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fandomcalendar2025-11-04 01:00 pm
calicohyde) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-11-04 01:00 pmEntry tags:
- fandom: multifandom,
- format: fanweek,
- format: prompt week,
- keyword: crossovers,
- keyword: epistolary,
- keyword: fiction within fiction,
- keyword: genretwisting,
- keyword: low pressure,
- keyword: music,
- keyword: outsider pov,
- keyword: rare fandoms/characters,
- keyword: screenplay,
- keyword: songs,
- keyword: tabloid,
- medium: any/multi,
- medium: art,
- medium: audio/podfic,
- medium: comics,
- medium: craft,
- medium: fic,
- medium: multi,
- medium: poetry,
- medium: video,
- posting: 2025-11 (nov),
- site: any/multi,
- site: ao3,
- site: tumblr
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-11-03 07:15 am
runpunkrun) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-11-03 07:15 amEntry tags:
Fancake Theme for November: Mystery & Suspense
fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules. This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!
whimwitch (pendulumscale) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-11-01 09:10 am
pendulumscale) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-11-01 09:10 amYugioh: YGO Rare Pairs Mini Bang - Sign ups open!
Description: This event focuses on rare pair ships for all Yugioh series (including crossovers), open to writers, artists, and image & video editors. We use tiered rulings to determine rarity for this event based on ao3 statistics. See our FAQ for more info on rarity requirements.
For this year's mini bang, writers will draft a fic for their chosen rare pair, meeting the 4000 word minimum. Then artists will claim at least 1 fic to use as inspiration for their art. Partners will collaborate and share their fanworks together during the posting period for this event. Please read our specifications page for more details about expectations for event works.
Sign up to participate with this link: https://forms.gle/1gRezet2nT4j5oEP6
Dates (see Schedule for more info):
- Signups: Nov 1-Nov 30 (writers may start immediately)
- Check-in #1 (writers only): Dec 21-23
- Check-in #2 (writers with claim pitch): Jan 30-Feb 1
- Claims: Feb 2-6
- Claims assigned: Feb 7/8
- Artist WIP share: Feb 20-21
- Check-in #3 (all participants): Mar 6-7
- Posting prep: Mar 12-14
- Posting: Mar 15-Apr 4
ysabetwordsmith (ysabetwordsmith) wrote in followfriday2025-10-31 12:23 am
ysabetwordsmith) wrote in followfriday2025-10-31 12:23 am
Entry tags:
Follow Friday 10-31-25
Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).
Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".
yuletidemods (yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-29 07:29 am
yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-29 07:29 amEntry tags:
2025 Requests + How and Where to Post fics + Author Question Update
All Yuletide requests are now visible:
-at karanguni's app
-at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
-in a spreadsheet
-in a text doc
Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.
Enjoy!
Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.
( Posting, and to Which Collection )
As a result of that poll, in a situation where an author has a fandom-specific question, we will now send questions for at least 3 fandoms in a person's requests, but will not generally make up extra/decoy questions for their full set of fandoms.
You suggested that curious authors could make up (some of) their own extra questions. While that could be helpful - if you want to - we ask you to keep the following things in mind.
And again - you are not obliged to provide decoy questions! If you need to ask your recipient something, all we need from you is: 1) what information you need, and 2) who you are. That's great! We can take care of the rest.
Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
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-at karanguni's app
-at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
-in a spreadsheet
-in a text doc
Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.
Enjoy!
Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.
( Posting, and to Which Collection )
Bonus!! Decoy questions/author questions
A few weeks ago, we made a post about the questions we send to recipients when authors need to clarify something about their recipients' preferences.As a result of that poll, in a situation where an author has a fandom-specific question, we will now send questions for at least 3 fandoms in a person's requests, but will not generally make up extra/decoy questions for their full set of fandoms.
You suggested that curious authors could make up (some of) their own extra questions. While that could be helpful - if you want to - we ask you to keep the following things in mind.
- Clear questions are the best questions. Several times in the past we've received extremely confusing questions and it turned out a participant thought they needed to disguise what they were asking from the mods. Please do not.
- Avoid excessive detail, especially about plots you don't plan to write. Don't ask your recipient "Would you be interested in a story where they time-travel to meet five different generations of their ancestors, and also there are capybara zombies?" unless you are contemplating such a plot (and maybe not even then) - because you may make your recipient hopeful about something that won't arrive.
- Avoid being disingenuous about things that are actually clear to you. Try to ask about points of reasonable ambiguity. If you ask your recipient things like "You said you don't want any mention of hospitals, but is it okay if a character has a headache?" you could stress them out by making them wonder if they need to re-write their DNWs, or by making them wonder if you have wildly misinterpreted other parts of their requests. Decoy questions require a little creativity… but not too much. Save most of your creativity for the actual writing.
And again - you are not obliged to provide decoy questions! If you need to ask your recipient something, all we need from you is: 1) what information you need, and 2) who you are. That's great! We can take care of the rest.
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