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Got some archiving done! I'm still a couple of weeks behind but, like, have you seen the last couple of weeks?

I'm trying to get better at picking at things when I have a few spare minutes, instead of feeling like I need a block of time to code/write/whatever.

The Lemonade Cafe's twenty-third (whut?!) anniversary is somewhere in the next couple of weeks. Looking back, it's traditionally been celebrated between the 30th of January and the 7th of February, so it's very much an anniversary week and not a firm date. This is basically because the original site was coded for a class project for a one-credit web-dev class I took my last semester of university. Once the class was over and the site (a fairly general KH site, tbh) graded, I promptly swapped it over to hosting the fanfiction I'd been writing for an entire month at that point.

I don't actually have any anniversary plans so um, help me make some?

Current gunpla/plamo kit is [redacted] for a contest so mostly all I can yell about is glitter and rhinestones, lol.

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Our new challenge is:

SECOND CHANCES

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Sunday, February 1st. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work for creator and fandom. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

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The Sock challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

子非鱼 (Zi Fei Yu): Fanfic: imagine a life (but surely hell), by

bluedreaming
Torchwood: Fanfic: Return Of The Living Socks, by

badly_knitted
Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: Four Socks, by

smallhobbit
S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Couldn't Wait, by

darkjediqueen
The Legend of Korra: Fanart: Put A Sock In It, by

infinitum_noctem
Torchwood: Fanfic: Bruised ego, by

m_findlow
Due South: Fanfiction: The Mysterious Affair of the Missing Socks, by

lucy_roman
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Fanfic: A Nice Pair of Socks, by

alexcat
no fandom : icons : Dreamy Socks, by

highlander_ii
Guardian: meta: The SID as Sock Patterns, by

teaotter
The Running Man: Fanfic: A Long Walk in Wet Socks, by

saxloch
Heated Rivalry: Fanfic: A Thousand Pairs of Socks, by

seeyouontheice
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Mismatched, by

veronyxk84

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Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

The Community Report and Creator Report will be updated shortly with the entries from this round. See our FAQ for more details.

New challenge coming right up!

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abyssal_sylph posting in

100quadrantedships

1rst person POV poem about one-sided Porrim <> Kankri (Porrim's POV).

111 words / angry & entitled imagery

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goddess47 posting in

sweetandshort

Title: An Unexpected Discovery
Author:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagen
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 442 words
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

mcsheplets prompt #138 - missing

For

sweetandshort January 2026 prompt - queen

Summary:

"Grab your shit and go!" John ordered in a hiss.

An Unexpected Discovery on AO3

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flo_nelja

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I'm bad at this, I'm sad to be bad at fanmixes because I love them, but three songs? I can probably find three songs about Illyana Rasputin.

* Emily Jane White, Hole in the Middle
Everybody's got a little hole in the middle
Everybody does a little dance with the devil
And you know I'm evil now, and you shout it loud and proud

* Radiohead, Climbing up the walls
And either way you turn, I'll be there
Open up your skull, I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

* May and Robot Koch, Bad Kingdom
Vacuous winter stare
Worn out version of yourself
Too tough to fall
But not strong enough to turn

And just a bonus where the song globally doesn't work except for one line

* Marina and the Diamonds, Buy the Stars
Oh, we don't own our heavens now
We only own our hell
And if you don't know that by now
Then you don't know me that well

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Title: Mismatched
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spike, Giles
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S4, between eps. 4x09 “Something Blue” and 4x10 “Hush”.
Summary: Spike pranks Giles out of boredom.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #503 - Sock

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( READ: Mismatched/Double drabble )

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seeyouontheice posting in

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Title: A Thousand Pairs of Socks
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Length: 450 words
Author notes: fluff in a flash (busy week so about 40 mins!)
Summary: Shane learns something new

( A Thousand Pairs of Socks )

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Current Mood: excited

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spikedluv posting in

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I can't believe it's almost the end of January already! There’s just about 12 days left to get your fanwork submission or pimp posted this round! (Or make another claim. *g*) Good luck!

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This is my first time posting here, hope I'm doing it right

Fandom: The Pitt

Pairings/Characters: Mel King/Frank Langdon

Rating: Explicit

Length: 15,986

Creator Links: Lirazel on Ao3, lirazel

Theme: Crack treated seriously, (not really) unrequited love, (something) made them do it, sex pollen

Summary:

There are all kinds of protocols in place to prevent this sort of thing, but of course they mean exactly nothing when faced with the reality of emergency medicine.

Frank and Trinity both complain that Mel has no sense of self-preservation, but she’s actually a very careful and responsible person. Despite what they say, she never puts herself in danger if she can help it, she feels that she makes level-headed decisions even under pressure, and even if she usually finds people hard to read, she’s read The Gift of Fear and is pretty sure she can tell when someone has actually malicious intent.

Pretty sure until, with no warning at all, a patient—Griffin Jackson, white male, 27, complaining of chest pains—pulls out a tiny jar of neon-yellow powder and pops off the top.

Reccer's note: This is a classic fandom trope (sex pollen) treated seriously. Mel and Frank are just co-workers in canon, but in canon it's obvious they have a connection and this fic explores how much they might grow to mean to each other, and it does so while keeping them (and all other characters that appear) tremendously in character. The sex is, of course, very hot too. :D And the fic also does consent right!

Fanwork Links: i want to be the one patrolling your border

Mods, we need a tag for The Pitt and the pairing too maybe, please? Thank you.

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Snowflake Challenge #5: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

I am perpetually horrible at this, but here goes....

Free Things
- book recs - bonus points if I can get it thru the QLL. I read mostly SFF, though I'm willing to go broad for really well-told queer romance
- music recs - songs/artists that make you happy! I listen broadly (despite my focus in Kpop lately), so unless it's BTS, throw it at me 😜
- dive into my AO3 -

Selah - and if you see I've written in a fandom that interests you, give a read and a comment

Not Free Things
Wife maintains a whole host of wishlists via linktree here, including one just for me (Jagu) and one for the kitties.
... or, you know, if someone in the area wanted to come over with a pickup and/or some sort of trailer to haul off a load of trash (long story), that would be awesome.

I'd also put down joining my Patreon/KoFi and/or buying my original fiction, but I'm ... very behind on getting that situation updated thanks to the raging dumpster fire that has been my life lately, so, uh, yeah. But if you wanna.... Patreon, Ko-Fi. Publishing original fiction again IS on my list for the year, but, well. Everything on fire.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: ENHYPEN - Bite Me

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catness

Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT.

I love pixel art and retro games. I'm posting a bunch of my old piccies drawn during my attempt at a Pixel Art Daily challenge. (Now I'm learning in a more organized way.)

( a bunch of images under cut )

Current Mood: nostalgic

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mific posting in

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Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Cliff Marleau, Connors
Rating: Mature
Length: 5144
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. Descriptions of illness, choking, vomiting.
Creator Links: Ragazza_Guasto on AO3
Themes: Crack treated seriously, Pining, Getting back together, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, Angst with a happy ending

Summary: “Can you believe it? How the hell did he end up bagging her?”

Ilya stared, brain not comprehending what his body already seemed to, that Hollander was dating-

“Rose fuckin’ Landry! How does the lamest guy in the League-”

He knew that smile. He thought it was for him, just for him. But it wasn't.

“No,” he whispered. His stomach spasmed.

“You good, Roz?”

Why would he- How could he-

They were holding hands…

“Rozanov? What the fuck?”

He jumped up from the table and stumbled for the front door, just barely making it through before the first mass of petals came up. He heaved as he ran, trying desperately to get away from the pavement, somewhere he could hide what was happening.

Unfortunately, his teammates had followed, because of course they would. He saw a photo of Shane Hollander holding hands with a movie star and promptly threw up.

Who wouldn't be curious?

Reccer's Notes: Hanahaki disease, where a sufferer of unrequited love starts bringing up flowers, has to be one of the crackiest tropes ever. In this story Ilya develops Hanahaki after seeing the pics of Shane going out with Rose Landry. But it's not some gently romantic fluttering of petals from his lips, it's bloodily bringing up a hard, painful tulip bulb, then more flowers, more bulbs. I guess the trope always has a potentially serious outcome (death vs requited love) but to me the "treated seriously" aspects here are the medical details and treatment, the painful and unromantic way the disease affects Ilya, and the way the fic cleverly incorporates his family history, via his mother. Ilya gets very sick indeed before Shane finds out, with inevitable results. Well written, and a great read.

Fanwork Links: All I Do is Stay Winning
All I Do is Stay Winning (podfic by sd_ryan)

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Fandom: Transformers (Bay Movies)
Pairings/Characters: Bumblebee/Ironhide
Rating: Not Rated (I’m going to say Teen And Up; this is brazen steaming erotica, but performed in terms that circumvent meat-centric censorship laws.)
Length: ~800
Content Notes: Alien biology, fusion as relationship, Pervy Human Fancying, size difference, transformation kink
Creator Links: (AO3)

crimsonclad; (LJ)

crimsonclad

Theme: Crack Treated Seriously, Pre-AO3 Works, Rare Pairings, Robots, Androids & AI, Worldbuilding, Xeno/Alien Biology

Summary: It was many years since Bumblebee had taken a lover, and as he looked up at Ironhide, he could feel his body trembling. "What do you think we will become?"

Ironhide smiled, and the familiar metallic sound of that motion made Bumblebee shiver. "I don't know, 'Bee. But I can't wait to find out."

Author’s Notes: Perhaps I am more comfortable writing porn with no recognizable gonads????

Reccer's Notes:

Bumblebee's first partner-- so long ago-- had been a sweet thing, and the result of their coupling-- a windmill, turning lazily in the winds of Cybertron-- had been as gentle and solid as their relationship. Once, in the later days of the war, Bumblebee had thrown caution to the wind and mated with an old friend turned traitor, temporary truce formed through their mutual desperation. The result had been a ravenous sawmill, capable of churning through any kind of metal. The sheer power had been intoxicating, but afterward, Bumblebee had felt empty, used. Lonely.

But so many years later, curving up against Ironhide's warm bulk, he knew this would be different. He knew they couldn't help but become something wonderful.

This is another fandom where I scarcely go (and therefore don’t know how common this trope is), but transformation and fusion here become an ecstatic discovery in ways that anticipate Steven Universe. (And don’t miss the avalanche of gleeful bawdy squee in the comments!)

Fanwork Links: WHAT. WHAT., by

crimsonclad on LiveJournal.

Current Music: “Love Rollercoaster”

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Five plastic robot models stand around a brown table piles with books, games, a map, drinks, and more. The group includes the pale grey 30 Minute Fantasy Priest, the dark grey 30 Minute Missions Horse, green SD Dynames, white HG Calibarn, and pink RG Justice. They are playing Lindwyrm, a real game.

They need a few more accessories and a more permanent location but here's the gaming group!

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saxloch posting in

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Title: A Long Walk in Wet Socks
Author:

saxloch
Fandom: The Running Man (2025)
Characters: Ben Richards, Evan McCone
Rating: Teen & Up
Length: 748 words
Content Notes: Non-graphic mentions of death of a child
Summary: After escaping the network, Ben is left with nobody--aside from his attempted killer.

( A Long Walk in Wet Socks )

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teaotter posting in

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Title: The SID as Sock Patterns
Fandom: Guardian
Challenge: Sock
Note: contains links to Ravelry sock patterns

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highlander_ii posting in

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Title: Dreamy Socks
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of socks! all of the images are from SockDreams

( Dreamy Socks )

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alexcat posting in

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Title:A Nice Pair of Socks
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 575
Content notes: None
Author notes: I think I may have gone mad.
Summary: Tony's dress socks keep going missing.

( A Nice Pair of Socks )

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teaotter in fan_flashworks - Challenge 504: Second Chances
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