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linaewen posting in

Hello on Thursday! What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?

- I thought about my fic once or twice

- I wrote

- I did some planning and/or outlining

- I did research and/or canon review

- I edited

- I've sent my fic off to my beta

- I posted today!

- I'm taking a break

- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Thursday Discussion: Today is the first day of the new year!!! Have you made any resolutions/goals/expressed any intentions about your writing? Any plans you hope to implement that will make your writing better or more effective? Any WIPs you plan on finishing this year?

rydra_wong

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25 (thread)

jjhunter

Pick a thing or two that sums up how you're doing today, this week, in general, and tell me about it in the 5-7-5 syllables of a haiku.

=

Signal-boosting much appreciated!

synecdochic

I just posted a thread to my Bluesky account about why I think it's extremely urgent for people to back up anything they still have on LiveJournal, however they do it. Thread starts here:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

ru-news LJ post I was relying on:

https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html

Please spread this far and wide so as many people see it as possible, because I really don't see English-language LJ continuing in its present form for much longer, and I know some people may still have things they care about there. It doesn't matter how you get it backed up, but it's absolutely crunch time for getting it backed up.

jjhunter

Here we are again, on the threshold of possibility. Happy Public Domain Day! May it be a Happy New Year!

Some years I make a practice of committing to quarterly intentions rather than new year's resolutions. I find it helps me lean into the rhythms specific to each season, and the shorter time frame lends itself to selecting more feasible goals that may yet build to larger ambitions.

In the comments, I encourage you to join me in sharing one or more intentions you have of any size for the first quarter of this year (January, February, March), and what you might do on a daily or weekly basis to nurture them. If you would like to do so privately, all anonymous comments on this post will remain screened unless you explicitly okay otherwise.

mekare

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dancing_serpent posting in

c_ent

Happy New Year 2026!

This is the monthly round-up for December 2025.

• The DMBJ calendars are here!!!

• Wishlist Wednesday

• Fanart for: DMBJ Calendar

• Topic Tuesday: Your Highlight(s) of the Year

• Liu Yu's live performance of "The Witty Gallant's Playful Matchmaking"

• Theme from “The Singing Killer” (1970), by Roman Tam (as half-heartedly lip-synced by David Chiang.)

• Icons for: Various Chinese Drama Fandoms

• Quick Rec Wednesday

• Fanfic for: Fangs of Fortune

• Fanfic for: The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

• Fanfic for: Word of Honor

• Did You Make a Thing?

• New Year's resolutions or something like it: c-ent edition

And of course we had the monthly round-up for November 2025 and our weekly chats on the 6th, 12th, 20th and the 27th

Did you discover an entry you missed? Come on over and take a look/comment!

chacusha posting in

latetreatbonanza

Creators for Late Treat Bonanza 2025 have now been revealed and the collection is now closed for posting.

As mentioned at the start of this round, I will NOT be running a Mid-Year Bonanza this year. However, I *will* be running a round of

crackthewip over here. Crack the WIP is a very flexible and simple event for finishing WIPs. This includes finishing up old gifts, works for past events, personal projects, etc., and it includes fanworks of any media. I've set the due date to be June 30th, which is a similar deadline to what the mid-year bonanza would have been, so if you're looking for an event to finish up some late treats, this might work for you! Note, however, that the Crack the WIP collection this year is revealed (i.e. works posted to it show up immediately rather than remain hidden) and there is no anonymous period for that event -- which may be a good or bad thing, depending on your needs!

Otherwise, I'll see you here in September for the next round of Late Treat Bonanza! Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions on how this round went and how future rounds should be run. At the moment, the only change I am planning on making is that I might tweak the terminology a bit to try to make it a little more clear at a glance what sign-ups do / how the event works in terms of creating vs. signing up. Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Hope everyone has a happy new year!

chacusha posting in

crackthewip

Hi everyone! I'm running a round of Crack the WIP during the first half of 2026. If you want to start the year by finishing off some old projects, and maybe need a deadline and some company or encouragement to push it across the finish line, come join us!

How it works:

Sign up below and tell us a little bit about what you're working on if you want! You can always change your mind later and drop or switch to a different project(s) as your plans change -- signing up isn't a commitment, just an idea of what you might make.

Then when it's finished, post your completed work to the AO3 collection. Note: Important change for this round is that the AO3 collection does NOT keep works hidden. So you can add your works to the collection as long as the work is complete. The collection is moderated and only complete works by people who have signed up will be accepted into it.

Throughout the creation period, we'll have regular (optional) check-ins (and round-ups/celebrations of any newly-finished works), and a final round-up of works at the end.

Sign-ups:

To sign up, copy the text below, paste it into your comment, and answer the questions. If you want to sign up to make more than one thing, just answer once for each thing. Anon comments are turned on, so you can sign up even if you don't have a DW account.

Schedule:

The deadline for WIP-finishing is June 30 this year. Sign-ups are open until then. After that date, the collection will be closed!

Helpful links:
2026 AO3 collection

( Rules/FAQ )

rizbef posting in

bestof_icons

ICON NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!

Welcome to the main event of Best of '25 where people nominate their favorite icons, organized by maker, from the year 2025!

( Interested? )

silveradept

Last call for December Days for this year! Thanks for reading along with me as I talk about skills and applications thereof, if for no other reason than because I am prone to both the fixed mindset and the downplaying of any skills that I might have obtained as not "real" skills because they do not fit some form of ideal.

( 31: A Whole New Ballgame )

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Daft Punk - Human After All

sholio

I enjoyed it! Haters to the left!

( Spoilers )

candyheartsex

Signups are now open!

Please consult the tagset for the list of fandoms and relationships you can request and offer. If you can't find a canon you nominated, make sure to check Uncategorized Fandoms, which is where fandoms will be listed if they haven't appeared on AO3 yet or if I've had to alter the canonical tag.

Important: While the Relationships field on the signup form has a dropdown that, when you start typing, should connect with the tagset, AO3 always doesn't display all nominated relationships for a fandom. If the relationship you're trying to request/offer is in the tagset but not appearing as a selection that you can make, please copy-paste it directly from tagset into your signup form. This will let the system recognize that it's the same tag.

Remember, Character A & Character B is platonic, Character A/Character B is romantic/sexual.

There's a letters post, if you want to link your letter there, and you'll also be able to browse requests either on AO3 or the app.

Signups will be open until January 7, 11:59PM EST. Please see the signup rules here.

You can comment here or contact the mod email--candyheartsex at gmail dot com--if you have any questions.

candyheartsex

If you've written a Candy Hearts letter, you can link it here for easy perusal! These letters are optional, and your creator isn't obligated to adhere to them (though they must abide by any do-not-wants listed in your actual signup), but they can provide helpful extra details--prompts, general likes, descriptions of how you see the requested relationships, etc.

Please do not post a link to your letter here unless it is complete and unlocked.

For ease of reference, please record your details as follows:

AO3 Name:
Letter link:

Fandom #1:
Art &/or Fic &/or Podfic:
Relationship(s):

Fandom #2:
Art &/or Fic &/or Podfic:
Relationship(s):

And so on!

cornerofmadness

So it snowed a couple inches last night but I HAD to get my meds. Have I mentioned my parents live up a large hill? (My own road is even steeper but if I slip there so what, there's no one on it, here I'll skid out into the main road.)

So off I go, get halfway down, spin and now gravity is sucking me down the hill sideways. Well this is fun. Brakes don't work so well when you're going sideways. I did try to ditch it into the forsythia. Luckily I did get stopped before I was on the main road or in the hedgerow. Also luckily no one was coming. Other than that, the trip was fine and now we have the last do your goddamn job for 2025

1. I got pizza at our favorite place, XXL pepperoni (also not doing their job I did NOT check before leaving) Want to know how much pepperoni there was? NONE (I fixed that in post)

2. I get to CVS. They have my meds NOT my needles. Why not? oh we can't tell you that here we cant see that information in this system (it's a lie. I know they can. Mine has this system and they can but this place is huge so they don't want to waste time). I get in the 'we can tell you why we fucked up' line, takes forever. I said maybe you didn't transfer it. No we did. Then WHY isn't it filled? She shrugs, doesn't answer and says can you wait 15 minutes? yes I can. (I know why, everyone is doing what I'm doing, using the last day before the deductibles reset tomorrow and they're swamped.

I get my damn needles, I go to Home Goods, clean up on the Christmas discards (they're all over valentine's day which isn't too bad. Dollar Tree has all the gardening stuff out. yeah sure.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Poorly Made and Other Things - Horror anthology by one person set in his Edenville series. It was pretty good.

To Die Once - a Maisie Dobbs mystery which I haven't read one of these in a while and this is...slow. It's way more about the effect of war on the English people (who were still recovering from WWI) than it's a mystery

Tell Tale Treat - another paranormal mystery with another protagonist ripe for being bitch slapped, wasn't a bad mystery

What I am Currently Reading:

Keeping the Secret - a short thing about the WAVS in WWII

Murder Made Her Wicked - historical mystery set in Wellsley, really good so far

The Witching Hour - by Heather Graham. Missing children but no one will do a search of the woods because there's no proof other than the FBI things its there (a paranormal FBI team) eye roll. might DNF this arc (but this is the series that did what I tried to do in the early 90s with paranormal mystery and I was laughed at)

What I Plan to Read Next: It's a bunch of new reading challenges time so that

Speaking of that

kingstoken is having a reading challenge and you can find it here.

I forgot to mention I finished

evil_little_dog's book challenge this year

( You can find it under here )

And have December's reads

Wytches, Volume 1 horror graphic novel

Ripped Tide mystery

Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio nonfiction

Death at the Door paranormal mystery

To Die But Once. historical mystery

The Poorly Made and Other Things

Happy New year's my friends

We're spending it playing cards and watching it snow more.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Dick Clark's NYE

fanweeklymod posting in

fandomweekly

Challenge 285:
FRESH START

Sometimes your best option is just to start over.

Maybe it’s a project that isn’t going well, or a job that hasn’t worked out. Maybe it’s a new day, or a new year, one of those timepoints that encourage you to think about changes you want to make. Maybe it’s something more drastic – a new career or even a whole new life. Whatever the case, it’s time for a new start.

What does that look like? Is it by choice, or are your characters forced into it by circumstance? Is it easy, or not so much?

Write a story about a fresh start.

BONUS GOAL: “I’m glad you’re here.”

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

Challenge ends Monday, January 5 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 285 – fresh start
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

fanweeklymod posting in

fandomweekly

Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #284 – Home for the Holidays!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 3894

Congratulations to all this week's participants, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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

You may now post your Challenge 284 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there.

Happy new year to everyone whose time zone has already made it to 2026!

candyheartsex

If you want to promote your fandom or the relationships you want to request/create for, this post is for you!

How you write your your recommendations, enthusiastic squeeing, or manifestos is up to you, but please put the name of your canon in the subject line of your comment. Here--with liberal borrowing from Yuletide's promo setup--are some other things you may want to include:

Title
Medium (e.g., Book Series, Podcast, TV Show, etc.)
Approximate Length (e.g., page count, runtime, etc. This is also a good place to mention if only a specific installment of the canon is relevant to the relationship(s) you're requesting.)
Where to (Legally) Find It
Brief Description
What You Love About the Canon
What You Love About Your Ship(s)
Kinds of Things You're Planning to Ask For
Content Notes (e.g., incest, period-typical attitudes, noncon, torture, etc. These notes are optional and may not cover everything even if they're included.)

Please post a separate comment for each promo you do, so the canon title can always be highlighted in the subject line.

denise posting in

dw_maintenance

Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

candyheartsex

Signups will open at 12:01 AM EST on January 1! I'll put up a Fandom/Relationship Promo Post in a few minutes, and the letters post will go up soon after signups open.

The tagset is here.

Final Notes

Solo character nominations have been removed.

Fandom nominations without relationships have been removed.

Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker —> approved under The Mandalorian (TV).

Din Djarin & Grogu | Baby Yoda —> approved under The Mandalorian (TV).

Li Family Gen (Perfect Match) approved as Li Family Member(s) & Li Family Member(s).

Final Fantasy X nominations are now under Final Fantasy X Series.

女王的游戏：盛世天下 | Road to Empress (Video Game) nominations are now under 女王的游戏 | Road to Empress (Visual Novel).

Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World (Anime) nominations are now under Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime).

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linaewen in writethisfanfic - WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 1 -- Thursday
rydra_wong - PSA for anyone who's still got stuff they value on LiveJournal
jjhunter - How Are You? (in Haiku)
synecdochic - Get anything you have left on LJ backed up ASAP
jjhunter - Meme: Quarterly Intentions (1/4)
mekare - NiF art and gift and Happy New Year!
dancing_serpent in c_ent - Monthly Round-Up
chacusha in latetreatbonanza - Creators revealed!
chacusha in crackthewip - 2026 Round of Crack the WIP - Rules and Sign-up!
rizbef in bestof_icons - Best of '25: Icon Nominations
silveradept - December Days 02025 #31: A Whole New Ballgame
sholio - Stranger Things finale
candyheartsex - Signups Open!
candyheartsex - Letters Post
cornerofmadness - Gravity's Bitch
fanweeklymod in fandomweekly - [#285 | Fresh Start] Challenge Post
fanweeklymod in fandomweekly - [#284 | Home for the Holidays] Results Post
candyheartsex - Fandom/Relationship Promo Post
denise in dw_maintenance - Привет! LiveJournal imports may be slow
candyheartsex - Final Notes

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Is it snow, or a petal?

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WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 1 -- Thursday

PSA for anyone who's still got stuff they value on LiveJournal

How Are You? (in Haiku)

Get anything you have left on LJ backed up ASAP

Meme: Quarterly Intentions (1/4)

NiF art and gift and Happy New Year!

Monthly Round-Up

Creators revealed!

2026 Round of Crack the WIP - Rules and Sign-up!

Best of '25: Icon Nominations

December Days 02025 #31: A Whole New Ballgame

Stranger Things finale

Signups Open!

Letters Post

Gravity's Bitch

[#285 | Fresh Start] Challenge Post

[#284 | Home for the Holidays] Results Post

Fandom/Relationship Promo Post

Привет! LiveJournal imports may be slow

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