2 weeks + 1 day until the deadline
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tardis_festivitiesYou have two weeks and one day to post, ask for an extension, or default. Here are the details to post or default (scroll down to the posting header). You can edit your work after you post it, but it should be complete and something you're happy for your recipient to see, in case anything happens between posting and reveals.
Here's a countdown.
Also, a reminder that we still have two pinch hits. See this post for details and how to claim.
Here's a countdown.
Also, a reminder that we still have two pinch hits. See this post for details and how to claim.
October Fanworks Round-Up Post!
Nov. 1st, 2025 06:51 amawanderingcoyote posting in sid_guardianThis is the fanworks round-up post for October! Please link in the comments to any Guardian (or related fandoms) fanworks you created or enjoyed last month.
- all kinds of fanworks are welcome – fic, art, vids, picspams, etc. - including those made for exchanges and events
- new chapters of WIPs count
- meta or discussion posts, too
- whether or not you've already linked these in a post of their own, we still want them here!
If you're linking to fanworks you didn't create yourself, please clearly mark these "REC", so there's no confusion about authorship/creatorship.
(And please still do link your fanworks, meta, etc. separately, in their own post, at any time!)
So ... what Guardian and related fandoms works did you create or enjoy in October?
SFBB15: Artist Sign-Up Post
Nov. 1st, 2025 05:46 amsfbbmod posting in smallfandombangGENERAL RULES & INFORMATION
1. Please make sure you join the Small Fandoms Bang community atsmallfandombang. It will be the Artist’s responsibility to watch or track the community to make sure you don’t miss anything.
2. Acceptable art includes: A fanmix with at least 8 songs, a series of at least 8 icons, a video, a podfic, a single piece of two-dimensional art such as a cover or banner (manip, drawing, etc), or title and chapter banners. [At least one piece of art is required; if the artist would like to produce additional work that is absolutely acceptable.]
NEW 2a. AI submissions will NOT be allowed. There will be no warnings; if you are caught using AI to create your submission you’ll be banned from participating in the current and any future round.
3. Artists may co-create art. If you choose to co-create art, please only sign up once and list both user names in the sign-up.
4. Artists may have also signed up to write fic, but may not claim their own fic for which to produce art.
5. Please note that check-ins are mandatory.
6. Artists will have the opportunity to claim additional fic if there are any unclaimed fic after the first round of claiming.
7. Artwork must not be posted anywhere on the web prior to your posting date.
8. Since this is a multi-fandom, small fandom challenge there is a high probability that Artists will be asked to create artwork for fandoms they are unfamiliar with. Authors are aware that they may be called upon to assist their Artist with screencaps, character descriptions, etc.
For more information, please read the Rules and FAQ before you sign up.
SCHEDULE FOR ROUND FIFTEEN
To sign up, please fill out the Artist Sign-Up Form linked below. Please include all the required information. After you have signed up you will receive an e-mail to confirm that we have received your sign-up. Invitations to join our support community,smallfandomcafe, will not be sent out until after Artist Claims.
Artist Sign-Up Form
Thank you for signing up!
If you have any questions about the challenge generally that aren’t answered in the Rules or FAQ, please ask them at the FAQ post. If you have a question specifically about this round you may ask it here.
1. Please make sure you join the Small Fandoms Bang community at
smallfandombang. It will be the Artist’s responsibility to watch or track the community to make sure you don’t miss anything.2. Acceptable art includes: A fanmix with at least 8 songs, a series of at least 8 icons, a video, a podfic, a single piece of two-dimensional art such as a cover or banner (manip, drawing, etc), or title and chapter banners. [At least one piece of art is required; if the artist would like to produce additional work that is absolutely acceptable.]
NEW 2a. AI submissions will NOT be allowed. There will be no warnings; if you are caught using AI to create your submission you’ll be banned from participating in the current and any future round.
3. Artists may co-create art. If you choose to co-create art, please only sign up once and list both user names in the sign-up.
4. Artists may have also signed up to write fic, but may not claim their own fic for which to produce art.
5. Please note that check-ins are mandatory.
6. Artists will have the opportunity to claim additional fic if there are any unclaimed fic after the first round of claiming.
7. Artwork must not be posted anywhere on the web prior to your posting date.
8. Since this is a multi-fandom, small fandom challenge there is a high probability that Artists will be asked to create artwork for fandoms they are unfamiliar with. Authors are aware that they may be called upon to assist their Artist with screencaps, character descriptions, etc.
For more information, please read the Rules and FAQ before you sign up.
SCHEDULE FOR ROUND FIFTEEN
| Event | Date(s) |
| Author Sign-ups: | September 1 - October 31, 2025 |
| Artist Sign-ups: | November 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026 |
| Author Check-In No. 1: | November 1-7, 2025 |
| Author Check-In No. 2: | December 1-7, 2025 |
| Author Check-In No. 3: | January 1-7, 2026 |
| Artist Check-In No. 1: | January 1-7, 2026 |
| Rough Draft Due: | January 31, 2026 |
| Artist Claiming: | February 7 - February 13, 2026 |
| Matching Reveal: | February 14, 2026 |
| Author Check-In No. 4: | March 8-14, 2026 |
| Artist Check-In No. 2: | March 8-14, 2026 |
| Final Drafts (Fic & Art) Due: | March 31, 2026 |
| Posting Date Sign-Ups: | April 1 - April 4, 2026 |
| Posting Period: | April 5 - April 30, 2026 |
To sign up, please fill out the Artist Sign-Up Form linked below. Please include all the required information. After you have signed up you will receive an e-mail to confirm that we have received your sign-up. Invitations to join our support community,
smallfandomcafe, will not be sent out until after Artist Claims.Artist Sign-Up Form
Thank you for signing up!
If you have any questions about the challenge generally that aren’t answered in the Rules or FAQ, please ask them at the FAQ post. If you have a question specifically about this round you may ask it here.
Saturday 01/11/2025
Nov. 1st, 2025 10:16 amlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) An excellent cup of coffee to properly wake up
2) Dinner with my family
3) Good telly this evening
2) Dinner with my family
3) Good telly this evening
Just One Thing (1 Novenber 2025)
Nov. 1st, 2025 09:17 amnanila posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Something that's not Strictly related
Nov. 1st, 2025 08:17 amshallownessI watched this several weeks ago, actually.
The Better Sister 1.5 Just Ask
(Ha, I typed ‘The Better Wife’ first time around.)
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The Better Sister 1.5 Just Ask
(Ha, I typed ‘The Better Wife’ first time around.)
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Lights Are Off
Nov. 1st, 2025 01:33 amkalloway posting in ficortreatIt is now November, and with that, porch lights have been turned off for the year. Thank you for participating!
If you received fics and/or treats of any sort, please take a moment to say thank you to whoever gave them to you. If you'll need a bit longer to finish up either on the giving side or the receiving side, or if life has gotten in the way entirely, that's fine.
(As stated in the main guidelines, there are no guarantees in this event, and real-life happens in a variety of ways. If you did not receive what you hoped or were not able to provide what you hoped, that is okay.)
If you received fics and/or treats of any sort, please take a moment to say thank you to whoever gave them to you. If you'll need a bit longer to finish up either on the giving side or the receiving side, or if life has gotten in the way entirely, that's fine.
(As stated in the main guidelines, there are no guarantees in this event, and real-life happens in a variety of ways. If you did not receive what you hoped or were not able to provide what you hoped, that is okay.)
Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Bingo Card 11-1-25
Nov. 1st, 2025 02:37 amysabetwordsmithHere is my card for the Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Bingo over in allbingo. The fest runs from November 1-30. (See all my 2025 bingo cards.)
If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.
Underlined prompts have been filled.
FAIRY TALES BINGO CARD
allbingo. The fest runs from November 1-30. (See all my 2025 bingo cards.) If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.
Underlined prompts have been filled.
FAIRY TALES BINGO CARD
| Pixie | The Nightingale | The deeds of ordinary folks keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. | Vision | Castle |
| Glory | Hero | Elves | Journey | Enchanted |
| Music | Very little worth knowing is taught by fear. | WILD CARD | Golden Hair | Fairies |
| Fairy Ring | Solitude | Shadow | The Dark Tower | Twilight |
| Golem | Trickster | Once Upon a Time | I didn't want power. All I wanted was control. Over my life. | Magical Power |
Wrath of the Righteous won on Core with Secret Ending :-D
Nov. 1st, 2025 07:16 ambeccaelizabethI did watch Labyrinth for Halloween. ... I had forgotten the subtitles on the DVD version I have are so inadequate. Proper subtitles say exactly what the characters are saying, but these make the grammar all tidy and 'correct' and make messes of what is actually said.. Also they don't subtitle the songs. In a musical. So I was looking for a more recent version but HMV says it will be back in stock soon, which may or may not mean it exists there. Shall see. Very good movie though.
Then I reckoned I'd just get the first bit of Threshold done in Wrath of the Righteous. Sure it was nearly midnight but I could do the preparatory battles.
... it is about 7am and I have beaten the whole thing, including the boss battles I've never tried before.
I did not actually get the version of the secret ending I actually wanted. I had it all ready but found the last page of dialogue unclear and picked one that wasn't it. So I shall have to replay those last boss battles when I have had some sleep, then see what happens with the right dialogue options.
But I won again :-D
The difficulty curve is weird. At the start I could barely drag the characters through the Core difficulty fights and had actually given up on a previous attempt. Playing for achievements led to having another proper go. But then by the end we were not only winning, we were winning without the rest that would let us even use Mythic 10, because I didn't see how it was logical for my characters to go have a nap just because it would fill their mythic spell slots. And I'm not sure anyone got injured in the very final battle, we just won.
Granted I had done something very weird in the arena so Arueshalae had stupendous ability boosts, but we also did survive doing something very weird in the arena and having to fight everyone at once, so, earned it.
I don't know what the next difficulty up will be like, but on Core there is very very little that actually gives pause to a 20th level adventurer.
Which is neat, but weird when it was such a slog to get there.
Almost like all the effort pays off in the end.
I shall probably replay the ending very soon, but after that I need to find something else to do rather than turning right around and bumping the difficulty up for the next run.
... something that isn't rereading the paper version of the adventure too...
... about the right time of year to try a writing project actually, that might be neat...
(watch me feeling confident for I have mastered another difficulty level in the one game I play)
I won :-D
Then I reckoned I'd just get the first bit of Threshold done in Wrath of the Righteous. Sure it was nearly midnight but I could do the preparatory battles.
... it is about 7am and I have beaten the whole thing, including the boss battles I've never tried before.
I did not actually get the version of the secret ending I actually wanted. I had it all ready but found the last page of dialogue unclear and picked one that wasn't it. So I shall have to replay those last boss battles when I have had some sleep, then see what happens with the right dialogue options.
But I won again :-D
The difficulty curve is weird. At the start I could barely drag the characters through the Core difficulty fights and had actually given up on a previous attempt. Playing for achievements led to having another proper go. But then by the end we were not only winning, we were winning without the rest that would let us even use Mythic 10, because I didn't see how it was logical for my characters to go have a nap just because it would fill their mythic spell slots. And I'm not sure anyone got injured in the very final battle, we just won.
Granted I had done something very weird in the arena so Arueshalae had stupendous ability boosts, but we also did survive doing something very weird in the arena and having to fight everyone at once, so, earned it.
I don't know what the next difficulty up will be like, but on Core there is very very little that actually gives pause to a 20th level adventurer.
Which is neat, but weird when it was such a slog to get there.
Almost like all the effort pays off in the end.
I shall probably replay the ending very soon, but after that I need to find something else to do rather than turning right around and bumping the difficulty up for the next run.
... something that isn't rereading the paper version of the adventure too...
... about the right time of year to try a writing project actually, that might be neat...
(watch me feeling confident for I have mastered another difficulty level in the one game I play)
I won :-D
Philosophical Questions: Accuracy
Nov. 1st, 2025 02:22 amysabetwordsmithPeople have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.
How would the world change if there was an accurate measure of aptitude?
Little if any. Some types of aptitude can be tested pretty well. People often choose not to act on them. In fact, people often prefer the less accurate ones.
How would the world change if there was an accurate measure of aptitude?
Little if any. Some types of aptitude can be tested pretty well. People often choose not to act on them. In fact, people often prefer the less accurate ones.
Free for All Saturday, Week 44 [DW Edition]
Nov. 1st, 2025 07:30 am↑↑↑ Available dates:
November 4 & 6
November 11 & 13
November 18 & 20
Hey there, familiar faces and new. :3 Are you ready for the first Free for All Saturday of November? There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. If you've had any ideas this week that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, today's your chance to prompt 'em. Be free, and have fun! ✎
Just a few rules:
1. No more than five prompts in a row.
2. No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
3. Use the character's full name and the fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
4. No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
5. If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
6. If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Are today's prompts not catching your eye? No worries, because we have plenty of older prompts that just might do the trick! You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^
We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.
If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word!
A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.