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Fandom transfers have closed!! If there's an issue with your transfer, or one or more of your fandoms were already transferred, please let me know by noon PDT on May 9th! Stay tuned for nominations! The nomination rules post will go up by 6pm PDT, at which time the tagset will open to new noms. :D

Hello, everyone!! I hope you're excited by the arrival of doodle season. :D

We're starting out with Fandom Transfers for the first stage of Doodle 4 Doodle: Spring Edition. At your request, we will transfer all of the nominated tags from selected fandoms. You can select up to six fandoms from last year's tagset. Most fandoms are eligible for transfer, but there are a few that are not. Please see below for a list of fandoms that can't be transfered.

Fandom transfers will be open for about 48 hours, starting at 12:01 am PDT on May 7, and continue until 11:59pm PDT May 8.

Fandom Transfers FAQ

How is this different from nominations?
Nominating is slightly more involved than transferring tags! There are over 3,000 tags in last year's tagset which have already been checked and approved. Transferring correctly formatted tags from last year's tagset to this year's tagset saves everyone a bit of work, especially since returning participants may want to request similar things this round!
How do fandom transfers work?
Participants can request up to 6 fandoms from the 2025 tagset to transfer into the new one. Using the magic of spreadsheets, we will grab the tags from the 2025 tagset and batchload them into our shiny new tagset.
Are there any fandoms that can't be transferred?
To keep the tagset from wildly growing out of control, fandoms with more than 30 tags in them cannot be transferred*, and some other fandoms that are a bit more ephemeral in nature will not be eligible for transfer. Fandoms that cannot be transferred will need to be nominated on ao3 in the normal way once nominations open on May 9th.
The following fandoms cannot be transferred:
- A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
- Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
- Animal Crossing
- Stardew Valley
- Original Work
- Crossover Fandom
- Creator's Choice of Doodles
- Recipient's OCs for Doodles

*Mod note: Pokemon - All Media Types was transferred as the mod stress-test for batchloading, so though it is one of our largest fandoms, it was transferred to the new tagset as a part of training, and it definitely stressed our test. Whoops!

What if I noticed a tag that's duplicated/misspelled?
You can comment below to tell us if there's a tag that needs some attention!
Duplicate tags are when two tags that mean the same thing appear inside of a single fandom.

For example, if you see "Group: Luke Skywalker and some porgs", and "Group: porgs and Luke Skywalker" in Star Wars - All Media Types, that is a duplicate tag! Both of these tags mean the same thing, and we'll boot one of them.
If these tags were in two different Star Wars fandoms, e.g. The Mandalorian and Star Wars: Original Trilogy, we will assume that the tag's inclusion in both fandoms was intentional and desired, and we would keep both of them.

Let us know what you spot, we'll fix whatever errors we can before nominations begin! :D

Comment Here to Transfer!

To transfer fandoms to the new tagset, leave a comment below! Be sure to include:
- your ao3 or DW username
- a list of up to 6 fandoms from the 2025 Doodle for Doodle Tagset
And that's it!! I'm opening up fandom transfers right before I head for bed. So if you request a transfer, and don't get a response for a little while, not to worry! We'll get your fandoms loaded into the tagset before nominations open on May 9th.

lassarina

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vriddy

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on

bnha_fans.

Commented on

booknook.

Commented on

worderlands.

Commented on

getyourwordsout.

kalloway

I mean we all had our suspicions but StarFox Direct from nowhere blew everything out of the water holy shit! I do have the money set aside for a Switch2 so I guess I'll be doing that sooner than later.

~~and maybe I'll get Elore's Bogus Journey while I'm at it?~~

vriddy

yourlibrarian is hosting a point gift event this year again as part of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, and enough donors have pledged to gift up to 68 people! See this post on

3weeks4dreamwidth for all the details.

Quoting from

yourlibrarian directly:

"Paid features are the only way to support Dreamwidth financially, but people who want these services can't always get them for financial or logistical reasons. Thanks to donor pledges, we can now provide points to as many as 68 people, but in order for this to work, people need to step forward! Follow the link above to find out more. Donors and giftees both participate anonymously through screened comments."

and

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littlefics posting in

seasonsofdrabbles

Authors are now revealed, with a spectacular 465 fics in the collection as of this post! Many thanks to all who participated in this round, especially our pinch hitters. <3

Reveals doesn't mean you should stop reading and commenting, so we hope you continue to enjoy this round's drabbles.

rionaleonhart

A couple more answers to Goes Wrong Show questions I've received on Tumblr!

Anonymous: In the CCGW intermission, we get a glimpse of Robert’s CV—apparently, in Romeo and Juliet he played both Romeo and Juliet at the same time, while Chris was listed as the director (later usurped). Do you have any thoughts or ideas about the story behind that?

Robert playing both Romeo and Juliet in the same production is one of my favourite details from Robert's CV; it's such a Robert thing to do. I love him. He should play every part in every play.

I'm actually working on a fic about the dual-Roberts Romeo and Juliet right now [I received this question while I was writing Adaptability], but the concept there is 'there are literally two Roberts', which seems unlikely to be the canonical way it played out! It might instead have been something like this:

- Chris casts himself as Romeo.
- Robert uses every tool at his disposal - complaining, attempting to ensure none of the society's actresses will be available on the night, arguing that casting two men as the lovers will show the progressiveness of the drama society - to get himself cast as Juliet.
- Perfect; Robert is now Juliet! He's in a lead role! He's satisfied.
- ...
- Is he satisfied?
- Now that he sits down and counts, Romeo does have slightly more lines than Juliet. There's a difference of seventy-five lines! That's almost fourteen percent of Juliet's lines! Surely Robert should be playing Romeo?
- Robert attempts to persuade Chris to switch roles. Chris, incredulous, refuses.
- Robert continues to complain. Chris threatens to take Juliet away from him.
- Fine. Robert will have to take matters into his own hands. If he drugs Chris before the performance, just a little innocuous drugging, he can step into the role of Romeo, where he belongs.
- One small downside: nobody else has rehearsed the role of Juliet, so Robert is going to have to play her as well.
- Actually, that's not a downside at all. This is going to be the greatest performance of Romeo and Juliet ever seen.

There is one detail from Robert's CV that this concept doesn't account for: he lists the venue for his Romeo and Juliet production as 'France?', question mark and all. How does Robert end up putting on this play while uncertain of what country he's in? Unless he accidentally drugs himself slightly in the process of knocking Chris out, and then Chris regains consciousness before the play and, furious, chases Robert onto the Eurostar.

Anonymous: do you think robert would enjoy being a vampire?

Robert Grove would have a great time hamming it up as a vampire. He’d wear a cape. He’d hiss. He’d insist on the Cornley Drama Society putting on more vampire-centric plays, largely because he’s now the obvious choice to play vampiric characters.

There is not a chance Robert is nobly going to abstain from drinking human blood. He would attack strangers if he had to, but he’s a coward who wants to avoid serious physical conflict, so he’d try to persuade people to let him drink their blood voluntarily.

This works out fine at first; Sandra is happy to be a sexy vampiric victim! But then Sandra decides she’d prefer to be a sexy vampire, and Robert immediately agrees to turn her. After all, if they’re going to be putting on more vampire plays, it’ll be good to have someone who can play female vampires as well.

So now there are two vampires in the Cornley Drama Society, and Robert’s main source of blood is no longer an option.

Max and Annie agree to let Sandra feed from them: Max a little nervously, and Annie with surprising enthusiasm. Vanessa, very nervously, lets Robert feed from her; she’d really prefer not to have her blood drunk, but she’s worried about Robert not having enough sustenance and she doesn’t entirely know how to say no. Chris, having repeatedly insisted there’s not a chance that Robert will get any of his blood, eventually gives in because he’s worried about Vanessa and wants to ease the burden on her. (This leads to a very confusing sexual awakening for Chris, naturally.)

Also, hey, while I'm posting things from Tumblr, here's a video I took of the hopeful little meerkat I mentioned in this post! If you turn the sound on, you can hear the meerkat's tiny curious chirps and my charmed laughter.

vriddy

I'm nervous about doing another of these log posts because when they happened somewhat weekly, it was massively depressing to have to drop them when the shit and the fan met for a torrid love affair... Yet here I am! Random stuff that doesn't feel particularly post-specific. I guess I just want to chat ;D

General status/Last week:

I not only discovered the "copyholder" function on Scrivener (basically an additional way to break down your screen, adding a little read-only window at the bottom of your editor pane), but also that you can show a previous snapshot in there. I'm doing A LOT of rewriting at the moment because I added a couple of subplots, and being able to restart a scene from scratch while having the copy of the previous version below + a preview of my bookmark of the updated scene outline in the Inspector side-pane is really super neat.

Once again, I'm thinking I really should sit down with the Scrivener manual someday and have a good read. Then I remember it's nearly 800 page-long. But the number of times when I think "it would be really neat if..." for something small (or not!) and tadam! It's already somewhere in there! only ever increases.

I'm enjoying this round of structural edits!! Obviously, it is only the beginning, and is going slowly. My pace tracker is saying at this pace, I'll probably be done at the end of December lolsob. But that's fine, I'm hoping that it'll pick up a bit once I find my feet with this new way of doing things.

Additionally, something ultra cool that's happening is that I seem able to focus for longer periods than I have in a long time. I believe it's because I've done so much of the thinking work ahead of time and have such a detailed revision plan. A lot of the bigger questions already have answers, and it's about how to make it all fit into the current scenes (and a bunch of rewriting, clearly!) as well as a bit of puzzle solving as I move different character introductions and dialogues around. I think that'll calm down once we get past the intro chapters?? (Then there can be new types of problems XD)

Projects:

Soul Thief structural edits!

What's coming up next week?

More structural edits, clearly :D And also I want to write to the folks who volunteered to beta the Cursed Witch to check if they're still up for it and confirm timelines. (Prepare thyselves!! >:D)

Feel free to share your writing/creativity plans if any for the coming week, too, if you'd like! What's going on with you?

Current Mood: content

littlefics posting in

seasonsofdrabbles

Works are now revealed! Please take a moment to leave a comment on your gifts, and enjoy the haul of drabbles this round! Thank you to all who participated, especially our pinch hitters!

Author reveals will take place 72 hours from now on Tuesday, May 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown).

Please get in touch if you have any questions. Should you receive a gift that is not for a fandom, character, and drabble type you requested, or that contains a DNW, reach out to us ASAP.

Is a fic you posted stuck as unrevealed? There's a couple potential reasons for why this could be. Please get in touch with us via Dreamwidth or email for help.

rionaleonhart

I don't have a fic on the go at the moment, but I'm in the mood to do something creative, so I thought I'd dig up one of my favourite memes!

Ask any fictional character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

If you're not sure what fandoms I'm in, the fandom list on my AO3 might help.

You may, if you wish, ask multiple questions (and/or multiple characters) or attempt to engage the characters in extended conversation. Ask away!

littlefics posting in

seasonsofdrabbles

Hello everyone! We are on track to open the collection as scheduled on Saturday, May 2 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown). A big thank you to our wonderful pinch-hitters!

If you posted your fic and it is still unapproved, please get in touch and/or check the email associated with your AO3 account.

As we wait eagerly for reveals, why not write a treat? You can see all requests in the requests app. Treats can be posted any time, whether before or after reveals.

Note: If you add a fic to the collection very close to work reveals, it may remain unrevealed even after the collection has opened. Please try re-posting it or re-adding it to the collection. If it is still stuck as unrevealed, get in touch with us ASAP via the comm or email.

sario528 posting in

bookclub_dw

Our poll winner was All Systems Red by Martha Wells, so let's go read some Murderbot!

Discussion post will be up on the 31st, in the meantime you can discussion questions in the comments of this post.

rawbonedhound

Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. 'vampire squid from hell'

oh to love a deep sea mermaid, counting down every second together in the measured oxygen of a submarine's tank. the phantom touch of her hand through the inches of acrylic plate between you. knowing that to hold her would mean your instant destruction, or hers.

how do you explain love to a creature who knows neither warmth nor light? how do you explain love to a world that has never held it's breath, just to linger a minute longer with that which you cannot hold.

im crying :*(

happy mermay

Current Mood: pensive

rionaleonhart

Had a lovely walk with my mum in Richmond Park; it was a beautifully sunny day. We saw deer! We saw a buzzard being hassled by a crow and then mobbed by smaller birds! We saw three cute little Canada goslings out for a swim with their parents! We saw a kestrel hovering, somehow flapping its wings rapidly while remaining perfectly still; I'd never seen one so close that I could spot the distinctive kestrel colouration before, and I was absolutely thrilled.

Then I caught up with a childhood friend I hadn't seen in thirteen years, which was also a pleasure! We reminisced about being small children obsessed with dragons and Pokémon and Neopets and Petz II, and I learnt a little about what's been going on in her life, which has - and I don't think this will surprise anyone who knew us as kids - been a lot wilder than mine.

Friend: I've been arrested multiple times.
Me: What for?
Friend: Getting into fights.
Me, mishearing: Genocide??

Actually, while I'm talking about the real world, here are a few notes I took on a visit to Paignton Zoo a couple of months ago!

- Just outside the zoo itself, I met the bravest robin in the world, a beautiful little round thing who let me get right up close.

- When a lion is grooming itself, it really does look just like a domestic cat. He was exactly like our cats Zuko and Dipper, only much bigger and considerably more capable of killing me.

- The toucan scraping its beak on branches was interesting to see! I also enjoyed the way wild sparrows would squeeze through the netting of the toucan enclosure to steal food and water.

- A baby king colubus monkey ran across the grass to its father and leapt into his arms, which was extremely cute.

- The cheetahs were out on patrol and looking magnificent! It was clear from the pattern of grass growth in their enclosure that they always followed the same routes when patrolling, which I thought was interesting.

- An army of baboons thundering into food-receiving position at feeding time is a hell of a sight. They were walking around in circles when they knew feeding time was close, which I found endearingly familiar; our cat Dipper rapidly revolves when he knows he's about to get fed.

- A meerkat spotted me looking into its enclosure and trotted up to me, hoping for food. It reared up on its hind legs and looked into my eyes, then leant forward to plant its little hand on the waist-high glass partition between us and looked imploringly up at me again. I was enchanted.

- flingos (this is what my four-year-old niece calls flamingos)

- When I was eating lunch out in the open, a robin sat on the arm of my bench and sang a beautiful little song about how much it wanted my sandwich.

pressitout posting in

bookclub_dw

Hello everyone! I hope you had a fantastic month reading the book! I've gotten the discussion questions ready so let's enjoy some tea and chat;

Q1. How did you feel about the magic system in the book? Was it well described?

Q2. Did you have a favorite character in the book? A least favorite?

Q3. There was an extensive amount of world building through various methods (descriptions of food/ingredients/people and their actions), did you have a favorite moment in the story?

Q4. The book is the first in a duology, did the ending make you want to continue on in the story and pick up the second one or are you saying 'I'm good with just the first one'?

Q5. Betrayal was the name of the game, when did you start to realize certain characters were willing to do anything to meet their goals, including lying to everyone around them?

Q6. What sort of tea might you pair with this book? Include a snack too, that's always fun.

deemoyza

Found this meme at

3weeks4dreamwidth.

Put your mp3 player/phone/streaming collection on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results.

The poem:

Time here all but means nothing
Kiss me, out of the bearded barley
You meet me at the water
Lovers kiss in a garden made of thorns
I can see it in her letters on the paper with her pen
There's gonna be opposition
Every day's the same
The good girl in your dreams
We are young
That old dog has chained you up alright
Doctors have come from distant cities
Sunny came home to her favorite room
I know that I can't have it all
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about?
Say it's true, there's nothing like me and you
I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser
Thinking about all our younger years
Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Please don't say "I love you"
Put your lighter in the air and lead me back home

The songs

"Time" - Sarah McLachlan
"Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer
"Steal Your Heart" - Augustana
"Blade of Grass" - Lady Gaga
"Mrs. Rita" - Gin Blossoms
"Dying Breed" - The Killers
"Goodbye" - Natalie Imbruglia
"How Bad Do U Want Me" - Lady Gaga
"Love is a Battlefield" - Pat Benatar
"Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" - Sophie B. Hawkins
"Wonder" - Natalie Merchant
"Sunny Came Home" - Shawn Colvin
"I'm a Ruin" - MARINA
"Wide Open Spaces" - The Chicks
"Runaway" - The Corrs
"Anti-Hero" - Taylor Swift
"Heaven" - Cascada (cover)
"Forever Young" - Alphaville
"Near You Always" - Jewel
"Break In" - Halestorm

I'm not gonna lie, those last eight or nine lines actually kind of work together, poignantly. Oh, the sweet sand passage of time.

Current Mood: amused

vriddy

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on bnha_fans.

Commented on vkotd.

Commented on art.

Voted for the next book in queerbookclub.

Posted on 3weeks4dreamwidth to promote the Themed Rec Fest we're hosting on bnha_fans for the event.

...Promoted 3weeks4dreamwidth and DOING IT AGAIN NOW!!! XD Join the comm, participate in events, create stuff you keep only on Dreamwidth for 3 weeks, have fun! :D

lassarina

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rionaleonhart

I am extremely sorry to everyone for this post.

Here are my thoughts on the masturbation habits of the characters of The Goes Wrong Show.

( Surprisingly few of these characters actually masturbate. )

I briefly considered posting this under access lock, but I've decided to make it a public entry because my housemates have a right to see it and laugh at me.

runicmagitek

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infinitecrabs in doodle4doodle - Fandom Transfers are now closed!
lassarina - What Are You Playing Wednesday
vriddy - Community Thursday
kalloway - HOLY SHIT NEW STARFOX
vriddy - Signal boost: Want paid account features, but cannot afford it at the moment?
littlefics in seasonsofdrabbles - Wrap-Up for Spring Round
rionaleonhart - Is There Garlic On This Pizza?
vriddy - Intensely Intermittent Writing Logs - May 3rd, 2026
littlefics in seasonsofdrabbles - Spring Round Works Revealed!
rionaleonhart - Sprechen Sie Talk, Huh?
littlefics in seasonsofdrabbles - Collection on track to open tomorrow!
sario528 in bookclub_dw - May 2026 Book: All Systems Red
rawbonedhound - Vampire Squid
rionaleonhart - I Know What A Kestrel Looks Like Largely Because Of The Animals Of Farthing Wood.
pressitout in bookclub_dw - "A Magic Steeped In Poison" Discussion Questions
deemoyza - Meme time!
vriddy - Community Thursday
lassarina - What Are You Playing Wednesday
rionaleonhart - No One Is Allowed To Ask What Inspired Me To Make This Entry.
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