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Lake Lewisia #1351
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scrubjayspeaksShe found the stash of silverware in the back of her grandmother’s closet after her death, swaddled in mouse-nibbled dishcloths, crammed in byzantine arrangements into dusty cardboard boxes. All of it was black with tarnish from decades of disuse, save one piece she took at first to be the wedge of a cake slicer. The knife was big and freshly polished to a shine like moonlight by someone who evidently knew her grandmother’s house and belongings better than she did.
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Beta please! Space flash fic
Jan. 3rd, 2026 09:04 ammerrileemakes posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
betapleaseFandom: A tiny space fandom that I won't name for reasons. There is virtually no canon in the story and can be read canon free.
Characters/Pairings: None
Rating & Warnings: G, no warnings
Estimated Fic Length: 1000-2000 words
Notes: This is a short canon-free story set in a very nebulous fandom. I'd love for a beta to read for sense, structure and general readability.
Characters/Pairings: None
Rating & Warnings: G, no warnings
Estimated Fic Length: 1000-2000 words
Notes: This is a short canon-free story set in a very nebulous fandom. I'd love for a beta to read for sense, structure and general readability.
Media Round Up: Loose Ends
Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:24 amforestofgloryIt’s been ages since I did one of these! But I haven’t been reading or watching much that I want to talk about the last couple of months. I read a couple of things that I just don’t have anything to say about, and a ton of fic which I never include in these round ups. And I’ve watched almost nothing – not even mini dramas
But there’s couple of things I did want to talk about and I thought it would be nice to post about the last little bit of 2025 media before I start a new running notes document for the new year.
Crush of Music—This Chinese reality show is the one thing I have been watching recently. Crush of music is a show where songwriters demo original songs and then through a mildly gameifed process are matched with a singer (or two) who then performs the song. It’s the second season of Melody Journey, but I have no idea why the English title is different (the Chinese title is the same) It's a really fun low stress show and features some of my favorite singers! (Liu Yuning and Zhou Shen) I can't really rec the show though because the subtitles are very very bad -- I'm just watching anyway even though I can only understand about half of what people are saying. But it turns out that not understanding the show makes for very slow watching
Off Menu: A Graphic Novel written by Oliver Gerlach drawn by Kelsi Jo Silva—Cute YA graphic novel in D&D-ish world. It’s about a cook called Soup – kind of a coming of age thing with lots of cooking and community. Very Charming!
The Fellowship of The Ring— R has been reading LotR to the kid, they haven’t quite finished but they are close enough to done that we watched the 1st movie. I’ve never been huge into LotR but it was fun to watch – so many classic lines! I did kinda find myself wishing that the characters' names would show up on screen the first time they appear the way they do in the cdrama I watch. NZ remains very beautiful!
But there’s couple of things I did want to talk about and I thought it would be nice to post about the last little bit of 2025 media before I start a new running notes document for the new year.
Crush of Music—This Chinese reality show is the one thing I have been watching recently. Crush of music is a show where songwriters demo original songs and then through a mildly gameifed process are matched with a singer (or two) who then performs the song. It’s the second season of Melody Journey, but I have no idea why the English title is different (the Chinese title is the same) It's a really fun low stress show and features some of my favorite singers! (Liu Yuning and Zhou Shen) I can't really rec the show though because the subtitles are very very bad -- I'm just watching anyway even though I can only understand about half of what people are saying. But it turns out that not understanding the show makes for very slow watching
Off Menu: A Graphic Novel written by Oliver Gerlach drawn by Kelsi Jo Silva—Cute YA graphic novel in D&D-ish world. It’s about a cook called Soup – kind of a coming of age thing with lots of cooking and community. Very Charming!
The Fellowship of The Ring— R has been reading LotR to the kid, they haven’t quite finished but they are close enough to done that we watched the 1st movie. I’ve never been huge into LotR but it was fun to watch – so many classic lines! I did kinda find myself wishing that the characters' names would show up on screen the first time they appear the way they do in the cdrama I watch. NZ remains very beautiful!
2025 Music Wrap-Up
Jan. 2nd, 2026 08:38 amscrubjayspeaksAs mentioned previously, I don’t use streaming music services. So I do a DIY end-of-year wrap-up for my music listening. Obviously, I listened to music I already owned as well, but this is the highlight reel of the year’s new purchases.
I feel like this summary could just be a copy-paste from last year: more instrumental music, less pulled from the classics I missed in my youth. A lot of musicians I love had new albums this year, so I spent a fair amount of time listening to very current music.
I had a lot of weird one-offs, often found via poking around on Bandcamp. I often found that while I liked them enough to buy and listen to the whole thing, the albums did not tend to stick for me. That's okay--I know I sometimes come back to music years later and rediscover it when I'm ready. I don't mind.
Top album of the year was, without question, Djo's The Crux. If other albums this year lacked in stickiness, it's because this album was goddamn flypaper. The longer I listened, the more I got out of it, circling back around to tracks that didn't immediately grab me and suddenly finding something to love.
New albums* heard: 64--down yet again, I had fewer multi-album weeks, in part because I bought fewer short/light albums that needed to be bundled to make enough for a week's listening
*(discretely purchased music items, includes singles, EPs, and other short forms along with “full” albums)
Contributing artists: 54 (not counting multi-artist compilations)--same as last year
Oldest album: An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, 1972
Newest album: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (The Mountain Goats, November 7, 2025)
Top artists by albums: Louie Zong continues to lead in this category with four albums, but this wasn't a big year for me to dive deep into the back catalogs
Most repeated albums: Even In Arcadia (Sleep Token), This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway (Lola Young), The Crux (Djo), Coydog (Carter Vail)
Tracks of note: Stunner (Carter Vail), Nervous Dancer (Louie Zong), Anoana (Heilung), We Will All Go Together When We Go (Tom Lehrer), March of Cambreadth (Alexander James Adams), Charlie's Garden (Djo), Alibi (Hurray For The Riff Raff), Factories In Heaven (The Scoffs), SCRAP HEAP (Louie Zong)
I feel like this summary could just be a copy-paste from last year: more instrumental music, less pulled from the classics I missed in my youth. A lot of musicians I love had new albums this year, so I spent a fair amount of time listening to very current music.
I had a lot of weird one-offs, often found via poking around on Bandcamp. I often found that while I liked them enough to buy and listen to the whole thing, the albums did not tend to stick for me. That's okay--I know I sometimes come back to music years later and rediscover it when I'm ready. I don't mind.
Top album of the year was, without question, Djo's The Crux. If other albums this year lacked in stickiness, it's because this album was goddamn flypaper. The longer I listened, the more I got out of it, circling back around to tracks that didn't immediately grab me and suddenly finding something to love.
New albums* heard: 64--down yet again, I had fewer multi-album weeks, in part because I bought fewer short/light albums that needed to be bundled to make enough for a week's listening
*(discretely purchased music items, includes singles, EPs, and other short forms along with “full” albums)
Contributing artists: 54 (not counting multi-artist compilations)--same as last year
Oldest album: An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, 1972
Newest album: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (The Mountain Goats, November 7, 2025)
Top artists by albums: Louie Zong continues to lead in this category with four albums, but this wasn't a big year for me to dive deep into the back catalogs
Most repeated albums: Even In Arcadia (Sleep Token), This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway (Lola Young), The Crux (Djo), Coydog (Carter Vail)
Tracks of note: Stunner (Carter Vail), Nervous Dancer (Louie Zong), Anoana (Heilung), We Will All Go Together When We Go (Tom Lehrer), March of Cambreadth (Alexander James Adams), Charlie's Garden (Djo), Alibi (Hurray For The Riff Raff), Factories In Heaven (The Scoffs), SCRAP HEAP (Louie Zong)
25 recs in 18 fandoms
Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:23 amchoirwoman posting in yuletideEnchanted Forest Chronicles, Floris (TV), The Court Jester, Piranesi, Miss Marple, Dragonriders of Pern, Lord Peter Wimsey, Columbo, The Princess Bride, The Secret Garden, Chalet School, The Goblin Emperor, Irn Bru Snowman Ads, Dark Is Rising Sequence, Murdle, Tiny Bookshop & Untitled Goose Game, Flower Fairies, Baby Shoes Never Worn. Here, at my blog.
Duyung: Legenda Aurora
Jan. 2nd, 2026 04:53 pmscaramoucheI finally got some time to watch Duyung: Legenda Aurora, the sequel to Duyung that came out 16 years ago and was Not Good At All Really, aside from Maya Karin playing a mermaid to otherworldly perfection. Legenda Aurora is not a good movie either, but it's high camp, stuff at least happens in it, and one joke made me laugh out loud.
However Legenda Aurora is being raked over hot coals because it uses generative AI. Not like "uses AI to make interstitials or background art or a character's voice", but uses AI to make a whole goddamn action sequence with a dozen main cast members. I hadn't been keeping up with the criticism on social media but a friend did tell me about the AI complaints beforehand and I wondered if I would be able to notice.
OH BOY I SURE DID NOTICE. Almost the entire fight scene in film's climax was primarily AI because the colour grading immediately changed and everyone got that slightly blurry outline that was the norm in the genAI artwork style that was all over about 6 months ago. I think my brain immediately refused to parse any of it as relevant, the way that I seem to clear my mental cache whenever I see something obviously AI in my social media browsing, so although I watched the movie only 4 hours ago I already can barely remember what happened during that entire sequence.
Luckily social media reviewers are absolutely not having with any of this, though mainstream news outlets, if they do mention the generative AI, seem to be primarily reporting on AI being used to "enhance" the film, and that it was "only 2%" of the film. Which (tangent) made me remember that time when there was a controversy about a local publication printing a photo of an inaccurate national flag, and as soon as I saw the photo myself I knew that the image was genAI, but absolutely NONE of the mainstream news outlets mentioned this. A friend suggested this is because news outlets are/were already using generative AI, so it's in their interest not to highlight its mistakes.
Is this the future of our filmmaking, let alone filmmaking in general? Will we slowly be normalized to it, or will we keep resisting? What about when the technology keeps getting better?
However Legenda Aurora is being raked over hot coals because it uses generative AI. Not like "uses AI to make interstitials or background art or a character's voice", but uses AI to make a whole goddamn action sequence with a dozen main cast members. I hadn't been keeping up with the criticism on social media but a friend did tell me about the AI complaints beforehand and I wondered if I would be able to notice.
OH BOY I SURE DID NOTICE. Almost the entire fight scene in film's climax was primarily AI because the colour grading immediately changed and everyone got that slightly blurry outline that was the norm in the genAI artwork style that was all over about 6 months ago. I think my brain immediately refused to parse any of it as relevant, the way that I seem to clear my mental cache whenever I see something obviously AI in my social media browsing, so although I watched the movie only 4 hours ago I already can barely remember what happened during that entire sequence.
Luckily social media reviewers are absolutely not having with any of this, though mainstream news outlets, if they do mention the generative AI, seem to be primarily reporting on AI being used to "enhance" the film, and that it was "only 2%" of the film. Which (tangent) made me remember that time when there was a controversy about a local publication printing a photo of an inaccurate national flag, and as soon as I saw the photo myself I knew that the image was genAI, but absolutely NONE of the mainstream news outlets mentioned this. A friend suggested this is because news outlets are/were already using generative AI, so it's in their interest not to highlight its mistakes.
Is this the future of our filmmaking, let alone filmmaking in general? Will we slowly be normalized to it, or will we keep resisting? What about when the technology keeps getting better?
Beta Needed - Princess Tutu - post canon angst and character studies
Jan. 1st, 2026 10:17 pmmalymin posting in betapleaseFandom: Princess Tutu
Characters/Pairings: Mytho and Rue.
Rating & Warnings: Unrated. Not entirely sure what warnings to put on it (may need help with that too), would probably consider it rated Teen at the moment. There's some themes of unreality and depersonalization, at least.
Estimated Fic Length: Currently at 5,889. Not sure how much longer it will end up being.
Notes: This started as a series of post-canon oneshots and twoshots with shared continuity and themes published on Cohost. Before Cohost shut down, it was strung together hastily into three fic entries and posted on Ao3 without proper forethought - I regret not asking a beta reader for input at the time. Need input on overall structure and on how the published chapters "come across" in characterization and tone. Particularly need input on the fic within the series labeled "Magpie," as I'm less confident in its function as a cohesive whole than "Glamour."
Thematically, I'm trying to explore the potential complications of Rue and Mytho's "happily ever after" - ways that they could struggle to fit inside the story-world, that old traumas could cause strain on their marriage, etc. I'm more interested in writing a "messy" or "toxic" relationship (with individual fluffy moments) than a wholesome happy ending here, so keep that in mind.
A few potential new chapters have been drafted for months now, but I've been holding off on publishing them because I want to "clean up" the existing fic - may ask for input on them later.
Challenge 502: Sand
Jan. 1st, 2026 08:53 pmteaotter posting in fan_flashworksOur new challenge is:
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SAND
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 Saturday, January 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.
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You can view stats for
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ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)Admin: Challenge closed
Jan. 1st, 2026 08:50 pmteaotter posting in fan_flashworksThe Amnesty challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:
Anywhere But Here Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Finding Happiness, bybadly_knitted
Washing and Clean Challenges: Women's Soccer RPF: Fanfiction: Laundry Day, byinfinitum_noctem
Rumour Challenge: Babylon 5: Unfounded Rumors, bybadly_knitted
Thirst: Guardian: fanfic: Look and Feel, bychina_shop
The Last Word Challenge: Babylon 5: Sacrifice, bybadly_knitted
Solitary Challenge: Babylon 5: On The Outside, bybadly_knitted
Role Reversal Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Healing The Healer, bybadly_knitted
The Other Side Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Far Side Of The Island, bybadly_knitted
Fragile: Call the Midwife: Meta: Fragility, bysmallhobbit
Trapped Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Earthquake, bybadly_knitted
Fight Challenge: Babylon 5: Illegal Actions, bybadly_knitted
It's a Trap!: Stargate Atlantis: Fanfiction:Echo of a Memory, bylucy_roman
Sign Challenge: Babylon 5: Separate Pages, bybadly_knitted
Waiting Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Unexpected Rescue, bybadly_knitted
School : BtVS : icons : SHS, byhighlander_ii
Ice Challenge: Winnie-the-Pooh: Fanfic: Winnie-the-Pooh's Icy Day, bysmallhobbit
Circle Challenge: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Together, bydarkjediqueen
Choices Challenge: Babylon 5: The Only Way, bybadly_knitted
Memory Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Healing The Healer, bybadly_knitted
Cream Challenge: Torchwood: Fanfic: Self care, bym_findlow
Weather Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Bad Weather, bybadly_knitted
Candles + Marathon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Misunderstood, byveronyxk84
Not What It Looks Like Challenge: Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: All I Want For Christmas, bysmallhobbit
Memory Challenge: Babylon 5: Traitor, bybadly_knitted
Clean: Your Mum Does the Washing: Poetry: The World According to, byteaotter
science: Stoker: Podfic: no longer human (the nothing that can’t hurt us), bybluedreaming
Congratulations tobluedreaming, who earned 12 Challenge Streak, 12 Posted Works, Brave New Fandoms, 10 Fandom Spread, The Yulegoat, Female Characters, and Governor of Gendom!
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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 NOW.
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Anywhere But Here Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Finding Happiness, by
badly_knittedWashing and Clean Challenges: Women's Soccer RPF: Fanfiction: Laundry Day, by
infinitum_noctemRumour Challenge: Babylon 5: Unfounded Rumors, by
badly_knittedThirst: Guardian: fanfic: Look and Feel, by
china_shopThe Last Word Challenge: Babylon 5: Sacrifice, by
badly_knittedSolitary Challenge: Babylon 5: On The Outside, by
badly_knittedRole Reversal Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Healing The Healer, by
badly_knittedThe Other Side Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Far Side Of The Island, by
badly_knittedFragile: Call the Midwife: Meta: Fragility, by
smallhobbitTrapped Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Earthquake, by
badly_knittedFight Challenge: Babylon 5: Illegal Actions, by
badly_knittedIt's a Trap!: Stargate Atlantis: Fanfiction:Echo of a Memory, by
lucy_romanSign Challenge: Babylon 5: Separate Pages, by
badly_knittedWaiting Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Unexpected Rescue, by
badly_knittedSchool : BtVS : icons : SHS, by
highlander_iiIce Challenge: Winnie-the-Pooh: Fanfic: Winnie-the-Pooh's Icy Day, by
smallhobbitCircle Challenge: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Together, by
darkjediqueenChoices Challenge: Babylon 5: The Only Way, by
badly_knittedMemory Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Healing The Healer, by
badly_knittedCream Challenge: Torchwood: Fanfic: Self care, by
m_findlowWeather Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Bad Weather, by
badly_knittedCandles + Marathon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Misunderstood, by
veronyxk84Not What It Looks Like Challenge: Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: All I Want For Christmas, by
smallhobbitMemory Challenge: Babylon 5: Traitor, by
badly_knittedClean: Your Mum Does the Washing: Poetry: The World According to, by
teaotterscience: Stoker: Podfic: no longer human (the nothing that can’t hurt us), by
bluedreamingCongratulations to
bluedreaming, who earned 12 Challenge Streak, 12 Posted Works, Brave New Fandoms, 10 Fandom Spread, The Yulegoat, Female Characters, and Governor of Gendom!\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.
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Snowflake Challenge #1
Jan. 1st, 2026 05:32 pmscrubjayspeaks
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.
I'm Jay (he/him). I'm a fandom old, though my fannish contributions have been thin on the ground for a few years due to life things. I write and post original fiction regularly, though. I also talk about music, which I'm always open to recs for, and gardening.
Snowflake is a nice, low-pressure way to potentially meet new people. I look forward to it as a touchpoint for each new year. There's usually a good mix of prompts for looking forward and looking back. In place of setting resolutions, I think of this event as my yearly taking stock activity.
4 Yuletide Recs
Jan. 1st, 2026 03:14 pmgeri_chan posting in yuletide I posted recs for 4 Yuletide (and Madness) fics over on my blog for Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels, Breach Wars) and the Singing Hills Cycle over on my blog. Breach Wars is not yet categorized on AO3 and not showing up in the fandoms list, so please go check out those fics if you're an Ilona Andrews fan!
Recent reading
Jan. 1st, 2026 07:14 pmtroisoiseauxI appear to have read 87 books in 2025, my first year recording <100 books since 2018, although this just might be due to shoddy record-keeping; I didn't write down any of my 2000s YA re-reads, so that's at least 9 more? Top niche this year was memoirs— 12-15, depending on whether you count non-fiction with an aspect of tying the narrative to personal experience (Caroline Fraser's Murderland, Alexa Hagerty's Still Life With Bones) and/or autofiction (Patricia Lockwood's Will There Ever Be Another You)— followed by 2000s YA/MG nostalgia and People Having Bad Times on Boats.
My first book of 2026 was A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, which I finished in an afternoon: a solarpunk novella in which a human and a robot meet for the first time since, centuries before, robots gained sentience and disappeared into the wilds to live as they pleased and humans moved to a post-industrialized, post-scarcity society. Oddly enough, it kind of reminded me of Gail Carson Levine's Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, a childhood favorite— it was the world-building through charming descriptions of physical objects, but also something in the stories' shape and cadence, and in the main character's struggle to find their place in a world where people seem to have pretty specific callings...? (Here, the human, Sibling Dex, is a monk who travels from town to town serving tea and as a shoulder to cry on.) None of which is necessarily unique to either book, or used in the same way - for one thing, Chambers pushes back against the idea of people (or robots) having a specific purpose that they need to fulfill - but for whatever reason, the comparison popped into my head and I couldn't shake it. This book also checked the box of first character who's canonically my age that I encountered after turning that age in the record time of one week: early on, there's a line about how Dex - struggling in their vocational change from garden monk to tea monk - "now, at the age of twenty-nine, would like very much to return to the safe shelter of their childhood for an indefinite amount of time until they'd figured out just what the hell they were doing." What a mood.
My first book of 2026 was A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, which I finished in an afternoon: a solarpunk novella in which a human and a robot meet for the first time since, centuries before, robots gained sentience and disappeared into the wilds to live as they pleased and humans moved to a post-industrialized, post-scarcity society. Oddly enough, it kind of reminded me of Gail Carson Levine's Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, a childhood favorite— it was the world-building through charming descriptions of physical objects, but also something in the stories' shape and cadence, and in the main character's struggle to find their place in a world where people seem to have pretty specific callings...? (Here, the human, Sibling Dex, is a monk who travels from town to town serving tea and as a shoulder to cry on.) None of which is necessarily unique to either book, or used in the same way - for one thing, Chambers pushes back against the idea of people (or robots) having a specific purpose that they need to fulfill - but for whatever reason, the comparison popped into my head and I couldn't shake it. This book also checked the box of first character who's canonically my age that I encountered after turning that age in the record time of one week: early on, there's a line about how Dex - struggling in their vocational change from garden monk to tea monk - "now, at the age of twenty-nine, would like very much to return to the safe shelter of their childhood for an indefinite amount of time until they'd figured out just what the hell they were doing." What a mood.
Jujutsu Kaisen: Love For The Strong: Getou Suguru Fest 2026
Jan. 1st, 2026 11:00 pmannadante posting in fandomcalendarDescription: A fest aimed to celebrate Getou Suguru's character from Jujutsu Kaisen. The fest allows all ships and headcanons and interpretations and is open for gen and platonic works too. The prompting period has been over already however the claiming period is open and we have crowdsourced 28 prompts to choose from. The claiming period has no deadline and it is open until the last day.
Schedule: Claiming open: 01/01/2026 | Works Due: 15/02/2026 | Work Reveals: 17/02/2026 | Creators Reveal: 24/02/2026
Links: Tumblr | AO3 Collection | Rules & FAQ
Schedule: Claiming open: 01/01/2026 | Works Due: 15/02/2026 | Work Reveals: 17/02/2026 | Creators Reveal: 24/02/2026
Links: Tumblr | AO3 Collection | Rules & FAQ