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[fest] 37

SFFest37: Rules Reminder & Claiming Post

Is everyone ready?!! Prompts are now available for claiming! Please read the following rules before you claim a prompt.

( Rules for Claiming Prompts and Posting Submissions )

That’s it for the rules! Now for something fun: if you submit three or more fanfic and/or fanart, in any combination, you will receive a lovely button acknowledging your contribution to

smallfandomfest!

Complete List of Prompts

(If you notice that your prompt is incorrect, please comment here and let me know immediately so I can correct it. Once the prompt has been claimed I won’t be able to change it.

Also, if you notice typos, pairings not being listed uniformly, or large fandoms that slipped through, please let me know so I can fix/make a note of them for the next round. Thank you.)

Please reserve this post for claims and questions about the current round.

If you have questions about the fest in general, please ask them here.

If you have questions about what fandoms qualify, please ask them here.

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The Great Ace Attorney: Homumiko Week 2025

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Pimp: Georgina Kincaid Series (Richelle Mead) by maevedarcy

So you're looking for a lighthearted book series that's equal parts funny and intriguing, I have THE urban fantasy series for you.

The Georgina Kincaid series is a collection of six(*) urban fantasy novels written by Richelle Mead. The series is written in a first-person perspective following the main character, Georgina Kincaid, who is a succubus with a heart (sort of).

More info with mild spoilers for the first books of the series under the cut.

*The six OG books in the series. Picture from ebay.

The basics

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The characters

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Why you should read it (spoiler free)

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Why you should read it (MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES)

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Where to read
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Did you read it already?
Then please talk to me about it I'm starving!!! Fr there's only ONE fic on AO3 for this fandom that's not a crossover. Let's change that!

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Four Or More 2025 Bingo

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Community Recs Post!

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fancrafts/fanvids/fanart/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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Current Location: Birthplace

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Maybe audit almost done???

I've only got one more category of my stuff left to audit. And then obviously I'll go and double check stuff, but still! Only one! And it shouldn't be a super huge one, either, so maybe done tomorrow???

Real question is once I'm done with my categories if I can go back to doing other stuff, or if I'll have to help other people out with their categories. Hopefully I can go back to other things!!! Will have to ask in the meeting tomorrow.

Other than that... nothing too interesting. Had to pull back the switch cover, it was waaaaay too wide, so that was annoying. The pattern is pretty straightforward though, so there's that. Watched some JJK, read some fic... yup, pretty standard.

Now for naps! Before midnight even! Whaaaaat???

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Fandom5K Pinch Hits due 28 June

Event: Fandom5K s a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum
Event link: Rules and FAQ on AO3
Pinch hit link: At the DW community
Due date: 28 June, with a required check-in during the week of 7-14 June

Pinch hits available:

PH 2 - Blue Lock (Manga), 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 5 - Temeraire - Naomi Novik, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

PH 7 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher

PH 8 - Path of Night (Podcast), Vampire: The Masquerade - Various Authors (Choice of Games), Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast)

PH 9 - 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 10 - Doctor Who (1963), Dragon Age (Video Games), This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

PH 13 - The Elementalists (Visual Novel), Heart of Battle - Fay Ikin, Royal Affairs - Harris-Powell-Smith

PH 15 - Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games), Xenoblade Chronicles (Video Game)

PH 17 - Breaking Bad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), The Godfather (1972 1974 1990)

PH 18 - Ancient History RPF, Solstice (MoaCube Visual Novel), Crossover Fandom

PH 19 - Ace Combat (Video Games), Dishonored (Video Games), Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors

PH 20 - ATEEZ (Band), Blink-182 (Band), Men's Basketball RPF

PH 21 - Ranma 1/2, Lost Girl (TV), Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon), Marvel (Comics), 超時空要塞マクロス | Super Dimension Fortress Macross

PH 22 - Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Video Game), Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Video Game), The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Battlestar Galactica (2003), Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Babylon 5 (TV 1993)

PH 23 - Original Work, Crossover Fandom, BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games), The Wheel of Time (TV), Tenet (2020)

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Rec Lists for SNK, XMFC, The Untamed

Over time I've made a few rec lists for friends and never thought to share them with the wider fandom, so I thought it would be nice to do that and post it here!

An SNK (specifically Levi/Eren) rec list from Aug. 13 2022 with 40 recs, split into CANON, CANON DIVERGENCE, REINCARNATION and ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

Example recs:

Grown To Be Wild by graves | T, 4k | Hanahaki. Eren wakes hours before dawn with his hands tearing at his throat.

Pinecones by ShamelesslyPoetic | G, 5k | While Eren is wandering in the forest, he meets a short, dark, handsome soldier and immediately falls in love.

10 X-Men: First Class (Charles/Erik) fics under 1000 kudos, posted on Apr. 30, 2022 (some of these stories have since gotten 1k kudos).

Example recs:

Kiss and Tell by pearl_o | T, 2k | It's been a long time since Charles and Raven were able to sit down and really talk to each other, but the awkwardness of the occasion is lessened by a lot of red wine and comparing notes on something they have in common - namely, what Erik was like in bed.

Kintsugi by xtinethepirate | E, 49k | When Charles had told Hank there would be a time when they would all be together again, he hadn't meant immediately. In Charles’s mind, that indeterminate time was something more along the lines of “in a few months or a year, once Erik realized what a colossal ass he had been and Charles had stopped wanting to punch him again.”

An MDZS Fic Sampler with 16 fics, with a subsection of fics specifically where the Wen Remnants survive, posted on Apr. 22, 2020.

Example recs:

Seldom All They Seem by fahye | 24k, E | He bows to Wei Wuxian, sword in hand, sleeves falling properly. Wei Wuxian bows in return, and the sect leaders begin the opening courtesies, and for all of ten minutes Lan Wangji is under the impression that he is betrothed to a boy who is perfectly normal and acceptable apart from an unfortunate tendency to fidget with his clothes. That impression does not last.

Operation Old Men by chiharu | 17k | An ill-fated parent teacher conference reunites Jin Ling's wayward uncle with Sizhui's father. AKA: A matchmaking disaster as told by Jin Ling, Sizhui, and Jingyi.

Wednesday Word: Bokmakierie

Bokmakierie - noun.

It's been a while since I posted a bird word! The bokmakierie is a member of the shrike family and found in Southern Africa. Like other shrikes, it preys on other birds, frogs, insects, and lizards. It's name comes from one of it's particular calls, bok-bok-mak-kik, which you can hear in this video.

By Alandmanson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

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Current Location: Birthplace

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Wednesday

Work was work, nothing special really.

Met up with A - she found me a second hand glaceon plush! It's so great!! :D :D :D - and we derped around for a bunch, which was fun. :3

Also watched the JJK movie, since I had a bit more time once I got home. It's pretty great! I want to smack Getou, of course, but that's like. Half of the point of the movie, so. Okkotsu and Rika remain ridiculously adorbs, though, yessssss >D

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RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

What are you reading?

Murderbot community discussing the books and tv series at

murderbotbookclub.

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Final Fantasy XV 2025 Remix

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[fest] 37

SFFest37: Prompt Submission Reminder

Today, Wednesday, May 21, is the last day to get your prompts in for this round! If you've got more prompts to submit, or you've been putting it off, head on over to the Prompt Submission Post and prompt away!

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Elder Scrolls Kinkmeme

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"The Dawnhounds" by Sascha Stronach

This week I finished The Dawnhounds, the first book of the The Endsong series by Sascha Stronach.

This book has been compared to Gideon the Ninth, which I think does it a disservice, because while there are enjoyable things about it, if you go into it expecting The Locked Tomb, I think you're going to be disappointed. They are not on the same level.

Protagonist Yat's homeland—the port city of Hainak—is implied to have been colonized and fought a revolution to escape that, but while some of the changes have been welcome—the embrace of "biotech," freedom of determination—her home is in the throes of sliding from one abusive regime to another. They have thrown off the yoke of colonization, but as Yat comes to slowly realize over the course of the novel, what they replaced it with isn't much better.

Yat is in a prime position to realize this. A former street rat turned cop who joined the police in hopes of making a positive change for people like herself, she's been slowly worn down over the years into someone who simply closes her eyes to the worse abuses by the government and partakes herself in the lesser offenses. The kick-off for the story isn't any of that though—it's that Yat is demoted after her coworkers learn she's patronized a queer bar. She's blundering through the fallout of that—continuing to patronize that same bar, and using drugs to cope—when the fantasy plot hits her in the head.

Unfortunately, here is where the novel began to lose me. I think the comparisons with The Locked Tomb arise from the way The Dawnhounds throws the reader into the plot with the promise of revealing more information later. Except that where TLT is a masterclass in subterfuge and gradual reveals that make perfect sense in retrospect, and in some cases reframed entire characters and story arcs, The Dawnhounds just...never really reveals the information.

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Highly Irregular Fargo Week 2025

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Tuesday word: Beholden

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Beholden (adjective)
be·hold·en [bih-hohl-duhn]

adjective
1. obligated; indebted: a man beholden to no one.

Other Word Forms
un be·hold en adjective

Related Words
grateful, obligated, obliged

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
obliged, bound, grateful, liable.

Origin: 1300–50; Middle English, adj. use of beholden, old past participle of behold

Example Sentences
He warns that this may put them "in a position where they're beholden to China".
From BBC

That may seem baffling, but at Monday’s press preview, Miller spoke about how figures praised as Black dandy icons are “still beholden to the whims of the institution.”
From Salon

She’s no longer the woman thrown to the floor and beholden to her abuse, as we see in flashbacks.
From Salon

Lyle: I think an important question is, how much are you beholden to your family?
From Los Angeles Times

They seem not to want to be beholden to any actual constituency and are hoping to raise money from large dollar donors.
From Salon

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Current Location: Birthplace

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Tuesday

Bleh, office. Also it was FUCKING FREEZING this morning uuuuuugh terrible. Gross. Hate. It's not even winter yet, whyyyyy!!!

Not a whole lot, other than that, honestly. Making a case for my switch as a smoll little project - lining it with some fabric I had laying around and knitting the outside, for some barebones protection. Definitely better than wrapping it up in a t-shirt, though! :D

Watched the first ep of JJK S2, and laughing my fucking ass off over Getou lecturing Gojo about his pronoun choices. |D Brats!

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Fandom 50 April Roundup (3 Recs: Vid, Art, Icons)

Continuing with my goal to make fifty rec posts in my journal this year, here's a roundup from April.

( 1 x Our Flag Means Death Vid (Izzy Hands & Ensemble) )

( 1 x Our Flag Means Death Art (Oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez) )

( 1 x Our Flag Means Death Icon Set (Roach) )