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Challenge #09: Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

I'm skipping around the challenge a bit since I'm still constructing my answers for the other ones as I'm way behind at the moment, but this one is one that I know I can answer easily since I definitely have a lot of favorite tropes. I answered last years trope challenge with only one specific trope which I still maintain is a top favorite in recent years, but this will be a more extensive list. Mind you, not all my favorites as that would take forever, just a handful.

( Tropes, tropes, glorious tropes.... )

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Authors, rough drafts are due in just a few days (by Saturday, January 31)! Remember that your rough draft need not be 100% complete, but should be a minimum of 8,000 words/80% completed. I need the story descriptions for the claims list I'm putting together so there are no extensions granted.

(That said, I am flexible on how much story you need to have completed at this time if you are absolutely certain that you will have your final draft completed by the due date and that you will have something substantial to submit to your artist. Your other option is to continue participating, but choosing to opt out of art.)

If you haven't done so already, head on over to the Rough Draft Submission Rules post for instructions on how to turn in your rough draft.

If you will not be submitting a rough draft (or choosing to opt out of art), please contact me to let me know that you are withdrawing from this round of Small Fandoms Bang. You may comment here (comments will be screened) or send an e-mail to the mod account at sfbbmod @ gmail.com. (Please remember that there are penalties if you just disappear without letting me know that you need to withdraw, so don’t do that!)

Additional Notes:

1. The Artist Claiming Post will go up one week from this Saturday, on Saturday, February 7. Artists will claim a story from the story descriptions, which will be posted anonymously. (The Sneak Peak post will go up at least 24 hours prior to the Claiming Post, though I’m shooting for 48 hours to give all the artists time to review the summaries.) The Matching Reveal post will go up on Saturday, February 14. At that time I will send out contact e-mails to the author and artist.

Authors will be responsible for sending their story to their artist as soon as possible. In the past there have been issues with lack of communication between authors and artists. Please don’t be that person who leaves your author/artist hanging.

2. Artist sign-ups will remain open until all fic have been claimed. If you know of someone who’d like to sign-up as an artist, please direct them to the Artist Sign-Up Post.

3. If you have not already done so, please join this community! This is for both Artists and Authors. Authors & Artists will need to be able to post their Master Posts to the community, and the Sneak Peek Post and Artist Claim Post will be locked to members only.

Thank you!

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1) tea

2) daughter still has a fever but seems to be feeling better *crosses fingers*

3) reading

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Fandoms: Bad Behaviour, Dynasty, Good Trouble, Heated Rivalry, Mako Mermaids, Neumatt, Namib, Nancy Drew, One Trillion Dollars, Skymed, Stranger Things, Supergirl, What It Feels Like For a Girl

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So I saw this reblog chain on Tumblr talking about birds in Hollow Knight's world. & other posts showed me that I'm not the only one who say the Faylorn beast as a bird of this universe.

Now, the bugs of HK/Silksong aren't 1-to-1 in appearace or behavior to their IRL counterparts. Matises for example in real life mostly solitary (+ iirc only ants shed their wings in adulthood, and ony if they're a queen). So it's likely if birds exist in the HK/Silksong universe, they'd be diffent too. Now how they look like is likely up to interpetation of the fan, since the closest thing we have to a bird is the Faylorn. But as the reblog chain also stated, many birds (at least large to the bugs + insect eating ones) would be interpated as the dragons of their world.

Now dragons in our world aren't one thing. The main diffrence you may know is the western vs eastern divide in dragons. Where (iirc) the western dragons are brutish beasts to slay with fire, & where eastern dragons are often wise beasts who are more assoiciated with water. Of course there's nuaces that I'm not getting here. But just like how dragons in our world aren't thing, and birds are a diverse clade; birds in the HK/Silksong universe would likely be seem in various ways by diffrent cultural groups & goverments.

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It'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!

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What are you thankful for this week?
· Photos are optional but encouraged.
· Check-ins remain open until the following week's post is shared.
· Do feel free to comment on others' check-ins but don't harsh anyone else's squee.

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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

common_nature.

Commented a fill on

threesentenceficathon. Omg it's so intimidating to do the first time, even when you were EXPLICITLY BAITED XD Though that probably does help a bit with the nerves :D Obviously, K-9 Made Me Do It.

Posted and commented on

getyourwordsout.

Promoted

fanifesto, basically the squee community for canon etc promo :D

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Hello, everyone. I’m

cornerofmadness As a reminder, we are using a new posting schedule. Sundays are for Lonely Prompts and sharing the fills that you completed during the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new themes and prompts, and Saturdays will remain a Free for All.

Today's theme is tea & Coffee & hot chocolate. Surprising no one, among of the weird wacky holidays in January are ones for tea, coffee & hot chocolate. Who doesn’t like a good hot drink. There are plenty of places to go. Who needs it to start their day? Who thinks better with a cup of tea at hand. Who dislikes them? Tea houses, coffee shops, heck give us a chocolate shop. Go wherever your imagination takes you

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
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

Some examples to get the ball rolling...

+ The Owl House, Edalyn Clawthorne + any, coffee is no apple blood.

+ Star Trek the Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard +/ Beverly Crusher, no earl grey for you today. You’re trying something different.

+ Star Trek Deep Space Nine Jadzia Dax, Ben and Jake Sisko, Nog, Nog and Jake get into Jadzia’s Raktajino, not knowing it was Klingon coffee

+ Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rupert Giles, finding a tea house that makes the best cuppa he’s had in forever

+ Hazbin Hotel, Angel Dust +/Husk (+ any) Angel introduces Husk to the Italian Moretta fanese (a combination of coffee. lemon zest, and equal parts of brandy, rum, and anisette/sambuca)

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

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!

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Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Pairings/Characters:

Celeborn/Haldir of Lothlórien, Celeborn/Galadriel | Artanis, Orophin/Rúmil of Lothlórien, Boromir/Théodred, Aragorn | Estel/Elrond Peredhel, Arwen Undómiel/Éowyn, Frodo Baggins/Sam Gamgee, Elladan/Elrohir/Erestor (Tolkien), Gandalf | Mithrandir/Saruman | Curunír, Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf, Sauron | Mairon/Witch-King Of Angmar, Éomer Éadig/Faramir (Son of Denethor II), Gollum/Gríma Wormtongue, Elrond Peredhel/Glorfindel, Denethor II/Théoden Ednew

Rating: Mature

Length: 7,126 words

Creator Links: AO3 Profile

Theme: Crack Treated Seriously

Summary: Théoden and Denethor hunt the elusive Slash Fairy after she makes them... do things. Over and over. Featuring the horses of Middle Earth, with music by Fountains of Wayne, Celine Dion and Kenny Loggins.

Reccer's Notes: This month's theme is "ideas that are very, very bonkers, but approached with the utmost dedication to making it work within whatever passes for reality in that fandom." Author's dedication is key in this humorous tale of slash spreading like a glorious spready thing in the LOTR world and you'll believe that Denethor and Théoden-King need each other whether they realize it or not. The fairy is merely the mechanism. Just check out the other pairings and revel the night away! I especially liked that femmeslash was included, and also horses.

Fanwork Links: The Slash Fairy Cometh

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Current Location: sofa
Current Music: whoosh of properly functioning heater

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This Saturday, January 31 is an EXTRA Saturday (the fifth Saturday of the month), so World Wide Slash (formerly DC Slash) will be doing a multi-city Tatort binge with a theme!

We'll get started at 1 pm Eastern (US) time; you can come for one episode, or for all of them! This binge's theme is AMNESIA. The episodes are drawn from Tatort: Lindholm, Tatort: Muenster, and Tatort: Vienna.

DON'T FORGET (lol) to come and join us for entertaining episodes in the main window + slashy discussion in the chat!

Here's the Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83088355896

Please be sure not to share the link outside of fandom. Thanks!

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Challenge 289:
HOT COCOA

It’s a classic staple of cozy nights by the fire, snow day afternoons, and romantic walks down a street lined with Christmas lights. Maybe it’s the fancy traditional homemade kind, carefully hand-mixed exactly to your preferences; maybe it’s the powdered kind in a paper packet dumped into just-under-boiling water, because that’s what you had time for; maybe it’s a special alien beverage, only available at one specific space station, and good luck getting it anywhere else in the galaxy. It’s not for everyone, but if you like it, it can make a night that much sweeter.

Write a story about hot cocoa.

BONUS GOAL: “Here, this will help.”

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

Challenge ends Monday, February 2 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 289 – hot cocoa
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #288 – Inconveniences!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2390

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next week.

You may now post your Challenge 288 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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Happy Wednesday (it's still Wednesday here)! What are you reading?

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I'm seeking feedback on my book Within the Box right here on Dreamwidth, one chapter at a time.

It's 1982; Derek is a femme, one of the males who is more like one of the girls, what we'd call genderqueer nowadays but there was no word for it yet.

Derek's worried parents are putting him into a fancy rehab facility, the kind of place where high-end psychiatrists try to reprogram people — but this time the shrinks may be biting into more than they know how to chew.

I'm hoping people will read it and comment on it as I go. I'm hoping that if they like it, they'll spread the word.

When I get to the end, I'll start over with the first chapter, by which point I'll no doubt have made changes.

Follow the action at ahunter3.dreamwidth.org

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Sharing...

A rough pencil and watercolor of the confrontation that I saw ages ago between an old woman with her walker and a truck at an intersection. I made it bit political - to get across a statement. Two actually. It's not perfect, kind of rough.

( watercolor and pencil )

Bruce Springsteen has released a new single on the Minneapolis protests.

Streets of Minneapolis

And Lady Gaga released a new cover of Won't You Be My Neighbor

And they've been singing and chanting Holiday by Green Day - and Green Day performed American Idiot and Holiday for Minnesota. [I love Green Day].

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Title: Kitchen Raktajino Adventure
Fandom: Star Trek
Medium: Recipe & Collage
Summary: Experimental recipe for the Star Trek drink raktajino, with celebratory collage; a collaboration with

starandrea

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, January 28, to midnight on Thursday, January 29. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34143 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 25

How are you doing?

I am OK.
14 (56.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
11 (44.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
13 (52.0%)

One other person.
9 (36.0%)

More than one other person.
3 (12.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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