy - A Sasuke Uchiha Animatic"
One Piece - "Ivan"
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - "BinggeYuan Goals"
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - "Someone PLEASE get this man a modeling contract"
The Untamed/The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/Heaven Official's Blessing - "A moment in understanding"
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a little snacki snacc ([personal profile] snacky) wrote in [community profile] narniaexchange2025-09-06 09:13 pm

(no subject)

Hello friends!

Story reveals are tomorrow, sometime in the afternoon ET. I will post a one hour warning before revealing the stories, just in case anyone is working on some last minute edits or treats.

An abundance of fic awaits tomorrow!
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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2025-09-07 03:36 am
Entry tags:

biting off more than I can chew

I feel like I was better at this when I was younger.

Got a big dent in my self-assurance right now, and struggling: tired and a little anxious after this setback.

*sigh*

Next flight up in 18 hours...
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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-09-06 12:50 pm
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-06 12:43 pm

FAKE: Fanfic: Burning Issue


Title: Burning Issue
Fandom: FAKE
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, JJ.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Overhearing Dee and Ryo’s conversation, JJ manages to get the wrong end of the stick.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 490: Issue.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.



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swan_tower ([personal profile] swan_tower) wrote2025-09-05 05:10 pm

New Worlds: Supply Lines

My New Worlds patrons having voted for a set of military topics this month, we're taking a look at the logistical side of warfare! Not to the depth that an officer or military historian would study it, of course, but we can at least manage a top-level overview of how worldbuilding factors shape the way armies get fed. Comment over there!

(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/aUYkJO)
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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote2025-09-05 06:12 pm

Foundation 3.09

In which it's penultimate episode of the season time, which means things get very dark indeed, though not in all storylines.

The Cleons Strike Back? Revenge of the Cleons? Master and Apprentice? )
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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2025-09-05 09:00 pm

Chicken Jockey from Minnesota!

Something with a bit more humour, because this always makes me laugh:



I first saw this on social media, but most recently I saw [personal profile] conuly post it.

The funniest part is the very deliberate way the announcer says "Chicken Jockey" almost like she can't quite believe what she's reading. (Or, it might just be the Minnesota inflection. I can't tell!)

--

Amusing point: We are five days into September and I have already written over half of what I wrote in August. August was absolutely a MISERABLE month for writing.
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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2025-09-05 07:12 pm

not quite

I spent most of the day in the room, listning to an irregular rumble that never quite seemed to stop...

..around 5:30pm, I realised that it was the elevators.

I called down to the front desk and they promptly moved me...to a room at the back corner which smelled like it had previously housed a smoker. You're not allowed to smoke in the rooms, sure. But someone who smokes like a chimney had inhabited that room not too long ago, and I could smell it.

I called down to the front desk, they sent up housekeeping, who sprayed perfume through the room. Not helping! And then they moved me yet again - about four rooms along and there's no smell and no elevator rumble...

What a drama. And I'd slept pretty well last night. It was just during the day that I was listening to that rumble and thought at first it must be construction work, only to realise after hours that, no, it's probably the elevators.

Bad design, as my dad the architect would say.

At any rate, I'm moved again.

NOW can the drama be over? Please? Pretty please?

I'm feeling better still - more energy, but the slightly congested nose and throat again. I stopped taking the phenylephrine after last night. And looking through the drugs the doc gave me, there's an anti-histamine, and an anti-inflammatory, and when I tried taking the metformin (another anti-inflammatory) last night...let's just say it got unpretty.

Tonight and tomorrow is to make sure I'm back to (near-)fighting fit. I should have been in Georgia, by now, meeting the rest of the tour...

*sigh* Okay, no dwelling. Just resting.
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estirose ([personal profile] estirose) wrote2025-09-04 05:53 pm

What I'm currently playing, September 4 2025

Not all at once, obviously! But I've spent at least a couple of minutes with the following games since last Friday:

* Fantasy Life i. I'm post-game, just trying to collect some special flowers and rise up in various Lives. I'm Hero in farmer and working on Hero in Magician. (To be honest, I've mostly just gone in to do flower collection this week.)

* Stardew Valley. Currently doing a my-mods-only run, just finished up the Community Center in early Summer year 3 (I never ever let that completion run past year 2!), working on trying to convince the game RNG to give me the last remaining Dwarf Scroll and have just set up a mahogany forest as I need about 300 hardwood (200 for one thing and 100 for another).

* Vampire Survivors. This was on sale so I've kind of poked at it. (I also picked up the Among Us DLC because Among Us.)

* Baldur's Gate 3. It was on sale as well, so I went for it! Currently playing a half-elf bard. Also trying hard not to kill a druid that I would really like to thud. Have not found one of the companions that was with me in the prologue. Would like to do so. Playing blind, which means I may miss people.

* Hustle Cat. Someone on fandomgiftbasket would like Hustle Cat fic. This game doesn't play well with Linux boxes, but I do have a Win 11 virtual machine, so I just shared my Steam library off to the Steam account I use for my Windows boxes to play through it again. I may or may not be able to write fic, but heck, it doesn't hurt to play it again.
infinitum_noctem ([personal profile] infinitum_noctem) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-04 07:00 pm

Horizon: Zero Dawn: Fanfiction: The Path to Belonging

Title: The Path to Belonging
Fandom: Horizon: Zero Dawn
Characters: Aloy
Rating: G
Length: 44 words
Summary: 3 sentence fic. Aloy is well cared for, but lonely.

Read more... )
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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2025-09-04 07:11 pm
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I'm going there no more to roam

There's so much TV coming back soon:

- the new season of Only Murders in the Building starts on 9/8
- the new season of Slow Horses starts 9/24
- the new season of Abbott Elementary starts 10/1

And it's not tv, but the new season of Batman: Wayne Family Adventures also starts 10/1 - there was a new mini episode last night, featuring Alfred being the best. <3

Meanwhile, I still have not watched:

- season 2 of Andor
- season 2 of Wednesday
- season 2 of Poker Face (though I did watch the first episode - the one with Cynthia Erivo, who was fantastic)

And of course, China Beach is finally available on a streaming service I do not have, and without some of the iconic music they used, but it would definitely be worth checking out if I wanted to pay for another streamer, which I don't.

Instead, I seem to have fallen into another Elementary rewatch. Despite some of the ghastly murders, it is a very comforting watch and I love Joan and Sherlock's relationship so much. And I might be feeling a Killjoys rewatch coming up soon too. I guess we'll see.

There are other shows I keep meaning to check out but have not as of yet - there is just too much to watch and too little time.

*