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Hi. I'm Jill, she/her pronouns. I'm a mother of three grown children (the youngest is in his freshman year of college), one enby, on female, one male. I've been married for 23 years. We're still getting used to being empty nesters, and it's only been like five months. It feels so WEIRD.

I decided to do the Snowflake challenge this year because I miss actually writing. I haven't done much, I feel like; I started tracking days I wrote instead of words I wrote because it felt more doable. I miss writing, and I don't know why it's not going. Still, anything that will get me typing and thinking about what I want to write will help! Challenges have been a huge boost to me in the past, so I hope this one opens some doors I haven't tried yet.

Current Mood: crappy
Current Music: Ohmymy - TWS

andersenmom

TWS debuted at the beginning of 2024, from Pledis under Hybe - so the same company as Seventeen - with six members. TWS Means 24/7 with us but is pronounced "To us." Their debut song, Plot Twist, reminded me a lot of Boyfriend's Boyfriend, happy and upbeat, and cute. The boys are cute, young, and have great smiles.

( 44 )

Current Mood: depressed
Current Music: Ohmymy - TWS

stardust_rifle posting in

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Introduction Post * Meet The Mods Post * Challenge #1

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

On many of the fannish websites we use, our history is easily compileable into "pages". When we look back through those pages, sometimes we stumble upon things that we think are rather cool.

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.

And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

Current Mood: apologizing for my lateness

andersenmom

I've been a fan of TVXQ for years. They're who got me into k-pop, honestly. I first heard Rising Sun, although I found them around the time of Purple Line. I miss them as five. I did try to listen to their first album as a duo, and I wasn't that impressed, possibly because they still tried to get the sound of five.

( My first kpop group )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Don't Go Back - JustB

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Introduction Post*
Meet the Mods Post
Challenge #1 * Challenge #2

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Challenge #3 )

And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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Fandom: Batman
Pairings/Characters: Kyle Rayner/Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Everyone
Rating: Teen
Length: 90k words
Creator Links: AddictedApple at AO3
Theme: crack treated seriously

Summary: Jason Todd discovers that he can travel through the multiverse (on top of his usual weirdness, ie, immortality) and chaos ensues.

Reccer's Notes: I recently fell hard into the Batman fanfic space, and this story bowled me right over. It takes Jason's canon resurrection (and the bizarre canon explanation for it), then posits a slow growth of powers from there -- from a recurring inability to stay dead, through the ability to skip universes, and beyond. All the canon reboots become a part of the story, and the pairing is a hilarious portrait of two guys being oblivious. Each chapter's notes contain extensive canon citations, which adds another level of awesomeness. Great fun and very affecting.

[Edited to add] Content note: The starting author notes include, "I will now put a blanket trigger warning for everything that happens in DC canon." That should be taken very seriously; the cited DC canon gets dark, and many abusive canon events are included in this story.

Fanwork Links: Journey to the Center of the Multiverse

sasheneskywalker posting in

fancake

Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Pairings/Characters: Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Nikolai Gogol & Sigma, Armed Detective Agency Ensemble & Sigma, Decay of Angels Ensemble & Decay of Angels Ensemble, Dazai Osamu & Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Minor Fyodor Dostoyevsky/Nikolai Gogol, Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 18,403 words
Creator Links:

valleykey
Theme: crack treated seriously, au - modern, social media, pov outsider, trans & non-binary characters

Summary: “Yeah I don’t really use much social media besides LinkedIn,” Sigma says sheepishly. “I post way too much on that app. Of course I have mutuals I like, but...”

A sudden silence.

“What?” Says Atsushi. At the same time that Dazai says, “Mutuals?”

Sigma frowns. “I...post on LinkedIn? What? It's a social media app. Of course I post? And have mutuals?”

/// the one where Sigma has 1.2 million followers on LinkedIn.

Reccer's Notes: An amazing fic that combines modern AU, social media, and crack treated seriously, with thoughtful explorations of characters and relationships that stay true to their canon selves. It’s engaging and will definitely make you laugh <3

Fanwork Links: everyone has a social media addiction

marginaliana posting in

fancake

Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Rating: Mature
Length: 11,604
Creator Links:

nevertheless_turtle
Theme: crack treated seriously

Summary: In Which Obi-Wan Kenobi is Shown Holofootage of His 12-Year Old Padawan in a Seedy Nightclub With The Chancellor of the Republic And Has A Proportionate Response.

Reccer's Notes: What I love about this fic is the way that Obi-Wan does put in a certain amount of forethought into his actions, but it just happens to be the wrong forethought. You can see where he's coming from and why it seems like the right idea at the time, and yet it still goes completely off the rails. :D Truly delightful.

Content note for discussion of child sexual assault but no actual sexual assault.

Fanwork Links: Just Go Kill Palpatine

sasheneskywalker posting in

fancake

Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Darth Maul & Darth Plagueis, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Maul
Rating: Mature
Length: 19,072 words
Creator Links:

zuzeca
Theme: crack treated seriously, enemies to lovers, angst with a happy ending

Summary: In which Darth Maul applies for a loan, discovers a forgotten heirloom, experiments with space drugs, complains about his nemesis to a captive audience, and learns the value of bank fraud. Also love and friendship, but mostly bank fraud.

Reccer's Notes: A delightful story that starts with a cracky premise and takes it in an interesting direction. There’s a lovely exploration of Maul’s character and his relationship with Obi-Wan. It’s very funny with a heartwarming ending <3

Fanwork Links: Will Save the Galaxy for Better Credit Ratings

stardust_rifle posting in

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Introduction Post * Meet The Mods Post * Challenge #1

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

Pets! We know them, we probably have positive associations with at least one type of pet, and they've appeared in our creative endeavors since time immemorial. Considering that, we felt that a challenge revolving around them would be appropriate.

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.

And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

sasheneskywalker posting in

fancake

Fandom: Disco Elysium, Death Note
Pairings/Characters: L/Yagami Light, Harry Du Bois & Kim Kitsuragi
Rating: Mature
Length: 36,039 words
Creator Links:

brawltogethernow
Theme: crack treated seriously, crossover, casefic, unconventional format

Summary: Harry hits Light Yagami with his car. (Based on a joke post, taken extremely seriously.)

Reccer's Notes: Murder mystery where Harry Du Bois investigates a murder he himself committed, putting him right in the middle of the Kira case. Very funny! The dialogue is perfectly in character, the art is fantastic, and I love how the entire fic is told in the style of the game.

Content Notes: major character death (Light Yagami is dead), graphic description of corpses similar to that of Disco Elysium canon

Fanwork Links: THE HIT AND RUN

birdylion posting in

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Title: Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Pairings/Characters: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims; OC management advice blogger, OC internet commenters
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 43626 words
Creator Links:

shinyopals
Theme: crack treated seriously, epistolary, no canon required, outsider pov

Summary:

I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.

As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?

Kind regards,
New Manager

Abigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.

Reccer's Notes:

The Magnus Archives is a horror audio drama in which the main character starts a new position as archivist in an organization named Magnus Institute that specializes on investigating strange/magical phenomena. Very soon, strange things start to happen to him too. Also, it turns out that his workplace itself is ... not what you could call safe.

This story starts with the idea that the main character writes to a management advice blog about the strange things about his workplace, and becomes a regular writer. The fanfic is told in the form of this advice blog as it could appear on the internet: We get the mails he writes in, and the bloggers answers, and also the comment section. It's hilarious, but also it's taken so seriously as the story progresses and gets darker.

As an outsider POV, it really brings out how horrible the whole Magnus Archives story really is. It also shows very well how the story starts so inconspicuous and then boils the characters in horror like a lobster it a pot - and in this fanfic, the character doesn't event write to the advice blog about what's actually happening (because of secrecy), only the workplace safety circumstances. It's such a fascinating outsider POV.

Since it doesn't expect any canon knowledge, it can be read fandom-blind. Even without fandom-knowledge it's a hilarious and tragic advice blog story and in my case, it was my intro to the story, which I listened to after finishing this fanfic, so it was great advertisement for The Magnus Archives. (Note that it contains out of context but significant spoilers if you're going in fandom blind. For me this added to the re-read factor of the fanfic.)

Content Notes:

depictions of outrageously bad workplace safety
(canon-typical) dysfunctional interpersonal relationships
lighter on the actual supernatural horror than the original canon
out of context (but significant) spoilers if read fandom blind

Fanwork Links: Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work on ao3

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Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Crew of the Revenge, Israel Hands/Roach (it's tagged this, but it's very blink and you miss it)
Rating: T
Length: 2182 words
Creator Links: sweatervest
Theme: crack treated seriously

Summary: A single artichoke appears onboard the Revenge, and Izzy Hands is nowhere to be found. Naturally, the crew draws the most logical conclusion.

Reccer's Notes: The crew finds a single artichoke on the Revenge and draw the very erroneous conclusion that Izzy has been turned into a vegetable by a sea-witch. This is delightfully funny, as the crew try to protect the artichoke from getting eaten, among other things. It very much fits in with the silliness of season 1 of the show.

Fanwork Links: AO3

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Photograph of a young Asian girl using a manual typewriter in an office and looking very serious as she stares straight into the camera. Her black hair is slicked into a low ponytail and her round glasses are so big they extend past her face. She's wearing a shirt and tie and an adult-sized yellow blazer that fits her like a dress, almost as if she has been shrunk. Text, in a typewriter font: Crack Treated Seriously, at Fancake.

Happy New Year! Our theme for January is crack treated seriously!

It's time to put on your serious face because this round is for fanworks with ideas that are very, very bonkers, but approached with the utmost dedication to making it work within whatever passes for reality in that fandom. As with our crack round, I ask that you avoid using language associated with drug use and addiction in your recs, as this kind of language, even when used for fun, can be hurtful and alienating.

Now go bananas—but seriously.

The tag for this round is: theme: crack treated seriously

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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Introduction Post*
Meet the Mods Post *

Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #1 ) And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

andersenmom

So, I have 8 entries left of my fannish50 from 2025. Sadly, the last couple of weeks, I got plagued, as my son says. For those who know, I can easily sing anything from Felx of Stray Kids, or Masami of All(h)ours (Check out Wao Wao if you're curious).

it's all very frustrating, as I'm just not up for anything right now, not even this. Which is why it's all very... everywhere.

Anyway, that's my note for the first day of the year. It's not a fun way to start the year, but then, I guess it can only get better from here?

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: blessed silence

chacusha posting in

crackthewip

Hi everyone! I'm running a round of Crack the WIP during the first half of 2026. If you want to start the year by finishing off some old projects, and maybe need a deadline and some company or encouragement to push it across the finish line, come join us!

How it works:

Sign up below and tell us a little bit about what you're working on if you want! You can always change your mind later and drop or switch to a different project(s) as your plans change -- signing up isn't a commitment, just an idea of what you might make.

Then when it's finished, post your completed work to the AO3 collection. Note: Important change for this round is that the AO3 collection does NOT keep works hidden. So you can add your works to the collection as long as the work is complete. The collection is moderated and only complete works by people who have signed up will be accepted into it.

Throughout the creation period, we'll have regular (optional) check-ins (and round-ups/celebrations of any newly-finished works), and a final round-up of works at the end.

Sign-ups:

To sign up, copy the text below, paste it into your comment, and answer the questions. If you want to sign up to make more than one thing, just answer once for each thing. Anon comments are turned on, so you can sign up even if you don't have a DW account.

Schedule:

The deadline for WIP-finishing is June 30 this year. Sign-ups are open until then. After that date, the collection will be closed!

Helpful links:
2026 AO3 collection

( Rules/FAQ )

denise posting in

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

full_metal_ox posting in

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Fandom: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Pairings/Characters: Gen; background F/M (Joe Sullivan/Polly Perkins; past (one-sided?) Female OC/Joe Sullivan), OCs
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Length: 12,448; 19 chapters
Content Notes: aftermath of torture, combat injury, period-typical ethnic stereotypes (Asiatic bad guys), genocidal scheming, gory battle trophies, gruesome Mad Science
Creator Links:

thebookishcat

Theme: Amnesty, Action/Adventure, Old Fandoms, Pre-AO3 Works, Research, Small Fandoms, Underloved Works, Worldbuilding

Summary: The authors(1) didn’t really provide one, so here’s mine: Joe’s old buddy, fighter pilot Captain Rock Masterson, is taken prisoner by air pirates—and darned if Rock isn’t Polly Perkins’ cousin, giving her sound reason to gatecrash the adventure! But little does Pirate King Dantes Blackbeard the Third suspect that his scheme for world conquest is being puppeteered by something even more horrific…

Reccer's Notes: (In which Full Metal Ox betrays an affection for dated media.)( Continue. )

Is it Great Literature? Or even necessarily Good Writing? No—but the authors know exactly where in Storyland they’re supposed to be, and I’m the niche audience it’s for; they’ve fried up a tasty sack of potato chips.

Fanwork Links: Sky Captain and the Extinction Agenda, by

thebookishcat on Fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2108561/1/

Current Music: ”Lili Marlene”—Gaylord Carter

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Snowflake challenge #1

Fannish50 #44: TWS - Plot Twist, Ohmymy:7s

Snowflake Challenge #4

Fannish50 #43: TVXQ - Rebel, Down

Admin Post: GYWO 2026 Pledges: Ten More Days

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #3

Batman: Journey to the Center of the Multiverse by AddictedApple

Bungou Stray Dogs: everyone has a social media addiction by valleykey

Star Wars: Just Go Kill Palpatine by nevertheless_turtle

Star Wars: Will Save the Galaxy for Better Credit Ratings by zuzeca

Snowflake Challenge #2

Disco Elysium; Death Note: THE HIT AND RUN by brawltogethernow

The Magnus Archives: Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues [...] by shinyopals

OFMD: Thistle Teach ‘Em by sweatervest

Round 182: Crack Treated Seriously

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