Food Crimes by Food Criminals (Me)

Oct. 29th, 2025 03:24 pm
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[personal profile] corpsebrigadier
The past few weeks have been pretty great. I made it through Yuletide signups, saw a Dracula ballet live (the dancer for Dracula thoroughly understood his assignment as did the costume designer who assumed his chest was the most visible thing about him when he wasn't wearing a cape), read some books, watched some cinema, got my gooseberries settled, and made a number of very cute and/or dumb costumes. The real highlight though was my personal celebration of my favorite nefarious goatboy's birthday (I love celebrating fictional character's birthdays as an excuse to party without having the actual expectations/obligations of real holiday). I used it as an occasion to explore new and fun frontiers of veganism and to terrify my friends and loved ones with a festive goat-themed dish. :]

Very gnarly looking vegan goat head under cut )
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[personal profile] vriddy
I don't know why it feels like I haven't posted fic in ages even though I apparently did so just last month, haha. Maybe because I'm editing stuff from months ago?? XD Anyway this came out of a conversation on [community profile] bnha_fans during the Vigilantes watch-along earlier this year. A cat is used as a plot device for one episode and I spluttered with indignation and joked about a fix-it headcanon, and then I was enabled into writing it... whoops? :D (It didn't take much XD)



The first step | Boku no Hero Academia | Nedzu & cat | 1.7k words | rated G

Summary: The humans are at it again. Using Trigger on a cat? And now locking it up like a common criminal, when none of this was the cat's fault in the first place? Typical. Nedzu will have none of that. The cat can come live with him on campus. Nedzu's responsible for hundreds of students and staff; caring for a cat can't be any more difficult than that. Right?

Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
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[personal profile] kalloway
I am signed up for WritingMonth and so can you! If you want to be buddies, I'm 'kalloway' there as well. ^_^ My goal is 100 stories but that is 100 very short stories. Last year I managed 80 despite my life being absolutely on fire so maybe I can manage the full 100 and I think a We Didn't Start The Fire joke goes here or something.

Did the pre-signup for a secret santa in the one little gunpla discord I'm in. Offered to subsidize a local friend for the next month if necessary. (probably necessary) Gonna try to toss some cash at the food pantry. (obstructed more by their hours being counter to mine than anything - obviously a me-problem) Still debating how much I want to do with [community profile] holiday_wishes, though I suspect the annual 'I can give more!' will envelop me at some point even if I want to humbug.

Comic-con is on the 22nd so I suppose I need to actually start sorting through things. I'm burning some vacation time the week before so at least I'll be mildly rested and hopefully so tired of looking at my stuff that I just toss it in the bags of whoever walks by our table. Or something.

Finished watching the quarter's JFF films and will, as always, aspire to watch the next batch before the last possible minute.

The final three! dundundun

Oct. 29th, 2025 08:21 am
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[personal profile] pumpkinkingmod posting in [community profile] trickortreatex
Three pinch hits remain! These must be filled in order for the collection to open on Halloween. Thank you to everyone helping out!

These are due October 30, 23:59 UTC. (8 pm EDT)

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the number or name of the pinch hit you would like. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are first-come, first-serve, and if you're the first to claim, you'll receive the assignment to your email.

You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.

PH #13 (plicate):
  • Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/plicate

    PH #29 (Audrelite):
  • Teen Titans (Animated Series), Metal Family (Cartoon), Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games), ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, 氷属性男子とクールな同僚女子 | Koori Zokusei Danshi to Cool na Douryou Joshi (Anime), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Depois do Universo | Beyond the Universe (2022)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/Audrelite

    CLAIMED PH #41 (merle_p):
  • Downton Abbey, The Pitt (TV), Mid-Century Modern (TV), Nicked - M. T. Anderson, Crossover Fandom, Olympo (TV)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/merle_p
  • Initial Pinch Hits: 1-8

    Oct. 28th, 2025 08:54 pm
    [personal profile] infinitecrabs posting in [community profile] doodle4doodle

    We have 8 initial pinch hits, which are requests that came out of the matching process without artists. Below is a list of participants who need creators, a list of their fandoms, and a link to the ao3 app with their request details. To claim a pinch hit:

    • please comment below with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number & name you want to claim
    • (Optional) Tell me if you are swapping the pinch hit for your current assignment.
    • All comments on this post are screened

    These pinch hits are due on the normal assignment due date of November 30, 10:00 PM PST (countdown).

    Pinch Hits

    • IPH #1 - Linkily - Kamen Rider Gotchard (TV), Arcadia of My Youth (1982), Kamen Rider OOO, Choujin Sentai Jetman, Kamen Rider V3, Sukeban Deka II: Legend of the Iron Mask Girl - view requests on the app
    • IPH #2 - dirty_diana - Expeditions: Rome (Video Game), All American: Homecoming (TV), Rivals (TV 2024), The Wheel of Time (TV), The Invisible Library, The Traitors (US TV 2023), Baseball RPF, The Musketeers (2014) - view requests on the app
    • IPH #3 - whichstoodonrockyshores - Baldur's Gate (Video Games) - view requests on the app
    • IPH #4 - redgear - Mesék Mátyás királyról (Cartoon), Rise of The Raven (TV), Mátyás a sosemvolt királyfi (TV), Weiß Kreuz, Crossover Fandom, Felvidek (Video Game), Dispatch (Video Game), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth, Valdemar Series, Hallo itt Mátyás király! - view requests on the app
    • IPH #5 - ElAurian - Rumble in the Bronx (1995), Street Fighter, The 13th Warrior (1999) - view requests on the app
    • IPH #6 - plicate - Head On (1998), Creator's Choice of Doodle, Succession (TV 2018), - view requests on the app
    • IPH #7 - ChezPillow (PillowLord) - The One Within the Villainess (Manga), The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Trash of the Count's Family, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story (Webcomic), Fangs of Fortune (TV), Creator's Choice of Doodle - view requests on the app
    • IPH #8 - DontStopHerNow - The Goblin Emperor Series, Metropolis (1927), Bagpuss, Dirt Man (Music Video), Recipient's OCs for Doodles, Creator's Choice of Doodle, Succession (TV 2018), De Selby (Part 2) (Music Video), The Lost Prince, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - view requests on the app

    Assignments have been sent!

    Oct. 28th, 2025 08:19 pm
    [personal profile] infinitecrabs posting in [community profile] doodle4doodle
    Assignments for Doodle 4 Doodle 2025 have been sent!! Please comment on this post or the screened mod post if...
    • You can't find your assignment in your AO3 Assignments page
    • You were assigned a fandom/character/ship you didn't actually offer. (Do please check to see if you matched on Creator's Choice of Doodle or Recipients OCs, though!)
    • There are any other questions about your assignment, or questions for your recipient.
    Your assignment is due on November 30, 10:00 PM PST. (countdown to when assignments are due)

    Assignments!

    If you'd like a refresher on the minimum requirements for the exchange, or how defaulting in D4D works, please see these sections below! Very briefly:


    As I mentioned in the previous post, after I ran matching, everyone was matchable on offers! However, some recipients did not have a potential giver. Those recipients will be going out as initial pinch hits. That post will be up shortly!


    yuletidemods: A hippo lounges with laptop in hand, peering at the screen through a pair of pince-nez and smiling. A text bubble with a heart emerges from the screen. The hippo dangles a computer mouse from one toe. By Oro. (Default)
    [personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
    All Yuletide requests are now visible:
    -at karanguni's app
    -at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
    -in a spreadsheet
    -in a text doc

    Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.

    Enjoy!

    Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.

    Posting, and to Which Collection )



    Bonus!! Decoy questions/author questionsA 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.



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

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

    Signups Closed, Assignments Out Soon!

    Oct. 27th, 2025 11:52 pm
    [personal profile] infinitecrabs posting in [community profile] doodle4doodle

    Signups for Doodle 4 Doodle 2025 are now closed! I am excited for everyone who's going to doodle with us this round!

    Matching Update

    There are no outstanding signup related questions or issues! Everyone made themselves matchable before the deadline, and therefore no one will be getting a random Creator's Choice of Doodle assignment.

    This makes assignments rather easy! AO3 and airtable willing, assignments should be sent out within the next day or so--and definitely no later than October 30th. Initial pinch hits will be posted shortly afterwards.

    If there are any questions or concerns about signups please give me a shout in the next 24 hours! If you forgot a letter link, or you forgot to add your DNWs, you can email me at outstandingfroggie2 at proton dot me or contact me on the screened mod post and I can get them added for you before assignments go out.

    rionaleonhart: death note: light's kind of embarrassed that he poured all that fake sincerity into an obviously doomed ploy. (guess not)
    [personal profile] rionaleonhart
    Some more writing questions from Tumblr!

    What word(s) do you find yourself using a lot?

    I'm not sure if there are individual words I have a weakness for, but I definitely feel there are a lot of phrases and descriptions I reuse endlessly. Unfortunately, I have zero ability to retain the knowledge of what those phrases are. If I reuse a phrase while writing, I have no awareness that I've used it before! And then I’ll reread the fic a few days after posting and go 'oh, goddammit, I’ve used that phrase in a million fics, haven’t I?' (If anyone else has noticed specific recurring phrases in my writing, I would be interested and/or mortified to know.)

    One phrase I have developed conscious awareness of: I have used the phrase 'There is a pause' 76 times across my fics. At some point I became aware that I used this phrase too much, so I went for 'There's a pause’ instead. I have now used 'There's a pause' 96 times.

    I suppose 'said' (or rather 'says', as I usually write in present tense) might count as a word I use a lot? I originally dismissed it as an answer to the question because I consider it a near-invisible word - it’d be like saying I use 'the' a lot - but different writers have very different attitudes to 'said', so the fact that I use it relentlessly is still a marker of my style. You can’t avoid 'the'; you can theoretically avoid 'said’, but I very much don’t. It’s so useful and unobtrusive! (Or at least it’s unobtrusive to me.) I’d say I average one 'says' every hundred words.

    I... also average one 'blood', 'pain' or 'scream' every thousand words across all of my fics, now that I check. Whoops. (That's including words containing those letter sequences, like 'bloodied' or 'painful' or 'screaming'. Or... or 'Spain', I suppose, although I don't write a lot about Spain.)

    What do you feel sets your writing apart from that of others?

    Oh, this is a tricky question! I'd probably say it's the subject matter?

    I don't think there's anything stylistically unique about my writing; I do have a particular style, but it's not necessarily something you could pick out of a lineup of similar writers. But the concepts that interest me can be pretty specific and niche, and I often find myself writing for rare pairings and small fandoms. I'll also write for more popular things, but I'm more motivated to write a fic if I don't think the concept has been written already.

    In other words, you can find my style anywhere, but there are ships and concepts and fandoms where, if you want to read fanfiction for them, I'm more or less the only option (condolences). Of course, there are a lot of other writers out there who are also pursuing their own niche ideas - that's not unique in itself - but each of us is bringing something unique to the table.

    What do you feel is your writing’s biggest flaw?

    Impatience, probably! I really enjoy the act of writing, but I also spend the entire process itching to get the story finished so I can share it with the world. This can lead me to go 'great, it's finished, time to post!' as soon as a fic is in a theoretically finished state. Often, though, the fic would benefit from a little more time and thought, from adding a few more scenes, from fleshing out developments a little more. It's too late; I've already posted, and now it'll always gnaw at me that this fic will never be quite as good as it could have been.

    2025 Assignments

    Oct. 27th, 2025 01:05 am
    yuletidemods: A hippo lounges with laptop in hand, peering at the screen through a pair of pince-nez and smiling. A text bubble with a heart emerges from the screen. The hippo dangles a computer mouse from one toe. By Oro. (Default)
    [personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
    Assignments are out! You can find your assignment:
    You must write for one of your recipient's requests, including all of the characters they specified in that request (but see below). It doesn't have to be the fandom you offered.

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

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

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

    Our reveals are earlier this year as well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Alphabet Fic Meme

    Oct. 26th, 2025 01:04 am
    kalloway: (KoH Bedivere)
    [personal profile] kalloway
    Alas, gonna be AO3 links for most of this, sorry. ^^;; But I've seen this going around and sure why not?

    Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

    A — Aches & Pains, The Third Magic (Arddu/Morgan)
    B — Book Fair and Apocalypse, Rage of Bahamut (Mino, Fighter, Lucifer, Azazel, etc.)
    C — Candlefire, The Book of Life (Joaquín Mondragón/Adelita Sánchez/Scardelita Sánchez)
    D — Dark Stormy Knight, Kingdom of Heroes (Osric/Arthur)
    E — End of the Sofa, Saint Seiya (Ikki/Mime)
    F — Faraway Ever After, Seven Princes of the Thousand-Year Labyrinth (Zan/Gideon)
    G — Geometry, Machine City Knights (Surya/Astri)
    H — Hands Firmly Together, The Wrong Bridegroom (Dannette/Gisele)
    I — Internet Famous, 11'8" Bridge (The Bridge)
    J — Just the Other Day, Ys (Feena, Reah)
    K — Knit to Be Tied, Fire Emblem: Awakening (Arvis/Cordelia)
    L — Lefts, Cars (Lightning, Mater)
    M — Medicine, Atelier Online (Rose Hip, Netl)
    N — Now, Ar tonelico (Lyner/Ayatane)
    O — One More Curse, Brave Nine (Vermont/Dwen)
    P — Perfect Storm, UTAU (Teto)
    Q — Quiet Worry Triskelion (Rose, Eternity)
    R — Raindrops, Soul Calibur (Sophitia/Taki)
    S — Scales, Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (Darc/Kharg)
    T — Tempt, Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 (Ribbons)
    U — Unbroken, Here is Greenwood (Hasukawa)
    V — Verse, Dance in the Vampire Bund (Akira/Mina)
    W — Wondrous and Beautiful, Alice in the Country of Clover (Alice/Vivaldi)
    X — Xialen, Tales of Xillia (Jude)
    Y — You Owe Me, Kiddy Grade (Viola, Cesario)
    Z — Zippers, Gundam SEED Astray (Gai/Elijah)
    Symbol - (sur)Prizes, Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Felix/Lysithea)
    Numbers - 3-2-1, Infinite Undiscovery (Capell, Edward)

    28/26, 2497 fics on AO3 not counting any original fic because fuck AO3, man, and I stopped archiving there like two and a half years ago so idek, 3000 fics?
    [personal profile] infinitecrabs posting in [community profile] doodle4doodle

    Nominations for the 2025 round of Doodle 4 Doodle have closed. Big thanks to everyone who nominated!! You can see the full tagset here.

    Signups continue through the weekend! There are 48 hours left to sign up for this round of Doodle 4 Doodle. (countdown until signups close).

    On Matching

    During this last little bit of signups, you may want to check the signup summary or the ao3 app to see if you're matchable (e.g. have someone who is requesting a tag that you are offering). In this exchange, participants that aren't matchable will not be contacted after the deadline. Instead, any participant who is unmatchable after signups close will be matched at random to someone requesting Creator's Choice of Doodle.

    I have done a little last minute cleanup of the tagset and approvals of the last few tags that were nominated before the tagset closed. If you have any questions about nominations/tags, or questions about matching, please feel free to leave them here or on the screened mod contact post.

    Community Challenge Treat Sheet!

    Oct. 25th, 2025 07:47 pm
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    [personal profile] pumpkinkingmod posting in [community profile] trickortreatex
    Thank you to all the pinch hitters hard at work! We have eight pinch hits left at this post, if you missed it!

    And thank you to shadow for running our official treat sheet! Find your next treat recipient here.

    The spreadsheet includes participants with one or zero current gifts, who completed their assignments, and did not opt out of extra gifts. The last-updated timestamp is at the top of the sheet.

    Our tiers for Community Challenge success are:

    33.33% success: 150 remaining
    66.66% success: 75 remaining
    100% success: 0 remaining


    Happy trick or treating!
    rionaleonhart: revolutionary girl utena: utena has fallen asleep on her schoolwork. (sort of exhausted really)
    [personal profile] rionaleonhart
    It is once again time for a dream roundup!


    Dreams from August to October. )


    It didn't occur to me until I looked at all of these together that I've had multiple dreams about bears lately. Perplexing! Bears aren't really something I often have on the mind.

    24 hours left to nominate!

    Oct. 24th, 2025 10:07 pm
    [personal profile] infinitecrabs posting in [community profile] doodle4doodle

    There's 24 hours left before the tagset closes for nominations! (countdown)

    Signups continue through Monday evening in the Pacific time zone (countdown to signups closing).

    We've passed 50 people signed up, and I'm so excited to be doodling with everyone! I can't wait to see who signs up over the weekend! <3

    Small update / Ongoing tag situation

    Some fandoms seem to be extremely cursed, and cause me to get a 500 time out whenever I try to approve them.

    If your fandom appears to be rejected, or it doesn't appear to be in the place it should be, I may have had to reject the fandom you nominated and slap a DFE or "Disambiguated For Exchanges" on it to make the tag nominations go through.

    So far, the only affected fandom has been Buffy The Vampire Slayer. If this happens to your nominations, you can find the fandom under the Uncategorized Fandoms tab of the tagset. I apologize for the inconvenience!

    If you have any questions about nominations, you can ask them here!

    Post DEADline pinch hits! mwahaha

    Oct. 24th, 2025 06:44 pm
    pumpkinkingmod: (pic#8274963)
    [personal profile] pumpkinkingmod posting in [community profile] trickortreatex
    The deadline has passed! Which means you may peruse our lineup of eepy creepy pinch hits below!

    To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the number or name of the pinch hit you would like. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are first-come, first-serve, and if you're the first to claim, you'll receive the assignment to your email.

    You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.

    These are due October 28, 23:59 UTC.

    For claims on October 28 or later, these are due on October 29, 23:59 UTC

    Thank you!

    PH #13 (plicate):
  • Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/plicate

    Already claimed )
  • Yuletide 2025 Signups Closed!

    Oct. 24th, 2025 04:36 pm
    yuletidemods: A hippo lounges with laptop in hand, peering at the screen through a pair of pince-nez and smiling. A text bubble with a heart emerges from the screen. The hippo dangles a computer mouse from one toe. By Oro. (Default)
    [personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
    Sign-ups for this year's event are now closed, with 1224 sign-ups. Welcome to everyone who's joined us for Yuletide 2025!

    The Avoid Matching request form will remain open for another three hours for last-minute edits to your requests.

    What will mods do now?
    - Run matching.
    - Contact participants who have no possible recipients, or where there's another matter to discuss.
    - Update you on when assignments are likely to go out.

    If we need to contact you, we'll use the email account associated with your AO3 account. (You can find it at Preferences -> Edit Profile -> Change Email.) We may also use this account later in Yuletide - for example, if your author has a question for you. Please check that you can access this email!

    What should you do now?
    • Check and edit any letter you may have linked in your sign-up (please ensure it's complete by end of October 29th AT THE VERY LATEST, and consider adding it to the app and to the comments at the letters post). (If you didn't link your letter in your sign-up, it's too late now. Trust in your author!)

    • Please check your letter is accessible - log out of the platform where you have posted it and check that you can still view it, or ask a friend to. Tumblr in particular may cause issues with this and may require you to change your settings.

    • Keep quiet about what you've offered: Yuletide is anonymous until reveals.

    • Check that you can access your AO3-linked email.

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

    • Browse the promo post or even add a promotion.

    • Check that you're happy with your AO3 settings for treats / unassigned gifts - see an older post for more information. If your account is new, treats may be disabled.

    • Look forward to your assignments!


    Congratulations to everyone who posted a story to the 2025 New Year's Resolutions collection, either as requested by mods or just because you wanted to fill a prompt. The collection will be open for roughly one more day, until we send out assignments - if you're planning to post, post soon! The NYR 2026 collection will open on January 1.

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

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

    Recs for books with mute characters?

    Oct. 24th, 2025 06:39 pm
    vriddy: Person holding a stack of books so high their face can't be seen (books)
    [personal profile] vriddy
    Would any of you have book recs for stories with a mute protagonist/major character(s)? I'm usually more of a SFF reader, but any genre where this is done well would be wonderful. Thank you!!

    Nominations Query 2

    Oct. 24th, 2025 04:15 am
    [personal profile] infinitecrabs posting in [community profile] doodle4doodle

    Tagset approvals are humming along! I'm currently caught up with processing nominations as of 10 minutes ago, and we've a little more than a day and a half left before nominations close on Saturday, October 25th @ 10:00pm PDT (countdown)!

    This post is providing information on a few of the nominations that have been made. Tags get rejected prior to querying just so that new tags can be displayed. If a tag has been rejected to be queried, don't panic! I will add any tags that you need back into the tagset manually.

    Tags to Query

    Original Work
    Robot/Human having sex (OW)
    Robots or Androids engaged in Wire Play (OW)

    I'm allowing prompt-like tags through for Creator's Choice of Doodles, where you can get pretty specific about what you'd like to see--either as a specific art remix, or characters engaged in a specific activity. But for original work, we're sticking with ship formatting that doesn't lock anyone into having to draw any specific activity (even if an activity is highly implied by the tag).

    For example, an accepted tag:

    • Squid Who Goes On An Adventure (OW) highly implies the activity the squid is going to do is "adventure", but the tag itself remains open to be interpreted by a creator in a variety of ways, pre-, during, or post-adventure (or even just thinking about things related to adventuring).

    If you'd like to create more specific tags for Robot/Human, Robot/Robot, Robot/Android, or Android/Android, you will need to rephrase the tag(s) into something that would be accepted into the tagset. You will need to use your optional details to specify that you'd like to receive an M or E-rated fill and/or that you're interested in doodles about wireplay.

    If you need help reformulating your tags, you can take a look at original works tags that have already been accepted into the tagset. If you'd like help workshopping OW tags that will be accepted into the tagset, you can contact me on this post or through the screened mod contact post.



    Tags have been resubmitted and have been accepted into the tagset!

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