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

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

Goldenberry and Tom Bombadil by nimphelos (SFW)

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

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Gift Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Wedding Gift

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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due South: Academic Punk by thehoyden

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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followfriday

Follow Friday 10-31-25

Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

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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Season: Original: Poetry: Spring Pageant

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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My Holiday Academia 2025

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

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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!free for all day

Thursday, October 30 - Free for All

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Community Recs Post!

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

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Punch Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Impulsive Act

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... )

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Elusive or Ephemeral Challenge: Torchwood: Fanfic: Hard to spot

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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Holidays!!! on Ice 2025

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Family Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Like Family

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.

( Like Family... )

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Creative Jam

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November Bingo Fest

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Holiday Haikyuu!! 2025

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Tuesday, October 28 - Promotion Day

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2025 Requests + How and Where to Post fics + Author Question Update

All Yuletide requests are now visible:
-at karanguni's app
-at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
-in a spreadsheet
-in a text doc

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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