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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

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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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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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actresses

15 Actresses Icons

[5] Daisy Ridley
[5] Ella Purnell
[5] Margot Robbie

Preview:

View all the icons here.

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TV Tuesday: Frenemy

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

What makes for a memorable TV antagonist? Does any kind of redemption arc play into this?

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Shinies Challenge: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: One Final Night

Title: One Final Night
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Scott, Fred, Jonathan, Liana, Varian.
Rating: PG
Setting: Months after the series.
Summary: The small band of travellers have finally reached their destination.
Word Count: 200
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 80: Shinies - Waiting for the Gates to Open.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.

( One Final Night... )

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New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals

goals_on_dw is a community for people who like goals and goal setting. A key focus is New Year's resolutions, that being among the most popular contexts for such activities. Although the most common time is January 1, "new year" can also refer to other calendars or cultures, whatever works for you. Alternatively, just pick a time that works for you and go for it. You can introduce yourself or make new friends here.

We talk about different goal systems, pros and cons of resolutions, arts and crafts for tracking goals, human psychology, and more. You can share your resolutions or other goals. There are weekly check-in posts in January, and monthly ones in the rest of the year, for folks to talk about their accomplishments. December-January is the most active period, and it starts ramping up in November as lots of people begin thinking about their goals for the next year.

2025 New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals is the guide post for this years goal-setting activities.
For more details on relevant topics, see "Things You Can Talk About Here."

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Newcomers

Trouble is brewing at Bluesky. As a result, there's a wave of new users coming into Dreamwidth. Find your Bluesky friends here.

newcomers is a community for people who are just getting started on Dreamwidth, in the tradition of

twitter_refugees and

reddit_refugees. This community supports former users of other platforms who are moving to Dreamwidth because their previous platform has become untenable or has closed. As such, it will increase activity with each wave of new users, in hopes of helping them get settled in Dreamwidth so they want to stick around. It also serves previous users returning after a long hiatus, people who want to do more with a Dreamwidth blog that was only intermittent, or anyone else who wants help connecting and figuring out how to use this venue.

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