May Challenge 2025: Celebration
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The theme challenge for this month is Celebration (Please include the tag challenge: celebration when you post.) Theme challenges have to do with fic choice. Since this month's challenge is 'celebration' your story has to be related to that theme one way or another.
The shape challenge is 'A shape' (tag challenge: a shape). This should be at minimum 10 squares, ie:
OOXOO
OXOXO
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XOOOX
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Shape challenges require that you complete a specific shape of squares on your card. If you complete a shape challenge by the deadline, you’ll win a cheat. If your card already has the shape formation before the challenge starts, you can only count that challenge as completed if you fill at least one square on your card within the challenge time period.
You can pick the challenge you prefer or do both if you're feeling ambitious. Once you’ve posted the podfic required to fulfill the monthly challenge, please comment here to let us know you’ve completed the challenge.
If you complete a challenge, you earn a cheat. If none of the challenges appeal to you, you can also earn cheats by commenting on other people's podfics.
What are Cheats?
Cheats are rewards that allow participants to manipulate their cards so that they can be finished more easily. There are 2 kinds of cheats: shifting squares and swapping out squares. Shifting squares allows participants to swap locations of two squares on their card. Swapping out cheats allow you to discard one of your prompts entirely from your card and replace it with a prompt of your choosing from the Prompt List.
Fic update: Stories from June 2024-March 2025
May. 7th, 2025 11:07 pmlamardeuseYikes, it's been a minute since I posted here :( This period covers my 30th 9-1-1 fic to my 35th, holy crap! Never thought I'd still be so gone on this show after four years.
( A few 911 fics and a wild card, nearly 40,000 words total )
Yes, I slashed the Rock and Captain America. I'm not sorry.
( A few 911 fics and a wild card, nearly 40,000 words total )
Yes, I slashed the Rock and Captain America. I'm not sorry.
[Multifandom] Blackout, 2 podfics
May. 4th, 2025 12:07 amxdiorix posting in podfic_bingoTitle: Company at the Disco by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Chibifukurou
Reader:blackglass
Bingo Square(s): yuletide
Fandom: The Martian
Pairing: None, gen
Length: 8:39
Summary: Mark does NOT want to hear more disco music. It's the thing he's most sure of after he gets back aboard the Hermes.
Unfortunately his subconscious brain doesn't agree with the plan.
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply
Link to Podfic: At AO3
Title: Call Me Menace bywingedcat13
Reader:blackglass
Bingo Square(s): record original fic, using a cheat to swap in "2nd POV" for "collaborate with one or more writers" for BLACKOUT
Fandom: Original Work
Pairing: None, gen
Length: 1:04:38
Summary: You, Synovus, are a respectably terrifying supervillain. Your main rivals, a pair of superheroes named Legionnaire and Athena, are actually respectable as heroes. You hate having to stoop to kidnapping their child - but you hate more what the kid's behavior implies.
Inspired by a prompt from writing-prompt-s on tumblr, and originally posted there!
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply
Link to Podfic: At AO3
And with that, I've hit my second blackout! My card, under the cut:
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Reader:
Bingo Square(s): yuletide
Fandom: The Martian
Pairing: None, gen
Length: 8:39
Summary: Mark does NOT want to hear more disco music. It's the thing he's most sure of after he gets back aboard the Hermes.
Unfortunately his subconscious brain doesn't agree with the plan.
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply
Link to Podfic: At AO3
Title: Call Me Menace by
Reader:
Bingo Square(s): record original fic, using a cheat to swap in "2nd POV" for "collaborate with one or more writers" for BLACKOUT
Fandom: Original Work
Pairing: None, gen
Length: 1:04:38
Summary: You, Synovus, are a respectably terrifying supervillain. Your main rivals, a pair of superheroes named Legionnaire and Athena, are actually respectable as heroes. You hate having to stoop to kidnapping their child - but you hate more what the kid's behavior implies.
Inspired by a prompt from writing-prompt-s on tumblr, and originally posted there!
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply
Link to Podfic: At AO3
And with that, I've hit my second blackout! My card, under the cut:
( Read more... )
OFMD: Luck of the Devil by ItsClydeBitches
May. 2nd, 2025 04:11 pmkingstoken posting in fancakeFandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Izzy/Ed/Stede
Rating: T
Length: 6380 words
Creator Links: ItsClydeBitches
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:I'm dying, Izzy thought with sudden, brutal clarity. Right on the heels of that came: Finally.
And then: Edward.
Reccer's Notes: Izzy nearly drowns and requires a lot of care from Ed and Stede. Izzy really has to very nearly die before he will let himself accept love, especially from Stede. This was written before season two.
Fanwork Links: Ao3
Pairings/Characters: Izzy/Ed/Stede
Rating: T
Length: 6380 words
Creator Links: ItsClydeBitches
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:I'm dying, Izzy thought with sudden, brutal clarity. Right on the heels of that came: Finally.
And then: Edward.
Reccer's Notes: Izzy nearly drowns and requires a lot of care from Ed and Stede. Izzy really has to very nearly die before he will let himself accept love, especially from Stede. This was written before season two.
Fanwork Links: Ao3
Round 174: Angst (With a Happy Ending)
May. 1st, 2025 09:11 amrunpunkrun posting in fancake
Our theme for May is angst (with a happy ending)!
That's to say it's angst, but you're guaranteed a happy ending. Though what qualifies as "happy" is, of course, at the discretion of the reccer.
The tag for this round is: theme: angst (with a happy ending)
If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.
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( Promote this round! )
Old Guard: A Friend in Need by lailah_tov
Apr. 30th, 2025 09:30 pmstarwatcher posting in fancakeFandom: The Old Guard
Pairings: background Joe/Nicky
Characters: Nile, Celeste, Andy, Joe, Nicky
Rating: None (I'd guess Teen)
Length: 3,300 words
Creator Links:
Theme: Outsider POV, Never met in canon, Post-canon, Character development
Summary: "My name is Nile, like the river. You helped my friend," the woman says. "A woman with dark hair and a stab wound in her shoulder." She does not sound unfamiliar with phrases such as stab wound.
Reccer's Notes: Excellent outside/minor character POV. When the team needs medical help, Celeste cautiously agrees. The team works as a team in helping Celeste help Andy, making sure Andy will follow ‘doctor’s orders’, and deciding whether or not to tell Celeste what they are. Celeste is wonderful -- observant, accepting, non-judgmental, capable -- and her referenced background is perfect; we can believe that this woman can be thrown into something so much bigger than she ever could have guessed at, but still remain remarkably composed. We’re left with a hint of a future ‘more’ -- both professional and personal -- for a thoroughly satisfying story. Previously recc'd in 2022 for "never met in canon."
Content Notes: None
Fanwork Links: A Friend in Need, by lailah_tov at AO3
Sentinel x SG1: Dark, Still Water by LitGal
Apr. 30th, 2025 09:05 pmstarwatcher posting in fancakeFandom: The Sentinel and Stargate SG1
Pairings: None
Characters: Teal'c, Blair, Jim, Daniel, Jack, Sam, OCs
Rating: Teen
Length: 121,200 words
Creator Links:
Theme: Outsider POV, Novel-length, Crossovers/fusions, Characters of color, Fix-it
Summary: When one of Daniel Jackson's friends goes snooping into the wrong computer, the SG-1 team comes to Cascade to find her before the NID can. But the local detective assigned to assist them--and his very strange anthropologist partner--complicate things. Teal'c isn't sure what the relationship is between Jim Ellison and Blair Sandburg, but he knows it isn't healthy, and he knows that he would like to help. He also knows that there is something very unusual about the young Blair Sandburg, something which reminds Teal'c of old Jaffa stories of men with mystical powers.
Reccer's Notes: Teal'c doesn't quite understand the relationship between Jim and Blair, but he does not approve of the way Jim alternately ignores Blair and rides roughshod over his attempts to address the current mystery. His quiet support for Blair first exacerbates the conflict between Jim and Blair, but then helps them recognize and accept the next step of their sentinel/guide connection. This is a rattling good story, which I previously recc'd in 2021 for novel-length.
Content Notes: Canon-typical violence, and some Jim treating Blair badly, as in the bad days after Sen Too.
Fanwork Links: Dark, Still Water by LitGal at AO3
Old Guard: kurgan by rainbowagnes
Apr. 30th, 2025 08:20 pmstarwatcher posting in fancakeFandom: The Old Guard
Pairings: background Joe/Nicky and background Andy/Quynh
Characters: Nile, OCs, Joe, Nicky, Booker, Quynh
Rating: Teen
Length: 3,200 words
Creator Links:
Theme: Outsider POV, Never met in canon, Post-canon, Female friendship
Summary: The last thing Teyfuq Mustafayev expects, as he puts the coffee on and slices bread and cheese for his still-sleeping wife Ayshe on a morning still with the promise of the Hot Season that will soon crackle his farm dry, is an American girl with a crumpled pile of hyrvina bills in her hands that he knows at a glance are worth more than his son Murat earns at his engineer’s job in Sevastopol, perfect Moscovite Russian in her mouth, and death in her eyes.
Reccer's Notes: Only the first half is "through another's eyes," but it's very effective as the OCs recognize and respond to Nile's grief, and try in their own way to help her deal with it. Nile and the team honors and buries Andy. This hits me right in the feels. It's beautiful and sweet, but sad; keep a tissue handy. Previously recc'd in 2022 for 'never met in canon'.
Content Notes: None
Fanwork Links: "kurgan" by rainbowagnes at AO3
Mo Dao Zu Shi: To The Unnamed Dizi, by Bookworm16.
Apr. 30th, 2025 12:00 amfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Other, M/M; Unnamed Dizi, Wangji Guqin, Chenqing (mentioned), Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, Jin Ling; Chenqing/Wangji Guqin (Modao Zushi); Unnamed Dizi & Wei Wuxian; Unnamed Dizi & Wangji Guqin, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (background)
Rating: Not Rated
Length: 556
Content Notes: Major Character Death, POV character death, self-sacrificial jianghu heroism, the sad beauty of transience
Creator Tags: is it weird to feel bad for a spiritual weapon? but I'm doing it anyway, is it mcd if it's about a spiritual weapon that's not really alive or conscious?, i'm gonna tag it anyway, the unnamed Dizi Wei Wuxian makes on Dafan Mountain
Creator Links: (AO3):Bookworm16
Theme: Outsider POV, Angst, Personified Instruments, Third Wheels
Summary: The sharp biting pain of a sword cutting you off from your roots, and shaping you into a rough instrument.
That’s when you felt it for the first time.
Reccer's Notes: Sapient weapons and instruments (sometimes anthropomorphized), and their complicated parallel relationships with one another and their wielders, have become a popular trope in MDZS fandom (1). This is the first time I’ve seen the dizi Wei Wuxian hastily field-whittled on Dafan Mountain as a Personified Instrument, probably because of its brief existence and lack of a name; yet it plays a crucial role, as the medium of the story’s theme song, the means whereby Wei Wuxian’s true identity is revealed to Lan Wangji, and—being handled, shaped, and infused with power by both—a vehicle of their relationship.
Having thereby developed consciousness, the Unnamed Dizi dies without regret in proper Wuxia fashion, to save life and in the service of love never to be reciprocated; I’m still intermittently sobbing over the line how (Wangji) guqin cried out for a different dizi.
(1) I refer you to![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
zeldacw as the Trope Maker and Codifier.
Fanwork Links: To the Unnamed Dizi, byBookworm16.
Pairings/Characters: Other, M/M; Unnamed Dizi, Wangji Guqin, Chenqing (mentioned), Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, Jin Ling; Chenqing/Wangji Guqin (Modao Zushi); Unnamed Dizi & Wei Wuxian; Unnamed Dizi & Wangji Guqin, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (background)
Rating: Not Rated
Length: 556
Content Notes: Major Character Death, POV character death, self-sacrificial jianghu heroism, the sad beauty of transience
Creator Tags: is it weird to feel bad for a spiritual weapon? but I'm doing it anyway, is it mcd if it's about a spiritual weapon that's not really alive or conscious?, i'm gonna tag it anyway, the unnamed Dizi Wei Wuxian makes on Dafan Mountain
Creator Links: (AO3):
Theme: Outsider POV, Angst, Personified Instruments, Third Wheels
Summary: The sharp biting pain of a sword cutting you off from your roots, and shaping you into a rough instrument.
That’s when you felt it for the first time.
Reccer's Notes: Sapient weapons and instruments (sometimes anthropomorphized), and their complicated parallel relationships with one another and their wielders, have become a popular trope in MDZS fandom (1). This is the first time I’ve seen the dizi Wei Wuxian hastily field-whittled on Dafan Mountain as a Personified Instrument, probably because of its brief existence and lack of a name; yet it plays a crucial role, as the medium of the story’s theme song, the means whereby Wei Wuxian’s true identity is revealed to Lan Wangji, and—being handled, shaped, and infused with power by both—a vehicle of their relationship.
Having thereby developed consciousness, the Unnamed Dizi dies without regret in proper Wuxia fashion, to save life and in the service of love never to be reciprocated; I’m still intermittently sobbing over the line how (Wangji) guqin cried out for a different dizi.
(1) I refer you to
Fanwork Links: To the Unnamed Dizi, by
SGA: Ancient Modern series by Punk
Apr. 29th, 2025 11:48 pmmific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Other original characters
Rating: E, then G
Length: 512 & 344 words
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Punk on AO3, anatsuno on AO3 anatsuno's podfic
Themes: Outsider POV, Humor, Crack
Summaries: In Atlantis, the tables can hear you scream.
The secret life of furniture. Sequel to Tabled.
Reccer's Notes: I'm very fond of this series and I've reccd Tabled before, but I realised today that this is a great example of outsider POV. Also, I'm reccing the podfics of the two stories as well, which meant I had to quickly make a podfic of T2T, the second in the series. In these fics we see John and Rodney (and other Atlantis inhabitants) from the POV of a sentient Ancient lab table. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for them), John and Rodney don't realise it's sentient, and put it to very carnal use. Then in the sequel, the table gets a friend! The POV of the somewhat prissy table is hilarious, and there are sentient puddlejumpers as a bonus. Plus, in T2T there are parallels between the personalities of the two tables and a couple of other well-known characters. Fun reading or listening!
Fanwork Links:
Fics by Punk: Tabled and T2T
Podfics: Tabled read by anatsuno and T2T read by mific
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Other original characters
Rating: E, then G
Length: 512 & 344 words
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: Punk on AO3, anatsuno on AO3 anatsuno's podfic
Themes: Outsider POV, Humor, Crack
Summaries: In Atlantis, the tables can hear you scream.
The secret life of furniture. Sequel to Tabled.
Reccer's Notes: I'm very fond of this series and I've reccd Tabled before, but I realised today that this is a great example of outsider POV. Also, I'm reccing the podfics of the two stories as well, which meant I had to quickly make a podfic of T2T, the second in the series. In these fics we see John and Rodney (and other Atlantis inhabitants) from the POV of a sentient Ancient lab table. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for them), John and Rodney don't realise it's sentient, and put it to very carnal use. Then in the sequel, the table gets a friend! The POV of the somewhat prissy table is hilarious, and there are sentient puddlejumpers as a bonus. Plus, in T2T there are parallels between the personalities of the two tables and a couple of other well-known characters. Fun reading or listening!
Fanwork Links:
Fics by Punk: Tabled and T2T
Podfics: Tabled read by anatsuno and T2T read by mific