Round 157 Dates

Jan. 8th, 2026 08:53 pm
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The votes are in! Fic_Rush Round 157 will be next weekend, 16-18 Jan! Mods, please confirm your availability, especially if you're able to anchor us at a certain Hour. If you'd like to join in on the modding fun, please let me or another admin know.

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Thanks to my podcasting co-host's connections, we got screeners for the first six episodes, and here is my low-spoiler review as per the rules of the embargo. 

TL;DR it has a huge heart, and a series about rebuilding democracy and the infrastructure of a functional society in the wake of imperial decay and environmental devastation is exactly what the world needs right now. It overtly follows in the footsteps of Prodigy, as a jumping in point for a young new fan, and the relationship between Holly Hunter as the Academy chancellor and Sandro Rosta as a new cadet who is skeptical of Starfleet and the Federation (and with good reason!) is a real gift. 

I'm reluctant to commit to this, because recency bias is a thing, but it's absolutely my favourite live-action series of the streaming era (and you guys will recall that I loved Discovery and wrote a lot of fic for it!), and I think it's very possible I love it more than Voyager. Certainly it has the best opening six episodes of any Trek bar TOS. 

CHECK IN: DAY 8

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:13 pm
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How is the writing going? Anything notable to report?

Question of the day: what tendencies are you aware of in your writing that you actively try to avoid?

CHECK IN: DAY 7

Jan. 7th, 2026 09:55 pm
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We've had one whole week of 2026 (and I haven't yet had to write the new date once). Has anyone succeeded in writing today?

Question of the day: when dealing with your character's inner monologue, do you tend to favour writing directly reported thoughts (What an idiot, she thought) or indirect thoughts (He was just such an idiot)?

Round 157 Runoff

Jan. 6th, 2026 09:53 pm
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[personal profile] xandromedovna posting in [community profile] fic_rush
Ticky box won by a landslide again? Sure Jan... So considering there's a three-way tie and the majority have no strong opinion, we're doing a runoff poll featuring the two January options with the most Mods available and a skip option. This time around ticky box will be celebrating its victory and is not available, meaning you can choose only one.

Poll #34054 Round 157 Runoff
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18


No but actually, when should we have the next Round?

View Answers

9-11 Jan
7 (38.9%)

16-18 Jan
10 (55.6%)

neither, ask again in February
1 (5.6%)

I literally could not care less
0 (0.0%)

CHECK IN: DAY 6

Jan. 6th, 2026 10:12 pm
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[personal profile] igenlode posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
I have just been doing an enormous mountain of washing-up (about five days' worth; a the hazard of bachelor living!) and vaguely thinking about possibly typing something... How is progress feeling for other people?

Question of the day: what do you do next when you have just finished a fic?

CHECK IN: DAY 5

Jan. 5th, 2026 11:54 pm
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[personal profile] igenlode posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
It's a very cold Monday (not a good day for my boiler to go on the blink, but I think I've successfully reset it...)
Did your writing process freeze over in the course of the day, or is it flowing freely?

Question of the day: how do you handle a plot-hole if you notice one?

End of Year Writing Meme 2025

Jan. 5th, 2026 08:58 pm
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
I continue recovering very slowly but at least pretty steadily - and my things are gradually getting out of boxes too. In the meantime, I thought I could probably manage to do the end of year meme, so here it is:

The usual writing meme for the year. (Last year's post is here.)

Cut for length )

CHECK IN: DAY 4

Jan. 4th, 2026 08:53 pm
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It's Sunday! How did the weekend go, writing-wise (or non-writing-wise)?

Question of the day: what is your process for creating original characters in fanfic?
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Hello on Friday!  Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?

   - I thought about my fic once or twice
   - I wrote
   - I did some planning and/or research
   - 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

Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?

   - I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
   - I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
   - I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
   - I'm going to take a break from writing

Yuletide Reveals 2025

Jan. 2nd, 2026 03:03 pm
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
[community profile] yuletide is now over for another year! I did, in fact, have the misfortune to turn up at the exact wrong moment to catch the reveals bug on the 24th, so I saw the identity of my gift-writer, although as they were someone that I only had the vaguest idea of having seen the name around AO3 somewhere before, it didn't really spoil anything, thankfully.

I had hoped to do some little treats, as I got on and got my fic done as soon as I could, but I moved instead. However, as I cut out one section from my assignment and posted it separately in Madness, I did technically still post a treat as well!

I wrote The Winslow Boy for [personal profile] edwardianspinsteraunt, so I was not super anonymous really, for anyone who actually looked that far, but I had a lovely time spending a month or so rewatching the film and coming up with different scenarios from their prompts and my head for a 5 + 1 Times fic. By the end, I decided, though, that the "+1" just increasingly didn't sit right with the rest, so I split it off, hence the Madness treat.

Passing Acquaintances (8985 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Catherine Winslow, Arthur Winslow, Grace Winslow, Desmond Curry
Additional Tags: 5 Times, Post-Canon, 1910s, World War I, Trains, London, Smoking, Politics, Cars, Suffragettes, Yuletide, Edwardian Period
Summary: Five ways Catherine and Sir Robert might have met again, after the trial.

Some writerly blathering )

I wanted to include the Winslows lose the case AU if I could, as I knew [personal profile] edwardianspinsteraunt was keen on that idea - and as I thought would it might rather put paid to any Catherine/Robert, at least for quite some time, it fitted well into the format as the "one time they didn't" (meet again) (although never at any point was that categorical). It did work out well and was maybe the most Rattigan section in the end, I thought, so I had to post it even after I cut it. (Although had I realised sooner I was going to set it loose alone, I'd have found a way to make the start a little less in media res, although tbf, it's an unlikely one to appeal to anyone who doesn't know canon).

Anyway, here it is:

and watch the things you gave your life to broken (2799 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Catherine Winslow, Desmond Curry, Arthur Winslow, Violet (Winslow Boy), Dickie Winslow, Robert Morton (Winslow Boy)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, 1910s, Edwardian Period, The Winslows lose the case, Yuletide Treat
Summary: The Winslows lose the case.

With the usual thanks to [personal profile] persiflage for the beta!! <3<3<3

25 recs in 18 fandoms

Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:23 am
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Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Floris (TV), The Court Jester, Piranesi, Miss Marple, Dragonriders of Pern, Lord Peter Wimsey, Columbo, The Princess Bride, The Secret Garden, Chalet School, The Goblin Emperor, Irn Bru Snowman Ads, Dark Is Rising Sequence, Murdle, Tiny Bookshop & Untitled Goose Game, Flower Fairies, Baby Shoes Never Worn. Here, at my blog.

4 Yuletide Recs

Jan. 1st, 2026 03:14 pm
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[personal profile] geri_chan posting in [community profile] yuletide
 I posted recs for 4 Yuletide (and Madness) fics over on my blog for Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels, Breach Wars) and the Singing Hills Cycle over on my blog. Breach Wars is not yet categorized on AO3 and not showing up in the fandoms list, so please go check out those fics if you're an Ilona Andrews fan!

Yuletide 2025 Wrap-Up

Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:14 am
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
End of Event
We have revealed creator names at the main 2025 collection and the 2025 Madness collection. (Reveals seems to be working as intended - fingers crossed!) The New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection will shortly open for posting. The structured parts of this year's event are over - but you can keep posting recs at [community profile] yuletide and commenting on works to let their creators know you enjoyed them.

Please comment!

Please check that you have commented on any gifts you received - you can search on your username at the Yuletide 2025 collection, or the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection, or check your own personal AO3 gifts page. We understand not everyone can comment immediately due to late-December commitments or unforeseen events, but please comment when you can to acknowledge the gifts you requested. Comments and kudos on other Yuletide works are also very welcome.

Thank you from mods and team
Thank you to everyone who took part in Yuletide 2025: writers, requesters, betas, pinch hitters, community coordinators, chatters, hippos and the hippo pool.

Thank you from mods to the tagmod team: these are the assistants who research and process tags, proofread announcements, brainstorm author questions, contribute specific fandom knowledge, check stories, and discuss how to solve problems.

We look forward to running Yuletide again in 2026!

And now
There's a reveals post up at the participant community, if you want to chat about your writing process now that you can.

New stories can be posted to the New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection.

Feedback
As always, general feedback is welcome!

This year, we increased the nominations allowance from 4 fandoms to 5 fandoms. Since that worked okay, we anticipate continuing that next year.

We introduced a limited Do-Not-Match system. That was manageable so we're interested in repeating the same process next year - though it's possible it could grow beyond our capacity, so we don't want to guarantee it indefinitely.

We changed the deadline time and the reveals times. Those changes were based on mod availability, and it was really helpful to us to have multiple mods awake at the point of deadline and reveals. We'll need to base future deadline and reveals times on that priority, but since that isn't the only factor making deadlines and reveal times effective, we're interested to hear feedback too.

Next Yuletide, we may review franchise rules to make sure we're being consistent and fair. We may also specifically review rules for music videos.

As requested by a participant, we will also be adding a section to our rules on AO3 listing what you can expect from the mod team’s communications and conduct. We have had an internal Code of Conduct for several years but agree it would be helpful to share a public version.

Again, feedback on these or other topics is also welcome.

Thank you for helping to make Yuletide 2025 a wonderful event.


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Yuletide 2025 Reveals Posts

Jan. 2nd, 2026 10:11 am
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[personal profile] morbane posting in [community profile] yuletide
Thank you for all the work that went in to the Yuletide 2025 collection and event.

Now that author names have been revealed at the main Yuletide 2025 and Yuletide Madness 2025 collections, it's traditional for people to share thoughts on what they made this year. Maybe you want to write a post on your own social media (Dreamwidth or other) about your thoughts during canon consumption, your false starts, your research rabbit holes - please link it here! Or maybe you'd like to comment directly with much shorter thoughts. There's room for options in between, too.

See past posts at the reveals tag.

Recs for my gifts

Jan. 1st, 2026 07:02 pm
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[personal profile] kahvi_kat posting in [community profile] yuletide

A few recs for my gifts here - Blackwell Series, Jeeves & Wooster, and Fantastic Four: First Steps:

https://www.tumblr.com/norwegianpornfaerie/804561142003499008/yuletide-recs?source=share

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[personal profile] liadt
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I bring fic:)

Title: The Hero Goes Back Into The Mountains (14,110 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: 雪之丞変化 | An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Rating: Teen
Categories: Gen
Characters: Nakamura Yukinojo, Nakamura Kikunojo, Yamitaro, Ohatsu, Various OCs.

Additional tags: can be read as pre-ship Yukinojo/Yamitaro, Ohatsu makes some phobic comments and so does a random monk, everything sorts itself out eventually, references to death and canon death, References to Child Prostitution, physical child abuse, Brief Ableism,
References to Suicide and Mental Illness, references to domestic abuse, Post-Canon

Summary: Yukinojo finds an out of the way monastery, but will becoming a monk free him from his life of pain?


Notes; Cheery summary and tags for a happy ending fic(!).
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 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?
 

A handful of recs

Jan. 1st, 2026 11:53 pm
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Recs for KJ Charles' England series, Utopia Avenue, Soulmate Goose AU, LEGO Botanical Garden and LEGO Natural History Museum, The Long Walk, Oxford Time Travel Universe, Dredge, and Miss Marple, here at my dreamwidth.

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