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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Gen
Length: 1133 & 700
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply. There are explicit details about a normal full-term delivery in Plus Ça Change.
Creator Links: toomuchplor on AO3
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friends to lovers, Complete AU: hospital, Humor

Summaries: Technically he *wasn’t* Dr. Sheppard, not for another two months, but it was standard for medical students to introduce themselves that way. It reassured the patients. It didn’t do anything for John’s sense of inner calm.
“Unh,” said McKay, and folded his arms under his face before flopping down again. The position pulled the sleeves of his scrubs top taut around his biceps. “If I hide here it’s harder for the interns to find me.”

Reccer's Notes: For a fandom rich in AUs, there are very few medical AUs in SGA. This is an excellent two-part series and I recommend reading it in reverse series order, as the second part is a prequel. In Plus Ça Change, John blunders into an unexpected ER situation as a 4th year medical student doing an ambulance ride-along, and meets Rodney, a medical resident. The other story, Living Will, is set 3 years later by which time they know each other well and John's an ER resident, Rodney now being chief medical resident. The stories are funny, with great characterisation and snark, and accurate medical details. Very much recommended!

Fanwork Links: Plus Ça Change, and Living Will

2025 Assignments

Oct. 27th, 2025 01:05 am
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
Assignments are out! You can find your assignment:
You must write for one of your recipient's requests, including all of the characters they specified in that request (but see below). It doesn't have to be the fandom you offered.

Some recipients have selected several characters, but given permission for writers not to include them all using the Additional Tags checkboxes (the ones that start "My gift must…"). These tags are recent and we're still experimenting with their use, so please check through mods if you're not completely sure what your recipient means. You always have the option of including all the characters your recipient selected.

Your assignment is due at 9pm UTC on December 17. Note that this is an earlier deadline for 2025 as compared to the last few years and may be one calendar day earlier in your timezone.

Please click on that link right now! The date and time it shows may surprise you. Better to be surprised now than at the deadline!

Our reveals are earlier this year as well.

No Peeking (Or Squeaking) Until December 24th!
This is a secret exchange. Please don’t announce or hint what your assignment is. Don't say what you offered. Don’t reveal to your recipient who you are or what you plan to write for them. In fact, please don’t contact your recipient at all! You can send questions through the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

I have questions!!
Right! Send us an email at yuletideadmin@gmail.com, or, if your question won't give away what you offered or who you're writing for, you're welcome to comment here. We get tonnes of questions at this time, so please bear with us - it may take us a few days to reply.

Based on our survey about author questions and some internal discussion, this year we plan to include a questions for a few fandoms each time we contact a recipient, but we won’t necessarily include decoy questions for every single fandom. This may give the recipient a clue as to which fandoms they’re more likely to receive but should preserve some of the suspense!

Please don't ask us to poke your recipient to update a locked or placeholder letter until at least October 29.

When you send us a question about your assignment, please include your assignment link, which looks like: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2025/assignments/#######

Some of your questions may be answered by our next post when we reveal all requests. Please keep an eye on our admin community!

Pinch hits and all requests
The first batch of pinch hits will go out in the next day. In the next following days, after those pinch hits are claimed, we will make all requests visible and open the Yuletide Madness collection.

Check out the pinch hit community, [community profile] yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.

The New Year's Resolutions 2025 collection is now closed.

Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app

Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.

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[personal profile] badly_knitted posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks

Title: Just A Bruise
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Fred, Jonathan Willaway, Scott.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Varian gets on the wrong end of someone else’s fist. Again.
Word Count: 350
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 55: Bruise.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble and a half, 350 words.



Fic: Wanted (Modern AU), gen

Oct. 26th, 2025 12:20 pm
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[personal profile] nicky_gabriel posting in [community profile] white_lotus
Title: Wanted (Modern AU)
Author: Nicky Gabriel
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
Word Count: 32K (WIP)
Rating: M
Category: gen
Characters: Suki, Hakoda, Bato
Relationships: Bato & Suki, Hakoda & Suki, Bato & Hakoda, Sokka/Suki (very background)
Tags: Father-Daughter Relationship, Adoption, Friendship, Family, Platonic Bed Sharing, Platonic Cuddling, Fluff, Angst, No Romance, Modern Setting
TW: in the description of the series, rather heavy stuff
Summary: It’s a story about how Suki has fallen in love with Sokka’s Family.
Link: Wanted
(Some parts of this series are locked and available only for registered users on AO3)

LotR sketches by kaifarikus (SFW)

Oct. 26th, 2025 11:38 pm
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[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] fanart_recs
Fandom: Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Legolas & Gimli & Aragorn, Boromir & Faramir, Arwen/Aragorn
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: traditional art (coloured pencils)
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: kaifarikus on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: These lively sketches have a great style - based on book canon, I think. Also I love that Arwen is taller than Aragorn!
Link: LotR sketches

[personal profile] infinitum_noctem posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Be Still My Heart
Fandom: Canaan
Pairings: Canaan/Alphard al Shua
Characters: Canaan, Alphard al Shua
Rating: G
Length: 44 words
Author Notes: Inspired by fanart by Kay-I.
Summary: 3 sentence fic. Alphard and Canaan enjoy an intimate moment on the battlefield.

Read more... )

multifandom icons

Oct. 25th, 2025 03:55 pm
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[personal profile] picnicnic posting in [community profile] fandom_icons
1x Shakugan no Shana, 1x Bleach, 1x Once Upon a Time, 1x Brave, 1x She-ra and The Princesses of Power, 1x Maleficent, 1x Trollhunters, 1x Sailor Moon, 1x Tangled the Series, 1x Apollo Justice, 1x Netflix's Carmen Sandiego, 2x Netflix's Avatar the Last Airbender, 5x Arcane, 7x Marvel (1 from comics, 1 from X-men '97, 5 from MCU), 11x Kpop Demon Hunters, 24x The Legend of Vox Machina



Icons can be found on my journal here and are all free to use.
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[personal profile] smallhobbit posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Like Rain at a Picnic
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G
Length: 430 words
Summary: Lucas feels his presence will be unwelcome
Also written for [community profile] ficlet_zone  Clint Black challenge



Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

Speak Up Saturday 🍹

Oct. 25th, 2025 03:33 pm
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[personal profile] feurioo posting in [community profile] tv_talk
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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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[personal profile] badly_knitted posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks

Title: Under Sentence
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jonathan Willaway, Alpha.
Rating: PG
Setting: Children of the Gods.
Summary: Getting captured by kids and sentenced to death is not ideal.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 495: Amnesty 82, using Challenge 50: Kids.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.



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[personal profile] patrokla posting in [community profile] yuletide
Hello from this year's primary mod, Helen! Kat and Livi have largely stepped away this year, but are very kindly helping with some behind the scenes stuff. Most posts and emails will be from me :) This will be my first time doing a lot of the swaps process, so if you notice anything seriously awry, please let me know!

2025 schedule, links, and more! )

Questions? Check out the current FAQ. (Updated November 2025 to address specific issues with international shipping.) If that doesn't help, feel free to comment here or email us at yuleswaps at gmail dot com!
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