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Good afternoon! How's the fanfic coming along?

Great!
Good
Okay
Could be better/could be worse
Had to rework the fic because certain aspects weren't coming together.
Too exhausted/busy to write right now.
I'm taking a break from writing.

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Hello, everyone! Welcome to

comment_fic. ^_^ I'm

creepy_shetan, your host for this week.

Today's theme is wood and paper. Prompts can be related to one, the other, or both. Any interpretation is fine, including but not limited to... being in the woods, building with logs or lumber, carving wood, drawing on paper, folding origami, or doing anything with books.

Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get things started...
+ Resident Evil (game/CGI 'verse), any (+/ any), what their [government, military, work, school] file says about them
+ Loki (MCU), Loki +/ Mobius M. Mobius, passing notes or leaving notes for each other
+ author's choice, any +/ any, did anyone else play Settlers of Catan with people who often joked about wood?

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].

While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! comment_fic

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writethisfanfic

Happy Monday night! Sunday completely slipped my mind; it was preoccupied other matters.

Any who, have you written anything today?

Yes
No
I've thought about it.
Taking a break, or life got in the way.

creepy_shetan posting in

comment_fic

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Greetings to one and all! :3 Are you ready for this week's Lonely Prompts day? If this is your first time at

comment_fic on a Sunday, you can either request previous prompts to be filled or share your recent fills for prompts. (Or do both, of course!) ✎

How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

Whichever you decide to do, prompt or fill (or both), please remember:
1. You can only request five prompts to be filled.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from a particular fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts in as many fandoms as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether it is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to wherever the prompt is in the community archive (whether filling or requesting), and, if you're filling the prompt, please post the fill as a reply to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom you've written it for (or if it's original!).
8. If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
7. If you've filled any lonely prompts in the past week, this is the place to share them!
9. Finally, please remember to add your prompt fills to our AO3 collection: Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this option here.

How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! comment_fic

A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.

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writethisfanfic

This takes us into September, just makes it a wee bit easier on my end. I'm not available for hosting duties during weeks 1 and 2 as I have family visiting during those weeks.

Week 1: 3rd to 9th
Week 2: 10th to 16th
Week 3: 17th to 23rd
Week 4: 24th to 30th
Week 5: 31st to 6th

lilly_c posting in

writethisfanfic

It's time to sign up for the August WIP challenge! Some people join the challenge mid month, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways. For those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.

Sign-ups will be open until the end of August.

Level of challenge:

Fandom(s) involved:

What you're looking for from the challenge:

What you could offer other participants yourself:

How people should contact you:

Time zone:

Copypaste below:

The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.

If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.

yuuago

Sabaton has announced a new album, Legends, due to be released in October. This is a different turn from their more recent WWI-themed albums; Legends reaches back further in time, exploring "legendary" figures from various periods in history, from the ancient world to the Napoleonic Wars. Four of the songs are already up on their Bandcamp.

For a while now I've hoped that they would tackle some earlier historical subjects - I did like the WWI stuff, but it's a pretty big world out there. So I'm excited that this new album is going to have more variety.

Some of the subjects are obvious based on song title, but others not so much; luckily for us the subject is listed under the lyric pages for each song on Sabaton's website (here)
( Track list )

glitteringstars posting in

writethisfanfic

Happy Saturday!

How has writing been going?

-Fantastic!
-Great!
-Good!
-Okay/Chugging along!
-Busy/Rest day!

Discussion: Is there a genre you'd love to write but just haven't yet?

redfiona99

The figures are obviously very simple now that there are only two teams.

Network graph of the two teams in the final. There are two large red circles representing England and Spain. Of the smaller paler circles, there is one very large one next to the bottom of the two large red circles. There are two more smaller, paler circles closer to the top of the two large red circles.

The same graph, but labelled:

Network graph of the two teams in the final, labelled. There are two large red circles representing England and Spain. England is the circle at the top of the diagram, Spain the circle at the bottom. Of the smaller paler circles, there is one very large one next to the bottom of Spain. It is Barcelona. There are two more smaller, paler circles closer to England. They are Arsenal and Manchester City.

Gotham FC are the club team closest to the middle.

Barcelona, unsurprisingly, have the most players left, with 10. The teams with the next most players remaining are Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City with 6.

Manchester City, Arsenal and Gotham FC are guaranteed to have a player on the winning side.

The community view gives less information when we're down to two teams so I haven't shared that.

It's a final to look forward to.

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↑↑↑ Available dates:
August 5 & 7
August 12 & 14
August 19 & 21

Hello, and a good Saturday to you. ^_^ It's time for this week's Free for All. There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. If you've had any ideas this week that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, today's your chance to prompt 'em. Be free, and have fun! ✎

Just a few rules:
1. No more than five prompts in a row.
2. No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
3. Use the character's full name and the fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
4. No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
5. If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
6. If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Are today's prompts not catching your eye? No worries, because we have plenty of older prompts that just might do the trick! You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! comment_fic

A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.

redfiona99

The case for the prosecution:

Ad Astra is just a bad film (https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1406097.html). It had pretensions to being hard sci-fi but had fire with no convection, and three photos of Europa at different angles and in different colours pretending to be Kuiper Belt Objects.

The film has sudden moments of violence, and a large number of character deaths, which play out so bizarrely that there's a distinct feeling of bleak, absurdist comedy underneath, and I don't think that's deliberate (I wouldn't mind it so much if it was deliberate).

The scene itself:

Much though I am tempted to go with the "Baboon of Doom" scene, because until the killer is revealed to be a crazed baboon, that's actually scary, I am going to go with a shot when McBride (Brad Pitt) first arrives on the moon, and looks in disgust at how, instead of it being the magnificent moon, it's been turned into just another city (complete with Vegas neon cowboy sign). It's as close as I've ever seen in film to the Douglas Adams bit about how time travel has ruined the past.

Why the scene is so good:

They do that with one look and some set design. We're shown and not told in a film that does the rest of its philosophy in OTT voice-overs.

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writethisfanfic

Happy Friday!

How did writing go today?

-Fantastic!
-Great!
-Good!
-Busy/Rest!

Discussion: What are the techniques you use for brainstorming?

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writethisfanfic

Welcome to Thursday!

How has writing been going?

-Fantastic!
-Pretty good!
-Okay!
-Too busy/tired to write!

Discussion: What are your favorite genres to write but you're not a fan of reading? What about the other way around?

lotesse

Not time’s fool (9611 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Polly Plummer, Digory Kirke, Eustace Scrubb, Lord Rhoop (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Romance, Sailing, Prophecy
Series: Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

“You see,” Edmund began, and all leaned in, visibly listening, “it wasn’t just romance that kept Lucy in Narnia. She is with Caspian, now, but she also had a – a vision isn’t quite right. She was shown a prophetic image in a magical book, and Aslan vouched, later, personally, for its truth. She acted as she did to attempt to divert what she saw, and I think we’d better do likewise, on our end. Here’s what you all need to know.”

lotesse

The Great Feminist Exhaustion from Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study (and comments) : "feminist exhaustion, which applies to the generations of women who understand their progressive, aspirationally intersectional, progressive world view as feminist … and find themselves utterly demoralized by a long, damaging fight that now seems to have lost ground."

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE by Yanis Varoufuckice:"Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America."

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Hello, everyone. I’m

cornerofmadness. As a reminder, we are using a new posting schedule. Sundays are for Lonely Prompts and sharing the fills that you completed during the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new themes and prompts, and Saturdays will remain a Free for All.

Today's theme is World Chocolate Day as it’s one of July’s fun silly holidays. Love it? Hate it? Want some right now? Let them have all the chocolately goodness.

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Hazbin Hotel Angel Dust/Husk, Angel loves painting lovers in chocolate but Husk’s fur will be a challenge

+ Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright + Gil Arroyo, hot chocolate
+ any, any, Halloween chocolate
+ Hazbin Hotel Angel Dust/Husk, Angel brings him boozy chocolates as a gift
+ The Owl House, Luz Noceda + Amity Blight +Gus Porter + Willow Park + Hunter, introducing them to chocolate

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word!

comment_fic
tag= World Chocolate Day

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Happy Wednesday!

How did writing go today?

-Fantastic!
-Great!
-Moving along!
-Struggling!
-Rest day/Too busy!

Today's discussion: What's your best writing day?

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silwritersguild

In the early years of fandom, creators shared their stories, art, and other fanworks in handmade fanzines. Often printed on the cheap and assembled by volunteers at zine-making parties, these zines brought fans around the world in contact with each other and kept fan communities alive.

Honoring the tradition of our foremothers, when we planned Mereth Aderthad 2025, we wanted a fanzine to go with it. Works in the zine respond to the twelve presentations given at Mereth Aderthad.

We are very excited to make the Mereth Aderthad fanzine available to download for anyone who would like to check it out! The zine features thirteen stories, five poems, and nine works of art and was beautifully designed by Anérea. While some of the fanworks were heard at Mereth Aderthad, others are brand-new and available to enjoy for the first time.

You can download a copy of the Mereth Aderthad 2025 fanzine here!

lotesse

The sort of beauty that's called human (1927 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Owen Davies, Herne the Hunter (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Loss of Parent(s), Immortality
Series: Part 4 of Wherein was bound a child
Summary:

“We have to go,” Bran said, his voice coming out hoarser than he’d expected. “Rhys called. Trouble with my da. A stroke.”

No more needed to be said aloud. They were going back to Wales.

yuuago

I promised some Death Note thoughts, as I recently finished reading the series. My brain's a little mush, but I do want to jot some things down while it's still relatively fresh, so some point-form thoughts below.

- This series has been very popular for a while, but I'd never read it before. I wanted to see what the fuss was about, even though I'm coming in kind of late. Very slowpoke.jpg I suppose you could say.
( Continued )
Tl;dr I found Death Note solidly all right. Not my favourite series ever, but I can see why it was so popular, and I did enjoy reading it and would in fact read more if there was more (I've already read the Short Story collection). Maybe I'll check out the anime too? Who knows!

to unpathed waters, undreamed shores

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