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[personal profile] china_shop posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Look and Feel
Rating: M-rated
Length: 1280 words
Acknowledgements: Much thanks to [personal profile] trobadora for beta! <3
Tags: Episode Related, Episode 4, Masturbation, Vague hints of D/s, Handcuffs, Non-explicit fantasies
Summary: Unbidden, he pictures Shen Wei alone in the interview room, composed, proud, and patient.

Look and Feel )
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Title: Unfounded Rumors
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Religious caste, Delenn, Neroon, Lennier.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Rumors, Bargains, and Lies.
Summary: Members of the religious caste are determined to prevent Delenn from surrendering to the warrior caste.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 312: Rumour.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.



[personal profile] infinitum_noctem posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Laundry Day
Fandom: Women's Soccer RPF
Pairings: Hope Solo/Kelley O'Hara
Characters: Hope Solo, Kelley O'Hara
Rating: G
Length: 130 words
Summary: Hope finished Kelley's laundry for her.

Read more... )
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Title: Finding Happiness
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Gwenith, Scott, Travellers.
Rating: PG
Setting: An Act of Love.
Summary: Varian doesn’t want to be anywhere but exactly where he is.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 3: Anywhere But Here.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.



MCU | fanfic | Just a Spill

Dec. 20th, 2025 07:21 pm
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Title: Just a Spill
Fandom: MCU / Avengers
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Content notes: none apply
Summary: Tony's lab is a mess...

note for the mods: using Streak Aid for this one. I'll post another entry for Amnesty proper. =)


Just a Spill )

Challenge 501: Amnesty

Dec. 21st, 2025 01:25 pm
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Our new challenge is our eighty-third:

AMNESTY



During amnesty challenges, you can post works for any of the challenges we've had to date: Complete list of prompts )

See the Community Report for a sortable list of prompts.
Both reports have a random "Any Challenge" button, and the Creator Report also has a random "Unfilled Challenge" button.


Of course, you're always welcome to post multiple works to any challenge if you finish them before the challenge closes, but that isn't always possible. So dust off those unfinished works and half-formed ideas -- now is the time!

In amnesty rounds, include the challenge you are posting for in the subject line of your post (eg, Blanket: Heated Rivalry: Fanart: If on a winter's night).

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 Thursday, 1 January. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom, media 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. Please let us know if you have any trouble accessing the reports.

In September, when we announced the new reports, we confirmed our plan to wait a couple of months and then remove the challenge tags from the comm. That time is drawing near.

This is a reminder that on January 1, 2026, the challenge tags will be going away.

Also, keep an eye out for the next [community profile] ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the comm yet, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

Admin: Challenge closed

Dec. 21st, 2025 01:20 pm
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[personal profile] china_shop posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
The Flood challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Original: poetry: unread by [personal profile] teaotter
IT: Fanfiction: "Do you want a balloon too, Georgie?" by [personal profile] infinitum_noctem
Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: Overwhelmed by [personal profile] smallhobbit
Guardian: fanart: The Gondolier of Dixing by [personal profile] china_shop
Harry Potter: Fanfic: Associates by [personal profile] digthewriter
due South: Fanfiction: Finding Hope by [personal profile] lucy_roman
Torchwood: Fanfic: Devastating Discovery by [personal profile] badly_knitted
Starsky & Hutch: Fanfiction: A Favor Returned by [personal profile] lucy_roman
Subject Line: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Many Emotions by [personal profile] darkjediqueen
Torchwood: Fanfic: When it rains, it pours by [personal profile] m_findlow
Hyouka (Kotenbu): Fanfic: reviving at this late date by [personal profile] bluedreaming
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Sanctuary by [personal profile] veronyxk84
MCU: fanfic: Just a Spill by [personal profile] highlander_ii

\o/ \o/ \o/

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.

In September, when we announced the new reports, we confirmed our plan to wait a couple of months and then remove the challenge tags from the comm. That time is drawing near.

This is a reminder that on January 1, 2026, the challenge tags will be going away.

Next challenge coming right up.
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[personal profile] veronyxk84 posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Sanctuary
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy (implied Spuffy)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S6, during ep. 6x03 “After Life”.
Summary: Buffy struggles with the reality of her coming back to life.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #500 - Flood

Also for: #419 - Frantic by [community profile] anythingdrabble


READ: Sanctuary )
 
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Fandom: Hyouka (Kotenbu)
Mods please use the f: book (category) tag
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: passing reference to a historical event involving death
Author notes: The title is from A Sheet of Ocean by Kazue Shinkawa, translated by Hiroaki Sato.
Summary: Oreki has a patchwork dream.

Read more... )

Recent Reading: Solo Dance

Dec. 20th, 2025 09:25 am
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Last night I wrapped up Solo Dance by Kotomi Li, translated from Japanese by Arthur Morris. This short book is about a young gay Taiwanese woman who struggles with both internal and external homophobia, and eventually moves to Japan looking for understanding.

Queer stories from other countries are always interesting to me and it’s a good reminder that progress has not been even all over the world. Much of the book is pretty depressing, because the protagonist struggled with fitting in even before she realized she was gay, and she has some real struggles. She is battling severe depression for much of the book and at several points, suicidality.

The book is touching in that the protagonist’s struggles feel real and she’s someone who is so close to having positive experience that could change her life for the better, but her luck keeps dropping on the other side each time.

I don’t want to spoil too much about the end, but while I was grateful for the overall tone of the it, it is contrived and not very believable. But I did enjoy the protagonist’s travels leading up to that point. It’s not at all subtle, and it packs a lot more plot into the final handful of chapters than the rest of the book, but it was still sweet to see the protagonist’s perspective shift a little through her engagements with other people.

I’m not sure if it’s the translation or the original prose, but the language is stilted and very emotionally distant. The reader is kept at arm’s length from the protagonist virtually the whole novel, and while we’re often told she’s feeling these intense feelings, I never felt it. It was like reading a clinical report of her feelings, which was disappointing.

This is Li’s first novel, and it reads that way. There’s a lot of heart in it, and I appreciate it for that, but it lacks a lot in technical skill. I would be interested to see more of Li’s future work, when she’s had more time to polish her ability, but I don’t regret taking the time with this one.


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Title: When it rains, it pours
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Gwen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,322 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 500 - Flood
Summary: In the hub, the team are preparing for bad weather..

Read more... )
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Yuletide works are scheduled to go live a little under five days from now, at 9pm UTC 24 December (if all goes well and there are no further pinch hits needed).

COUNTDOWN TO REVEALS

Treats

Treats in both the Madness and Main Yuletide collections are enthusiastically welcomed. You can post a treat for someone in the main collection up until 9pm UTC 24 December, and in the Madness collection up until 9pm UTC 25 December. There's more information about posting treats here. If you're hunting for inspiration, see also the mini-challenges tag at [community profile] yuletide, and of course, please consider treats for pinch hitters.

Pinch hits

We’re still looking for intrepid writers to take on post-deadline pinch hits. As of this post, we need writers for:

PH #184: Aveyond (Video Games), Quasimorph (Video Game), Geneforge

PH #198: even if TEMPEST 宵闇にかく語りき魔女 (Visual Novel), Flowers Series (Visual Novels), Lkyt. (Visual Novel)

As well as offers from writers, we're keen to hear (yuletideadmin@gmail.com) from anyone with tips on how to consume or review details of these canons!

Please look at our outstanding pinch hit details, and help if you can!

Beta requests

Can you help out a fellow writer by beta-reading their work? Please check the hippo-want-ads at the Discord server, or email mods if you can help with one of the following requests and we’ll get you in touch.
As of this post, beta readers are needed for the following requests (click/expand to view):
1.2K T-rated Mayor of Kingstown
15k+ E-rated Damien/Gerald Coldfire Trilogy
7k Batman Wayne Family Adventures
Racepicker and sensitivity reader for a 10k fic featuring a young Black English girl
4.7k slang and other dialogue choices right for a Gen Z Black Londoner, Rivers of London
13k Lunar Chronicles
2.8k fic for The Odd Couple (TV 1970)
4k Nicked by M.T. Anderson

We also have some less time-sensitive beta requests in the server's betas-wanted channel:
WH40k
The Witcher III/Chronicles of Narnia
The Stakeout from Inside No. 9
Daria (Cartoon)



Meanwhile, please check your work

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  • Please check that all required characters feature in the work. This is likely to mean all the characters your recipient tagged, not just the ones they wrote prompts for. Or, if they selected Any, a character from the tag set. They may have selected additional tags that give further guidance about which characters to include - please check that too. If your recipient selected Worldbuilding and you're not sure there's enough of it, get a second opinion - a friend, a beta. If there is any doubt about whether your story contains all the characters it needs to contain, please check with mods. Prompts alone are not automatically permission to leave characters out. The use of additional tags may still leave some grey areas.

  • Please review your author's notes. Yuletide stories are anonymous for one week - do not give your name or link to your personal sites or socials in your author's note. Do not promise expanded, future, or replacement gifts - your work needs to stand alone. And do not apologise for your work in your author's note, or talk about what a struggle it was to write. People often feel doubt as well as excitement when giving someone a story, but don't give your recipient your doubts as part of their gift. In your author's note, please follow the principle that if you cannot say something positive, don't say anything at all.

  • Please check your recipient's Do-Not-Wants. Yes, again.

  • Please check your story in general! You don't have to get it beta read, but please check spelling and grammar. Please make sure that it’s not a wall of text with no spacing between paragraphs - and, conversely, that there aren’t too many blank lines between paragraphs.


(And, having fully prepared for reveals - we hope that you are excited for them! We are!)

Miscellaneous
  • If you're unlikely to be able to comment until the end of the anon period or later, consider letting your author know at the AFK post.
  • You can find beta volunteers at this post or at the Discord server.

LINKS
Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Tag Set | Tag Set App | Community DW | Community LJ | Discord | Pinch hits on Dreamwidth | Beta post

2025 Deadline Has Passed - What Next

Dec. 18th, 2025 10:17 am
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
The deadline has passed, and the main collection is temporarily closed. ETA - now open again!

Congratulations to everyone who has posted! Pat yourself on the back, take a breath, and then please check wordcount, formatting, html; check that you've uploaded the correct version, and that all your text is actually there. You can get to what you've submitted from your Statistics page, or from your Works in Collections. Your story should be marked as "complete" rather than one or more of multiple chapters yet to come.

To all who didn't make it this year: it happens, and we hope you enjoy the collection reveals.

To all who are still working on beta jobs, treats, or pinch hits: thank you and good luck!


Pinch hits coming!!
Post-deadline pinch hits will be available soon at [community profile] yuletide_pinch_hits. This next round will be due at 9 AM UTC, 22 December.

See what time that is in YOUR timezone
See countdown

Beta requests
We have outstanding beta requests on the Yuletide Discord (please see the #hippo-want-ads channel), and more betas are always welcome at the Dreamwidth beta post.


There is also an Away from Keyboard post up on the participant community, for you to (optionally) let your author know if it'll be a while before you can read your gift.


If there seems to be an issue with your posted work, we'll contact you via the email address associated with your AO3 account. Please check you can access that!


Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app

Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.

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[personal profile] darkjediqueen posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Many Emotions
Rating: R
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Angst, Hostage Situation
Summary: There were so many emotions.
Word Count: 3,444


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Title:A Favor Returned
Author:[personal profile] lucy_roman
Rating:Teen and up
Summary:Starsky makes a mess, Hutch tries to clear it up
Pairing:Starsky/Hutch
Word Count:740

A Favor Returned )

Recent Reading: The Tomb of Dragons

Dec. 16th, 2025 08:58 pm
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Time and circumstance conspired to keep me from reviewing the second book in the Cemeteries of Amalo book, The Grief of Stones, but today I finished the third book, Tomb of the Dragons and I do have time to review this third and final book in the trilogy.

This is NOT a spoiler-free review.

Tomb of the Dragons retains much of what I loved about the first two books, including Thara’s character and his investigations into the underbelly of Amalo, with a healthy helping of Ethuveraz politics.

Thara is having to adjust to the events at the end of the last book, and here, I feel, is where we truly see how important his calling is to him—how he handles losing it. It gives some good perspective to why he is so dogged in pursuing his work goals—his calling really is his sense of purpose, his life. Watching Thara grapple with this change and its indefinite consequences was fascinating.

However, it also retains in greater measure some of the things that I didn’t love about the earlier books, including Addison’s obsession with minutiae. I can only read about the characters traveling on this or that tram line so many times before my eyes start skipping lines to the things that really matter. This would bother me less if it didn’t feel like it came at the expense of more important things.

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