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mcu15 is a prompt table challenge focused on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.elasticella is running sapphic stocking stuffers, a multifandom multimedia f/f gifting event where you post your own "stocking" and fill others requests. Sign-ups are open until December 6th and fills are open until Dec 31st. rarefemslashexchange (:D :D :D), a fic/art exchange for rare f/f ships (less than 250 works, complete, in English, using the otp:true filter), is accepting nominations until December 10th, 10PM PST. polyamships is running Pass That Blorbo: Holiday Edition, a prompt challenge where you try to figure out how to pass that blorbo in as many ways as possible. Sign-ups are open until December 19th, 8:00PM (GMT-4). Blood Drive is an event encouraging people to donate blood, plasma, or other blood products, register as a donor for bone marrow, organs, research, or other donor programs, and/or facilitating a blood drive by volunteering, organizing, or other kinds of help. If you do those things in December or January, you can leave a prompt to be claimed. :)
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Why don't humans hiberate?
Dec. 1st, 2025 09:10 amkantayraPersonally, I feel that hibernation would be a proportionate and excellent response to winter existing. I was very not prepared (mentally) for the snow last week. 😕 Also, I'm very out of shape because shoveling was harder on my back than usual. Usually, I get tired from the first shoveling, but it's a good sort of tired. This was just a painful sort of tired, blech. However, on the brighter side, I believe I'm now prepped for all my skating exhibitions next week! I will be very happy when those are over and done with (and the synchro competition the week after). Then I can properly devolve into a slug or maybe some sort of jellyfish. I have almost two whole weeks off at the end of the year, and I fully anticipate that I will merge with the soft sofa cushions during that period and become even more useless than usual.
But enough of my whining! Here is fandom stuff:
November Totals: 247k for the year so far - only 3k from my 250k goal, which I still think I will make, even though November was my lowest wordcount of any month so far this year. I have 92 works revealed so far, but am definitely over 100 with works not yet revealed.
Goals for this week: 1) Sooooooooooo much editing for FIAB! 💀 2) Finish my Yuletide assignment. 3) Catch up with BNHA. 4) Read more of The Deer and the Cauldron. 5) Read more Dear Door, as the mood strikes me.
But enough of my whining! Here is fandom stuff:
- Exchanges due in November/December (fffx, ficinabox part deux, yuletide_admin + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future sign-ups): I'm still at 5/7 (see above, RE: useless slug), but I'm making some good progress on my YT assignment! My goal this week is to get that done and posted. And then FIAB is revealing this weekend, so I have a boatload of editing to do for that, which I've already started.
- Exchanges that will go into 2026: au5k & highadrenalineexchange. I did not nominate for AU5K, but a bunch of other people did for things that are relevant to my interests. That's definitely an exchange where I'll wait and see what prompts are up, because I am super finicky about AUs - so finicky, in fact, that I'm more inclined to treat than to sign-up myself.
- Nope, nothing new on Femslash Salad Bar...
- BNHA: I've started catching up on S8, and OMFG Bakugo is SO PRETTY in 8x03! And Deku didn't even get to see most of it! 🥺 Truly, that episode is a treasure for me personally, lol. Hoping to finish my catch-up this week.
- I can now reveal some of my habits which were top-secret because I was angling for PHs, but ultimately I didn't pick them up. Starting off with: Felvidek! Holy shit, this game was so much fun! It is pretty much the congealed essence of "nerdy grad students procrastinating on writing their dissertations" and if that's not how that game was initially created, I will be genuinely surprised. I had so much fun with this! Short enough that I didn't get frustrated (there is a reason I have relatively few video-game fandoms, lol), and I loved all the characters. I may end up writing for this some time in the future, because I really loved it. My only complaint is that now I want a random video game of my historical era of study, goddammit! This should be a requirement for every graduate program, post-haste!
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - I did, indeed, finish this, with time to spare. And it was...okay? I have to say, I didn't love it. Definitely not as enjoyable as Piranesi, to my tastes, at least. It had that aura about it that some books do where 90% of the humor is deliberately designed so that no one who is not British will enjoy it. And I didn't really like the magic or magical system much, and none of the characters did anything for me. It dithered about in the Napoleonic Wars for way too long, too. It did start to pick up after page 1200 (lol, there is a "recommendation" for you!), and the ending was better than the beginning. But, all in all, it was very 'meh' to me. Oh well!
- I can now reveal that the undisclosed thing I'm currently reading is The Deer and the Cauldron by Louis Cha - I can reveal this because it is very, very long and thus I was not able to pick up the PH associated with it in time. I'm currently on Ch13 (of 50 - they are LONG chapters, lol). This is an older novel, and I'm mixed on it. On the one hand, the good parts are REALLY good: There's a lot of really funny political commentary in there, and I really like the notion of a main character in wuxia novel who sucks at martial arts, is not a cultivator, and instead gets through solely by trickery, lies, back-stabbing, and luck. On the other hand, I'm starting to get into the "harem-building" sections and, whoa boy, is this some sexist bullshit! It's pretty hard to stomach at times, which is unfortunate. It's exactly the sort of thing SVSSS is making fun of with PIDW, lol, which is one of the things getting me through it. I am all there for the convoluted ways Wei Xiaobao becomes the leader of, like, every single opposing political sect all at once, mmkay? Can we just stick to that and ignore the harem stuff? (No, no, we can't.) Anyway, this is currently my reading focus!
- Dear Door - When I have time, I'm still reading a chapter here and there on this.
November Totals: 247k for the year so far - only 3k from my 250k goal, which I still think I will make, even though November was my lowest wordcount of any month so far this year. I have 92 works revealed so far, but am definitely over 100 with works not yet revealed.
Goals for this week: 1) Sooooooooooo much editing for FIAB! 💀 2) Finish my Yuletide assignment. 3) Catch up with BNHA. 4) Read more of The Deer and the Cauldron. 5) Read more Dear Door, as the mood strikes me.
Original Fic: Tribute
Nov. 30th, 2025 06:45 pmkat_lair***
Title: Tribute
Author:kat_lair
Pairing: OFC/OMC implied, Female Conquering General/Male War Tribute
Tags: Pre-Relationship, Power Imbalance, Rituals
Rating: T
Word count: 2,059
Summary: Ardel hated this part the most. Alright, maybe a little less than the obligatory executions, but honestly, not that much.
Author notes: Written as afandomgiftbasket gift for the_paradigm for 'conquering warlady/tribute' + 'age difference' prompts.
Tribute on AO3
( Tribute )
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Title: Tribute
Author:
kat_lair Pairing: OFC/OMC implied, Female Conquering General/Male War Tribute
Tags: Pre-Relationship, Power Imbalance, Rituals
Rating: T
Word count: 2,059
Summary: Ardel hated this part the most. Alright, maybe a little less than the obligatory executions, but honestly, not that much.
Author notes: Written as a
fandomgiftbasket gift for the_paradigm for 'conquering warlady/tribute' + 'age difference' prompts.Tribute on AO3
( Tribute )
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SGA Fic: Protector
Nov. 29th, 2025 10:35 amkat_lair***
Title: Protector
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Evan Lorne/John Sheppard
Tags: Alternate Universe - Werecreatures, Pre-Slash, Power Dynamics, Military Ranks
Rating: T
Word count: 2,248
Summary:
fandomgiftbasket gift for logans_girl2001. I was struck by the idea which however turned out to be far too expansive to really do justice for. So what you have a is more of a start or a tease of a larger story I can make no promises about delivering. But hopefully hit the recipient's love for Were AUs and arranged marriage (of sorts) nonetheless... Unbetaed so if anyone spots a typo or mistake, please let me know.
Protector on AO3
( Protector )
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Title: Protector
Author:
kat_lair Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Evan Lorne/John Sheppard
Tags: Alternate Universe - Werecreatures, Pre-Slash, Power Dynamics, Military Ranks
Rating: T
Word count: 2,248
Summary:
Author notes: Written as aJohn’s government assigned Protector arrives to Atlantis within a week of them re-establishing the connection to Earth. Only the high-ranking personnel warrant one, and since Sumner and his Protector both died and John had become the military leader of the expedition by default and bad luck, he apparently qualified now. He’d thought about fighting the order but both Elizabeth and Rodney had told him not to bother, because ultimately, he would either lose the argument or lose the command, there was no middle ground here.
So, along with supplies and guns and field rations and new personnel arrives one Major Evan Lorne, level three Protector.
Werecoyote.
fandomgiftbasket gift for logans_girl2001. I was struck by the idea which however turned out to be far too expansive to really do justice for. So what you have a is more of a start or a tease of a larger story I can make no promises about delivering. But hopefully hit the recipient's love for Were AUs and arranged marriage (of sorts) nonetheless... Unbetaed so if anyone spots a typo or mistake, please let me know. Protector on AO3
( Protector )
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love is all around... or something?
Nov. 28th, 2025 05:40 pmkat_lair***
Ngl I could do with some love this year, midlife crisis is exhausting
✨ holiday love meme 2025 ✨
my thread here
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Ngl I could do with some love this year, midlife crisis is exhausting
my thread here
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Drabble - Choice
Nov. 28th, 2025 05:36 pmkat_lair***
Title: Choice
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Pairing: Gretel/Hansel
Tags: Drabble, Sibling Incest, Dark Magic
Rating: T
Word count: 100
Summary: It happens so slowly that Hansel can almost convince himself not to notice anything.
Author notes: #5fandomgiftbasket drabble for pushkin666
Choice on AO3
( Choice )
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Title: Choice
Author:
kat_lair Fandom: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Pairing: Gretel/Hansel
Tags: Drabble, Sibling Incest, Dark Magic
Rating: T
Word count: 100
Summary: It happens so slowly that Hansel can almost convince himself not to notice anything.
Author notes: #5
fandomgiftbasket drabble for pushkin666 Choice on AO3
( Choice )
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BU/Watcher Drabble: Awkward
Nov. 27th, 2025 09:34 pmkat_lair***
Title: Awkward
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Buzzeed Unsolved/Watcher Entertainment
Pairing: Shane/Ryan
Tags: Drabble, Demon Shane Madej
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: “Well, this is awkward.”
Author notes: #4fandomgiftbasket drabble for pushkin666
Awkward on AO3
( Awkward )
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Title: Awkward
Author:
kat_lair Fandom: Buzzeed Unsolved/Watcher Entertainment
Pairing: Shane/Ryan
Tags: Drabble, Demon Shane Madej
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: “Well, this is awkward.”
Author notes: #4
fandomgiftbasket drabble for pushkin666 Awkward on AO3
( Awkward )
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The Hobbit Drabble: Together
Nov. 26th, 2025 09:05 pmkat_lair***
Title: Together
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: The Hobbit
Pairing: Fili/Kili
Tags: Drabble, Gen or Pre-Slash, Codependeny
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: Fili tries to make his brother stay behind.
Author notes: #3fandomgiftbasket drabble for pushkin666
( Together )
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Title: Together
Author:
kat_lair Fandom: The Hobbit
Pairing: Fili/Kili
Tags: Drabble, Gen or Pre-Slash, Codependeny
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: Fili tries to make his brother stay behind.
Author notes: #3
fandomgiftbasket drabble for pushkin666 ( Together )
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