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beable and

marydell!

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You guys did the unthinkable… We have no unmatchables!

Check your cubby holes, letter boxes, under your doormats, your pockets and wherever else you happen to receive your mail because… your assignment is here!

Please contact me if:

Your assignment does not match your offers. Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com with your AO3 name, your recipient's AO3 name, and a description of the issue so I can sort this out for you. Please do this ASAP.

You have questions for your recipient! Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com with your AO3 name, your recipient's AO3 name, and your question. If you'd like to send dummy questions through because you want your gift to be a surprise, please feel free to do this.

Assignments are due on Friday 1 May at 11:59PM EDT. [ In your timezone + Countdown ]

Please ensure you post to our AO3 collection and that your work has a recipient!

A few reminders:

If you need a refresher, please review the rules/guidelines. I recommend reviewing about assignments, our medium requirements, posting, extensions, and defaulting. If you're interested in treating, please review the treating section of our guidelines for minimum requirements.

Please unlock and complete letters by Monday 9 February so your creator and anyone looking to treat you can access your additional information. I will not be deleting letters from sign-ups or emailing participants about these.

Please do not include any self-deprecating comments in your author's note and any identifying information, such as social media links. I will not be accepting works into the collection that contain any of these. Be proud of your work! Such notes negatively impact the recipient's experience and set a tone for the work that is not true!

You can add your social media links once the exchange is over! (I highly encourage you to do this! Just don't do it now.)

The collection is moderated. I cannot access drafts, so please be sure to press "submit" when your work is completed.

I will review these to ensure that they match the request and meet the bare minimum requirements (i.e. completed work, no copy/pastes of the same word over and over, etc.). If you find your work is sitting in the moderation queue for more than three days, please email me your AO3 name and the title of your work so I can check to see if I have simply misread it as a draft.

Once your work has been accepted, you are welcome to continue editing it until the assignment deadline. I will only be accepting works that are completed, so please do not mistake this to mean that you can submit a half-created piece of work. It needs to be complete and able to go live at any moment!

Please ensure you do not accidentally delete half your assignment as I may not be able to catch this at the time of reveals. (Save a copy of your assignment somewhere!)

You are allowed to gift to the collection a work that fits a fandom and relationship that was nominated but not requested. (If you are aware of my AO3, please do not add me as a recipient to it.) Please make sure to leave a comment in your author's note that this is a gift for the collection so I know not to email you asking if you forgot to add your recipient. (Once accepted, feel free to remove your author's note.)

We have an extension deadline, which is Friday 15 May at 11:59pm EDT. This is the only extension that will be given. (Extenuating circumstances are excepted. Pinch hits taken after this deadline may receive an extension depending on where we are at in the last phase.)

We have a deadline for non-guaranteed requests to add fandoms to meet the 3 unique fandoms minimum requirements, which is Friday 15 May at 11:59pm EDT. I will not be accepting any additions to requests after this date. Please only reach out if you are a pinch hit.

If you are a pinch hit and you find that you have remained unclaimed for a few weeks, you are more than welcome to email me at gumshoeagency@gmail.com with additional requests. I will update your sign-up when I am about to post pinch hits, so please be aware you may end up claimed before then! (It's happened!)

I ask that the Casefic Exchange community remains positive about pinch hits; being a pinch hit is a great opportunity to be selected by a sleuth who didn't have time to sign up for the round, but still wishes to craft you a deliciously creative case to solve!

Please whitelist gumshoeagency@gmail.com as my emails are finding themselves getting cosy in some junk folders! If your creator has a question, you'll definitely want to answer!

What's coming up next:

Initial pinch hits will be posted in 24-48 hours.

A beta post.

A pinch hitter's treats post.

Thank you again to everyone for being so enthusiastic about the exchange! Have fun being devious! 🩷

- Commissioner Clawseau

poliphilo

Every day- in the dawn- flocks of starlings fly through our air space, heading inland. Then in the evening they follow the same flight path back towards the sea. My guess is they spend the night roosting on- or rather under- the pier; all those struts and girders like a man-made forest.

We were talking about the sea at the lunch party on Saturday and I dug a quote from Swinburne from the memory banks. Yesterday I looked it up and found I'd misquoted.

Swinburne wrote:

"I will go back to the great sweet mother,
Mother and lover of men, the sea"

And I had rememered it as

"I will go back to the great grey mother,
Mother of gods and men, the sea."

Actually I think my version is an improvement. The sea isn't "sweet", "grey" is much better- more evocative, and I think "mother of gods and men" has the edge over the original.....

bluapapilio

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Current Mood: hot

flo_nelja

Fics are unanoned!
I wrote a ship I love, but that I rarely write. First time in English even!

Title : In the Haze I See your Shape
Author : Nelja
Fandom : The Picture of Dorian Gray
Characters/Ships : Basil/Dorian
Genre : Dark smut
Summary : Dorian has invited Basil, and only him. He wanted him drunk, he wanted him apologetic, and maybe he wanted more.
Rating : NC-17
Disclaimer : Everything was created by Oscar Wilde
Word Count : ~1800
Warnings :

( Link to AO3 )

And I got two gifts fot the same fandom, same ship, I'm not complaining at all. :D Both noncon for necromancy reasons.

Weather the storm (you made it) by Farasha (Mo dao zu shi, Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning, Explicit)
Wei Wuxian calls Wen Ning to him to try and find out what's been happening to his friend all these years. What he finds is that someone has been using his friend in terrible ways.
Wei Wuxian reached out to touch the manacle around one of Wen Ning's wrists. Wen Ning moved faster than his eye could follow, his hand snapping out and clamping around Wei Wuxian's wrist instead.
"Wen Ning," Wei Wuxian said, a nervous little laugh in his voice. "Let me go."
Wen Ning didn't move. He stared at Wei Wuxian with nothing behind his eyes.

Nightmare by WolffyLuna (Mo dao zu shi, Wei Wuxian/Wen Ning, Explicit)
Wei Wuxian has a nightmare, that unfortunately makes Wen Ning see him as an enemy.

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melime posting in

halfamoon

Title: Never go home
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Character: Victoria Waterfield
Prompt: The Innocent
Rating/Category: T/Gen
Summary: The reality of the situation settles in as Victoria walks into her new room. Her life as she knew it is over.

Never go home

The reality of the situation settles in as Victoria walks into her new room. Her life as she knew it is over.

Everything happened so fast that she didn’t even have the time to think until now. Then she reaches her room in that impossible ship, and it’s so completely ordinary, maybe the first thing resembling normalcy that she had since being attacked.

It doesn’t look like her room, but it’s close enough to it, like it could be the room of any girl that she knows, like it could have been her room, and now it is. It’s thoughtful that they gave her a room like this, the only thing around there that feels like it might fit with her home and her life, but it only serves to make more evident the fact that she’ll never come home again, and even if she did, there’s nothing left for her there. Not anymore.

The Daleks took it all from her, and although the Doctor and Jamie have been kind to her, now that she’s alone it’s impossible not to think of how her father is gone and she’ll never see him again, she’ll never see her home again, she’ll never see a single person that she knew before again. She has never even been abroad, and now she’s on a ship running away from monsters, with the strange man that her father entrusted her care to and the brave boy who protected her.

She has never felt so lost, and she’s equal parts excited for the adventure that she has just started and terrified that she’ll encounter monsters like those again. Everything now is just so unknown, and the only thing that she can be sure of is that her life is never going to be the same again.

dustbunny105 posting in

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A set of nine icons, three each from the IDW2 flagship Transformers comic, Transformers Galaxies and My Little Pony/Transformers.

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flareonfury posting in

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The below icons are for

tvmovie20in20 Round 23 with The Hunting Party - screencaps are from Season 1 only.

Preview:

A secret prison. A killer escape. The hunt is on......

oceansandy02 posting in

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china_shop posting in

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Our new challenge is:

STAR

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, 10th February. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

You can view stats for

fan_flashworks entries and search and filter them via the Community Report and Creator Report. See our FAQ post for more details.

Also, keep an eye out for the next

ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the

ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

china_shop posting in

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The Second Chances challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

The Sentinel: icons: Renewal by

highlander_ii
The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: To Start Over by

badly_knitted
Second Chance: Paddington - the Musical: Fanfic: Accepting Risks by

smallhobbit
Person of Interest: Fanfiction: Eight Lives Left by

infinitum_noctem
Inspector George Gently: Fanfic: Not Everyone Gets a Second Chance by

lucy_roman
S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Second Chance At Love by

darkjediqueen
Original: Fanfic: human memory by

bluedreaming
Jimmy Neutron: Fan Fiction: Unique Methods by

supermario128
Torchwood: Fanfic: Give me one reason by

m_findlow
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: His True Color by

veronyxk84
The Story of Yanxi Palace: fanfic: begin again by

teaotter
Dragon Age: Fanfiction: To try again by

thehungrycity
Heated Rivalry: Fanfic: Curious by

seeyouontheice

Also, congratulations to

seeyouontheice, who earned a name tag this round!

\o/ \o/ \o/

Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

The Community Report and Creator Report will be updated shortly with the entries from this round. See our FAQ for more details.

Next round coming right up.

mific

It's run a bit differently to FTH. You donate in one of 3 tiers - $5, $10, or $20. For the lower tiers you don't get much, or any, choice, just an HR fanwork assigned to you as thanks for the donation. For the $20 tier you get a bit more choice and can specify the type of fanwork (art, fic, podfic, vid, etc.), and can give a brief prompt for the creator. But this isn't an auction - you can't put in bids for a specific creator's work. The mod assigns you, like a matchmaker.

Anyway, if you'd like to donate, here's the post: donations form here

To complete the form you'll need to have already donated. I did most of the form then jumped sideways to do the donation to one of their listed orgs, then I completed the form. Seemed to work okay.

conuly

correcting things people think they know about history, you'll soon learn that a perennial topic is "Yes, people drank water in Medieval Europe", followed closely by "They took baths too!" And yeah, they drank a lot of ale and wine... but people today drink a lot of alcohol too, and for much the same reason - we like it! Or if we don't like alcohol we like soda, or coffee, or tea.

People in the middle ages did understand that some water was safe to drink and some wasn't, and they went through considerable lengths to bring clean, potable water to their towns. Not that most of them lived in towns, but in this case, living further from town is a bonus. Less people = less poop.

(Also, while there are other waterborne illnesses, cholera in particular didn't leave India until the 1800s, well into the modern period. I'm not sure it even existed prior to 1817. Please stop telling me earnestly about Snow and cholera in London. Totally different time period, totally different situation, totally irrelevant.)

Anyway, this just popped up on my feed yet again today, and it suddenly sparked a question in my head:

If people supposedly didn't drink water because they didn't want to get sick, what did their animals drink? Surely nobody thinks that medieval peasants were giving their cows and pigs ale? Or do they think that non-human animals are so hardy that they aren't at risk of waterborne illness? Or maybe that people just didn't care if their animals died, like every sheep isn't wealth, or at least a source of food and wool?

(I'm willing to bet that nobody has an answer to this question, but that if I ever ask them, should it come up in the wild, they'll be annoyed at me!)

shadowkat

The weekend has flown by, yet again. Mother is more worried about the hematoma that I acquired beneath my upper arm than I am. It's a long red bruise. I have ice on it. Read up on hematomas - and apparently they are only an issue if you feel dizzy, faint, run a fever, have tingling in the digits, have one near the brain or abdomen. Arms, shoulders and legs, not so much. And it takes 1-4 weeks for them to heal. If somewhat lumpy, sore, and colorful - normal.

It's fine. I have ice on it at the moment - finally figured out how to do it. Also been told via mother's cousin - that heat helps.

I've been using a CALM APP to calm my nerves and help with the negative emotions. It helps. Best app that I've found to date, and cheaper than Headspace.

Television

* The Pitt S2 is up on HBO, and it's still good. It's one shift, hour by hour for July 4th, Doctor Robie's last shift before he goes on sabbatical, and the first shift for two doctor's who were away on sabbatical. The series is a hyper-realistic medical procedure that takes place entirely in the ER of an American inner city hospital in Pittsburgh, otherwise known as The Pitt. It's by far the most realistic medical drama that I've seen. The only other one that comes close is the UK series This is Gonna Hurt - starring Ben Whinslaw, and I found difficult to watch. The Pitt isn't quite as raw, nor as bloody as This is Gonna Hurt (which is about an London NHS obstetrics unit). If you want to watch the latter series - it's on Netflix, and was done by AMC and I think ITV. Netflix by the way - has the worst interface on streaming. It's close to impossible to rewind or fast forward, stop or pause on Netflix. I really hate Netflix's interface - it's always crashing my wifi on my television set. If it didn't have great programming, I'd ditch it.

I'm stretching this one out. It stars Noah Wyle, and the daughters of Brad Douriff (horror king), and Bryan Cranston, in supporting roles. Basically ER for grownups.

* Bridgerton S4 Part I - this is Benedict Bridgerton's book, and it has issues. The set up is pretty much the Cinderella trope - a popular and (ahem) overdone (IMO) trope. I am admittedly biased against it. I didn't like the original Cinderella. And the only version that kind of works for me is the one with Drew Barrymore or Sondheim's Into the Woods. (My favorite fairy tale trope is the original Snow Queen - I like it when the woman saves the guy, not the other way around). This is also a highly controversial book among romance readers - ( Read more... )

But Bridgerton is a bit of a satire, as are Julie Quinn's novels - they are making fun of the snobby British Class System.

I've got more to say, but alas time has jumped away from me and I must mosey on to bed.

Tomorrow will be a long and cold day - with work and PT afterwards.

brightknightie

For some time now, it has seemed to me that AO3 account links on DW -- that is, < user name=brightknightie site=archiveofourown.org > -- either fail to display the icon entirely, display just the bottom right corner of it, or replace it with alt-text about the user profile. Compare:

DW:

brightknightie
AO3:

brightknightie

Do you see it, too, or is it just me? Do you know how to fix it? The relevant DW FAQ entry, last updated in 2023, doesn't seem to me to suggest I'm doing something wrong. (I've tried with and without quotation marks with no change.)

Perhaps relatedly, for a while, the YouTube account links (e.g.

overlysarcasticproductions) didn't work, but that seemed to match up with a change in YouTube's account system and seems to be fixed now. AO3, though, I would expect DW to be pretty on top of...?

musesfool

Bridgerton season 4, part 1: ( spoilers )

So yeah, I definitely think this season has been firing on all cylinders (excellent musical choices as well, especially the Paramore cover), and thankfully we only have to wait a few weeks for part 2.

*

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Stray Italian Greyhound - Vienna Teng

hungryghosts posting in

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[Phosphor] Lark and I have been crossposting our and Not Applicable's topics to the plural subreddit - we haven't been posting anyone else's since we don't have permission. Thought I'd make a post seeing if anyone else wants to give blanket permission for crossposting their threads (not replies/comments, just the main topics themselves).

The crossposts consist of an attribution (by default we'll use your individual name if you sign off, + system name if you have one and we know it, or your DW username if we don't know either), the text of the thread, and a link back to the original thread on Dreamwidth. Example here.

It's not guaranteed that we'll crosspost every thread you make, especially if we're busy. You can always withdraw permission at any time, or specify that you don't want a post crossposted; we will not crosspost members-only posts. If you want a crosspost taken down, let us know and we'll do our best, but keep in mind that Reddit's infrastructure doesn't always allow for complete deletions.

emylilas posting in

halfamoon

Title: So it's her fault!
Fandom: Fate the winx saga
Characters: Farah/Luna, Rosalind
Rated: G
Content warnings: dealing with grief
Prompt: The innocent.
Language: English
Word count: 1,778.

Summary: Farah is dead, and Luna's looking for someone to blame (preferably, someone that isn't her). She cannot let Rosalind be right when she says Luna had wanted it to happen.
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