Creators Revealed for 2025 Round!

Jun. 29th, 2025 09:58 pm
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Yay! Creators have now been revealed! Check out the collection here, and feel free to leave us your feedback for this round of IPQ on this post!

See you all again next spring for the 2026 Round of Id Pro Quo, and thank you all so much for an excellent time!

-IPQ Mods

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Hello!

We have roughly 48 hours to go until the Pinch Hit deadline on Monday, June 30th 22:00 EDT

We have added 1 Additional Pinch Hit to our Post Deadline Pinch Hits post (PH1), plus 4 unclaimed Pinch Hits from the previous post

We will still hold our original deadline for now, however the collection opening will be delayed until all pinch hits have been fulfilled.

If you would like to claim any of these pinch hits, please comment on this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like and your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

You may also email us at sleepymod@mailfence.com

*NEW* PH 1 - Animal Control (TV 2023), Degrassi the Next Generation, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (TV) )

 

PH 4 - ケイヤク | KeixYaku (TV), 御赐小仵作 | The Imperial Coroner (TV), 作りたい女と食べたい女 | Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna | She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat (TV) )

 

CLAIMED - PH 5 - RoboCop (Movies 1987-1993), Thief (Video Game Original Series), BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games) )

 

PH 6 - Albion (Bluebyte Video Game), Are You Being Served?, Les fantmes du chapelier | The Hatter's Ghosts - Georges Simenon, Die Hlle von Manitoba | The Hell of Manitoba (1965) )

 

PH 10 - X -エックス- | X/1999, Shugo Chara!, Digimon Story Series | Digimon World Series, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, 十三機兵防衛圏 | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Video Game) )

 

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[personal profile] bluerosekatie posting in [community profile] smallfandomfest
Title: do you talk to the stars?
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Bionicle - All Media Types
Pairing/Characters: Nuju & Nixie
Rating/Category: Gen
Prompt: Bionicle - All Media Types, Nuju & Nixie, Learning to read the stars
Spoilers: Nothing concrete but references to later arcs.
Summary: Nixie begins her journey of understanding the skies above Mata Nui.
Notes/Warnings: Archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.

Read it on Ao3 here!
tarlanx: Alan in foreground with Billy behind him (Film - Jurassic Park 2 - alan-billy)
[personal profile] tarlanx posting in [community profile] smallfandomfest
Title: Conflicting Thoughts
Author: Tarlan ([personal profile] tarlanx)
Fandom: Jurassic Park (movies)
Pairing/Characters: Alan/Billy
Rating/Category: PG/Slash
Prompt: 3 times Alan wasn’t able to tell Billy how he feels about him, and 1 time he finally told him
Word Count: 2789
Spoilers: None
Summary: Several times Alan had an opportunity to tell Billy how he felt about him but each time slipped away with the words unsaid until it too late. A miracle gives him another chance.
Content Notes: None

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66986050
 

Murderbot 1x08

Jun. 27th, 2025 10:09 am

Me-and-media update

Jun. 27th, 2025 03:50 pm
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[personal profile] china_shop
I wrote most of this on Tuesday, and now it's Friday, so some unrepaired time dilation might slip through.

Pandemic life
Protocol slippage. )

Previous poll review
In the Impending doom of the natural variety poll, the most common natural disaster threatening respondents is drought/heat (55.6%), followed by flood (44.4%), then blizzard (40.7%). Twelve of us (including me) are at risk of earthquakes.

In ticky-boxes, hugs won by a landslide with 70.4%, followed by "ticky-box made of Möbius strips and Escher staircases" with 48.1%. Thank you for your votes!

Reading
A little more Neurotribes, but the focus on kids and parenting is not holding my interest. Nothing wrong with it; I'm just not the right audience. A chapter of Guardian. A smidgen more of The Book of Three, and the first few hours of Incandescent by Emily Tesh, read by Zara Ramm (very heavy on introductions and the nitty-gritty of school administration so far, but I like the POV character - no spoilers, please).

TV & movies
Four episodes of The Expanse season 6 with a friend; we're watching the other two tonight. Murderbot (really enjoyed the last episode). Poker Face (haven't seen the latest). Andor S02E06 (maybe we're watching this too slowly? so far this season isn't clicking for me).

Episode 2 of Stick, which... I enjoyed watching Lydio Ko play on TV, one time, but I just don't know how much golf I can engage with, especially in fiction. Swings all look the same to me, so after the first three or four, there's none of the physical competence porn you get in more overtly active sports. And I don't find Owen Wilson inherently charming or interesting. I think the biggest appeal of the show is actually that so much of it is set outside with trees around, and that's still a very manicured, artificial setting. /fussy /tl;dr, We're in the market for a new show.

Our Unwritten Seoul (Kdrama on Netflix). I'm enjoying this so much! Two episodes and several revelations yet to go.

Materialists at the movies. We went to this because a friend and I have a running conversation about the death of the romcom, and this nominally was one. But it turned out to not really be rom or com, and the title should have clued me in that Andrew wouldn't like it (he disliked the main character and wasn't at all invested in the outcome). It's interestingly structured, and the cast is good, but it's mostly about entitled people approaching dating in terms of checkboxes (age, height, income, etc).
Spoilery things about the structure.The main character, Lucy, is a professional matchmaker in NYC, and the film is in three parts: the first third is a wealth-porn romance between her and Pedro Pascale; he pursues her after they meet at the wedding of his brother, her former client. They go to a lot of expensive restaurants, have sex on satin sheets in his $12m penthouse, and talk a lot of numbers at each other. He wants to take her to Iceland on holiday. The middle third (or possibly third act of four? I wasn't timing it) starts when one of Lucy's clients is sexually assaulted on a date Lucy set up. This all happens off-screen, and I don't think we even see the assaulter. The victim is the nicest, warmest of Lucy's clients, but the film is mostly concerned with Lucy's crisis, as the assault brings home that the checkboxes don't matter. The final third or act is a second-time-around romance with her struggling-actor/cater-waiter ex-boyfriend, Chris Evans. Lucy broke up with him over money, and now at the culmination of her character arc, she decides she loves him enough to make it work after all. Conveniently, he is still extremely hung up on her.

I don't think I've ever seen a relationship movie that starts out focused on one pairing getting together (they feel pretty well-matched, and Pedro Pascale's character is smart, open, attentive and kind), then transitions to another pairing. Huh.


The Wild Robot on Netflix. Okay, this was really cute and funny. I especially enjoyed the possum babies. (I kept missing quips, though -- poor sound mixing, or is my hearing going?) As an aside, I was amused that the corporation was called Universal Dynamics, given Global Dynamics in Eureka (2006) and Massive Dynamics in Fringe (2008). What comes after "universal"?

October Sky on Netflix. Fictionalised biopic about a kid in a coal-mining company town in 1957 who is inspired by Sputnik to create a rocket, learn trigonometry, and get a college scholarship. Stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, and Laura Linney. It was fine, but wow, I wanted the story to be about overthrowing the company.

Audio entertainment
I spent four or five hours over the weekend listening to Melanie Nelson of Coherent podcast interviewing politicians, academics and a disability activist about the "Let's Make Everything Libertarian" Bill for which submissions closed lunchtime Monday. (Locals, it's not too late to weigh in! Talk to your MP!) Since then, Writing Excuses and a bunch of Midnight Burger. (I bounced off Midnight Burger when I first tried it a year or two ago, but now I'm really enjoying the physics and other science aspects, and the characters are growing on me. Ava is my fav. I'm most of the way through episode 11.)

Online life
Catching up on comments. Still have a billion unread emails, and let's not even talk about my tabs.

Writing/making things
I spent the weekend juggling multiple urgent things. Now I have some breathing space, of course, when I sit down to write (aiming for a combination [community profile] fan_flashworks entry and Guardian Bingo), I can't make sentences.
Whining.A contributing factor is that I'm having another "argh, my prose sucks" crisis of confidence. This happens periodically. You can't be on a roll indefinitely without hitting a bump, I guess. For me, usually it means it's time to read a particular type of literary novel, preferably in paper format. The one I remember being most successful is Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible; the very close, very voice-y rotating POVs, the playful intricate language use, and the thoughtful exploration of context help me to sink into whatever POV I'm writing, rather than skating over the surface and Lego-ing together tired phrases. I wrote some really good fic after re-reading it a few years ago. Whereas re-reading Byatt's Possession just meant I produced endless run-on sentences, heh. Anyway, I guess I should get on that soon...


Finished and posted an old outsider POV writing exercise for [community profile] fan_flashworks's Yield challenge.

Life/health/mental state things
I got my political submission in (thanks to [personal profile] cyphomandra for beta) and wrote an outraged email to the Prime Minister about the Deputy Prime Minister's engaging in stochastic harrassment.

In general, I've been feeling needlessly stressed and vaguely sick, but today my alarm didn't go off and I slept an extra hour and a half. So much better.

Good things
Un-punctured bike tyre. Kdrama. New intermediate glasses making it easier to do crosswords and to read while I exercise. New bathroom sink taps. [community profile] sid_guardian commentpalooza. I'll probably get back on my writing feet again soon. Andrew and Halle and books and fandom.

Poll #33295 Routine
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56


Night-time getting-ready-for-bed routine

View Answers

I brush my teeth
47 (83.9%)

I lock up and switch things off around the house
29 (51.8%)

I tend to pets
18 (32.1%)

there are a few skincare- and/or haircare-type steps
18 (32.1%)

kind of a lot of steps, of various kinds
9 (16.1%)

it takes me more than half an hour
13 (23.2%)

sometimes it takes me an hour or more
4 (7.1%)

what routine? I'm always ready for bed
8 (14.3%)

other
9 (16.1%)

ticky-box of it's normal to have strong opinions about taps (AKA faucets)
24 (42.9%)

ticky-box of how stressful it is to ask tradespeople to change things they've done
32 (57.1%)

ticky-box of wondering if today is the day you'll unexpectedly step through a portal into another time or world
22 (39.3%)

ticky-box full of sitting on a mountain ledge in the moonlight, listening to owls
32 (57.1%)

ticky-box full of hugs
42 (75.0%)

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Title: From All The Spaces Between Times
Chapter: Chapter 50 - Let Us Remember the Things We Hold On To
Author: [personal profile] elrhiarhodan / [tumblr.com profile] elrhiarhodan / [archiveofourown.org profile] elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars — Obi Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars — Jedi Apprentice Books
Characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, Watto, Quinlan Vos, Padmé Amidala, Sabé, Darth Maul, Yoda, Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Quinlan Vos, Professor Huyang, The Force, Plo Koon, Vokara Che, Siri Tachi, Aayla Secura, Bant Eerin, Bruck Chun, Xanatos du Crion, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Hego Damask II | Darth Plagueis, Komari Vosa, Bail Prestor Organa, Bail Antilles Prestor, Rael Averross, Nim Piana, Original Characters, Other Characters To Be Added
Pairings: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Shmi Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, eventual Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon Jinn (we’re arrived)
Word Count: ~ 5000 this chapter
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Graphic depictions of extreme sexual encounters between original characters. Angry Obi-Wan to the rescue.

Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has never known it, but he has always been the Force’s Champion, destined to suffer infinite sadness in defense of the Light. On his last turn on the wheel, responsibility for The Chosen One, the false child of prophecy, had been thrust upon him with no warning, and Darkness held the upper hand.

But this time, the Force has marshaled its power and will protect its Champion until the time is right, no matter how long Obi-Wan has to wait and how much he has to suffer.

Or,

Obi-Wan is reborn as a twelve-year old.

He wakes up on a slavers’ ship, with all of his prior life’s memories intact, and he’s bound for Tatooine with a Force-inhibitor collar around his neck, a bomb implanted in his spine, and no way of knowing what state of the Galaxy is in.

Just another day in the life of the Force’s Champion.

Chapter Summary: Obi-Wan goes to visit Bruck, who drops a bombshell on him.

And half a galaxy away, Dooku gets a comm message from someone he doesn’t expect.



From All The Spaces Between Times —Chapter 50 - Let Us Remember the Things We Hold On To (On AO3)


Meta — Chapter 50 - Let Us Remember the Things We Hold On To )

Not to tempt anyone but ...

Jun. 24th, 2025 12:50 pm
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[personal profile] sholio
While we're waiting for h/c-ex to reveal in July, this just showed up on EAD ...

ANNOUNCING TERRIBLE TEMPERATURE TROUBLES FLASH FEST: a multifandom flash fest for all your terrible temperature troubles!

Nomination & Sign-ups: Now-June 30.
Assignments Out: July 2.
Works Due: July 10.
Work Reveals: July 11.
Creator Reveals: July 17.
All times at 11:59 PM Eastern.


https://archiveofourown.org/collections/temptroubles2025/profile
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/23809

Hypothermia ... heatstroke ... etc ...

(And it's one of those 1-fandom minimum request/offer exchanges, I'M JUST POINTING THIS OUT, IN CASE IT IS RELEVANT TO ANYONE.)

I realize this would be a terrible time for me to sign up for anything because I'm leaving tomorrow and I'll be gone until July 4 (Mom stuff again), but there's still almost a week of writing time after that.
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[personal profile] tjs_whatnot
 I was just going to drop a link to something I actually wrote and uploaded to AO3, but then I saw [personal profile] delphi's Six Sentence Sunday and remembered that was something I wanted to start doing (which will hopefully keep me writing). ❤️❤️

If anyone else is doing this, please link me yours. And, if your don't want to post your own, feel free to do it in the comments.  I'd love to read it.

So, first this, and then the other story. These 6 sentences is from a Green Creek story I've been plugging away on for a very long time. It's Mark/Gordo:

When it all got to be too much, when the multitudes of blues became too vivid and overpowering, he ran. When that didn't work, he drove. And when even that didn't stop the drowning feeling of ocean waves of blue crashing around him, he kept driving until he could breathe again, could see the familiar trees engulf him, the familiar scents inflame him. Dirt. And grass. And leaves. And smoke mixed with motor oil. 
 
He could breathe again when he could breathe in those aromas. 

This time though, this time the smell of other overpowered all else. Made his blood boil.

*sigh* I just love these two knuckleheads. 

And speaking of people I love. Last week was long time friend [personal profile] kaalee's birthday. And I was asked on the Heartstopper Discord if I'd like to create something for her. And, of course I did. So, I wrote something that kinda of paid tribute to all the fandoms we've followed each other through Sherlock/ HP (but only slightly as I'm all not ready to write in that world, or ask others to read in it)/ and of course, Heartstopper ❤️❤️
 
In My Pocket (Universe), You Will Always Reside (2081 words) by tjs_whatnot
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic), Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring
Characters: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Friends to Lovers, We definitely have a type, allusions to magical school, Fuck You JK Rowling, no plot just vibes
Summary:

There is a Charlie for every Nick...

Dungeon Crawler Carl books 1-3

Jun. 23rd, 2025 08:49 pm
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[personal profile] sholio
Okay, the previous post has the non-spoilery intro to the series, so this is the one with all the spoilers. I finished book 3 this evening (of seven books so far), and I'm still having a terrific time.

Spoilers )

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