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[#294 | Pining] Challenge Post

Challenge 294:
PINING

to yearn intensely and persistently especially for something unattainable

Maybe it’s for a long-lost friend or lover, someone you miss even after all this time. Maybe you’re in love with someone who doesn’t love you back, or can’t. Maybe you’ve been away from home for a long time, and you miss it. Whatever it is, you’re pining for it!

What do your characters pine for, if anything? Does it work out for them, or is their pining destined to be futile?

Write a story about pining.

BONUS GOAL: Dawn’s First Light

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

Challenge ends Monday, March 30 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 294 – pining
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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#admin

New challenge coming soon!

Eep! Apologies, folks, your friendly neighborhood mod got distracted last night and completely forgot to put up the new challenge. It'll be up this morning as soon as I have a few uninterrupted minutes!

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I Can't Help It If I Have Immaculate Taste.

Every so often, I post an analysis of how I chose my recent fic titles! I wasn't expecting to be posting another roundup only three months after the last, but I've launched into this year with a startling quantity of writing.

In reverse chronological order, my fic titles so far this year:

( Rambling about why I chose fic titles. )

My last couple of Goes Wrong Show fics have been less popular than my others on AO3; it's a small fandom, so nothing gets a huge readership, but the drop from around fifteen kudos to two kudos still caught my attention. I'm not panicking about this - they got a lovely response here on Dreamwidth, so I'm happy! - but it did make me wonder whether there was a reason. Did people drift away from the fandom after Christmas Carol Goes Wrong ended its run in theatres? Did I mess up the summaries somehow?

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise the answer: my last two fics heavily reference Robert banging Chris's mother, and it simply had not occurred to me that this may not be a selling point for the majority of Robert/Chris shippers. I forget sometimes that not everyone is as delighted by this as me.

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A Sense of Aesthetics (Blake's 7 - Vila Restal & Olag Gan)

Title: A Sense of Aesthetics
Fandom: Blake's 7
Pairing/Characters: Vila Restal & Olag Gan
Content Notes: None needed
Prompt: 26 March: Vila asks Gan to go to the [choice] because...

A Sense of Aesthetics

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dreamwidth: community thursdays

Community Thursday

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted and commented on bnha_fans.

Commented on journalsandplanners.

Commented on addme_fandom.

Posted on getyourwordsout.

Promoted anime_manga, bnha_fans, c_ent, booknook.

Signal boosts:

Via dw_community_promo, latam is a new multilingual comm centered on Latinx culture!
Folks asking for CSS help on ao3_skins, for the CSS-minded people out there who weren't aware of that comm :D (although I think the latest post might have been deleted since I saw it 🤔 but for next time!!)

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No True Pair 2026 Four-Character Mini-Challenge Posting!

Once it's March 26th wherever you are, you may begin posting! Post as close to the assigned date as possible until amnesty, but also don't worry about a day or so either way.

Please include at least the following:

Title:
Fandom:
Pairing/Characters: (the two from the prompt, for tagging purposes)
Content Notes: (required if included: Death, Violence, Underage, Rape/Noncon. Or- Choose Not to Warn, any additional notes)
Prompt: (e.g. June 31st, Darth Vader and Lex Luthor pet kittens.)

You can use the pre-formatted code you get from any site using otw-archive software as long as you also note which prompt you're answering.

The subject line should be something like: Title (Fandom(s), Pairing/Characters).

You may post directly to this community, to your own journal/fic journal/fic community, or to an offsite archive of your choice including AO3, Squidgeworld, Sunset, Superlove, etc. (AO3 link goes to an unofficial collection.)

Tagging: Each piece will get a tag for its fandom(s), creator, characters-in-the-prompt, and the challenge round that it answers. Tags will be made regularly, if not daily. If tags exist, please use them. (Tags may take a bit longer on T/W due to a longstanding RL commitment.) You do not need to let me know that something needs to be tagged but if a fandom has a very long or confusing title and you want to suggest the best way to identify it, please do. If I have managed a typo or otherwise, please either PM or leave a comment on any of my !admin posts.

You can:
Still sign up!
Look at the prompts!

As a reminder, AI slop is not welcome here.

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March 2026 Monthly Self-Reccing Period

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Tokusatsu: March 2026 Monthly Self-Reccing Period

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Bittersweet #2 [The Fulcrum]

Name: Return to the T'arsi Fair
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Bittersweet #2: Memories
Styles and Supplies: Canvas (I can use this here, right?)
Word Count: 1611
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye
In-Universe Date: 1912.5.4.2, Summer 1904
Summary: Setsiana and Qhoroali go back to the Fair.

( Return to the T'arsi Fair )

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DC Femslash Big Bang 2026

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9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Willing

Title: Willing
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard
Tags: Fantasy AU, Tommy is a God
Summary: Evan was more than willing.
Word Count: 4,084

( Willing )

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Fanfiction: The Verge (The Goes Wrong Show, Robert/Chris)

Yet more Robert/Chris Goes Wrong fanfiction! And, yet again, I have managed to sneak Robert banging Chris's mother in here. It's my favourite thing.

Title: The Verge
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: 14
Pairing: Robert/Chris, with some Robert/Celia
Wordcount: 3,500
Summary: Chris steels himself. “Do you ever feel something might... happen between us?”

( The Verge )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Torchwood: Fanfic: The River Running

Title: The River Running
Fandom: Torchwood
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1020
Summary: Jack has brought his husband to see something spectacular, but so far, Ianto isn’t impressed.
Spoilers: Nada. Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.
Warnings: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 510: River.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.

( The River Running... )

Current Mood: hungry

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boosting: latam

Saw this on

dw_community_promo and thought it was a really great idea for a community, so I'm boosting it.

From the post about it:

latam is a new community for people to come together to talk about latinamerican music, films, food, culture, fandom, and more!

Everyone's welcome, no matter where you're posting from! And you can also post in your language (official languages of the community are Spanish, Portuguese and English!)

I'm not very conversant on that culture myself so I'm not joining the comm (yet), but I fully support the idea of it and would be happy to hear it's an active community.

I've already added it to my list of interesting DW communities so next time I post the list, it'll be there.

Also, since I'm posting: I'm always on the lookout for good communities to promote! If you know of one that's not on my list, let me know and I'll add it.

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Admin Post: [#293 | Rough Seas] Amnesty

Hi all! Since we only have two fills this week, we won't hold a voting round. Instead, feel free to post any last-minute fills you might happen to come up with! Your next challenge will be up at the usual time on Wednesday.

Mass Effect: Andromeda: Haiku: Chemical Hot Springs

Title: Chemical Hot Springs
Fandom: Mass Effect: Andromeda
Rating: G
Summary: There will be no soaking in the water on Kadara.

( Read more... )

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multi-chapter: wings

[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfinéd Wings, Chapter 31

Characters: Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)
Rating: NC-17
Contains: Canon-typical violence, explicit sex
Fic Wordcount: 117,000
Chapter Wordcount:
Notes: Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to

senmut's Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.
Beta: breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace
Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.

Definitely.

Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.

Chapter index here.

( Chapter Thirty-One )