Pear, Board 2

17/7/25 17:58
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You sigh in relief at surviving the lunch rush and hitting your earnings goal. Hopefully you’ll get an excuse to go playing in the dirt instead. A light fog has settled over the café, hiding the disconcerting wiggling pears on the ceiling from view. Fuzang is curled around the pear juice fountain and seems to have dozed all through the lunch rush.

Before the Manager can flag you down, though, Fuzang rises and eels his way over to you. “You know, I am quite fascinated by the ground here,” he begins. “The golems here are completely unique, and several aspects of them suggest that there might be something even more interesting buried in the soil. I’ve tried applying for a permit for an archaeological dig here, but the Manager keeps blocking me. I know you have other, more pressing duties, but if you dig out anything else interesting from the fields at the back – or even just some more of that dirt – I would be more than happy to compensate you for your labor.” He then produces a business card, revealing that he is a professor at one of the most esteemed dwarven universities.

“Of course, Professor,” you say.

“Oh, no need to stand on formality with me. I’ll be right here.” He curls back around the pear juice fountain. A golem brings him hotpot. It looks suspiciously pear-flavored. Unlike all the other customers, he doesn’t need a shoulder dragon to keep the hotpot hot.

The Manager hasn’t given you new instructions yet, so you go back out to the back, pear hat wiggling jauntily on your head. The fog is even worse here, making you unsure of how much you’ll have to dig, but you’re sure you can manage. You’re really digging this archaeology sidequest, and who knows – maybe you’ll find something to escape this cooking simulator.

Time to embrace the dirt again!


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16/7/25 19:10
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You’ve dug up your various vegetables, including those donuts that you explain to the manager can’t grow in the dirt, but she waves you off as she collects your hoard.

You’re utterly covered in dirt and you’re about to ask about the chance of grabbing a shower when you hear – no, feel – some deep rumblings beneath the cafe. You reach out and brace yourself against one of the wooden tables spread around the main area. There are people – well, not just people; there are dwarves and trolls and sprites and is that a mermaid in a portable pool? – sitting around and they appear completely nonplussed.

The cafe suddenly lights up in a glorious cacophony of oranges and reds and yellows, a heat that seems to singe your skin, and as it dies away you see a dragon has stuck its head through your window.

“Dirt!” someone yells. “You need to give it the dirt!”

Well, you certainly don’t see the point in keeping it for yourself, so you hand it all over and the dragon takes it carefully in its mouth. You watch as it deposits it in a rather neat square out the front of the cafe, smooth and spread out.

Suddenly, the dirt begins to come to life. Surely this isn’t real, but no, it’s there. Large humanoid creatures growing from the dirt.

“About time,” the manager says. Her dress is dancing even more out here, and there isn’t a breeze to explain it. “The golems have been missing for a while, we appreciate you helping bring them back. Now – get out there and earn us some more tips.”


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16/7/25 19:10
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You've seen some weird things in your time, but nothing weirder than a container of piping-hot French fries growing underground. You hope it's okay that you ate some while you were gardening. It's been a long morning and you're starving.

Stray wasn't kidding about the lunch rush. You can see through the windows that the formerly empty cafe is filling up with all kinds of supernatural creatures. You see some old friends among the trolls and sprites, and you want to stop and say hello to them, but you're covered in dirt and know better than to go in the front door of the cafe. Instead, you haul all the vegetables (and the remaining fries) to the back entrance, where Stray eagerly collects them. "These will be super helpful!" they say. "Give the dirt to Runner, will you?"

You look around, not sure who Runner is or how they're going to collect the giant heaps of dirt that you turned up while looking for vegetables. But when you turn back to the dirt pile, you see long, slender green vines twining up over and around it. Several of the vines briefly entangle themselves to form a dragon's head on a long neck. "Thank you, my darlings," the dragon coos as you stare. "This is exactly what I needed."

Then the vines – no, you realize, the runners – return to slithering over the dirt, dividing and shaping it into odd little mounds and drawing designs on them. Green energy crackles along the runners and infuses the heaps, and they suddenly bounce up from the ground, startling you. As you yelp and jump back, the heaps of dirt land on their... feet??

Glowing green words on their foreheads make it clear that these are golems. You haven't encountered them before, but you've heard stories. Not sure what to expect, you stay huddled with your teammates in the shadow of the cafe, waiting to see what happens next.

Runner coalesces again. "Sweet children of the soil! How I missed you," it cries. "Come take your places."

The golems seem to know what that means; some start turning the remaining soil into a patio area, while others fetch chairs, tables and green-and-pink-striped umbrellas from a storage shed. You see one of them stop to fondly pat the X-ray machine. Apparently they didn't mind being prodded by it.

Stray comes back out and nods approvingly at the golems. "Nice work," they tell Runner. Then they turn to you. "All right, time to get onstage!"

"Onstage?" you repeat, alarmed. You're exhausted from working in the field, not to mention filthy.

"Yes, yes, onstage! We promised the customers you'd entertain them. Aren't you all bards?"

You look around at one another. "More or less," one of you admits.

"Then leave the serving work to the golems and come perform. Customers always tip better when there are bards." Stray points to a water tap sticking out of the building. "But wash up first."

With no other option, you all line up for a chance at the tap. At least the water is warm, and someone in your party even remembers to cast Detect Fuck-Water and make sure it's safe before anyone touches it.

When you're moderately presentable, you head into the cafe and get ready to perform. An income tracker appears on your dashboard as you set out your tip jar. You hope it's an easy crowd.


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15/7/25 13:48
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You hand all the vegetables to the Manager, including the tacos – though you have second thoughts about that; they looked delicious, whatever their origin, and you are hungry – and feel more than hear a deep rumble in the earth.

“That would be the lunch rush,” the Manager says. You see a name tag on her dress. It reads “Manager MANAGER, Café Manager.” It seems that the saying nomen est omen does apply after all.

You re-enter the café just as a giant horde of dwarves comes in, probably from the mines. Some booths are already full of all variety of creatures, crystal sprites and faeries and selkies – and is that a lava mermaid on the top level? – and you can see that with the dwarves, the place will be packed.

Just as you’re about to start frantically chopping vegetables, one of the other servers says, “Oh, he’s early today!”

You look at who could have inspired this reaction and see that a dragon has poked its whiskered face in through the window. You don’t remember the Pear Wiggler having a window there when you came, but perhaps they remodeled while you were in the fields.

The dragon seems to be incredibly distracted by the pear juice fountain. He squirms inside the café sinuously.

“New people!” the Manager calls. “Give the old geezer the dirt you dug up. And hurry up, we have an earnings goal to meet!”

You look at the earnings goal and think you’ll be here all week before you can meet it, but keep the thought to yourself. Instead, you bring the dirt to the dragon, only to discover that… it’s coming to life?

“Ahh, golems; I was wondering if this would happen,” the dragon says. He sounds old and wise. He joins you in watching the golems spring to work, serving people at a pace that might make the Manager’s earnings goal at least somewhat realistic. “But there’s no need for you to mind old Fuzang. Go entertain the customers and get some tips.”

Tips? Perhaps they will be counted towards the earnings target. You thank Fuzang for his advice and spread out to entertain waiting customers with art and stories.


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14/7/25 09:31
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1. Murderbot! I deeply enjoyed the whole first season. I think they did a lovely job of translating from book into tv show, and Skarsgard has totally sold me on the role. (It helps that we know he loves the books too -- he wants to do right by them.)

2. Andor! I'm now seven episodes in and absolutely loving it. It feels awfully relevant to our moment. Also I am amused by the fact that this show also relies in part on the acting talent of a Skarsgard, just, y'know, a different one.

3. Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells, published to celebrate the Murderbot S1 finale.

4. Cold coffee with milk and splenda, and a distant patch of blue in the cloudy skies.

5. All of my laundry is folded and put away. This is, as ever, a temporary state of affairs but it's a nice one while it lasts.

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13/7/25 15:31
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This was one of those weeks in our household. Events included my mother's consultation over her denture, which now won't be fixed until mid-August at the earliest, and her computer getting hit by a very scary virus, albeit one the IT people were able to remove very quickly once they remoted in. Meanwhile, I spent it trying to get a second refill of my bentyl after the I failed to get the first, even though the USPS website claimed it had been delivered. The way the post office has been going lately, I would have much rather gone to pick it up in person, but that proved impossible when Kaiser has no pharmacies open on weekends closer than Woodbridge! I got the email saying it shipped today, and I just have to hope it actually shows up this time. I've had to reduce my doses, and I'm currently trying to figure out the results of that.
I spent the weekend watching Wimbledon. I ended up turning off the ladies singles final, because that was just painful, but enjoyed the men's and both doubles finals.

Sunshine #4: Top Ten

13/7/25 12:05
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Sunshine Challenge #4 this year is to create a list of ten things, and the subject currently on my mind is “men in books who should have been blorbos, but for lack of adequate shipping options.” Here are ten male characters where I read the book and went, oh my, he’s perfect, too bad about the lack of any I want to mash him against!

This was a fun exercise—I realized that I actually do have ships in some books (left off the list) and it’s simply that the fandom was too small/nonexistent for me to want to write fic for it. The ones who are left really felt like characters who were isolated in their original contexts, either for lack of other (male) shipping options, or because some dominant ship wasn’t for me.

1. Edmund Pevensie, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series

Edmund is a lovely, awful child character whose primary shipping option is his brother or Prince Caspian, and I happened not to like either very much. I don’t think I even realized how much I enjoyed his character until I saw him in a crossover fic with one of my other faves, and that’s been the main way I’ve written him!

2. Clive Durham, E. M. Forster’s Maurice

My most favorite Forster character ever is locked into a story in which he has a terrible ill-fated romance with a character archetype that I really did not get along with, so I can’t even enjoy the bits of Maurice/Clive that are out there. I want badly for him to find someone else who is exactly the same type of prick that he is.

Honorable mention to all of Forster’s other queer men who never quite felt well-paired in their books!

3. Bunny, Mary Renault’s The Charioteer

There are a wealth of available gay men in The Charioteer, but none that I really love for Bunny! I’d read any combination of Bunny/someone else, just to see how it goes, but he really does seem like he’d be stuck having to grovel to make those options work beyond a single hookup. :( I want Bunny to be appreciated for his flagrant awfulness.

4. Frank Maddox, E. F. Benson’s David Blaize

An unfortunate victim of a book with a clear main ship that I do not like. David is a great friend to Frank, but I cannot see him as a good partner, and the book (and its sequel) is so invested in centering that relationship that no other boy gets the development to be a real option. Poor Frank! I love his gentleness and his intelligence and his angst so much; he needs someone other than David.

5. The Darkling, Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha series

Oh, Darkling. Burdened by being the evil leg of a love triangle in a fantasy series. Plenty of shipfic for him if you like the series protagonist, which I do not; no significant relationships with other men in the series. He is forever in my wishful-thinking pile. I would have loved to collect another dark wizard.

6. Dennis Knuckleyard, Alan Moore’s The Great When

I loved being introduced to this useless adolescent lump through a bad masturbation scene. That is perfect for me! He’s a great character but only plays off of one similarly-aged character, and that romantic potential is (very rightly!) shut down. At least this is the first of a series, and he might come back and we might see him interact with others/gain depth to minor relationships?

7. Leo Colston, L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between

I was so taken with preteen Leo’s growing awareness of adult affairs and concerns during his summer holiday. He reads to me as queer and I’d be very interested in watching that continue to develop, but it’s just not the purpose of this story, and neither is it a focus to develop his relationship with his peer. The Go-Between is about adolescent yearning, but the character would have been great to play with if his world were more fleshed out beyond that period of life.

8. Eric Ashley, Michael Campbell’s Lord Dismiss Us

Ashley’s novel comes with options, but no one meets his strength of character and self-knowledge. Just one other young teacher, or perhaps if we’d gotten a few scenes of interaction with his former school boyfriend…

9. Ernst Stockmann, Stephen Spender’s The Temple

I am still not over the treatment of this character! He was so symapthetic to me, in all of his awkwardness. His stiff inability to be carefree ended up wrapping back around to make him one of the more genuine characters in the novel—he never actually pretends to offer something he cannot, or to not have the history that he does. I love him for that, even if the book won’t. Of course, that no one else in the book likes him makes it awful to contemplate pairing him with anyone.

10. Mark Daubery, Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent

This new addition is what’s got the subject on my mind. I love a wealthy middle-aged Brit who is not good news! He’s so honest about that, while simultaneously being a mysterious, oily bastard, and I adore a character who cannot be trusted from the start but who still manages to shock. Again, he’s hampered by the narrowness of the cast: half of the secondaries are students, half are much older colleagues, and although the protagonist does sleep with him, I am rooting against her actually staying with him. I would love him being charmingly devious to someone who matches his energy.
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Thank you for writing or drawing for me! I'm within_a_dream on AO3 and am requesting fic and art for all requests. I am [archiveofourown.org profile] within_a_dream on AO3, and you can read my previous letters here if you want to see some of my previous exchange requests!

In general, please feel free to include any kinks or tropes not in my DNWs (yes even the really weird ones, I have unusually broad interests), and include any ships in addition to my requested characters/ships, including adding characters to my requested ships. Crossovers are also welcome – I've read all of KJC's books and I'm familiar with many other fandoms!

Trans characters, trans headcanons, and character-is-trans AUs always welcome. I enjoy aromantic, no-romo, friends-with benefits takes on ships and characters with unusual or nontypical attitudes towards romance (although I prefer for historical characters not to explicitly use the word aromantic). I’m also down for any amount of character death, graphic violence, and/or noncon.

Don’t feel bound to my prompts if none of them catch your interest – I’ll be happy with anything about my ships that doesn’t contain my DNWs! Length of prompts is 0% an indication of what I want more and 100% just a function of what ships I’ve requested before/have previous prompts to pull from.


DNWs

DNWs

  • Unrequested pregnancy, childbirth, oviposition - Canonical pregnancy is fine, as is pregnancy I prompted for

  • Trans characters having PIV sex - other types of vaginal penetration or uses of dicks are fine!

  • Explicit monogamy - I'm fine with my two-person ships being the only ship in the work, and I don't need anyone to be explicitly poly, I just don't want any of the characters in them explicitly saying they'll only ever love each other or that they're not poly

  • No-homophobia AUs of historical settings

  • Breaking up canon ships, canon ships cheating on each other - my preferred way to handle canon ships for my noncanon ship requests is to either have it be an open relationship or simply not mentioning the canon ship/s

  • Unrequested noncon with a ship member as the perpetrator - past or onscreen noncon with an OC, or fuck-or-die/etc between my requested ships are always fine, as is one character being possessed and the thing doing the possessing using their body to noncon the other ship member/s

  • AUs I DNW: Modern/mundane AUs, soulmate AUs (soulbonds are welcome!), BDSM AUs (regular BDSM is fine, I just don’t want the engrained/biological dom/sub roles), omegaverse


Unnecessarily long list of likes, sorted by theme:

General Likes

  • I love all tenses and POVs!

  • Fic about canonical children, Accidental Child Acquisition of OC children (especially for characters who are not at all parental and have no idea what to do with kids)

  • Casefic, with a loose definition of "case" that encompasses mysteries for mystery fandoms, paranormal investigations for fantasy canons, espionage for spy canons, etc (or mix it up and make the spies face something supernatural, the wizards solve a murder, etc!)

  • Ghost stories! Particular favorites include the "ghostly hitchhiker" urban legend and the setup where characters need to spend the night in a haunted house for Reasons

  • Recovery or aftermath – of canonical traumatic events or noncanonical torture, rape, murder attempts, etc

  • Whump, hurt/comfort, hurt/no comfort

  • 5+1 fics

  • Epistolary fic

  • Always-a-woman AUs (cis or trans women welcome!)

  • Trans headcanons, trans characters, character-is-trans AUs

  • Aromantic, noromo, etc relationships

  • Internal or external homophobia


Art Likes
  • I love any art styles and media!

  • Ships sharing each other’s clothes

  • Disheveled characters (whether from fights or sex or anything else)

  • Clothing/costume porn

  • Clothed/unclothed, or discrepancies in level of dress, for shippy art

  • Limited color palettes

  • Blood, bruises, marks, scars

  • Casual physical contact



Smut Likes
  • Feel free to include any of your favorite kinks if you are writing or drawing me smut! My only squicks are in my DNWs – anything else goes.
  • Any and all sex acts (vaginal, anal, oral, manual, frottage, intercrural, fisting, double penetration, sounding, etc) are great! I have no top/bottom or dom/sub preferences.

  • My favorite words for genitals are cock and cunt, but I have no objections to whatever you’d like to use

  • Anal sex for everyone, but especially m/f and f/f anal

  • Pretty much anything under the BDSM umbrella. I am especially into unnegotiated or undernegotiated kink, and characters falling into kinky dynamics or things they enjoy (especially with the younger characters). I have no dom/sub preferences

  • I would love noncon for any of my requested characters or fandoms – if you want to know more about what I like in dubcon or noncon I have a general list of kinks and tropes here in my Consent Issues letter. I generally prefer noncon with an OC or canonical antagonist as the rapist, and "fuck or die" setups between my requested characters are also great!

  • Roleplay – I am into both serious roleplay and goofy scenarios that the characters can’t quite take seriously, and I am especially fond of rape roleplay/consensual non-consent

  • Group sex, orgies, and gangbangs

  • Gunplay, especially fucking someone with a gun

  • Watersports – I am mostly into it for humiliation or marking aspects, and am neutral about drinking piss (and would prefer if any drinking happens it’s someone having their mouth pissed in directly rather than just drinking a glass of pee/etc)


Whump Likes
  • For sickfic, I’m good with anything from the common cold to deadly diseases. Just make my requested hurt character/s miserable and I will be happy! Historically-accurate medical care for my historical canons is very welcome, but not necessary

  • Torture – I’m especially fond of beatings, whipping, and broken bones

  • Fevers, especially making confessions of emotion while feverish and not thinking clearly

  • Characters feeling guilty about needing care

  • Characters not wanting to stop and rest despite their injuries and/or mental state

  • Anxiety or panic attacks




Rape/Noncon/Rape Recovery Likes
  • Graphic/onscreen noncon is very welcome, as is a gift that only includes the aftermath and/or recovery!

  • Any aggressor/victim gender combos are great!

  • You know how so many KJC characters have horrible older brothers and/or fathers? Just feel free to add sexual abuse and/or rape to any of those relationships

  • Characters blaming themselves for the rape

  • Characters hiding the rape from their friends/loved ones until they accidentally reveal it by completely breaking down

  • I am totally down for aroused or unaroused victims

  • Aggressors praising the victims, especially in a condescending way

  • Aggressors cutting or branding words into the victim, especially insults or marks of property

  • Bruises, cuts, blood (especially bleeding from the nose or mouth), visible injuries

  • Forced bestiality (with the victim being penetrated)

  • Victims killing their aggressor/s during or after the rape


Society of Gentlemen

SoG prompts

Solo: Richard Vane's Mother

I accidentally gave myself so many emotions about Richard's mom on my latest Society of Gentlemen reread and I am going to make this everyone's problem. Like, she was saddled with an abusive husband, was imprisoned in an isolated house after fighting back against him, and then she died a presumably horrible death of cancer?? And the complicated emotions Richard has about her and her death are so juicy. (She was never quiet about her hatred of her children!! But!! She saved all of his letters!!)

First off, if you just want to write/draw something tragic and canon-compliant, please feel free. Art-specific prompt: I would love to see a formal portrait of her, not least so I can adopt your appearance headcanons as my own as I write my own fic about her.

I would love to see Richard get to actually talk to her, instead of arriving just after she dies. The rest of my prompts are fairly sympathetic towards her, but I am also down for a take that really delves into what a shitty parent she was to Richard if you would like!

The rest of the ideas are just variations on, what if she got to be happy? Give her a friend, or a girlfriend, or a lover. Have her survive and reconnect with Richard. Have her meet Cyprian as a kind of counterpoint to Richard meeting David's mom.

Hyperspecific prompt that I release into the wild and which you may take all of, part of, or none of as you so choose: what if in a parallel to Richard, she falls in love with her lady's maid or companion or someone similar? And the two of them fuck off to Europe after an inheritance or windfall makes them somewhat financially independent? And then she hears about Harry's return to the family and this spurs her to return home to London? And she and Richard have an awkward and tentative reconnection while both are trying to hide their queer identity and relationship from each other?

Will Quex/Jonathan Shakespeare

I so desperately want backstory fic for these two. How did they meet? How did they fall in love? How did they end up running Quex’s? What was Will’s life like between leaving his family and the beginning of the books? Dropping some treats and pspspsing at those of us who love to write novellas (or fics of any length) about the love stories of secondary characters in the books...

Will and/or Jon POV on the events of the books would be very fun. I love that they’re in the background snarking about the gentlemen and occasionally helping Silas and David, and I’d love to see any of the big (or small) events of SoG through their eyes

So I love threesomes and I love that Will and Jon are canonically into threesomes, and I would love to see more smut about this, whether that’s with Cyprian, with Silas (+/- Dom), or with other characters or OCs of your choice (feel free to bring in some crossover characters for porn purposes as well! I’ve read all of KJC’s other books if any of her characters strike your fancy, but I’m down for literally any fandom for this crossover prompt, even if I haven’t heard of it)

I’d also really love smut of the two of them alone!

Really, I just want more fic about these two somewhat minor characters who have stolen my heart. So if you have a Will & Jon story you’ve been dying to tell, hit me with it and I will love it.

Julius Norreys/Edward Rawling/Harry Vane/Verona Vane

So this was spawned by the concept of a Harry/Verona marriage of convenience AU, but it would still be fun in other settings! I just love the idea of Harry and Verona ending up attracted to each other after they both no longer have to hide their lovers, and/or Rawling ending up attracted to Harry and/or Julius or vice versa, and ending up having a foursome that could be really awkward or could work weirdly well fueled solely by Harry's charm.

I forgot to nom Harry & Verona this year, but here is the marriage of convenience AU prompt even though it's not directly related to the requested foursome: I also would love an AU where Harry and Verona actually get married in a marriage-of-convenience way. They can team up to torment Gideon, it would be great. They are super indiscreet about their affairs but refuse to acknowledge this to Gideon. Verona has a baby who looks just like Rawlings and Harry's like, "Oh, he takes after my mother!" I have this scene in my head of Verona hearing that Richard objects to infidelity and cornering him to give him this whole speech (drawn from the feminist works of Euphemia Gordon) about how a marriage is what its participants define it to be, and if a woman were to agree to marry someone and consent to that someone keeping his lover, then who's being hurt here? And Harry's just hiding in the corner giving her a thumbs up.


Band Sinister

Band Sinister prompts

Amanda Frisby/Any Member(s) of the Murder Except Guy Frisby

I just want Amanda to get to join the polycule and slut it up! I think it would be fun if she commandeered her friends to block out scenes from her latest novel-in-progress, and also if she started writing erotica and borrowing Murder members for more hands-on sex experience. Amanda deserves to attend an orgy, or be the center of a gangbang. I do love Amanda/David, but I also think an AU where she ends up marrying a different Murder member would be delightful (my first thought is thoroughly scandalizing everyone by marrying Corvin, after assuring both him and Guy that she expects neither love nor fidelity out of this, but I'm down for anyone). I'm requesting the non-incestuous version of the tag bc I don't actively ship Guy/Amanda, but I don't mind them being present at the same orgies/sex parties, having the same lover/s, or hearing about each other's sex lives.


Doomsday Books

Doomsday prompts

Berengaria d'Aumesty & Rufus d'Aumesty, Fulk d'Aumesty & Rufus d'Aumesty, Odo d'Aumesty & Rufus d'Aumesty

Okay so I love how when faced with the horrible D’Aumesty clan, Rufus sets about figuring out how to get along with his cousins, and I want to see his post-canon interactions with one, two, or all three of them! Meeting Odo’s fiancee, working with Fulk on the estate (listen I am such a slut for estate maintenance), talking art with Berengaria, or anything else you can think of! I'm also totally down for any canon ships happening alongside the cousin-bonding, and I am very soft for Rufus cautiously telling his cousins about him and Luke (or one or more of the cousins figuring it out on their own) and everyone accepting him.

Laura Colefax/Odo d'Aumesty

I ended this series so unexpectedly fond of Odo, and I want to see his life post-canon!. Based on absolutely nothing, I assume Laura and her father have a good relationship, and I’d love to see Odo’s feelings about joining like, an actually functional and loving family. I want to see the two of them nerding out about history together. I am totally down for smut and would especially love to see them doing some incredibly nerdy and intricate roleplay (possibly with one of them getting derailed correcting the other on historical inaccuracies), or something genderfucky with Odo roleplaying as a woman and/or Laura as a man. Would love to see Laura being just as much of a weirdo (affectionate) as Odo.


Will Darling Adventures

WDA prompts

Maisie Jones/Phoebe Stephens-Prince & Barbara Secretan (Lady Chingford), Maisie Jones/Phoebe Stephens-Prince/Barbara Secretan (Lady Chingford)

Catch me falling for yet another extremely minor woman! I was so thrilled to see Babs get a bit of screen time in This Lord's Father and I desperately want to see her further integration into the extended Secretan family! I'm also totally down for her to interact with Will and Kim but I feel like she and Maisie and Phoebe would have fun together. Does Barbara get involved in some Private Bureau business? Do they shit-talk Chingford together? Does Maisie make her a dress? Do they have wild gay threesomes, possibly whilst kinking on cuckolding Chingford? Do you have another vision for these relationships? Go wild!


The Duke At Hazard

Duke at Hazard prompts

Cassian Crosse/Daizell Charnage

I just want to see more of them together after their somewhat-of-a-whirlwind romance! Especially more of them living and being together when Cassian is in his "real" identity. Daizell figuring out what he wants his new life to look like! Cassian learning to assert his own desires more around his family/society and also possibly fumbling into being a rich jerk to Daizell more and having to fix that! More sex, whether it's more somnophilia or vanilla or praise kink or pony play or something else entirely! (Would you like…to create the work I have plotted out but not managed to write where Cassian offers himself up for free use for Daizell and Hart and Robin and anyone else you'd like at Lady Wintour's hell after-hours...)

Solo: Martin Nichols (John Martin), Cassian Crosse/Daizell Charnage & Martin Nichols (John Martin), Cassian Crosse/Daizell Charnage/Martin Nichols (John Martin)

I just want more Martin! Love this traumatized asshole, love that he gets a happy ending and a new job at the end, would love to see literally anything you would like to create about him. Loved that Martin was determined to Git Gud at valet-ing as soon as Cassian offered him the job, and would love to see more of that. I am also a sucker for a rape/trauma recovery story, and would love to see something along those lines (whether as gen or as part of a shipfic, for Cassian/Daizell/Martin or Martin/OC).


Death in the Spires

Death in the Spires prompts

Ella Feynsham/Toby Feynsham/Jem Kite/Prue Lenster/Hugo Morley-Adams/Aaron Oyede/Nicky Rook

My first thought upon finishing DitS was, wow, KJC has managed to do the impossible and write an ensemble cast I don't want to have an orgy. My second thought was, okay but under what circumstances would I enjoy them having an orgy anyway? I just want them to have the world's most uncomfortable group sex while in school together. My first thought is that they all get sex pollened as an impetus for the fucking, but I am also down for them just fucking without sex pollen to spur them on, or a horrible unhappy tangled polyamorous relationship. I am very here for Ella & Toby to get weird and incestuous, or not if you so prefer.

Ella Feynsham/Jem Kite/Prue Lenster/Aaron Oyede/Nicky Rook

And the happier "everyone but the assholes" version of a DitS orgy. I would love to see them all end up in one big polyship after they reunite in canon. I also love the idea of this happening post-canon in a world where the full orgy also happened at school, with someone saying they should have a second go at the orgy now that Hugo and Toby are out of the picture.

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PDPH 10 - The West Wing, Neko no Ongaeshi | The Cat Returns, Severance (TV)
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Lore is part of the fun of Battleship, but it has no bearing on the actual game. You can skip posts tagged "lore" if you just want the game instructions.

When we left our heroes...

You take your winnings off to the Shoulder Dragon Cafe, planning to settle in for some hot pot and a well-deserved rest. You also really want your new octopus friend to meet the shoulder dragons; you think they'd get along well.

But when you step through the door of the cafe, there's a weird shimmering blur. It's magic, but not a kind you've ever seen before.

Inside the cafe, things seem... different. Everything looks flat, and pastel-colored. Every sound is tinny, and just at the edge of hearing, there's a little song playing over and over and over.

"Welcome to your first day as a cook at the Shoulder Dragon Cafe!" cries a cheerful voice. It's a rainbow-colored shoulder dragon, hovering over one of the tables with jerky flaps of its wings. "I'll show you how to keep our customers happy! Are you ready? Let's get cooking!"

"Oh no," one of your companions whispers, just as you start to really regret pushing the buttons on those mysterious goblin machines. "We're in a cooking simulator."

A new round begins!

It seems homes for dwarves, mermaids, sprites, and trolls are not the only things being built on the construction site. Each day you glance out the window of the Shoulder Dragon Cafe and see curious things going on. Until one day you look and see four new buildings. Not only that, but each has a large garden sectioned off. Taking a closer look, you see it’s not only vegetables growing. Is that pizza? Is that a bone?

“You’ve leveled up,” one of the Shoulder Dragon Cafe sprites tells you all as you look out the window, watching. “Time to go across the way.”

You'll miss the Shoulder Dragon Cafe. People, creatures, and animals have come from far and wide to taste test the delicacy of your hot pot. But you know the call to adventure still whispers – and you’d like to get home. Maybe. Eventually.

So gathering both old and new friends, you venture across, and as you get closer you see that atop each building is a fruit. The Fraise Lounge reads one, a juicy red strawberry good enough to eat just out of your reach. The Pear Wiggler that does indeed seem to be wiggling. The Lemon Pucker Cafe and Adult Bookstore that smells of sharp, tart citrus wafting through the air. The Enchanted Vine that sparkles above you.

Suddenly, a dwarf appears from under the ground. He shakes the dirt from his head and takes you all in. He might be small, but he makes you feel even smaller, like he can see right through you. “Are you the replacements?”

You don’t know what to say.

“For the golems,” the dwarf says. He sniffs. “I have to say, not sure you’ll be able to live up to them.”

“Well,” you say, “we can certainly try.”

The adventurers gather around this small, strange man and stare at the four cafes. Just as you’re about to start helping divide up teams, you hear something coming from the nearby lake. You stop, frozen in fear, as four huge octopuses rise from the water. They’re various shades and you’re pretty sure at least some of them have to mean poison: yellow, red, green, and purple.

Before anyone can react, the octopuses span the distance between you and them, and begin to toss players toward the different cafes. You find yourself flying through the air, sure this is the end of you, but thanks to the magic of fiction, you land safely on your feet.

Team Grape

You are one of the lucky adventurers to end up at the bright purple door of the Enchanted Vine. You can smell the tang of wine, of juice, the fresh greenery of grape vines that all but engulf the cafe’s windows.

Before you can knock, the door flies open and a woman in a loud purple dress stands there. Her clothes seem to move on their own, flowing in the nonexistent wind. You try and see beyond her but the vines have made the inside dark. You can smell something delicious, and your stomach grumbles.

“Enough of that,” the woman says. “It’s about time you’re here. Quickly now, it’s lunch rush soon and we need our vegetables.”

Well, you said you wanted a job.

“Oh!” The woman says suddenly. “Make sure you get plenty of dirt, too. You want to upgrade the cafe, don’t you? We’ve been hoping to install that patio for a while. Let the customers get some sunshine, you see.”

Your eyes still haven’t adjusted to seeing inside the cafe with how dark it is. You can’t imagine it’s a popular cafe.

And did she say dirt to… upgrade? Whatever, this place is weird enough, might as well listen to what she says.

When you step onto the loony dirt of the gardens, a screen appears before you. X-ray scans available: 144.

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

“Uh,” you manage to ask, “what’s your name?”

The woman waves you off. “Just call me the manager.”

Team Lemon

The Lemon Pucker is a maze of a place, with lots of cozy nooks for reading and some curtained booths in the back for… um… let's just say those are for private reading. The air is filled with the scent of tangy citrus. Patrons are drinking lemon verbena tea and nibbling on lemon poppyseed cake. It's well-lit and peaceful, and you wish you could just sit down and enjoy it.

But you're here to work, and the cafe manager immediately pops out from behind the counter and bustles over to you. He's short and round and is wearing a yellow t-shirt that says It's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel for a sex machine. "Welcome, welcome, welcome!" he cries. "We're so happy you're here!"

He introduces himself as Mr. Snikkit ("No relation, it's a different spelling, you know") and takes you out behind the cafe to where there's a big garden plot. It looks totally barren. Nonetheless, Mr. Snikkit gives you all shovels and instructs you to start digging.

"What are we going to dig for?" you ask skeptically.

Mr. Snikkit gives you an encouraging smile. "Whatever you find!"

Someone behind you snorts. "I don't think we're going to find anything but dirt."

"Oh, yes, save the dirt!" Mr. Snikkit exclaims. "Very important dirt."

He dashes back into the cafe, saying something about dragons and golems. None of it makes any sense, but that's par for the course.

As you fan out across the garden plot, looking for places to dig, a display pops up with your level goals and tools. Apparently you can use an X-ray machine for… something… 144 times. Maybe to see what's happening in those curtained booths.

You stare out at the dirt (important dirt) and sigh. It was more interesting at the Shoulder Dragon Cafe, where you got to actually cook. But grinding is how you level up, so you heft your shovel and set to work.

Team Pear

You sigh with relief at this interlude leaving you alive and on dry land. You’ve been deposited in front of the Pear Wiggler, so you decide that this must be the place to start.

You push open the suspiciously juicy door and see a space where the architect’s plans must have gone pear-shaped – rather literally, as the interior is in the shape of a giant pear. Staircases run along the edges of the café, leading to suspended booths of various sizes, and a fountain of pear juice occupies the center. The ceiling is covered in pears that are wiggling in a most disconcerting manner.

“Oh, the new employees!” a passing server says. “Thank pear — we really have been noticing the golems' absence.” Like everyone else, he is dressed in bright green, with a hat that looks like a giant pear has been mashed on top of his head. Somehow, it, too, seems to be wiggling. “Quick, go report to the manager. We don’t have much time before the lunch rush, and I think the kitchen was running out of vegetables.” You allow yourself to be directed to the base of the pear juice fountain and think that a quick run to the market to buy new ingredients would be a nice and easy task to start with, assuming you don’t get waylaid by the octopus or something else ridiculous in your usual fashion.

The manager, however, disabuses you of this notion. “Oh good,” she says. Somehow, in her green dress, she looks like a giant pear with legs. She has a slightly less giant pear smooshed on her head. You think you can see the juice dripping down her hair. “The vegetables are ready for harvesting. Go out and dig them up.”

You nod, hoping there won’t be any sudden floods or cave-ins or giant creatures flinging you about. A glance at the garden patch reveals nothing but dirt is visible. “I don’t see any vegetables?”

“That’s what the x-ray machine is for,” she says, and points at a cubical contraption on somewhat rickety-looking wheels. “On the screen you can see your vegetable target for this morning. Oh, and remember to save the dirt you dig up!”

With that, she leaves you to the dirt. You see a bunch of ostensibly vegetable-related numbers, as well as the text X-ray scans available: 144.

Suddenly, a pear mashes itself onto your head. You yelp and look around – all your friends are also newly bepeared.

“Just because you’re new doesn’t mean you can violate dress code!” the Manager shouts.

You sigh as the pear juice drips down your cheek. Looks like there’s nothing for you to do but start digging.

Team Strawberry

The sweet, luscious smell of ripe strawberries fills your nose as you step into the Fraise Lounge. It's a large yet cozy space, with big soft pink armchairs and green runners twining up the legs of hand-carved wooden tables. All the servers wear cute little hats of strawberry leaves and polka-dotted pink aprons. And there sure are a lot of servers, all bustling around trying to look busy, even though there's hardly anyone else here.

"Excuse me," you say as one hurries past with an empty tray. You're pretty sure she's just been carrying that tray back and forth across the cafe and won't mind the interruption. "Um, we've been assigned to cook here."

"Oh thank goodness," the server exclaims. "Stray! It's the new group!"

Stray is apparently the name of the person who comes out of the kitchen, wiping their hands on their apron. They've gone a step further than the servers and dyed their hair green, arranging it into leaf-like sections above their cheerful pink face. Or… are those actual leaves? You don't want to stare, but you've also never seen a strawberry/human hybrid before.

"About time," they say, gesturing for you to follow them through the kitchen and out the back door. "Since the golems vanished, we've been struggling to meet demand."

"Not to be rude," you say, "but... what demand? You don't seem to get a lot of customers."

"Just wait until the lunch rush!" Stray laughs. "Trust me, we'll need everything you can dig up and then some."

The garden plot is a big square of plain dirt. "But nothing's growing out here," you say.

Stray hands you a shovel with a wink. "Start digging. You might be surprised. And save the dirt – if we get enough to build a patio, we can handle even more customers."

As you take the shovel, a dashboard appears with a set of indicators: target amounts of vegetables, something hidden with a question mark, and the confusing sentence X-ray scans remaining: 144. It's weird being inside a video game, but at least you're clear on what to do next. The other members of your team get shovels, and you begin to dig.

Instructions for Board 1 are here.

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Each square on the 12x12 grid contains either vegetables or dirt. Your team must dig up all the vegetables on its grid in order to advance to the next level.

Team progress trackers for Board 1:

Team Grape | Team Lemon | Team Pear | Team Strawberry

Vegetables

There are 8 total vegetable patches in 5 different shapes. Each shape is associated with exactly one type of vegetable. There may be multiple patches of any vegetable. Here is what the shapes look like:

A grid showing five different arrangements of squares

The shapes are:

Line, 2 squares

Diagonal line, 3 squares

L-shape, 3 squares

W-shape, 5 squares

Bump, 6 squares

Shapes may be rotated 90, 180, or 270 degrees, or flipped horizontally and/or vertically from how they appear in the diagram. Each team's arrangement of shapes is different.

Dirt

Dirt squares have a value between 400 and 1000 grams, and will be applied to support your efforts during the lunch rush (ie. reduce the number of hit points needed to clear the boss). Additionally, each strike of overkill beyond a board goal claims a bonus equivalent to 300 grams of dirt, up to a maximum of 10 strikes of overkill against each board goal.

The collective value of all dirt squares on the board plus overkill will not equal more than half the boss's hit points.

How to clear a square

Each square is assigned a goal. The list of goals is displayed below the grid. A goal consists of a number and two tags, such as "16, Enemies to Lovers, IN SPACE." Meet the goal by posting works that claim one (or more) of those tags. A work that uses multiple tags on a square contributes to a goal multiple times.

Every work must fulfill one of this year's requests in the prompt collection, and be gifted to the prompter.

Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)

If you're on a team, your works must be posted to your team's collection to count toward clearing squares on your team's board. If you're not on a team, post treats to the main collection.

Grape Collection | Lemon Collection | Pear Collection | Strawberry Collection | Main Collection

In addition, there are board-wide goals for AO3 labels such as “Major Character Death,” work mediums, and freeforms that do not appear on any board. You must collectively achieve these goals to complete the board.

Teams may continue to fulfill board goals beyond the required number to claim bonus “overkill” points. Each board goal counts up to 10 strikes of overkill.

Claim relevant tags in your author's note, in a comma-separated list (e.g. "First Kiss, Fisting, Friendship"), with the tags exactly as they appear in the tagset. The mods will only count tags claimed this way. Fic and podfic may claim 1 tag per 100 words. Art may claim all tags that are clearly present in the work. Metadata such as ship type will be claimed automatically.

Each team’s members (and only members of that team) should post works to their respective team collection. Each team member is capped at 7 works per board. The collection is moderated, and works will be approved as the mods count them.

All teams also possess an “X-ray.” Once a square requires 3 or fewer tag claims before it is cleared, teams may go into the team’s shots channel in Discord to request to use the x-ray. Teams do not need to name specific squares for the X-ray; when used it will automatically scan all squares with 3 or fewer works remaining. Using the X-ray will reveal whether qualifying squares contain a vegetable or not. This information will be displayed in the list of goals, next to their respective squares. An X-rayed square is not a cleared square, and does not grant the team anything other than information; teams must still fully clear a square to retrieve the vegetables or dirt beneath it.

Once enough works have been approved to fully clear a square, it will be marked "Ready to Call." Call the (specific, with grid location) shot in the team’s shots channel in Discord to finish digging up the square and retrieve what's beneath it: vegetables or dirt.

When all the squares of a vegetable patch have been found, the mods will announce to the team that the vegetable patch has been dug up, and reveal which vegetables the team found. Mods will also announce if all patches of a particular vegetable have been dug up.

Advancing to the next level

Once the garden grid is cleared of vegetables and the board goals have been met, the team will collectively decide whether to keep digging up dirt or return to the cafe and confront the lunch rush. When you've decided, announce in the shots channel that you're ready to begin the boss battle.

If you're on a Battleship team and haven't already joined the Discord or claimed your Discord role, now's the time! Your team members there will share the team coordination sheet and cheer you on.

Good luck!

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While doing very boring work, I listen to spoken radio, which because BBC Sounds recommendations and "your next episode" are rubbish*, means going back through the schedules of Radio 4 and Radio 4 extra day by day and seeing what's been on. Yes I could Subscribe to Podcasts but I've been listening to speech radio since I was recording it on my cassette player I was given when I was 7 so I could listen to it again, and I like being in control and searching for what I want rather than having things piling up like an external obligation. So using this method, recently I have listened to:

1977 by Sarah Wooley
Which is a play about Angela Morley composing the music for Watership Down. Before transitioning, Angela Morley had written and arranged music for the Goon Show and wrote the theme tune to Hancock's Half Hour, and the play begins when Malcolm Williamson, Master of the Queen's Music is overwhelmed with writing music for the Queen's Silver Jubilee and has totally forgotten he is supposed to also be writing the soundtrack to Watership Down. Several times in this play people say something like "Oh God, the rabbits!" Malcolm Williamson is really not in a good place and stops answering the door and then runs away to the Carmargue with his (male) publisher, leaving not very many minutes of not arranged music with the symphony orchestra and the recording studio booked for something like 10 days' time. And people go "oh shit" and "the only person who can do this is Angela Morley" and go and grovel and promise it's not going to be about her, it's all for the sake of the rabbits and persuade her to just watch the film, no strings, and of course she does it and it's brilliant. 

Limelight: Pretender Prince
about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 Jacobite rebellion
This is part drama and part author (Colin MacDonald) telling us why he has dramatised it the way he has, and part interjections from historians, which worked much better across all the episodes than I thought it would the first time the drama was interrupted by the writer or the historians. Bonnie Prince Charlie doesn't come out of it all very well. The only Stuart history I did at school (in England) was James I to Civil War and death of Charles I (A-level) so all I really know about that bit comes from folk songs. So it was good and I enjoyed it.

As it's a Limelight drama it might be available as a podcast other than on BBC Sounds which now won't let you listen to it outside the UK. I've liked a lot of the Limelight ones, though they tend to be tense thrillers and not about Bonnie Prince Charlie, but I dislike the way BBC Sounds views all of them as a series and is now telling me to continue listening to my "next episode", which is about the CIA and not at all the same thing.


*You listened to a play. Now listen to another play that was on at the same time the next day.
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Hello friends! Below is the schedule for FIAB 2025, which will run Late July-November instead of August-November.

Schedule changes, in brief:

  • We've added in extra time for mod admin tasks such as tagset clean up and request checking.
  • We've given you a full 2 week sign up period
  • We've added a couple days of extra time to the creation period.

This extra time will help us utilize our helpers better because we won't have such tight scheduling! It will also allow for the possibility that the swaps puzzle will take longer than in previous years – we don't want to punish swappers with less creation time if it takes us longer than usual to get swaps out, so just building a little extra time into the creation period seemed best.

The rest of this post will cover:

  • Updates to several specific medium tags and medium rules.
  • A slight change to the way OCs can be nominated.

Discord server reminder! Fic In A Box is a complex exchange even for exchange veterans, so we thought that if we were going to invite a bunch of new people to the exchange we should provide a space where they can ask lots of questions throughout the process. This server is open to everyone (we won't kick you out if you've been doing FIAB for years already) but its purpose is to help people participate in the exchange, so it will probably be most useful/enjoyable if you're kinda confused about the exchange. Like FIAB itself, the server is an 18+ Choose Not To Warn space.

Join the FIAB Newbie Discord! (link)

2025 Schedule:

July 24th-August 2: Nominations Pre-Gaming (participants can load tags from last year’s tagset into this tagset)
August 3-12: Nominations
August 13-16: Nominations Cleanup
August 17-August 31: Signups
August 20: Swap requests open
September 6: Assignments Out By This Date
September 7: Swap requests close
October 19: Assignments Due
November 9: Last Day To Submit Makeup Assignments
November 15: Work Reveals
November 29: Creator Reveals

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM EDT except for those in November, which will happen at 11:59 PM EST

New In 2025

Mediums Rules Updates

Art Ruleset

We'll be adjusting the language for the ruleset to make it clear that if multiple characters are requested they must all be visibly within the artwork.

We will also be adding "Papercraft" (creating an image using layered paper cut into the necessary shapes) as a style to the ruleset. This will be a possible style for any art tag that doesn't specify another style (such as "Drawn") and can be requested specifically by nominating the desired art tags with at "Papercraft - " prefix.

Multimedia Works

We'll be adding more guidance for the requirements if combining two different requested medium tags into a multimedia work in the Posting Guidelines.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Sticker Page Layout

We are changing the rules for stickers to clarify a medium-checking issue we had last year. New rules will set a minimum number of stickers per sheet (five unique stickers per sheet), for an equivalent of 2k per sticker sheet.

Medium Opt-In: Audio - Fanmix
Medium Opt-In: Audio - FST (Fan Soundtrack)

These tags will be merged into the tag "Medium Opt-In: Audio - Fanmix/FST (Fan Soundtrack)"

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Cross Stitch Pattern

We will be updating the rules for this medium to clarify that you can't auto-generate a cross stitch pattern from pre-existing art.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Ink
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Visual Novel

We will be restructuring all of these tags into the following four tags:

  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3

Length Opt-In: Drabble
Length Opt-In: Double Drabble
Length Opt-In: Triple Drabble

These are being changed to the following:

  • Length Opt-In: Drabble (100 Words Exactly)
  • Length Opt-In: Double Drabble (200 Words Exactly)
  • Length Opt-In: Triple Drabble (300 Words Exactly)

Length Opt-In: Drabble Series

We are removing this tag because it caused some confusion last year. If you'd like to request drabble series please mention it in your optional details. Drabble series of over 1000 words are opt out (similar to other fic formats such as 5+1 things), and for drabble series of under 1000 words you may opt-in within your optional details while requesting a drabble tag.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork

These tags will be adjusted to have an equivalent of 2k.

Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Recipe book
Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Cocktail Recipes

For clarity these will be singularized into:

  • Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Recipe
  • Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Cocktail Recipe

In addition it will be clarified in the rules that recipes are required to be the original creations of the poster.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Sheet Music - Arrangement of Music From Canon
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Arrangement/Cover Music
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Song Parody
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Commentary Track
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Commentary Track - MST3K Style

It's been brought to our attention that someone received a warning from AO3 for posting an arrangement of sheet music from a canon song. The last thing we want to do is risk anyone getting a copyright related warning from AO3 due to a medium in this exchange, so since all of the above tags involve copyrighted music or audio in some way, we're removing them from the tagset.

Nominations Rules Updates

Original Character(s) nominations will not be accepted. This is because "Original Character(s)" is meant to mean either Original Character (singular) or Original Characters (plural) but we've seen some evidence that people who want just one or the other are selecting this phrasing simply because it's common in canonicals.

Tentatively, we will try out simply editing these nominations to be singular if they come up on the AO3 interface, but if that's too burdensome we will reject like all other incorrect tags.

Click here to view tag examples!

Elmo & Original Character(s) (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Character(s) (Sesame Street)
Solo: Original Character(s) (Sesame Street)

Not allowed per this new rule.

Elmo & Original Character (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Character (Sesame Street)
Solo: Original Character (Sesame Street)

Allowed! These tags will get you a work with one OC, plus other listed characters if there are any.

Elmo & Original Characters (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Characters (Sesame Street)
Solo: Original Characters (Sesame Street)

Allowed! These tags are phrased as plural, but per our other nominations rules "Original Characters" counts as an ambiguous group so requests with this phrasing could be filled with 1 OC or 2+ OCs.

Note that you can't limit the number of OCs if you pick a tag like "Big Bird/Original Characters (Sesame Street)" so if you're really only interested in a threesome but not a foursome, you should instead nominate like…

Elmo & Original Character & Original Character (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Character/Original Character (Sesame Street)

Allowed! These tags need to be filled with as many OCs as are listed in the tag. Per other nominations rules, you can list up to 6 characters in a relationship tag.

If Big Bird and five other characters isn't a big enough orgy/polycule for you, you can A) list the last character as the plural "Original Characters" to leave yourself open to more than 5 OCs, or B) use your optional details to opt into more OCs at your creator's discretion. (We suggest you do this in the AO3 optional details box so it's easy for us to find, rather than buried in a letter.)

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If your AO3 handle is on this list, you're playing in this year's Battleship! Welcome aboard!

We did our best to respect team assignment and Do Not Match requests. If there's an urgent problem with your team assignment, such as being on a team with someone you can't share a team with, please email battleshipexchange@gmail.com or open a ticket in Discord right away.

Please join the Discord if you haven't already; we'll put important announcements on Dreamwidth, but Discord is where most of the action happens.

If you are on Discord and you don't get the role for your team within one hour of this announcement being posted, please open a ticket so the mods can get you to your team.




🍇 TEAM GRAPE 🍇

Captain
gaialux

First Mate
DotyTakeThisDown

Team Members
37nightwalker
A_comet_burning_up
AidenPlays
alice_not_alice
Allekha
amybri2002
AnnaRodwaybookworm
APgeeksout
babiestbread
bailianhua
Big_Biscuit
caterpixie
christinesangel100
Cousin Shelley (CousinShelley)
cricketdust
DauntlessShadowIce
Daxs10thHost
DeathShadowRules
decay
digitaldiscocat
donutsweeper
duckdarts (dartducks)
echotunes
embraidery
FactorialRabbits
forsworn
Glogloboots
gregoria_below
hearthouses
Hekateras
hypothesistest
Ibissal
intherainex
kubernetes
Ladyprophet
lazyfish
maia_havana
maplesalad
MistyDeath
notearchiver
PaperBagGhost
peristeronic
platinum_firebird
plutonianshores
psychomachia
QuailFence
redgear
Ropememory
Rubick
Sarriathmg_RoundTwo
Schifaroo
schneefink
Scorpiod
Sinvulkt (Wakare)
Slybrarian
SoullessSerenity
starbridge
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Summer of Horror has one post-deadline pinch hit remaining. The deadline is July 11 at 11:59 PM EDT or negotiable. Minimums are 500 words or a nice sketch. Claiming and further info is at the post here.

PH 3 - FIC, ART - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020)
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Summer of Horror could use your help! We have one pinch hit left, due July 11 at 11:59 PM EDT or negotiable. Minimums are 500 words or a piece of original art (no manips), either digital or on unlined paper. For claiming and more details, go here.

PH 3 - FIC, ART - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020)

Thank you!
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Event: [community profile] sakuraexchange, a spring exchange for relationships in Japanese media. Minimums are 1000 words or clean lineart on unlined paper.

Event link: AO3 Page

Pinch hit link: https://sakuraexchange.dreamwidth.org/15544.html

Due date:July 18 at 11:59 PM UTC (7:59 PM EDT), or negotiable

To claim, please comment on the pinch hit post linked above.

PH 16 - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime), Kara no Kyoukai | The Garden of Sinners

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