Check-In Post - Aug 19th 2025

Aug. 19th, 2025 07:55 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



Tuesday, 19th August 2025

Aug. 19th, 2025 02:43 pm
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Challenge 500

Aug. 18th, 2025 09:29 pm
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Wow… 500. It’s hard to believe we’re here. Amazing! 

I feel like we should be celebrating or doing something special. So far today, write a scene where your characters are celebrating a holiday they’ve never celebrated before. It can even be something a little out there, like on a different planet.

Book review: "Welcome to Night Vale"

Aug. 18th, 2025 04:10 pm
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Title: Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
Authors: Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink
Genre: Fantasy, surrealist/absurdist

Now that I don’t have a commute, I really had to create time to finish my latest audiobook, but it was worth it. Today I finished Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel, the first book put out by the team behind the Welcome to Night Vale fiction podcast and set in the same universe (as is likely apparent by the title). This book was written by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink.

First, I don’t believe you need familiarity with the podcast to enjoy the novel. Nor do you need to read the novel if you’re a podcast listener; it builds on what listeners may know, but also centers incredibly peripheral characters from the show (local PTA mom Diane Crayton and pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro), so if you’re a podcast only fan, you’re not missing any crucial story information by forgoing the book. If you’re not a listener of the podcast, I think as long as you go in understanding that the core of Night Vale is the absurd and the surreal, you’ll be okay.

This was a fun book! I was curious to see how the Night Vale Presents team would manage a longform story in the world of Night Vale (podcast episodes are about 25 minutes and almost always self-contained), and I think they did a solid job! The book can be a bit slow, especially in the beginning; the drip of information it feeds you about the mysteries at the center of the story is indeed a drip. But it wasn’t so slow I found it tiresome, and the typical Night Vale weirdness and eccentricity kept me listening even where I wasn’t sure where this story was going (if anywhere).
 

Read more... )

 


Check-In Post - Aug 18th 2025

Aug. 18th, 2025 07:50 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



[Promo] October Review-a-Thon 2025

Aug. 18th, 2025 08:09 pm
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We are getting closer and closer to October (where is the time going?!) and the [Sign-Up Post] October Review-a-Thon 2025 post is of course still up. Sign-ups will not close until Oct 31, LOL.

This event took place last October, too, and the rules are the same. I'm super excited to see what reviews will be posted!

(It's a low-commitment event: you can drop your sign up at any time, and if you don't manage to post a review on your claimed day(s), there are zero (0) consequences. Just have fun at your desired comfort level!)

Check-In Post - Aug 17th 2025

Aug. 17th, 2025 08:12 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



Saturday 16 August 2025

Aug. 16th, 2025 05:50 pm
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Endings and Beginnings by [personal profile] badly_knitted [Rose, Nine | G]

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[personal profile] paranoidangel recommends the fic Deck the Daleks by imnotokaywiththerunning [Ace, Seven | General Audiences]

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Check-In Post - Aug 16th 2025

Aug. 16th, 2025 07:07 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



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Title: Deck the Daleks
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] imnotokaywiththerunning
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 906 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor makes some festive improvements to Ace's trusty baseball bat.
Characters/Pairings: Ace McShane, Seventh Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the Daleks square on my bingo card. This is a fun fic where the Ace gets to hit some Daleks with her baseball bat, and then... it would be a spoiler to say what happens next, but I didn't expect the result.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13086318

Book review: "Concerning My Daughter"

Aug. 15th, 2025 01:44 pm
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Title: Concerning My Daughter
Author: Kim Hye-Jin (translation by Jamie Chang)
Genre: Fiction, literary fiction

Today I finished book #11 on the "Women in Translation" rec list: Concerning My Daught  by Kim Hye-Jin, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang. This book is about an a widow in her mid-70s who ends up sharing a home with her adult daughter and her daughter's partner. Her contentious relationship with her daughter pits her long-held beliefs and societal viewpoints against her love for her child; simultaneously, she struggles in her job caring for an elderly dementia patient in a nursing home.

The protagonist is a person who values, above all, keeping your head down and doing what's expected of you. She does not believe in standing out; she does not believe in involving yourself in other people's problems; perhaps for these reasons, she believes the only people you can ever count on are family. This is how she's lived her whole life, and she believes it was for the best. However, this mindset puts her directly in conflict with her daughter, a lesbian activist who is fighting for equal employment treatment for queer professors and teachers in the South Korean educational system. 

When her daughter, Green, runs out of money to pay rent after a quarrel with the university where she was lecturing, the protagonist allows Green and her partner Lane to move in, despite their fractious relationship.

 

Read more... )

Check-In Post - Aug 15th 2025

Aug. 15th, 2025 07:51 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



Thursday August 14th 2025

Aug. 14th, 2025 09:09 pm
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Check-In Post - Aug 14th 2025

Aug. 14th, 2025 07:55 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



Challenge #499

Aug. 13th, 2025 11:35 pm
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This is me losing track of time for the past week, seriously. I actually really couldn't tell when it was weekend and when it was weekday. Then I thought, "Hey, I haven't done anything in Ten Minutes for a while," and here I am. So sorry!

Today's challenge: Characterization. Choose three very different characters, who all speak and express themselves very differently. They do not need to be in the same fandom. Note down at the beginning of your work which three characters you chose. Then, write a few lines of conversation between them, about anything at all, but without dialogue tags or any prose. Your reader should be able to identify who's speaking by what they choose to say in the conversation and how they speak alone.

[Amnesty #027] Kickoff Post

Aug. 13th, 2025 10:00 pm
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AMNESTY WEEK #027
Challenges # 001-270

Amnesty Weeks are a chance to post any stories you've written that, for whatever reason, weren't submitted during that week's challenge. And if you can't get the entries you want in during this Amnesty, never fear! The next one will include challenges 001-280, so you'll never miss out.

There's no voting for amnesty entries, and there's no limit on how many you can post, so long as each entry meets the usual community requirements (less than 1000 words, not NC-17, etc.) If, however, you manage to end up with 30 of the things you want to post, try to spread them out through the week for the sake of people's reading pages. These entries may also be crossposted and previewed anywhere you like, since there’s no voting to skew.

At the end of this two-week window, a post will be made collecting all the links of the posted entries, which will also signal the end of the posting period, and a new regular challenge will go up.

Entries are titled the same way as normal: [#] Story Title (Fandom)

PAST THEMES: Second Chances, Heartbreak, Devil's Advocate, Victory, Long Shot, Unexpected Company, Travel Plans, Schadenfreude, Missed The Mark, Overindulgence, Interview, Bad Day, Clear Skies, Time of Need, Fever Dream, Fourth Wall, Altered State, Stages of Grief, Stereotype, Hindsight, Blessing in Disguise, Changing Seasons, Inner Child, Starry Night, One-Track Mind, Miracle, Double Trouble, Rival, Ghosts, Moment of Truth, The Road Not Taken, Storms, Family Gatherings, Warning Shot, Mirror Mirror, Caught Red-Handed, Reunion, Betrayal, Premonition, A Walk in the Woods, Resurrection, Winter Nights, Perfection, Day Off, Fall from Grace, Horizons, Rebuilding, Too Much Information, Loyalty, Blaze of Glory, Audition, Voluntold, Silence, Time Travel, Writing on the Wall, High Seas, Martyr, Prehistoric, Camouflage, Careless, Shortcut, Transformation, Priceless, Rainy Day, Long Distance, Gathering Clouds, Shattered, Masks, Ray of Sunshine, Networking, Skeletons in the Closet, Unspoken Things, Burning Bridges, Into the Forest, Hearth and Home, Closed Doors, Confession, Fairy Tales, First Snow, Opposites Attract, Haunted House, Countdown, Below Zero, Dragons, Head in the Clouds, Once in a Lifetime, Leadership, Regrets, Success, Road Trip, Vengeance, Into the Depths, True Love, Secret Lair, Unexpected Weather, Center of Attention, White Lies, Legacy, Roughing It, One Perfect Day, Nobility, Mirror Universe, Into the Jungle, Only One Room, Pirates, Competition, Afterlife, After Midnight, Friends’ Night, To The Library, Pumpkin Patch, Autumn Rain, Bonfire, Unexpected Visitors, Breaking News, First Aid, Happily Ever After, Mistaken Identity, Heartbeat, Technical Difficulties, Brainstorm, Novelty, Snowed In, Best Friends Forever, Come In From the Cold, Illusion, For Science!, Gardening, Candlelight, Moonlight, Nostalgia, Superpowers, Storytelling, Wasteland, Out of Sorts, The North Star, Jumping to Conclusions, Leviathan, Getting Lost, Learning Lessons, Inspiration, Teamwork, Nightmare, Invincible, Temptation, Creation, Trivia, Publicity, Glitch, Paradox, The Dance, Honesty, Insomnia, Atonement, Vampires, Leap of Faith, Quiet Night, Vacation, Memory, Innocence, Homecoming, Hero, Gift, Rescue, Apology, Loneliness, Things In Common, First Kiss, Sick Day, Progress, Confidence, Lost Memories, Escape, Rumor, Late Arrival, Space, Nemesis, Anger Management, Faking It, Eavesdropping, Broken Promise, Investigation, Revolution, Murder, Recklessness, Reputation, Bad Judgment, Partners, Anniversary, Wish, Freedom, Spotlight, Surprise, Falling Leaves, Bad Day, Trust, Good Luck, Harvest Time, Altar, Duct Tape, Pyrrhic Victory, Catastrophe, Celebration, Reminiscence, Procrastination, Siblings, Jealousy, Parallels, Outsider, Chaos, Hesitation, Hope, Protection, Pressure, Normalcy, Meticulous, Recovery, Caught in the Rain, Stress, Overheated, Persistence, At the Beach, Sunrise, Guilt, Alibi, Secret, Spontaneous, Deity, Optimism, Stargazing, Mystery, Coffee Shop, Curse, Comfort, Magic, Cold Snap, Hangover, Apple Picking, Autumn Nights, Future, Stubbornness, Tragedy, Redemption, Picture Perfect, Werewolf, The Common Cold, Lost for Words, Mermaid, Emergency, Quick Exit, Royalty, Midnight Snack, A Light in the Dark, Unexpected Success, Defiance, Man’s Best Friend, Chemistry, Scars, Caves, Mountains, Schemes, Soulmates, Genius, Summer Vacation, Trickster, A Walk in the Park, Poison, Sleeping In, Self-Indulgence, Pride

Amnesty posting ends Wednesday, August 27 at 9:00PM EST
• Post your submission as a new entry using the template in the profile
• Tag these entries as: amnesty 027, plus the challenge's theme tag
• For questions about Amnesty Week entries, please ask them here


[#270 | Pride] Results Post

Aug. 13th, 2025 09:59 pm
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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #270 – Pride!

This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2869

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 week.

You may now post your Challenge 270 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!

Check-In Post - Aug 13th 2025

Aug. 13th, 2025 07:25 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

Aug. 13th, 2025 09:26 am
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What are you reading? Are you reading?

Tuesday, 12th August 2025

Aug. 12th, 2025 03:00 pm
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Too Technical by [personal profile] badly_knitted (G | Clara Oswald, Twelfth Doctor)

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[personal profile] paranoidangel recommends The One Where Hardison Meets The Doctor by seraphina_snape

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[community profile] dw100 announces Challenge #1053: pool

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