Tuesday: Sickness & Health

Oct. 21st, 2025 09:39 am
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Hello, everyone. I’m [personal profile] simplyn2deep and today's theme is Sickness & Health (oh, what's that? continuing the pattern from the last time I hosted......). Prompts can be anything related to, you guessed it, sickness and/or health.

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 fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
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.

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...
+ any, any + any, two strangers in isolation discover each other through messages slipped under the door.
+ Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, a recovered patient starts experiencing someone else’s memories.
+ Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, a nurse realizes their favorite patient’s heartbeat syncs perfectly with their own.

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. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


tag=SicknessHealth
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Icons made for [community profile] seasons_of_fandom 

DC Icons
[03] Vampire!Barbara Gordon
[01] Vampire!Damien Wayne
[01] Witch!Wonder Woman
[01] Dick Grayson & Pumpkins
[02] Pamela Isley
[01] Zatanna Zatara

Marvel Icons
[02] Kitty/Vampire!Ororo Munroe
[01] Kitty Pryde & slime monster
[01] Vampire!Matt Murdock
[02] Vampire!Steve Rogers

Other Icons:
[03] An American Werewolf of London

Pinch Hits & Mid Sign-Ups Notes

Oct. 20th, 2025 01:31 pm
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Sign-ups close at 9pm UTC 24 October. We're more than halfway through sign-ups - if you haven't signed up, get in quick! If you have signed up, we're glad to have you. Please check all your details are correct.

If your sign-up includes a letter link, please make sure that link works for all viewers! In particular, if your letter is on tumblr, please set it up to be viewable for people who do NOT have tumblr. If you're using Google docs, we recommend linking a web-published version of your letter.

Pinch hits

Pinch hits are a major part of Yuletide. Pinch hits are writing assignments that need to be claimed by volunteers, and pinch hitters are the writers who claim and fulfil them. Currently, we publish pinch hit details on [community profile] yuletide_pinch_hits, but we also send out notifications of new pinch hits to members of the Yuletide Discord server who have taken on the "yulephs" role, and to anyone subscribed to the Google Group for Yuletide pinch hits.

If you're interested in helping out by taking on extra assignments, please check that you're signed up to receive notifications by one of these methods! We'll send a test message out soon.

Sign-ups

We've introduced some new features this year! You can now request up to 8 fandoms, and you may fill out a form (linked from the sign-up form) if there are people you would prefer not to match to. Beginning in 2023 we have also included an additional tag checkbox where you can specify whether you want all of your requested characters to appear, or if you’d be happy with particular combinations you specify, or any combination your writer chooses.

If you have questions about any of these, please email us at yuletideadmin@gmail.com! We'd like to make sure things go smoothly for you.

Requesting characters can be a tricky aspect of Yuletide, so just in case, here's a refresher:

If you select 2-4 characters in a request, you can only match to someone who offers them all, even if you’ve indicated in the additional tags that you’re happy with any one of them. If there are 4 or fewer characters nominated, and you’d be happy with a story about any of them, selecting no characters gives you the widest range of matches.

If you select no characters in a request, that means your writer may write about any nominated character or about the fandom world in general. Please only do this when you'd genuinely be happy with a story about any nominated character, or the world.

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AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
creepy_shetan: cropped color manga cover artwork for Devil May Cry 5 -Visions of V- of Nero with an exaggerated expression, looking like he's itching for a fight (Nero // who you calling dead weight?)
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[ If you're interested in being a Tuesday-Thursday guest host, you can sign up here. Thanks! ❤ ]
↑↑↑ Available dates:
November 4 & 6
November 11 & 13
November 18 & 20


Good day or night on this not-a-Sunday-whatsoever day for Lonely Prompts! :D? :D;; (Sorry I'm late. Things happened, and I couldn't get online yesterday.) If this is your first time at [community profile] comment_fic on a Sunday, you can either request previous prompts to be filled or share your recent fills for prompts. (Or do both, of course!) ✎

How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

Whichever you decide to do, prompt or fill (or both), please remember:
1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from a particular fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts in as many fandoms as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether it is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to wherever the prompt is in the community archive (whether filling or requesting), and, if you're filling the prompt, please post the fill as a reply to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom you've written it for (or if it's original!).
8. If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
7. If you've filled any lonely prompts in the past week, this is the place to share them!
9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.

Challenge 19: Maxton Hall Reminder

Oct. 19th, 2025 06:18 pm
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Challenge 19: Maxton Hall ends in 6 days, so far there is no entries and I'd love to see some. You can submit your icons HERE
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[ If you're interested in being a Tuesday-Thursday guest host, you can sign up here. Thanks! ❤ ]
↑↑↑ Available dates:
November 4 & 6
November 11 & 13
November 18 & 20


Hi, 'tis I, yet again~! 6^^;; This time, I've got a Free for All for y'all to play in, as is our Saturday custom. There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. If you've had any ideas this week that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, today's your chance to prompt 'em. Be free, and have fun! ✎

Just a few rules:
1. No more than five prompts in a row.
2. No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
3. Use the character's full name and the fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
4. No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
5. If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
6. If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Are today's prompts not catching your eye? No worries, because we have plenty of older prompts that just might do the trick! You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.
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[personal profile] earthspirits posting in [community profile] historium
  
Fandom: Dark Shadows (1966)
Characters: Barnabas Collins, Angelique Bouchard, Julia Hoffman, Quentin Collins, Parallel Versions of Other DS Characters + Original Characters
Main Pairing: Barnabas and Angelique
Eras: 1970's, 19th Century, and future/parallel timeline
Title: The Depths of Winter
Chapter 1 / ?
Rating: Mature
Trigger Warnings: Angst, danger and suspense, romantic longing, grieving, references to past character death, and a brief blood scene.
Word Count for Chapter 1: 1,390
Note: Set immediately after the Dark Shadows 1840 storyline (includes some spoilers for the DS 1970 "Catastrophe" / 1840 entwined plots).
Summary: Collinwood 1971 - Safely returned from the past, Barnabas Collins and his friends find that all is peaceful at the great house. But there is no peace for Barnabas. Grieving for Angelique, he believes she's still alive but lost in another world or time. On Samhain night, he'll risk all and journey into the unknown, fiercely determined to reunite with his beloved — and he'll let nothing stand in his way.
 
creepy_shetan: cropped color manga illustration of the inner and outer Sailor Senshi lying in a wide circle, their heads together (SM // solar system color wheel)
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A pleasant Thursday to you all! Just gonna leave this pinch hit here, and I'll be on my way... towards not fun things...

Today's theme is 2 out of 3. Prompts should offer three related or unrelated things (separated by dashes or commas), and fills should involve any two of those three things. Prompters, you can use an online random generator if you'd like. Writers, try your best not to be lured in by Bunny Number 3. (Or, perhaps, fill a prompt twice? Three times, just to be fair?)

Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^

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. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

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 things started...
+ The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit (book and/or movie 'verse), Bilbo Baggins + any, the wind in the trees -- a teapot -- writing
+ author's choice, any (+/ any), teaching -- medicine -- homemade
+ any sci-fi fandom, any (+/ any), for free -- second thoughts -- warming up

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Try the community archives (here on LJ or here on DW), where you can find themed and Free For All posts, as well as Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests.


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Fest Name: 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2025
Links: Tumblr | Dreamwidth | Livejournal | AO3 | Rules (also on DW & LJ) | Early Bird Sign-up
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A Draco/Harry prompt challenge in December. Signing up for early bird will give you early access to all the prompts. Early bird sign-up is extended to November 20.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions:
Fic: Minimum 100 words per prompt
Art: None
Podfic: None?
Timeline:
Early Bird Sign-up: October 5 - November 20
Early Bird Prompts Available: October 12
Posting begins: December 1
Last day of posting: December 25
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Fest Name: HP Snooze Fest 2025
Links: Tumblr | AO3 | Rules & Prompts
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A HP self-posting fest featuring sleeping in some way, shape or form. All mediums are welcome. The use of AI is not allowed. AO3 collection is open for self-posting from October 15 to December 15.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: None; any medium is welcome
Timeline: October 15 - December 15

Challenge 197: Voting

Oct. 15th, 2025 07:22 pm
luminousdaze: The Minions 2015 movie, a smiling one-eyed Minion is dressed as a Dracula (Minions #2)
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Flower Power 2 - Voting
We have over forty fabulous icons. Thank you very much to all the participants!
Voter Guide
Anyone is welcome to vote.
Please choose five (5) icons for the main placements and one each for the categories Best Color (Coloring), Best Image Crop & Best Composition.
Please, don't vote for your own icons or ask others to vote for your icons.
Please try to vote for the best quality icons, not only the subjects, fandoms or makers.
Important:
Please vote for a different icon for each of the categories (Color, Crop, Composition).
There is a checkbox & text answer combo poll.
Voting will be open for one week.
Thank you for voting.
If any icons are missing, please view a screen shot of the icon table in the comments.

Vote Here 🗳️.... )

challenge closed ⌛

Oct. 15th, 2025 10:23 am
luminousdaze: White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland [by abyss-valkyrie] (disney animation 12)
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Challenge 197 is now closed. ⏰
I will post the voting soon and a new challenge later, for October.🎃🦇 Thank you, entrants, for your patience.

GIPHY


P.S. I just learned that the Imgur is blocked in the UK so I will add a screen shot to the voting post if any icons are hosted on it. Opera browser has a free built in VPN if it helps.
Edit: I found this site that should let you by pass the Imgur geoblock to view individual image links - for viewing only. https://imgur.nerdvpn.de/

Challenge 197: Flower Power 2

Oct. 15th, 2025 10:07 am
luminousdaze: Maui from Moana, "What can I say except you're welcome!" [by kowhai] (disney animation 06)
[personal profile] luminousdaze posting in [community profile] iconthat
moana-5725e spiritedawayflowers1b lilo2-7020-01
Moana // Spirited Away // Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

https://i.ibb.co/Xkt19m7Y/moana-5725e.png
https://i.ibb.co/rK6ztJNG/spiritedawayflowers1b.png
https://i.ibb.co/84sdrtVR/lilo2-7020-01.png



2 Extras + 6 Alternates.... )

Yuletide 2025 Sign-Ups Open

Oct. 14th, 2025 02:21 pm
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
Please read this post even if you have signed up before!

After reading this post, please look at the tag set to see what fandoms are available this year, and make a shortlist of what you plan to offer and request. (The same fandoms can be on both lists, if you want.)

Then sign up at the collection. We recommend you allow at least half an hour to sign up. While you can edit your sign-up over the next week, you will not be able to make any changes after sign-ups close at 9pm UTC 24 October.

If you would like to avoid matching to up to three other participants, with limitations discussed here, you may do so by filling out a Google Form from a link within the AO3 form. If you want to use this feature but cannot use Google Forms, please email the mods. Do Not Match requests will close at the same time as signups.


Requests

  • You can request 3-8 fandoms

  • Each fandom must be different

  • You can request 0*-4 characters in each fandom

  • *Requesting 0 characters means "I am happy to receive any nominated character for this fandom. My author gets to choose which one(s)". That includes Worldbuilding for fandoms where Worldbuilding is nominated as a character tag. If no characters are nominated for the fandom, requesting 0 characters means “I am happy to receive any character or worldbuilding for this fandom.”

  • "AND" matching means your writer must include every character you select. If you are happy with a subset of your selected characters, indicate this with Additional Tags, and clarify any exceptions in your optional details.

  • You can only request characters from the tag set, though your optional prompts may mention other characters to appear too.

  • In some fandoms, you can request Worldbuilding as a character. You can find guidance on that here.


AND matching and additional tags
Generally, when you select characters in your sign-up form, it means you want and expect your gift to include all of those characters. This is a key principle for matching and assignments. However, some people like to give their author further options. We are using the Additional Tags section of the form for this.

If you requested 0 characters, or you want all the characters you selected to appear, you will tick the first Additional Tag option, which says "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)". If you think your situation might be different, please read last year’s post about additional tags and select additional tags that are right for your requests. This information is also in the sign-up form.


Optional Details and Do Not Wants (DNWs)
"Optional details" = prompts, ideas, likes, explanations of how you see the canon. Optional details and DNWs can be recorded in the main text section of your requests.

Optional details are optional (ODAO)! Your writer doesn't have to follow your prompts, though they must avoid your DNWs. You don't have to give prompts here, either - though prompts and ideas may be a more inspiring first impression than a list of DNWs on its own. Prompts may be particularly useful if you are requesting a Worldbuilding tag.

See this 2020 post for some considerations when writing your DNWs. Last year, we also clarified our rules and guidance about DNWs.

The Optional Details section of your AO3 requests is especially relevant if you have selected option two of the additional tags, "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form". In that case, please use this section of the form for explaining how and when your writer is allowed to leave out some of the characters you selected.

Please use minimal html in the optional details field. No images, please.

Please also note in the form if you're able to receive treats - or if you don't want them! Yuletide has a long-established culture of extra gifts, but if you created your account recently, you may have extra gifts turned off by default. Please check your AO3 preferences, and then state in your sign-up form whether you do or do not accept treats.


Letters
You can write prompts and preferences in another space, such as Dreamwidth, Livejournal, Google Docs, or Tumblr, and put a link in your sign-up. This is known as a "letter". Some people write letters; some don't. DNWs and character subsets that are listed in a letter but not in the Optional Details AO3 textbox cause confusion and difficulty for creators, and will not be enforced by the mods. Otherwise, your letter is an extension of your optional details and is treated the same way.

Important: You cannot add a letter after sign-ups close.

Offers

  • You can offer 4-10 fandoms

  • Each fandom must be different

  • You can offer 2-20 specific characters in each

  • If you want to offer a fandom that has 0-1 characters available, tick the "Any" box

  • If you are willing to write any combination of nominated characters, including Worldbuilding for fandoms where it is nominated, tick the "Any" box

  • "Worldbuilding" can also be selected as a character for many fandoms. Please check here to see how we're using it.

  • Offers are secret! Please don't declare openly what you're offering.


If you have several fandoms in which you want to offer to write Any nominated characters, you can make your last offer a "Bucket Offer". You can read about bucket offers in the Sign-ups section of the AO3 FAQ. This older tutorial has pictures!

Signing up!

The sign-up form is here.



Please check the tag set or the app when signing up. The autocomplete drop-down list in the sign-up form may not show all available characters. If they're in the tag set, you can enter them manually.

Sign-Up Summary

The list of requested/offered fandoms will be available after five people have signed up. Bucket offers do not show up in the list. Checking the sign-up summary for people you may be able to write for is a good idea - although many people sign up at the last minute. The sign-up summary says it updates hourly; in practice it may update less frequently.

Fandoms at 1-1 on the sign-up summary may mean that the same person is offering and requesting the fandom, not that there is a match.

Welcome to Yuletide!

Feel free to ask us questions.


Bonus! Yuletide advertisements

Thank you to [personal profile] crantz (who also made images for us to share in 2019 and in 2020). Please use these to encourage friends and other fans to take part!

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Tuesday Pinch Hit ✎ Pain [DW]

Oct. 14th, 2025 08:48 am
creepy_shetan: anime screenshot from s1 of Baby Steps of Maruo Eiichiro getting hit in the face by a tennis ball (Maruo Eiichiro // right in the face)
[personal profile] creepy_shetan posting in [community profile] comment_fic
Hellooooo out there! We're short on guest hosts, and a pinch-hitter hasn't beaten me to it yet, so... Welcome to Tuesday. In honor of me waking up in three kinds of ouch this morning, I present to you...

Today's theme is pain. To the death? No, no. To the pain. Although, I guess being emotionally pained by another character's death still counts. Hrm. As does being figuratively/mentally pained by a terrible dad joke, secondhand embarrassment, or baffling mental gymnastics.

Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^

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. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

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 things started...
+ author's choice, any male action character who looks good covered in dirt and grime (+/ any poor soul who'd like him to take better care of himself), belatedly noticing an injury through movement or touch, not sight
+ any TV spy/mystery/crime fandom, character in the field + character on the comms, Character A gets into a physical fight (anything from a brief scuffle to a big brawl) and Character B can't help but wince while trying to stay on task
+ author's choice, any (+/ any), no one should ever go to sleep and wake up with a headache, that shouldn't be possible

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
Tagset corrections are in, and signups are opening soon! It’s just about time to decide what you’ll be requesting and offering.

This year, you can request eight fandoms! Previously, it was six. Because of that, we're reviewing our process for sending author questions.

Each year, we receive questions from authors about their recipient’s requests. These might include clarification on prompts or requests to understand how a DNW applies to a specific fandom–for example, does a DNW for character death include discussion of deaths that occur in canon?

We’re always happy to pass these questions along! Please always contact the mods directly rather than reaching out to the recipient yourself.

Traditionally, when we send these questions to recipients, we try to disguise the fandom the author plans to write for, so the gift is still a surprise. If the question is generic and applies to all fandoms, we can pass it along as-is. If the question is specific to one fandom, our team of volunteers writes decoy questions for the other fandoms and sends along the whole set.

This is fun for us to do, but it takes time. It's also extra work for the recipients to read and respond to multiple questions. This year, as we’re allowing up to 8 requested fandoms (which could mean up to 7 mod-created questions), it seems like a good time to check in and see if our participants find it helpful.

So, a poll! Going forward, which would you prefer mods do?

Poll #33725 Author Questions Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 265


Going forward, which would you prefer mods do with author questions?

View Answers

Mods should continue to send decoy questions for all fandoms, along with the author’s actual question, to maximize the mystery of which fandom a recipient will receive. (This is how things work currently.)
42 (15.8%)

Mods should send questions for several fandoms, including the author’s actual question, but possibly not all–even though that could narrow down which fandom a recipient may receive.
213 (80.4%)

Something else (Please let us know in comments!)
10 (3.8%)



Keep in mind the question may be from a potential treat writer, so receiving questions for a particular set of fandoms isn’t a guarantee that your final gift will be in one of those fandoms.

We may not necessarily change our process this year based on community feedback, but it will be helpful in making our decision!

We'd also love to hear from you if you'd like to share a past experience with sending or receiving questions! If that has never happened to you, we hope you enjoy this peek behind the administrative curtain.


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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Shocktober round of [community profile] firewhiskeyfic! Though competition is always fierce, there was one category that was very nearly a 10-way tie! ;)

Without further ado, here are the winner's banners, such as they are, but as ever, we're all winners here! ♥

Winners and Banners )

Please let me know if I've made any errors so I can fix them. Names will be added to your entries shortly, and you can reply to comments/repost your pieces wherever you'd like.

Congrats to all! I'm tentatively thinking of an event in February but keep an eye on the comm for future announcements.
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[ If you're interested in being a Tuesday-Thursday guest host, you can sign up here. Thanks! ❤ ]
↑↑↑ Available dates:
October 14 & 16
October 28 & 30
November 4 & 6


Happy Sunday, everyone! :D It's time for our weekly Lonely Prompts day. If this is your first time at [community profile] comment_fic on a Sunday, you can either request previous prompts to be filled or share your recent fills for prompts. (Or do both, of course!) ✎

How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

Whichever you decide to do, prompt or fill (or both), please remember:
1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from a particular fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts in as many fandoms as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether it is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to wherever the prompt is in the community archive (whether filling or requesting), and, if you're filling the prompt, please post the fill as a reply to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom you've written it for (or if it's original!).
8. If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
7. If you've filled any lonely prompts in the past week, this is the place to share them!
9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! [community profile] comment_fic


A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.
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[personal profile] lee_bella posting in [community profile] potterfests
Fest Name: Dronarry Fest 2026
Links: Tumblr | Rules | Prompting
Type of Challenge: Non-anonymous prompt fest
Description: A fic and art fest dedicated to Draco, Ron and Harry, either as a triad or as pairs. All works must feature all three characters in significant capacity. This fest will not accept works created by or with assistance of AI; that includes using AI for editing or proofreading. Prompting is open till November 1.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions:
Fic: Minimum 1k; no maximum
Art: None?
Podfic: Recorded story should be minimum 1k; no maximum
Timeline:
Prompting Opens: October 11th
Prompting Closes: November 1st
Claiming Starts: November 2nd
Claiming Closes: February 7th
Submissions Due: February 22nd
Posting will begin in March 2026, exact dates to be confirmed.

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