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 You've got until January 14 (that's next Wednesday!) to vote for which panels you want to see at Escapade 36!  There are lots of great suggestions, and we want you to have the programming you're most excited about, so go vote: 
https://escapadecon.net/panels/panel-voting/
 
It's a long ballot, lots of choices, and if you need a moment to study it, there's a handy pdf you can download to read before starting your vote here:
https://escapadecon.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Esc36-Panel-Ballot-Details.pdf
 
Once you're done with your ballot, start thinking about art show and vid show submissions!  Vids show deadline is February 14.
 
And don't forget our very special coupons. Introducing the Silver and Gold Friendship Sale:
 
If you bring along someone who has NEVER attended an in-person Escapade before, have them use the code EscapadeSilver36 for a discount of a whopping $75 off their ticket! Plus, we'll give YOU a coupon for $25 off next year's registration. These are some of the best discounts we've ever offered, so don't miss out! (If you are a first time attendee and you've already registered, please let us know by the end of January whether you'd rather have $75 refunded or donate it to the Escapade scholarship fund.)
 
If you haven't attended an Escapade for at least five years (that is, your last Escapade was in 2020 or earlier) use the coupon code EscapadeGold36 for a discount of $50 off your registration! If you're not sure whether you qualify, remind us of your badge name and we'll let you know. (Again, if you do qualify and you've already bought your registration, please let us know by the end of January whether you'd like the $50 refunded or donated.)
 
If you don't fit either of these categories, we love you and we haven't forgotten you! Use the code EscapadeFriends36 for a discount of $10. (This coupon is only applicable to the full priced registration cost of $150.00. If you paid $150 for your registration, let us know by the end of January whether you'd like $10 refunded or donated.)
 
All coupons are only applicable to a Full Weekend membership and they all expire at the end of January, so don't wait!
 
-Con Com
 
https://escapadecon.net/escapade-36-panel-ballot-closes-next-week-and-registration-coupons/

Warm Heart #26; Azul #25 [Starfall]

Jan. 8th, 2026 08:24 pm
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Name: Against the Flow
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #26 (Hatred); Azul 25 (No promise of salvation)
Supplies and Styles: Giftwrap
Word Count: 2960
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions of (fantasy) drug abuse.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan. Leion Valerno, Tana Veldiner, Eollan Barra, Ivina Gerro. Carries on from and your light can't guide me.
Summary: Leion is not in the mood for celebration.

Against the Flow )

Check-In Post - Jan 8th 2026

Jan. 8th, 2026 08:16 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: What are your crafting goals for 2026?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



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Title: Cultural Exchange
Author: [personal profile] goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 310 words
Warnings: none

Notes:

For [community profile] mcsheplets prompt #121 - tradition

For [community profile] sweetandshort January 2026 prompt - instrument



Summary:

John had talked Rodney into taking two days off for the Athosian solstice festival.



Cultural Exchange on AO3

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10 Products to Help You Keep Your 2026 New Year’s Resolutions

Some resolutions are infinitely easier to keep with the right tools. Each recommended tool applies to a specific resolution that it supports. Sometimes, you really can shop your way to success!
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Navigation: Rules and Info Post | 2025 Collection | Mod Contact: TavinaFanfiction@gmail.com

Pinch hits are assignments in search of a creator! We currently have 8 pinch hits due on February 15th, 2026 at 10pm EST.

Pinch hits must meet the assignment minimums (see minimums under “assignments” on the Rules and Info Post.)

In order to pick up a pinch hit either email the modmail or comment on this post (all comments on this post are screened) with:

  • The number and or username of the pinch hit you would like to pick up
  • Your ao3 username
  • An email where I can reach you
PH 1 - Inception (2010), The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008), Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies) )

PH 4 - Alan Wake (Video Games), Control (Video Game), Max Payne (Video Game) )

PH 6 - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 时光代理人 | Link Click (Cartoon), Video Blogging RPF, 気になってる人が男じゃなかった | Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta | The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All (Manga) )

PH 9 - 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming), 밤에 피는 꽃 | Knight Flower (TV), 陰陽師 | Onmyouji (Anime 2023) )

PH 10 - 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), Given (Anime), Wind Breaker - にいさとる | Nii Satoru (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), Outlast (Video Games) )

PH 13 - Monster - Urasawa Naoki (Anime & Manga), 憂国のモリアーティ | Yuukoku no Moriarty | Moriarty the Patriot (Manga), The Shadow (1994) )

PH 14 - Jumurdzsák gyűrűje | Yoomurjak's Ring (Video Game), Crossover Fandom, Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost )

PH 19 - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), The Left Handed Gun (1958), Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950), The Glass Key (1942), Formula 1 RPF )

brief note

Jan. 8th, 2026 12:36 pm
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Terminated my SFWA membership as of today (modulo administrative steps), which I wrote and requested. My contact was friendly and efficient.

I requested this for multiple reasons, of which the recent Nebula-and-AI rules change handling fiasco was only the latest. I'm done.

To sf/f writer-folk, good luck out there.

I'm running an infection and I have work to do; comments disabled.
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Title: you can coax the cold right out of me
Ratings & Warnings: Explicit
Fandom: Ember & Ice (Audio Drama)
Relationship(s): Finn Lunare/Dane Solari
Summary: The morning after the summit, feelings are confessed (again).

READ ON AO3

OR
Read more... )

2025 in Review: Media!

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:25 am
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Time to reflect a little on the media I read and watched in 2025. My reading goal for 2025 was “Reading Joyfully”. I think this worked out ok – I started out putting a lot of pressure on myself about it and stressing out, but then I backed off and used it as an excuse to think about how reading fits into my life these days.

I was somewhat hoping I could get back to really engaging with new to me SFF, and for the most part that didn’t happen. There were a couple of weeks in there where I was sleeping way better than I generally manage these days and I read several new to me books! It was great! So I think part of my problem is that I’m just not well rested enough to engage with new to me stuff very much. Which is sad, but pushing isn’t going to make me happy either.

Then after the thing with the flood damage, when the whole house was a mess, I was struggling to focus on much of anything. I ended up just reading a ton of fic, so much fic.* Which has been delightful. The comfort of the same thing again but different this time is really not appreciated enough by critics. This reading phase has been very joyful!

In 2025 I read even fewer books than I read the last several years (57) but unlike the last couple of years I don’t feel bad about it. Which was the real point of my reading joyfully goal. I’m more at peace with who I am as a reader these days and that’s really nice, even if I might never be the same kind of reader I was before the pandemic happened.

Another trend that defined my 2025 media was crossdressing girls. I love, love, love the trope of girls who disguise themselves and boys to go out into the world and do things that they wouldn’t be allowed to do. This is a trope that English language media hasn’t really been doing much with recently, but luckily for me it's popular in Asian dramas. It’s such a comfort trope for me, and I decided to really dive into this trope and watched many dramas featuring it. (And read a couple of books too)

I also continue to watch many silly Chinese reality shows, another thing that I find relaxing. Media has really was a source of comfort for me in 2025.

In terms of goals for 2026, I’m going to continue to not have a numerical goal for total books. I find those more stressful than fun. Having a theme for my media last year worked out really well though so for the first quarter of 2026 my media theme is going to be “comfort” . Then I can see I want to keep that theme or change at the end of the quarter. I also want to push myself a bit harder on reading Mandarin so I’m going to make it a goal to read six graded readers this year, which feels very doable.


*Me, very stressed out: I’ll just read this cute sounding fic in a fandom I’m not in. It will be relaxing. Me, several days, and I don’t know how many fics in that fandom latter: I guess I have a new fandom now, opps?
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Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry (s1, e1-6)

  

here @ [personal profile] sweeticedtea
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Title: Looking Forward To Most
Rating: R
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Donny gets poisoned.
Word Count: 2,873

Looking Forward To Most )

More Joy Day

Jan. 8th, 2026 11:44 am
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AO3 link | Improv for a Rainy Day (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Robinton [Dragonriders of Pern]
Additional Tags: Drabble, More Joy Day
Summary:

Prompt: Pern/Robinton/Hey kids, let's put on a show!



Improv for a Rainy Day

The rain was unending, it seemed to Robinton. Tempers were fraying, there were apprentices in mischief, and worst… the wine delivery was delayed.

Robinton looked over the packed hall, thinking of future assignments. That did not alleviate this.

"Gentlemen and ladies," he said as he rose. "I propose a challenge, for all ranks, by table! Improvisational skills on display, one and all! A demonstration of pantomime and lyrics, displaying an historic event! To be presented tomorrow at this very same time."

He saw the challenge take hold, the spark of creativity even in those who groaned, and sat back down.






AO3 link | Doctor Care (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elim Garak/Julian Bashir
Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

Prompt: DS9, Garak + Bashir (friendship or (pre)slash, you decide!), respite



Doctor Care

"How many different ways do I need to inform you that you must rest, Doctor!" Garak finally snapped, after losing count of how many times the man had gotten up to prowl for something to do.

"But — "

"No." Garak went and took him by his arm, one of his own going behind Julian's waist to escort him firmly back to the chaise lounge Garak had installed for this. "Superior or not, you need to let your body rest while the fever runs its course."

Julian sighed, settling, and Garak sat beside him, keeping close contact.

"Tell me a story?"

"Yes."

January: This and That

Jan. 8th, 2026 06:26 pm
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Welcome to our challenge This and That.

In January, the main theme is Books or Movies. Create something for a book-fandom or a movie-fandom of your choice.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems such as haiku or tanka, icons (100 x 100px), and graphics (maximum 500 x 500px).

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome. Original works and real-person works are fine, too.

Please tag your work with all relevant tags.

This challenge runs until January 31, midnight in your timezone.

:::

Challenge Reminder:
10 out of 20

January 8, 2026

Jan. 8th, 2026 12:04 pm
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I saw this on Pinterest and had a little chuckle. You can get this on sale at the link below.

hook painy by numbers


Hook paint by numbers for sale here
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Trying something a bit different for the annual Sutcliff this time.

We Lived in Drumfyvie (1975) is a series of short stories about the history of a fictional Scottish town (nothing to do with the real Fyvie in Aberdeenshire, setting of my favourite ballad), from its creation as a burgh by David I in the twelfth century to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee at the end of the nineteenth.

God, it's exhausting being Scottish, in't it? )
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That's right folks, one down, seven-ish to go! Here's a quick overview of contributions thus far:
  • 34+ Works
  • 21+ Creators
  • 26+ Fandoms
  • 8 Mediums
To say that we are incredibly thrilled with the turnout so far would be an understatement. We've had so much fun seeing, reading, and listening to all of the works you've all shared.

We are especially pleased with the diverse range of works shared here. You all have really embodied the spirit of this microbang. We couldn't be more honored that you have shared these wonderful works with us and your fellow fans.

If you haven't had a chance yet, check out our tumblr, [tumblr.com profile] bag-bang. There's some works over there that haven't been shared here or to the AO3 collection, so make sure you don't miss out!

All of that being said, a few housekeeping reminders:
  • Our FAQ is linked in our Welcome Sticky, the community sidebar, and the AO3 Collection Profile. In it are all links to all event pages, work and posting guidelines, and resources for writing image descriptions and comments. Give it a read if you haven’t yet.

  • Please make sure you're filling out the Entry Submission Form whenever you share a work. As we've said, folks are sharing works across different sites, and we don't want anyone's work to get left behind. You can find the link to the form in our FAQ, our Welcome Sticky, and in the community sidebar.

  • If you've had trouble locating the AO3 Collection, you can do so from our FAQ, our Welcome Sticky, or the community sidebar. All works posted to AO3 can be added, whether they are fic, podfic, art, or something else!

  • When it comes to tagging entries, with !needs tag or otherwise, please make sure you are doing so in the the Tags: box of the Post an Entry page. This is so we can locate all entries in need of tags rather than checking each entry.

  • Similarly, all entries should have a Subject that includes the medium and title or a brief description. You may also include fandom if you wish, as that is an important descriptor. This makes it easy for folks to view all works on a page in the community sidebar, and determine if your work may be of interest to them!

  • It is a priority that this event be made accessible for all fans, meaning that all images and gifs must include alt text and/or a description of the relevant contents of that image. We have resources for writing alt text and descriptions linked in our FAQ if you’re not sure how to go about it. You can add alt text via the Short Description box in the Image Properties pop-up in the Rich Text Editor.
Finally, we want to thank you all for joining us during this first week! We hope you're all having happy new years, and we appreciate that you're spending yours with us. We look forward to all of the lovely comments and works you share in the coming weeks. Don't forget to be curious, have fun, and above all, "be a goldfish!"

If you haven't joined us yet, and would like to, you can find our FAQ in, you guessed it, our Welcome Sticky or the community sidebar!

Snowflake Challenge #2 (2026)

Jan. 8th, 2026 04:33 pm
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Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!


We had a kitty by our mother's house, his name Cebola (means onion in Portuguese). He's fat brown tabby, lazy, but very comforting to have around. Though found out recently that our mom has an allergy to cats, but its fairly mild according to her ._.

At the place we lived at had another kitty, Bibi, who's a mostly white calico who seems to be scared of us ;_;

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