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Description: ygorarepairs is a mini bang event that focuses on rare pair ships for all Yugioh series (including crossovers), open to writers, artists, and image & video editors.

This year's mini bang is in regular bang order. Authors have drafted fics for their chosen rare pair. Artists will claim at least 1 fic to use as inspiration for fanart. Partners will collaborate and share their fanworks together during the posting period for this event. Please read our specifications page for more details about expectations for event works.

Claims for the 2025-2026 mini bang are open!

Artists can see summaries and complete the claim submission form here:
https://docs.getgrist.com/forms/nmJe1ZZzHoDu1qWfkKNGeM/10

Dates (see Schedule for more info):

~~Signups: Nov 1-Nov 30 (writers may start immediately)~~
~~Check-in #1 (writers only): Dec 21-23~~
~~Check-in #2 (writers with claim pitch): Jan 30-Feb 1~~
Claims: Feb 2-6
Claims assigned: Feb 7/8
Artist WIP share: Feb 20-21
Check-in #3 (all participants): Mar 6-7
Posting prep: Mar 12-14
Posting: Mar 15-Apr 4

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There are six pinch hits available, four new and two recurring. They will be due at the same time as assignments, on February 6th, 10PM PST. [Countdown] [In Your Timezone]

To claim a pinch hit, you can comment on this post (comments are screened) with your AO3 username and the pinch hit # that you want or you can reach out via email at rarefemslashexchangemod@gmail.com. While you can comment anonymously, please remember that you won't be able to get notified or see the reply.

If you are a pinch hitter who hasn't signed up for the exchange or someone who would like to treat a pinch hitter, there is now a post for Pinch Hitter Prompts.

( Pinch Hit #5 (fic): Psychonauts (Video Games), Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Dragon Ball, Tekken (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) )

( Pinch Hit #6 (fic): 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, Cage of Roses (Visual Novel), Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game) )

( Pinch Hit #15 (fic): Alien Stage (Web Series), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Nana (Anime & Manga), 凸变英雄X | To Be Hero X (Cartoon), 时光代理人 | Link Click (Cartoon), Death Note (Anime & Manga), 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù )

( Pinch Hit #16 (fic, art): Girls5eva (TV), Roswell New Mexico (TV 2019), Stranger Things (TV 2016), Ted Lasso (TV), We Are Lady Parts (TV) )

( Pinch Hit #17 (fic, art): Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game), Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Stardew Valley (Video Game), True Detective (TV 2014), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Doctor Who (2005) )

( Pinch Hit #18 (fic, art): Original Work, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Pluribus (TV 2025), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, DCU (Comics), Stardew Valley (Video Game), Baldur's Gate (Video Games) )

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One of my goals for this year is to crosspost my fics to dreamwidth; at least a good portion of them, if I have time. Revisions of older fics are going to have to wait, but I can get started on the few fics I've written in 2026 so far. And without further ado...

Title: communion.
Fandom: Pluribus (TV 2025).
Pairing: Carol Sturka/The Hivemind.
Summary: written for the prompt: "any, any F/F, i want to fucking tear you apart." in the Three Sentence Ficathon.
Word count: 100.

"I want to fucking tear you apart"

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We want you open —like a flower whose petals desperately seek the warmth of the sun; like the loud pop of a yogurt's lid, then licked clean; like a patient's skull drilled into after the skin has been carefully split apart with a scalpel.

We want you bare, naked; no barriers, no disguises, no secrets allowed between us, all of you stripped and raw —your memories your drive your joy your pleasure your gift— made ours, one turning into many, into one whole; finally walking and thinking and feeling in perfect synchronicity, a fertile wedlock.

Please, Carol: we want you.

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correcting things people think they know about history, you'll soon learn that a perennial topic is "Yes, people drank water in Medieval Europe", followed closely by "They took baths too!" And yeah, they drank a lot of ale and wine... but people today drink a lot of alcohol too, and for much the same reason - we like it! Or if we don't like alcohol we like soda, or coffee, or tea.

People in the middle ages did understand that some water was safe to drink and some wasn't, and they went through considerable lengths to bring clean, potable water to their towns. Not that most of them lived in towns, but in this case, living further from town is a bonus. Less people = less poop.

(Also, while there are other waterborne illnesses, cholera in particular didn't leave India until the 1800s, well into the modern period. I'm not sure it even existed prior to 1817. Please stop telling me earnestly about Snow and cholera in London. Totally different time period, totally different situation, totally irrelevant.)

Anyway, this just popped up on my feed yet again today, and it suddenly sparked a question in my head:

If people supposedly didn't drink water because they didn't want to get sick, what did their animals drink? Surely nobody thinks that medieval peasants were giving their cows and pigs ale? Or do they think that non-human animals are so hardy that they aren't at risk of waterborne illness? Or maybe that people just didn't care if their animals died, like every sheep isn't wealth, or at least a source of food and wool?

(I'm willing to bet that nobody has an answer to this question, but that if I ever ask them, should it come up in the wild, they'll be annoyed at me!)

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I'm grabbing this tag game from tumblr, where I was tagged by a couple of friends ^-^

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Tag as many people as you have WIPs. People can send an ask with the title(s) that most intrigue them, then you post a snippet or tell them about it!

I used this as an excuse to pare-down my WIP list, something I've meant to do since the beginning of the year. It's err. Still sizeable lol, so here I've made a shorter selection featuring stories I do have more material for and/or hope to be able to finish in 2026. Though honestly, this year I'll be more about drabbles/short form/prompts and inspiration as it comes than about WIPs.

8 + 11 - 🇨🇳
Amnesiac Jason
Damon & Elena, Marriage of Doom
Desperate Housewives/Supernatural crossover
Dusteve & co in the 00s
Echoven in the Ark
Five women Cassandra Cain slept with after breaking up with The Love of Her Life
Jaymia ft. wiggly knife
No Death in the Family pt. I
SilverMax Russian Doll AU

Feel free to 1) ask me about any of these, and/or 2) make a WIP list yourself and let me know about it in the comments!

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kalira

I got a good start on smallening the Pile in January!

I did also finish off several things that were easy/short finishes, so probably I won't have another month with quite so many finished up!

Finished this month: 9 projects
Finished from The Pile: 4 projects

I also struck 1 item from The Pile . . . it was something technically hanging around waiting for the last bit of detail - non-crochet work. From last February. And frankly I just decided I didn't give enough of a damn to want to do that at all actually, so I dropped it from even hibernating.

. . .and next month I think I'll note down what the projects are, too, because I knocked myself off count and had to recalculate a couple times early on, and now I'm trying to remember what all I finished and confusing myself.

Anyway! I finished a shijimi bag, which literally just needed the handles stitched on (mentioned that talking about another project), a wash cloth with words (LOVE IS LOVE), a project making gigantic fish toys which are the most flingable things I've ever crocheted, and a cat stitch practise swatch.

( two of the finished from Pile projects )

I also started and finished . . . well I threw together a chain for a fidget pendant (traded for/bought it at a holiday market I had a table at in December); a literal crochet chain. XD It's heavy and I don't have any necklace chains long enough and heavy-duty enough for it; I used some black cotton. Technically a project, but . . . not much of one.

Also started and finished a net market bag, and what amounts to a kitchen washcloth/scrubby. I was having a very upset time - got a bad news phone call literally the moment I parked at the library to go in for a yarn crafting hangout - and decided I was too stressed and preoccupied to work on what I had planned to while I was there, but of course I did go in anyway, so. . . I had a skein of the red cotton I'm using to make a set of washcloths for my kitchen - however . . . I distractedly used a 3.5mm hook, the smallest one I had with me. The set is being made with a 5.5mm hook. I realised on the second or third row, but decided to go with it anyway. Made a quite tight, thickly-worked piece, nubby because it's moss stitch, just worked super snugly. So an accidental but technically a new project.

I did also start this!

I'm not calling it a new project because I had one in hibernation that was . . . this blanket.

( more blanket details )

So at current numbers:

Active WIPs: 20
(Subset that are market batches: 14)
Hibernating: 6

Total projects (complete, WIPs, everything): 141

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Resident Evil: Retribution

conuly

when all you say is "Listen, it's not true that you can't know how to pronounce an unfamiliar word by looking at it, there are rules that will work with a high degree of accuracy".

And every time, sooner or later somebody or other will condescend to tell me that if I'd only phrased it better, they would've listened to what I was saying. It's not the message, it's the way I said that that caused these people to think I was calling them stupid.

None of those people will ever give me the magically better words they think will remedy this problem, though I do ask every single time people suggest it to me, and honestly, I don't think there are any. I think the problem is that people don't want to hear the message at all. If you say "You ought to have been taught these rules in childhood" then they feel ashamed for not knowing something basic and obvious, and even if you don't say it but just mention that rules exist they feel stupid, and then either way they blame you for making them feel bad.

And since that's the case, I don't really see the need to trouble myself too much over my phrasing. Actually, bizarre as it is, I've found that trying harder to be bland and conciliatory is likely to make the situation worse.

But I may as well open it up to other people. Do you have the magic words?

(Note: I don't have any spelling or reading curriculum that are designed for self-study by adult learners who can already read and write pretty well but who struggle with spelling or sounding out unfamiliar words and claim to believe there is no method other than to guess or else memorize each word as an arbitrary collection of letters, which is most of the people I encounter in this situation because, of course, we're all posting online. However, if you're working with somebody to remediate spelling on a budget, I can recommend starting, if they have no signs of ADHD or dyslexia, with Spalding - making the modifications here - and/or Apples and Pears if they do, and then, if they still need help, moving on to Megawords. Those are highly scripted and, importantly - easy to buy on the cheap. I really don't love Spalding, I found it way too front-loaded for ADHD, plus Wanda Spalding had a lot of little personal peeves she built in if you don't use the modifications I suggested, but it's hands-down the cheapest Orton-Gillingham program you'll find for teaching reading and spelling together. Apples and Pears has an associated reading curriculum that probably also is good, but E only needed help in spelling, so I don't know.)

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This week I learned about the Golden Poppy Award! I'd never heard of it before.

The California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA) presents the 2025 Golden Poppy Awards in recognition of the most distinguished books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.

There's tons of categories, I made a direct dash to the Octavia E. Butler Award for science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Winner: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Kill the Beast by Serra Swift
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
Red City by Marie Lu

I dug into the Intergalactic Mixtape archives to see what reviewers were saying about these books, because this is one of my most favorite nerdy things to do. I had reviews for Automatic Noodle, The Night and the Moth, Notes from a Regicide, and Red City. Alas, I had none for Kill the Beast, which is interesting because it came out in October, after I had expanded my review sources. But! The mixtape is still a baby.

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