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Hamster doin' his best in this big world ([personal profile] crantz) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2025-09-10 05:28 am

Yuletide Fandom Promo 2025!



Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign-ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

Seeking volunteers to run a spreadsheet for the promo post! Please contact me if you have made one!




Here are some areas you can cover:

<b>Title</b>:
Please put your fandom's title in the subject of your comment, too. This helps people find your promo again.

<b>Media</b>:

<b>Approx length</b>:

<b>Where to find it</b>:
(If giving links, please only link to legal sources. You may want to encourage people to contact you directly if they are having trouble finding a canon and you can give them tips)

<b>What is it, in summary?</b>:

<b>What do you love about it?</b>:

<b>What sort of things are you likely to request for it?</b>:

<b>Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?</b>:

<b>Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence)</b>:
This is at your discretion and is not expected to be comprehensive




(Bonus options: What are you thinking of requesting for this? If you're thinking of nominating worldbuilding, what sort of worldbuilding topics might people explore?)


Useful tip (Not required, but helps people if they want to engage with your fandom!):


- It's best to make each fandom its own entry with its own title in the subject line! That makes it easier for people to find/see what you're promoting! Don't worry about 'spam', that is the entire point of this entry and you're using it exactly as intended.



Previous fandom promo posts can be found at this tag!
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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-10 10:17 pm
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Yuletide 2025 Evidence Post

Yuletide 2025 nominations begin on September 15 and end at 9 PM UTC on 26 September. See what can be nominated on the eligibility post. You can brainstorm, coordinate, and promote your fandoms at the participant community on DW.

Some fandoms need evidence to be approved. Comment on this post if:
  • The fandom you are nominating has too many stories to be eligible, but only because a tiny pool of authors has written most of it, OR because a significant majority are unrelated but tagged as crossovers, OR because a significant majority tagged as 'English' aren't in English

  • The fandom you are nominating appears on AO3 as part of a larger “umbrella” fandom, but you can clearly show that the fics for your fandom are under the limit

  • The fandom you are nominating is a fanwork (please include a link to the creator’s permissions statement and also describe how the fanwork is distinct from its source fandom)

  • The fandom you are nominating is an original work shared on a fan archive (please include a link to the creator’s permissions statement)

  • The fandom you are nominating is a social media post (please check RPF restrictions), headline, meme, or other “ephemeral” canon (please include the URL for the canon)

  • The fandom you are nominating includes a Worldbuilding nomination for an RPF or other real-world fandom

  • The fandom you are nominating includes the words “All Media Types” or “and Related Fandoms” and you believe you need to use that label

  • The fandom you are nominating is closely related to another fandom, especially if the other fandom is ineligible (ex: a Star Wars cartoon or tie-in novel, a prequel to a popular book series, or an audio drama sequel of an ineligible TV show)

  • The fandom you are nominating does not yet exist on AO3 and is hard to google (very common name, few sources in English, etc). Note: Most new fandoms do not need evidence.

Mods will not consider the following evidence:
  • Use of original characters

  • Crossovers

  • Fic quality

  • Ambiguous endings in stories that are marked 'complete'

  • Mistagging, wrong language, or not-many-authors evidence for fandoms that appear to have 1100+ eligible works on AO3. If you believe your fandom should be an exception, talk to the mods directly before commenting with evidence


If your fandom is one of these cases, you must leave evidence this year even if the fandom has been approved in the past. Otherwise, mods may reject the fandom if it’s nominated without evidence.

You must submit evidence before nominations close at 9 PM UTC on 26 September. It may take us some time to review and respond to your post, so if your nomination slots depend on our response, we recommend posting your evidence as early as possible!

Please put the fandom name in the subject line of your comment as well as inside your comment.

Suggested template:
<b>Fandom</b>:
<b>Possible issue with the fandom</b>:
<b>Why this fandom should be considered eligible</b>:
<b>Link to source (ephemeral fandoms, fanworks, and original works on fan archives)</b>:
<b>Link to creator's permissions statement (fanworks and original works on fan archives)</b>:

You are welcome to link to documents containing your evidence, if your post is long.

You can use bookmarklets for checking how many of your fandom’s works on AO3 are in English, complete, and over 1,000 words long, for any rating.

If your fandom appears too big before you use those filters, and is easily under 1,000 works after you apply the filters, then you don't need to tell us about it.

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sholio: murderbot group from episode 10 (Murderbot-family1)
Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-09-10 12:12 am
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Murderbot fic: Crime and Punishment

DW catchup continues ... I posted this on AO3 yesterday, and I wrote most of this fic in the car, actually, on the 7-hour drive home from my mom's part of Alaska. I would drive for a while and think of a new section of fic and stop to write a bit on my laptop.

Crime and Punishment (Murderbot books, Mensah POV, 2500 words)
Missing scene/tag for Fugitive Telemetry. Mensah gets a call from station security. (Entirely bookverse.)

Follow-up on
Spoilers for Fugitive Telemetrythe refugee shooting Murderbot in the novella.
Mostly fluff and banter, in spite of the actual topic.

Fic under the cut )
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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-09 07:25 pm

Cdrama: poetry: Receiving the Edict

Title: Receiving the Edict
Fandom: pretty much every Chinese historical drama ever. (Mods: use the cdrama tag).
Challenge: Issue


Green robes and gold silk.
A wave of bent knees, bowed heads.
The emperor speaks.
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radiantfracture ([personal profile] radiantfracture) wrote2025-09-09 05:37 pm

Bonus Ross Gay poem

Again
By Ross Gay

Because I love you, and beneath the uncountable stars
I have become the delicate piston threading itself through your chest,

I want to tell you a story I shouldn't but will and in the meantime neglect, Love,
the discordant melody spilling from my ears but attend,

instead, to this tale, for a river burns inside my mouth
and it wants both purgation and to eternally sip your thousand drippings;

and in the story is a dog and unnamed it leads to less heartbreak,
so name him Max, and in the story are neighborhood kids

who spin a yarn about Max like I'm singing to you, except they tell a child,
a boy who only moments earlier had been wending through sticker bushes

to pick juicy rubies, whose chin was, in fact, stained with them,
and combining in their story the big kids make

the boy who shall remain unnamed believe Max to be sick and rabid,
and say his limp and regular smell of piss are just two signs,

but the worst of it, they say, is that he'll likely find you in the night,
and the big kids do not giggle, and the boy does not giggle,

but lets the final berries in his hand drop into the overgrowth
at his feet, and if I spoke the dream of the unnamed boy

I fear my tongue would turn an arm of fire so I won't, but
know inside the boy's head grew a fire beneath the same stars

as you and I, Love, your leg between mine, the fine hairs
on your upper thigh nearly glistening in the night, and the boy,

the night, the incalculable mysteries as he sleeps with a stuffed animal
tucked beneath his chin and rolls tight against his brother

in their shared bed, who rolls away, and you know by now
there is no salve to quell his mind’s roaring machinery

and I shouldn't tell you, but I will,
the unnamed boy

on the third night of the dreams which harden his soft face
puts on pants and a sweatshirt and quietly takes the spade from the den

and more quietly leaves his house where upstairs his father lies dreamless,
and his mother bends her body into his,

and beneath these same stars, Love, which often, when I study them,
seem to recede like so many of the lies of light,

the boy walks to the yard where Max lives attached to a steel cable
spanning the lawn, and the boy brings hot dogs which he learned

from Tom & Jerry, and nearly urinating in his pants he tosses them
toward the quiet and crippled thing limping across the lawn,

the cable whispering above the dew-slick grass, and Max whimpers,
and the boy sees a wolf where stands this ratty

and sad and groveling dog and beneath these very stars
Max raises his head to look at the unnamed boy

with one glaucous eye nearly glued shut
and the other wet from the cool breeze and wheezing

Max catches the gaze of the boy who sees,
at last, the raw skin on the dog's flank, the quiver

of his spindly legs, and as Max bends his nose
to the franks the boy watches him struggle

to snatch the meat with gums, and bringing the shovel down
he bends to lift the meat to Max's toothless mouth,

and rubs the length of his throat and chin,
Max arching his neck with his eyes closed, now,

and licking the boy's round face, until the boy unchains the dog,
and stands, taking slow steps backward through the wet grass and feels,

for the first time in days, the breath in his lungs, which is cool,
and a little damp, spilling over his small lips, and he feels,

again, his feet beneath him, and the earth beneath them, and starlings
singing the morning in, and the somber movement of beetles

chewing the leaves of the white birch, glinting in the dark, and he notices,
Darling, an upturned nest beneath the tree, and flips it looking for the blue eggs

of robins, but finds none, and placing a rumpled crimson feather in his mouth
slips the spindly thicket into another tree, which he climbs

to watch the first hint of light glancing above the fields, and the boy
eventually returns to his thorny fruit bush where an occasional prick

leaves on his arm or leg a spot of blood the color of these raspberries
and tasting of salt, and filling his upturned shirt with them he beams

that he could pull from the earth that which might make you smile,
Love, which you’ll find in the fridge, on the bottom shelf, behind the milk,

in the bowl you made with your own lovely hands.

§rf§
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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-10 10:19 am

Thursday Murder Club: meta/poem: Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix)

Title: Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix)
Fandom: Mods, please tag as f: movie (category).
Rating: G-rated
Length: 226 words
Summary: Five issues I had with Chris Columbus' film adaptation of Thursday Murder Club (2025), written in poetry form for no good reason, idek. Just me grumbling, really. Contains major spoilers for the book and film.

Review of Thursday Murder Club (Netflix): a poem )
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tielan ([personal profile] tielan) wrote2025-09-09 11:22 am

Georgia

I made it to Georgia.

Left HK in the middle of a Typhoon 8 (IDK what it was, but they started cancelling Monday flights, so it sounded pretty serious). Reached Istanbul on time as per schedule.

Istanbul was redoing their airport last time I came through here in 2022. It is the headquarters of Turkish Airlines which services a large chunk of Eastern Europe and Western Asia (and Africa, and all the major world centres).

It's freaking HUGE. And shiny. And new. But there are not enough seats, signposts, or information about what to do and where to go and what needs to be done. And nobody could tell me if I was too late to make my flight, so I didn't really have time to look at everything, although I really wanted to...

Sometimes I have to remind myself that almost everything I can get in a major airport, I can find back home in Sydney, home-made and better quality.

Made the flight to Georgia, got off, met the driver who took me to the place where the tour group was today.

after 36 hours in Georgia )
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rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote2025-09-09 09:53 am

We Live Here Now, by Sarah Pinborough



This novel appears to be a well-written and enjoyable but conventional haunted house story; it turns out to have a twist on that theme which I've never encountered before. I very much enjoyed discovering that for myself, so if you think you might too, don't read the spoilers.

A young couple, Emily and Freddie, move from London to Larkin Lodge, an old house in Dartmoor, while Emily's recovering from a serious accident. After she fell off a cliff, her heart stopped and one leg was permanently damaged. Doctors warned her and Freddie that she might suffer from post-sepsis mental complications, so when she starts perceiving weird things involving Larkin Lodge, both she and Freddie think it's probably her, not the house. Emily and Freddie's marriage is not the greatest, but is that something that was previously going on, or is it cracking under stress, or is the house having a bad effect on them?

Emily and Freddie are not the best people, but that really works for the story. I thought it was a lot of fun.

Spoilers! Read more... )

Content notes: Not even slightly gory or gross. Mention of a miscarriage (off-page, not described). Some violence, not graphic. No on-page animal harm, but the body of a dead raven is found.
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penaltywaltz ([personal profile] penaltywaltz) wrote in [community profile] wipbigbang2025-09-08 04:21 pm

2025 Round: WIPBB/WIPRB: Posting Has Begun / All Open Forms Are Now Closed!

The forms for Posting Date Claims, Pinch Hit Claims and Check-In #4 are now closed! If you have not claimed a date you are not able to participate in the posting portion, as the form was open for a full extra week and needed to be filled out by all participants who planned on posting.

Posting has begun! You can see all the finished projects on Tumblr by following the "completed shit" tag on our Tumblr (linked for your convenience).

The Bragging Rights template is up here!

It includes a link to the AO3 collection, a copy of the Bragging Rights templates for both WIPBB authors/WIPRB artists and WIPBB artists/WIPRB authors, and a link to the form you need to submit a link to your bragging rights or finished projects if you signed up and have a check-in ID (pinch hitters don't have to fill that form out). Please use the bragging right template to submit your finished works to either Tumblr or Dreamwidth!
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Highlander II ([personal profile] highlander_ii) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-08 05:54 pm

Superior Iron Man : icons : the nightmare scenario

Title: the nightmare scenario
Fandom: Superior Iron Man comics / Marvel 616
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of covers of issues of Superior Iron Man comics


the nightmare scenario )
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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-08 01:39 pm
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Yuletide 2025 Sticky Post

Yuletide is an annual fic (1000+ words) exchange for rare and obscure fandoms run through this community and through the Archive of Our Own.

Current phase: Prepare to nominate your fandoms! See what fandoms are eligible here. Some types of fandoms need clarifications for us to approve them - please submit evidence here.

2025 Schedule

Monday 15 to Friday 26 September: Nominations (end 9pm UTC 26 September)
Tuesday 14 to Friday 24 October: Sign-ups (end 9pm UTC 24 October)
Sunday 26 October: Assignments out (may be earlier)
Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 24 December: Main collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 25 December: Madness collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

Schedule, Rules, & Collection [still being tweaked for this year] | Contact Mods | Tag Set | Community DW | Community LJ | Discord | Pinch hits on Dreamwidth
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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"