Hello, hello, hello. Long time no see. I have been lurking on DW, reading your posts in silence like a creep and maybe sometimes commenting, but I haven't gotten round to posting in ages.

I should probably do a RL update (spoiler for those who don't follow me on Instagram: rerember how a few years ago I mentioned that one of my bucket ist items was getting into a gallery show? Well, I've had art in three group exhibitions in the last year and two more plus a small solo exhinition scheduled for next year), but I'l just start off easy with a meme ganked from

muccamukk:

Bold = Watched Entirety
Italic = Watched Part
* Watched more than once.
† Watched in the first few weeks of release (at least initially, for TV shows).
(I'm skipping the watched more than once thing because I literally can't remember)

( long-ass list of MCU movies and shows plus some musings )

Now, the reason why I'm even thinking about MCU again is because I actaully finished watching a thing when I went to see The Fantastic Four. The only reason I did so was because a) I really like Pedro Pascal and he hasn't let me down in anything yet, and b) I was promised it would be 100% stand-alone.

Non-spoilery review: It was 100% stand-alone (except for a brief mid-credit scene), and I can wholeheartedly recommend it even to people like me who have completely lost interest in the wider MCU, and have no interest in going back to it. And Pascal was very good in it, as was the whole cast. I really liked all four members of the team, and they felt like a real family (the humour was also more like the kind of stupid injokes that a family would have than Whedon-like quipping that a lot of other MCU movies have).

The plot was very predictable, but it was still very entertaining. In a weird way it reminded me a lot of early 00's superhero movies like the first two X-Men and Raimi's Spidermen. There was just something very charming and nostalgic about how simple it's story was. Also, visually the movie was very unique - not just the retro-futurism, but also the kaiju-imagery they used for Galactus.

On a more spoilery note, ( spoilery spoilers )

But in short, I really enjoyed watching Fantastic Four (even if it was a bit too heterosexual in general for my taste), and would watch a sequel if they ever make one, but as much as I liked the characters, I doubt their presence will be enough for me to want to watch The Avengers next summer.

neotoma

Peach lemonade, french baguette, olive-thyme sourdough loaf, bacon-gruyere wheel, almond croissant, value tomatoes, prune plums, donut peaches, regular peaches, cardamon pull-apart bun, swiss bar (pastry with cheese), and 1/2 lb mixed mushrooms

matildalucet

This route essentially runs between two exits of Rt 2, on either side of it. Decent enough walking. Polite drivers when we were briefly in each other's way. Mosquitos! I had sprayed my hat to discourage them, but they kept circling my face anyway. I had bought a head net some time back and actually put it in the day pack today. This was its first deployment and it worked pretty well. I did get a strange look from a young person as I walked past their yard; suburban streets probably don't see a lot of head nets.

Dripping sweat by the end.

3.0 miles, probably an hour and five minutes, give or take. Faster than I expected, probably because the elevation changes were mild.

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Nominations Clarification 2

Here is a little FAQ about Nominations Clarification posts for those of you who haven't run into them before:

What/why is a Nominations Clarification post?

Nomination clarifications are queries about tags we find confusing and updates about tags or the tagset in general. The goal of nominations is to create a tagset of unambiguous, easy to understand tags that will be useful to participants and solidly within the scope of the exchange. The goal of a clarifications post is to keep all of our participants up-to-date regarding our nominations work and solicit feedback where necessary to create the most useful tagset we can.

Do I need to read the whole post?

No. You can just skim each clarification post to see if a fandom you're interested in requesting or offering has been mentioned. We recommend doing this even if you don't care very much how the tagset is organized in case we make some kind of huge blunder with your favorite fandom or OTP.

How do I reply to a Nominations Clarification post? Do I need a Dreamwidth account?

You don't need a Dreamwidth account because we have anonymous commenting turned on. If you comment anonymously, remember to check back for our reply! You can also email us at ficinaboxmod@gmail.com if you'd prefer.

There's a query about a fandom I'm familiar with, but I'm not the nominator. Can I tell you what I think?

Yes! If you are not the nominator but have relevant fandom knowledge about something, please speak up. Nominators don't always reply to our queries, so answers from other people in the fandom are often very helpful.

Why haven't you processed my nomination(s) yet?

Nominations can't be processed in a strictly first-in, first-out manner because of various backend reasons, so most likely we just haven't yet had a chance because of the large volume of submitted nominations. Double check our nominations clarification posts for your tag. If sign ups open and one or more of your tags is mysteriously still missing, please reach out.

My AO3 tagset nomination(s) were rejected but aren't discussed below, why did you reject them?

Most likely you failed to disambiguate your nominations, or made some other error — we reject incorrect tags rather than fixing them. You're welcome to post a link to your nominations slate if you'd like us to tell you why the tag(s) were rejected. You can attempt to re-nominated tags either on AO3 or via the form if you'd like.

However, there is a delay between us rejecting and us posting nominations clarifications! Literally as I post this post, other people on the tagmod team are approving/rejecting new tags. So your rejected tag might show up in a future clarification post

I have a nominations question not answered here or on the Nomination Guidelines. Can I ask on this post?

Yes! You can ask nominations questions on whichever nominations clarification post has been most recently posted, or you can ask on the Nomination Guidelines, or you can use the mod contact post, or you can email us. We're happy to help no matter how you get in contact!

Recursive fandom in need of additional interested participants

Per our rules for nominating new recursive fandoms, we need either either proof of an established fandom for the nominated work or 3 participants who are interested in the fandom. We have a nominated recursive fandom that is currently seeking 2 more interested parties!

Fandom name: Cast Down Chronicles - anonfeather
Very brief summary: Original work, omegaverse, cat boys.
Fandom promo: Here on the Fandom Promo post (link)
Where to comment if you'd request, offer, or pinch hit for this fandom: Here on the Nominations Guidelines! Please sign your comment if you are commenting anonymously.

Queries

Google Forms nominations

Daredevil (TV): All tags — Per nominations guidelines, all Daredevil (TV) tags need to be nominated under "The Defenders (Marvel TV)" so we've accepted your tags under that fandom.
Final Fantasy XII: WB: The Legacy of Kind Raithwall (Final Fantasy XII) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
Kino no Tabi | Kino's Journey - Iruka Shiomiya (Manga): WB: Persuaders (Kino's Journey Manga) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
KPop Demon Hunters (2025): WB: K-Pop Industry And Companies (KPDH) — Worldbuilding tags require that worldbuilding tags be about something fictional where imagination/creativity is required rather than research (see this section (link)). How close is this industry in KPDH to the real-life industry? If they're very close, what fictional aspect of the industry are you looking for worldbuilding about?
Tommy (1975): Cousin Kevin/Tommy Walker (Tommy 1975) — This ship was nominated twice in a row along with "Nora Walker & Tommy Walker". Was one of these "Cousin Kevin/Tommy Walker" nominations supposed to be a different tag?

Ao3 tagset nominations

Dungeons and Daddies (Podcast): Elizabeth Mothman/Jane Rogan (DnDads - Sons and Sonsability) — Nominator, we're not sure why this tag was disambiguated separately from other Dungeon and Daddies nominations. Are these characters from a special episode or something? Would "Elizabeth Mothman/Jane Rogan (DnDads)" be in some way ambiguous?
Hunter x Hunter (Anime): WB: Zoldyck Family History (Hunter X Hunter) — We realize that "History of [Group]" is a fairly common WB: tag format, but we're concerned this might be a little close to "WB: Backstory of the Zoldyck Family" which is a type of WB tag we don't allow. Could you elaborate on what kind of worldbuilding you're looking for? (Also, in hopes that you don't feel singled out, I want you to know I have made a note for myself to review all of our "WB: History of..." nominations before the next round starts to see if this is a problem in other similarly phrased tags.)
JUDGE EYES | Judgment (Video Games) : WB: History of the Matsugane Family (Judgment) — We realize that "History of [Group]" is a fairly common WB: tag format, but we're concerned this might be a little close to "WB: Backstory of the Matsugane Family" which is a type of WB tag we don't allow. Could you elaborate on what kind of worldbuilding you're looking for? (Also, in hopes that you don't feel singled out, I want you to know I have made a note for myself to review all of our "WB: History of..." nominations before the next round starts to see if this is a problem in other similarly phrased tags.)
Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler: Sebastian Michaelis & Ciel Phantomhive & Real Ciel Phantomhive (Kuroshitsuji) — We were going to query this, but then figured out the answer all on our own! It should be in the tagest now.
Night Watch (Discworld - Terry Pratchett): Lord Downey/Havelock Vetinari (Night Watch (Discworld - Terry Pratchett)) — Nominator, the fandom "Discworld - Terry Pratchett" is usually used for Discworld in exchanges (and is in fact already in the tagset) because there are a lot of character overlaps between books. We do allow overlapping fandoms if nominators feel strongly about it, but we wanted to ask if you'd be alright with us accepting this tag under the broader Discworld fandom.
Paprika (2006): WB: Aftermath of the Dream Parade (Paprika 2006) — This tag was accepted in error, and we might be removing it. Nominator, could you elaborate a little about what kind of worldbuilding you're looking for concerning the aftermath of this Parade?
Persona 5: All tags with "Kurusu Akira" — It's been brought to our attention that this is a name used for the main character of this game in a manga adaptation and in the game there is no default name. Since the video game is the canon that is nominated, we will be changing all of these tags to use "Persona 5 Protagonist" instead.
SIGNALIS (Video Game): WB: History of the Eusan Nation (Signalis) — We pulled this tag to query, but have decided to accept it. It should be in the tagset now!
SIGNALIS (Video Game): WB: Replikas and Their Gestalt Memory (Signalis) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
Stargate - Live Action: Ba'al's Host & Vala Mal Doran (SG LA) — Ba'al's Host could refer to multiple characters, especially with all the cloning shenanigans. Did you mean any of Ba'al's hosts or perhaps specifically the Ba'al clone host that survived extraction?
Wylding Hall - Elizabeth Hand: WB: Similar otherworldly occurrences elsewhere in the world (Wylding Hall) — Details on this book are a little sparse on google, so we need a little help with this nomiantion. Are there canonical mentions of "similar otherworldly occurrences"?
Wylding Hall - Elizabeth Hand: WB: Wrens & the wren hunt (Wylding Hall) — Details on this book are a little sparse on google, so we need a little help with this nomination. Can you explain it for us?
薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu: WB: Verdigris House (KNH) — We pulled this to query, but decided to accept, so it should be in the tagset!
逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney: WB: In-Universe Lawyer Fandom (Ace Attorney) — We're a little confused by this nomination. All WB nominations are mean to be phrased as in-universe, so we think that this WB tag should be accepted as "WB: Lawyer Fandom (Ace Attorney)"—is that correct? We also would like to check if there is canonically a fandom for lawyers in AA.

Rejected Tags

Google Forms nominations

Diablo (Video Games): WB: Nephalem Born After Destruction Of Worldstone (Diablo VG) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination (Solo: Nephalem Born After Destruction Of Worldstone) and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding about this group they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
K-pop: Solo: Any K-pop Idol (K-pop) — Unfortunately, both this fandom and this relationship-field tag are too broad. The fandom is too broad because it's a huge umbrella fandom which per the nominations guidelines are "all fandom tags that cover multiple subfandoms, multiple medium types, multiple series, etc." The character is too broad because many K-Pop idols are under 18 years old, which makes them ineligible to be nominated to Fic In A Box per the "Other Notes" section of our fandom nomination rules. Additionally, requesting such a broad tag in such a broad fandom comes too close to a "Creator's Choice of Fandom" nomination—we don't allow CCoF to be nominated in FIAB.
K-pop: Solo: Any K-pop Music Video Character (K-pop) — Unfortunately, both this fandom and this relationship-field tag are too broad. The fandom is too broad because it's a huge umbrella fandom which per the nominations guidelines are "all fandom tags that cover multiple subfandoms, multiple medium types, multiple series, etc." The character is too broad because it's asking for creators to choose a fandom/character from any K-Pop MV, which is too close to a "Creator's Choice of Fandom" nomination, something we don't allow to be nominated in FIAB. Also, many K-Pop idols are under 18 years old, which makes them ineligible to be nominated to FIAB—K-Pop music videos often have a large amount of overlap with the idol's RPF fandom, and we're uncomfortable with potentially allowing this nomination to work around our 18+ rule.
Original Work: Solo: Any Original Character (OW) — Unfortunately, this relationship-field tag is too broad. Characters in the Original Work fandom need to be a specific type of original character per this part of the nominations guidelines (link).
Original Work: Solo: Original Characters (OW) — Unfortunately, this tag is too broad. Characters in the Original Work fandom need to be a specific type of original character per this part of the nominations guidelines (link).
Original Work: WB: Fannish History (OW) — Worldbuilding tags require that worldbuilding tags be about something fictional where imagination/creativity is required rather than research (see this section (link)). We're also not sure what kind of fic one could write about this WB tag. Could the nominator please clarify what kind of worldbuilding they're looking for?
Original Work: WB: Fannish Tropes (OW) — This tag is a copy of an exactly phrased tag, which we cannot accept. Did the nominator mean to nominate a different tag instead of the same tag twice?
Original Work: WB: Fannish Tropes (OW) — Worldbuilding tags require that worldbuilding tags be about something fictional where imagination/creativity is required rather than research (see this section (link)). We're also not sure what kind of fic one could write about this WB tag. Could the nominator please clarify what kind of worldbuilding they're looking for?
Original Work: WB: Fantasy Landscapes (OW) — Nominator, are you looking for worldbuilding about landscape paintings/artwork in fantasy settings, or are you looking for worldbuilding about natural locations in fantasy settings? If the first, we'd like to rephrase as "WB: Landscape Artwork in Fantasy Settings" and if the second we'd suggest one of these tags: "WB: Fantasy Environments" "WB: Fantasy Ecosystems" "WB: Fantasy Biomes" (or a different phrasing, if you'd prefer!)
Original Work: WB: Scientific Observations of Sea Life (OW) — Worldbuilding tags require that worldbuilding tags be about something fictional where imagination/creativity is required rather than research (see this section (link)). With this is in mind: what fictional aspect of sea life observation were you looking to see worldbuilding about?
Slow Horses: Shirley Dander/Roddy Ho — We ask that nominators use canonicals when nominating via form. Nominator, is this "Slow Horses (TV)" or the novel Slow Horses by Mich Herron?
The Brothers Karamazov: Ivan Fydorovich Karamazov/Pavel Smerdykov — We ask that nominators use canonicals when nominating via form. Nominator, is this "Brat'ya Karamazovy | Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky"? Or is it maybe "カラマーゾフの兄弟 | The Brothers Karamazov - Takarazuka Revue " or "브라더스 까라마조프 - 이진욱/김경주 | The Brothers Karamazov - Lee Jin Wook/Kim Kyung Ju "?
The Orville (TV): WB: Transgender Krill (The Orville) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination (Solo: Any Transgender Krill, Solo: Original Transgender Krill) and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding about this group they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
The Schoolgirl's Diary: WB: School Life — We ask that nominators use canonicals when nominating via form, but we can't find a canonical for this. We have found a previously nominated tag with no fanworks, though, probably nominated for some other exchange. Nominator, is this "한 녀학생의 일기 | Han Nyeohaksaengeui Ilgi | The Schoolgirl's Diary (2007)"? If that is the right fandom, then we have a follow up question: This film seems to us to be set in a world very close to the real world. Worldbuilding tags require that worldbuilding tags be about something fictional where imagination/creativity is required rather than research (see this section (link)). With this is in mind: what fictional aspect of North Korean school life were you looking to see worldbuilding about?

Ao3 tagset nominations

Alan Wake (Video Games) : WB: the Torchbearers (Alan Wake) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination ("Solo: The Torchbearers (Alan Wake)")and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Overwatch (Video Game): WB: Blackwatch (Overwatch) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination ("Solo: Any Member of Blackwatch (Overwatch)") and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Overwatch (Video Game): WB: Talon (Overwatch) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination ("Solo: Any Member of Talon (Overwatch)") and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Overwatch (Video Game): WB: The Ministry of Genetics (Overwatch) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination ("Solo: WB: Any Member Of The Ministry of Genetics (Overwatch)") and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Overwatch (Video Game): WB: The Shambali (Overwatch) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination ("Solo: The Shambali (Overwatch)") and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
Stardew Valley (Video Game): Farmer/The Land (Stardew Valley) — Per our nomination guidelines: "What counts as a character? We will not accept inanimate objects, inanimate locations, vague concepts, or platonic ideals as characters. Animals, canonically thinking/feeling objects, and canonically thinking/feeling locations are fine!" To our knowledge, The Land in SDV is not thinking/feeling, and so cannot be nominated as a character.

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If anyone wants to call RFK Jr. to complain about him not funding vaccines, the phone number is 202-690-7000. I called during office hours (8:30-5 Eastern time) and got voicemail. The message asked for a phone number, and claimed someone would call me back.

If anyone wants a script, my message was:

My name is Vicki Rosenzweig. I’m calling from Boston, to demand that the secretary restore funding for MRNA vaccines. He must make the fall covid and flu boosters available to everyone. I’m immune-compromised, and my safety depends on my family being vaccinated and not giving me a virus. My phone number is [your number here]

Edit as appropriate.

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fanvids/fics/podfics/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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For anyone registered to vote in Massachusetts -- you can sign up to get reminded when it's time to officially sign papers to put on the Massachusetts ballot a measure to repeal the Massachusetts constitutional amendment that took the right to vote away from people serving felony sentences.

From an email from Progressive Mass:

Unlock Democracy in Massachusetts

In 2000, Massachusetts passed a constitutional amendment that took away voting rights from people incarcerated for a felony conviction. This stripping of rights was in response to political organizing happening in prison. The Empowering Descendant Communities to Unlock Democracy project and allies aim to get voting rights restoration on the statewide ballot. If you are a registered voter in Massachusetts, please take a minute to fill out our pledge form now: https://tinyurl.com/uvrpledge. Once the Attorney General approves the language, organizers will reach out to those who filled out the pledge with dates/locations for nearby signature collection efforts.

The EDC to Unlock Democracy is is committed to ensuring that democracy does not stop at prisons and jails in Massachusetts. It is a collaborative project between the Democracy Behind Bars Coalition, the African American Coalition Committee at MCI-Norfolk, Healing our Land, Inc., and more. To get in touch email EDCtoUnlockDemocracyMA@gmail.com.

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July was a quieter month on the community, with four posts:

On July 17,

gingicat posted about virtual Good Trouble Lives on rallies.

On July 22,

executrix post about a Womens March program on feminism and fan culture.

Also on July 22,

gingicat warned about apparent voter registration shenanigans and linked to a place to check your registration.

On July 30, I posted about a call for public comments about gender-affirming care.

Thanks to everyone who posted.

Here's a poll to tell us what you've been doing:

Poll #33466

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

View Respondents

Since the last check-in, I....

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called one of my senators
4 (23.5%)

called my other senator
4 (23.5%)

called my congressmember
4 (23.5%)

called my governor
1 (5.9%)

called my mayor, state rep, or other local official
1 (5.9%)

did get-out-the-vote work, such as postcarding or phone banking
0 (0.0%)

voted
1 (5.9%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax to a government official or agency
6 (35.3%)

went to a protest
4 (23.5%)

attended an in-person activist group
3 (17.6%)

went to a town hall
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone or online training
3 (17.6%)

donated money to a cause
10 (58.8%)

worked for a campaign
1 (5.9%)

did textbanking or phonebanking
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
10 (58.8%)

not a US citizen, but worked in solidarity in my community
2 (11.8%)

did something else (tell us about it in comments)
4 (23.5%)

committed to action in the coming month
2 (11.8%)

As always, everyone is free to make posts about any issues and actions they think the comm should know about. You can also drop some information into a comment to our sticky post if you'd like the mods to do it.

If you're looking for information on anything else, you can use our tags to check for any ongoing actions or resources relevant to the issues you care about. I try to keep the tag list up-to-date. If you need a tag added, you can DM me.

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Nominations Clarification 1

Here is a little FAQ about Nominations Clarification posts for those of you who haven't run into them before:

What/why is a Nominations Clarification post?

Do I need to read the whole post?

How do I reply to a Nominations Clarification post? Do I need a Dreamwidth account?

There's a query about a fandom I'm familiar with, but I'm not the nominator. Can I tell you what I think?

Why haven't you processed my nomination(s) yet?

My AO3 tagset nomination(s) were rejected but aren't discussed below, why did you reject them?

I have a nominations question not answered here or on the Nomination Guidelines. Can I ask on this post?

Medium Update

Before we move on to queries and rejections, we have a little medium update!

We've reviewed the "Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction" Unique Rules medium and made a few adjustments!

The title of the ruleset has changed to just Typeset to allow for non-fanfiction typeset nominations (any new nominations must still contain "Recipient's"). The only nominated typeset tag has not been altered.
We've changed the equivalents from a flat 500/1000 base credit to a rolling 300 credit per 1k words of original fic credit that's capped at 2k equivalent.
We've clarified that all images counting for credit must be illustrated.
We've clarified that typesets must contain at minimum a simple front page
We've simplified the illustrated equivalents to: Remove frontispiece (this can just count as a full page image), group the smaller elements together

We've updated the wording of the template crediting in the Writing ruleset to make it clear that the template must be coded or embedded into AO3.

Queries

Google Forms nominations

Black Dynasty - Marilena Barbagallo: ALIX Brun/Scorpio Leclerc (Black Dynasty) — Should "ALIX Brun" be "Alix Brun"?
Can't Think Straight: Yoon Jaehyuk/Han Garam — We ask that nominators use canonicals when nominating via form. Nominator, we're not sure what fandom this is. Is it "I Can't Think Straight (2008)"? Approving as "선 넘는 사이 | Can't Think Straight"
Dragon Age (Video Games): Anders/Fenris/Hawke (Dragon Age VG), Anders/Justice/Hawke (Dragon Age VG) — Hawke is the player character and has a selectable gender. Does the nominator have a preference? If you do, it needs to be baked into the tag because you can't use your DNWs to specify a gender when requesting.
LOVEMe Hard - Jerry Heil (Music Video): All tags — This song seems to be titled LOVE ME HARD, not LOVEMe Hard. Can the nominator clarify?
Pearl Boy: All tags — We ask that nominators use canonicals when nominating via form. Nominator, we're not sure what fandom this is. Is it "조개소년 | Pearl Boy (Webcomic)"?
Sasaki And Miyano: Miyano Yoshikazu/Sasaki Shuumei — Nominator, do you want the manga or anime? The canonical tags (which we would like spreadsheet nominators to copy/paste into the form when nominating) are 佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Manga) ‎or 佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Anime)
Tasogare Auto Fokasu/Twilight Out Of Focus: All tags — We ask that nominators use canonicals when nominating via form. Nominator, we found two canonicals that we think might be the fandom you meant: "黄昏アウトフォーカス | Tasogare Out Focus (Anime)" or "黄昏アウトフォーカス | Tasogare Out Focus (Manga) -- is this the fandom the nominator intended? Would you like the anime or the manga?
The Summer Hikaru Died: All tags — We ask that nominators use canonicals when nominating via form. Nominator, we're not sure what fandom this is. Is it "光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)" or "光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)" or something else?

Ao3 tagset nominations

Caraval Series - Stephanie Garber: Solo: Julian (Caraval), Caspar & Julian Santos (Caraval) — It looks like other relationship nominations have "Julian Santos" listed as a character. Is this solo nomination for "Julian" referring to Julian Santos or a different Julian?
Philza Hardcore S4 Lore: All tags — This fandom tag was made synonymous with the fandom DSMP at some point in the past week-ish, so future nominations need to be made under the fandom "Philza Hardcore Season 4 Lore (DFE)"
Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures: Crystal/Gold (Pokemon Adventures), Gold/Yellow (Pokemon Adventures) — Just letting you know that we rejected these and then added them back into the tagset as "Crystal/Gold (Pokemon SPECIAL)" and "Gold/Yellow (Pokemon SPECIAL)" to match the other tags in this fandom.
괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo: All tags — Sorry nominator, these tags were accidentally rejected! We think they were probably fine? We can't see tags after we've rejected them. Please let us know what these tags were and we will add them into the tagset for you.

Rejected Tags

Google Forms nominations

Crossover Fandom: Cassandra Cain & Creator's Choice of Adult Character — Sorry, nominator, but "Creator's Choice of [Character Type]" in Crossover Fandom counts as Creator's Choice of Fandom, which we don't allow in FIAB. Please pick a second fandom.
Crossover Fandom: Dick Grayson & Creator's Choice of Adult Character — Sorry, nominator, but "Creator's Choice of [Character Type]" in Crossover Fandom counts as Creator's Choice of Fandom, which we don't allow in FIAB. Please pick a second fandom.
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Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021): Jayce (League of Legends)/Mel Medarda/Viktor (League of Legends) (Arcane LoL) — We accepted this tag but we've since replaced it with "Jayce/Mel Medarda/Viktor (Arcane LoL)"
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling: WB: Morally Ambiguous Death Eaters or Order Members (HP - JKR) — This is a group, which makes it ineligible for a WB: tag, but it's also not a tag that we would accept as a Solo: tag, either because it's too much like a prompt. Nominator, what kind of worldbuilding are you looking for concerning morally ambiguous characters? What part of the canon setting or society are you hoping to see fleshed out in a gift?
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Murdoch Mysteries: solo: Violet Hart, Violet Hart & Llewellyn Watts, Jennifer "JJ" Jareau & Spencer Reid — We accidentally accepted these, but they're not disambiguated properly (and might not even be characters for the right fandom?) so we have removed them from the tagset.
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백작가의 망나니가 되었다 - 유려한 | Lout of Count's Family | Trash of the Count's Family - Yulyeohan: Cale Henituse | Kim Rok Soo & Everyone (LCF) — We don't want "& Everyone" tags in the tagset because we feel it's unclear when combined with our rules about groups in tags. Would you prefer "Cale Henituse | Kim Rok Soo & Any Canon Characters (LCF)" or "Cale Henituse | Kim Rok Soo & Any Characters (LCF)"? (The first one will prevent you from getting Original Characters, the second will allow Original Characters.)
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matildalucet

VdGSA held its annual conclave in Oxford OH this year, which I decided was a not-unreasonable solo drive. This is a week of up to four classes per day, plus evening activities. I’ve never done more than three classes before; I chose four this year and my brain was kind of mush by the end. It would be saner to limit myself to three and schedule exercise for that fourth time slot. Live and learn, maybe.

I took a class in bowing technique, a class in dances by two 16th century Italian composers I hadn’t heard of yet (Mainerio and Bendusi), a class titled “Medieval Hit List” (somewhat rare at viol gatherings), and a class on 16th century music theory. There is usually an evening lecture one night but it was replaced this year by English Country Dance for all, which was largely duple minor Playford dances, not my forte though I muddled through. I won two small items in the fundraising auction, bought a bit of sheet music at the store, enjoyed concerts, and sat in on sport sightreading one evening. (Ad hoc groups play most evenings but between mush-for-brains, exhaustion, and shyness I rarely join.)

The dorm room and dining hall were okay. The community feel was excellent. I found people to sit with for meals and the banquet, balanced against alone time in my dorm room to unwind.

Next year looks like it will be in VA, maybe the same distance from home, in a location I’ve never been to. Too soon to say whether going is in the cards; I haven’t ruled it out. :-)

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A few years I created a database to organize my fanfics, stocked it with about 1800 fics from a handful of fandoms (mostly small ones), and then got swamped with things and put it on hold. Tonight I've finally caught up with the fandoms in it* and updated all of the lists, and thought it might be good to link them here in case someone hasn't seen the posts before or wants to revisit them now that I have added nearly 350 fics to the lists.

You can find them all linked at my master recs post. All lists indicate which ships are major in the fic, if any, and I mark a few additional things that may be helpful.

Fandoms currently included:

Alphas

FBI (CBS show)

FBI: Most Wanted

Fried Green Tomatoes (book & movie)

Push

Speed

The Matrix

as well as a smattering of recs from tinier fandoms (mainly movies). Fandoms with fewer than 30 fics in my database (such as Speed) are in a "Tiny fandoms" post, and there's a post just for crossovers as well.

In order to keep maintenance to a minimum, I don't include all the themes with the main posts above, but I generally include them with any post made on request. Themes tagged cover everything from tropes to grammar (I tag anything that isn't third person past tense) to story ending (positive, sad/unhappy, etc.) to AO3's archive warnings. If you want or need to be spoiled about everything, follow the directions on that post to request a custom recs list and I'd be happy to make one for you.

* The only fandoms not updated are the two FBI shows, because I haven't watched past S3 of the main show and S2 of the Most Wanted one. Someday, perhaps…

siderea

I finally got around to pursuing a replacement of what we in the Bostoniensis Household refer to as the Lorem Ipsum card, which was itself a fiasco.

(Recap: PayPal, an organization full of people who are not as smart as they think they are and blessed with perhaps the deepest marketing reach in the US into the small business market for financial services, decided to offer to its business customers the greatest credit card deal of their lifetimes, unlimited 2% cash back on all purchases, and the market responded with all the decorous restraint of a river full of pirhana given a whole cow. Apparently we collectively took PayPal for all they were worth – I heard of small tech companies running their cloud services bills to the tune of five figures a month across on the card – until sometime in Sept 2024, when the grown-ups at PayPal discovered they were hemorrhaging money, and very abruptly shut the party down and exit the business credit card market all together. The hard inquiry on my credit report lasted longer than the actual card did. At the time, it was pretty upsetting, but now it's just hilarious.)

A couple weeks ago I decided to apply for an American Express Blue Business Cash card, which has no fees and has a cash back offer. I have to say, absolutely all the customer service agents – five now – I've spoken to have been exemplary. Yeah, alas, that's foreshadowing.

Unfortunately their IT services are demented. First there was the fact they sent me a notification saying my application had been, and I quote, "DENIED", with a link to find out why, and when I followed the link, I discovered my application hadn't been denied: it said that they couldn't run a credit check on me because my credit reports were locked (true), so I need to go unlock the specified credit report and let them know so they could continue processing my application. So I called in and did it in real time with an agent on the line and was approved on the spot. Fabulous. "Okay, you will be getting your card at your home address in three to five business days." "Uh, it's a business card, could you send it to my business address?" "Oh, no, it won't let me send your initial card to any other than your home address." "*sigh* Very well."

My new Amex card arived at my home on like the 30th or 31st, while I had my nose to the grindstone writing. Friday the 1st, I opened the envelope to find my new card, and then to activate it at the website.

I couldn't get it off the paper.

Or rather: in attempting to get the card off the paper, I wound up with a layer of glue and paper stuck on the back of the card, such that I could not read any but the first five digits of the card number, and the CVV was completely covered. It was like the paper was superglued on. It was annealed.

So I called Amex, and discovered that you can't get through the phone tree to a a customer service agent about an extant account unless you can prove you're the owner of the account with, yes, the CVV. Which I can't read. Because there's a half thickness of paper glued across it.

Also, you can't set up an account on their website without the full card number, which I also couldn't read, because there was a half thickness of paper glued across it.

So I called the number for applying for a card in the first place, and threw myself on the mercy of the sales agent, explaining why I was calling them instead of regular customer service: I can't get to customer service without knowing the CVV, and the problem I need help with is that I can't read the CVV. "I know I shouldn't be laughing," he said, "But this is kind of hilarious." He kindly set up a three-way call with customer service so I didn't wind up wandering unattended in a phone tree maze, and once I was talking to the nice people who could replace my card, he ducked out.

The customer service agent and I then discovered that Amex doesn't let you replace a card, for some reason, until an account is 10 days old. My account was, as of that moment, nine days old. She gave me a direct number to business card services in the hopes I could avoid the phone tree of doom; the agent also gave me some pointers about pressing zero to get through it, which trick I had tried on the other phone tree and it hadn't worked.

Saturday I was busy sleeping. Today, I called the phone number I had been given for business card services, and despite the phone tree trying to authenticate with the CVV, I managed to confuse the robot enough it finally found me a human. I got to explain all over again about the disfigured card, and they transferred me again to card replacement, who put the order right in.

I observed to the agent that the issue with the glue and the card might have something to do with them sending it to my home, where I have a black mailbox on a south-facing side of the building, and we had been having a heatwave, and maybe they would like to send my replacement card to my business address, where the mailboxes are indoors in air conditioned comfort? She agreed that would be a much better plan.

So now I await my new Amex. It's a 2% cash back on purchases offer, but only up to the first $50k of purchases, so companies can't use their AWS bill to bleed them dry, so maybe it will stick around a little longer than PayPal's Lorem Ipsum card.

Speaking of credit card offers possibly too good to last, for any of you sad you missed out on getting your own bite of the cow:

I recently discovered that AAA – yeah, the American Automotive Association, the roadside assistance people – has a really great credit card offer. (This may be region specific – I'm in their "Northeast" region.) Their Daily Advantage Visa Signature card has 5% cash back on groceries, no annual fee. Only the first $10k of grocery purchases per year, and then 1% thereafter – which is good, actually: it has a chance of sticking around. But that does mean up to $500/year in cash back on grocery purchases. Given what's happening to the price of food and paper goods, having a permanent 5% discount on groceries is freaking fantastic. It also has a bunch of other features (3% cash back on gasoline or electric car charging stations, e.g.) and 1% cash back on everything else (no limit).

The interest rate is usurious, so under no circumstances do you ever want to carry a balance on it. But if you are the sort of person who can reliably always pay off their balance every month on time: permanent 5% off groceries!

And, no, apparently you do not need to be a AAA member to get the card. (Though we are.)

We got one and I just finished reading the fine print. Seems reasonable. We don't know that our grocery delivery service will be recognized by the card company (it's Comenity Capital Bank under the hood) as a grocery store, but the service is run by a grocery store, and the charges have appeared on the previous card under the name of the grocery store, so here's hoping. We'll know later this week – our next grocery order is for Wednesday, and the charge typically shows up a day or two after that.

Also, we've never had a card with Comenity, so we don't really know how their IT and customer service are. The web interface for account management is very nice. We'll report back as we know more.

I'm not generally in the practice of recommending credit cards, and I can't wholly recommend this one, having not really exercised it yet to discover its landmines. But what's going on here in the Bostoniensis household is that we're cashing in on our good credit scores to take advantage of financial offers that pinch our pennies for us, as a form of hardening our household financially against inflation and other future economic vicissitudes. This has generally meant getting credit with better terms (either lower rates or higher rewards), and opening High-Yield Savings Accounts for our nest egg and my estimated tax payments as a self-employed person.

Given that eating food is a pretty universal custom and groceries are getting scary-expensive, I thought I would mention for anyone who wants to do likewise, and is in a position to do so.

Edit: Oh, yes, it worked with our grocery delivery order just fine. We're delighted.

neotoma

Porterhouse steak, yellow chanterelle mushrooms, 4lbs of peaches, plums, shishito peppers, and donut peaches.

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Sadly, the

smallfandomfest is over, but the contributions are forever! I posted in my journal my favorites from this edition of the fest.

In this post:

Medium: fanfic

Fandoms:

Sky High
Sense8
Guardian - priest
The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself

See the recs in my journal.

duskpeterson

Soon after I posted the last update, I tossed into my backpack a few items of clothing, my wifi phone (to use as an offline ereader), and my flip phone. No laptop; I knew I wouldn't have wifi access where I was going, nor much time. Then I rushed off to spend a few days with my sick relative.

I'm still here. The acute medical crisis morphed into a need for long-term care.

I've acquired Internet access again, as you can see. I hope to get my laptop back, later this month; when I do, I'll be able to resume posting online fiction. Ebooks will take a little longer, because my relative is still being flooded with medical care, which I'm coordinating.

The good news is that – for the first time in thirty years – I've established a daily writing schedule. I had vastly underestimated the benefits of paper and pen. So I'm continuing to produce stories, at a more rapid pace than in the recent past; it's just that the publication pipeline is clogged at the moment. Thank you all for your patience.

siderea

Canonical link: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1879923.html

Americans, if you are not already onboard with the Epstein files scandal, I suggest you get onboard. Non-Americans, feel free to pitch in.

For about nine years now, our side – meaning everyone who thinks fascism is bad and has been voting accordingly – has been ardently wishing any of Trump's excesses would be regarded as a scandal that would take down his presidency, and been bewildered why that wasn't happening. Well, it is finally, finally happening, so get out of the bus and come push.

But before you do, there's some things you should know.

1.

Over on Pod Save America (2025 July 25, "EXPLOSIVE REVELATION in Trump’s Epstein Files Scandal") Dan Pfeifer had some things to say about how our side responds to the Epstein files which I think are incredibly important for us to all hear:

[3:15] [Jon Favreau:] Dan, how does this explosive revelation – that we all saw coming – change the nature of this almost 3-week old scandal?

[Dan Pfeiffer:] I would hope that this changes how everyone, ourselves included, talks and thinks about this scandal.

Because we've had a lot of fun about with this. We're going to have fun about it on this podcast, I hope. It is... There's something amusing about it.

But I feel like everyone has been treating this kind of from a perspective of...bemusement? Like, "Ah, look at these conspiracy pushing grifters who've been hoisted on their own petard!" right? Where the real crime here is hypocrisy and deception. Right? That they they say they released the Epstein files but they didn't do it. Trump's breaking a campaign promise, ha! Take that! The dog that caught the car, and all of that.

But I think we do really have to to take a step back, and I know this is going to sound like hyperbole, and I know it will, but I truly believe it: that this scandal, now with this revelation, this scandal, now, should be treated like Iran-Contra, Watergate, other major political scandals.

Because what we have here is the president of the United States, the attorney general, the intelligence community, the FBI director, and the Republican Congress, all part of a conspiracy to cover up information about the President of the United States' relationship with America's most notorious child sex trafficker.

[Jon Favreau, profoundly missing Pfeiffer's point:] And lying about it, right?

[Dan Pfeiffer:] And he lied– he lied to the American people. Whether– either by direct order or by implicit request, the intelligence community! We have intelligence professionals, like, the most– what's theoretically supposed to be the most, one of the most apolitical parts of the government, concocting a bullshit report we're going to talk about to try to distract people from the political fallout of this. You have the Republican Congress shutting down and going home, for a month because they are so afraid to vote on a measure that could shed light – once again – on the President of the United States' relationship with America's most notorious child sex trafficker.

Like this really is a giant deal. Like, we need to know what is that hearsay Trump's worried about, in the files? What is in there? What do we not know about Trump's relationship? Like, what, what other steps have been taken to try to cover this up? Have there been efforts to alter or destroy the records? Right? What what other government officials have hid it? Who else has been lied to? Like, this is a big deal and it should be treated as a big deal, in my view.

[...]

[...] this is one of the clues that [5:44] you and I took as evidence that Trump knew his name, or at least suspected his name, was in the Epstein files, was he kept saying, "How are we going to know they're real? Maybe Comey and Biden and whoever else doctored them?" To put his name in there, right?

[...]

I mean the, the chain of events here is they were planning to release the files; they were on Pam Bondi's desk; they released that first tranche that had his name in it, that did not– that at that point they did not say We're not going to release more, because after that went out Pam Bondie said These are on my desk for review; she reviewed them, found something that she thought would be quite embarrassing to the president, and they changed their plan. And they've continued to believe that the massive amount of political fallout they've been getting now for almost 3 weeks is preferable to whatever they believe is in the files.

And:

[Jon Favreau:] How do you think Dems should [17:09] handle this issue over the next few months?

[Dan Pfeiffer:] I think our goal should be to keep the issue in the news as much as possible without putting too much spin on the ball. Right? I've seen other testing which shows that the most effective online posts are not Democrats talking about it. It is clips of Republicans or people who previously supported Trump – you know, podcasters, influencers – criticizing Trump for this. That's the most effective medium.

When we think about how we, like, if we are messaging– if you're an elected official and you're thinking about how to use your platforms, that's one way to do it. If we're thinking about it in the context of how all of us are messengers, and people in our lives, and you're sharing things in your group chat, the better thing to share is the clip of Andrew Schultz talking about this on Flagrant, than it is, you know, some Democrat ranting about this on MSNBC. Or Pod Save America, or anywhere else, right? It's like the... Think about someone who is– who's motivations are not automatically questioned even in an issue on this one where they're, they're quite sincere.

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Look, this year I actually checked the FFFX and AU5k schedules before scheduling this! I didn't check any other schedules so hopefully I haven't accidentally dropped this on top of some other longfic exchange, but if I have, let me know and I can try to shift it a bit.

Nominations Open: Sat 14 Feb 2026 10:00AM EDT
Nominations Temporarily Close for Cleanup: Fri 20 Feb 2026 09:59PM EDT
Sign-up Opens & Nominations Reopen: 21 Feb 2026 01:00PM EDT
Nominations Close: Fri 27 Feb 2026 09:59 PM EDT
Sign-up Closes: Sat 28 Feb 2026 9:59PM EDT
Assignments Go Out: ASAP
Assignments Due: Sun 15 Mar 2026 9:59PM EDT (countdown)
Works Revealed: Sun 29 Mar 2026 9:59PM EDT
Creators Revealed: two weeks after work reveals

Rules and other information will be posted in January. The rules will probably not be significantly different from the 2025 rules. If you have feedback on 2025 that you would like to have taken into consideration for 2026, please leave a comment on the 2025 feedback post.

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanvids/fics/podfics/fanart/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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ruuger - Long time no see - Plus the MCU I have seen meme
neotoma - Farmer's Market -- 09 August 2025 (Caper Day, 22nd of Heat, Year 233)
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siderea - How Not to Run a Bank, Credit Card Edition: Stuck Like Blue [banking, surrealism]
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