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FandomWeekly Mod ([personal profile] fanweeklymod) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-06-11 10:23 pm

[#262 | Soulmates] Challenge Post

Challenge 262:
SOULMATES
n. a close friend or romantic partner with whom one has a unique deep connection based on mutual understanding and acceptance

Soulmates – a myth, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, or something a little more supernatural? Maybe soulmates are just someone you have a special connection with; maybe they’re something mystical, something predestined for you one way or another, a kind of magic found in special marks or mind-links. Or maybe they don’t exist at all.

Do your characters believe in soulmates? Do they have one, or want one? Is it an option at all for them?

Write a story about soulmates.

BONUS GOAL: “Do you believe in love at first sight?”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!


Challenge ends Monday, June 16 at 9:00PM EST.
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 262 – soulmates
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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FandomWeekly Mod ([personal profile] fanweeklymod) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-06-11 10:22 pm
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[#261 | Schemes] Results Post

Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #261 – Schemes!

This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 3134

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes! [personal profile] autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next weekend.

You may now post your Challenge 261 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!
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romanajo123 ([personal profile] romanajo123) wrote in [community profile] tenminutesaday2025-06-11 09:18 pm

Challenge 479

We’re doing a Real 10 Minutes today. Set a timer on your device or phone and write until it goes off. You’re allowed to add more later or finish the sentence you’re on
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full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-06-11 06:48 pm

Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Norman Rockwell: Fixing a Flat, by moon_custafer.

Fandom: Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Fixing a Flat (Norman Rockwell illustration)
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda; three Norman Rockwell characters, two female and one male.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,356
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, women solving their own problems
Creator Tags: magazine illustrations, Norman Rockwell - Freeform, Fluff, Plot
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] moon_custafer; (DeviantArt) [deviantart.com profile] mooncustafer; (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] moon_custafer; (Instagram) [instagram.com profile] mooncustafer; (LiveJournal) [livejournal.com profile] moon_custafer; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] mooncustafer
Theme: Female Relationships, Crossovers/Fusions, Female Friendship, Gen, Heists & Capers, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms, Stranded

Summary: Hilda’s fishing trip is struck by rain and then by two new acquaintances in need of assistance.

Author’s Notes: For [archiveofourown.org profile] moonlight69.

I needed to introduce a few additional characters to Hilda’s mainly single-panel world, so I did a mash-up with Norman Rockwell’s “Fixing a Flat.” Think of it as the Illustrationverse.


Reccer's Notes: A rec posted in honor of the U.S. Full Strawberry Moon, for reasons that will be apparent in the fic.

Moon Custafer constructs a story from several Hilda panels (plus a special guest Norman Rockwell work), in which Duane Bryers’ zaftig hillbilly wood nymph comes to the aid of two travelers stranded in the boondocks—a predicament complicated by a less friendly local. (A temporary problem-solving alliance (particularly against a common enemy) can count as a relationship, right?)

Hilda as portrayed in Bryers’ artworks seems to embrace solitude, and the scant fanfic I’ve seen doesn’t tend to show her interacting face-to-face with much of anyone but her animal friends and the odd Authorial Proxy; it’s fun to watch her socializing, and to see her given family, friends, enemies, and a history. (As well as actual clothing that she presumably wears now and then to pick up her crackers, trashy novels, and repurposable-as-clothing floursacks.)

Fanwork Links: Fixing a Flat by [archiveofourown.org profile] moon_custafer for [archiveofourown.org profile] moonlight69, for Yuletide 2018.
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] drabble_zone2025-06-11 06:50 pm

BtVS: Not Over You [Challenge 453: Over You]


Title: Not Over You
Fandom: BtVS
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted 
Characters: Oz, Willow.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You.
Spoilers/Setting: Years into the future.
Summary: Oz still thinks about Willow, the love of his life.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.



Not Over You


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shivver13 ([personal profile] shivver) wrote in [community profile] tenminutesaday2025-06-10 12:01 am
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Challenge #478

Today's challenge is figurative language, but not in the way you'd expect.

Think of an example of figurative language, such as a simile ("They fought like cats and dogs."), personification ("My heart leapt when I saw it."), hyperbole ("I have a million things to do today."), or an idiom ("A rolling stone gathers no moss.") -- basically anything that conveys a meaning without directly saying it. After all, the first example is saying that they were arguing and bickering fiercely without saying it directly, and we know that the people being described weren't actually cats and dogs.

Now, write a paragraph or two about the literal meaning of your chosen phrase. For example, for the simile, describe an actual fight between cats and dogs. Or, for the personification, describe someone's heart actually leaping. (It'd probably be very painful, and possibly lethal.)

Basically, the idea is to learn and understand what figurative language is by looking at the exact opposite.
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FandomWeekly Mod ([personal profile] fanweeklymod) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-06-09 09:36 pm
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[#261 | Schemes] Voting Post

Here are the entries for this challenge:

List of entries )

Please Note: Because we only have 4 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (both spots) in order to be counted. Winner votes are worth 2 points, Runner Up votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

When voting, please copy/paste the ENTRY NUMBER and the FIC TITLE from the list above into the spot you're voting for (this prevents accidentally mis-numbering a vote and casting it for the wrong entry). It should look like this:

First Place: 61. Fic Title Here
Runner Up: 88. Another Fic Title

Please note that you cannot vote for your own entry, and that votes cannot be made anonymously. You do not have to be a member of the community in order to vote, nor have submitted an entry for this week; everyone is welcome to participate in the voting. IP addresses are logged to prevent duplicate voting.



Voting closes Wednesday, June 11, at 9:00PM EST.
yoshishisha ([personal profile] yoshishisha) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-06-09 07:09 pm

[#261] Broken Trust (QZGS)

Theme Prompt: 261 - schemes
Title: Broken Trust
Fandom: Quánzhí Gāoshǒu|King's Avatar
Rating/Warnings: No
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 510
Summary: Su Mucheng has had enough of those schemes.
2nd person POV )
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m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-06-09 11:07 am

[#261] SOMETHING IN THE WATER (TORCHWOOD)

Theme Prompt: #261 - Schemes
Title: Something in the water
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack is having a hard time convincing the team of his plan to keep Cardiff’s alien problems under wraps.

Read more... )
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] drabble_zone2025-06-08 06:35 pm

FAKE: Over And Done [Challenge 453: Over You]


Title: Over And Done
Fandom: FAKE
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, JJ.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You.
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: JJ realises he’s not in love with Dee anymore.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.



Over And Done


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quicksilverfox3 ([personal profile] quicksilverfox3) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-06-08 02:18 pm

[#261] hunters and hunted (Wind Breaker)

Theme Prompt: 261 - Schemes
Title: hunters and hunted
Fandom: Wind Breaker
Rating/Warnings: Teen, themes of injury
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 868
Summary: Suo has a plan to help Sakura. Nirei also has a plan of his own.

keep an eye on you )
eratoschild ([personal profile] eratoschild) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-06-07 05:45 pm

Trails of Cold Steel: Moon Door IV: Beyond

Fandom: Trails of Cold Steel
Pairings/Characters:
Laura S. Arseid/Duvalie, Ines/Ennea, Victor S. Arseid/McBurn
appearances by other assorted Cold Steel characters and hints of other ships Rating: M
Length: 22442 words
Creator Links: Rosie_Rues
Theme:
Grief/Mourning, Dreamsharing, Recovery, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, changing roles in life, loss of limb
Summary: With the Great Twilight over, Duvalie follows Laura home to Legram. She's not entirely sure why she's here, or when she's going to leave, but she can't bring herself to regret her choice.

Meanwhile, Victor's dreaming of the only man in the universe still willing to offer him a challenge...

Reccer's Notes: While I have read this fic several times, the most recent was some time ago, I always remember it as being roughly half of one ship and half of another- I note this here because one of those ships is M/M. In my rereading, I see the balance is more 2/3 to 1/3, with the bulk of it being the theme-compliant Laura/Duvalie, who begins as something of a lost and reluctant guest in Laura's home in the wake of the loss of the woman who saved her. The emotional metamorphosis of Duvalie's canonical hostility towards Laura- already very much blunted as the story opens, turn to friendship and later towards attraction is an absolute treasure. There are many smaller moments of many relationships of varying sorts between her and otter female characters throughout the story, some of which absolutely beg for stories of their own.

The M/M ships is Victor/McBurn, and they are a prominent part of the story- really a story occurring in parallel, but separately- until it suddenly isn't. While I don't want to dwell on them in this post as they are not germane to the theme, it bears mentioning that they are there in case they would turn anyone off from reading. But I will say that their development is quite astounding, a sword master who has lost an arm, a god who has lost his world and any connection to it and what they become to each other.

This fic deals with grief in many forms, over many different kinds of loss, from loss of friends, comrades in arms, loss of a limb, loss of connection to oneself and an entire world. It's all very sensitively written, and even the absolutely fantastical loss of a god from another dimension with his entire world somehow becomes much less fantastical than one might expect.

There are also themes of many different changes in life that come with time passing and with dealing with these griefs. Oh, and the very cracky-sounding, but utterly sincerely dealt with coping with the shock of learning that your father is banging the demon god from another dimension. (that needs to be a tag, ok)

This is just one of my favorite ever fics, by one of my favorite authors.
Fanwork Links: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45897169
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] drabble_zone2025-06-07 07:47 pm

Challenge # 453: Over You


This week's challenge is:


Over You


Reminder of Rules

Entries should be 100, 200, or 300 words exactly, excluding titles and headers.
Please place the body of your entry behind a cut.
Tag with the appropriate Challenge, Fandom, Type, and Ratings tags. If a tag for your fandom doesn't exist, leave a request on the Tag Request post and I'll create the tags you need. You can request as many fandom tags as you want.
You don't need to use the challenge word or phrase in your drabble, though you can if you like.
Each challenge ends when the new challenge is posted, but if you're a few days late that's still fine.

NEW RULE: DOUBLE AND TRIPLE DRABBLES ARE ALSO ACCEPTED ;)

Have fun!




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Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote in [community profile] fkficfest2025-06-07 07:49 am

The 2025 Closing Ceremonies Post: "I'm about to ask you to believe something that's unbelievable."

FK Fic Fest 2025

[community profile] fkficfest | FKFicFest A03 Collection

Index list. Here's the linked, alphabetical list of all stories posted in the FKFicFest 2025 game. You can use the DW tags or AO3 sidebar to help find the story that you'll most enjoy!

2025 Index List )

Three cheers! The 2025 FKFicFest game is now officially closed. Three cheers for all our writers, beta-readers, and readers! Hooray! Yay, Forever Knight! Yay, us!

Posting elsewhere. Please do share the story that you wrote for this game everywhere you like. Where appropriate, please mention [community profile] fkficfest to help fellow fans find us. Folks who read your story might like to read those by others, too!

Endless, forever... Please continue reading and replying to the fest stories! This year's, and all 16 astonishing years so far! Please also keep writing, reading, and replying to new FK fanfiction all year round, whenever the mood strikes. We're a small, sleepy fandom at this end of history. But we're here! We're still inspired by our favorite vampire homicide cop, and his friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, car...

When's the next game here? For now, we're on hiatus. Whether 2026 brings our 17th round will depend on your interest. Stay tuned! ♥