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Title: Miserere mei
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Written for the 'sorry' challenge in fan-flashworks.
Summary: Fenris has regrets.

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Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Barnabas Collins, Julia Hoffman, Elliot Stokes, David Collins, Elizabeth Collins, Roger Collins, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Harry Johnson, Willie Loomis, Maggie Evans

Rating: T

Length: 37,304

Creator Links: archiveofourown.org/users/SusanRains/pseuds/Carey%20Kasdot

Theme: Uncommon settings

Summary: A dumbwaiter system found in the house unleashes a baffling illness which turns pleasant friends into infatuated screwballs. Meanwhile, games with the dumbwaiter bring Hallie and David nights of terror. With the addition of an afghan that roams the house at will and a houseguest no one wants, Collinwood hits the height of mayhem.

Reccer's Notes: You'd be pretty hard put to discover a stranger, more unsettling setting than a dumbwaiter in which an intrepid soul or two ventures to travel. Add to this Halloween rec the inimitable spookiness of the great estate of Collinwood and you've discovered a delightful read with stellar characterizations and the usual undercurrent of Things Unseen in the fandom.

Fanwork Links: The Lunatic Yarn (Dark Shadows 1971) Book 2 - Carey Kasdot (SusanRains) - Dark Shadows (1966) [Archive of Our Own]

Current Mood: peaceful
Current Location: comatose in bed
Current Music: birdsong

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Title: sufficient imitation
Fandom: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga / Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (somewhat implied in the latter case)
Rating: PG
Content notes: References Cackletta's death from Superstar Saga and that Fawful was there for it, that's.. kinda it, really. Based on an AU where Fawful was a kid during the events of Superstar Saga and Bowser's Inside Story.
Artist notes: After some agonizing over the last couple days of how to go about this theme and characters, I opted not for writing but for art to really get what I feel across.
...Anyhow, this is for the theme of Haunted for the current ongoing Amnesty.
Summary: Fawful and the spirit of Cackletta unknowingly embrace - whilst Fawful wonders if his imitation of Cackletta's cloak will do, in a state of grief.

( sufficient imitation )

Current Mood: nervous
Current Location: My computer
Current Music: Mili songs from Project Moon games

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Lan Sizhui, Jiang Yanli, Jiang Cheng, Jin Ling, Wen Qing, and others.
Rating: Explicit
Length: 193,252
Content Notes: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, animal death, body horror, bullying, conspiracy, domestic violence, Scenery Porn, Scenery Gorn, Smut
Creator Tags: Horror, Spooky, Opposites Attract, Fluff and Angst, Gore, Ghosts, Necromancy
Creator Links: (AO3)

darkterrible; (Threads) tucsonodd; (Twitter)

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Theme: Uncommon Settings, Casefic, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Cops & Crime, Fandom Classics, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery & Suspense, Novel-Length Fic, Psychic Powers, Uncommon Settings, Urban Fantasy, Worldbuilding

Summary: Wei Wuxian can see the dead. Weird happenings ensue.

Author’s Notes: I really struggled with putting this back up again (sorry I know I'm a flake) I have a love/hate relationship with it. But here it is.

This is a repost (it's all over the internet in various formats and languages) but it is mine.

I wrote this a looong time ago, before I really had a GREAT understanding of the naming conventions used in the untamed. Some of it might be incorrect.

Reccer's Notes:: Although November’s Mystery & Suspense theme would apply, I’m using Uncommon Settings to shoehorn in this beloved modern-with-magic paranoir fic in time for Halloween; the intrigue-haunted waterfront city of Lotus, patterned after Venice, is very much a character in its own right. (Note that, despite the geographical inspiration, nobody seems to have been whitewashed.)

medium blues has a history as cryptic and elusive as its subject matter: for various reasons (including having been targeted in the fandom’s 2020 cyberbullying scandal) the author—along with this fic—has periodically vanished and resurfaced under a succession of pseudonyms.

Here are the author’s original summary and tags:

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Fanwork Links: medium blues, by

darkterrible.

(Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/20220625040644/https://archiveofourown.org/works/39589791?view_adult=true&view_full_work=true

(Archive.today): https://archive.ph/cJARF

Frontispiece by

mojoflower, from her review on

wangxianficrecs: https://wangxianficrecs.tumblr.com/post/643044937390325760/medium-blues-by-darkandterrible-e

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Title: everybody's looking for something
Fandom: Thunderbolts*
Ship: Robert “Bob” Reynolds/John Walker
Length: 100 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: swearing, nightmares (mentioned), insomnia
Notes: pre-relationship
Author Notes: title from the Eurythmics song - Sweet Dreams (are made of this)
Written for:

fan_flashworks amnesty - challenge #314: “nightmare” and post-July Break Bingo “waking up for a midnight snack and bumping into each other”
Summary: This is the moment John realizes he might be having feelings for Bob.

( everybody's looking for something )

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Fandom: Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Goldenberry/Tom Bombadil
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: nimphelos on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A lovely tableau of Tom Bombadil with his great love, Goldenberry. I like the almost Klimtian art style, and the details.
Link: Goldenberry and Tom Bombadil

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Title: Wedding Gift
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Scott, Varian, Gwenith.
Rating: PG
Setting: An Act of Love.
Summary: Scott wants to give Varian something to remember him by.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 140: Gift.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Wedding Gift... )

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Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Victoria Metcalfe, original characters
Rating: Explicit
Length: 19,093
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings
Creator Links: thehoyden on AO3, luzula on the Audiofic Archive
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friends to lovers, First time, Working together, Complete AU: academia

Summary: "What the hell is this, an Austen novel?"

Reccer's Notes: Complete AUs are unusual in due South, and this is that rarity, a dS AU set in academia. Fraser is a new professor, looked down on by his colleagues as he's from the University of Guelph, and only Ray Kowalski, a punky, nonconformist professor, befriends him. They both have offices on the unpopular top floor (Fraser as he's bottom of the pecking order, and Ray as he likes to get away from the rest of the department), which helps kickstart their friendship. The story is about the highs and lows of academic life and there are some great sections showing Ray's unconventional teaching style which the students love, and Fraser's more traditional, but solid, approach. There's academic politics and also drama with the return of Victoria, Fraser's ex and his academic rival. It's about character development, and about Fraser and Ray's friendship which blossoms gradually into much, much more. The fic's beautifully written, and an extremely good read - highly recommended.

Fanwork Links: Academic Punk on AO3, and the excellent podfic by luzula is here

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Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

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Title: Spring Pageant
Fandom: Original
Rating: PG
Word Count: 21
Content Notes: Nature, and all that implies.
Written For: Season Challenge
A/N: ( rambling )

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Title: how you ache for the fawn
Fandom: My Journey to You (mods: you can use the Cdrama tag)
Author's note: general spoilers for the first two episodes.
Challenge: Did You Hear That?
Length: 100 words

Summary: Yun Weishan waits in the bride house.

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fanart/fics/fanvids/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here

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Title: Impulsive Act
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Fred, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vortex, and later.
Summary: Fred has always been a bit impulsive, act first and think later, but he regrets punching Varian.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 119: Punch.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Impulsive Act... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Title: Hard to spot
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Gwen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,451words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 495 Amnesty, using Challenge 35 - Elusive or Ephemeral
Summary: The latest object to drop through the rift is proving difficult to locate.

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Title: Like Family
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: The travellers.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Travelling together for so long, they’ve become like a family.
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 89: Family.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.

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All Yuletide requests are now visible:
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-in a spreadsheet
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Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.

Enjoy!

Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.

( Posting, and to Which Collection )

Bonus!! Decoy questions/author questions

A few weeks ago, we made a post about the questions we send to recipients when authors need to clarify something about their recipients' preferences.

As a result of that poll, in a situation where an author has a fandom-specific question, we will now send questions for at least 3 fandoms in a person's requests, but will not generally make up extra/decoy questions for their full set of fandoms.

You suggested that curious authors could make up (some of) their own extra questions. While that could be helpful - if you want to - we ask you to keep the following things in mind.

Clear questions are the best questions. Several times in the past we've received extremely confusing questions and it turned out a participant thought they needed to disguise what they were asking from the mods. Please do not.

Avoid excessive detail, especially about plots you don't plan to write. Don't ask your recipient "Would you be interested in a story where they time-travel to meet five different generations of their ancestors, and also there are capybara zombies?" unless you are contemplating such a plot (and maybe not even then) - because you may make your recipient hopeful about something that won't arrive.

Avoid being disingenuous about things that are actually clear to you. Try to ask about points of reasonable ambiguity. If you ask your recipient things like "You said you don't want any mention of hospitals, but is it okay if a character has a headache?" you could stress them out by making them wonder if they need to re-write their DNWs, or by making them wonder if you have wildly misinterpreted other parts of their requests. Decoy questions require a little creativity… but not too much. Save most of your creativity for the actual writing.

And again - you are not obliged to provide decoy questions! If you need to ask your recipient something, all we need from you is: 1) what information you need, and 2) who you are. That's great! We can take care of the rest.

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Sorry: Dragon Age: Fanfiction: Miserere Mei

Dark Shadows: The Lunatic Yarn by Susan Rains/Carey Kasdot

Haunted (Amnesty): Mario & Luigi (series): fanart: sufficient imitation

Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling: medium blues, by darkterrible; art by Mojoflower.

Friday, October 31 - Chaos and/or Order

nightmare - Thunderbolts* - fanfic - everybody's looking for something

Goldenberry and Tom Bombadil by nimphelos (SFW)

Gift Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Wedding Gift

due South: Academic Punk by thehoyden

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Season: Original: Poetry: Spring Pageant

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Did You Hear That?: My Journey to You: fanfic: how you ache for the fawn

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Punch Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Impulsive Act

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