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You gather your haul of scrolls and coins in a wheelbarrow and head for the back door of the Fraise Lounge, because once again you're too filthy to go in the front. Naturally, while you've been outside digging and sweating and coughing, Professor Zzt has been hanging out in the nice cool cafe. He hasn't even sent a golem to bring you water. Rude!

But when you go around the back, you find a giant steaming mud puddle, Runner's bedraggled tendrils writhing across it to no avail, and a very frustrated Stray. "Oh good, you're done," they say, pushing damp green hair off their forehead. "I'm going to need your help with the dinner rush. If Zzt hadn't commandeered you — well, never mind. Done is done."

"What happened?" you ask, carefully skirting the mud puddle. It's full of pink aprons.

Runner's dragon head coalesces, its long neck drooping. "The sanitizing steam melted the golems," it says sadly. "I need to wait for the dirt to dry out again before I can bring them back."

"We did hire a new dishwasher who can handle the heat," Stray says, "but he's... not ideal."

You hear a crash of dishes from inside the cafe. A deep voice calls out, "Sorrr-reeee!"

Stray growls. "That's the problem with octopuses! They're smart but so easily distracted. They need at least three or four kinds of input at once..."

They turn to look at you. You know what that look means. It means another side quest. Are you ever going to get home?

"Could you maybe... read to Dwayne? Or sing?" they ask hopefully. "Or teach him things — he likes to learn. If you can keep him on task with the dishes, I think the servers and I can handle the rest."

"Fine," you say wearily, setting the wheelbarrow well away from the puddle of melted golem. "Will you tell Professor Zzt his scrolls and coins are here?"

Stray doesn't look thrilled at the mention of the annoying sprite, but there's another crash and another "Sorrr-reeee!" and they wince and rub their head. "Sure," they say. "Just stop Dwayne from breaking all my dishes, and I'll do whatever you want."

You follow Stray back into the kitchen, where you find a creature that's unusual even by your standards: an enormous, bright red, bald human head with eight octopus arms. He's sweeping up shards of glass and pottery with two arms while the other six wash dishes, stir pots, adjust the flame on the stove, embroider strawberry leaves on an apron, and play the clarinet he has stuck in his unnervingly human mouth. "Hi!" he toots. Belatedly, he lowers the clarinet. "Sorry about the dishes, Stray."

"It's fine," Stray says, taking the broom away just before it knocks over another bin of dirty things. "Here, I brought you some bards to keep you focused."

"Oh, wonderful!" Dwayne exclaims. "I love bards! Do you know any sea shanties? Those are really good for getting into a work rhythm."

A new status board appears, set up to count the number of stories you tell. You'd better get started.

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seasons_of_fandom is a multifandom challenge community, similar to any 'land communities from the LJ days, where you join a team and produce fanworks and participate in various games to help your team earn points. Let them know I sent you if you join! The first round officially starts August 29th, but some pre-round challenges are here.

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Title: Moonlight Jasmine
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author:

enchanted_jae
Character(s)/Pairing: Neville/Luna
Rating: PG
Written for:
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dove_drabbles Prompt 141 - All progress is worth celebrating
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neville100 Prompt 569 - midnight
Warnings: None
Word count: 100
Summary: Baby steps
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of JK Rowling, et al. This drabble was written for fun, not for profit.

Moonlight Jasmine

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Heal (200 words) by look_turtles
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Characters: Sam Winchester
Additional Tags: Unrequited Love
Summary:

Sam is injured and Dean is curious

An: written for anythingdrabble prompt: severe

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sweetandshort

Title: Wager
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Prompt: pyjamas
Characters: the Drones minus Bertie
Summary: The Drones are having a wager.

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We've gotten through our second year and this time I even scheduled reveals to actually be on Saturday mornings instead : )

This is my second time running an exchange, so sorry for any hiccups this year, and thanks to everyone for understanding when things ended up delayed due to things I was dealing with irl!

If you picked up a pinch hit on top of your assignment or without having been signed up I’m going to have a comment below you can reply to- you can either link a letter or just comment a few things from the tagset you might like to see as a gift. These are not guaranteed, but if anyone would like to gift our lovely PHs I'd like the opportunity available <3

If you send a gift to one of the Pinch hitters you are free to submit it to the collection. These gifts do not have to meet word count requirements as they are considered treats!
Speaking of- the collection will remain open for treat submissions

Currently, I do plan to run this for a third year, so I am more than happy to hear any suggestions regarding updates to the exchange!
Thank you all for participating <3

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Hello, everyone. I’m

cornerofmadness My apologies for being so late. Things went off the rails and I’m just back from the hospital (I’m fine). As a reminder, we are using a new posting schedule. Sundays are for Lonely Prompts and sharing the fills that you completed during the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new themes and prompts, and Saturdays will remain a Free for All.

Today's theme is international kissing day as it’s one of July’s fun silly holidays. Let’s make our favs kiss, hide from a kiss, plan for one, over plan for it. Is a kiss between lovers, parent and a child, the kiss of death? So many kisses to choose from.

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ any, any, Hershey Kisses
+ Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers/Angel, he doesn’t want to kiss her with blood on his mouth.

+ Hazbin Hotel, Angel Dust + Arackniss (and Henroin if you’d like) the kiss of death

+ Hazbin Hotel, Angel Dust/Husk, a kiss leads to more

+ Star Trek (any), any, the idea of kissing is not part of their culture.

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word!

comment_fic
Tag – international kissing day

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It's bingo time again. Let's have some fun with the following table:

Bouncy	Echo
Beauty	Scooter

To complete the challenge, grab all the prompts and blackout the card. You can do single works or combine the four prompts in one work.
No one will blame you when you decide to do only one or two prompts, though.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems like haiku or similar, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height. Please stay to the maximum, even if you decide to use all prompts in one work.

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original work and real-person work.

Please tag your work with all relevant tags.

This challenge runs until July 31, at midnight in your time zone.

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Challenge Reminder:
10 out of 20
This and That
Only Two

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This week's prompt is comfort food.

Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as inspiration only.

Please use the tag "prompt: #452 - comfort food" with your response.

Please put your drabble under a cut tag if it contains potential triggers, mature or explicit content, or spoilers for media released in the last month.

If you would like a template for the header information you may use this:

Subject: Original - Title (or) Fandom - Title

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Title:
Original (or) Fandom:
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Notes:

If you are a member of AO3 there is a 100 Words Collection!

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Hello friends! It’s almost time for us to begin nominations pre-gaming. We have additional updates concerning the schedule, the rules post, and the medium opt-ins.

Time is shifted forward on all deadlines

We are updating the schedule to have an earlier deadline time this year. Last year, we found ourselves pushing checks and deadlines off to the next day on behind-the-scenes things, and realized that we hadn’t left ourselves enough time to do admin-y stuff. The new deadline will hopefully allow us to keep on top of the schedule.

All deadlines are now 10:00 PM EDT except for those in November, which will happen at 10:00 PM EST

(This is two hours earlier than before.)

Rule post updates:

We've significantly revised parts of the rules so that they're clearer to new participants and easier for everyone to find info in. We didn’t add anything we weren't already enforcing). The new rules will be posted by the end of the day July 22nd, and available for your perusal at that time!

The updated sections are:

Official Communication (under "Participant Expectations")
Sign Ups (whole section)
Do Not Match Requests (under "Sign Ups", but calling this out specifically because it has more instructions now!)
Swaps (whole section)
Assignments (whole section)

We hope these updates will lead to a smoother experience for everyone!

We have a few more medium tweaks

We thought we were done but we found a couple more lying around, oops.

Illustrated Text (Visual Medium & Text Medium)

We updated this ruleset's description to more clearly explain that when you fill an illustrated text medium, the work as a whole needs to fill a requested relationship-field tag, but the individual parts don't.

For example, if you were filling an A/B relationship tag for a recip who'd opted into Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page then you need to make a newspaper front page that has both text and fanart and which depicts A/B in a romantic and/or sexual light…but the art or text components themselves don't individually need to both be shippy.

Medium Opt-In: Writing - Game Walkthrough
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Translation Analysis
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Product Description

These three mediums will now be updated to have “In-Universe” in front of them. The new tags will be:

Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Game Walkthrough
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Translation Analysis
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Product Description

Medium Opt-In: Writing - TTRPG Supplement

TTRPG Supplements will be moving into the Instructions Ruleset. This will allow any TTRPG Supplement to gain wordcount for included art or photos that may accompany the medium. The updated tag will be “Medium Opt-In: Instructions - TTRPG Supplement”

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Infographic
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Infographic
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Meta Infographic

We are condensing the Infographics tags down to two. “In-Universe Infographics” and “Meta Infographics” cover the two types of infographics that have been made in past rounds of the event, and we decided that this is a sufficiently small number of tags that they don’t need an umbrella tag. The “Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Infographic” tag will be retired.

Medium Opt-In: Art - Storyboard
Medium Opt-In: Art - Storyboard of Canon Scene(s)

We are condensing the Storyboard tags down to one. The “of Canon Scene(s)” specification for the second tag feels more appropriate for the optional details of a request rather than part of a medium tag. We will be retiring the “Medium Opt-In: Art - Storyboard of Canon Scene(s)” tag, and will retain the “Medium Opt-In: Art - Storyboard” tag.

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Schedule:

July 24-August 2: Nominations Pre-Gaming (participants can load tags from last year’s tagset into this tagset)
August 3-12: Nominations
August 13-16: Nominations Cleanup
August 17-August 31: Signups (Countdown)
August 20: Swap requests open
September 6: Assignments Out By This Date
September 7: Swap requests close
October 19: Assignments Due (Countdown)
November 9: Last Day To Submit Makeup Assignments
November 15: Work Reveals
November 29: Creator Reveals

All deadlines are at 10:00 PM EDT except for those in November, which will happen at 10:00 PM EST

Information

A gift exchange is an event where participants create fanworks to gift to each other. Fic In A Box is a fanwork exchange with a large minimum gifting requirement and several unique features:

All participants in Fic In A Box are requesting 10,000 words of fanfiction by default, but can opt in to other mediums (such as art, podfic, knitting patterns, and so on). Participants who work in non-writing mediums are very welcome and will get specially matched (as long as they give the mods a heads-up) so they'll have an assignment they can complete.
Participants have the option to split the 10k words (or equivalent) that they owe between several separate works (say, one fic of 3k and another of 7k) to reach 10k total.
The minimum word count per work is 1k by default, but lower wordcount works will count if your recipient has opted into receiving them.
Initial assignments are 10k for one person, but at the start of the exchange we run swaps which will give you the chance to spread that 10k out over multiple assignments for multiple recipients!

For mediums other than the written word, pretty much any medium will be accepted, as long as we can agree on a clear and easily checked equivalent to 1k of written fic. Participants who work in non-writing mediums get specially matched with participants who have opted in to receiving works of that kind so they'll have an assignment they can complete.

If you cannot complete the full 10k (or other medium equivalent) but have posted one or more smaller, complete works, you can default on just the remaining wordcount. You will then be guaranteed (via pinch hit if necessary) a gift equivalent to the amount submitted (rounded down to the nearest 1k). There are also options to "earn back" guaranteed minimum amount by taking pinch hits or completing your original assignment.

Are you new? Or confused? Fic In A Box is a complex exchange even for exchange veterans, so we thought that if we were going to invite a bunch of new people to the exchange we should provide a space where they can ask lots of questions throughout the process. This server is open to everyone (we won't kick you out if you've been doing FIAB for years already) but its purpose is to help people participate in the exchange, so it will probably be most useful/enjoyable if you're kinda confused about the exchange. Like FIAB itself, the server is an 18+ Choose Not To Warn space.

Join the FIAB Newbie Discord! (link)

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( Participant Expectations )

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( Extensions )

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Title: Best Served Sexy
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Plot What Plot
Summary: Molly was going to get him back in a sexy way.
Word Count: 5,652

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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk

There have been discussions about how natural actors do and don't look and how there are different standards across countries in terms of appearance. Do you see this as a problem, in that older people are particularly affected, or is it part of the fantasy of fiction that people in stories be unusually attractive?

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no_true_pair

Title: Required Rudeness
Fandom: Lord of the Rings (movies)/Sword-Dancer Series
Pairing/Characters: Samwise Gamgee & Tiger
Content Notes: None
Prompt: July 22 - Lord of the Rings (movies) and Sword-Dancer Series: Asking for directions

Required Rudeness

The surly horse actually caught Samwise's attention before the man, but then he took note of the shoulder-scabbarded sword and decided he'd best do his duty. They didn't need more trouble at all, and he meant to make that happen!

"Here now, traveler, the Shire has no wish of men that live by the sword," Samwise said in a direct breach of being kind and hospitable. Then again, it was his job to be brusque, as he knew the signs of danger better than most.

"Seeking directions to a place called the Grey Havens," the man said in an accent Samwise could not place. "Word is my basha headed that way."

Samwise's eyebrows rose into his hairline, but if the man was bent on that pilgrimage, he'd let the elves deal with it.

"West a bit more, straight on to the river," Samwise offered.

The man nodded and rode on, taking his strangeness — and that well-used sword — away from the Shire. Maybe nothing would have come from inviting him to rest with them a time, but Samwise didn't put his faith in maybe. He dusted off his hands, well-shod of duty for the day and went to find a pipe.

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no_true_pair

Title: - Argyris

Fandom: I Am In Eskew/Stargate SG-1

Pairing/Characters: David Ward, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neil, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, mentions of David's coworkers, mentioned George Hammond, the city of Eskew (if you know, you know)

Content Notes: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Psychological Horror, David's POV is a dark comedy, the SG-1 crew's POV is a horror film, David's special level of apathy + denial, Post Episode 5: Illumination (I Am In Eskew), Nebulous timeline sometime mid-Season One of Stargate SG-1, One's horror story is another's comedy, minor hints of SG-1 team as family, it's my found family and I'll do as I pleasure!, this isn't in the story but just know that the team lowkey adopts David into their group, he's their team mascot, a pathetic little stray alley cat man is what David is indeed, David's usual classy level of judginess on others, David thinks he's being executed, the team think they are rescuing him lmao, miscommunication, Canon-Typical Paranoia

Prompt: July 18 - Color as a title

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no_true_pair

Title: Asking for Directions
Fandoms: Winnie-the-Pooh, Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Pairing/Characters: Eeyore, Inspector Lestrade
Content Notes: None needed
Prompt: July 22 - Sherlock Holmes and Winnie-the-Pooh: Asking for directions

Asking for Directions on AO3

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Congrats, guys and thank you so much! We have our winners for Round 69: Spin the Wheel.

1st Place spiderbraids	2nd Place spiderbraids	3rd place breyzyyin

Best Colour magicrubbish	Best Crop magicrubbish	Mod's choice skysedge

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Welcome to the 15th anniversary of Cap-IM Rec Week!

Today is STONY DEFINITION: Show us the seminal fanworks that took your breath away and defined Steve/Tony characterization for you. What fanworks really capture Steve and Tony for you? What fanworks show what Steve and Tony are all about? Share your favorites that capture the essential magic of their relationship.

To rec, simply REPLY to this or any other daily Themed post on any platform, or make your own reclist or post:

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Don’t forget to let us know why you’re reccing a work and please mark any major warnings. If you’d like to participate in our Special Bonus Bingo Round, join the Discord. HAVE FUN curating.

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