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Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote in [community profile] awesomeers2025-09-12 08:44 am
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Just One Thing (12 September 2025)

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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birdylion ([personal profile] birdylion) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-09-12 09:12 am

Leverage: What are friends for, by Hagar

Fandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Maggie Collins, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, Parker (Leverage), Amy Palavi
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 711 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Hagar
Theme: food & cooking, gen

Summary: Her ex-husband's associates are occasionally useful. For example, when Maggie has a really bad feeling about her latest client.

Reccer's Notes:
Maggie visits the brewpub looking for help regarding a client of hers. It's lovely how the food she is served there acts as kind of character description for the relationship between her, Eliot, Hardison and Parker.

Fanwork Links: What friends are for on ao3
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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-11 04:55 pm
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Admin: New fan_flashworks community tools, and the fate of the challenge tags

Hey, everyone! It’s been a while, but we want to thank you so much for your comments and feedback on the Proposal to Remove the Challenge Tags post. It was all super helpful, and we spent a long time mulling over the best approach to take. We wanted to keep the functions of the challenge tags while freeing up tag space, and it was a bit of a conundrum.

Then [personal profile] treonb kindly and wonderfully approached us about creating a comprehensive spreadsheet of all [community profile] fan_flashworks entries ever!!

This has ultimately resulted in a Community Report web tool, where you can search and filter the comm entries by challenge, fandom, and type. What’s more, exciting bonus! There’s also an individual Creator Report web tool, where you can see your own (and other’s) entries. Please take a look at these and try them out. We’re really excited about them.

(We are so grateful for all of [personal profile] treonb’s amazing work on this -- please join us in a hearty round of applause!)

Data-cleaning is still in progress (especially wrt fandoms) and will likely be on-going, but we are proud to announce that our data project is open for business! Check these out:

Fan Flashworks Community Report

Fan Flashworks Creator Report


For the spreadsheet-y types among you, here is the complete dataset of fanworks, plus a full list of challenges, available in a community Google drive doc. An important note about using the spreadsheet: this is set as View only. If you want to sort or filter the data in spreadsheet form, you can either download your own copy or make a Filter View (by going to the Data menu and selecting Create filter view - this won’t affect other users’ view of the spreadsheet).

FAQ )

We’re going to wait about two months to iron out any issues with these resources, and then we’ll remove the challenge tags from the comm, to give us elbow room to keep adding new creators and fandoms.

Huge huge thanks again to [personal profile] treonb for all their amazing work on this project!!
full_metal_ox: Lan Wangji from Mo Dao Zu Shi, with his bunnies. (bunnies)
full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-09-08 06:27 pm

Mo Dao Zu Shi: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake, by Anonymous.

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen; M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Lan Yuan, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,442 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, anonymous author, autobiographical incident, Chinese diaspora feels, inappropriate choice of rabbit food, racist microaggression, secondhand embarrassment
Creator Tags:
Based on a True Story, yes my mom really couldn't find a basic cake and so we had to go with bread, Fluff, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Baking, Icing, Frosting, AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHH THOSE ARE TAGS, Michael's (the store) makes a big appearance, Father's Day, but idc if it's not father's day yet, I was inspired, Inspired by Real Events
Creator Links: none
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Family, Fluff, Modern AU, Slice of Life

Summary: In which Sizhui and his Baba ice a loaf of bread for Father's Day (plus some angst, but we don't really have to get into specifics do we?)

Author’s Notes:

something i wrote while having writers block

enjoy

(also stay safe and wash your hands and quit going outside if you are)

this isn't really asian rep it just happened when i was 10 and i typed for two hours also its may and here we are with a fictionalized crackheaded version of what happened

yes there were mean girls

… lan zhan's the one getting the cake because his personality's the closest to my dad's but like my dad cut off the frosting and we ended up using the bread for other stuff


Reccer’s Notes: The Chinese-American author posted this anonymously on 8 May 2020 for U.S. Asian and Pacific Islander Month, apologizing that “this isn’t really asian rep”; given that the canon creator is Asian, her target audience is Asian, the characters are Asian, and the OP is Asian fictionalizing their Asian family’s real-life experience, I personally don’t see how it can avoid being Asian Rep.

The author’s self-consciousness—both at the time of writing and in retrospect—is flying from the ramparts, and arguably an integral part of the story. They never did emerge from anonymity, and they’ve since deleted the story—which is a shame, because this is a valid slice-of-life in the Lynda Barry vein, with the OP’s imaginary friends as proxies. Since there seems to be no identifying information that could be used to trace them, I don’t think posting a Wayback Machine capture will expose them to further embarrassment.

And let’s not be like the Mean Girls at Michael’s, okay?

Fanwork links: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake
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darkjediqueen ([personal profile] darkjediqueen) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-11 02:01 pm

S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: HQ Fun

Title: HQ Fun
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Molly Hicks/Donovan Rocker
Tags: Established Relationship, Roleplay
Summary: Donny really loved Molly and the fun they have.
Word Count: 2,662

HQ Fun )

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pronker ([personal profile] pronker) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-09-11 09:53 am

Dark Shadows: Mysterious Circumstances by WickerManStudios

Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Roger Collins, CC Female, Which Would Give Away Too Much If Named

Rating: G

Length: 2,394 words

Creator Links: AO3 Profile

Theme: Food & Cooking

Summary: Roger meets a friend for dinner who shares his discomfort regarding marriages.

Reccer's Notes: Roger remains one of my favorite Dark Shadows characters, acted superbly by Louis Edmonds, a veteran of stage costume dramas. He always wears period clothing with impeccable insouciance despite figure-hugging trousers, wing collars, and Victorian handlebar moustaches. In this fic, we see how much food presents an opportunity for revealing, soul searching reflections with a sympathetic friend, in fact so much that they don't even eat until the last paragraph or so. The universality of sharing food provides a letting down of the hair, so to speak, voluminous in his friend's case and not-so-much in his. There's an absolutely delightful twist at fic's end. Also, the AO3 profile mentions Author's website, WickerManStudios which contains stories along with more personal content.

Fanwork Links: Mysterious Circumstances
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mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-09-11 11:09 pm

SGA: Battle Potato by fiercelydreamed

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay & John Sheppard & Ronon Dex
Rating: G
Length: 7229
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: fiercelydreamed on AO3, anatsuno on AO3, anatsuno on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Food and cooking, Team as family, Friendship, Hurt/comfort

Summary: The thing was, John had never been good at patient, and Teyla looked like okay was a couple galaxies over from wherever she was now.

Reccer's Notes: A touching hurt/comfort story set after the team rescues Teyla from Michael. Although Teyla and her baby are back in Atlantis, she's slow to recover and remains low and depleted. Rodney has a plan to cheer her up, though, involving food, and he ropes John in to help. It was I think written in the hiatus before the last season so a few minor details have been jossed, but that doesn't matter. This is the best sort of found family story, with them all rallying around to support Teyla. Lovely.

Fanwork Links: Battle Potato, and there's an excellent podfic read by anatsuno.

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Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote in [community profile] awesomeers2025-09-11 07:56 am
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Just One Thing (11 September 2025)

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
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Katie ([personal profile] drabblewriter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-10 11:20 pm

The Iliad: Fanfic: Riddled

Title: Riddled
Fandom: The Iliad
Characters: Apollo, Chryses, Chryseis
Rating: G
Length: 100
Summary: Chryses cries out, and Apollo answers. How can he not when the man is one of his most devoted followers, when Apollo knows what is to lose a child?

Read more... )
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chibifukurou ([personal profile] chibifukurou) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-09-10 07:53 pm

SVSSS: The Way to a Man's Heart is His Stomach by CheckersXIV

Fandom:The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairings/Characters: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan
Rating: T
Length: 14.5k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] CheckersXIV
Theme: Food and cooking, (Five) Things, Complete AU

Summary: Luo Binghe has accepted his life for what it is: a dull repetition of a burned-out passion for a job. Back when he started his "Not Your Mother's" cooking channel on youtube, he had been ready to face the world. Now he just wants the world out of his face. When he hits one more bump in the road, he can't really say it's too surprising considering that the universe seems to just hate him.

And yet, the universe sends him to Shen Yuan.
_
Or 5 times Shen Yuan accidentally distracts Luo Binghe's attention from his videos, and the one time Luo Binghe gets his.

Reccer's Notes: This theme was a good excuse to go back for a reread. I love a fic where the point isn't so much falling in love as growing into the kind of person ready to love and be Loved. 

5+1 is always a fun framing device. Particularly when combined with in universe comment section. And I love that this js a broad world with various people who know each other from various settings in it. 

Fanwork Links: The Way to a Man's Heart is His Stomach
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teaotter ([personal profile] teaotter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-10 05:03 pm
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Challenge 491: Riddle

Our new challenge is:

RIDDLE



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 Saturday, September 20th. 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.

Also, keep an eye out for the next [community profile] ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the [community profile] 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.)
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himejoshiheart ([personal profile] himejoshiheart) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-10 04:05 pm

Issue: Original Work: Fic: AH SHIT

Fandom: technically live a live since they're lal ocs
Rating: teenager
Length: 162 words
Note: very cracky
Summary: i havent posted anything for this challenge yet OH NO

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Katie ([personal profile] drabblewriter) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2025-09-10 02:01 pm

Greek Myth: Fic: The Only Ending

Title: The Only Ending
Fandom: Greek Myth
Characters: Apollo (& Troilus)
Rating: T
Length: 349
Summary: He'd known. Of course he known. The prophecy that if Troilus lived, Troy would never fall. And Apollo had known, all the gods know, the city is destined to be lost. There was only one way for this end.
Warnings: child death/murder, blood

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